.80 WC

Was at house today with a pellet insert running upstairs in the living room and a pellet stove running in the basement. I set up the Magnehelic gauge and it was pushing .80 WC in the basement and nearly 2.31 WC upstairs. YIKES! I asked the customer if her or him (the husband) was irritable or augmentative all the time and the answer was yes...

So is the life of folks living in a "sick house" constantly under negative pressure....OAKS are important.

Bring that gauge here please before i kill her !

Hi Scott

augmentative? Do you mean argumentative?

It is interesting about the pressure. Where did you connect the guage? What should the normal reading be?

that was the reading in the room...not connected to anything.

That's a loaded question

The normal reading should be very close to zero.

Scott, a woman is always going to answer that question yes.

Unless they are not married.

You don't get out much these days do you?

Sorry to be stupid, but WTF does all of this information mean?

Bill

What?!?! Did they have a while house fan running and all the windows and doors closed? That seems excessive. Certainly coming from more than a dinky little pellet stove exhaust fan with no oak.

Two pellet units and likely a couple of chimneys.

At least...
Edit. Maybe an ERU and the outside air fan is not running?

Two pellet stoves and a gas hot water heater... All it takes

It doesn't take much.

They're all sisters.........

Just for a reference, when doing a blower door test on a house, they usually pressurize to 50 pascals which equals 0.2 inH20.
And
0.8 inH20 = 199 pascals
2.31 inH20 = 575 pascals

Well that's a lot of mathemeticians in one house!