{"id":367970,"date":"2018-02-14T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=49954c8741c10c44ce6d183da9563c32"},"modified":"2018-02-14T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:06:15","slug":"is-r-8-duct-insulation-enough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/is-r-8-duct-insulation-enough-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is R-8 Duct Insulation Enough?"},"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                    Code requirements are always a compromise between what&rsquo;s best and what&rsquo;s practical        <\/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\/r-8-duct-insulation-enough\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/flex-duct-insulation-mike-macfarland.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Insulated flex duct in an attic (Photo by Mike MacFarland, used with permission)\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/r-8-duct-insulation-enough\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hvac-design-beautiful-duct-system-air-flow_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Compression at support straps\" width=\"144\" height=\"82\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you know a little building science, you&#8217;ve no doubt seen a lot of problems that occur with air distribution systems. Ducts just don&#8217;t get anywhere near the attention they deserve in most homes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about ducts quite a bit here and have shown problems resulting from poor design and installation. We all know how stupid some of those problems are. So today I&#8217;m going to talk about a problem that doesn&#8217;t get nearly enough attention: duct insulation &mdash; even when the design and installation are perfect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/r-8-duct-insulation-enough\" 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":[4996,3434],"class_list":["post-367970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-duct","tag-insulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367970","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=367970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}