Mandy Knebel's Journey

Sorry its been so long since my last blog but I have been waiting for this moment! We have council consent! Yay! Sorry about the rubbish pic, I took it of the screen!  It was really quick too and thumbs up to Alice from Rubix Architecture who clearly had all our ducks in a row and all the boxes ticked! So now its all go and for all self builders out there trying to organize their build, I deffinately get how much is involved in doing this now as everyday I have  a list of jobs, decissions or calls to make and then theres the tradies asking me questions....I feel like I am on the Block TV show. Hahaha!  I am married to the builder and even though we have built before, I am new to this project management side of things, not to mention being on the huge learning curve on energy effiecient high performance build. Thank goodness I am so passionate about building this energy efficient home, its my passion that will drive me through this and hopefully sharing this journey will ...

 Sips (Structural insulated panels) and why we chose to build with them! So this is what my blog is about today. What is Sips you may ask.... well it is panels made of rigid insulation between structural facings. Sips can be used for walls floor and roof and depending on what the facings are made of they can be used as the interior finish so you can save on interior cladding! But the big part is the air tightness ability is really good and the R value is superb(R value is a rating which measures how well insulation can resist heat flow) . That is two of the many reasons we picked Sips. This is a picture of Sips that I got of the website so you can get the idea.. Sips is also a very strong structure and has a good spanning ability and has its own bracing, it has  2 to 6 x better insulation than standard build code stick and fluff (timber frame and batts) and yes Sips is a bit more expensive and the reason is because the cheapest panel you can get from Sips get is far more super...