Grrr Christchurch City Council!

ok abit of a rant really....

DH and i bought our house a few months ago and it has no heating. we've been renting the place since jack was born and been using a gas heater, which isn't the best as both jack and i have asthma. so, we decided we'd get a heatpump installed which is going to cost around $3000 and even then we'll still have to run a heater in the kid's rooms because the heatpump won't heat the whole house.

then we thought we could get a cleanheat approved woodburner instead which would heat the whole house and would save on power each month. so we went and had a look around the shops and we could get one for $1400 plus installation flue etc........then the lady said we'd have to get a council permit and a building permit costing approx $1000!!!!!!!!

why bother bringing out cleanheat approved fires if you can't install the blimmin things anyway! i'm so angry at the council! yes i understand that smog is getting worse etc but if other people can have a nice warm house why can't i?   it's so cold here now that i'm going to have to turn on the gas heater..which will mean i'm gasping on my inhaler within the hour and jack probably will be too   

ranty rant rant rant!!    

Wow that is very pricey... but still cheaper. So a fire wouldn't affect your athsma badly? I'd go for it but I'd probably let the Council know about the athsma problem while you're doing paperwork.

Far out that is expensive. When we got ours done it was $400, thats PNCC thou.

wow that sucks. when we get our next house we are definately going for a heatpump. at the house we built we put one of those warehouse ones in, you can get higher wattage for less money and I think all up including installation it was about $1500 and man does it work well, there are no curtains or anything to keep the heat in but it heats the whole house in bugger all time. Not sure how the warehouse ones compare with the likes of fujitsu in terms of running cost though.