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I’m in Napa, California, working with local Mits installer. It’s two-story house with a rental unit downstairs. Part of the downstairs area is below grade, which helps it stay cooler than the upstairs. Currently, the rental gets by with only a small electric wall heater and no active cooling. The upstairs has a ducted HVAC […]
We’re building a “pretty good house” in SE Wisconsin, trying to do as much as we can on our own since the educational journey is part of the fun. We’re using open web floor trusses so that hopefully all the ductwork, plumbing and electrical can be routed through them. One of the basement walls is […]
The home decarbonization trade has an equity problem. Broadly speaking, a lot of publicly subsidized programs aimed at electrifying and decarbonizing people’s homes, whether through the Inflation Reduction Act or more downstream at the state or local level, are overwhelmingly utilized by single-family homeowners. That’s all well and good. But what happens when such programs […]
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I’m deeply curious if there’s a calculator or theory of calculation that can determine the regulating impact of concrete walls (x” thick) that are connected to footings of a given depth. I’m working on an ICF house that is the following exterior -> interior. Black brick facade -> 2″ gap -> 2.5″ EPS -> 8″-10″ […]
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