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You’re Wrong About Insulation (Pt. 1)
Summary: 1) Most homes are poorly insulated. 2) Continuous exterior insulation is the best way to insulate a home, though most builders don’t do it. 3) The carbon footprint of some insulation materials will never be offset by their energy savings. 4) Marigold uses best insulation practices and materials, leading to a noticeable level of…
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Cooling Your Space
Time and time again it was based on outdated rules of thumb handed down from past decades As you saw in my previous post about heating, I am an HVAC nerd. In a previous career I helped design high efficiency residential heating and cooling systems. Each home was its own puzzle that took into account…
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Marigold Spaces Do Not “Breathe”
In the early 20th century, uninsulated houses were cold but allowed airflow, keeping the framing dry. The introduction of insulation made homes more comfortable but led to moisture problems. The green building movement in the 1970s initiated modern building science, emphasizing airtight construction, insulation, and ventilation systems. Energy recovery ventilators now maintain fresh indoor air.
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Heating Your Space
I am a nerd. Truly. Just ask my wife. For some strange reason I love thinking about (and talking about) heat transfer and the mechanical systems associated with it. My favorite class in college? Thermodynamics. I found it fascinating to learn how and why heat goes from here to there, why some things hold onto it…
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Why I Started Marigold
There I was, on my laptop at the kitchen table in Fort Collins trying to sort through the many frantic texts coming in from a tenant 1200 miles away. An exterior wall had completely crumbled at our 100-year-old stone Tudor in Nashville and we were leaving the next morning for a two-week vacation. We weren’t…
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