Crawl Space Encapsulation Archives - Energy Vanguard https://www.energyvanguard.com/category/crawl-space-encapsulation/ Building science knowledge, HVAC design, & fun Mon, 07 Jun 2021 23:30:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Crawl Space Building Science https://www.energyvanguard.com/knowledge/crawl-space-encapsulation/crawl-space-building-science/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:19:11 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/service-category/crawl-space-building-science/ One of the biggest advances in building science over the past decade is the research that proves definitively that vented crawl spaces are bad. If you've ever been in one, you know it's true. They're damp. They're dark. Critters have easy access to them. The batt insulation falls down. The air smells musty & moldy. And the crawl space communicates with the house, so that bad air (and the occasional critter) gets into the living space above.

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]]> Psychrometric Chart-Summer Air https://www.energyvanguard.com/knowledge/crawl-space-encapsulation/psychrometric-chart-summer-air/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:19:11 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/service-category/psychrometric-chart-summer-air/ The psychrometric chart below shows what happens when warm, humid air enters a vented crawl space. For more about this, see our blog article, Vented Crawl Spaces and the Psychrometric Chart Are Not Friends.

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