Sentences with phrase «house air leakage»

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That's because in Passive House design, every jog and bump adds surface area and can be a thermal bridge or a source of air leakage, so Passive House buildings want to be boxy.

Specially constructed airtight ply boxes were installed to receive the new windows, and also allow for preliminary airtightness testing to more accurately reveal air leakages elsewhere in the house

The continuous air barrier yields minimal leakage, with air tightness testing revealing only 0.3 ACH50 which is half the Passive House requirement.

If I'd stick - built the same house, I'll bet my air leakage measurement would have...

Table 2 lists the air leakage test results for each of the houses.

The duct systems for the sealed attic houses had an average of 41 % less total air leakage, and, most importantly, no measurable air leakage to the outdoors.

As shown, the sealed attic houses had lower air leakage.