The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to “give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in”.
The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to “give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in”.
So I went searching to see what might be different overseas. I picked Canada, and found a page saying Canadian’s use about 60% of their total energy use heating their home. So I thought maybe they are just more willing to crank the heater up
But then I came across this page. It lists typical R-value for insulation. The numbers are in the 30-60 range… that’s got to be a difference in how they measure, right? I don’t think you can buy insulation more than an R value of about 4 in NZ…
Correct, US vs European (and NZ in our case) R values are different. Comparison: https://www.myonlinediary.com/index.php/Insulation/US-EuropeanRValueConvertionTables
Good to know, thanks!
But also it didn’t make me feel any better because the normal Canadian insulation still seems to be twice as good as our good stuff…