North Canterbury News: September 17, 2020
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BUILDING &RENOVATING<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>September</strong> <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Renovations are all about creating modern, comfortable spaces, says Kerry<br />
Walsh, the Hurunui District Council’s team leader for building and property.<br />
We have all spentmore time at home this<br />
year, so home renovations may be on our<br />
minds.<br />
It’s about creating modern,<br />
comfortable spaces that make our place<br />
of work and home more comfortable.<br />
The Hurunui District Council is also<br />
carrying out many renovations and<br />
improvements to its own buildings for<br />
similar reasons.<br />
Stronger, warmer, more modern and<br />
uptodate facilities, with improved<br />
accessibility, all make life easier.<br />
Some examples of renovation<br />
upgrades are:<br />
Insulation<br />
Addinginsulation to your home or<br />
workplace enables heat generated<br />
within the home (through wood burners,<br />
heat pumps and so on), as well as that<br />
collectedthrough solar gain (for<br />
example, north facing windows) to stay<br />
in the building for longer.Itwill ensure<br />
amore constant temperaturewithout<br />
fluctuations. Insulated buildings will<br />
hold heat (or cool in summer) and will<br />
not be affected by the weather as much.<br />
Awellinsulated house on asunny day<br />
with large northfacingwindows will<br />
heat up during the day and not need<br />
much, or any, heating in the evening.<br />
Insulation can be in the form of wall,<br />
ceiling and floor blanket or other solid<br />
material,and this can be retrofitted<br />
relativelyeasily, especially in the<br />
ceiling and floor as these areas normally<br />
have access space. Installing insulation<br />
in the walls is alittle more difficult as<br />
this can be done only if removing the<br />
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internal walllinings or exterior<br />
cladding.<br />
Blownin wall insulation can also be<br />
chosen.One thing to remember is that a<br />
building consentisrequired for<br />
placement of insulation in the walls, but<br />
not in aceiling or timber floor.<br />
Another option is to insulate your<br />
windows by double glazing or using<br />
heavyweight drapes.<br />
Doubleglazing is now fitted in most<br />
modern homes and hasproven to be an<br />
effective way of improving the comfort of<br />
ahome. Windows can be replaced<br />
without abuilding consent but should be<br />
done by someone who knows how to<br />
make the new windows weathertight.<br />
Ventilation also plays akey part in a<br />
warm home, including extractionofthe<br />
cooking fumes or moist air from kitchens<br />
and bathrooms.<br />
The council is also upgrading many of<br />
its social housing units for these<br />
reasons, and to comply with Healthy<br />
Homes standards. This has included<br />
ceiling and floor insulation and<br />
moisture barriers on the ground.<br />
Accessibility<br />
Renovating your building to make it<br />
easier to enter, move around in, and<br />
carry out normal activities is also of<br />
great benefit.<br />
This is not just aramp into the front<br />
door or raising the ground level for more<br />
level access. It’s also things such as tiled<br />
showers with aflush walk in –these are<br />
considerably better than ashower over<br />
the bath, for example.<br />
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