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Rick Hall replied to Corbett Lunsford's discussion NEW BOOK! Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing
A. Tamasin Sterner replied to Rick Hall's discussion What would you suggest? in the group Building Performance Institute (BPI)"This is what we do: The Standards are clear: No air sealing, dense packing more than 15% of the shell area, duct sealing outside the thermal envelope, if you cannot complete the or combustion testing protocol. So, if we cannot test…"
Paul Morin replied to Rick Hall's discussion What would you suggest? in the group Building Performance Institute (BPI)"If the tankless water heater is not sealed combustion, then it could be either power vented (one PVC pipe), induced draft (inducer motor and metal pipe), or natural draft (with draft hood). I am not comfortable drilling a PVC pipe to measure…"
Rick Hall replied to Rick Hall's discussion What would you suggest? in the group Building Performance Institute (BPI)"Thanks folks. The culprit here is an older tankless that is not sealed combustion."
Kevin Hanlon replied to Rick Hall's discussion What would you suggest? in the group Building Performance Institute (BPI)"I'd agree w/ the previous post. When going for a worst case test, you only need to measure presssure difference in the CAZ WRT outside. I'm figuring you can get into the CAZ. If required, Measuring exhaust gas for CO and efficiency on a…"
Rick Hall replied to Graeme Nix's discussion Training Materials and Resources in the group Trainers and Mentors"I developed ours for the college. If you look at the BPI knowledge task list you can get an idea of what to teach."
Adam Zielinski replied to Rick Hall's discussion What would you suggest? in the group Building Performance Institute (BPI)"
You should be able to access the room where the water heater itself is located. Otherwise if it is in some kind of sealed off space, then it probably doesn't meet code requirements. So you should be able to do a worst case…"
Rick Hall added a discussion to the group Building Performance Institute (BPI)
What would you suggest?
I got this email from a QA program manager. Looking for feedback. Thanks I have a question for you I'm hoping you can shed some light on.How are we supposed to proceed with getting combustion and worst case depressurization numbers from an area that is inaccessible?I just ran into this situation over at customer's home with a tankless water heater on his second floor.The only option to get a flue gas sample is to set up an extension ladder in an alley which doesn't have clearances that are…See More
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Best Building, Retrofitting, or even Auditing Practices - what are they, what should change, what needs to find it's way to the dust bin of history?See More
Rick Hall joined Leslie McDowell, BPI's groupBuilding Performance Institute (BPI)
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INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY USERS
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