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Building Science Introduction - Air Flow

Information guide providing background information about air flow in residential buildings.

Guide describing how to install continuously operating exhaust fans.

Guide describing how to install screening to keep birds, rodents, and other pests out of vent openings in new and existing homes.

Guide describing categories of direct-vent combustion space- and water-heating equipment and combustion safety testing.

Information guide describing the use of ECM fan motors in air handlers used for heating, cooling, and ventilation.

Guide describing how to provide combustion air for fireplaces and how to test fireplaces for combustion safety.

Guide describing how to install obvious ventilation controls.

Guide describing how to evaluate existing ventilations systems before performing home upgrades.

Guide describing the use and testing of programmable thermostats.

Guide describing how to install ventilation air inlets in open locations at a safe distance from potential air contamination sources.

Guide describing how to select and install whole-house ventilation systems for existing homes.

This guide describes how to install a whole-building ventilation system to provide adequate dilution of indoor air contaminants.