Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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.
Good eh !
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.
Good eh !
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Re: Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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.
Good eh !
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.
Good eh !
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Re: Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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.
Good eh !
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.
Good eh !
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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Re: Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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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Re: Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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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In English please, not "bloke talk"
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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.
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.
Last edited by Apple12; Mar 1st 2007 at 8:35 pm.
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Re: Financial help available for house insulation costs in ChCh
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.
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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