Departments
Editorial
Airing Out
Ventilation Questions
Letters
Costco Disappoints; Contractors Transform
Software Secrets
Energy-10
Getting Even Better
House Doctor
Illuminating Mold Problems
Tips of the Trade
Finding Company Insurance
Field Notes
The Best Insulated House
in the World?
Trends
Inefficient High-Efficiency Electric Water
Heaters
Duct Detailing
in the Northwest
Vacuum Cleaners: Not Ghosts, Maybe Gremlins!
A Bright Alternative—
From Utility to Consumer
Confronting High
Fuel Oil Prices
On the cover:
Cover photos courtesy of
Henry Gifford
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Feature Articles
by Neil Moyer, Armin Rudd,
Max Sherman, and Don Stevens
Ask four different ventilation experts whether
and how you should install a mechanical ventilation system in a home, and
you’ll find general agreement that such systems are needed, but differences
on the details.
by Robert L Wendt and Clark Lundell
What kind of light fixture can survive assaults
by baseball bats, spray paint, and zero-degree weather and still be cost-effective
and energy-efficient?
by Henry Gifford
Eighteen energy-efficient multifamily buildings
grow in Brooklyn where badly deteriorated building shells once stood.
by James Cavallo and James Mapp
Cutting refrigerator monitoring time shrinks the
costs of a refrigerator replacement project.
Other Methods of
Shortening Refrigerator Monitoring
Time
by Don Fugler
Testing a variety of furnace filters in occupied
homes yields a real world perspective on the effects of changing filters.
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