What is water vapour & vapour barriers and how can it affect my home?
Practically everyone is familiar with the three states of water: solid, liquid, and gas. Water, in its gaseous state, is an integral component of air that we know as water vapour. The percentage of water vapour is described as the air's moisture content (or humidity), and it is when [...]
What is home air tightness? Airtightness Membrane: Essentials of an Eco Home
Nowadays, people are becoming increasingly aware of the need to create energy-efficient buildings because of their long-term impact on human health, environment, and finances. One of the features that go into constructing such a building that allows minimal energy losses and maximises cost saving is airtightness. What is home [...]
Condensation in Homes – Causes, dangers and what you can do about it
Condensation is a phenomena that we are all too familiar with –from fogging up the glass windows with our breath in the winters as kids, to watching it occur on the bathroom mirror after a bath. It might seem harmless (and is in a lot of cases), but sometimes [...]
Home Thermal Insulation – Why does your home need thermal insulation?
If you're thinking of having your home insulated, or even re-insulated, there are a lot of factors you need to account for before you do. Thermal insulation is vital for a home to make the most out of its energy budget and keep the inhabitants in good health. Without adequate [...]
What is a Heat Recovery Ventilation system and do I need one?
If you are looking for ways to optimise the energy efficiency of your home in order to cut back and save on heating costs, then you should definitely look into installing a Heat Recovery and Ventilation System. Not only does this system allow you to save costs, but it [...]
How to make brown paint? Ever wondered which colours to mix to make Brown?
Brown is everywhere. From warming earth tones to deep, woodland shades, the world around us is full of brown. Whether you’re painting a wall, a portrait, a plant pot or a landscape, you’re bound to come across some variation of it – but given the amount of wildly different [...]
How to Get Rid of Black Mould on Walls Permanently with Natural Products?
How to get rid of mould on walls permanently with natural anti mould products, yes it’s possible to be chlorine free! **Updated Jan 2024 It’s that time of year when it seems to have been raining non stop for weeks, everything is getting soggy and damp outside, and our [...]
What’s Driving the Sustainable Interior Design Movement?
Sustainable interior design has come a long way. From being exclusively the preserve of the counter-culture it has become part of the mainstream, with sustainable practices benefiting from an extra dash of zeitgeist-grabbing cool.But despite the cultural success of the ecological movement, the old ways still persist. Many materials are [...]
Green Futures: Eco Friendly Architecture Grows Up
Modern buildings have a bad reputation, and it's easy to see why. From the brutalist concrete shells of the 1960s to the materialist excess of the 1980s, right up to the wave of cheap, featureless housing of the 1990s, humanity seemed to be at odds with the organic environment, and [...]
Straw Bale House Build: The Bricks of the Future?
When most of us hear the idea of a house made of straw, the first thing that comes to mind is the tale of the Three Little Pigs. But with straw now being recognised as the low carbon, low impact building material, it looks like it might take more than [...]