Charley’s Home 2024

House Notes – Charley’s Home

Come and visit Charley’s home and gardens; we have the following house features for discussion:

  • Solar panels provide low-cost electricity
  • LED/energy efficient lights replacing conventional globes
  • Roof insulation making the home more efficient
  • Re-glazed and draught-proofed sash windows provide enhanced insulation
  • Water tanks provide for all water requirements throughout the house, including drinking water
  • Grey water filtration bed capturing shower water

In the garden:

  • A greywater filtration system feeds the garden beds
  • Water features helps increase the frog population (and reduce slugs further) and log piles, drilled logs and other habitats increase local wildlife.
  • Recycled timber from railway bridges and sleepers is used for the deck and raised garden beds
  • Worm farms compost all vegetable waste from the kitchen
  • Zero-artificial-inputs garden
  • Ducks for pest control and manure for fertiliser
  • Deep mulch for water retention
  • 9 native bee hives
  • Raised vegetable beds
  • Fruit trees – apples, apricots, mango, sharen fruit, lemons, oranges, limes, bananas
  • Berry canes

 

Sustainability Features

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2024
ENERGY AND WATER EFFICIENT FEATURES
    • Energy efficiency:
    • Draught proofing
      Efficient lighting
      Efficient appliances
    • Passive heating cooling:
    • Cross ventilation
      Deciduous planting around house
      External planting
      Shading
    • Active heating cooling:
    • Ceiling fans
      Hydronic
    • Water heating:
    • Currenlty gas fired; moving to solar shortly
    • Water harvesting and saving features:
    • Rainwater storage - Above ground
      Grey water system
      Stormwater management
      Drip irrigation
    • Average water consumption per day:
    • 100L
    • Above ground rainwater storage Type:
    • Tanks x2
    • Above ground rainwater storage Size
    • 2750L each
    • Energy Efficient Lighting
    • LED lights throughout
      Natural daylight
      Skylight
    • Window Protection:
    • Blinds
      Deciduous tree/vegetation
      Drapes/curtains
SUSTAINABLE & RECYCLED MATERIALS
    • Sustainable materials:
    • Timber, bricks, doors have been recycled; garden is designed using permaculture principles
    • Recycled and reused materials:
    • Bricks
      Doors
      Sleepers
      Timber
INSULATION SPECIFICATIONS
    • Insulation Type:
    • Ceiling
    • Ceiling Type:
    • Wool insulation 25cm deep
    • Ceiling Rating:
    • N/A
RENEWABLE ENERGY SPECIFICATIONS
    • All-Electric Home?
    • No
    • Renewable energy used:
    • Solar PV grid connect
    • Size of PV system:
    • 15kW
    • Average Daily Energy Consumption:
    • 2.8
COSTS AND COST SAVINGS
    • Total cost of home when constructed:
    • Built in 1911 so not sure of the cost
    • Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
    • $50,000
    • Estimate of annual savings:
    • $2000 p.a. in reduced power and water consumption
HOUSE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS
    • House Size
    • 140m2
    • Roof
    • We have a mix of slate, Colourbond and a green roof on the shed
    • Wall Materials
    • Double brick
    • Window and Door Types
    • Sash windows re-glazed with V-lam Hush glass (laminated) with draft excluders routed into the frames
    • Universal design accessability
    • Adaptive design
    • Number of bedrooms
    • 3
    • Number of bathrooms
    • 1
GARDEN AND WASTE REDUCTION
    • Garden / Outdoors
    • Ducks for pest reduction
    • Garden / Outdoors
    • Bee keeping
      Bee hotels/friendly
      Composting
      Drip irrigation
      Edible garden
      Frog friendly
      Green roof
      Local indigenous plants
      Organic
      Permaculture
      Native plants
      Swales
      Water wise plants
      Worm farm

    • Waste Reduction Practices:
    • Compost all food scraps
      Make jams/conserves
      Pickle and preserve food
      Recycle
      Repair
      Take own containers to the supermarket and for take away food
      Swap with friends and neighbours
HEALTHY HOME FEATURES
    • Healthy home features
    • Low VOC paints/sealer/varnish
Location
St Peters NSW 2044
    • Housing Type:
    • Standalone House
    • Project Type:
    • Continual Improvement

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