Tag: supply ventilation
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Ventilating a Home in Cold Weather
Prime: prime Subtitle: You need fresh air, but bringing in cold outdoor air can cause problems Images: When I woke up Saturday morning, the temperature outdoors was -40 degrees†. The wind chill was -100 degrees! It was just unbelievably, impossibly, inhumanly cold outside. Fortunately, that was on a mountaintop in New Hampshire and not where…
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Ventilating a Home in Cold Weather
Prime: prime Subtitle: You need fresh air, but bringing in cold outdoor air can cause problems Images: When I woke up Saturday morning, the temperature outdoors was -40 degrees†. The wind chill was -100 degrees! It was just unbelievably, impossibly, inhumanly cold outside. Fortunately, that was on a mountaintop in New Hampshire and not where…
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Resistance May NOT Be Futile in the Residential Ventilation Wars
Subtitle: The Building Science Corporation has created a ventilation standard to compete against ASHRAE 62.2 Images: “ASHRAE 62 is the only national consensus standard document there is. Follow 62.2. Resistance is futile.” So said Dr. Max Sherman last summer in a presentation for the Building America Technical Update meeting. (Download pdf official report here.) That…