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Topic	PSA: Your AC can probably only handle lowering your living area 20 degrees
Tupacrulez 07/21/19 3:10:04 AM #16:	pres_madagascar posted... Tupacrulez posted... Colorahdo posted... crazy how we build such inefficient homes My buddy lives in an adobe house in NM and doesn't even need AC That's just old homes. New homes are ridiculously efficient. No lol. A lot of new builds are built very cheaply. We'll, I've got a literal decade building everything from slab on grade bungalows to 5 storey condo complexes numbering in the tens of thousands of square feet, to schools and prison expansions. Please, enlighten me. 1970: R12 walls, R12 ceilings, vermiculite allowable, vapour barrier non existent. 2019: R20 continuous walls, limited thermal bridging, R60 ceilings, no vermiculite (DUH), building must have continuous air/vapour barrier allowing no more than 60 nanograms permeance per square meter of air passage. Home must also meet air exchange rate of 1.5 exchanges per hour. HRV or ERV highly recommended and required in many municipalities. Come on son. Fucking try me. --- Suck less, Rock Moar You're straight up right --r4xor <cite>Tupacrulez posted [p:924972809] in PSA: Your ... [t:77877659]...</cite> <quote><cite>pres_madagascar posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Tupacrulez posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Colorahdo posted...</cite> <quote>crazy how we build such inefficient homes My buddy lives in an adobe house in NM and doesn't even need AC</quote> That's just old homes. New homes are ridiculously efficient.</quote> No lol. A lot of new builds are built very cheaply.</quote> We'll, I've got a literal decade building everything from slab on grade bungalows to 5 storey condo complexes numbering in the tens of thousands of square feet, to schools and prison expansions. Please, enlighten me. 1970: R12 walls, R12 ceilings, vermiculite allowable, vapour barrier non existent. 2019: R20 continuous walls, limited thermal bridging, R60 ceilings, no vermiculite (DUH), building must have continuous air/vapour barrier allowing no more than 60 nanograms permeance per square meter of air passage. Home must also meet air exchange rate of 1.5 exchanges per hour. HRV or ERV highly recommended and required in many municipalities. Come on son. Fucking try me. --- Suck less, Rock Moar You're straight up right --r4xor</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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