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Living Safely With Combustion Appliances
How combustion can create problems and what you can do to prevent them
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Wingnut Blower-Door Testing
The amount of air leakage allowed by code is an informational eye-opener
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Love Is More Important Than Building Science
A Thanksgiving story
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Fibrous Insulation Types and Considerations
Ruminations on the recycled content and carbon load of "warm and fluffy" insulation types
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Why We Need Building Sensors
Understanding the payoff of diagnostic monitoring tools
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The House My Dad Built
Green-building basics made a big difference when upgrading my childhood home
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Using a Blower Door for Zonal-Pressure Testing
By now, most of us working in the green-building industry know what a blower door is. It’s a tool to measure the air tightness of a house. I’ve owned my…
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Understanding Air Change Rates
There's a lot more to it than just the amount of air flowing into and out of a room
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Cold-Climate Attic Air-Sealing
A Minnesota builder's method for ensuring a continuous air/vapor control layer
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The Science of Batteries
It started with copper and iron, but the future of batteries is likely lithium ion
