{"id":232250,"date":"2016-10-20T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=c6790c65a107f7d5e14518b039f712eb"},"modified":"2016-10-20T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:46:54","slug":"building-science-puzzles-the-jigsaw-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/building-science-puzzles-the-jigsaw-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Science Puzzles: The Jigsaw Approach"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Tracking down performance problems is all about getting the building science right &mdash; and following the rules of jigsaw puzzles        <\/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\/building-science-puzzles-jigsaw-approach\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Yost%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of the house from the back\" width=\"144\" height=\"109\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/building-science-puzzles-jigsaw-approach\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Screen%20Shot%202016-08-22%20at%208.30.59%20AM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of roof sheathing with mold\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just about every week, I get a call or an email that turns into a building science puzzle. While the problems are varied, how you solve them doesn&rsquo;t change.<\/p>\n<p>First, you understand how heat and moisture move through building assemblies. Second, you follow the advice of your spouse.<\/p>\n<p>My wife of 27 years is a real master at jigsaw puzzles, and she would laugh to learn that I think of myself as a puzzle master of any sort, since I am useless at the jigsaw ones. But she completely agrees that I should use her method of solving jigsaw puzzles in my work on building science problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/building-science-puzzles-jigsaw-approach\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/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":[12449,7562,14216,14217],"class_list":["post-232250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-attic","tag-mold","tag-puzzle","tag-yost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232250","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=232250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}