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What’s the Best Way to Insulate Crawl Space Walls?
A builder tries to accommodate a customer’s objection to rigid foam insulation. Will mineral wool work just as well?
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Coping With a Wrong-Sized AC System
A Florida homeowner looks for a solution to a new air-conditioning system that leaves his house with high humidity
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What’s More Important, Air-Sealing or Insulation?
A reader planning a new house wonders how to best use a limited construction budget
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Why Is My House So Hot?
A GBA reader believes that after he added more attic insulation, his air conditioning equipment runs longer than it used to
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Heat Losses Are Way More than Planned
An owner/builder in Ontario feels deflated after heat-loss calculations come in much worse than he expected — but numbers are not always what they seem
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When the Problem Is Heat
How to keep the heat outside when you live in the desert Southwest and daytime temperatures can top 100°F
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Looking for the Best Minisplit Option
Planning a new house, two GBA readers decide that conventional ductless minisplit installations are unappealing, and suspect that filter changes would be a hassle
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On Trying To Do the Right Thing
Ready to get started on his new house, a homeowner wonders about his obligations to his design-build firm
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The Best Way to Insulate a Floor
A homeowner in Arkansas weighs the benefits of mineral wool batts and sprayed polyurethane foam — but a third option may be the winner
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Updating an Antique Heating System
A Maryland homeowner loves his historic house, but whopping heating and cooling bills has him looking for alternatives
