Sam Myers

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356 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · How Building Science Reduces Costly Callbacks with Sam Myers · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

They don't need to be airtight.

They need to breathe.

And Dr. Allison Bells from Energy Vanguard wrote a book a couple of years ago called A House Needs to Breathe or Does It?

And that was just the best title that that book could have.

And it really just goes into the basic concepts of why this stuff works, because the whole idea of like a house needs to breathe is just like the one argument that we are constantly fighting.

And it's usually just because, you know, having an airtight house isn't the only solution, right?

Everything else still has to work together.

I mean, buildings aren't just static stationary objects, right?

They're systems of multiple components that have to work together.

And so if you have an airtight building, but you have, along with that, no ventilation and an oversized HVAC system, then you're going to have moisture problems.

So it's not the tight envelopes fault.

It's just the rest of that design didn't fall into place like it should have.

So it all has to work together.

Yeah, I don't know if I would call it neglect or not.

It's just a it's just a lack of education.

And I mean, a lot of builders don't know any better unless they are going out of their way to learn it.

That's the only way that they can get there.

Otherwise, it's just this is the way we've done it.

If it's an HVAC problem, that's that sub's fault.

So that's their responsibility to fix.

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