REC’s What do you do?

 When we started on this journey of sustainable renovation one of the first things we did was to replace the electricity hungry hot water system with a Siddons heat pump system which has cut our hot water costs by a large amount. We received a $1000 rebate from the Federal Government and we had 30 [...]

Hot Water Service (Whats hot and whats not)

Having the correct hot water service installed can cut your electricity use down significantly. When we bought the house it had an electric hot water service as do most houses in Tasmania.

original electric hot water

Natural gas supply is very limited at the moment and bottled gas is the next best but very expensive.
Originally we started [...]