Our house is based on the Your Home Banksia House designed for Melbourne.
We made some changes to the Banksia design to suit our needs and were still able to come out with a 7.7 star rating.
The house has a ground connected Concrete Slab, brick cladding and double glazed windows throughout, as well as three internal brick walls and ceramic floor tiles for thermal mass to help keep the inside temperature reasonably stable year round.
Our house is all electric with a 6.6Kw solar system and a 13Kw battery. Heat pump for water heating, an induction cook top and electric oven. One 7Kw split system for all our heating and cooling, also ceiling fans, windows and doors allow cross breeze ventilation to aid cooling.
Our block allows us an uninterrupted North aspect making design and orientation easy to take advantage of the winter sun shine for our heating. A large eve to the north over our windows controls the sun entering the home.
We harvest water from the house and shed to meet all our water requirements.
We are very happy with the design and the house works well needing little heating and cooling energy input.
