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Duct testing in a conditioned crawlspace
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Concerning duct testing in crawlspaces (this is for new houses for Energy Star, but will be the same for existing houses):I have a house on a conditioned crawl with ducts in that crawl. There is an…Continue

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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ed Minch Nov 25, 2011.

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Ed Minch replied to Mike Kandel's discussion June's Stump the Chump: What's Wrong with this Picture?

"David If it were the same exterior wall we wouldn't be able to see the uninsulated ceiling. I believe this is an interior shot. Good call on the old framed garage door opening, but that would support my interpretation."

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Ed Minch replied to Mike Kandel's discussion June's Stump the Chump: What's Wrong with this Picture?

"Nothing is wrong. The back wall is common to the house and it is cool in the house. The angled wall below the ceiling is warmer because it is partially thermally connected to the hot attic."

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Ed Minch commented on Christopher Morin's blog post Selling with Rebates: The Simple Payback

"Following "savings" from a small sample can be very misleading. I have been involved in scorekeeping of programs by three university research groups and this is about the sample size they requested 20 row houses 20 2 story houses 20…"

Jun 7

Ed Minch replied to Stan Kuhn's discussion How To Deal With Sprinkler Piping Installation in the group Home Energy Ratings

"We air seled some condos a few years back and their sprinklers were in a cathedral ceiling with scissors trusses. One of techs was smart enough to take a picture and tell the job super there there was on pipe that was especially vulnerable -…"

Jun 7

Ed Minch replied to Stan Kuhn's discussion How To Deal With Sprinkler Piping Installation in the group Home Energy Ratings

"The real solution is to say to the sprinkler guy - "I will not force the insulator to take responsibility for your pipes freezing - install them in the walls so all pipes are inside the heated shell" Ed Minch"

Jun 6

Ed Minch replied to mike keesee's discussion air sealing sprinklers

"Great document - however they give short shrift to my preferred recommendation which is to install wall heads - get ALL the pipes out of the attic. I don't care how well you do the "tenting", I can still see the path of the…"

May 28

Ed Minch replied to Patrick Michaelyan's discussion Hot Upper Stories

"We have successfully treated this same problem in perhaps 1000 of this same house in the Baltimore/Philly area over the last 4 decades. The split-level is the second worst energy problem we see behind the Cape Cod syndrome. The split…"

May 23

Ed Minch commented on Chris Laumer-Giddens's blog post 0.72 ach50 Before Drywall - This Home is already 90% Tighter than Energy Code

"Chris For my customers, the cost of getting a tight house is right up there with actually HAVING a tight house. We deliver houses on a production basis below 1.5 ACH50 all the time (1800-2600 ft2) without any expensive materials. In my…"

Apr 22

Ed Minch replied to Paul Raymer's discussion Looking for a cure for a warping hardwood floor not caused by a leak

"One of the local large (3-400 a year) national builders specializes in houses over about 3500 ft2 and on up to about 6500 ft. They found that if they installed a humidifier on each system as standard (either 2 or 3 systems) their floor…"

Apr 18

Ed Minch replied to Pat Dundon's discussion Basements and BAS

"What is the charge? What do you think it costs you to drop it off, pick it up, and deal with it? What percentage of houses would consider reasonable to measure? Have you then ventilated more and measured? Has anybody? Ed Minch"

Apr 11

Ed Minch replied to Pat Dundon's discussion Basements and BAS

"Ted What measure did you use for IAQ? What pollutants did you look for? Do you do it in every house? I recently had to refute a guy who measured "high cellulose" in the carpet of the bedroom with the pull down stair to the…"

Apr 11

Ed Minch replied to Pat Dundon's discussion Basements and BAS

"Look at the example on page 4 of the BPI BA standard - it says nothing about occupied, conditioned, etc. BPI says to use the basement as part of the calculation. There will certainly be times, as has been noted, where extenuating circumstances…"

Mar 28

Ed Minch replied to Pat Dundon's discussion Basements and BAS

"The only basement (in the mid-Atlantic) I would consider unconditioned is a basement in a baseboard electric heated house where the water heater was upstairs, say in the kitchen. Only then would I seal and insulate the basement or crawlspace)…"

Mar 28

Ed Minch replied to Guy DuBois's discussion Where shouldn't thermostats be? in the group Hall of Shame

"Guy Just cruising through the archives and didn't see the 2011 - if a house doctor poses an opinion and no one is there to here, does he really have an opinion?"

Mar 25

Ed Minch replied to Guy DuBois's discussion Where shouldn't thermostats be? in the group Hall of Shame

"There are 2 potential reasons why theis return area could be cold - air leakage and low R-value. Air leakage - note the center of the grill is not cold, just the edges. This tells me that cold air is coming into the room from around the…"

Mar 25

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At 7:12am on December 24, 2010, Diane Chojnowski said…: Hi Ed,

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