Homepatch 2025

Homepatch

For us, Sustainability is about energy efficiency, but also about how we live, and includes our Permaculture garden, waste and reuse systems and how we interact with our local community. What began as a typical inefficient 1970’s house has now achieved a 10 star Residential Efficiency Scorecard rating due to a steady process of upgrading it over the last 15 or so years.

We’ve upgraded or added ceiling, wall and underfloor insulation, draught proofed a bunch of previously leaky parts of the house, added a range of secondary and double glazing options, upgraded window treatments, installed Solar PV, Heat Pump hot water, and replaced old gas heating and cooling appliances with individual reverse cycle air conditioners. In the last year we upgraded our cooktop to Induction, abolished our gas meter, and purchased a second hand EV which we mainly charge from home.

We grow a lot of food and have lots of great Permaculture systems happening in our home and garden.