107 Acronyms & Initials for Home Energy Pros

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1. Great List! 
   Great List! 
    
   I learned wrt as “with reference to” when using the two taps on a manometer channel. ‘respect’ doesn’t seem to have the same connotations. YMMV

2. John N.: I
   John N.: I guess I picked up the ‘with respect to’ meaning from all the math and physics classes I took. In home energy world, though, you are correct that it seems most people use the word ‘reference’ instead of ‘respect.’ The meaning is the same in either case.

3. Anthony H.
   Anthony H.: Indeed! 
    
   Lisa: Thanks!

4. I find that those who don’t
   I find that those who don’t RTFM it seems to generate a WTF, usually followed by a few !!’s, (which I don’t see in your short list) from others.

5. Or As it relates to the
   Or As it relates to the effectiveness of the BS business in General we might Add: 
    
   FUBAR 
    
   SNAFU 
    

6. Allison, I know you’re a
   Allison, I know you’re a southerner so I assume you have ADD because you forgot CDD

7. Anthony H.
   Anthony H. (again): And of course, most people are probably aware that the F in RTFM can stand for something besides ‘friendly’ too. 
    
   Stan: Well, that one’s common enough and not really industry specific that I didn’t feel it was necessary to include it (although RTFM isn’t industry specific either). 
    
   pj: Well, I guess that depends on who’s doing the judging. 
    
   Bill S.: Ah, yes, I’m embarrassed to admit that it wasn’t even on my expanded list…until just now. I do remember considering it but I guess I didn’t include it because it’s not used all that much.

8. John Straube refers to them
   John Straube refers to them as TLA’s (three letter acronyms) and FLA’s (four letter acronyms or* five).

9. Here’s another one for the
   Here’s another one for the list: 
    
   HIRL – Home Innovation Research Labs. It is the re-branded version of NAHB Research Labs for their green certification program. One would probably pronounce it “hurl”, as in upchuck, etc?? Unintended consequences?

10. Enough people use ELA when
    Enough people use ELA when they mean EqLA that ambiguities arise often. We use EfLA for the US or LBNL or Effective Leakage Area and EqLA for the Canadian or Equivalent Leakage Area. The fact that EqLA can be measured as a simple hole cut in a box makes it more useful in the field so it used a fair bit. As it is now, you have to guess from the author as what was intended and if the author is second guessing who the reader is, then they might already have converted to EfLA for example. Without correcting for test pressure and n value of a test we can say that: 
    EfLA = EqLA X 0.611 
    meaning EqLA is always a bigger value.  
     
    While we are at it, we can get dates sorted. US is month-day-year, Canada is day-month-year and Europe is often year-month-day which is the only one that sorts documents chronologically. To avoid the constant confusion with dates, we use year-month-day and certainly not year with two numbers only otherwise what date is 08-09-10 ? There are at least three possibilities but: 2009-08-10 should be clear to anyone and can be put into filenames whereas /or as a separator cannot.

11. Recommend adding the National
    Recommend adding the National Air Duct Cleaners Assoication (NADCA) to your list. 
     
    Thanks

12. This list is awesome! Thank
    This list is awesome! Thank you!