Home Performance Channel – Healthy Indoors Minute — Jan 2020 Corbett Lunsford, of the Building Performance Workshop, and the co-host of the PBS TV series, Home Diagnosis with Grace Lunsford, brings you the next installment of the “Home Performance Channel – Healthy Indoors Minute.” Airplanes + Old-Fashioned Builders = Problem When people yearn for the
By Nate Adams — The House Whisperer — Healthy Indoors Magazine January 2020 — Done right, the HVAC in your home can make it very comfortable, and very healthy. One might even call it bad ass. But it needs to have a few relatively simple tweaks to be able to deliver what we call the
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by Jeffrey C. May — Fungi require moisture. I want to start with a brief review of two types of fungi, because it’s important for building professionals to know the difference. Macrofungi produce fruiting bodies that we call mushrooms or toadstools. These organisms have hyphae that can fan out a few feet to many yards
by Mark Jones — For the past decade or so, the state of New York has implemented a licensing requirement to perform residential or commercial home inspections. In order to obtain a license, one must not only take a test, but apprentice with an experienced inspector for a certain period of time and for a
Lessons learned from a Deep Energy Retrofit — By Nate Adams — Want to know something crazy about the deep energy retrofit of this building? It uses 35-45% more energy than one of our much less deep projects. That’s one of the things we learned from the Hiram College TREE House project. Last time we
By Alice Delia — Ever wonder what happens to all the things we take into our bodies every day? A lot of the food we eat is metabolized into useful substances, notably proteins, fats and cholesterol. And oxygen from the air we breathe is absorbed into the blood through the lungs while carbon dioxide moves
by Allison Bailes — I’m going to go out on a limb and make what you may think is an outrageous statement: Water is the most interesting substance in the world. Some of you may immediately respond, “Oh, yeah! What about beer?” (Or wine or Sidecars, Negronis, or Sazeracs or whatever your drink of choice
By Jeff May — Healthy Indoors Magazine November 2019 — Regrettably, summer will soon come to an end. In New England where I live, the leaves will turn colors and nights will be cooler. Soon we’ll be shutting up our houses and turning on the heat. With a reduction of fresh air in the house
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