I’ve been meaning to update this for a little while. This illustrates how bloody easy it is to upgrade a house to nearly five stars. It also highlights how the building industry only has to pay lip service to insulation and draughtproofing. Now here in Tasmania new houses only have to have a four star [...]
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Well from August to November and we had not heard from our energy assessment person so I contacted Tony Butters from Lateral Drafting, .104A Invermay Road, Invermay, Tas, 7248. Tel:03 6326 6100. Fax 03 6326 5473. Email info@lateraldrafting.com.au . Web:www.lateraldrafting.com.au Tony is a memebr of ABSA (Association of Building Sustainabilty Assessors) and uses AccuRate software [...]
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The aim was to get a measure of the house’s efficiency (or lack of it) before we began the renovation. Then when we finish the green renovation we will get another one done to see what difference has been made. There are a number of software packages used to measure house efficiency. There are also [...]
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