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Thirteen guides, four sections, one register

Every guide on the site, with the section it belongs to and what it covers. The front page is an edit; this is the whole of it.

Guide	Section	What it covers
It was never the windows	The order of magnitude	An uninsulated wall and a leaky roof line dwarf the glazing question that most conversations start with, and the arithmetic is not close.
U-values, and what they leave out	The order of magnitude	A U-value describes one square metre of an element in steady state, and a real wall is neither one square metre nor in steady state.
The order of magnitude	The order of magnitude	Ranking the heat loss paths before touching any of them is the whole of the discipline.
Cold bridges the camera finds first	Cold bridges the camera finds first	A thermal camera at dusk shows lintels, balconies and wall plates as bright lines, because heat is going round the insulation rather than through it.
Ψ-values and the y-value	Cold bridges the camera finds first	Linear thermal transmittance is how the junctions are accounted for, and ignoring them is how a calculation flatters a building.
The balcony problem	Cold bridges the camera finds first	A cantilevered slab is a fin conducting heat out of the building, and the fixes are structural rather than thermal.
Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	The blower-door test pressurises the whole building and measures the flow needed to hold it, which is the only whole-building fabric measurement there is.
Where the air actually goes	Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	Service penetrations, loft hatches and the gap behind a dry lining account for most of it, and none of them are on a drawing.
Tight, and then ventilated on purpose	Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	Air-tightness without designed ventilation moves the problem rather than solving it.
What the model said, what the meter said	What the model said, what the meter said	The performance gap is documented across large samples, and the causes are mostly workmanship and modelling assumptions rather than any single failure.
Passivhaus is a number, not a look	What the model said, what the meter said	The standard is a measured space-heating demand and an air-tightness limit, which is why it can be certified at all.
How cold the outside is, county by county	What the model said, what the meter said	Degree days are how a heating demand is normalised, and without them two buildings cannot be compared.
The coefficient falls as the flow temperature rises	What the model said, what the meter said	A heat pump's performance depends on what it is asked to heat to, which is why the emitters matter as much as the unit.

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Thirteen guides, four sections, one register

Every guide on the site, with the section it belongs to and what it covers. The front page is an edit; this is the whole of it.

Guide	Section	What it covers
It was never the windows	The order of magnitude	An uninsulated wall and a leaky roof line dwarf the glazing question that most conversations start with, and the arithmetic is not close.
U-values, and what they leave out	The order of magnitude	A U-value describes one square metre of an element in steady state, and a real wall is neither one square metre nor in steady state.
The order of magnitude	The order of magnitude	Ranking the heat loss paths before touching any of them is the whole of the discipline.
Cold bridges the camera finds first	Cold bridges the camera finds first	A thermal camera at dusk shows lintels, balconies and wall plates as bright lines, because heat is going round the insulation rather than through it.
Ψ-values and the y-value	Cold bridges the camera finds first	Linear thermal transmittance is how the junctions are accounted for, and ignoring them is how a calculation flatters a building.
The balcony problem	Cold bridges the camera finds first	A cantilevered slab is a fin conducting heat out of the building, and the fixes are structural rather than thermal.
Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	The blower-door test pressurises the whole building and measures the flow needed to hold it, which is the only whole-building fabric measurement there is.
Where the air actually goes	Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	Service penetrations, loft hatches and the gap behind a dry lining account for most of it, and none of them are on a drawing.
Tight, and then ventilated on purpose	Fifty pascals, and whether the house holds	Air-tightness without designed ventilation moves the problem rather than solving it.
What the model said, what the meter said	What the model said, what the meter said	The performance gap is documented across large samples, and the causes are mostly workmanship and modelling assumptions rather than any single failure.
Passivhaus is a number, not a look	What the model said, what the meter said	The standard is a measured space-heating demand and an air-tightness limit, which is why it can be certified at all.
How cold the outside is, county by county	What the model said, what the meter said	Degree days are how a heating demand is normalised, and without them two buildings cannot be compared.
The coefficient falls as the flow temperature rises	What the model said, what the meter said	A heat pump's performance depends on what it is asked to heat to, which is why the emitters matter as much as the unit.