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Interactive Tools

With animators, calculators and printable documents, you'll have a better understanding of how to ventilate your home.

Before you get started, you may need to download additional software to take advantage of these tools. See the column at the right for possible downloads.

Shockwave
Shockwave lets you experience animation and entertainment on the web. To download a Shockwave plug-in, click here.

Acrobat® Reader
This plug-in will enable you to view and print PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Click here to download this from Adobe's web site.

Ice Dam Animator


Ice dams can cause serious damage to your home. Learn how this wintertime problem develops -- and how to prevent it. (Shockwave player needed.)
size of file: 223k (see guide below)


Downloading Guide: times may vary based on network traffic, time of day, and CPU speed. These are meant as rough estimates only.
(size of your file) 185k file 375k file 750k file 1 meg file
14.4 modem 5 minutes 9 minutes 15 minutes 28 minutes
28.8 modem 1 minute 2 minutes 4 minutes 7 minutes
56k modem 20 seconds 40 seconds 1.5 minutes 4 minutes
128k ISDN 2 seconds 5 seconds 8 seconds 50 seconds
Cable/DSL 2 second 3 seconds 7 seconds 9 seconds
T1 2 seconds 2 seconds 4 seconds 18 seconds

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