[Greenbuilding] was Diminishing returns / obsessingover bridging

[Jeannie]

Excellent!  Now you'll know where to hang that Christmas wreath!

Or how about this -- The stripes on the wall are evidence that batt
insulation DOES work (in places.)

Jeannie Babb Taylor
www.SafeCrete.com
706-965-4587

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Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] was Diminishing returns / obsessingover
bridging

That's actually a design feature, for hanging things on the exterior of 
your house: you can find the studs easier.

;-)


Jeannie wrote:
> All I know is this.. When you drive through a neighborhood on a cold
winter
> morning, the vinyl-sided frame houses have vertical stripes in the frost.
> You can see every stud.  The only explanation I know for this is that the
> warm studs are melting the frost - which sounds like heat loss to me.
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Keith Winston
Earth Sun Energy Systems
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Hyattsville, MD 20781
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