from the KCDC website
Our Healthy Home toolkit will help you check how your home is performing for warmth and dampness. It will also help you improve the comfort of your home.
The Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ) carried out nationwide house condition surveys between 1995 and 2015. The most recent survey in 2015 showed:
- 53 percent of houses could benefit from retrofit insulation in the ceiling and/or under the floor
- mould could be seen in 49 percent of houses, mostly in bathrooms in houses with poor heating, ventilation and insulation
- 9 percent of houses had a leaking tap or shower head.
In the Wellington Region, Census 2018 showed:
- 8 percent of houses are sometimes or always damp
- 7 percent of houses sometimes or always have a mould patch bigger than an A4 piece of paper.
Our Healthy Home kits
Each Healthy Home kit contains:
- a thermometer/hygrometer
- an infrared thermometer
- stopwatch
- power meter
- wood moisture level meter
- our user guide[PDF 1.14 MB], with useful information to increase your house’s health.
Water doesn’t just come from the atmosphere, and Kapiti is a high rainfall area, but from people — every person exhales about a litre of water a day. Geoffrey & Eva have found that an interior pressure ventilation system that takes dry air from the ceiling cavity and feeds it through the house works well and makes a noticeable difference. These will cost a few thousand dollars.
Probably because people cant afford any goodies due to the cost of council rates. Mine doubled to $5,000.00 in 7 years and another $500 increase to come and we are just a ordinary 3 bed 1970’s house