Green Party's pledge to renters: What you need to know
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The Green Party have launched their pre-election housing policy with promises to give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in.

The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to “give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in”.

  • Rangelus@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    When we built, we went with a smaller local contractor. We came from a cold, damp, house, so specified we wanted it WARM. Something that helped is we have polystyrene backed cladding. This isn’t included in the R-value calcs for Code, but definitely helps. We also went with thermally broken frames, which wasn’t worth the money I don’t think.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      So I went searching to see what might be different overseas. I picked Canada, and found a page saying Canadian’s use about 60% of their total energy use heating their home. So I thought maybe they are just more willing to crank the heater up

      But then I came across this page. It lists typical R-value for insulation. The numbers are in the 30-60 range… that’s got to be a difference in how they measure, right? I don’t think you can buy insulation more than an R value of about 4 in NZ…