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Life was simple when I grew up in Canada. Winters were long and cold, we had no air conditioning, walls dried to both the outside and the inside and the Toronto Maple Leafs would win Stanley Cups.… Read More
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When Mother Nature came up with wood it gave it magical properties that try as we might we mere humans find it difficult to improve upon or to transfer to other materials we come up with.1 One of… Read More
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One of the dirty little secrets that never gets talked about is that water leaks through building papers, building wraps and housewraps and runs down between them and the sheathings that they cover.… Read More
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I remember sitting around listening to stories my dad and his friends would tell when they were hanging around in the basement playing cards. They would laugh uproariously, tease each other, get… Read More
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Blue Hawaii[1]Hawaii is a magnificent place – except if you want to build there. Huh? What’s so difficult about building on islands in the middle of the Pacific? Check out Photograph 1. Waikiki… Read More
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…. at Fulton and his steamboatHershey and his chocolate bar….OK, this is one of my all-time favorite songs. George and Ira Gershwin. Performed for the first time by Ginger Rogers. But everyone… Read More
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General Limit States Design, Hygrothermal AnalysisAt a basic level a wall is an environmental separator. It keeps the outside out and the inside in. Easy to say, not always easy to do.To function… Read More
Very Cold, Cold, Mixed-Humid, Marine, Hot-Humid, Hot-Dry/Mixed-Dry
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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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* Credit to architect Edward Mazria: I think he said this first, if he didn't say it first he sure says it well.Many “green” buildings don’t save energy (see “MIS-LEED-ING” sidebar). Why? They have… Read More
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Buildings today are hollow and multilayered with numerous air gaps or void spaces. Chases, shafts, soffits and drops abound. Everything is connected to everything else, typically unintentionally.… Read More
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