Have you ever noticed how popular ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos are in design and building magazines? Maybe there’s some psychological affect where things seem more beautiful when placed next to ugly things. I’m definitely guilty of taking more than my share of before photos (ugly stuff just begs to be photographed), but I always feel a little weird about showing […]
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Holiday Gift Ideas from Tay River
With the holiday season fast approaching, what better way to celebrate than by stringing your attic with flexible duct that’s sort of connected to your bathroom fan and then sort of pointing it to a gable vent! Make this year special! Give the gift of right-sized, properly ducted bathroom ventilation.
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Yesterday Jim Millhouse and Bill Hulstrunk of National Fiber visited a kitchen addition…
Yesterday Jim Millhouse and Bill Hulstrunk of National Fiber visited a kitchen addition we're building in Princeton. They're both building geeks too, so I always enjoy seeing them. Abel's running this project for us, and (imo) doing really well at trouble-shooting the complicated water-management details that arise with exterior foam. At some point I swear I'll do a write-up on […]
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Seriously? With 80% glass?
Seriously? With 80% glass? View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.
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Here's a wonderful interview with one of the greatest thinkers in building science….
Here's a wonderful interview with one of the greatest thinkers in building science. Roughly half is a rant against architects – I hadn't realized how frustrated he is with them. Almost reminded me of Nassim Taleb talking about bankers. INTERVIEW: Building Science Pioneer Dr. Joe Lstiburek on the Good, Bad and Ugly Side of Buildings The term ‘building science’ is […]
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Last night I attended Manual S training at Eastern Heating Cooling Council
Ed Janowiak is a great instructor and all-around-good-guy. I think that everyone working on buildings would benefit a lot from the heat load class (Manual J). Here's a list of all the EHCC classes. Go take some!http://www.eh-cc.org/courseofferings.php HVAC Classes New Jersey | Eastern Heating Cooling Council HVAC classes that meet NATE continuing education requirements are available through the Eastern Heating […]
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Full pdf at link. Journal of School Psychology | Vol 50, Iss 1, Pgs 1-148, (February, 2012) | ScienceDirect.com The online version of Journal of School Psychology at ScienceDirect.com, the world’s leading platform for high quality peer-reviewed full-text journals. View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.
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Courtesy of the BPS blog
Looks like an interesting article but this construction worker isn't about to drop >$30 to read beyond the abstract. "We argue that scientific thinking, although fallible, is ultimately school psychologists' best safeguard against a host of errors in thinking." I wonder if the authors realized they could have substituted pretty much anything for school psychologists. I'd also be curious to […]
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From a job today
Removing an installation that's about a decade old. A lot of diy window installations would be better if you could turn them upside down. Probably heard the expression a few thousand times "think like a drop of water". We've found remarkably little damage to the inside (so far), but this was on a somewhat sheltered exposure. We'll see what tomorrow […]
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I've been updating some of our blower door leakage testing #'s on projects…
I've been updating some of our blower door leakage testing #'s on projects from the past couple of years. Might tweak this a bit, as a couple of the worst records below are for connected townhouses which really skew things down. The bottom line is that if you're living in a single family home in NJ, you should expect pretty […]
