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Zone 6 frost wall options

Green Homes 2 - Sat, 2025-11-01 08:22
Hello all, we are building a home in zone six, slab on grade. Builder wants to use a superior walls, precast, for the frost wall.  Not knowing how we would…
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Effectivness of Vapor Variable Membane in bathrooms

Green Homes 2 - Sat, 2025-11-01 06:58
I have some doubts about the effectiveness of vapor variable membranes such as intello and similar products. My concern is in winter with a warm humid interior such as a…
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Why Don’t We Building Better Houses?

Green Homes 2 - Sat, 2025-11-01 02:00
Although we know how to build healthy, comfortable, durable homes, mostly we don’t … but not because it’s too expensive
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Insulating metal building!

Green Homes 2 - Fri, 2025-10-31 13:17
Insulating a metal building with metal studs on a metal trailer bed and a metal exterior. Figuring out insulation is driving me insane. thermal bridging, air gaps, vapor barriers. I…
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Housewrap for Garage + Longer Term Exposure

Green Homes 2 - Fri, 2025-10-31 09:43
Hello, I'm trying to work through a plan for my garage and sealing it up. The previous owner built somewhat of a frankensteins monster with a garage that then had…
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Passive House Accelerator—The What and Why of Passive House

Green Homes 2 - Fri, 2025-10-31 02:00
The first post of a new series from Passive House Accelerator's founder, Michael Ingui
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1980s Cape Cod Insulation

Green Homes 2 - Thu, 2025-10-30 19:40
First time posting on something like this so please bear with me. In central Kentucky, climate zone 4A: 2 story 1984 Cape Cod style home with perforated foil faced foam…
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Above roof deck insulation

Green Homes 2 - Thu, 2025-10-30 16:24
We have designed a house for climate zone 7 in Wyoming. To prevent any thermal bridging we are going to wrap the exterior walls and roofs with two layers of…
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How to fix? Spray foam under the house

Green Homes 2 - Thu, 2025-10-30 11:40
I bought and moved (yes, moved) a house earlier this year my property and the builder/owner spray-foamed the bottom side of the sub flooring to keep it warm during the…
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Deep Energy Retrofit in Progress

Green Homes 2 - Thu, 2025-10-30 07:34
Trigger warning, intentional diminishing returns.Hello everyone, After years of taking in content from GBA, BS and beer show, FHA podcast, Joe listberek, the Unbuild it crew, I've finally got a house…
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