Retrofitted Home
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Retrofitted Home
A stone home built in 1950 without passive design features, has been retrofit with solar panels, an evacuated tube solar hot water system, plumbed rainwater to the house, and most recently, the Sola-Mate space heater. The Sola-Mate was seen by the homeowners on the New Inventors, many years ago, and has been installed in August. It heats air flowing through a glass panel on the roof, and a fan pushes the warm air through a medical grade filter and into the home, to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels as heaters. It also works in reverse in summer to expel hot air from the rooms.
Mount Gambier
Mt Gambier
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
Efficient appliances
- Active heating cooling:
- Sola-Mate
- Water heating:
- Solar hot water (evacuated tube)
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above ground storage
Greywater system
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- Rainwater tank
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 6000 litres
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV grid connect
- Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
- $10000
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $1000 per annum
- House Size
- Small
- Number of bedrooms
- 3
- Number of bathrooms
- 1
- Garden / Outdoors
- Worm farm
- Garden / Outdoors
- Edible garden
Composting
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- Retrofit
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