AAAAllrighty then...
My local compadres and I have been searching for some info on easily expainable science that indicates a home with
5+ ach is more expensive to heat than the same home with 3 ach and mechanical ventilation.
I know- the right wing extremist say- We make the houses more expensive so we don't heat outside air coming in, then we make them more expensive to heat the outside air we have to bring in- so we'll never sell a house again.
And the left wing extremists say- Controlling the conditioning of the ventilation makes the home more efficient in all ways and pays great dividends in the long run and if we don't do it we'll all die, probably by this time tomorrow.
We know the theories, but when I do the reaserch i find a thousand articles on how infiltration is bad, and a bunch on the cost comparisons of different mechanical ventilation techniques- but I cannot find a conditioned space cost comparison of a home with normal infiltration per the 2009 code series compared to the costs of a home built to the 2012 code series wich requires mechanical ventilation.
Personally, I don't care which way is shown to be more effective, I just would like to know which way is more effective. Help me out- where's the hard data?
opcorn And I got my CBO last week. Gotta say, kind of a confidence builder to get that one out of the way. :cheers
My local compadres and I have been searching for some info on easily expainable science that indicates a home with
5+ ach is more expensive to heat than the same home with 3 ach and mechanical ventilation.
I know- the right wing extremist say- We make the houses more expensive so we don't heat outside air coming in, then we make them more expensive to heat the outside air we have to bring in- so we'll never sell a house again.
And the left wing extremists say- Controlling the conditioning of the ventilation makes the home more efficient in all ways and pays great dividends in the long run and if we don't do it we'll all die, probably by this time tomorrow.
We know the theories, but when I do the reaserch i find a thousand articles on how infiltration is bad, and a bunch on the cost comparisons of different mechanical ventilation techniques- but I cannot find a conditioned space cost comparison of a home with normal infiltration per the 2009 code series compared to the costs of a home built to the 2012 code series wich requires mechanical ventilation.
Personally, I don't care which way is shown to be more effective, I just would like to know which way is more effective. Help me out- where's the hard data?
opcorn And I got my CBO last week. Gotta say, kind of a confidence builder to get that one out of the way. :cheers