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door_area – Area of doors on house.
Remarks
The door area is used to calculate net_exterior_wall_area, envelope_UA, and house_content_heat_transfer.
This is an automatically calculated value, not a variable that the user may set. It is calculated by:
door_area = number_of_doors * 3.0 * (78.0/12.0)
Default
Using default values:
<math>4 \cdot 3 \cdot \frac{78}{12} = 78</math>
(The area of four 3 foot by 78 inch doors)
Therefore the default door_area is 78 square feet.