u/sloppynipsnyc

I just had a home science guy come to the house and and test my HVAC and attic fan and see what the negative pressure was or would be.

I suspected with the attic fan I had high negative pressure because when the attic fan turned on the humidity would rise in the home, along with the temperature.

Attic fan genartes around -6 pascals when it's running in my home .

The central air conditioning, air handler in the attic, return on the second floor above stair case, with the doors closed to the bedrooms have a out -5 pascals when the doors are open it drops a little to about a -3

My attic was recently sealed and did insulation. I also ran new duct lines in the attic and did duct sealing.

The guy just told me like 100 different things I could do and left. Didn't really write anything down. He was absolutely awesome at testing but terrible at options 😂 so that's why I'm here wtf should I do.

I have an attic that's buried in insulation and difficult to work in. Is this a common problem?

Utilities are in my basement and I'm looking to move all of it into a separate part of my basement. I have a 1700 sqft basement and I'm looking to finish it. My boiler is about 40+ years old and it's on the way out.

I really don't want a combi boiler I want to separate out the 2. But am looking for compact, reliability and ofc not having to limit itself by knowledge in the service industry because of how new it is .

Thanks

I just had a home science guy come to the house and and test my HVAC and attic fan and see what the negative pressure was or would be.

I suspected with the attic fan I had high negative pressure because when the attic fan turned on the humidity would rise in the home, along with the temperature.

Attic fan genartes around -6 pascals when it's running in my home .

The central air conditioning, air handler in the attic, return on the second floor above stair case, with the doors closed to the bedrooms have a out -5 pascals when the doors are open it drops a little to about a -3

My attic was recently sealed and did insulation. I also ran new duct lines in the attic and did duct sealing.

The guy just told me like 100 different things I could do and left. Didn't really write anything down. He was absolutely awesome at testing but terrible at options 😂 so that's why I'm here wtf should I do.

I have an attic that's buried in insulation and difficult to work in. Is this a common problem?

I just had a home science guy come to the house and and test my HVAC and attic fan and see what the negative pressure was or would be.

I suspected with the attic fan I had high negative pressure because when the attic fan turned on the humidity would rise in the home, along with the temperature.

Attic fan genartes around -6 pascals when it's running in my home .

The central air conditioning, air handler in the attic, return on the second floor above stair case, with the doors closed to the bedrooms have a out -5 pascals when the doors are open it drops a little to about a -3

My attic was recently sealed and did insulation. I also ran new duct lines in the attic and did duct sealing.

The guy just told me like 100 different things I could do and left. Didn't really write anything down. He was absolutely awesome at testing but terrible at options 😂 so that's why I'm here wtf should I do.

I have an attic that's buried in insulation and difficult to work in. Is this a common problem?

Air handler is in attic. Replaced all air ducts in attic. Seems to only be bad if it's hot. The vent sits between my first floor/second floor and nudges up against my garage attic so I don't know if anything is leaking in there but it's annoying.

Is this a structural issue? When I bought the house the trim was thin and half inch trim. No gap. Then I put 3/4 inch thick trim and a out 3 inch long trim and and the top it's coming off the wall. In some spots it's 1/4 inch and other parts it's 3/4 inch.

The contractor never raised this. At the miter cuts it's level and in the wall but the higher it goes and in the middle that's where the gap is.

Will it go back to normal? It's crazy how just in that one spot the 3 planks of wood it sat on the gaps are enormous lol. It's in the corner of my room by my computer but I'm curious if I damaged it. It's not splintering or anything.

It gets as hot as 110 degrees.

I did an insulation job on my 1973 home which showed at was at 9.8ACH after they sealed, put down insulation in my attic and a portion of my crawl space it went down to 7.2.

I will saw after this all happened I did replace my sliding glass door which was extremely leaky. It let snow in.

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I was kind of expecting something better.

The other part of my basement is full size and there is no sealing or insulation at the the rim joist. Would that make a big difference?

My windows are also from the mid 90s but from what I can tell with my thermal camera they're fine.

I dunno I guess I'm a little annoyed.

My first summer in the new home. I think we ran our central air for a total of 10 days and our dehumidifier a total of 5 days. Bill was 465 dollars. 2500 sqft house. Is this normal lol wtf?

Edit 1447 kwh

Cleaning satin finished hardwood floors

Looking to clean my satin hardwood floors. They're new bona natural with traffic hd. I tried using bona cleaning and left a white residue. I have been using water but I want to leave a nice clean smell in the house.

Is there anything out there that I can use that won't make it shine too much, won't make me slip and kill myself and also I can use on tile (nice to have for tile)

Thanks!