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Today we’ve done a DIY air tightness test. Which looks like this
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So basically we’ve borrowed a fan out of someone car and fitted it into a window. That pressurise the house. Then we walked around it with a couple of joss sticks and find where the air is coming in. We’re relatively pleased with the results. A couple of areas where we can improve. Mostly in the attic. Which is good. Because we can still get on and plasterboard now we’ve done that. We’ll have to have a proper air tightness test done at the end of the build. But hopefully after doing our DIY version we won’t find anything horrendous during the proper test, which would result in having to take plasterboard off again and other damned inconvenient & expensive jobs like that.
We’ll do another DIY test after we’ve done the improvements. Which is just putting a lot more airtight tape around things.
So basically we’ve borrowed a fan out of someone car and fitted it into a window. That pressurise the house. Then we walked around it with a couple of joss sticks and find where the air is coming in. We’re relatively pleased with the results. A couple of areas where we can improve. Mostly in the attic. Which is good. Because we can still get on and plasterboard now we’ve done that. We’ll have to have a proper air tightness test done at the end of the build. But hopefully after doing our DIY version we won’t find anything horrendous during the proper test, which would result in having to take plasterboard off again and other damned inconvenient & expensive jobs like that.
We’ll do another DIY test after we’ve done the improvements. Which is just putting a lot more airtight tape around things.
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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