Down-lights VS. Thermal Efficiency
Hotter than an oven, draughty and compromising your ceiling insulation, down-lights really are an enemy in disguise. In this video, energy and thermal efficiency expert, Maurice Beinat, walks you...
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Down-lights: Why You Should Make the Switch
Down-lights are not this man’s friend, and after reading this interview, they won’t be yours either. In this interview, Graeme Ambrose, our guest lighting expert, reveals all of the issues associated...
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Ceiling Insulation: How much is enough?
How much ceiling insulation is protecting your home? You might have a lot, a little or none at all – find out below. Ceiling insulation is the most important insulation in your home, so it’s essential...
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Insider Secrets To A Warm Winter
It’s no surprise to anyone living in central Victoria that our winters are very cold. Most of our homes are quite hard to heat and then retain that heat. We resort to using a lot of winter fuel to try...
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The Defence You Need To Stay Warm and Cosy This Winter
Excessive ventilation and an abundance of air spaces are the leading factors why a home can never lock in warmth and sustain a comfortable indoor temperature. This then leads to a cycle of...
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How We Improved Our Comfort, Cut Our Bills and Stayed Living in the Home We Love
Julie and Alex have lived in their 1960s three bedroom, brick veneer home for 20 years. After having seen electricity and gas prices steadily increase over the past few years, they wanted to continue...
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10 Telltale Signs Your Home Needs Retrofitting
Does your home often get incredibly hot in summer and uncomfortably cold in winter? The Australian climate can change invariably from one day to the next but a home that doesn’t achieve a stable...
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IC-Rated Downlights: Why Are They Essential For Greater Thermal Comfort?
Lighting fixtures and ceiling insulation may have completely different functions and purposes but these two components must complement each other in ensuring the safety and comfort inside a building....
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Five Reasons Your House Is Too Cold (And How You Can Fix It)
Do you find it virtually impossible to warm your home and hold that warmth? Do you settle for band-aid solutions like letting your heater run non-stop while saying that you’ll just deal with the...
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Five Reasons Your House is Too Cold (And How To Fix It)
Do you find it virtually impossible to warm your home and hold that warmth? Do you settle for band-aid solutions like letting your heater run non-stop while saying that you’ll just deal with the...
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Understanding Thermal Efficiency and How You Can Start Your Journey To A...
Thermal efficiency is a common area of concern shared among residents of decades-old homes in Australia. Due to the lack of thermal efficiency concepts, techniques, and technologies back in the day,...
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Beat The Heat: 5 Energy-Saving Ways To Make Your Home Summer-Ready
Are you confident that your home can protect you from summer heatwaves? Are you sick of skyrocketing energy bills every time summer rolls around? Get greater thermal comfort all year round without...
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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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DIY Projects: Panel LED & Painted Ceiling & Solarventi Outlet
Panel LED, Painted Ceiling & Solarventi Outlet Sometimes things are done for aesthetic reasons and others are done for energy reasons. So above us, we’ve got these LED panels which we use to...
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DIY Projects: Big Ass Fan
Big Ass Fan What you see above me is the Haiku Big Ass Fan. Now, this is a pretty big room so we thought we’d need a pretty big fan. We did in the past have just a regular fan, and the quality was not...
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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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DIY Projects: Insulating the Manhole in your Attic
Insulating the Manhole in the Attic We are just about to go up in the roof to have a look at things up there. But before we do, I’d just like to point out that in our case, we’ve got attic stairs, but...
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DIY Projects: Smoke Alarm and Insulated Hot Water Pipes
Smoke Alarm and Insulated Hot Water Pipes Firstly, we decided to put a smoke alarm up here because if there’s a fire that happens to get started in the roof, this is likely to warn us a long time...
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DIY Projects: Insulating the Cathedral Ceiling
Insulating the Cathedral Ceiling We’re currently in the roof, looking over the cathedral ceiling. And what we can see here is the original fibreglass bats laid on black plastic over the cathedral...
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