Ask any neighbours who they used and how it went. Check out who are approved under Government Scheme and get themto quote, and they will work out if you are eligible for any grants and will apply for them as well.
We used a company called
Sunstainable Pty Ltd
1300 487 200
3/ 29 Hossack Avenue, Coburg North VIC 3058
We were put onto them by the local air-conditioning company who sold us a new low-energy aircon system. I found them good to deal with and their installation crew were very good
Fairly confident we’re not eligible after reading criteria. But that’s a good recommendation as we’re not terribly far from you.
We spent a little extra to get a shade tolerant panel setup due to trees around our place.
The other obvious one is get more production from the panels than your inveter so that it still works when the panels lose production.
We also have east west facing panels which still produce well, so don’t just think north facing only
The most productive place for them to go on our roof runs NNE so I’m reasonably confident they’re going to get enough sun. One neighbour has them on a more Westerly facing roof and they’ve been happy with results so far.
Depends on your use case too. Battery tech ain’t there to be feasible for most so unless wfh is an option or someone is always home to utilise things like thermal storage. Probably better off waiting until batteries are good.
Not sure if anyone can help me, but installed a new tap in the home but the new fixture has a large hand fixing nut that I can’t tighten enough cause there isn’t enough room under the sink to get to. Basin wrenches are too small so any ideas how I can get something on it to tighten it more?
There’s really long basin wrenches and even sockets specifically for that job.
Bunnings would have them
It’s not a metal nut though, it’s plastic.
Is it hex?
Just means don’t tighten it down too much.
I’ll take a photo. One moment please.
So the plastic nut holds the whole assembly above in place. If not tightened enough the whole thing wobbles above.
Nut is about 43mm in diameter (outside).
Someone else had a similar thing. So that plastic nut and no room to use a normal wrench is the issue.
And there’s no clearance left/right/behind, so you need to come up at it from underneath?
Pretty much. I had the tools for standard nuts to tighten / remove, but this is big.
Can you get to it with a long, wide blade screw driver and gradually tap it tighter on each flat?
So sort of like chiselling it around?
Seems to sort of fit the bill, but will try the above first.
Yep.
Depending on how much room you’ve got, a set of multigrips can often be worked into position too.
I presume you can get a hand in to get it hand tight and now you just need to nip it up a bit further?
Or, and this is going a bit left field, go to super cheap auto and buy one of the adjustable rubber band oil filter wrenches. It’d probably tighten it up for you.
Looking at that tap design, it’s a stupid set up tbh. The plastic nut is actually the load bearing device . They used to use a metal half moon collar with two threaded studs that you could tension with a proper long tap socket.
It probably needs 1/4 to 1/2 more turn and it’ll be good. Slight wobble up the top and you could turn the tap so the mixer bit moves around.
Chisel didn’t quite work. Moved a tiny bit, but now there isn’t enough purchase to move it anymore.
Bought on the basis of ‘that looks nice’ 
