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Energy & Repair

Solar, insulation, heat pumps, repair cafes, tools to borrow, things that broke and how they were fixed.

House rule — Post the numbers. What it cost, what it saved, what went wrong.

This board exists to build one thing: capability. Feed weight 40.

Energy & RepairExample

Twelve months of rooftop solar, all the numbers

A 4 kW system on a south-east facing roof, fitted last September. Here is what it generated, what we used ourselves, what the bills did — and the part nobody puts in the brochure: the inverter failed in February and took five weeks to replace.

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