A Tour Of Robert Llewellyn’s Ultra-Efficient Eco Home

no heat pump?

And FREE car charging for life, unlimited driving milage for free on his EV.. brilliant no more paying petrol prices as well so massives of savings all around.

Speaking from the situation here in Nederland, having a battery in your home isnt cost efficiënt. The investment goes far above the benefit. Its cheaper to only have solarpanels and just take the remaining electric power from the grid...
Normaly it takes 10 years to make the battey earn its costs back... but here you get paid for power transfered from your solarpanels to the grid so there is zero chance of that becoming costefficient here.

I have a question. Before you replaced your gas boiler with a Tepeo what was your annual gas usage

Lovely video. Learned a lot and got a lot of inspiration. Thanks Robert and team.

@Robert, on a side note, I REALY REALY miss the Scrapheap Challenge!

you must combine it with wind energy. Not only solar. That will help you in the winter as well

love eco homes, ill get there, eco vehicles can bog off though, i'll be one of the few ones with actual cars in my street in 20 years

Robert, thank you for showing us your home, it's beautiful. Here in Bangkok, we live more simply. We have the opposite, with too much reliance on cooling devices and very few people have solar panels, in one of the worlds sunniest countries. Best wishes from Thailand.

I love how they all say reducing the carbon footprint. Nobody seems to mention the carbon footprint of manufacturing that lovely EV. Also a point to not is that Norway are trying to ban the scooter as people are getting killed on them

I'm trying to get a ground array installed in my garden and need to have it anchored by ground screws rather than concrete (ugh!). I live in the Cotswolds area but am having difficulty finding a company that will install the panels/battery and also the frame - could Robert tell us who he used? Please!!!!

Join the club Robert! but you are a bit late doing it ! mu solar panels have been delivering free electricity to me for the last 15 years now so I can really say JOIN THE CLUB!

Very good video as always. I'm way behind and only just getting solar installed, but hoping to make a bit of a difference.
On subject of renewables, would it be possible to promote a link for a wind farm off of the Dorset coast? There's an online petition running to revisit an idea of a wind farm off of Poole / Bournemouth.
Dorset is massively lagging behind with wind turbines compared to the rest of the UK and would be good to see us contributing to the grid as well.

And yet a more economical solution would be to live in a smaller property in a town or city centre rather than a property which is far too large for what I would assume is a couple who’s children have flown the nest in the middle of the countryside, meaning longer distances…

Most efficient bedroom, Tesla in garage!

About five years ago I started looking for a car to replace my diesel estate and hybrid was the buzz word. My research led me to this channel and it started my journey towards energy sovereignty .
I replaced that car with an EV and since the beginning of this month I've got the solar and battery system up and running. Even in the north west of England I can generate enough to run the car.

Thank you Robert to you, Dan and your team for inspiring us all to make the changes.

ASHP, Solar, Battery & inverter, insulation installed at all stages as we refurbished our property.

AND, the final piece of the jigsaw today an EV!

Thank you so much.

PS Enjoyed Harrogate (UK).

Robert. You need to get your floor sealed and painted. The dust will go and it’s way easier to keep clean.

Well done Rob ..doing your bit for the planet ,would like to do the same but. Very expensive ......so its a no go yet .....😢

Free energy if you spend an eye-watering amount of money on equipment, got it :( ...Our tiny bungalow couldn't fit all the equipment in it, even if we could afford it. However, We're all LED, new efficient boiler. Induction hob, Ninja oven. modern efficient radiators. Also blocked the kitchen vents, and have a open fire to create free heat from logs I can harvest using my electric chainsaw.

Amazing.

How Many kWh of electricity were generated by your panels over a 12 month period?

Robert is a nice guy and I like his work but you are glamorizing this green shite like its an easy solution for the average person,its ridiculous

Now, if we all could learn to stop breathing, eating and craping everything would be perfect.

Please send me your postal address, and times when you're out? Thanks a lot. Yours, Burglar Bill.

Very interesting and informative. What once again leapt out at me was what a colossal amount of energy is used by personal vehicles. We really do need to do what the Climate Change Committee has said - without greatly reducing private car mileage our zero carbon goal won’t be met.

We just got 3 quotes from local installers here in the Philippines for a 20KW grid tie system..Cheapest came in at just under 8.000 Quid.. Because of the weather here,ROI will be more or less 2.5 years.. Yes..I accepted the quotation!

I have solar and most of the people were I live would never have solar, only because of the cost, for what you have done, well done, but even for me, I don't have the money to go as far as you, but in saying that, I'm hardly using any power from the grid. The main reason for getting solar was because I got sick of power failure and for now power failure is not a problem any more. At the end of the day, if one can help themselves a little, then all the better.

Where are all the batteries from cars and homes are going to end up worldwide after 10 years when they can not hold a charge , EVs are a scam , scan the signals of the Tesla cars and see how dangerous the EM radiation is off those things.

Hippy

How sweet, a well paid journalist that can afford a zero carbon lifestyle is here to preach to us the less fortunate about what we should be doing, when paying for heat and food is our limit. I's be more impressed if he was giving us solutions to zero carbon living on a low income and extremely poor quality homes.

Happy Birthday, Robert! :)

0.28mwh is 280 kwh enough for an average house for about a month. Anyonethat thinks this is unrealistic is right look at it as a catalogue of options. Hes trying them all definitely not the most efficient way. For example the thermal store which is directly heated by electric makes no sense when a heat pump is far more efficient. Again the aga replacement woukd be only 100% efficient so makes no sense but its showing that options exist for everyone. Cheaper ways exists second hand panels or using a freezer as a fridge witha modified thermostat as freezers are far more efficient. Single room heat pumps as well as diy mini splits which can be had very cheap around £500 two of them woukd probably keep a small house warm no trouble. Multiple options exist so if you want to do it can be done in a relatively small budget.

I noticed some shading on some of the solar panels, I hope Robert has some micro inverters or optimisers on the solar panels. Also what did you use to heat the water. Nice setup, aiming for something similar, but hopefully with a bidirectional charger, Australia is a bit scared of new technology and takes forever to adopt anything 🤪

You can make your home efficient but NOT CARBON ZERO. Your home is built with fossil fuel and nothing else

Green washing a one off manchon no whare near public transport

Robert, not surprised that TRV is set nearly max. That rad looks basically covered up and heat rises brother.

Convert solar to AC, route to Powerwalls, and convert to DC. stupidly inefficient.

Why not using solar water tubes to heat? Maybe from back of solar panels, using those through system keeping constant temperature. Cools during hot weather and heated during winter (melting snow)?

Climate smart home 🎉

Have the pigeons moved in under your roof panels yet?

Still cooking on gas though. Are you ready for the induction stove yet. The last hurdle

The fiddling with the teapot keeps me coming back 😅

I wish y’all could do Roberts house again

It cannot be "Ulta-Efficient" home and be built above ground. You must build into a hill or partially underground to have a home 90% efficient. Meaning 90% of the time, electricity is not needed to heat or cool the home. And solar panels are a rip off. They are expensive, and only 22% efficient. Meaning it will be 10-12 years to pay off the solar panels, and start getting "free electricity" from the sun. But, utility companies will charge you a fee anyway, if you do not get or use electric every month. It's to cover the cost of having the "ability" to have electricity, if you need it on a moment's notice when your solar panels fail in the middle of winter. Or don't work because it is cloudy outside. Utility companies are monopolies. They always get their money.

Fully Charged channel is obviously not learned from the greatest man to come up with electricity and electric motors. Tesla. Smartest and most honest man since Jesus. And maybe George Washington. lol Electricity isn't the problem. Batteries are very much the problem. So this notion of being "fully charged" is misleading and a lie. For battery tech is little different than 100 years ago. A simple truth companies and scientists won't tell the public. Batteries are the problem. Not the solution. Especially when Tesla proved and offered everyone free electricity from the earth. Free. Clean. Electricity. Corp. interests shut that down like Westinghouse. Instead, we go with "batteries". That cannot be recycled, and like to go "boom".

Have you seen what happened to EV's in Florida during the recent Hurricane? You probably should. (can you imagine needing to evacuate ahead of the hurricane to be safe. But can't because you are waiting for your EV to charge?)

Why not use the infrared panels everywhere? I imagine purchase and installation couldn't cost anymore than the Tepeo, so is there something fudemental that I am missing? I do understand the Tepeo hooks straight up to existing system, but long term energy use is what I am interested in & if infrared is suitable for whole home heating.