Renting in Upper Plenty
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House Notes – Renting in Upper Plenty
This 10 acre rental property is the ideal property to visit IF YOU ARE RENTING. Basically if you want to see what you can do to reduce your outgoings and lessen you foot print then our house is the one you should visit. Situated east of Wallan on the way to Whittlesea it has no garbage collection, no connection to mains water, a thriving food garden, raised garden beds , chickens, solar battery system powering LED and fluorescent lighting and the i-kube mobile solar generator power system powering the 240V power circuits excluding the electric hot water service that is still connected to mains power.
It is situated on the side of a small timbered hill and has fruit, nut and citrus trees, dams, shedding, grey water collection and rainwater harvesting.
Kids and animal are welcome and it will be a fun day for all those that make it.
Bring gumboots if its wet.
Location: Upper Plenty, Melbourne, Victoria
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
Draught proofing
Efficient appliances
Energy monitoring
- Active heating cooling:
- Heat pump
Evaporative
- Active heating cooling:
- slow combution wood heater
- Water heating:
- electric storage
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above ground storage
Greywater system
Blackwater
Low flow shower heads
Low flow taps
Storage connected to
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- concrete
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 30,000 litre
- Storage connected to
- Garden
Toilet
Laundry
Whole house
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Bricks
Concrete
Aggregate
Timber
Windows
- Insulation Type:
- Ceiling
Internal and external walls
- Ceiling Type:
- exposed pine and ceder
- Internal / External Walls Type:
- ceder & plaster
- Energy star rating:
- none
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV off-grid
Energy storage
- Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
- 20000
- House Size
- 3 Bedroom
- Universal Design Features
- Disability access
Multi-generational
Adaptive design
- Number of bedrooms
- 3
- Number of bathrooms
- 2
- Garden / Outdoors
- Drip irrigation
Water wise plants
Edible garden
Organic
Permaculture
Composting
Native plants
Bee keeping
Chickens
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- Continual Improvement
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