
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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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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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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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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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, 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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Busting the myth on solar thermal reflective paints, and having a cool roof.
Here at Efficiency Matrix we are not rocket scientists but some of the claims/assumptions out on the internet, really needs ...
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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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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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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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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
Everyone knows how important ventilation is, and most people understand how critical it is that we use ventilation when required ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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
With LED lighting becoming the mainstream in todays recessed lighting industry, and with the need to make the building envelope ...
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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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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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