The Ultimate Guide to Home Improvements for Comfort, Efficiency and excellence in Service Quality
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Did you know 72% of Australian homes have a NatHERS rating of only 1.8 stars? And only 1% meet the current NCC standard of 7 stars! Increasing your star rating has a material impact on your home in many ways (going from 6 to 7 stars means a reduction of 11-27% in heating and cooling consumption for instance).
As we shivered through the coldest start to winter in decades, this timely expert panel session for both homeowners and professionals allowed us to unpack important and exciting new developments in home insulation and energy efficiency in adapting to new building regulations and standards.
Whether you're a DIY enthusiast looking to stay warm and future-proof your home or a professional service provider looking to upskill for clients demanding more sustainable homes, this webinar is your gateway to creating more comfortable, eco-friendly buildings.
Expert Panelists
We were very pleased to welcome back fan favourite Felicia Richardson, CEO of Enviroflex. Felicia's journey in the building industry began in her childhood, igniting a lifelong passion for sustainable construction. As CEO of Enviroflex, Felicia leads a team dedicated to providing high-quality, eco-friendly insulation solutions. Enviroflex aren’t only insulation specialists, but also the retrofit installation specialists, with broad experience in challenging and tricky situations. The key to Enviroflex's success is the offering of high quality insulation products produced sustainably.
Felicia really highlighted for us the primary role that a well-designed and installed insulation service plays for our homes.
We welcomed also Senior Sustainability Advisor and Registered Consultant Danielle King, the founding Director of Green Moves. Danielle set up Green Moves as a sustainability consulting company in Melbourne. Since 2009 they’ve been guiding households, businesses and government organisations in reducing their carbon footprint.
As a Board member of Green Building Institute of Australia since 2014 and a member of the Scorecard Quality Advisory panel at DELWP since 2016, Danielle is deeply experienced in residential energy efficiency and rating schemes, and will be sharing with us the power of the Residential Efficiency Scorecard to reduce bills, increase comfort, and maximise sustainable home value. The Scorecard assessment specifically evaluates your home’s building shell, insulation, glazing, drafts, heating and cooling, hot water, lighting, pools and spas as well as any solar onsite. understanding how your home uses energy and how it handles the changing temperatures and weather conditions, empowers you to make informed decisions.
We were lucky to be joined likewise by construction industry educator extraordinaire Daniel Wurm, founder and manager of the Green Building Institute of Australia (GBI). Daniel began setting up GBI in 2011 and since has been voted top 50 Your Home Sustainability Leaders in 2012, NSW Southern Sydney Trainer of the Year 2015 and is the Co-creator of 'Construction College', the construction college in your pocket!
GBI is a non-profit organisation committed to sustainable construction that delivers a staggering range of training courses and accreditations for tradies, builders, designers, and professionals. From accreditations in Insulation Installation to Building Science and Energy Efficiency, through to Owner Builder Courses and a free Energy Efficiency course for Homeowners and even a Net Zero Homes trade course. Are you an existing trades person keen to update your knowledge of sustainable building techniques? Daniel will guide us through the benefits and opportunities of working with the right professionals.
Hosted by Sonja Markovic, CEO and Co-founder of Evitat and our returning co-host the excellent Simone Schenkel, Passive House expert and designer, of Gruen Design Studio.
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I've shared this everywhere thanks. I'm trying my best to explain what is required to be done. All of these works requires subsidy and there is none. My recent wall batt job just sent me back 3k and there is still more walls to open up. 2 walls I failed to open up and is covered by kitchen bench and already square set. too many mistakes made. I recommend strip all the walls and do the batt job from the start.
32:00 with my wall batt job which was required to deal with dripping condensation on walls. I was going to demolish the plaster and fit batts. It happened this way the plasterers gave me short notice of availability. They demolished themselves with their cutter powertool quickly and fit batts and I supervised and adjusted where there was gaps. In my home the studwork is between 430. So extra strips need to be cut to fill the 50mm gap. They had to cut them across ways to fit the width. It wasnt pretty but worked. some batts were straight pieces. A batt around the switchboard and electrical cabling was hard and concerning regarding heat. But the cavity behind it should be enough.
35:00 bathroom extraction needs an inline draught stopper as the plastic flaps do nothing. the fantech lets in air. When I renovate it will get an inline motor with draught stopper. However I also have the same problem with the kitchen rangehood its failed there also. Rigid ducting goes to the roof and not much length there. air blows straight the the roof vent inside. Ive failed to find examples how to fit one there but as Im typing there might be enough space in the cabinet to fit a 150mm draught stopper directly to the rangehood and then put the ducting to that ?? work in progress there. electrical cutouts were made behind the cabinet by mistake and I had to shove poly batts in the cavity to stop air leaks. ducted ventilation needs draught stoppers also. I had to request them for the Ventis ducting.
I have a low pitch roof and was sold into blow in woolcell. I have no idea of the rating and its messy. the ventis ventilation is in the roof with the particles also. not sure what to do. fit batts where I can over the top ? the edges are impossible to get to.
With double glazing requires ducted ventilation and humidity extraction ? heat recovery retrofit is near impossible. There is one 7k unit but its roof space like the Ventis but without hepa filter ! ventilation and upvc requires subsidy. I have a Ventis but for humidity removal I have to put it in drying mode so brings in cold air.
I'm still banned from MEEH. So I had to create my own local efficiency group. Admin blocked me.