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Beat The Heat: How To Be Naturally Cool in Summer
Heatwaves are deemed to be the deadliest form of natural hazard in Australia. Severe heat can cause several illnesses which include dehydration, heat stress, and heat stroke. Heatwaves can also worsen...
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Beat The Heat: 5 Energy-Saving Ways To Make Your Home Summer-Ready
Are you confident that your home can protect you from summer heatwaves? Are you sick of skyrocketing energy bills every time summer rolls around? Get greater thermal comfort all year round without...
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How to Keep Cold Air Coming Through Windows in Winter
Is your house excessively cold in winter? One of the possible reasons why your home has poor thermal comfort could be that you have leaky windows. Everyone understands that some windows leak water –...
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Three Reasons Why Chimney Balloons Are Useless
Fireplaces provides warmth and a comforting ambiance during the colder months. But on normal days, other than giving your living room a rustic vibe, unused chimneys are gigantic holes that remove...
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Lack of Air Conditioning? Stop Your Home Becoming a Deathtrap!
As temperatures begin to rise in Australia, we are being encouraged to retrofit our homes for thermal efficiency to stay cool amid the heatwave conditions and to lower our energy consumption. This...
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Energy-Efficient Home Retrofit Ideas That Will Keep Your Tenants Longer
Having problems with tenant retention? You might need to carefully assess how your property is performing in terms of thermal comfort. Most tenants are concerned with the level of thermal and energy...
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3 Home Retrofit Ideas That Will Save You Thousands
Are you looking for cost-effective home retrofit solutions that will help you lower your annual energy cost while increasing your thermal efficiency all year round? Firstly, exactly how much can you...
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Practical and Economical Reasons Why You Need To Retrofit Your Home This Summer
A well-planned home retrofit plan that puts your comfort and financial situation first can improve the quality of your life for years ahead. Here are five good reasons why upgrading your insulation...
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DIY Projects: Draught Proofing the Front Door
Draught Proofing the Front Door This is our front door. Because this is the ecoMaster test house, this door has over the years had lots of different treatments; door perimeter seals and door bottom...
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DIY Projects: Entrance Air Lock
Air Lock Draught-proofing a front door is one thing, but when people are coming and going, if this is your main heated area, you’re definitely losing a lot of heat every time the door opens. And of...
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DIY Projects: Entrance Landing
Entrance Landing In the entrance down into our living room, there’s a couple of steps. When we first came here, there were a few little steps with really sharp edges, making it a little tricky to...
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DIY Projects: Draught Proofing the Living Room
Draught Proofing the Living Room The journey really started with draught-proofing. In the living room, it turned out that there were a lot of draughts. We didn’t really think that it was a draughty...
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DIY Projects: Awning Window Treatments
Awning Window Treatments Well as you can see, these are the kitchen window. We have a few things going on here. Firstly, as well as developing ecoGlaze (secondary glazing) in this home, we do...
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DIY Projects: Draught Proofed Cavity Sliding Door
Draught Proofed Cavity Sliding Door As is usually the case with master bedrooms, there’s often a walk-in robe. In this case, we’ve got a cavity sliding door that slides into an external wall, so...
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DIY Projects: Zoning out the Bathrooms
Zoning Out the Bathrooms When we heat our home, it’s a good idea, not to heat areas that you don’t really need to heat. And for us, it’s zoning out the wet areas. It’s the laundry, toilet, and...
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