Healthy Homes Standards versus a Healthy Home. I have noticed confusion by some home owners. A lot of home owners have rental properties and have learned about the minimum insulation requirements for rental property. These minimum standards do not need to reflect on your own home. Nor does it need to reflect on rental properties. The Healthy Homes Standards Policy is a minimum standard for rental houses. However, keeping costs down for Landlords seems to be important. Let me...

We spend 70 percent of our time in our homes, yet many New Zealand homes have been shown to be up to 6 degrees below the WHO’s suggested minimum indoor temperature of 18 degrees. That can’t be good.