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We are redoing a basement. We ripped out the old furring strips, vapor barrier sheeting, and the fiberglass underneath. The fiberglass was seperated from the concrete wall with cross-strapping, but…

Hello I have a 1960ish house in climate zone 6/7 with 1/2 inch plywood 2x4 walls r13 foil faced fiber glass insulation in walls (and the ceiling). Some walls have…

Location: MinnesotaLooking for advice on insulating hard to access and non-uniform sized rim joist surfaces.  Home built 1949.Extremely difficult in some areas to get foam board in place to then…

Have a relatively new SVZ/SUZ 24K BTU (454B) air handler installed. I noticed with electrical monitoring that sometimes it will jump from a baseline of 60w (fan low) to 250w…

I'll be installing a heat pump water heater in the conditioned basement of a zone 5b (Dry) single family home. The water heater will be in a mechanical room (not…

Hi all,This is a bit of a flooring + building science question. We are getting ready to install new engineered wood floors, likely 6” wide plank, on top of a 3/4”…

A Retired Software Engineer and Home Energy Enthusiast Designs a Dual-Fuel Heating System for a Pretty Good House

Drywall has started going up in our new CT build, and I realized today I might have forgotten an insulation detail. You can see from the photos below what we've…

Is anyone familiar with Sabs construction? It utilizes eps foam boards and a formulated concrete mixture to replace wood as the structural part of the home. It is essentially a…

Two years ago we took advantage of our state's efficiency rebate program to install two heat pumps in our 2,200-square foot 1978 split level in southern Maine (6A) - one…

Hey so I ordered sheets of foil faced 1in eps foam for a roof project. Contractor said it was wrong sheets and used something else. Now I have 16 4x8…

We will be finishing the attic in our 1930 house in Atlanta, GA next year. Currently it is a nonvented and partially conditioned space with insufficient foam batt insulation. The…

Hi all-  trying to diagnose how the inside end walls of my attic are wet/damp.  I am perplexed.  maybe Im overcomplicating.  We have three "endwalls" on the house, all have…

Hi Folks, I’m curious if people provide any special attention to insulation around metal components in the wall assembly, particularly holddowns (i.e. simpson HDU4) and bearing plates, considering these are…

Hi everyone!I'm an architecture student, working on the details of my design for a Climate 6 zone ADU unit.  More specifically, we're detailing the connection of a window to our…

House built in 1960s with open gable roof, converted garage on left side also gable roof, and an intersecting gable in the middle.  House has gable vents: one on each…

Hi everyone! TL;DR at the bottom. Sorry, I'm wordy. First, I just want to say that I'm not looking for reinforcement either way. Rather, I'm looking for people's experience who…

We have energy heel trusses in our cathedral ceiling area. The total space from the roof sheathing to where the finished drywall would be is 26”, so a 26” deep…

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Thank you When I open up one of The library details and download it as a DWG and then try and open it with my CAD program Autocad The building…