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Well Done for the turn around Red Stag Timber

Rock wool wins. 🇨🇦 Recycling the product at 5:36 would be a nightmare when a house needs to torn down. Thank you.

Yes! Finally! Someone using the metric system!

Are they on the exchange?

Timber Mill in Victoria Geelong has this setup .

Someone needs to tell this dude to put his hands down when he talks... And seeing the staff red stag have on the floor it's no surprise they can never get the gauge consistent..even though they have calibrated machines doing the job. Redstag timber is subpar at best

Great video josh. Yes availability is a factor. Personally my perfence is the terra Lena wool blend insulation as it's moisture resistant, fire resistant and breathable. It's nice and easy to work with along with being made from wool offcuts and holds its shape. Pink batts are ok but from my experience they don't breathe as well as wool blend

Narrow hallways annoy me…just saying…claustrophobic feeling.Give me historical grandeur!!!

Hey mate, great channel! I'm currently working on my first duplex project and have learned a lot from your stuff!

I wark at waiph mill in the 80s

what about the lovely insul fluff ? its by far the worst insulation to work with!!

grate stuff!

Definitely no heart wood coming out of those matchsticks treated sapwood

Those R values you quoted are imperial numbers for the USA market, pink batts is upto around R2.8 for 90mm thickness, there is also Polyisocyanurate (or PIR) boards, the highest performer per mm of thickness, good for raked/cathedral ceilings where rafter depth is usually insufficient to fit the required batts, also, as the rafters are not straight or square you will have to deal with any gaps. XPS polystyrene is extruded, only slight better thermal performance than EPS, plus you dont have al those beads blowing around as you mentioned. EPS is about the same thermal performance as batts per mm of thickness. SIP panels only have mediocre thermal performance if using EPS (most commonly used matreial), very good video otherwise - Building energy assessor

What is the Cancer rate of the people living in these homes?

Love this. You're a great presenter too!

Good job sir❤

Wow this is big house sir for 100 sq meters

I've recently did ceiling insulation (rodney area). My father was around and he's an inspector up in northeastern europe. Here's his observations: 1. fiberglass isn't used anymore. 2. rockwool everywhere (my installer didn't have that as an option). 3. plastic film is needed so that humidity from home isn't absorbed into insulation. Bonus - we went to see friends house being built. Same as you said - up in europe they use rigid insulation for walls. Can't remember why exactly why. Maybe because it was easier to handle.

NZs rigged housing market, industry, building code etc. Common sense is optional

Next would be the GIB, why is it called GIB and why are they dominating the market, same with Pink Batts.

Having moved to NZ from the UK, I’m still surprised that PIR/foam board insulation isn’t more common. The R values are super high for the thickness of the material, but sadly, I think the small market and cost means it’s still a niche product.

Good overview. I went through the exercise of adding insulation to my large 1977 home a couple of years ago. It already had pink batts in the ceiling and walls but nothing underfloor. I have another property which has the polystyrene underfloor and went away from using it because of the installation mess you mention, and despite the Expol concertina system they still have to have clips to hold them in place and I'd had the odd one I'd had to refix. I'd also seen the sag issue with batts so in the end went with the Mammoth recycled polyester. I did have to figure out how many bales of each of the widths I'd need based on the floor joist spacings, and had to cut many of them to length which was easy with a sharp bread knife but they press into and stay in place well as long as cut to the right size and it is a pretty clean job. The underfloor ones have held themselves in place securely since without the need for any clips etc. In the ceiling I used 200mm R3.2 Ceiling Blanket which came in a roll and was relatively easy to lay out over the top of the batts and between the trusses. It was also easy enough to cut with a bread knife. The house has a noticeably different heat characteristic and is much more comfortable both summer and winter now. The basement became a fridge because the heat wasn't radiating through the floor, and upstairs three days after installing it the floor warmed up underfoot. Most interesting and worthwhile.

I’ve done a number of home renovations…every time I’ve removed the drywall the batts have been black with mold. Horrible horrible product! But in NZ we will always go for the cheapest nastiest product. Fletchers has the NZ market brainwashed! Im advocate of PIR foam and while it offgasses in the beginning it stops and becomes inert in a matter of days and will remain hydrophobic and is also a much better insulator which = a much healthier home

I recommend knopped blown in wool for you ceilings. Its a combination of sheep and lama, cost effective and clean. We notice the difference between glasswool and natural wool. Sheep wool doesn't create dust coming down (we have a 1910 build with original art deco ceilings) and so far it's rat free, something I can't say from glasswool (pink batts turned yellow from 10 year rat pee). We fumigated and sprayed all timbers with borer bash top to bottom before re-insulating. Our ceiling is 107m², 57m² has R3.6 polyester insulation + 150mm R3.0 wool knopp insulation, the remainder 50m² only has 150mm R3.0 wool knopp insulation. R6.6 over the livingroom kitchen and hallway, R3.0 over the bedrooms. We are in the process of installing R3.0 underfloor retrofit with rigid glasswool sheets and R2+ in the walls, incl internal walls, when we renovate room by room. When we bought the house it was on its original totare stumps, now the house is a minimum of 600mm of the ground. This not only save against damp but also woodworm and rot. Make informative choices, hopefully you only have to do this once (per house😅)

Because of the buildings material cartel that won't let superior solutions into the market?

I didn't think pink batts was the go to in NZ anymore, most construction sites I see now use knauf earth wool insulation, another glass fibre product, I found it to be less itchy then pink batts and Bradford gold. But it's unfortunate that rockwool and similar steel slag products are absent from the NZ market.

The Native New Zealand Pink Batt.

These videos are super helpful!

I'm going to build a house in Amberley, north of Christchurch. In addition to Pink Batts, my architect has recommended Kooltherm K5 phenolic insulation boards between the timber framing and the outer cladding. The phenolic foam adds about R2.2, and also avoids thermal bridging through the framing timber.

Because LGBT friendly!!

Why? Because it’s gay.

Wow. Fantastic idea. Looks great. However it's lining with plastics! Sunday Show last year highlighted incredibly high VOC gases in New builds. Essentially toxic NZ homes full of harmful plastics causing high asthma rates etc.. can see this product lining well ventilated work spaces, garages, etc

I am a carpenter and I will not cut, I do totally refuse to cut any chemically treated wood because during cutting by breathing in the ‘fine sawdust’ into the lungs has toxic chemicals in the wood.

is that model reliable?

What do you expect from a bunch of Wallys

Damn, thats ugly and screams of greed. One way to make money if you have no sense of community or self pride, I guess.

We've got that pink lumber here to it's probably some sort of treatment to either last longer or repell bug's!!!

No termites and no snakes... sounds perfect... and to top it off you've got the "How to Dad" guy. 👍👍👍

All the more reason to build with 3D printers - bug and vermin proof.

Brave man building in Upper Hutt, how much gear you get stolen???? Stokes Valley way nicer place to build. Lol

Thank you for sharing your build. I hope your neighbor above you still has a view of the mountain.

Silly this is panther wood.

It's pink gray pride month

No Termite? That is hard to believe, and I did not know that. I guess NZ has lots of fungus to break down dead trees.

Haha, I thought that I was the only one doing that, except mine are green from Rit dye that is included in the mix. Soaked in Borax and dyed green so that I can be able to tell the difference between the ones that are treated and the ones that are not treated.

Because it's painted pink

Stop building with wood. No more rot, Especially Exterior sidings. Use durarock, basically concrete siding that’s looks like wood.

Is the council will do a inspection after installation insulation on exterior walls?

Love this video good insight for what I want to do in the future and how my manifestations will come to light haha, thanks heaps!