Building Advice
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Curious about energy efficient homes?
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Too hot in summer - too cold in winter?
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Building a new home or extending?
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Buying your next home?
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Renovating?
Come and talk with us before your project starts, and if you have already begun there's still plenty of help we can offer.
In 2015, Kathy "owner built" an 8 star off-grid passive home and uses that to help demonstrate energy-efficient principles first hand! She project-managed trades and material purchases, researched and selected the features, materials and construction methods that make this home perform as well as it does.
The home can see:-
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uses 3/4's * less energy than other homes
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maintains a winter temp of 16 or more (no heating)
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maintains a summer temp of 26 or less (no cooling)
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an extensive range of passive and sustainable building features
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runs totally on solar (with off-grid battery storage)
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cost under $1800/m2 to build including off-grid solar, water & septic.
Come and visit! We'll share our knowledge while you experience a bunch of energy-saving features first hand.
* Sourced from AER benchmark data for homes in areas with a postcode of 5052, 5152 and 5157, with 2 to 4 people, no pool, no mains gas, giving consumption comparison of 16 – 22 kWh per day.