Home Energy Audit Toolkits

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Launceston residents can borrow Home Energy Audit Toolkits (HEAT) from Council. Here's how.

If you want to know where the electricity in your home is being used, you've come to the right place.

In an average Tassie home, half of the electricity is used for heating, a quarter for hot water, 9% for cooking, and 7% for the fridge/freezer. However, every home is different. HEAT provides practical tools and information to help you to conduct a simple home audit and discover easy ways to cut your electricity bills.

Each toolkit contains:

  • Power-Mate: use this to measure how much electricity is being used by each of your appliances. Works for anything that uses a standard 3-pin plug. Target fridges, plug-in heaters, televisions, microwaves, and anything else you are curious about. Compare computers when they are in use vs in standby.
  • Infrared radiometer: use this to check for leaks around fridge doors, or gaps around windows and behind skirting boards. It can also be used to check the adequacy of ventilation behind the fridge/freezer. To check the effectiveness of ceiling or wall insulation, borrow our thermal imaging camera instead.
  • Stopwatch: use this to check how much water is being used when showering or rinsing dishes. This is great for adjusting flows to save water, as well as save the energy used by your hot water system.
  • Compass: use to determine your homes orientation. This can help you decide which windows should be your focus for summer shade, as well as placement of solar panels, or gardens.
  • Thermometer: Use to measure and adjust your fridge and freezer temperature, as well as ambient house temperature to determine whether your heating and cooling systems are effective.
  • Plus supporting instructions.

The kits are free to borrow, but a $100 refundable deposit is required.

For enquiries and bookings, please contact us.

For more information, download the HEAT information sheets:
HEAT Info Sheet(PDF, 805KB)
HEAT - Instruction Brochure(PDF, 217KB)

Portable Induction Cooktop Kits

Induction cooktops are a great cooking alternative for your home. If you're unsure about upgrading, or deciding what to install when renovating or building, borrow one of our Portable Induction Cooktop Kits.

Benefits of induction cooking

  • Heating and cooking are faster than traditional electric and gas cooktops
  • The cooking temperature is easy to adjust and quick to respond
  • Cheaper to run than gas or traditional electric stoves (savings of 10-20%)
  • Easy to clean by wiping the surface
  • Better for the environment. Induction cooktops powered by renewable energy have significantly lower carbon emissions than gas
  • Induction cooktops are safer. There are no open flames like gas, and the stove top generally won't burn a person due to the magnetic heating mechanism
  • The air in your home is cleaner and healthier. Gas cooktops have been shown to increase the risk of asthma and other respiratory conditions

Thermal Imaging Camera

We all know that electricity bills in Tasmania spike in winter, and a large part of that is the cost of heating a house.

A thermal imaging camera is the best technology we have to spot leaks in your home's thermal envelope, and to discover where the warmth is leaving your home.

They are fantastic for wide area scans to:

  • find problems with existing insulation
  • quality check a new insulation installation
  • find gaps around doors, windows and between floorboards

The FLIR TG267 creates a full, 2D heat map of a whole wall, or even an entire room.

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