Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 11Jul 12, 2010 11:22 pm Well a different opinion, your house sounds exactly like our house wouldn't be Country Builders would it? I've found the raking ceilings (since it's insulated between the ceiling and roof) seems to hold the heat pretty well and probably retains more warmth, albeit it's warmer up the top (your ceiling fans will come into play there, we didn't install any when building we thought we'd see how it went and do it later if need be). I find the heat from the wood fire seems to warm the whole house well enough, sure it never gets over warm but it gets to a max of 25deg in the main area and cooler in the bedrooms probably 17 or 18 I guess. At the moment we're not using the "adults" wing, the kids are young so we're sleeping in the kids wing. I've fitted a curtain across the home theatre entry which blocks off that wing of the house and even thought the curtain is just a thin bed sheet I've noticed it stops a significant amount of heat from going through! Our floors are tiles and just the bedrooms and office have carpets. In summer the place seemed to stay cool enough not to need air conditioning, apart from maybe a couple of the hottest days we had, but keep in mind that we didn't have any curtains or blinds back then either, I think it will help come next summer. The same for the heating, wooden venetians we have now help retain more heat although I imagine we would still loose a fair bit through the kitchen window and the big glass doors which are as is. I think that was my biggest worry building such a big house, weather it would heat up well enough, and yes I'm very happy with the result. I guess we could always shut off both wings and just keep the main area heated if we were desperate. Lol the bathroom is the coldest place because I keep the door shut and the window a bit open for ventilation, ad a fan when the light is on and it's not the warmest place to shower, but after a nice hot shower it's not that bad! Lol I don't want all the heat sucked out of my house by the exhaust fan! Anything like this? Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 12Jul 12, 2010 11:35 pm Hi Pebble, Thanks for all that info. Did you get that awesome fireplace from jetmaster. We are going to look into it this week. They are designed to heat up areas with high ceilings. We have 5 acres so not going to be too short on firewood. I think we will be like you for a while and only use one end of the house as we don't have children........yet and when we do we will make office into baby room. Just wanted to look at options before we do the big sign
We will have wraparound verandahs so the summer sun wont be soooooo bad. I think it will be suck and see for the first winter/summer then make a decision. But if we go for floor heating $$$, we have to make decision soon Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 13Jul 12, 2010 11:36 pm Sorry, didnt see pic before but yes very similar to that Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 14Jul 13, 2010 10:07 am Even though it's not WACB it certainly sounds very very similar. I'm not having any more children but I thought of the office the same way, it would have been a nice potential baby room! The heater is a "Ned Kelly" brand, we actually got it shipped from BBQ's Galore in Victoria believe it or not, it wasn't hugely expensive either. My Husband really liked the style (supposed to look like Ned's helmet thingo). We took the back shield off so more heat radiates out. The others I liked for the style were Scandia or something like that and hugely expensive. Sounds like we've both got very similar ideas, we scrapped the car garage and that pretty much paid for a nice alfresco type area out back and verandah's all the way around. The front faces North and does get the morning sun in the winter but not so much in the summer. We didn't change a lot other than that apart from the windows and doors. Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 15Jul 13, 2010 11:52 am I can testify that Pebble is not exaggerating when she said even a thin "curtain" locks in quite a bit of the heat into the main living area. We visited just a couple of weeks ago and it was one thing hubby and I both remarked on when we got home. It was amazing the difference between the two areas. The house across from us with raked ceilings has just had handover and I notice they've got for reverse cycle aircon but I also notice they've had a hearth installed. So I'm assuming they'll be having a woodfire as well. Those reverse ceiling fans work well for keeping the heat closer to the floor. Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 16Jul 13, 2010 7:28 pm Pebble, same builder as yours but the Perth company.........u did guess right. Can't find too much about them on here except you and kexkez. Don't know how much different ours will be here in Perth as far as the build goes but will find out soon enough. We are going in for another appointment tomorrow to clarify on a few things. Anyhow, about the heat/cool thing.....You have made me feel more optimistic that it wont be so bad once wood fire is in. We will definitely be getting blinds and maybe some pelmets. kexkez I can testify that Pebble is not exaggerating when she said even a thin "curtain" locks in quite a bit of the heat into the main living area. We visited just a couple of weeks ago and it was one thing hubby and I both remarked on when we got home. It was amazing the difference between the two areas. The house across from us with raked ceilings has just had handover and I notice they've got for reverse cycle aircon but I also notice they've had a hearth installed. So I'm assuming they'll be having a woodfire as well. Those reverse ceiling fans work well for keeping the heat closer to the floor. Kexkez, have your neighbours got raked from the front to the back (if u know what I mean) and if they do, did they just put 1 rc aircon in on one side. And yes, will have to look at those ceiling fans..............just another one to add to the list. Gosh, this building is hard work and we haven't even started yet Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 17Jul 13, 2010 7:55 pm thirsty they've gone for the full on ducted dailken type not a little unit thingy. The raked ceiling is just in their main living area They haven't moved in yet as their having wood flooring installed atm Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 18Jul 15, 2010 2:50 pm Since our house has gone up I know that particular building company has built probably at least 3 or 4 more homes around this town, unfortunately I don't know any of those people personally so can't say how good or bad their experiences might have been compared to ours. Kex, in the week after you visited I experimented a bit and left the curtain open during the day, it did help in heating this end of the house and to me didn't seem that detrimental to how warm the lounge was. I guess the main reason for the curtain is to get more of the heat to go towards the other bedrooms instead, well that's the theory anyway. Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 19Jul 15, 2010 8:30 pm thirsty, JayW often posts on here. He's the JayW associated with the Rural end of the company. Don't think there are many others on here building with them or at least who are willing to say they are/did. Re: Raking Ceilings - How to heat/cool 20Jul 16, 2010 4:24 am kexkez thirsty, JayW often posts on here. He's the JayW associated with the Rural end of the company. Don't think there are many others on here building with them or at least who are willing to say they are/did. Our first appointment was with him. He really is a nice bloke.....Well.. he won us over. We signed up for PPA yesterday. Thats probably why Im awake at this time of the morning. Very scary stuff. We talked to our sales consultant about the aircon too, and he said there were other options that others have done with raking ceilings (hopefully hubby remembers cos I cant) We will need to see aircon dudes pretty soon about it. Well, wish us luck. Hopefully I sleep between now and prestart Shade the brick with large eves. 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