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About Your House: Before You Start an Energy Efficiency Retrofit — The Building Envelope
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If your home's building envelope (the material separating living space from the outdoors) is leaky or lacks insulation, you may be paying unnecessarily high heating costs. This checklist for homeowners, house inspectors and renovation contractors, identifies what to look for prior to making any repairs. Six areas are covered: assessing the building; structural problems; building envelope components; moisture; heating and ventilation; and finishes. Inspection tips are accompanied by recommended solutions and explanations of what could happen if no action is taken. (© 2000 CMHC, Revised 2015)
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