Insulation

I might have mentioned the some house specialities already. This time, I want to spend some time telling you something about NZ house insulation.

Basically, most of the houses don't have any. When it is cold outside, it is cold inside - at least, this is my personal experience. Our house seems to be a special case of this rule:

• cold outside = cold inside
• warm outside = cold inside
  

Anyways. The biggest problem about that was one glass part (we stopped calling it window) in the kitchen. It is basically 3 glass plates that can be tilted. If the non-window is closed, the plates overlap a little bit. But basically the wind comes through and it gets cold in the evenings.


Our plan
We wanted to do something about it. So we took a yellow blanket and put it over the glass thingy. The blanket was moving about 20 cm back and forth because of the wind. So it did not help too much.
We even went to TheWarehouse to buy some plastic to stick onto the glass, but they did not have what we searched for.




So if we don't get professional plastic foil, why not take plastic bags?
We have a lot of not used shopping bags!

Said and done. We stuffed all our plastic bags into the chinks. And there it is: our own private insulation! Looks crappy from the outside, but quite nice from the inside :-)