How the house is behaving thermally !!

Well as we are in the middle of several things at once but not far enough along on any of them to post them I thought I would re visit the steps we have taken to make the house thermally more comfortable than when we moved in nearly four years ago. This year is the [...]

Tongue and groove ceiling

Through the Tassie winter it was time for indoor work and one of the bigger jobs was to install a ceiling in the extension. It is a cathedral ceiling with deep LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) rafters. The first thing to do was to insulate well. We used wool batts and used two layers of R2.5 [...]

Draft Stoppa installation

  The insulating of the house has been a great success with a noticeable difference in the temperature in the house during this winter.  However every time I was in the shower with the exhaust fan on I couldn’t help thinking that all a fan is, is a big hole (approx 30cm) in the ceiling [...]