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Greenstone Home Reference

Working notes on repairing, insulating and upgrading older masonry houses.

Heating & Ventilation

Two separate jobs that share the same rooms: getting heat where you want it, and moving moist air out before it condenses.

Section through a narrow three-storey house with arrows showing stack air movement upward through the stair and cross ventilation at each floor. — Stack movement up the stair core, and cross movement across each floor. A tall narrow house does the first well and the second badly.

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Why radiators heat unevenly last worked on 2015-04-06
Ventilation for kitchens and baths last worked on 2015-02-27
Balancing forced-air registers last worked on 2014-09-24

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