Browse Forums Building A New House Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 41Aug 04, 2009 8:47 pm That is the first thing we look at from the street Onc_Artisan Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 42Aug 05, 2009 7:33 am We had 1 whirly + 4 eve vents as standard in our house and we've added a 2nd as it's a large house. Getting Evening Haze as the roof colour. Built Liberty 42 - Handover 26th Feb 2010 forum thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17243 Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 43Aug 05, 2009 11:00 am Nightshade We had 1 whirly + 4 eve vents as standard in our house and we've added a 2nd as it's a large house. Getting Evening Haze as the roof colour. Sucking hot air out of your roof space doesn't make your living room cooler. Sucking hot air out of your living room makes the house cooler. Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 45Aug 05, 2009 2:34 pm dymonite69 Sucking hot air out of your roof space doesn't make your living room cooler. Sucking hot air out of your living room makes the house cooler. Choice had an article about them many years ago and I think that's pretty much what they said. Useful in specific circumstances such as if you have a raked ceiling and can have the whirlybird ventilating the room but otherwise their benefit is negligible. Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 46Aug 05, 2009 3:47 pm Just in case anyone missed my comment about extracting water vapour from a roof space... I suggested it was important if you have bathrooms ...that the extraction from the room should not be exited into the roof space , ...but free-to-air outside the roof space. I didn't mention anything about heatgain or loss , my primary goal was to reduce moisture ingress into the ceiling insulation and thereby reducing the likelyhood of moldy bathrooms as I said, this is with my waterproofing hat on 20+years as a sole trader Onc_Artisan Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 47Aug 05, 2009 4:35 pm onc_artisan my primary goal was to reduce moisture ingress into the ceiling insulation and thereby reducing the likelyhood of moldy bathrooms Is that mouldy bathrooms or mouldy insulation? Moisture also accumulates in the house because of cold surfaces. Good insulation reduces cold surfaces, which reduces condensation, which reduces moisture, which reduces mould. Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 48Aug 05, 2009 4:38 pm Got a couple of Eco-vents that open only when roof space temp goes over 35 degs. Said to be much better than whirlies. Chris My father rode a camel, I drive a car, my son flies in a jetliner, his son will ride a camel.Saudi saying Re: who has installed a whirlybird to their roof? 49Aug 05, 2009 4:48 pm Dymo in my example the 2 are the same(at least, mouldy insulation will lead to a mouldy Bathroom), what you're talking about and what I recommended are 2 different things kristofw Got a couple of Eco-vents that open only when roof space temp goes over 35 degs. Said to be much better than whirlies. Chris I would too if we had a roof space larger that 140mm... the bathrooms will be ducted out Onc_Artisan PS I could just Moderate and say nothing, it would be easier Where you are coming from is where you are going to... The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 16120 I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 15850 4 14854 |