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How to Boost Recycling
You finish that last sip of morning coffee and stare at the empty paper cup in your hand. Should it go into the recycling bin, compost, or be landfilled, or…
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When It’s Better to Demolish an Old House than to Patch It Up
GBA readers get a steady diet of advice on how to improve the energy efficiency and comfort of old houses. The list almost always includes basics like air sealing and…
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Five Rules for Wall Design
An architect recently told a friend of mine that he was designing a flash-and-batt wall with the spray foam insulation installed on the interior, and the batt insulation toward the…
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Pete’s Puzzle: Greater Air Leakage After Spray Foam
Here's a funky, but cool little timber-frame house, built in 1987: Being a full cathedral timber frame, the roof deck provides both structure and interior finish with all the rigid…
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How To Talk About Building Science
In case you didn’t suss it out, the name of this blog is meant facetiously. Green building really isn’t easy, and it’s been a long road with a bunch of…
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Urban Rustic: Completing the Wall Assembly
Editor’s note: This post is one of a series by Eric Whetzel about the design and construction of his house in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A list of Eric’s…
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How to Choose Insulation
Insulating a new house used to be a no-brainer. It was that step between installing windows and hanging drywall, when the crew spent a few days stapling fiberglass batts between…
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17 Steps to Better Duct Systems
If a 12-step program is good for helping deal with problems like addictive behaviors, then a 17-step program ought to better, right? Or maybe it's just a random number that…
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Air Sealed and On Piers
As a remodeling contractor, I often find myself with unique projects that take some outside-the-box thinking, and this job was no different. My customers wanted to add a 12-ft. by…
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The Green Police: Product Retrospective (volume 2)
Welcome to round two of my product retrospective, where green remodeler Michael Anschel of Minneapolis-based OA Design+Build+Architecture and I look back at our illustrious career as screen stars in the…
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