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Maintenance

How to clean exhaust vents

Heating and cooling ducts carry air all around your house, and vents often get dirty as a result of how much air flows through them. Find out if (and how) you need to clean them.

How to measure infiltration and air tightness

Part of establishing how well your home fares in terms of passive design is to establish how 'tight' it is. Learn more about how to test how much air leaks from your home.

Ventilation maintenance

Ventilation maintenance

The cleanliness of your vents can have an impact more than just the performance of you ventilation system; it can also impact upon your health. Cleaning your ventilation system is easy, and could do wonders for you and your home’s health

How to clean heating ducts and vents

Heating ducts carry air all around your house, and vents often get dirty as a result of how much air flows through them. Find out if (and how) you need to clean them.

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Plumbing
What is plumbing?

What is plumbing?

Find out more about what plumbers actually do, why it's important to use a plumber, what kind of work plumbing involves and what plumbing's needed for new homes and renovation projects.

Energy efficiency
Cold water diverter

Cold water diverters

In most plumbing setups, it takes a while for hot water to reach the hot tap when it's turned on. Cold water diverters recycle the cold water which would otherwise pour down the drain in this time.

AV content and media
How to manage content

How to manage content

Choosing systems to manage your content is mostly a matter of figuring out what sort of content you currently have, how you use it, and where you want to have access to it.

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