In the last few years this building has undergone a significant change, from all gas and fairly inefficient, to all electric and fairly efficient.
As we are passionate about home efficiency and sustainability, we could see the potential in this home from the beginning and knew that conversion to electric would be fairly straight forward.
Our first step was to install a lot of solar. Then halogen downlights were replaced with LEDs, blow in wall and underfloor insulation was added, gas ducted heating was swapped for reverse cycle and the evaporative cooler was removed. The hot water was converted to a heat pump, and the cooktop to induction. All this was done in just a few days and the benefits were immediately noticeable.
The home is an ongoing experiment, with a range of approaches to draught proofing and other efficiency measures being trialed.
