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Connect the plastic application tunnel from the injection equipment to the supply plenum.
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Connecting hardware helps tie the roof to the walls to ensure a continuous load path to improve a building’s resistance to high winds, floods, and earthquakes.
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Connecting hardware helps tie the walls to the top plates and rim joists to ensure a continuous load path to improve a building’s resistance to high winds, floods, and earthquakes.
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Connection of floor framing to support beam for a coastal home built on piles (band joist nailing to the floor joist is adequate to resist uplift forces).
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Consider using a metal duct elbow instead of flex duct at boot connections to prevent compressions
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Construct a double wall consisting of two framed walls forming a wide wall cavity for more insulation in the home’s exterior walls.
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Construct a vertical curtain wall of 29-gauge corrugated iron, concrete, or bricks that extends down 2 feet and out 8 to 12 inches to prevent rats from burrowing under crawlspace foundations
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Construct exterior walls with insulated concrete forms (ICFs) that provide insulation without thermal bridging, as well as air sealing, a drainage plane, and high structural strength.
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Construct exterior walls with structural insulated panels (SIPs) to provide an airtight wall with consistent insulation and very little thermal bridging.
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Construction defects are exponentially cheaper to fix in the design stage rather than waiting to deal with them until after construction is complete (Source: American Contractors Insurance Group, Inc. 2009).
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Continuous L-metal flashing integrated with underlayment at roof-wall intersections
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Continuous load path failure due to improper connections between a home and its foundation allowed this building to be overturned in hurricane force winds.
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Continuous load path failure due to improper connections between the roof decking and roof framing resulting from hurricane force winds.
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Continuous rigid insulation coupled with thin (1/4-inch) spacer strips that provide drainage behind the wall cladding without increasing the fire risk of the assembly.
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Continuously-operating ventilation & exhaust fans include readily accessible override controls
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Contractors install gasket between the second-story top plate and the rim joist to air seal at this wall to attic transition (Source: S&A Homes).
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Contractors will inspect the home and test HVAC equipment for safety concerns before air sealing begins.
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Convection is heat transferred via air or liquid movement in a pattern of cooling/falling and warming/rising like hot water that rises and falls in a percolating coffee pot.
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Conventional three-stud corner leaves a cavity that must be insulated by the framers—not good.
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Conventional three-stud corners leave a cavity that must be insulated by the framers—not good
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Cool air flow is produced when the cooling cycle is energized (set thermostat to “cool”)
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Cool towers like this one at the Zion National Park Visitor Center can provide cooling to a building without any energy consumption
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Cooling air temperatures that can be achieved by a direct evaporative cooler at various outdoor conditions
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Cooling setting adjustments on a refrigerator allow the unit to be tuned to meet the target temperature for energy efficiency
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Coordinate with other trades including framers, plumbers, and electricians to prevent needless looping of flex duct
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Correct air sealing methods for common attic bypass air leakage paths.
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Correct seismic retrofit hardware for securing the sill plate to foundation wall
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Correctly anchoring an outside heating oil tank can prevent tank displacement if flooding occurs.
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Correctly anchoring an outside propane tank can prevent tank displacement if flooding occurs.
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