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What is a blower door test?
Me: Are you having a blower door test done? You: What does that even mean? Is that a thing I need to think about? I mean I feel draughts from...
Roof blanket or Vapour Permeable Membrane?
So roof blanket or vapour permeable membrane - which one is better? This is a conversation we come up against almost daily in our line of work, as homeowners and...
Do I need to use a Vapour Permeable Membrane??
It has recently come to my attention through Zara D'Cotta from The Healthy Home's Healthy Buildings Mastermind course that one of Australia’s largest volume builders were not aware that they...
Are sarking and vapour permeable membranes the same thing?
Climasure are a distributor of the high quality, German engineered building membranes from Pro Clima, and it means a lot to us that the industry understands how and why the...
Why do I have to use double glazing when they don’t?
Whether you're a builder, architect or homeowner, this may be a question you have asked yourself during the course of your project. I've heard it before and the other Friday...
Building science is relevant to everybody. Here’s why.
Building Science 5 Ways You may have come across videos or articles where experts explain a particular concept in 5 different ways - for a child, a teenager, a young...
How to Look at a Building like a Building Scientist – it’s not that complicated, promise
Building Science, just by the nature of the word “science”, sounds like a really complex topic, and, well, if you get down to the nitty-gritty of it all - then...
R value v U value – what’s the difference?
When you're talking about thermal performance, you end up referring to everything in terms of it's "value', R value, U value, K value, lambda value - but what does this...
Dew point and RH Explained
When we’re talking about condensation it makes logical sense to equate those water droplets with the amount of moisture in the air at any given time, or the relative humidity....
Air Tightness and Smoke Infiltration
The Situation Living in the harsh climate of Australia, we are vulnerable to the many wiles of nature. Flash flooding, hurricanes, even earthquakes and of course, bushfires. Two years ago,...
Does air tightness matter in Australia?
There is an embedded notion in Australia we do not need to worry about making our houses airtight (or energy efficient for that matter) because our climate isn’t extreme enough....
Passive House and Me
Earlier this week I was invited by Daniel Kress from Smart Plus Academy to join him online for their monthly Q&A and do a session on one of the 5...
What’s all the fuss about air tightness then?
“But we like it outside”“I like to hear the birds”“I don't want to suffocate in my house”“The idea of air tightness makes me feel claustrophobic” These are common comments I...
Do you know why Pro Clima wraps are better than the rest? TEEEs… that’s why.
From the outside, a VPM membrane is a VPM membrane is a VPM membrane right? They all look pretty much the same and the manufacturers tell you they do the...
Are NatHERS star ratings any good?
NatHERS star ratings are deemed by the public and parts of the building industry to be a reliable way to put an energy rating on a house and make it...
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