Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a relaxing break. Cintia and I had an amazing four days PHEV-camping down near Ulladulla which included getting soaked in the best thunderstorm I’ve seen for years; a night out on a boat on a lake under a spectacular moonless, starry sky; a ruined trailer tyre […]

In last week’s YouTube Episode about the Energy Retrofit of the old cottage next to the Greeny Flat we were making our way around to the North wall of the house where replacing the windows and installing the new cladding is getting a bit more complicated. For one thing, in this part of the building […]

In last week’s Newsletter I mentioned that Repower‘s fourth investment round was due to open on Monday this week. Well… not only did it open on Monday at 3pm but it was completely filled by Wednesday at 9am. It only took 42 hours to raise the required $139,600 in local, ethical, community investments to fund […]

This week we present Episode 5 in our series of short videos about the Energy Retrofit of the old fibro cottage next to the Greeny Flat. In this episode we are replacing the old single-glazed, double-hung, wood windows with new double-glazed, aluminium, casement windows. It would be nice to use thermally-broken aluminium frames but I […]

This week we present Episode 3 of our series of short videos documenting the process of Energy Retrofitting the old fibro home next to the Greeny Flat. If you haven’t seen them already, you can find Episode 1 here, and Episode 2 here.

In last week’s installment we found rot in some of the timbers […]