Insulation & Air Sealing

You can use your hand to detect some air leaks, but smoke puffers make other air leaks easier to "see."

Surfaces and subsurfaces are on the same team, remember?

Insulation does more than slow heat flow: it sells houses, future proofs, makes floor plans bigger, and sends your kids to college. Really.

But let me axe you this—how do they keep 'em sharp?

Soffits should be tight boxes hidden in your ceiling.

Two packages for high-performance homes. Vented and unvented roof insulation retrofits and exterior wall insulation details, along with rainscreen wall details for furring strips.

Water and air leaks in a building shell are difficult enough to detail on simple buildings. Complex structures can cause headaches for builders, remodelers, and architects who don't pick up their pens and trace at the design stage.

Crawlspaces offer all of the headaches of a basement and none of the benefits.

But some buckets are *more* relative