Thermal Comfort Package – Step 2 – Draught Proofing

According to experts such as BZE, CSIRO and Melbourne University a comfortable and energy efficient home begins with ensuring your home is properly insulated and sealed against heat loss. This means you’ll be warmer in winter and cooler in summer without needing a lot of power to do so. Consequently we always recommend that you begin the process of making your home exceptional by addressing the thermal performance of your home.

Statistically a whopping 38.5% of our energy use goes into heating and cooling our homes (35% heating and 3.5% cooling). Consequently this offers one of the best opportunities for improving the performance of our homes.

Our Thermal Comfort Package has 3 steps that reduce your energy usage for heating and cooling through:

  1.  Insulation (wall, floor and ceiling)
  2.  Draught proofing, and
  3.  Window treatments

These 3 steps lead to an exceptionally comfortable home that needs very little energy to heat or cool it. They will:

✔ Save you thousands of dollars on energy

✔ Save you money on the size of heating and cooling appliances that you require

✔ Save you on replacement costs as your heating and cooling systems will last longer due to being used less, and

✔ If you are looking at solar power and batteries the Thermal Comfort Package will save you thousands on the size of the system you need!

 

Thermal Comfort Package

Step 2. Draught Proofing – Reduce the heat loss and gain in your home by up to 25% with Draught Proofing

The Problem with Draughts in Your Home

  • Poorly designed and built homes allow the extremes of the outside weather to enter your home.
  • Most homes in Melbourne are very poorly sealed. In fact even brand new homes have been found by the CSIRO to be three times worse at retaining conditioned air than equivalent homes in Europe and North America!
  • Inappropriate products and poor practices lead to homes that need to be reheated or cooled every hour.
  • Living in an unsealed home is like sleeping with your dooner hovering over the top of you and running a heater to try and keep yourself warm – it makes no sense.
source of Draughts in the home

Source: www.yourhome.gov.au

 

The Solution: Premium Quality Draught Proofing

  • Highest durability and flexibility in order to maintain an effective seal with building movement.
  • Safe, non-toxic and non-allergenic products. Reduce the triggers of respiratory illnesses.
  • Significantly decrease the openings for ants, cockroaches, spiders, dust, pollutants and mice to enter into your home.
  • Significantly reduces noise (especially in combination with our insulation and secondary glazing)
  • Puts you in charge of when and where you allow the outside air in, so that you can do it at the most appropriate and comfortable times of the day or night.
  • Significantly improve the thermal comfort of your home with the aid of high quality, architecturally designed draught sealing components expertly selected for your specific needs.
  • Save up to 25% on your heating and cooling bills.

high quality bottom door seals to prevent heat losshigh quality timber compressive seals for doors that reduces heat loss

Let our expert teams drastically improve the comfort of your home by finding the hundreds of gaps that exist in your home and then seal them with high quality, architecturally designed and expertly installed draught proofing components.

To read about Step 3 of our Thermal Comfort Package click here.