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Stair Design Basics
Make them graceful, but also make them safe
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Ten Common Mistakes Made By New Home Builders
These bad ideas should have been buried long ago; the problem is, they’re not dead yet
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Can Carpeting Be Green?
An investigation into the reasons that green building experts shun carpeting
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Crawl Spaces vs. Skirts
If you have a house on piers, should you enclose the space under the house or leave it open?
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Air Conditioner Performance In Extreme Heat
Will our residential cooling units still perform well in a future that includes extended heat waves?
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PV Systems That Divert Surplus Power to a Water Heater
If your local utility won’t offer you a net-metering agreement, you can use your surplus electricity to heat water
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R-Value Advice from Building Science Corporation
Are the recommendations from a paper published in 2010 still valid?
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In Praise of Scientists and Scholars
How do we know what is true?
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Comfort Problems Related to Radiation
On cold winter nights, we can feel chilly when our skin radiates heat toward cold window glass
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Fixing Energy Star Version 3
Highly qualified HVAC contractors are so hard to find that many builders just gave up on the Energy Star Homes program