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Category Archives: eco Choices

Oil Addiction

The dictionary meaning of Addiction: Habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one’s voluntary control. Do we have that habitual dependence, both psychological and physiological on oil. YES I am going to run you through a typical morning routine just to demonstrate how dependent we are on oil and the products made from [...]

Solar Panels have been installed

It has been over a week since our solar panels were installed, 48 100 watt panels in all. The installation used all the available north facing roof space with the remaining panels being installed on the western side of the house. Why did we decide to purchase the solar panels, guess there are lots of [...]

Renovatons – Bedroom # 2

Saturday, we had organised our friend Grant, who is a plasterboard fixer to come over and fix 2 walls with plasterboard, attach cornices, patch and fill any  holes that were needed. I had during the week stripped all the old cornices from the walls and removed all the fittings so it was ready to go on Saturday. [...]

Solar Panels

43 degrees the hottest day on record in November for Adelaide, the guy from the Solar Shop is on our roof taking measurements for our solar panels. Marion and I are just not purchasing half a dozen panels as you regularly see on the suburban roofs, our system will have 48 panels, and will produce about 4 kilowatts of power. The [...]