{"id":253022,"date":"2017-02-15T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=a82aa53cc8d9f9a16c7c919711ba1a34"},"modified":"2017-02-15T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:40:03","slug":"buried-ducts-allowed-in-2018-energy-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/buried-ducts-allowed-in-2018-energy-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried Ducts Allowed in 2018 Energy Code"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    The keys are duct leakage, R-values, and the vapor barrier        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/buried-ducts-allowed-2018-energy-code\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/condensation-duct-insulation-crawl-space.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Condensation on duct insulation in a South Carolina crawl space\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/buried-ducts-allowed-2018-energy-code\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/attic-insulation-dew-point-buried-ducts.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dew points above, within, and below attic insulation\" width=\"144\" height=\"75\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Water vapor from the air condenses on air conditioning ducts in humid climates. It&#8217;s as normal as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/solving-comfort-problems-caused-attic-kneewalls\">poorly insulated bonus rooms<\/a> making occupants uncomfortable or cigarettes causing lung cancer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blog\/rss\/building-science#footnote\"><sup><span>&dagger;<\/span><\/sup><\/a>. Condensation on ducts is most common in crawl spaces and basements, where the air is more likely to have a higher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/relative-humidity-doesn-t-tell-you-how-humid-air\">dew point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/buried-ducts-allowed-2018-energy-code\" 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":[12449,14344,13304,14345,3447],"class_list":["post-253022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-attic","tag-attic-duct","tag-condensation","tag-duct-insulation","tag-energy-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253022","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=253022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}