garage Archives - Energy Vanguard https://www.energyvanguard.com/tag/garage/ Building science knowledge, HVAC design, & fun Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:29:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 A Continuous Air Barrier Between Garage and House https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-continuous-air-barrier-between-garage-and-house/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-continuous-air-barrier-between-garage-and-house/#view_comments Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:29:01 +0000 https://www.energyvanguard.com/?p=7758 An attached garage is the source of a lot of indoor air pollutants for a great many homes.  That’s because we store gasoline, pesticides, paints, and other toxic materials there, and we exhaust the fumes of automobiles there as well. …

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-continuous-air-barrier-between-garage-and-house/feed/ 16 Finally, a Garage With an Air Barrier! https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/finally-garage-with-air-barrier/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/finally-garage-with-air-barrier/#view_comments Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:53:42 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=finally-a-garage-with-an-air-barrier When I go into homes being built before the drywall goes up, one thing I always look for is how well they did with the ceiling joists in the attached garage. I’ve written about it numerous times here in this…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/finally-garage-with-air-barrier/feed/ 9 How Can You Air Seal These Joists Over the Garage? https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/how-can-you-air-seal-these-joists-over-garage/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/how-can-you-air-seal-these-joists-over-garage/#view_comments Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:29 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=how-can-you-air-seal-these-joists-over-the-garage The I-joists in the photo above run across the top of the wall between the dining room and the garage. In the old days, before anyone worried at all about air moving through those joist cavities, the builder didn’t do…

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