Green Building - The Greeny Flat Experience

Sept 11, 2014: $10.63 worth of energy in 3 months.

Exciting news at the Greeny Flat experiment this week! We just got our electricity bill for the last three months and the total came to $89.51 which works out to $0.98c/day! And that was for the worst three months of the year (June, July, and August).

If you look at our bill below, on the […]

June 11, 2014: Cintia’s winter

Andrew is away at the moment. In Montana visiting his son Sam and enjoying the summer…

I am here in the Southern Highlands not sure if I can say ‘enjoying’ but living the Winter. As Andrew knows I am ALWAYS cold. I am Brazilian so for you to have an idea… I […]

May 27, 2014: Cool Fridge Wins Energy Star Wars

In the process of moving into the Greeny Flat, Cintia and I decided that we needed to get a new fridge. The one we had been using was an older Fisher and Paykel that we borrowed from a friend and it had icing-up problems. But it also had a 4-Star Energy Rating sticker on the […]

May 23, 2014: Testing the air-tightness

Everyone knows that a leaky or drafty building can be pretty uncomfortable to live in. It can also lose a lot of heat in the winter time and end up being a bit of an energy hog. So a big part of the job of making the Greeny Flat energy efficient was to try to […]

May 19, 2014: First month’s results… VERY promising!

Well we’ve been monitoring the Greeny Flat for almost a month now and the early results are very promising for us to reach the goal of being Energy Positive over a full year. As you’ll see from the following graphs, we’ve already made significantly more power than we’ve used in spite of the fact that […]

Apr 22, 2014: Earth Day marks the start of one year of monitoring

Today is Earth Day which seemed like a fitting occasion to begin monitoring the performance of the Greeny Flat experiment. So for Earth Day next year we’ll host a get-together on site to present the results which will hopefully prove that the Greeny Flat has made more energy that it has used over a full […]

Mar 7, 2014: BASIX is a JOKE!

I was pleased to learn from our local building inspector that we can obtain an Interim Occupancy Certificate (I’ve been lived in Montana for twenty years so I’m still getting reacquainted with how things work here at home). This means that Cintia and I will be able to move into the Greeny Flat as soon […]

Mar 6, 2014: starting on the kitchen

After looking at many different options for pre-manufactured kitchen cabinets we finally decided to do it the old-fashioned way and just build the kitchen ourselves in-situ. We have an old, reclaimed kitchen sink, the kind with a lip at the back that turns up behind the backsplash so that water can’t penetrate the benchtop (like […]

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