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Why would you want airtight home (unless you are WW3 prepper)? Sounds to me like asking for problems with mold and stale air. But I guess I should not be surprised seeing supposedly intelligent people wearing face masks for health reasons.
>...seeing supposedly intelligent people wearing face masks for health reasons. Are you including doctors, nurses, vets etc during surgery?
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> You get lots of thermal bridging The way they did it with those gussets, it seems so. But I don't think double studded walls always imply more thermal bridging than single stud walls where typically every 16 inches there's a complete thermal bridge. I think the double studded wall has proven its effectiveness. > your outer studs freeze Well if they don't freeze, you're heating them. So I would think the outer studs…
Matt Risigner has some good content on his channel, and he covers the "perfect wall" style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjHOqbJ9ZeQ It's basically taking the "put the house in an insulated barn, and shrink that barn down until it's the size of the house" plan.
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> the poor quality work I keep hearing that, but those who are in the trade listen to engineers who have done real analysis. What looks good often is bad, what looks bad is often good.
This is amusing to me. My roof was leaking a few years back and I went to check it out and it turns out some of the nails were never covered and they rusted through. The roof tar just didn't extend all the way to the edge (flat roof). My electrical outlets kept going out so I went to replace a few and realized they were installed with the wires connected to the wrong leads. I had some LED lights that are supposed to…