Room Size

When heat rises in a room with tall ceilings chances are it will take longer to heat the large volume of air compared to a modern ceiling height of only 2.4m. When creating an open plan living style home awareness needs to be taken to the larger volume of air required to heat that space.

Ceiling Insulation

Most new and old homes alike have inadequate insulation ratings in their roof, it was either blown in with little care for depth and therefore isn't rated to R4 in the states of Victoria and Tasmania or an "R" rating of less than 4 was installed to cut costs on the installation. Often tactics used to recover more money from unsuspecting owners. We offer installation and fix the electrical wiring as we install to avoid any overheating of electric cables, avoiding any potential fires.

Windows

A significant amount of heat loss can occurs through your room especially those with large windows, best methods to counter this are below from least to most expensive.

• - Thick Curtains
• - Honey Comb Blinds
• - Replaced with double glazed windows

Heating

Using effiecient electric heaters gives you two advantages, more effiviency lowers your running costs for the same heating capacity, this is true for air conditioners and heat pumps (reverse cycle air conditioners) as opposed to bare heating elements.
Second Advantage of an electric system is you can use solar and batteries to power the system to further reduce your running costs.

Rangehood

Your rangehood needs to be ducted to the exterior of the building to avoid fatty build up in the roof that attracts rodents and vermin.

Induction Cooktops

Induction cooktops require a large amount of power so they need their own circuit. As they use power for a shorter duration than traditional electric tops they use less power overall. But it's something to be mindfull when installing for the first time, a new circuit will need to be installed from the switchboard.