Ideas for your Home

Start

Start a vegetable garden and plant some fruit trees – turn your food miles into food metres and taste the difference.  Canberra’s Sustainable House showcases sustainable kitchen gardening.

Heat

Heat your water with sunlight.  Solar hot water will save you big dollars.  Your Grand children will thank you.

Replace

Replace the high energy use appliances with efficient, low energy models.

Insulate

Insulation will help make your house comfortable, cooler in summer and  warmer in winter.  Canberra’s Sustainable House can assist you in the selection of products that best suit your needs.  Installation is key, so contact us to ensure that the work is done safely and effectively.

Install

Install water tanks to reduce your the amount of water you take from our rivers and keep your garden alive. Better to harvest and release water on site than enlarge dams and pump more water from our ailing rivers. Tanks come in many shapes, sizes and materials. Canberra’s Sustainable House is well positioned to advise you on plumbing design, tank location, pump and efficient irrigation systems.

Generate and Create

Install a solar electricity array on your roof. This will generate some or all of your electricity from the sun. Create, but avoid selling your Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) if you can avoid it. Canberra’s Sustainable House provides an advisory service to make sure you end up with a good installation. Tour Canberra’s Sustainable House and view our integrated solar system – the roof is our power station.

Renovate Responsibly

Look after the your  health and those around you. Be aware of the potentially toxic and carcinogenic building materials that exist in your home. Asbestos kills, so do lead based paints.

Reuse building materials to reduce embodied energy. Canberra’s Sustainable House provides a Sustainable Renovation Advisory Service to assist you with passive solar construction, ensuring you have a comfortable low energy addition to your home.

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