Quality First™ Forced Air Guidelines Manual

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TECA Members: $70.00
Others: $87.00

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This manual was designed for use with TECA's Quality First™ Forced Air Guidelines Course.

5th Edition, January 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9809333-0-7
144 pages, loose-leaf binder format

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Gain a thorough understanding of the process of sizing and installing a forced air system including heat loss/heat gain calculations, equipment selection and duct sizing. Now with heat gain, heat pump selection and low pressure duct tables. All calculations, charts & tables are in Imperial units.

The Forced Air Guidelines Manual includes:

• Installation Requirements: per Gas Code, Building Code and equipment manufacturer. Includes a System Completion Checklist.
• Heat Loss/Heat Gain, Appliance Selection and Duct Sizing: Worksheets, explanatory text and charts, tables and drawings for heat loss/heat gain, equipment selection to dwelling load requirements and duct sizing tables (both 0.3"wc ESP and 0.2"wc ESP) and system layout to selected equipment requirements.
• Examples of Worksheet Use: elevations, floor plans, alternate heat loss methods, cfm distribution, appliance selection, duct system layout on plans, system summary sheets and explanatory notes.
• Retrofit Worksheets: Supply Air and Return Air System evaluation worksheets and a Customer Summary form.
• Appendix including R-Value tables, HTM calculation, equivalent lengths, duct sizing and round to rectangular duct conversion charts, meter clocking tables/procedures and more.

Development of the new heat gain/heat pump material (added in 2006) was funded in part by the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources under the Energy Efficient Buildings program. The development of minimum standards for the correct sizing, design and installation of high efficiency equipment and systems is the basic building block to the achievement of the government's target reductions in energy consumption.

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DISCLAIMER: This Manual was developed in consultation with, and using information obtained from manufacturers, suppliers, contractors and others with specialized experience. It is subject to revision as further use and investigation may show such revision necessary or desirable. Installations and designs that comply with this manual will not necessarily be acceptable if, when examined and tested, they are found to have features that impair the result contemplated by these requirements. The authors and editors assume no responsibility and accept no liability for the application of the principles or techniques contained in this manual or for errors or omissions and expressly disclaim any such responsibility.

Quality First™ Forced Air Guidelines Software

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TECA Members: $104.00
Others: $131.00

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There are two programs for Forced Air: Heat Loss/Heat Gain and Duct Sizing. Both are intended for use with TECA's Quality First™ Forced Air Guidelines manual. Available on CD (by regular mail only) or electronically via e-mail. (Download option coming soon!)

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NOTE: You must have Microsoft Excel™ 97 (or newer) spreadsheet software on your computer to run these programs.

Heat Loss/Heat Gain Program Features

• Calculates room-by-room, floor-by-floor or whole house heat loss & heat gain for up to 36 separate rooms or areas.
• Heat Loss Summary Sheet with room-by-room cfm distribution and alternate (electric, gas fireplace, wood) heat source load calculations.
• Heat Gain Worksheets include features such as the ability to rotate the orientation of the house to 8 cardinal points, shade coefficients, window coverings & automatic latitude adjustment factors.
• Balance Point Worksheet for Heat Pumps
• Appliance Selection Worksheet used to select a heating appliance properly sized to heat loss & heat gain calculations.
• NEW: 2-stage heating, A/C coil and heat pump options.

Duct Sizing Program Features

• For residential and light commercial installations, up to 5000 CFM, up to 36 x 18 trunk duct size.
• Supply Air System Worksheet calculates trunk and run sizes either for room-by-room cfm requirements or by run size and number of fittings.
• Return Air System Worksheet—Enter codes from SA Worksheets for automatic calculations of Return Air trunk, run, drop and grills.
• Energy Use Worksheet—calculates annual fuel consumption and heating costs for various fuels. A great selling tool!
• Up to 280 possible duct runs and up to 5 branch ducts (connect to trunk or other branch ducts).
• NEW: Choice of 0.2"wc or 0.3"wc static pressure systems.
• Re-designed layout with more space for rooms & comments.

IMPORTANT: Please provide your name, company, and address as you wish them to appear on your Forced Air Guidelines documents. This information will be locked into the program and there is a fee to re-issue with any changes. Ordering on behalf of a large company? Please be advised that if you are ordering from a large company the program can have multiple users (up to 4). Separate branches will require their own copy. It is copyright infringement to copy TECA software.

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