[Equest-users] slab on grade makes high U floors?

norman wheatley normwheatley at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 12:34:32 PST 2012


thats great.

thanks
Norm

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Brian Fountain <bfountain at greensim.com>wrote:

>  It depends on your zone geometry.
>
> See this attached .pdf (if it will post) to see how eQUEST translates
> perimeter insulation into an effective U-value.  (It is also in the
> archives.)
>
>
>
>
> On 2/3/2012 3:07 PM, norman wheatley wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If you go for the standard 0.73 F-Factor slab on grade floor and then
> check the LV-E report all your floors on the ground level are below ground
> and have very low U-values.
>
> Is this correct behaviour? It seems that the slab is essentially R-33
>
> thanks
> Norm
>
>
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