{"id":795,"date":"2010-07-23T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/existingresources.wordpress.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2012-05-21T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:56:25","slug":"seattle-passive-house-chasing-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Passive House &#8211; Chasing the wind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan is actively sealing his house as well as getting past a few more milestones.\u00a0 Most of the stairs are in, the ventilation system is being piped in and sealed.\u00a0 Stu returned to make another appearance and Dan put him to work.\u00a0 Dan has sealed the doorway between the workshop and the utility room with OSB and tape.\u00a0 He installed a fan in the door and is using that to pressurize the house so he can go around and look for leaks.\u00a0 He will be gluing and taping the areas he finds and another official blower door test will be run.\u00a0 Dan has also promised a first hand report of his experience with the air tight sealing methods when he can get time to turn around twice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/existingresources.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/seattle-ph-stairs-stu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-796\" title=\"Seattle PH - Stairs &amp; Stu\" src=\"http:\/\/existingresources.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/seattle-ph-stairs-stu.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/existingresources.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/seattle-ph-blowin-in-the-wind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-797 aligncenter\" title=\"Seattle PH - Blowin' in the wind.\" src=\"http:\/\/existingresources.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/seattle-ph-blowin-in-the-wind.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A very interesting air leak showed up during the testing.\u00a0 In the ADU Dan has installed wooden beams.\u00a0 Because the structure changes at that point from the Larsen Trusses that had the structural support on the front cord to 2X walls with the support on the outside, the beams had to pass through the air tight layer of OSB.\u00a0 Dan sealed around each beam, but when the building was pressurized he discovered that splits in the wood acted like an Air Super Highway.\u00a0 He said you could just feel the wind racing through the cracks.\u00a0 He plans to fill the cracks with putty and sand them down since the beams are going to be left exposed.\u00a0 Stay tuned!\u00a0 -Linda<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/existingresources.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/seattle-ph-split-wood-air-leak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-798 aligncenter\" title=\"Seattle PH - Split  wood air leak\" src=\"http:\/\/existingresources.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/seattle-ph-split-wood-air-leak.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan is actively sealing his house as well as getting past a few more milestones.\u00a0 Most of the stairs are in, the ventilation system is being piped in and sealed.\u00a0 Stu returned to make another appearance and Dan put him to work.\u00a0 Dan has sealed the doorway between the workshop and the utility room with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existingresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}