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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?

Some builders are concerned with building homes too airtight. Some reasons they give are: Humans breathe. Your building also needs ...
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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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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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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.

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