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About Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes
Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes (@carlandconstructions) is a Construction Company creator on Instagram, also filed under Real Estate & Property. The account has 29,750 followers and 901 published posts. Recent posts average 259 likes and 15 comments, an engagement rate of 0.87%.
With 29.8K followers, Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 874 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 34 followers per account Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes follows. Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes under Construction Company, with Real Estate & Property as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes runs to 19 words across 5 lines. The bio mentions @proclimaau. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes dates from January 2026.
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Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes has built a substantial archive of 901 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 33 followers for each post published. Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes also keeps 11 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 214 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include home, build, know, industry and people.
A new build gives you control from day one. A retrofit makes you earn it, especially a double brick 1980s home.
We have almost finished most of the demolition and really there hasn’t been to many surprises (we will get to why that’s the case in a second).
Now the whole idea is to turn this home into one that’s going to perform a lot better than it originally did. There were so many big holes in the existing roof and brickwork that there were rats nests everywhere, and a fair bit of water damage from existing roof leaks. So yeah the bar has been set pretty low.
Now retrofitting CORRECTLY is hard. It requires some complex conversations around thermal, air and moisture movement so we can renovate it correctly. We are using heaps of our learnings from our Rifle Range Passive House, and whilst this house might not be going for certification, we are throwing a fair bit of effort at it to improvement.
But why are there little surprises. Well it’s because our pre construction process is pretty dialled in. We got to know this project very well before we even set foot onsite. We knew insulating it was going to be hard so we spent the time trying to find the most appropriate method. We knew airtightness was almost impossible, even for us, but we knew this project in so much detail that we had thought through most of the problems before we even hit site. Also working with again does make out life a lot easier (Good design partners make hard buildings possible. Simple as that)
The industry steers people toward demolition because retrofits require a level of skill most builders do not have. We are not interested in the easy answer. We want to do the hard thing and prove what is actually possible.
Well, every build is different, and every style of architecture and type of cladding creates its own challenges. But it’s all about protecting the structure and keeping water away from the structure. That’s the number one principle on our projects: send water down and away from the home.
On this project we have and working with cladding.
Like in all of our homes, we make sure our windows and claddings are detailed to deal with water. Why? To give the home the best chance of survival so it can last for multiple generations.
So take a look and let us know what you think
A home built to the minimum standard was never designed to hold heat. The walls are thin. The insulation is average. The gaps are everywhere. The heater runs constantly and the warmth disappears as fast as it is made. And the homes being built right now have exactly the same problem. The standard has not improved. The build quality has not caught up.
The industry will tell you that building better costs more. And upfront it does. But that argument conveniently ignores what poor build quality actually costs - in energy bills every month, in maintenance every year, in a home that is expensive and uncomfortable to live in for the next three decades.
Building to the minimum is not a cost saving. It is a cost transfer. The builder saves money. The homeowner pays for it every single day they live there.
It is time to lift the standard. Not because it is the fashionable thing to do. Because it is the only responsible way to build.
The building industry is drowning in red tape, dodgy operators are getting slaps on the wrist, and good builders are burning out.
We sat down with — Liberal Party’s Shadow Minister for Planning, Building and Construction — to talk about what’s actually broken and what needs to change.
From licensing reforms and apprenticeship lengths, to the $1,000 fix the government refuses to make — this one’s worth a listen, especially if you’re in Victoria.
Also worth noting — we reached out to all parties. David was the only one that took the time to come out and have a chat about this. We will continue to reach out the other parties to understand their position!
🎙️ Episode drops Monday — available on all podcast channels and YouTube. Make sure you tune in.
We still think there are better ways to build. But if you are going to use steel, at least do it properly. Because the way most steel-framed homes are being built right now is not good enough and the people living in them are paying for it every winter.
So here is what properly actually looks like.
Ditch the thermal break strip. It does not move the performance number in any meaningful way and it gives everyone involved a false sense of progress. It is a sticker on a problem that needs a proper fix.
Insulate externally. A continuous layer of insulation on the outside of the frame is the only approach that actually works. It keeps the steel warm, eliminates the thermal bridge, and gets you to a performance number worth having.
Now a word on materials. You can use XPS for that external layer and it will perform thermally. But here is what you need to understand. XPS is essentially vapour impermeable. Once it is on the outside of your frame, moisture cannot move outward through the wall. The wall cannot dry to the outside. That is fine if you are managing internal moisture deliberately. It is a problem if you are not.
Which brings us to the thing nobody mentions at the point of specification. The moment you wrap your building in continuous external insulation and tighten the envelope properly, you have created a wall that cannot breathe outward. Your building is now dependent on controlled ventilation to manage every gram of moisture your family produces - from cooking, from showers, from breathing, from existing.
That means mechanical ventilation is no longer optional. Not a rangehood and a bathroom fan. A properly designed system that brings fresh filtered air in, exhausts stale air out, and recovers the heat before it leaves. Without it, that moisture has nowhere to go except into your wall cavity. And you already know what happens there.
Build it right or do not build it at all.
Five months after installing a whole house filtration system, the state of those filters told us everything we needed to know. Whatever was sitting in our incoming pipes is now sitting in that filter instead of in our glass.
The shift in quality is one of those things that is hard to explain until you experience it. Normal tap water now tastes off. The chlorine is obvious. It is not that the water got worse, it is that your baseline changes and you cannot go back.
We obsess over the air inside a home. Filtration, ventilation, airtightness. The water coming into the building deserves exactly the same level of thought. You are drinking it, cooking with it, and showering in it every single day.
Going all electric felt radical. To most builders it still does.
Eight years ago we had to convince people to go all electric. It was a hard conversation. People were skeptical, uncomfortable, and not ready to let go of gas.
Now it is not even a conversation. It just happens. Nobody pushes back. Nobody asks why. The education got there and the industry followed.
We are watching the exact same thing begin to happen with mechanical ventilation and HRV systems.
The same skepticism.
The same questions.
The same resistance to something that feels unfamiliar. And we know exactly how this ends because we have already lived through it once.
The air in this home is the part nobody talks about until they have experienced it. It does not smell stale. It does not feel recycled. You walk in from outside and something is just different, cleaner, quieter, more settled. Most people cannot name it straight away. They just know the house feels better than any home they have been in before.
That feeling is not accidental. It is the result of a system bringing in fresh filtered air on your terms, recovering the energy from the air it exhausts, and maintaining a quality inside that a standard home simply cannot achieve. No open window. No compromise. Just controlled, clean air all the time.
We talk about this constantly because education is the only thing that moves an industry. It moved electrification from a hard sell to a non-negotiation. It will do the same for mechanical ventilation. It is just a matter of time and conversation.
Your home should work for you, Not against you
Yeah, it’s a little different.
Few years fighting council to allow us to build on this site slowed us down, but we eventually got there. In the end we were able to knock down a shed, that use to be the home of the Yarraville Pigeon Club (hence the now name Pigeon Passive House), and build a new home that is one of the healthiest and most comfortable homes going around!
Anyways, jump on the most recent series of Grand Designs Australia, Season 12, Ep 10 if you want to check out our Episode called Yarraville Pigeon
If you missed it, you can still catch it on ABC iView, episode 10 of Grand Designs Australia
Honestly, we had a ton of fun filming this, and were very keen to get the message out their around the importance of building better, educating the industry but giving people the confidence in an industry that can sometimes be a bit of a minefield to navigate.
The whole idea of our home was to try build Australia’s healthiest home, and we gave it a pretty good crack and after living in it for nearly three months now, we can tell you it’s been a game changer. I really didn’t know what comfort really looked like before this, well I thought I did and it’s been totally flipped on its head.
Anyway, I won’t spoil to much if you have not seen it, but hopefully you can take something positive away from this episode.
PS - huge shout out to the whole Grand Designs Crew - it’s totally not like the block where they try drum up all this drama, and really support and cheer you on to succeed. Never once did we feel like filling was a burden on the project or timeline and super grateful we got to document this part of our lives.
You can turn an old volume built home, constructed in 1993, into a certified Passive House without removing the roof or wall cladding!
Ohhh, and it can look sexy too!
This home demonstrates that we can improve existing houses rather than knocking them down. It’s a home that hopefully gives people the confidence to realise that it’s possible to renovate the millions of homes already in existence and bring them to this level of comfort, and it doesn’t need to break the bank.
This also challenges the notion of what comfort is. It’s not about running a heater to warm up your home; it’s about not needing to, because your home is able to maintain a stable indoor temperature on its own. True comfort is having high-quality indoor air and a consistent, comfortable temperature without the need for excessive energy use.
Maybe comfort is defined as wearing shorts and t shirts in winter and having to convince the kids that they need to put a jacket on when they go outside because it’s cold!
So check out the new issue (it’s a 20th anniversary special) of where you can read all about our Rifle Range Retrofit project plus many other amazing homes that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible!
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Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.87%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 115 followers. An average post collects 259 likes and 15 comments, close to 17 likes for each comment.
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Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes (@carlandconstructions) is a Construction Company creator on Instagram, also filed under Real Estate & Property. Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes runs to 19 words across 5 lines.
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Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes has 29,750 followers on Instagram (29.8K). Set against 874 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 34 followers per account Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes follows. Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes has built a substantial archive of 901 posts.
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Builder | Healthy Spaces | Sustainable Homes's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.87%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 115 followers. An average post collects 259 likes and 15 comments, close to 17 likes for each comment.
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