This is a good book. Does provide a step by step introduction to how to build things ru-vid.comUgkxhgbP-6hUnXu_QRaoHgLztgsI0YF3HqR0 , also does offer some steps. Includes pictures to give you ideas for layouts and such. If you are looking for a guide, this is not exactly what you want. But if you are trying to familiarize yourself with the way that pole barn building and other out buildings, are made, then this will work just as you need it to. A few things in this book are a barn (of course), detached garage, storage building, and coops.
A good friend moved to Nelson NZ from Nelson B.C. Canada 20 years ago. He told me he spent the first two winters renting a house and was cold the entire time. Then he built a house and built it to standard Canadian building codes. He insulated the roof to an R-value of 60. And the exterior walls and floors to 40. He told me New Zealanders figured he was mad. He and his house were featured in numerous publications as the crazy guy that went completely over kill. BUT....that being said. His heating costs in the winter and cooling in summer are minimal compared to his neighbors and friends. His wife loves him particularly in the winter as she spent her first 25 winters being cold all winter. She may have married a crazy Canuck.....but she's warm!
...the responses of being 'mad' may also be due to the USA and Canada using an imperial measurement for R-Values whereas Australia and NZ use a metric system .. so the numbers are completely different (eg. imperial R23 = metric R4)
I lived in Nelson for a couple of months and converted a campervan, spent a lot of time and money in that Mitre 10. Good times and a cool story , thanks for sharing
So let me get this straight, In NZ if you have a uninsulated cold damp house and you want to spend money time and inconvenience to insulate it you need a architect design then council approval then inspection to make sure it dosint end up uninsulated cold and damp.
Its to make sure you dont do a crap job and sell it off for profit. We have a lot of cowboys in our housing market atm doing terrible "renovations" and reselling the houses at a massive mark up. Not to mention insulation that is installed wrong will just become moisture traps and can actually do more harm than good.
@@Gribbous it should be the responsibility of buyers and mortgage lenders to get properties surveyed before a sale, if the government insists on getting involved in the way people insulate their homes they should be taking on the extra cost themselves and not making homeowners pay for it. most developed countries are giving people grants to insulate their houses and your government is making it less economically viable?
@@Gribbous anyone with half a brain would get a house inspected independently before buying a house. If it had bad insulation you wouldn't buy it. Same with hiring someone to put it in for you, you get someone with good previous experience.
You gotta keep in mind Scott is only talking about the Auckland area. There are much different temps in the South Island. Winters in Central Otago and some parts of Southland for example, the temps can be anywhere between 5 to -10°C or more but during summer it's one of the hottest regions in the country 25 to 35°C +. Same for Canterbury and in the Nelson/Tasman regions. Insulation is a must.
Another reason why older homes weren't insulated was because we were allowed to burn as much coal as we wanted to stay warm. And some homes even had a diesel central heating unit. This isn't the case now and the govt and local councils don't want coal being burned but want you fork out $$ for new fireplaces or retrofitting insulation to try and stay warm in what has now become a cold, damp, moldy home making many Kiwi's sick. Not everyone has that luxury to just go out and renovate.
Any house, no matter the location, needs insulation. If you don't have it, heating during winter is less efficient, which makes your heating bill higher, and air conditioning during summer is also less efficient, making you pay more for electricity.
I'm from England,our son is living in New Zealand and absolutely loves the country. But he was amazed at how poorly insulated the houses are,even new builds. I actually suggested jokingly he start a business supplying double glazing and home insulation but didn't realise installing it could be such a hassle. I always assumed NZ would be really keen on that sort of thing.
people complain about the cost. no one wants to pay for it. damn evil govt is forcing them to make warm dry homes. but a big part of it is kiwis expect to on sell and make $$$$. more spent on building less $$ they make.
Insulation doesn't only keep the cold out, but also the heat. I moved to Australia from Germany and this part of the world builds houses like paper. I have yet to see a proper window in a domestic home either.
We live in Sweden, Im a kiwi builder and the standard of house insulation in NZ is shocking compared to the world. If youre building a house and think you have enough insulation, you dont, double it.
Same thing when you compare to standards in Norway. I was surprised by the explanation of the layering as we have a moisture blocking layer on the inside of the insulation (usually 0.2mm plastic sheet, but for pretty technical reasons there are more and more builders using a layer that breathes. Then on the outside of the insulation we have a wind-blocking layer (insulation is pretty much a matter of making sure you have air that's not moving between the inner and outer walls.), a gap of usually about 2" and then the outer wall. Then again, Norway has both reasonably warm summers and quite cold winters as well as windy coastlines with a lot of moisture, so we've been forced to adapt. ;)
I done my apprenticeship in n.z... I now work in Australia i didn't realize how important insulation was till I worked here, the last house i just finished is a constant 18 to 20 degrees with no heating or cooling in Victoria from 6 degree days to 42 degree days it's always constant with no curtains installed.
@@Tachdelan that plastic sheet is the worst in the long run. Just trapps moistore in the wall and will cuse root. Maybe not so fast but 30 years or so and beyond then you will see it.
Bureaucracy. Doubles the price... I live in Perth, and still insulated my house. Pennies and effort saved in heating. better in my pocket. Getting close to the finish now 😊
@@MikeAG333 For sure. My house has only ceiling insulation and double brick. I really only need the AC on when we get a few hot days in a row. The morning easterly blows through early then we box the house up and it stays cool for the rest of the day generally. Gotta put it on when we get up around the 40 mark though...
I’m on to my 2nd month of being an apprentice carpenter. I’ve watched these videos almost everyday. By gosh it helps a lot, you are the man Scott Brown. Love the videos.
As a Canadian who lived a full year down in Wellington, NZ, I can tell you that I never was cold as much as this winter in NZ. I swear that to warm myself up I had to go outside because it was too cold inside. The humidity was a big problem as well, my shower towel never got dry from one day to the next. I will always remember the landlord telling me to make sure that the drain hole on the inside gutter of the single glazed windows was not obstructed. Great memories... Love your country.
New homes in Ireland require high levels of air-tightness, heat pumps, advanced ventilation systems, heat recovery, triple-glazed windows as well as crazy levels of insulation . While building is undergoing renovation or an extension there is a requirement that the whole building should achieve a very high level of energy efficiency. The days of the cowboy builder are long past.
@@BobDevV To a Swede it's normal level since at least 20 or 30 years to have triple-glazed insulating windows and thick insulation in the walls. The moisture barrier is on the inside wall of Swedish houses since most of the year the outdoor is colder than indoors and then you don't wan the humidity of indoors to condensate in the wall causing rot.
Must be nice to have first-world building practices - NZ should maybe give it a think. It's a sick fuckin' joke here thanks to years of deregulation since the 1990s. But at least the Auckland average house price is about 13x the average annual wage, so.............smfh
Its funny how fashions change on the flooring; our last house was the same. Lifted the horrible carpet to replace it as part of a reno, only to find it was all polished underneath & in real good nick. And just happened to match the new curtains we'd put in perfectly.
I’m feeling itchy, just watching. It’s absurd how many homes down here in CHCH aren’t insulated. Even my own home is only partially so, after we repaired after earthquake.
I'm still confused. 2C is still relatively cold for this climate. And keeping a house a comfortable would be terribly difficult. Furthermore insulation helps with the heat also. Especially if you have aircon.
It may hit 2 deg C once a year in the middle of the night in Auckland. Most of the time in the coldest months of June July and August the temperature here ranges between 5 and 15 deg C.
@@chriskane9230 It also stops any warm-ish air getting in on a sunny winters day. A study in Germany found more insulation resulted in higher heating costs overall because the sun couldn't warm much of the air inside the house. I think insulation is great, and makes for a more comfortable home, but there are other consequences.
Thank you. Interiors walls need insulation for sound. And it helps if you have a separate thermostats in each room. The thermostats will trip less if every wall in a room is insulated.
Yep we have the same guys here in New Zealand they're called R-Soles. They continually add layer upon layer of bureaucracy costing more & more & more. We currently have a water shortage here in our biggest city of Auckland(where this video is taken). After decades of immigration & a finite reservoir of water, it finally ran short. A water tank in every new house built, used for toilet, washing machine etc would've solved this issue but again the R-Soles are in charge.
That regulation is required because of what happened in the past of so many people doing it incorrectly and causing worse problems by being surrounded by black mold.
Its great that we have a council checking that the work is done properly but cost of getting thing consented is just over the roof 🤦🏻♂️ not really helping those who actually want things done property.
Google "Laffer curve", which is what we're seeing in terms of e.g. unconsented DIY insulation of walls because it's too onerous to do it properly. Same with painting of second-story timberwork like window frames, you can either do it by the regs and spend thousands to put up scaffolding or pay your neighbourhood handyman under the table to run up a ladder and do it.
Oi Scotty, love the vids man, been watching them for a good while now. You should make a spotify playlist with these jazzy jams for us viewers to play while going about our business! Chur from Aus!
I spent a winter in Queennstown and I FROZE MY ASS for most of it. -15°C for weeks on end, damp cold, and a freezing house except for when we had a raging fire going in the living room fireplace. So bollocks to that, and to the same situation on Australa where many buildings aren't insulated or done so very minimally. I don't understand the logic, it wastes so much heating fuel and makes little sense otherwise.
We live in NZ, and had wall insulation injected into the walls from the interior walls. They had a thermal camera so they could see if they missed any bits due to noggins. They still needed to get council consent, but it's a product that has been used all over the place. The walls then needed a quick extra paint to cover the new holes they made and plastered. One day for the insulation, one day for the painters pretty easy mostly for a 100 year old house, roof and underfloor (with vapor barrier) was already done when we brought the place last year.
I live in San Francisco, California, probably a similar climate to NZ but way drier. Old houses here don't have any insulation at all, although thick lathe & plaster walls provide a little insulation.... Our 1930s house has zero wall insulation, but some was put in the ceiling in some places and we have double pane windows which helps....
I find it quite interesting with the insulation. In germany you insulate the inside of the framing and add another layer of insulation on the outside of the framing. You do not only insulate to get a warm inside, but more importantly to cool the inside when its hot outside. When i was in australia i noticed that everyone had an ac too cool down the inside, because the houses were not really insulated, which is a shame because you can safe so much electricity/energy by just having an insualtion. I am really interested, do new building ins aus/nz never have a decent insulation, or is it just when you renovate old buildings that you just add a bit of insulation on the inside of the framing?
In NZ, new building rules do insist on full home insulation and double glazing; but only in-frame insulation. The minimum insulation requirement only came into effect in 1978, and was increased in 2000. But that means there is a lot of housing stock with minimal or no insulation. It doesn't help that we have one rule set to cover sub-tropical Northland (like Scott says rarely gets to freezing), and sub-alpine Southland (which snows frequently).
These houses were built before air con. Insulated houses in hot countries would be unbearable. Houses in the UK are insulated without air con and they're worse in a 30 degree summer than houses in oz in a 40 degree summer.
We're building a new house and are packing as much insulation into as is possible. We've rented before and almost froze in the winter even with the wood burner going flat out. This time around our NZ house will be up to date and will have two forms of heating a Heat pump and a Wood burner in case of power cuts which we get a lot of in rural NZ. We are also insulating all internal walls so that not even a draught will get into this house. I should also point out that the Wood burner has its own air supply from outside so it will not draw air from inside the house.
Man I've watched a few now and your videos seem like a really fun carpentry-focussed "The Office" with all the cool cast of characters that make appearances in different episodes. I love it.
Born Australian (8 years lived there), then moved to France ... I remember leaving Australia, it was 43°c in summer, moved to France ... in the winter, it was -23°c when I got off the plane with my parents ... I'll say, we had not planned for such a difference in temperature. I remember my classmates always asking why I wore long sleeve t shirts / pullovers in summer in France, and always told them I was not hot and it was just a habit ... then later in life people who learned I was Australian, always asked me if we had winter in Australia. I always told them, sure we do ... it's just a little warm, giving them a ballpark between 15°c and 21°c, which, during my 8 years, was the coldest it ever got in Australia. Fastforward, I'm 32 now, and I'm wearing a shirt at 2°c outside, and dying of heat exhaustion when the temps go over 32°c, sweating a kg /day easily if not 2 or more.
Congrats on 250 episodes Scott! I retrofitted my roof this summer in Northern Canada; added 16.5 inches (418mm) of fiberglass insulation. We have 12 inch walls being built frequently, but we are not strangers to -35° to -40°C.
Brilliant, I think I've binge watched just about every episode, well worth it to hear your comments on what is a good build. 250 is good, at same time 200k subscribers too. You just ooze quality & confidence. Keep them coming, you're a star.
Ain't gonna lie every year about this time when I watch a video of yours and see your shrubs and trees blooming I instantly get depressed cause just yet another reminder that my summer is over and winter is almost here!
Insulation also keeps cool in it isn't just to keep heat in. Now as to humid, if you build with proper vapor and moisture barriers in the walls and flooring, then use a expanding foam insulation, then you won't have mold issues.
Housing standards here in NZ are pretty poor. "Double glazed aluminium windows? Luxury!" Smart people know aluminium is not a good thermal barrier, and our lousy standards don't enforce a thermal break to be fitted in them. We frown at wooden joinery because a few people are afraid of paint, when the Europeans (who have to bare greater extremes in climate) consider it the best available option. Just realised you're from Auckland. Here in Christchurch it sure knows how to get cold, with so many people living in old or broken houses and a poor source of heating. Insulation would be most appreciated down here.
Double glazing is mandatory in most parts of NZ on new homes since 2004. We frown at wooden joinery because using a suitable timber is three times the cost in NZ. Standard alloy frames with double IGU can achieve R0.26 and with thermal break around R0.35. Using a timber frame instead will get you to R0.36....not much better at all. When you consider a basic 90mm lightweight wall achieves R2.3 you can see glazed openings are leaking energy no matter what you go with. There's a lot more to the New Zealand building code than just insulation, it's only one out of 45 sections designers work within while also trying to balance the cost of building within peoples budgets and often dealing with our challenging seismic and coastal conditions.
I don't know when this channel went from construction videos to lifestyle vlog featuring friends and family but I am a lot more okay with it than I thought I would be! Congrats on 250! Here's to 2500 more!
Scott is only talking about it not being common to insult the external walls on retrofits. All new houses need to show a level of temperature control and energy efficiency, which effectively requires insulation to top, bottom and sides. A note about NZ climate. As medium sized island in the middle of the pacific in the roaring 40s, (40°s latitudes) rain and often wind are the two biggest reasons for problems. All the major cities are livable year round without any insulation and only moderate heating and cooling. Half the reason for the insulation is energy efficiency not comfort. The reason we don't often insulate the walls is because of risk/reward. Insulating a typical roof and subfloor space is easy, extremely low risk. The Walls are different, old house's walls typically don't leak water (systematically that is, generally failure is only through poor maintenance or damage). Often one of the reasons for that is the un-insulated wall cavity, it allows airflow to dry out the occasional moisture ingress. Changing the wall dynamic can lead to rapid moisture problems and failure. As both the ceiling and sub-floor are low risk they often are done first with little government oversight. But because of a recent history of leaky buildings and the often complexity involved in insulating the walls in old houses you need to get your plans approved. NZ deregulated the building industry in the 90s, then for about a decade built a bunch of terrible houses that all failed within about 10 years but some in less than a year. There has been a heap of finger pointing etc. So we do really need the regulations.
Spot on. The guys drilling holes in the exterior walls in the 90's and 00's for retrofit foam injection insulation were in large part responsible for the initial specific changes the building code. Simply drilling through the exterior envelope and moisture barriers like Swiss cheese.
Congratulations on reaching ep. 250 dude. Love the work, camera and editing skills. Best wishes from the UK. Also keep at it, need my next New Zealand carpentry exploits asap. Cheers
@@SweeturKraut Smoko time 'Smoko' is a slang term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe a short work break. As its name suggests, it is usually attributed to smokers - though in contemporary times, the term is used in a generic manner as much as it is in the traditional form.
this council approval for wall insulation, is absurd.... its one thing to say, you need to call an inspector that cost $500 and he/she inspects the work and the official papers, and then either gives the approval or gives you a list of issues that need to be fixed, to be up to code.. but this is nonsense...
Hey Scott, I see you used 'Fluff Busters', they were great removing our insulfluff, pretty quick and efficient. Frank was a nice guy! Me personally am insulating to the max in our Auckland home, with HRV (pretty simple airflow for rooms etc) and heat pump in ceiling. Might be overkill, but future owners might like the option. Love your work 👍
Scott's comment about Auckland's lowest temperatures is interesting. As I'm from Melbourne, (if you don't know, second largest Australian city), we've long held that climate-wise, Auckland and Melbourne are pretty similar, as we're about the same latitude. If you look at a graph of average temperature, you can see the similarity on average. However, from your description, I reckon we probably get more extremes of cold than you do, because of the landmass of Australia. (Probably more extremes of heat, too). Unlike Scott's description of Auckland, we get a really cold night or two every winter that will dip below or get to 0*c, and I reckon can get pretty close a few times, too. (And inland parts of Vic such as in Gippsland, to the east, or Ballarat, to the west, would dip below 0*c regularly overnight). I guess the fact that you're a smaller pacific island influences your climate, where our landmass influences ours'. And by the way, Melbourne has a reputation for 'four seasons in one day'... But a visit to the North Island in springtime tells me that we've got nothing on you, lol..
Whats with the story with the Hearts air freshener mate? Just finished watching them and came on to see you representing at the other side of the planet. Top man!
@Scott Brown Carpentry. Thanks Scott for answering that burning question many of your subscribers wanted to know about home insulation in NZ. I see it won't be too long before you'll take us on a new adventure. Great job as always. Hope you, your fellow carpenters, and your families stay safe and well.
I grew up in Wanaka, we had a good fireplace in the living room , we could get the room up well over 30 degrees sometimes , was like a sauna. but we left the rest of the house freezing cold. I slept under a feather duvet and another blanket . I wake up in the morning to see ice covering the inside of my bedroom window, then hovering over the gas heater before going to school.
Ditto, got some tools that are getting to be 10 or 12 years old, just retired my grandpa's old skil saw he gave me a decade ago, replaced with a new mag 77. Grandpa's saw gets a place of honor on the shop, almost thirty years old now and it's earned it's retirement
Heat flows from high to low. Cold air does not enter a warm house. Warm air leaves the house into the colder ambient outside until it reaches steady state.
When you insulate you need a vapor barrier between the insolation and the plasterboard. If not you can get mold in the walls and the ceiling. The vapor we produce as human always try to escape the easiest way.
It’s the same but different name. Look at this picture. This is the way we do it in Sweden. villalivet.se/om-bygg/yttervagg/ If you don’t use a barrier you risk a condensation inside the insulation when it’s cold outside.
@@thomasflomen2122 That's much more comprehensive than any wall I've ever seen. In NZ there is usually building paper or some kind of wind protection (not moisture barrier, my mistake) between the insulation and the cladding. Then the plasterboard is fixed directly to the studs. I wonder if it's less of an issue here because we don't get the sustained cold weather throughout the day, so the wall has time to ventilate and evaporate any moisture.
@@andrewbriscoe2481 I live in the south of Sweden and it’s almost the same temperature as Auckland. But some years the temp drops to -20 degrees Celsius. But the insulation also save you money during summertime to keep the heat outside and then you can use the AC more economic. Keep safe and healthy.
Coming from very different climate, the biggest surprise for me is the almost non-existent roof-framing. Wouldn't survive first winter here. But well, it is enough for rain, I guess. Really enjoy seeing and learning different building patterns around the world.
Mate, we have some pretty crazy storms frequently in nz, some winds get up to 200+kms. I’ve come across more trees falling over onto houses, than a house being ripped apart from high winds. I work in insurance repair and fire reinstatement. Not saying it doesn’t happen though. But build it right the first time and she’ll last a long time here in nz.
Sure, but not in old houses... There are plenty of places here in the US that require R60 in the roof (approx 45 cm) and others were it's R15. The climate is not nearly as uniform as in Germany, eg. Florida (low of maybe 7c) vs North Dakota (low of -30c) or Tuscon (super dry & hot) vs Seattle (wet & mild).... I suspect it's the same in NZ as Scott was specifically calling out Auckland.
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Whole place looks really nice, pretty and just unique compared to what i see in Canada rurally...really cool. Never seen a vid before but this is pretty relaxing so i think ill stay. One quick edit: My dad has that exact same hammer, we still use it and i like it quite a bit. It's light enough so it's not a burden and small and you can put some force into it. Not sure if bigger hammers are what carpenters use because of the mass hitting nails or what, but for a home owner something light is always nice.
I was watching and was like, "Wait, when did this video come out? A week ago? Oh, right they were just real good at handling the coronavirus that everything is as if nothing ever happened."
Greetings from Kimberley, Ontario. If it is a new build, insulating is not difficult or a huge expense. The first couple of inches give the greatest return on the money. In a mild climate like yours, you probably need only a thin layer. Your comfort will go up year round. I renovated the leaky farmhouse I live in 30 years ago. The day the vapour barrier went up, my life changed. What a great comfortable house now; fuel consumption cut in half too. I no longer use pink fiberglass, only Rockwool. Pink never dries if it gets wet and is a pain to work with. Rockwool holds it shape.
we don't use vapour barrier here (its all vapor open) and houses are not air sealed like yours. so our insulation isn't actually as effective due to all the air leakage. add in the humidity factor (70-90% at the moment) which comes in with all the air leakage which makes it feel a lot hotter/colder than it is. there is a lot more to it than just a bit insulation.
I believe the shred it up and make new insulation or other insulation product, pretty much nothing gets wasted any more just the amount of recycled material
Hmmm. I'm in Brisbane, and when I insulated my external walls I didn't put paper on the chamfer boards or use paper-backed batts (I used Knauf Earthwool Batts throughout the house). How boned am I?
Lol, me too, I'm a Kiwi who's just done a reno in Stafford near Chermside. Paid a company to remove old asbestos linings and replaced with Gyprock, ex housing commission. Building approval is a dream here compared with NZ.
@@NighthawkNZ just means insulatin is even more important then, which is what I use here, in summer windows are open at night and closed early in the morning before it heats up outside, and then closed until late evening where it cools down again and windows are opened. helps to keep the house nice during the summers without it costing any electricity
cold weather is not the only reason to insulate. Heat in the summer and external sound are two good reason for it. Insulation not only keeps the chill out but it can also keep the heat out. So if you have hot summer your AC bills and temperature variation would be much better.
Well, a bit of what we do in Portugal. Buildings are all made with steel and cement for main pillars and floors, my 250m2 building, is 25 years old, besides a few repairs on the roof and next building joint. The skeleton is filled in cement, floors are 40cm of cement. This walls are double line ytong outside (it's a water repelent brick) and cinder blocks on the inside with a breathing area between. Windows are triple glass, technal windows with two opening methods. Our temps go from spike 0 at night, to 45 in the summer. The place I live, is very humid. We don't need warmers in teh winter as te house is fully isolated, even waste chimnees have valves. This is considered the top of the line building way. Country houses are built the same way. usual quality is two cinder blocks wide wall and double windows on rails. Since around 30 years ago. But I do love wooden houses, they feel a lot different. Love your work and videos talking about NZ and how things work there, are interesting. for me at least. cheers.
I'm a renter with massive, double glazed sliding doors. Even in midwinter I would normally have the doors and windows open till 1am to let the heat escape. The sun is low, but that just means it shines directly through the double glazing. I put a shed and a sun umbrella in front to block the sun, but I still never worry about being cold, ever. I have to put insect repellent dispensors everywhere so I can keep the windows open, to prevent boiling. Thanks Jacinda.
@Yazmeli Ayzol The ridiculous thing is my landlord lives in an old house on the same property. These oppressive overlord the laws were made to protect me from, couldn't afford insulation apparently. They don't have double glazing and they have shade all around their property. They are only just starting to renovate so that they aren't freezing all the time.
@Yazmeli Ayzol It isn't always warm here, perhaps compared to Canada. It's just that my unit is situated to trap heat. It could easily be 10°c above the outside temperature. And that's after I put a shed in front of the double glazing and a sun umbrella.
Damn! I live in Southwestern Norway, and we use 200 mill all around, but mostly because its the standard up north aswell as here in the south. How far north are you? :o
Feels like an absolute age since the last episode! Glad to get my SBC fix. Almost there on this one, looking forward to seeing some more of the apartment with the asbestos floor tiles.
We most certainly do get below zero in Auckland... but maybe only 3-7 days of the year (as can be noticed by having frost on the grass or car windows some winter mornings)
USD3.60 for a sandwich in a major nz city. So cheap! Interesting stuff on the road blocks (consent) to insulating. Maybe do a video on costs of basic items in NZ too? Like lumber, common sheet goods, insulation, builder grade double pane window?
@@rawiriblundell interesting. its just under nzd$10 for a 2x4x8 (40×90x2400?) in the Seattle area at the moment. Hard to compare dimensional lumber since your standard stuff is treated though I think?
@@AussieInSeattle Yeah, 45 x 90 is the comparative size here. Having a quick look online now, the lowest grade of that (Bunnings, one of our Home Depot/Lowes-alikes) will be H1.2 treated and would cost about NZ$4.74 per lineal metre. But that's Bunnings timber. Bunnings timber is fence fodder :D From memory the better stuff is in the region of $7-8/lineal metre, but none of the trade suppliers (like Placemakers who Scott goes to) list those prices online, so don't quote me too hard on that.
traveled to NZ about 30 years ago, north island is pretty warm, it was your winter, south island was cool or cold, we went skiing. What struck me in the towns was that merchants left their doors open to welcome customers, but it sure left the heat out but they didn't seem to care. Most stores here have double doors (an air lock entry).
Is it just me that thought the insulation being taken out looked good? I wouldn't be surprised if the regulations change in the next few years in NZ. As climates are getting warmer across the globe it's as much about keeping heat out (to reduce the energy need for air conditioning) as it is about preventing heat escaping.
@Grishnakh Boogboi Well if that's the case then you've just proved my point. The houses in the colder part will need heating and the houses in the warmer part will probably need air conditioning. Both require energy and both are affected by the presence of insulation. Fully awake, but thank you for checking.
I know I'm late to comments, but I figured I'd add my un-asked for 2 cents. I live in northern Michigan USA. We get 14 feet of snow and spend most of 3 months below freezing. My house is an old 70yo cottage with a bunch of shoddy additions and remodels. It has terrible insulation. After a couple drafty cold winters I installed my own Bosch Greenstar boiler with baseboard heat. Now I have constant silent warmth. My WORST gas heat bills are under 200 USD. Total cost (self installed) was under 5000 USD. I add insulation as I remodel and get rid of the bad work, but I'd put in good HVAC long before spending any money on wall insulation or new windows.
For other commenters/viewers: you *do not* have to remove all the "cladding" to retrofit insulation in walls. We do it all the time. lookup high density cellulose or high density fiberglass retrofits. There also used to be expanding, pour-in, type foams, but they shrink over time and leave huge gaps. A quick search turned up tons of certified installers: insulmax.co.nz/, www.ecoinsulation.co.nz/Retrofit-Insulation-Renovation/. Also, insulation isn't just for efficiency, but for comfort as others have stated. But possibly even more importantly it's to prevent rot and mildew in the walls. If you have plasterboard only and it's super humid inside, and say 15*C outside and it's 25*C inside, where is the dewpoint and condensing surface? Yep, inside your wood framed wall coated in paper.
i am just looking at insulmax, which lead me to this comment. why don't builders just recommend that type of insulation? is there a real concern about it?
I'm not used to paper houses, since we build with bricks here in EU. Or at least the main support structure. This is just.. Idk. Not my cup of tea. And then you complain about high electricity bills. Like.. make energy efficient houses. This aint it chief.
agreed, its ridiculous. nz has high energy costs but high efficiency housing is very rare. energy costs are so high people just don't use it and put up with cold/heat, which in turn effects their health. most people are very well taught to not use power, just madness.
For what it's worth. Pepper Steak pies from Greenwoods Kitchen at the Epsom shops just on that corner of Manukau Road that sends you toward Royal Oak. Delicious.
Hi Scott, where did you get that staple remover that you used, I have always had problems getting staples out, one end would not come out or it snapped and left a nasty little spike that was razor sharp. I have been looking for something like that for ages
Great solution for retrofitting insulation in outside walls in nz is spray in foam we had it done to our place a few years back and has been an amazing change
@@deepsouthlife8216 The foam they use lets moister pass-thru House is much dry since doing it and the small amount of shrinkage is less than the slump from normal batts I've had some section of one wall of 5 years after and shrinkage was very minimal
Was literally about to comment the same thing after watching that part. Surprised someone else thought the same thing :) Wasn't sure if he wanted to keep it because he said it looked like his first ever hammer!
I renovated my bathroom last year and insulated the walls but didn't use building paper. How long do you think I've got until it starts to show. Christchurch brick house.
