[GBlist] Forethought-Mass

["ted655@email.com" <ted655@email.com>]

I lived once in a home that had a very nice and beutiful rock wall, set back 4', inside a large glass wall. This faced South of course. The inside of this wall was covered with another, 2x4 frame, insulated wall. At night, in cool or cold condistions, a small fan blew the hot air through a sheetrock duckwork into the living space, In the summer a heavy curtain was drawn over the glass wall. It worked "slick". I didn't build or design it, sombody else gets the credit.
   6yrs. ago I helped a friend remove a therm mass project from a basement-hole he had "engineered" himself. It WAS scary! It was laborius, dangerus and costly, not to mention VERY diappointing. This misguided project left my friend without a system! I'm glad to say I didn't build or design this one either.   FORETHOUGHT is very important indeed.  Ted
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