insulation... who would've thought :)

Ha! If my wife did that, it would be my signal to fit it properly!

 

Wifey found a draft and did some ugly insulating also.

 

Apparently much to my surprise...I am too buzzed to post. Sorry

 

Something I tried this fall,used seal and peel seasonal caulk around the sliding windows in my storm/screen doors,what a difference in keeping the wind off main doors.

 

Hard to properly fit a 12" piece of saran...oops did you mean the door?

 

Now we know who is handier!

 

Does she carry the pellets also?

 

I've used round caulking backer rod on the kitchen slider. Can't see it too much.

 

Typo, I meant fix.

 

FINALLY got a new door in.

Anderson with the argon stuff.
It ended up being about 1.5" less width than my old door which meant i needed new trim in the inside and had to get creative with the siding. glad i hired a pro to do it.

 

People out here have little concept of insulation. I am forever telling them that the difference between good and bad is atleast 50,000btu. They look at me as if I am an idiot.
Here is what we did with our house. Pulled out the crap single glazed aluminium windows and replaced with Yanky plastic double glazed then clad the outside of the house with 4' cool room panels;

 

Didn't do the front of the house coz it would have looked really bad. Front 2 rooms are unbearable as a result;

 

A hole the size of a quarter (or combined openings) can let enough cold air in to make your stove ineffective for sure.

Seeing that white stuff on the ground make the point even more important.

Glad ya got it patched up.

Enjoy the warmth

 

Chicken

Is the house 4" construction, or 6"

We have a set of double pane west facing widows that let huge amounts of heat in during summer.

This past summer we covered them with panels of this silver plastic stuff they use for car windshield reflectors when you park.

That little trick cut the time and duration the AC ran by over half in the late afternoon.

Insulation is amazing stuff

I would love to add about 6-8 more inches of insulation to our roof area, but this manufactured house has no way to gain access to the overhead.

 

Well we fixed this problem a few weeks ago. Installed house wrap, new 1" blue board and new siding. Canned the microwaves exhaust fan. Nice and toasty in the kitchen and now we have to store the diary products in the fridge again...

 

Yeah it is 4".
It came from our egg packing shed. A couple of years back I was drying pits in the shed and the dryer caught fire and smoked out the entire shed. The inside face of the panels, as well as all the machinery was destroyed (insurance of $70,000 in repairs, even the concrete floor needed to be stripped and repainted). The other side of the panels is as good as new so rather than dump them I slapped them on my house. THe other side of those panels is almost bad and all the white paint has pealed off.

Had get get some sort of benefit from what was an absolute disaster .

Doing dumb stuff doesn't always pay off. This was a prime example. They say if you are given lemons you make lemonade - well this was pretty bitter lemonade...

 

Here is a flyer of when we opened our house to show the public our insulation improvements;




Open on 14 Sept



1010 Armstrong St Nth, Ballarat













Our goal was to introduce the energy efficiency of a new build into an old weatherboard home. We wanted the comfort of a quality new build with the advantages of central location, close to services.

All improvements needed to be cost effective as well as having a substantial benefit to living comfort without compromising lifestyle.

The house was chosen because of its long narrow East –West roofline to maximise summer shading and provide North facing roof space for solar panels. Also a large deciduous tree to the West offers afternoon shading during summer afternoons.

Original wood heating was replaced with a high efficiency multi-fuel heater burning anything from stockfeed-grade wheat to crushed olive pits, which are a carbon neutral waste product. The advantages of the system are ease of use, low running cost (from $2/day) and full thermostat and timer control.

Ceiling insulation was more than doubled from the original R2.5. All down lights were removed and enclosed shower cubicles replaced bathroom extractor fans.

All aluminium windows were replaced with low e uPVC double glazed windows. Sola tubes add extra light.

The house exterior has been clad in 100mm EPS sandwich panel used for coolroom panelling. This provides both excellent insulation as well as air sealing.

All of these changes were done on a tight budget with the bulk of the material being sourced second-hand off eBay. The result is a comfortable home which is cheap to both heat and cool.

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I ditto Ivanhoe on this. I have an old rental unit that has wood frame windows with a single pain of glass. You'd be blown away by how big of a difference the window shrink plastic works. Then peel it down in the spring.

It sounds ugly, but if you take your time you can make it look really nest.