A shed house, living on its own power
The Shouse is a shed house. The name is shed plus house. A lot of people start in the shed, living and storing gear there, while the house is still a plan. It is the system for a normal small household that wants its own power from day one.
What you can run
A kettle, a washing machine and a water pump are the everyday loads. The build on our work page has headroom for the washing machine and the pump together.
A small air conditioner goes on the load list. It and the kettle are counted before the inverter is named. An induction cooktop is the same kind of question: in range at this size, once the design knows what else is on.
The size we mean
The Shouse on our work page is 8 kW of panels, an 8 kVA inverter and 14.36 kWh of lithium. kVA is the inverter size, the box that turns stored power into household power. kWh is how much energy the battery holds.
Earlier listings started smaller, around a 5 kVA MultiPlus with 8 kWh of storage, and treated the kit as a template you could grow, including extra panels and a second inverter for more power while the sun is out. That published build on the work page is the scale we mean by a Shouse.
How we work
We design the system in Lismore. A vetted, accredited local partner installs it.
- Tell us about the property on our design form.
- We design the system in-house and send you the design.
- A vetted, accredited local partner installs it, or we work with the electrician you already have. See our recent work.
Common questions
What is the Shouse?
A shed you can live in, on its own power. People use it as the first dwelling while the house is still being built, and as a full-time small home.
What can the Shouse run?
A kettle, a washing machine and a water pump, with headroom for the machine and the pump together on the published build. A small air conditioner and an induction cooktop are counted in the design before the inverter is named.
Is the old kit still a fixed package?
No. The fixed kits are retired. The Shouse is a design at that scale. The numbers on our work page are the build we point people at.
How do I start?
Send the form on this page or call 0483 927 257. Name, phone and suburb open it.
Get a custom design
Four quick questions and a designer comes back to you:
- Postcode
- On the grid or off-grid?
- Rough quarterly power bill
- Phone number
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Get a custom design
Four quick questions and a designer comes back to you: postcode, on the grid or off-grid, rough quarterly power bill, phone number.
Prefer to talk it through? Call or text 0483 927 257.