You can enjoy underfloor heating and cooling if you are renovating or building with suspended floors. Use a heat pump as the heat source to have reverse cycle cooling in summer as well. This will absorb heat from your home and expel it outside in reverse cycle mode. You can apply most types of floor coverings over your underfloor heating circuits including tiles timber boards and loose weave carpet.
Consider adding a larger heat pump buffer tank or thermal battery to increase the internal mass of your home for greater thermal storage. This will help moderate the extremes of your indoor temperatures, reduce your power consumption for heating and cooling and maximise your solar power during the day.
This climate zone is ideally suited to solar powered hydronic heat pumps. This an efficient and effective way of heating and cooling your new home
Heat Pump Water Heaters use about one quarter of the power of an electric element water heater. They are an ideal appliance to use with your solar power because you can time them to run during the day. They act like a battery storing thermal energy to use 24/7.
Choose the best air conditioning system for your home. Options are: Split, Multi Split, Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF), Energy Recovery or Ducted systems. All can be WIFI connected to operate on your electronic devices.
Understanding the power demand of your home appliances, and timing some of them to run during the day when you are producing power, will reduce your power bills. This BLOG explores ways to reduce your power demand from the grid.
Homes built years ago were not designed for efficiency and so they leaked air everywhere. Modern homes with 6+ Star rating are much more air tight and require ventilation systems to keep a fresh feel inside without needing open windows in winter and summer. Air leaks and open windows can account for a quarter of your energy costs. This BLOG explores HRV and ERV ventilation systems available.
Heat pumps use water to transfer heat to your home in winter from the outside air and reverse this process in summer to keep your home cool. Water is 3300 times more capable of transferring heat than air so you don’t need large air ducts with heat pumps.
Case study of a period home, renovated and extended with energy efficient heat pump and a/c systems installed. Hydronic systems included underfloor in-screed circuits, radiators, hydronic towel rail and space saving fan coil convectors, with ceiling fans.
