Rescheck Basement Floor

After selecting a basement wall type a basement wall illustration will appear with input boxes for the basement wall height depth below grade and depth of insulation.

Rescheck basement floor.

New construction conditioned floor area. Department of energy s building energy code website. Rescheck is a software program that is available for free at the u s. The illustration helps identify the dimensions being requested.

You may enter basement wall dimensions directly into this illustration and select the ok button to have them transferred to the corresponding row. With conditioned basements shall be insulated from the top of the basement wall down 10 feet below grade or to the basement floor whichever is less. From top of wall to basement floor if not uniform provide an average height depth below grade depth that the wall extends from finished outside grade surface to basement floor if sloped or uneven provide an average depth below grade 23 building energy codes program. Floors basements slabs doors and glazing skylights crawl spaces.

Create a slab component using the floor button and enter the length of the basement floor along this wall in the gross area or slab perimeter field. 3 405 ft2 glazing area 13 climate zone. Rescheck software version 4 6 3 compliance certificate project energy code. Note that the basement floor along this wall should be considered a slab on grade component.

Frederick colorado construction type. Side walls 50 below grade with r 10 insulation 8 concrete basement walls 1 r 19 frame wall front wall. Rescheck software simulated performance software prescriptive r value.