Thanks for read through. Building my first high performance home. I still had questions about exhaust hoods. This was helpful. Love the nerdy deep dives.
This is some awesome info. Been down the energy efficiency the last 6 years since we moved to a new house. But have always been doing this all my years of home ownership with the knowledge I had. Now, Im done and is it perfect?. Who knows, its as good as its going to get with a new HRV. I think this chasing the perfect ventilation is a pipe dream and can never be achieved. Can it be close, sure. But I think most home owners get to a point and do what they can, and just say "good enough" That's where I am. Maybe because I'm Gen X, or maybe because I was raised on a farm raised on wood heat. My downdraft stove vent has no make up air, so I get negative pressure on high because I dont have any makeup air linked to it. Oh no, been like that for 6 years now, life moves on. The chase of perfection can drive you to madness, since each day can be different.
I think multiple viewers appreciate the "nerdy" videos. I have generally been a fan of affordable starter homes, but when you were talking about the standards and how the percentage of leakage is greatly impacted by the square footage of the house, It seems that by having better standards for air quality, insulation, and air sealing, that the cost per square foot would actually be higher for so-called tiny houses that it would be for something ever so slightly larger. (Just a random thought if you can understand what I'm trying to get at.) Thanks for the video!
Corbett thanks for the great information, but don’t forget that any bedroom that doesn’t have a door to the outside will need an operable window no matter what. It’s called egress
This was really illuminating. What video should I watch about HVAC and ERV relationship in the sense of conditioned air and how it’s affected by an ERV. Also, things like if I have an ERV exhaust vent in my kitchen how far should it be from my Kitchen exhaust for core clog up reduction or avoidance? Maybe a good q&a of details like that would be good. Anyways, thank you!
Love your work Corbett!
Thx so much
Thanks for read through. Building my first high performance home. I still had questions about exhaust hoods. This was helpful. Love the nerdy deep dives.
Great Content! Great Video!
I like the updated diagram you have for the hvac expert list page!
Thx :)
This is some awesome info. Been down the energy efficiency the last 6 years since we moved to a new house. But have always been doing this all my years of home ownership with the knowledge I had. Now, Im done and is it perfect?. Who knows, its as good as its going to get with a new HRV. I think this chasing the perfect ventilation is a pipe dream and can never be achieved. Can it be close, sure. But I think most home owners get to a point and do what they can, and just say "good enough" That's where I am. Maybe because I'm Gen X, or maybe because I was raised on a farm raised on wood heat. My downdraft stove vent has no make up air, so I get negative pressure on high because I dont have any makeup air linked to it. Oh no, been like that for 6 years now, life moves on. The chase of perfection can drive you to madness, since each day can be different.
I think multiple viewers appreciate the "nerdy" videos.
I have generally been a fan of affordable starter homes, but when you were talking about the standards and how the percentage of leakage is greatly impacted by the square footage of the house, It seems that by having better standards for air quality, insulation, and air sealing, that the cost per square foot would actually be higher for so-called tiny houses that it would be for something ever so slightly larger. (Just a random thought if you can understand what I'm trying to get at.)
Thanks for the video!
Absolutely correct- this was brought up early in the Affordable Home vid from last week with Alan Knudson. My own tiny house was about $600/sf.
Corbett thanks for the great information, but don’t forget that any bedroom that doesn’t have a door to the outside will need an operable window no matter what. It’s called egress
This was really illuminating. What video should I watch about HVAC and ERV relationship in the sense of conditioned air and how it’s affected by an ERV.
Also, things like if I have an ERV exhaust vent in my kitchen how far should it be from my Kitchen exhaust for core clog up reduction or avoidance?
Maybe a good q&a of details like that would be good.
Anyways, thank you!
Thx for watching- you will find lots of vids on our channel about all of that. Huge topic that’s hard to tackle in 1 vid.
@ will do, thank you.
Is anyone else experiencing a blurry video. I've tried to adjust it
Man some of this stuff goes against conventional wisdom. I purposely used non operable windows everywhere they werent required.
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The government energy efficiency standards are trying to kill us - they leave this incredibly vital information out of it
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