{"id":10325,"date":"2013-03-13T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T10:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=aa3311b2082d7a6c80cecfc5a2686f8d"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T10:11:56","slug":"how-to-install-flex-duct-properly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/how-to-install-flex-duct-properly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Flex Duct Properly"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Following the Air Diffusion Council&#8217;s standards would lead to better installations        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-install-flex-duct-properly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/flex-duct-collapse-poor-air-flow.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flex duct collapse\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-install-flex-duct-properly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/air-diffusion-council-flex-duct-installation-standards-2-friction-rate-compression-gba.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ADC friction rates\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-install-flex-duct-properly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/air-diffusion-council-flex-duct-installation-standards-1-bend-radius-gba.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ADC bend radius\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-install-flex-duct-properly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/air-diffusion-council-flex-duct-installation-standards-3-sag-support-gba.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ADC sag support\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-install-flex-duct-properly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/HVAC-Grades-budget-as-percentage-of-construction-costs-Robert-Bean.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HVAC installation costs\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;I&#8217;ve written a lot about duct problems (especially those in flex duct) because they&#8217;re so abundant. A couple of years ago, I even wrote an article in the Energy Vanguard Blog about whether or not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/37400\/Should-Flex-Duct-Be-Banned-by-Green-Building-Programs\">flex duct should be banned<\/a>. My answer was no &mdash; but that we need better quality control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9144,4996,4710,4713,4997,4998,830,9146],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-air-diffusion-council","tag-duct","tag-duct-leakage","tag-duct-tightness","tag-ductwork","tag-flex-duct","tag-hvac","tag-manual-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}