bennymacca wrote:Evap plus gas fireplace for the winter. Best way to go!
Certainly, if you have natural gas available, it is the way to go for heating.
Our house at Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges did not have air conditioning at all. You simply didn't need the cooling in the summer. For the winter though we had a natural gas powered hydronic system which circulated hot water under the floor through insulated pipes into adjustable radiators in each room. If we had natural gas in the Adelaide Hills I'd put something similar in here, but it would be too expensive to run on LPG.
I'm always bemused by the fact that a house at 570 metres altitude 58 km from the Melbourne CBD had piped in natural gas, whereas it isn't available in the Adelaide Hills at all where the market would be a good one. It would have been ideal to run the pipes up while the SE Freeway was being built (or later rebuilt).