Electrify Your House

Our gas to electricity converted house is situated in Beaumaris, Victoria. This home was built in the 1970’s and is mostly original with gas ducted heating throughout and a gas storage hot water system.

To bring this house up to an average star rating of ~3 Stars, we needed to complete some low-cost upgrades to areas of thermal loss and air leakage. This step signifies the importance of a thermally efficient building envelope and even when installing highly efficient appliances, they will not operate efficiently if the thermal envelope cannot assist with maintaining a comfortable temperature.

After making initial, low-cost improvements to achieve an ‘average’ energy star rating of ~3 Stars, we decommissioned all gas appliances and replaced them with high efficiency reverse cycle air conditioners, a heat pump hot water system and added a 6.6kW solar PV system.