Sometimes a house just needs a lot more air conditioning than building officials want you to put in, right?* It's better to be safe than sorry, so having extra heating or cooling capacity can be a good thing. Today I'm…
Sizing a heating or cooling system should start with an assessment of the heating or cooling load. Nowadays, we know the physics behind heat transfer, so we can come up with fairly accurate predictions of how much heating and cooling…
Using the wisdom of Cool Hand Luke to explain building enclosures, mechanical systems, or indoor air quality is a long established tradition in building science. Joe Lstiburek's Cool Hand Luke Meets Attics is the pinnacle of this genre, of course,…
People complicate things. If, say, you want to sell a motorcycle, you place an ad and interested potential buyers come check it out, maybe take it for a little ride, and then one of them buys it. But every once…