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Enjoy some of our informative articles on improving the effectiveness of ventilation and air tightness of your building envelope in your home.

Can a building or a home be too airtight?

Can a building or a home be too airtight?

Some builders are concerned with building homes too airtight. Some reasons they give are: Humans breathe. Your building also needs ...
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The devil is in the detail

Vapour permeable wall wraps, the devil is in the detail

There are wall wraps, and then there are wall wraps. Different users have different requirements and expectations for what they ...
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Chimney energy Loss to chimney 2

Fire Places And Energy Efficiency

Fireplaces are completely incompatible with energy efficiency.  Wood Fired fireplaces can provide a really comforting radiant heat source but, in ...
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Improving the performance of your building envelope.

Upside Down Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofit

Upside Down Retrofitting Energy Efficiency, driving down your heating and cooling energy costs systematically. You don’t have to turn your ...
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Air infiltration

How can air leakage testing help you?

There are several smart ways to keep your home comfortable all year round.  The two most common ways of becoming ...
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Pyramid for sustainability

The Pyramid For Building & Renovating Smarter

The Pyramid For Building & Renovating Smarter Eco living is not a fad, in fact, it’s here to stay, and ...
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Hot Second Floor

Hot Second Floor, Over Heating

How does the external heat get into your house? With Thermal bridging, solar gain or air leakage? The answer is...  ...
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Solar Reflective Coatings

Busting the myth on solar thermal reflective paints, and having a cool roof.

Solar Thermal Reflective Coatings, and having a Cool Roof. Here at Efficiency Matrix, we are not rocket scientists but some ...
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gaps in insulation

Finding and fixing holes in Insulation

Wall and ceiling insulation, or just Ceiling insulation.  It's one of those things that you never see working for you, ...
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Skylight Building envlope line

Fix Skylight Energy Efficiency

Skylights are fantastic at bringing natural light into your home, but they penetrate a part of the building envelope which ...
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Should we sleep with the door closed or open?

To sleep with the door open or closed. That… is the question.

Did you know that the answer to this question could have ramifications on how well you sleep at night? There ...
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humidity level swings

About Moisture and Humidity

Relative Humidity is usually measured as a percentage of water vapour in the air. The amount of vapour contained in ...
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Effective ventilation

Effective Ventilation

 Everyone knows how important ventilation is, and most people understand how critical it is that we use ventilation when required ...
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Mould in a home

How Air tightness Fixes Air Quality, Even Mould…

The mainstream thinking in Australia, has a misconception of the underlying reasons why mould occurs, inside the building envelope.  The ...
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Spray foam underfloor insulation

Sealing Leaky Floors, Spray Foam Insulation

Bandage for a Thousand Cuts: Sealing Leaky Floors, Spray Foam Insulation Noting the advertised R-value performance of an insulation product ...
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Leakage points to seal in a kitchen as a retrofit

Sealing up a home from pests benefits energy efficiency too

No one wants to share their home with bugs/pests – cockroaches, spiders, mice, whatever... Most of us would like to avoid ...
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Why Whirly birds don't work.

Does roof ventilation work?

Before we answer the question of “Does roof ventilation work?” lets talk about insulation. Believe it or not, the ancient Egyptians ...
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Ducted heating being restricted

Ducted Heating Energy Efficiency fix

Learning about ducted heating systems helps you fix energy efficiency As a youngster you would have heard your mother shout, ...
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Fixing the swiss cheese effect of recessed lighting

Replacing a MR16 Halogen Downlight With an LED

Winter always seems to eventually swing around, much to the disappointment of some.  Its a time when we use more ...
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Comparison of centuries for heating

The Evolution of Heating the Home

How Heating Has and Will Change The evolution of heating the home in history has done a complete U-turn as most ...
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showers and mould

Stopping Bathroom Mould

Stopping Bathroom mould including black mould... Bathroom mould is a very common problem, and ventilation is not always the answer ...
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Gas Dirty Secrets

Energy Efficiency of Gas

Dirty Secrets – Gas in the home Gas is connected to a considerable amount of Australian homes, used for cooking, heating ...
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IC-4 Rated Downlights VS Barrier Standard

IC-4 Rated Downlights VS Barrier Standard

With LED lighting becoming the mainstream in todays recessed lighting industry, and with the need to make the building envelope ...
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evap thumbnail

Does evaporative cooling work?

When asking the question of  "Does evaporative cooling work?", It's important that the big picture is known. There is no ...
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Retrotec Residential Duct Tester

Duct Cleaning or Duct Testing?

Residential ducts can represent a great opportunity for improving energy use, and air quality performance in the home.  Excessive air ...
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