Can You Do That? (Part 2) Installing fuel gas appliances within the building envelope

摘要

One of the ways the 2012 International Residential Code defines the separation of interior building spaces and the outdoors is the Building Thermal Envelope. This is defined as, "The basement walls, floor, roof and any other building elements that enclose conditioned space or provides a boundary between conditioned space and exempt or unconditioned spaces." One way that the thermal envelope provides separation is with Air Barriers.