4 Sep 12 9:08 AM

$200,000 profit from a $220,000 section? Not likely I'm afraid. Subdivision of land is very rarely a permitted activity which means a resource consent is required. This means you need a planning repo......read more

12 Jun 12 1:44 PM

You're a brave man using fibreglass batts. I've given up on them entirely after using polyester just the once. I'm not sure that having a little bit of water vapour coming up through building wrap wou......read more

12 Jun 12 9:55 AM

Most of the underfloor insulation that is available seems to have an R-value of only around 1.4 or so. I would have thought it would make sense to fill the whole space below the floor to the bottom of......read more

17 May 12 9:45 AM

I am interested in installing something like the airfoil product under our house. At the moment we have Expol put in by the previous owner but it isn't fitted very well and doesn't seem to do a very g......read more

15 May 12 1:14 PM

As always things seem to have deteriorated into a debate about aluminium versus uPVC. In my case, there isn't a company locally that takes responsibility for the whole process with uPVC and given the ......read more

11 May 12 2:25 PM

I prefer the look of the rylock stuff and the larger sections they use seem to be stiffer. It doesn't seem that the plastic break material is actually bonded in as such then but moulded in instead. I ......read more

11 May 12 9:17 AM

Hi All, We are looking at getting thermally broken aluminium windows retrofitted and have come across two different options. Rylock use a system where the thermal break is crimped into the aluminium s......read more