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What is a BTU? - British Thermal Unit - the amount of energy required to heat 1 pound
of water 1 degrees Fahrenheit

Why does warm air rise? - Warm air is less dense than cool air

What is a thermal boundary? - A line or plane defined by insulation and air barrier

What is NOT a goal of air leakage control? - Meeting code (no code exists for air
leakage)

What is air leakage OUT of a house called? - Exfiltration

What happens to the neutral pressure plane of a house when you turn on all the
exhaust fans? - It would be HIGHER, more of the house is under negative pressure

What metric is used to measure a home's performance? - CFM50

What units is CFM50 measured in - Cubic feet per minute at 50 Pascals

What is not important in a strategy for reducing air leakage and providing adequate
ventilation? - Seal the home as tight as possible and make sure windows are adequate

What is a big benefit from dense packing cellulose? - Reduced air infiltration

What is found on 90% furnaces and not 80%? - Drain for condensate

CFM50 measures what? - Air tightness level of a building

What improvement will consistently give the largest envelope leakage reductions for
most houses in the US? - Air sealing all attic bypasses

What building component, if installed wrong, has a big effect on performance? -
Insulation

Max federal flow rate for faucets to be considered low flow - 1.5gpm

When estimating wall insulation, what measurement is unnecessary? - Window to wall
area

Upgrading mechanical equipment does what for a house - Decreases homes cost of
ownerhsip

, What does a psychrometer measure? - Wet bulb and dry bulb temp to ESTIMATE
humidity

1 ton of AC is how many BTUs - 12,000

First thing you do when you set up the blower door - Baseline

What org sets standards for chimney installs - NFPA

What level of AMBIENT CO should you turn off appliance, vent space, and evacuate? -
Greater than 35ppm

What do MSDS contain? - Handling instructions

What do you do when you see oily rags next to a furnace? - Inform homeowner and
continue inspection

Equation for ACH - ACH= ((60/CFM)/vol)/19

What is ACH? - air changes per hour

What insulation do you use for exterior side of sun-grade foundation wall? - Rigid
polystyrene foam board

R=1/U - U=1/R

NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory

RESNET - Residential Energy Services Network

ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers

How to calculate HDD? - Average of high and low temp, subtract average from 65

U*A*deltaT=Q - Heat transmission equation
U= transmittance
A=area
DeltaT= difference in temp between design temp and 65
Q= heating load in BTUs per hour

Three ways heat moves - conduction, convection, radiation

potential energy - stored energy

kinetic energy - energy of motion

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