Buyers guides
A draught sealing buyers guide
Draughts can make your home far less comfortable than it needs to be, particularly in winter. Sealing them up is one of the simplest things to do for an energy-efficient home. Find out where the gaps are and how to fix them in our first-ever draught sealing buyers guide.
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DIY
DIY: All-season vegie shade tent
One reader, Brian Mollan, describes his solution to the problem of summer scorching of his vegies—and it can even be left in place in winter.
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DIY
DIYs for efficiency: Garage insulation and shutters
Kim Wilkinson describes his projects to reduce heat ingress into the house by improving the performance of the common wall between garage and house, and adding shutters to some windows.
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DIY
Digging the No Dig
Growing vegies with increasing summer heat and less rain doesn’t need to be a battle, writes Carmel Killin. A solution can be found in the water-retaining and humus-rich layers of a No Dig bed.
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DIY
DIY: Solar dehydrator
Stephen Palethorpe describes a solar dehydrator construction project.
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DIY
Reduce, reuse, and don’t (always) renovate
Should you reuse a functional but dated kitchen? What do you do with a concrete path removed from your garden? Katie Moon describes how she and her partner Tom Brewer went about upgrading their family home.
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DIY
DIY: Self-watering vertical garden
Margaret Mossakowska shares her simple self-watering system for a vertical garden.
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DIY
Visible mending
Visible mending is easy, fun, gorgeous and keeps old clothes from landfill, writes Kasia Zygmuntowicz.
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DIY
Heating people, not spaces: the advantages of personal heating
How much energy can you save by heating yourself instead of your home? Will you be as comfortable? Dave Southgate describes his personal heating experiment.
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Windows
Doubling up: Secondary glazing case studies
We hear from a variety of householders about their window upgrades using secondary glazing and retrofitted films.
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Solar & batteries
Solar monitoring basics
You don’t have to be a solar monitoring obsessive to get useful information from your solar system. Lance Turner explains the basics of solar monitoring.
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