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And a modest rent increase .. which will hopefully be a fraction of what they save on energy bills.

Now the work has been done, a quick update which might be of interest to anyone in a similar position. Getting gas brought in from the street cost nothing! Getting the slab heating replaced with warm air (unit in ceiling, ten outlets) and an instantaneous water heater to replace the electrically...

Thanks for the replies. Met a heating guy at the property today who reckoned that ducted warm air heating and instantaneous gas HW was the way to go. Good news: (i) the utility company will bring in gas from the street for free; (ii) replacing electric tank HW with gas qualifies for a grant...

The tenant of my Sebastopol house has somehow managed to run up an electricity bill of $4000 (!) which he blames on the fact that the house has electric h.w. and electric underfloor heating in the slab (the sort of thing that was popular in the UK in the 1960s when we were told that nuclear...