Green Homes News

Location: MCZ 101A, Robert A. Gilbert Room

"Collective movement of fish schools" with Yangfan Zhang, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow.

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I am currently renovating an old 1835 farmhouse in zone 5a. This is a timber framed house. There are no exterior stud walls. There is the original about 2" thick…

I have a new Navien combi with the exhaust pipe only a couple of feet off the ground and a few feet from my front door.  The smell is awful,…

A look at the benefits, manufacturing and delivery methods, and potential pitfalls of prefabricated building enclosures

My HVAC sub advised against any part of my system venting into the crawl. I have heard that some have vents into their crawl. I do plan on having a…

Eastern Massachusetts. We are renovating a mudroom, part of which is suspended between the main house and garage. Mudroom floor is 2' above a concrete pad (which used to be…

what is current thinking for cost-effective energy efficient doors in these three categories:(should be at least r-6 if possible)(1) entry door: here looks r important, so ok to cost a…

If you want to use 1/2” foam board insulation on basement walls with a french drain in place with a dimple board, where does the foam board go? Behind the…

I'm working on having a ~40' x 30' detached garage built in the PNW (CZ 4C).  I'd like the garage to be fully finished (drywall) and energy efficient (so I'm…

I have power monitor that I'd like to have totally enclosed in the electrical panel.  Currently it has two things that plug into a receptacle--a 12 VAC adapter for monitoring…