<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And of course with more insulation you are also working on reducing air leakage through draftproofing, right? <div><br></div><div><she says after an absence of many months></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On 6-Jan-11, at 12:55 AM, Bob Waldrop wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="4" face="Arial">Well I third this motion. I have always felt that massive class action lawsuits should be filed against architects and designers for malpractice given the low levels of insulation so popular in these united States.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="4" face="Arial">One of the unexpected benefits of our insulation project, coupled with our insulated interior window shutters, was the sound effect, as in we live 22 blocks from downtown OKC, close to I-235, I-40, and major north-south and east-west railroads. That's a lot of urban noise, 24/7/365. we notice it a lot less with our thicker walls and r-20 window insulation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="4" face="Arial">Bob Waldrop, snug as a bug in a rug in Okie City</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="9watts@gmail.com" href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com">Reuben Deumling</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">Environmentally-preferable design, construction,building elements</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, January 05, 2011 3:46 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Greenbuilding] Ceiling Fans at Night?</div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Corwyn<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:corwyn@midcoast.com">corwyn@midcoast.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; "><font size="4" face="Arial"></font><font size="4" face="Arial"></font><br>I often want to just answer questions like this with "you need more insulation".<br><br>Proper insulation levels would remove both the need for a fan, and the need for a set-back thermostat.<br></blockquote><div><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><div>What the man says.<br><br>In fact this response seems so often to be apt, not just in this instance. More insulation solves or reduces so many problems (even as it can, in some cases, add new ones).</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>