Sustainable House - Rammed Earth
Updated: Oct 7, 2018
By Steb Fisher & Wendy Wright
Victorian Residential Efficiency Scorecard – Star Rating 10
FRONT DOOR
Salvaged from grandparents’ house in Melbourne.
LAUNDRY
Washing machine has both hot and cold inlets (hard to find, most have cold only)
allows hot/warm water from solar HW to be used for washing.
Clothes racks – from the UK - no drier.
Exhaust fan behind freezer draws warm air from living area through vent over clothes racks – not often needed
Clerestory windows provide extra solar heat.
Vestfrost Freezer – 0.75kWh/day. (full of home grown beef)
2nd freezer (in mud room) is a Westinghouse WCM3200WC and is less efficient 1.1kWh/day.
KITCHEN
Stove top and oven both LP gas (grill electric)
Chosen because electric ovens use high wattage - not ideal for battery supply.
No dish washer
Bench top - salvaged Jarrah
5 Waste streams
Landfill / Recycling / Chooks / Worm Farm / Non-worm compost
We don’t have garbage collection and deliver to the Trafalgar transfer station
Fridge (not so efficient - more than 15 years old) 1.86kWh/day
WATER SYSTEM
5 main tanks (total 100,000+ litres.
shed roof to storage by shed – 22,000 litres, overflow to 24,000 litres, overflow to 5,000 litre stock water tank.
house roof to storage at the back of the house – 44,000 lit