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Three Reasons Why Chimney Balloons Are Useless
Fireplaces provides warmth and a comforting ambiance during the colder months. But on normal days, other than giving your living room a rustic vibe, unused chimneys are gigantic holes that remove...
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Lack of Air Conditioning? Stop Your Home Becoming a Deathtrap!
As temperatures begin to rise in Australia, we are being encouraged to retrofit our homes for thermal efficiency to stay cool amid the heatwave conditions and to lower our energy consumption. This...
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Energy-Efficient Home Retrofit Ideas That Will Keep Your Tenants Longer
Having problems with tenant retention? You might need to carefully assess how your property is performing in terms of thermal comfort. Most tenants are concerned with the level of thermal and energy...
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3 Comforting Benefits of Having a Deep Floor Joist Spacing
Are you looking at upgrading your thermal comfort in summer and winter? You don’t have to look far and wide. The solution you need may be right underneath your floorboards! Installing insulation under...
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3 Home Retrofit Ideas That Will Save You Thousands
Are you looking for cost-effective home retrofit solutions that will help you lower your annual energy cost while increasing your thermal efficiency all year round? Firstly, exactly how much can you...
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Insulating An Old House: Energy Efficiency Tips for Heritage Homes
Old heritage homes may be stunning and highly valuable in the housing market, but they offer a different dilemma to their owners: Renovating them is hard work and they are expensive to maintain! Among...
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DIY Projects: Draught Proofing the Front Door
Draught Proofing the Front Door This is our front door. Because this is the ecoMaster test house, this door has over the years had lots of different treatments; door perimeter seals and door bottom...
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DIY Projects: Entrance Air Lock
Air Lock Draught-proofing a front door is one thing, but when people are coming and going, if this is your main heated area, you’re definitely losing a lot of heat every time the door opens. And of...
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DIY Projects: Draught Proofing the Living Room
Draught Proofing the Living Room The journey really started with draught-proofing. In the living room, it turned out that there were a lot of draughts. We didn’t really think that it was a draughty...
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DIY Projects: ecoGlaze Retrofit Double Glazing
Installing ecoGlaze Retrofit Double Glazing One of the things that were paramount in improving the overall thermal performance of this home was to do something with the glazing. Because it’s such a...
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DIY Projects: Better Acoustics – 3D Wall Tiles
Acoustic 3D Wall Tiles Here’s something that we’ve done quite recently to this home. You can see behind me in these red tiles. These are called Quietspace 3D tiles, and we’ve put them up in...
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DIY Projects: Awning Window Treatments
Awning Window Treatments Well as you can see, these are the kitchen window. We have a few things going on here. Firstly, as well as developing ecoGlaze (secondary glazing) in this home, we do...
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DIY Projects: Retrofit Wall Insulation
Retrofit Wall Insulation One of the questions that we had was, “What exactly is in the walls of this home?” When we looked, we discovered a high-quality reflective house wrap. And while it was really...
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DIY Projects: Sealing Up Heating Outlets
Sealing Up Heating Outlets About a year after we stopped using the central heating system, we decided to have a go at blocking up the outlets. What you see here, is a typical ceiling outlet of a...
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DIY Projects: Improved Air Circulation
Improved Air Circulation I’m standing at the east end of the home. One of the things that we did was to improve the cross-flow ventilation (air circulation) of the home. There used to be a regular...
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DIY Projects: Draught Proofed Cavity Sliding Door
Draught Proofed Cavity Sliding Door As is usually the case with master bedrooms, there’s often a walk-in robe. In this case, we’ve got a cavity sliding door that slides into an external wall, so...
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DIY Projects: Ensuite/Bathroom Improvements
Ensuite/Bathroom Improvements There is a longish story of evolution in our ensuite (bathroom). There’s a little bit of an echo in here because there is no external opening to this room. You can see...
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DIY Projects: Zoning out the Bathrooms
Zoning Out the Bathrooms When we heat our home, it’s a good idea, not to heat areas that you don’t really need to heat. And for us, it’s zoning out the wet areas. It’s the laundry, toilet, and...
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DIY Projects: Insulating the Top and Bottom Parts of the House
Insulating the Top and Bottom Parts of the House One of the things that we did really early on was to improve the ceiling insulation. Some years later, we did underfloor insulation as well. So...
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DIY Projects: Testing Ceiling Insulation
Testing Ceiling Insulation Before upgrading the ceiling insulation, we had to decide how much to upgrade it and what to upgrade it with. Without knowing very much about insulation products, we decided...
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