by Lyn Beinat | Oct 28, 2019 | Draught Stopper, ecoMaster Home, Energy Efficiency, Thermal Efficiency
Replacement Cooktop When we came here, this was an electric cooktop. We did change it for a gas one that runs on LPG. This has been here quite a long time now, and it is slated for replacement. LPG or piped gas is not sustainable and not great in terms of greenhouse...
by Lyn Beinat | Oct 28, 2019 | Draught Stopper, ecoMaster Home, Energy Efficiency, Thermal Efficiency
Awning Window Treatments Well as you can see, these are the kitchen window. We have a few things going on here. Firstly, as well as developing ecoGlaze (secondary glazing) in this home, we do continually test other things, and on this window, we’re testing one of the...
by Lyn Beinat | Oct 25, 2019 | ecoMaster Home, Energy Efficiency, Thermal Efficiency
Panel LED, Painted Ceiling & Solarventi Outlet Sometimes things are done for aesthetic reasons and others are done for energy reasons. So above us, we’ve got these LED panels which we use to replace the previous energy-intensive lighting. When these panels came,...
by Lyn Beinat | Oct 25, 2019 | ecoMaster Home, Energy Efficiency, Utility Bills
Suspended Drying Rack One of the things that are reasonably challenging here in the Macedon Ranges in the wintertime is how to dry your washing. We don’t like to use the dryer, so here’s something that we really love. A drying rack! Now because we’ve got a really high...
by Lyn Beinat | Oct 21, 2019 | ecoMaster Home, Energy Efficiency, Thermal Efficiency
Stainless Flue Hot Water Heating In the early days here, one of the first things that we did was we decommissioned the two central gas-fired heating systems. Now, because we live in the countryside, it was LPG. It was really expensive to run and not very helpful...
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