Comments on: 107 Acronyms & Initials for Home Energy Pros

By: Hannah Finch

Hannah Finch — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:40:19 +0000

This list is awesome! Thank
This list is awesome! Thank you!

By: Richard Lantz

Richard Lantz — Fri, 31 May 2013 17:37:09 +0000

Recommend adding the National
Recommend adding the National Air Duct Cleaners Assoication (NADCA) to your list.

Thanks

By: Colin Genge

Colin Genge — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:12:01 +0000

Enough people use ELA when
Enough people use ELA when they mean EqLA that ambiguities arise often. We use EfLA for the US or LBNL or Effective Leakage Area and EqLA for the Canadian or Equivalent Leakage Area. The fact that EqLA can be measured as a simple hole cut in a box makes it more useful in the field so it used a fair bit. As it is now, you have to guess from the author as what was intended and if the author is second guessing who the reader is, then they might already have converted to EfLA for example. Without correcting for test pressure and n value of a test we can say that:
EfLA = EqLA X 0.611
meaning EqLA is always a bigger value.

While we are at it, we can get dates sorted. US is month-day-year, Canada is day-month-year and Europe is often year-month-day which is the only one that sorts documents chronologically. To avoid the constant confusion with dates, we use year-month-day and certainly not year with two numbers only otherwise what date is 08-09-10 ? There are at least three possibilities but: 2009-08-10 should be clear to anyone and can be put into filenames whereas /or as a separator cannot.

By: Shawn Mullins

Shawn Mullins — Sun, 12 May 2013 07:42:41 +0000

Here's another one for the
Here's another one for the list:

HIRL - Home Innovation Research Labs. It is the re-branded version of NAHB Research Labs for their green certification program. One would probably pronounce it "hurl", as in upchuck, etc?? Unintended consequences?

By: Ryan Shanahan

Ryan Shanahan — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:56:18 +0000

John Straube refers to them
John Straube refers to them as TLA's (three letter acronyms) and FLA's (four letter acronyms or* five).

By: Allison Bailes

Allison Bailes — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:10:17 +0000

Anthony H.
Anthony H. (again): And of course, most people are probably aware that the F in RTFM can stand for something besides 'friendly' too.

Stan: Well, that one's common enough and not really industry specific that I didn't feel it was necessary to include it (although RTFM isn't industry specific either).

pj: Well, I guess that depends on who's doing the judging.

Bill S.: Ah, yes, I'm embarrassed to admit that it wasn't even on my expanded list...until just now. I do remember considering it but I guess I didn't include it because it's not used all that much.

By: Bill Smith

Bill Smith — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:57:25 +0000

Allison, I know you're a
Allison, I know you're a southerner so I assume you have ADD because you forgot CDD

By: pj

pj — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:01:38 +0000

Or As it relates to the
Or As it relates to the effectiveness of the BS business in General we might Add:

FUBAR

SNAFU

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:47:02 +0000

I find that those who don't
I find that those who don't RTFM it seems to generate a WTF, usually followed by a few !!'s, (which I don't see in your short list) from others.

By: Allison Bailes

Allison Bailes — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:09:05 +0000

Anthony H.
Anthony H.: Indeed!

Lisa: Thanks!