Home Styles
Jun 26th 2009, 12:35 am
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Re: Home Styles
Do dehumidifiers kick out cold air?
Jul 1st 2009, 9:10 am
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Re: Home Styles
Did anyone see Dirty Jobs on Discovery tonight?
Cold timber house on wooden piles. They re-installed underfloor insulation, but the important thing was a plastic membrane laid on the bare soil.
Now, all the re-located houses I have seen put in around here on piles do not have this, they are just sitting over bare soil.
Interestingly, our coldest room (an extension) is on piles & insulated, but over bare soil. The rest of ours is over a large concrete cellar & is insulated, no problem.
Maybe something to look into?
Our rental in Auckland sat over bare soil & that was freezing.
Cold timber house on wooden piles. They re-installed underfloor insulation, but the important thing was a plastic membrane laid on the bare soil.
Now, all the re-located houses I have seen put in around here on piles do not have this, they are just sitting over bare soil.
Interestingly, our coldest room (an extension) is on piles & insulated, but over bare soil. The rest of ours is over a large concrete cellar & is insulated, no problem.
Maybe something to look into?
Our rental in Auckland sat over bare soil & that was freezing.
Jul 1st 2009, 9:20 am
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Re: Home Styles
Hi to one and all
Thank you all so very very much for the help you have submitted ...bless, it's definately given us an in-sight to what to look for when we come over in April next year.
Shall keep you posted...again very many thanks
kind regards
xxElainexx
Thank you all so very very much for the help you have submitted ...bless, it's definately given us an in-sight to what to look for when we come over in April next year.
Shall keep you posted...again very many thanks
kind regards
xxElainexx
Jul 1st 2009, 11:02 am
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Re: Home Styles
Did anyone see Dirty Jobs on Discovery tonight?
Cold timber house on wooden piles. They re-installed underfloor insulation, but the important thing was a plastic membrane laid on the bare soil.
Now, all the re-located houses I have seen put in around here on piles do not have this, they are just sitting over bare soil.
Interestingly, our coldest room (an extension) is on piles & insulated, but over bare soil. The rest of ours is over a large concrete cellar & is insulated, no problem.
Maybe something to look into?
Our rental in Auckland sat over bare soil & that was freezing.
Cold timber house on wooden piles. They re-installed underfloor insulation, but the important thing was a plastic membrane laid on the bare soil.
Now, all the re-located houses I have seen put in around here on piles do not have this, they are just sitting over bare soil.
Interestingly, our coldest room (an extension) is on piles & insulated, but over bare soil. The rest of ours is over a large concrete cellar & is insulated, no problem.
Maybe something to look into?
Our rental in Auckland sat over bare soil & that was freezing.
The coldest room in our house is the downstairs back bedroom which is on the concrete slab but this may well be because of the way the sun angles over the house.
I have no idea if the concrete slab was insulated but I doubt it (polystyrene is used to insulate a concrete slab) but we do have insulation under our wood piled timber flooring. Not the best there is to be had but it certainly does a reasonable job. Below this is bare earth but we don't sit directly above this as the house is somewhat off the ground due to the slope.
Jul 2nd 2009, 2:26 am
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Re: Home Styles
I am finding this interesting as our house is part on concrete slab and part on wood pile.
The coldest room in our house is the downstairs back bedroom which is on the concrete slab but this may well be because of the way the sun angles over the house.
I have no idea if the concrete slab was insulated but I doubt it (polystyrene is used to insulate a concrete slab) but we do have insulation under our wood piled timber flooring. Not the best there is to be had but it certainly does a reasonable job. Below this is bare earth but we don't sit directly above this as the house is somewhat off the ground due to the slope.
The coldest room in our house is the downstairs back bedroom which is on the concrete slab but this may well be because of the way the sun angles over the house.
I have no idea if the concrete slab was insulated but I doubt it (polystyrene is used to insulate a concrete slab) but we do have insulation under our wood piled timber flooring. Not the best there is to be had but it certainly does a reasonable job. Below this is bare earth but we don't sit directly above this as the house is somewhat off the ground due to the slope.
