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Recently, we published a story about how to decarbonize your life in 2024. One of the suggestions is to increase the insulating power of exterior walls and roofs but Zola Windows, in a blog post reprinted by Passive House News, points out that windows are often the weakest link in any insulation program. In fact, the wrong units can negate any improvements made to the exterior of a building.”Bad windows will ruin the best wall assemblies,” the company says.
In the old days, a single pane of glass in a wooden frame might have an R value of 1, which is equivalent to virtually no insulating power at all. (R value is a measure of how well a material resists the flow of heat.) Almost any window today has two panes of glass that trap a layer of air between them. The air acts as an…
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