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Old Feb 28th 2007, 1:07 am
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Hi. We have just had a really helpful guy round from the clean heat project www.cleanheat.org.nz

If you have an old fuel burner that you want to replace, they will give you a subsidy on roof and floor insulation, heater removal and replacement with another type of heating.
We've had a quote for all of the above and replacement of our woodburner with a heat pump, & they are giving us a subsidy of $1261.00 off the total price.

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Originally Posted by westiepom
Hi. We have just had a really helpful guy round from the clean heat project www.cleanheat.org.nz

If you have an old fuel burner that you want to replace, they will give you a subsidy on roof and floor insulation, heater removal and replacement with another type of heating.
We've had a quote for all of the above and replacement of our woodburner with a heat pump, & they are giving us a subsidy of $1261.00 off the total price.

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Nice! Just had all the house insulated and a discount like that would have been great!
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Originally Posted by westiepom
Hi. We have just had a really helpful guy round from the clean heat project www.cleanheat.org.nz

If you have an old fuel burner that you want to replace, they will give you a subsidy on roof and floor insulation, heater removal and replacement with another type of heating.
We've had a quote for all of the above and replacement of our woodburner with a heat pump, & they are giving us a subsidy of $1261.00 off the total price.

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Extremely good, we saved loads too.
Note that it only works if you currently have a logburner or open fire that is soon to be outlawed, the purpose of the subsidy is to encourage people to upgrade the heating to low emmisions heating.
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We have just bought a house that has one night storage heater in the hall (old rotten thing) and an open fire, which the real estate lady said we cant use as heating...clean air thing. So we are hoping that because we want to install a couple of heatpumps in the house we may be eligible for the financial help. I went on your online thing and registered so I shall wait and see...
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They are really helpful Sue, I'm sure you'll have no problems....... definately worth looking into. Just imagine - warm and snug by the winter !
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explain heat pumps to me....
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explain heat pumps to me....
Does this help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
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In English please, not "bloke talk"
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Originally Posted by kev&sarah
In English please, not "bloke talk"
Errrm as I understand it... not that I have one....
A heat pump is an electrically driven air conditioner that is mounted on an outside wall. You have a remote control, and you can dial up the temp that you want, and it pumps air of this temp through the house. Here is a more user friendly explanation: http://www.consumer.org.nz/topic.asp...nttype=general

Advantages: instant warmth/cooling, no pollution, no woodchopping...
Disadvantages: it is expensive to run (high power bills), if there is a power cut/restrictions you don't have alternative heating.

Also worth looking at is a DVS system (domestic ventilation system), which pumps the warm air trapped in the ceiling cavity down around the house and keeps the house drier. There is a link to this on the link above.

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Originally Posted by Apple12
Errrm as I understand it... not that I have one....
A heat pump is an electrically driven air conditioner that is mounted on an outside wall. You have a remote control, and you can dial up the temp that you want, and it pumps air of this temp through the house.

Advantages: instant warmth/cooling, no pollution, no woodchopping...
Disadvantages: it is expensive to run (high power bills), if there is a power cut/restrictions you don't have alternative heating.

Also worth looking at is a DVS system, which pumps the warm air trapped in the ceiling cavity down around the house and keeps the house drier.

Now I understand

Think I agree with you about the DVS system, lots of wasted energy there.

We're hoping one day to build our own so quite keen to hear people's opinions on the pro's & cons for every available system


Just to scare the cr*p out of you all, we got our combined gas & electricity bill for November - February today. £436.
Nearly sh*t myself when I opened it. I ran outside to double check the meter readings.

Our bill has increased by £136 for the same time last year. We didn't even have Xmas lights outside for the first time this year, so I hate to think what it could've been
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Originally Posted by kev&sarah
Just to scare the cr*p out of you all, we got our combined gas & electricity bill for November - February today. £436.

My last combined gas and electric bill was £496 ... I'm in a 3 bed mid terraced !!!!!! This was for November - February too
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