moonie2011

I know there has been, and will be, a lot of talk about kiwi housing
This is so funny make sure you watch to the end

The harrisons

scrubbedexpat094

I love these. My German friend has a Kiwi husband and he sends me these every so often. He knows I have a legitimate complaint and that I'm not being a whingeing pom for expressing my feelings about it.

Have you watched any of the others Moonie?

moonie2011

No Vital I haven't, I stole it off a expat facebook page I belong to, may have to google and watch a few more

Sparkleydiva

How very accurate. oohhhhh radiators!

barnsleymat

This is the reason kiwi's seem to be obsessed which way their houses face, in a lot of cases a window is the main/only source of heating.

marooned5

I'm laughing under my 15 fleeces and balaclava

Hazelnut

This is why we're seriously considering building our own home if we make it over! The other cartoons are really funny but do you really not have recycling from the home there?

desmondo84

Arriving over at the end of August and getting slightly scared about the housing stories!!

What is the minimum I should look out for?

Cheers
Des

moonie2011

We do have recycling and you can recycle more stuff than we could in Devon. Because we have to pay for the rubbish sacks, around $3 each, I find I recycle a lot more than I did in the UK. Also most food waste goes in the waste disposale

davros1984

That video is hilarious! Had the same experience as that living in 5 different Kiwi houses

Snap Shot

I don't want to divert the thread but we don't have recycling from home. We take it to the, 'Resource Recovery Centre' like we used to just for old microwave ovens etc. (We could still drop off our old microwave oven, t.v. etc there, and yes, there is a charge for old electrical goods, just like there is in Britain.)

We would have to pay extra for a recycle bin and it's just not worth it. We may as well recycle what we can by saving it up and regularly drop it off into the various bins at the recycle centre.

We lease our wheelie bin as an extra on a six monthly renewable contract. It doesn't come out of our rates/council tax payments. That means our household rubbish is collected each week here. Not each fortnight like it was in Britain. I was suprised/impressed that it was collected on Boxing Day one year here in New Zealand as that's when our bin collection was due.

We have gone back to putting our food waste directly into the bin. Albeit the, 'pig bin' we had in Britain was only put in place as a correction to a system that was not working properly because of the change to fortnightly collections.

RedDragon2008

Land

Mark Smith

Come on that's not helpful is it. Always look for a sofa on the front lawn of any rental and weeping windows is usually a good indicator of a much sought after property.

RedDragon2008

You expect to get more than the minimum?