The Weatherization Pages

<BODY> A Vermont resource on using cellulose insulation and moisture barriers in attics, walls, and basements to improve safety, comfort, fuel conservation and environmental health in old and new homes. <P> Weatherization is contemporary thermal, moisture, and indoor air quality protection for buildings. For those interested in better building or better living in the Built Environment, this site will provide some fundamental and practical information to help. There are some common threads between weatherization and green building, historic preservation, super insulation, vapor barriers, environmental conservation, sustainability, insulation, air sealing, and energy conservation. We will talk about many pieces of a house: attics, basements, crawl spaces, walls, windows, roofing, siding, insulation, venting, furnaces, and ductwork. You may learn some things about ventilation, heat loss, solar gain, R-value, enthalpy, diffusion, psychrometry, and pressure diagnostics. But weatherization is primarily about making old houses and new buildings better serve the people who occupy them. Please keep that in mind. Weatherization will always be focused directly on the human element of residential construction.<P> You'll need a browser capable of viewing frames to see this site. If you are reading this, it means you don't have one. To access it using the site's index page, <A HREF="siteindex.html"