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Power Outages and Air Quality It’s not hard to imagine nowadays: hot weather, cold weather, storms, electrical grid system hacking, or just plain equipment failure are all reasons you could lose power to your house. In that case, there are...
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Air-Sealing your Home Wow, the revelation that Ultrafine Particles (UFPs) from outdoor pollution can easily penetrate a home’s interior through cracks and leaks has really stirred our thinking. Specifically, a 2018 study on UFPs from airport traffic during prevailing winds...
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Air-sealing your ducts for better air quality and energy savings In our post “How does indoor air pressure affect ventilation and air quality?” we show a photo of a room being aerosol sealed from the inside out. This is a...
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To Vent or not to Vent the Attic? It’s all about air-sealing and insulation In the early 2000’s, this was not a relevant question for most homebuilders. Attics were virtually always vented, in line with the thinking that ventilation was...
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What are ultrafine particles and where do they come from? In our post “Which particles can get captured by a filter or by my lungs?”, we mentioned ultrafine particles, which are classified to be 0.1 micron or less in diameter....
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