A variety of clean air approved heating appliances have been put on display. The Show Home is open Thursdays to Tuesdays from 11.00am to 6.00pm. Energy Advisors are on hand to answer questions about the Show Home and can offer free independent advice on how to make your home more energy efficient. Map showing directions to 10 Leander Street. For comfort, the living-rooms in houses should be heated to an ambient temperature of around 20 C and bedrooms and hallways to 18 C. Temperatures below 16 C lead to health problems and dampness.
Insulation is very important for achieving good space heating.
Many older houses in New Zealand are poorly insulated. It is prohibitively expensive for most people to heat such houses to comfortable, healthy temperatures. As a result, poorly insulated houses are uncomfortable and unhealthy. Open fires are not only a significant contributor to winter air pollution, they are also amongst the most inefficient of any form of heating. That is nearly twice as mush as it costs to operate an electric or gas heater.