{"id":258384,"date":"2017-03-08T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=472197611c2bc2ada726df95e86628b6"},"modified":"2017-03-08T12:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:20:27","slug":"manual-j-doesnt-tell-you-equipment-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/manual-j-doesnt-tell-you-equipment-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual J Doesn\u2019t Tell You Equipment Capacity"},"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 amount of heating and cooling your house needs isn&rsquo;t the only factor in determining the size of your heating and cooling equipment        <\/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\/manual-j-doesn-t-tell-you-equipment-capacity\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Bailes%20-%20Manual%20J%20and%20equipment%20sizing%20-%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Manual J and equipment sizing\" width=\"144\" height=\"70\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little conundrum for you. To get the right amount of heating and cooling to each room in your home, you need a load calculation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/manual-j-load-calculations-vs-rules-thumb\">Rules of thumb<\/a> don&#8217;t work. But if you do a load calculation, the result isn&#8217;t the size of air conditioner, <span>heat pump<\/span><span>Heating and cooling system in which specialized refrigerant fluid in a sealed system is alternately evaporated and condensed, changing its state from liquid to vapor by altering its pressure; this phase change allows heat to be transferred into or out of the house. See air-source heat pump and ground-source heat pump.<\/span>, furnace, or boiler you need. It&#8217;s only the first step to sizing your system.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know why? Let&#8217;s take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/manual-j-doesn-t-tell-you-equipment-capacity\" 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":[2899,4999,3423,14136,14388],"class_list":["post-258384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-air-conditioner","tag-furnace","tag-heat-pump","tag-load-calculation","tag-wood-boiler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258384","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=258384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}