John Tooley said, “Air is like crooked rivers, crooked people, teenagers, and cheap labor. It always seeks the path of least resistance.” He didn’t say that Angry air is Noisy air. Air doesn’t like being forced through corrugated, flexible ducting, pushed around corners, and made to force open dampers. It resists being made to perform in a way that it doesn’t want to. It takes … Continue reading Angry Air!
And when at last it gets to the termination fitting, it is compelled to make one last turn while pushing open the damper and then exit to freedom! Continue reading What do you know about your house’s nose?
I was called in to perform a last minute duct test for a modular home builder. He was all in a dither to have a duct test and a blower door test done on a Friday so that he could get his Certificate of Occupancy (CO) so the homeowner could move in the following Monday. He said that he’d just found out that he needed … Continue reading Shades of Gray in Residential Construction Morality
