Healthy Homes Assessment
Is your home or rental up to standard?
Does your home meet the five Standards?
New Zealand has a standard that all rental properties are required to meet. This entails five key areas: Heating, Insulation, Ventilation, Moisture Ingress & Drainage and Draught stopping.
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All rental properties must meet the minimum requirements in these areas and be up to the healthy homes standard by the 1st July 2025.
Compliant/ Non-Compliant
Your house will be assessed on all these areas. Should your property not comply to the standard in any of them, SInsulation will be happy to provide you with a quote to bring your property up to the required standard.
Heating standard
Landlords must provide one or more fixed heaters that can directly heat the main living room. The heater(s) must be acceptable types and must meet the minimum heating capacity required for your main living room.
Insulation
Insulation requirements are measured by R-value. R-value is a measure of resistance to heat flow. The higher the R-value, the better the insulation. Minimum R-values vary across New Zealand.
The South Island is entirely climate zone 3 which has minimum requirement of R3.3 – ceiling, R1.3 – Underfloor.
Ventilation
Rental homes must have openable windows in the living room, dining room, kitchen, and bedrooms. Kitchens and bathrooms must have extractor fans or an acceptable continuous mechanical ventilation system.
Moisture Ingress and Drainage
Rental properties must have efficient drainage for the removal of storm water, surface water and ground water. Rental properties with an enclosed sub-floor space must have a ground moisture barrier.
Draught Stopping
Landlords must make sure the property doesn’t have unreasonable gaps or holes in walls, ceilings, windows, skylights, floors, and doors which cause noticeable draughts. All unused open fireplaces must be closed off or their chimneys must be blocked to prevent draughts.
Does your rental meet the Health Homes Standards?
All this information was collected from the Tenancy services website.
For more information on these areas please visit:
https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/healthy-homes/about-the-healthy-homes-standards/
Ensure Your Rentals Meet the Healthy Homes Standard by July 1, 2025. As landlords, meeting the minimum ‘Healthy Homes Standards’ for heating, ventilation, drainage, moisture ingress, and insulation is critical. Our goal is to streamline this process for you, offering assessments to confirm compliance and providing top-quality solutions to address any gaps—without exceeding necessary standards or costs. Stay compliant, effortlessly. Contact us for a tailored quote and answers to all your insulation queries. Let’s make compliance easy and affordable.
Our Mission
To help Kiwis maintain a healthy, dry home or workplace by insulating them with top quality products.