Recycle Home
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House Notes – Recycle Home
I have recycled a shipping container into a cool tropical dwelling, all recycled materials except for some fittings and fixings. It is a very simple but effective home. Food gardens, a home engineered solar hot water system with a wood-fired kitchen and a bachelor’s kitchen. Composting toilet, outdoor shower and greywater system, and a fly screen bungalow (Hoochie) as a second dwelling. We use 3KwH of power per day.
SUSTAINABILITY FEATURES
- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
- Passive heating cooling:
- Cross ventilation
External planting
Passive solar designed home
Shading
- Passive heating cooling:
- Floor vents and large screen windows
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
- Active heating cooling:
- Ultra efficient mobile AC (300 w/h)
- Water heating:
- PV thermal
- Water heating:
- Wood fired self pumping copper coil into second hand 50L storage containers, PV thermal with timer and governed by temperature sensitive switch
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Compost toilet
Grey water system
Stormwater management
Low flow taps
Drip irrigation
- Average water consumption per day:
- 0.127kL
- Energy Efficient Lighting
- LED lights throughout
Natural daylight
- Window Protection:
- Louvres
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Roofing, irrigation, furniture, bathroom fittings, framing steal, electrical components, shelving, shower alcove, plumbing
- Sustainable materials:
- Everything reused, recycled, repurposed, brought or foud where possible or existing on-site. Passive cooling design. Recycle all greywater and compost toilet.
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Aggregate
Appliances
Basins/sinks
Bath
Benchtops
Decking
Excavated earth
House - all materials reused
Floorboards
Light fixtures / fittings
Metal sheeting
Paving
Shipping container
Steel frame
Tapware
Timber
Toilet
Windows
- Insulation Type:
- Under-roof
- Under Roof Insulation Type:
- fiberglass mat w reflective paper and second roof with air gap and vents
- Under Roof Insulation Rating:
- R2.5
- All-Electric Home?
- No
- Average Daily Energy Consumption:
- 3kWh
- Total cost of home when constructed:
- $20,000
- Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
- $5,000
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $810
- House Size
- 10m2
- BAL Rating
- BAL – Low: There is insufficient risk to warrant specific construction requirements
- Roof
- Insulated panel (sandwich panels)
- Wall Materials
- Lightweight construction (steel frame)
- Window and Door Types
- Louvre windows
- Universal design accessability
- Adaptive design
- Number of bedrooms
- 1
- Number of bathrooms
- 1
- Garden / Outdoors
- Bee keeping
Composting
Drip irrigation
Edible garden
Frog friendly
Local indigenous plants
Orchard
Organic
Permaculture
Native plants
Wicking beds
- 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
Waste free/reduced construction site
- Healthy home features
- Chemical free cleaning products used
Cross flow ventilation
- Housing Type:
- Tiny Home - Fixed
- Project Type:
- Continual Improvement
- Open with support of
- ECNT / COOLmob
- Builder
- Home-owner
- Designer
- Home-owner
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