Housing
The home environment is very important for our health, find out how to keep your home healthy, warm and dry.
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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.
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
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:
- Avoiding mould - Consumer New Zealand
- Dealing with mould - Consumer New Zealand
- Mould after flooding — preventing and cleaning up (DOCX, 812 KB)
- Report on the decontamination of mould-affected environments - ESR
- Mould in the environment - Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
- Mould related illness - Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
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Indoor environment (goes to another website)
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Smokefree at home (goes to another website)
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The Prevention of Legionellosis in New Zealand: Guidelines for the Control of Legionella Bacteria (goes to another website)
Describes the hazards from Legionella, supports the management of potential sources of Legionella (eg, air and water handling systems in buildings, spa pools and hot tubs, soil, compost, potting mixes), and the reporting and investigation of cases.