Guides A-Z

This measure guide describes the need to install a plumbing and wiring chase for a future solar hot water installation.

Guide describing sprinkler irrigation landscape watering practices for water efficiency.

Guide describing how to create a fully aligned air barrier behind a staircase.

Guide describing how to install step and kick-out flashing on roofs.

This measure guides describes how to install structural insulated panels to block excessive heat loss and gain though structural framing.

Guide describing how to install stucco over rigid foam insulation in new and existing homes.

This measure guide describes how to correctly install ducts, ensuring enough cavity space to avoid compression.

Guide describing the need for covers on sump pumps in the basement or crawlspace of a home.

Guide describing how to hang ducts with supporting straps or saddles to adequately support ducts so they do not sag and are not pinched or compressed in a manner that would cause damage to the ducts, the duct insulation, or the duct air barrier covering.

Guide describing the use of swales, French drains, and site grading to minimize saturation of foundations and ponding of stormwater runoff on sites.

Guide describing techniques for installing insulating sheathing as a continuous drainage plane on walls.

Guide describing techniques and measures for increasing the termite resistance of a home's foundations.

Guide describing design of a mechanical ventilation design to enable accurate measurement of ventilation system airflow.

Guide describing the use and testing of programmable thermostats.

Guide describing how to analyze boiler and building performance and install thermostatic radiator valves (TRV) to reduce temperatures in over heated spaces.

Guide describing toilet and urinal requirements and selection for EPA's WaterSense program.

Guide describing how to conduct duct leakage tests per RESNET protocols.

Guide describing the split system heat pumps used for central forced air heating and cooling.

Guide describing how to install transfer grilles in bedroom walls to balance air pressures between rooms and to enable stale air to return to a central heating system's air handler for reconditioning even when room doors are closed.

Guide describing how to undercut the doors in bedroom walls to balance air pressures between rooms and to enable stale air to return to a central heating system's air handler for reconditioning even when room doors are closed.

Guide describing methods for insulating an unvented attic along the roof line.

Guide describing how to properly ventilate un-vented combustion appliances such as sealed fireplaces.

Guide describing a method for insulating an unvented attic by spraying foam insulation along the underside of the roof deck.

Guide describing construction of sloped roofs that are unvented and are insulated above the roof deck.