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Of course the crazy way we speak about the Second Law does not help: “In an isolated system, a process can occur only if it increases the total entropy of the system.” Huh? It makes you want to hate… Read More
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I did a bunch of wood foundations in the early 1980’s. Time of Blondie, Kim Carnes and the Police. I learned a great deal…some good…. some bad. The bad taught me a lot of things to avoid. At the… Read More
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Now I am a simple kind of guy. I just bet that a roof with a couple of hundred bullet holes probably leaked I wonder what all those holes did to the roof at the Superdome? Just asking.I remind… Read More
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You have got to love salesmen. They figure things out way before physicists, usually before engineers and certainly before greenie weenies. Harry Tschumi and Les Blades,1 a pair of salesmen from… Read More
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Civilians seem to think that we have the technology to go into a space, do a test, and determine what is in the air. As simple as that sounds we can’t do it. We don’t have the technology.1 You cannot… Read More
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“gas separation processes and open cell low density spray foam”1Lots of attics insulated with open cell low density spray foam (Photograph 1, Photograph 2 and Photograph 3) are having problems – in… Read More
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Claddings and trim get the most stress imaginable next to roofing. They get rain and sun and go through huge temperature swings. Recognize these stressors? The principle “damage functions” of… Read More
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It is not easy to separate townhouses and row houses from one another (Photograph 1). And from garages. And of course from the outside. Photograph 1: Row Houses – Beautiful until you try to have… Read More
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So what do you do when you have an old building and the walls aren’t doing their job? What do you do when the walls look bad, leak and are falling apart? You give them a face-lift. We’ve been doing… Read More
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There. I said it. It just does not work. OK, it works sometimes1. But it does not work in tight building enclosures and certainly not in new houses, apartments, townhouses and row houses. … Read More
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