Allison A. Bailes III, Ph.D., author of the Energy Vanguard blog (a must-read for the energy-minded) owns Energy Vanguard, a residential building science firm in Decatur, Ga., that does HVAC design across North America.
Unlike a furnace or air conditioner, oversizing one of these my sometimes be a good thing.
Allison Bailes explains why you can’t just swap out a cheap fiberglass filter for a pleated, high-quality filter.
We all have heard of the importance of doing heat load calculations before installing HVAC systems. But if you have it done, will you know how to read the report?
There are a lot of reasons why this happens, but there's only one cause.