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Doors; cannot place door on buffered walls #34

Open JdeLarbre218 opened 6 months ago

JdeLarbre218 commented 6 months ago

Doors cannot be placed on buffered walls. Example: Doors into attached garage, porch, etc. cannot select correct wall from pull down, buffered walls do not exist in list.

fishbaugher commented 6 months ago

This could be a design decision by ORNL. Doors into buffered spaces are at best a secondary thermal effect and are not typically economical to retrofit. Perhaps this was an effort to simplify the audit.

JdeLarbre218 commented 4 months ago

Thinking out loud: Understandably a door on a buffered wall may not be economical to retrofit/replace. My thoughts are that they should still be taken into consideration for heat load calculations on their respective walls.

joe-shade commented 4 months ago

If the door is part of the thermal boundary, it would need to be included. Many buffered walls have doors in them (attached garage, door to a 3 season porch, door to breezeway. Not having this as an option seems like an oversight even if the likelihood of replacement is low. Having an unacceptable SIR is also part of justifying a IRM/H&S replacement