Oh Kate - that's not nationwide eh? Cos all the CHCH clean heat project stuff you have to meet heaps of criteria, one being that if you have a logburner they won't subsidise insulation but if you don't they'll subsidise both. Damn red tape, gimme cheap stuff to warm my aging bones!
Our last house was freeeeeezing, it had gappy wooden joinery and timber floors. At the start of our second winter there I refused to freeze thru another winter so went nuts on heating. I bought some special tape from Mitre 10 to tape up the gaps in the joinery, it's only a couple of $ per metre and it made a HUGE difference to keeping heat in. I also bought a dehumidifier (altho if you've got the DVS it does that anyway) and a portable gas heater, plus oil fins for the bedroom.
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depends on your area as well in chch i heard of people who have got FREE heat pumps in chch and they arent exactly skint. I think my mate was getting a heat pump and underfloor insulation paid for in chch but her house is old wooden and high roofed ill have to ask her about it she is in linwood tho.
You said your when your gas heater is on high it creates extra moisture - but that is what DVS should be getting rid of there for making your house easier to heat etc.
So I would DEF be ringing them.
Our house is an 80s house so it's not THAT old really. All the joinery is aluminimum. The seals in our bedroom are screwed but making DH get off his ass and ring his uncle is such a challenge (and he bitches about it being cold more than I do!)
I'll get DH to have a look in the ceiling later (hes doing pink batts today) and see if there is building paper up there, it's a tin roof. And I'll look at getting the filter changed on the dvs. It's an old dvs - we didn't instal it, it was here when we bought the place. I don't even think that the company exists anymore lol
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