Building Heat Loss When Your Home is Loosing Heat, Where Does It
Go? Every time I perform an energy audit, I get to investigate
the reason why that home is experiencing building heat loss.
Part of the audit is evaluating the home heating system. Without
the mechanical system trying to heat or cool the building to
maintain occupant comfort, there would be no such thing as
building heat loss. Great amounts of time have been dedicated to
the calculations and measurements involved to predict just how
powerful a heating or cooling system needs to be to offset the
recognized building heat loss. Your home needs a heating or
cooling system because of building heat loss. Heat flowing in to
or out of our home is our largest energy consumer. Without
building heat loss, we wouldn’t need a furnace at all. We almost
wouldn’t need a power bill either. Of-course, a home without
heat loss is a home without doors and windows and kids going in
and out. Doesn’t work real well – just like ceiling radiant heat
and baseboard heat d