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HOME BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS - HOME INDOOR AIR QUALITY LEFTOVERS

Local applications and approvals of home design, home drawing, and related information required outside of home building construction permits are best handled by local mavens who do that, sometimes just that. We stay outside the permit-loop of approvals frequently and based on judgments from the granite knee; and have known most of them to range from community rights of passage to bald, political playgrounds, in any case having little or nothing at all to do with home design and home building construction ability, acumen, or achievement. Please be aware that if these adventures are about you at all, then they may be about your attitude and not that of our prospective home building construction - if you will, about the resident and not the home. You gotta go with the flow. Be of good cheer: nothing lasts forever, not even getting your dream home built. Before The Architect

hOME BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS - HOME INDOOR AIR QUALITY LEFTOVERS

HOME INDOOR AIR QUALITY – LEFTOVERS

These are a few things worse saying or worth saying twice about home indoor air quality in home designing and home building construction.

An interiors' exhaust fan to the exterior

Shall be installed by competent residential HVAC contractors,

Shall run to exterior only

NOTE that exterior does not mean crawlspace

NOTE that exterior does not mean attic

Via smooth metal conduit

With joints sealed by high-quality metal foil tape, possibly such as, Vickery, Inc. Hardcast Foil Grip 1403 or equivalent or, preferably, mastic

Comment: Codes across our fruited plain are silent to stoopid about home air pressure affected by exhaust fans and standards thereto, until someone straightens old the old guy. This matter is all the more important as homeowners demand more energy-efficient homes and home builders build them tighter and home designers design them tighter. This dream home designer strongly recommends that an HVAC professional install your HVAC system throughout and include exhaust fans in the exhaust and makeup indoor air quality mix, such that there’s a professional determination as to worst-case negative pressure along with engineered prescription for makeup air.

Interiors' exhaust fan vents to the exterior shall not exit a dream home exterior within 10 linear feet of

A soffit vent

An operable window

A door

An operable skylight

A deck

A balcony

A walkway or pathway

A seating area

The horizontal foot print of an exterior staircase

It shall be understood that enclosing any indoor water feature bigger than a soup tureen - drinking fountain, kid’s aquarium, or cutesy tabletop fountain, spa, hot tub, real fountain, whirlpool, pond, pool, waterfall, etc. – shall require third-party professional, definitive direction, such as that from Dectron, Inc., before construction in order to minimize indoor moisture build and the hazards to health and property that can follow

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