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Keeping your home warm and healthy


Healthy Homes

Health NZ works with families, agencies and local partners to provide education and access to interventions which will create warm, dry and healthy homes.

The aim of the Healthy Homes Initiative is to increase the number of children and their whānau/families living in warm, dry, and healthy homes and consequently to enhance their health and wellbeing, reducing the number of housing-related hospitalisations.

Healthy Homes

 

Guide to keeping your home warm

Consumer New Zealand’s guide to keeping your home warm has information on:   

  • Reducing dampness and ventilation
  • Reducing heat loss from windows
  • Curtains
  • Dealing with mould
  • Insulation
  • Healthy homes assessments
  • Dealing with draughts
  • Reducing your power bills
  • Heating in rentals
  • Smoke alarms
  • Rental checklist – what to look for to get a warm dry healthy home

Read the guide to a warmer home by Consumer New Zealand.

Household mould

Information on preventing and dealing with household mould from Consumer New Zealand and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) and the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care:

LPG gas containers

Read the Consumer New Zealand safety information about portable LPG appliances.