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I like the old double brick

By the looks it's only single ??

In which case what's that like for insulation compared to a double brick with insulation inbetween

Or stud and insulation between Brick and gyprock

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I like the old double brick

By the looks it's only single ??

In which case what's that like for insulation compared to a double brick with insulation inbetween

Or stud and insulation between Brick and gyprock

All double external walls like arron said.. the red ones are cheaper big internal bricks that get plastered over. . The white ones are the face bricks on the outside you actually see

They used to rarely have insulation in the cavity but we just got some new energy ratings in the code I think a few years back which means they have to have certain directions walls with insulation in the cavity etc. Friends built a few years ago and had to do it all.

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North face pic shows the insulation. It's about 1cm thick from a quick look I had at the roll

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It's about 1cm thick from a quick look I had at the roll

we had similar laid underneath the roofing material, impressive stuff for the thickness of it.

we had insulfluff (a woolly loose substance) on top of the ceiling, which was about 60 to 70cm deep and abolute filth if you had to get up into the ceiling space/roof cavity.

removed it when we had our reno (cos new ceiling and roof)

The thin foam stuff performs as good or better than the filthy fluffy crap!

Just going by our comfort level inside the house and how infrequently we need to use the aircon.

and bonus that the ceiling cavity is free of filthy fluff.

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In Straya insulation is for sissies. Pretty sure that's where they get that name from?

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So you have no insulation now on the ceiling just the sisalation under the roof?

No, it is insulation, I stuck the leftover on my tilt panel door.

It's black, gets the sun on it from about 2 till 5 in the arvo.

Before I put the insulation on, you could not touch the inside of the door when the sun was on it.

now it is barley warm to touch

and as far as insulation in the ceiling goes, we don't heat our home (ever) cos min temp here in winter is a freezing 15 degrees

and its only hot air that rises.

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