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I am planning  to “fix up” the situation over my 70's kit homes exterior walls.I'm in Colorado climate zone 6 around 7,000'ft. The roof is a 4/12 pitch.I  want my…

We’re in the process of air sealing the inside of a new construction home. For wider cracks, we’ll be using canned closed-cell spray foam (Great Stuff Gaps and Cracks or…

We’re using a Coravent rain screen system, and our builder needs to fur out the windows about ¼ inch to meet the siding. He suggested using rigid foam for the…

What we learned from updating a 16-year-old deep-energy retrofit

Hello,we are trying to figure out a proper way of  creating rain screen around flangeless upvc windows that are set flush with OSB. Windows are already in, and the OSB…

Largely thanks to this site I have gotten the courage or foolishness to proceed with thin stone veneer wainscot (100 sq ft) when I do siding. Mid Missouri, hot humid…

Is there a rough cutoff (blower door score) for when a house is too tight to get combustion air from inside the house for a gas water heater? I've read…

Misunderstandings about vapor barriers and vapor retarders are still common

Large shop ... 4500 sq ft ... 16 ft walls ... one man build ...First ... I have three rolls of Tyvek here ...10 x 100  .. about 5 years…

For our "Money Pit Cottage" project to rebuild a 1946 one-story cottage, we're adding a Broan 150 cfm HRV.We had no reasonable alternative to installing the unit in the attic.…

I am building a she shed that is a little bit over engineered.  I am nearing the end of the exterior but can't figure out how to add the lighting.…

I 'am looking to see what probes or data loggers folks use to monitor the inside humidity levels of a wall enclosure. The idea would be to leave the sensor…

Simple maintenance can help increase the lifespan of an expensive piece of equipment

After living in our newly built home for nearly 5 months we’ve observed the HVAC system balancing could really be improved.Is it normal to see a 5 degree temp differential…

Sometimes repairing a window makes more sense than replacing

I have a block piers under a park model. The issue is the piers are varying heights, some as much as six inches or so short of the i-beam they…

Your contractor recommendations please!I’m helping out a friend/client with a house in Broomfield, CO. This is just northwest of Denver. I don’t live in the area but will be heading…

We are slowly renovating a 1949 single level 1300 sf house we own in a working class neighborhood in a small city in Virginia, northern edge of CZ 4A.The house…

Hi all! I really need a support system since I don’t have enough pros in my area to reach a consensus for an attic encapsulation. I’m working alone on the…

My house has a measured ach50 of 1.48Location is north Texas climate zone 3a. There are four occupants I have an open window in the main bedroom of approx 32" x…