Setting the Standard for New Build Comfort
Canterbury Warmer Homes is dedicated to ensuring comfort and coziness throughout the South Island by providing top-tier residential and commercial insulation solutions for ceilings, walls, and floors in new build properties. Collaborating with property developers and building contractors across the West Coast, Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch, and beyond, our seasoned insulation installation team delivers excellence for projects of all scales, from single homes to expansive developments.
Ceiling Insulation
Our ceiling insulation solutions minimise heat loss and maintain consistent temperatures year-round. Choose from renowned brands such as Mammoth, Bradford Gold, Pink Batts, and Knauf’s Earthwool Glasswool.
Internal Wall Insulation
Enhance temperature stability and reduce noise within your new build home with our expertly installed internal wall insulation options from Bradford Gold, Pink Batts, Mammoth, and Knauf’s Earth wool. With ratings from R1.8 to R2.8 allow us to help future proof and create a Warmer, Quiter, Comfortable home for yourself and your family or your investment.
External wall insulation
The walls of your home act as a barrier between the inside and the outside world. If these barriers aren’t insulated, it can lead to substantial energy losses. Insulating walls isn’t just about keeping the cold out, but also about maintaining a consistent and comfortable indoor environment by giving you more control of your internal environment. The thicker the product, the better the barrier.
Insulated walls that use the right product and installed properly:
- Reduce energy bills: Prevent heat loss in winter and retain cool air in summer.
- Enhance comfort: Create a more consistent internal comfortable temperature .
- Acoustic Benefits: reduce noise transfer, making your home a peaceful sanctuary from external disturbances that are out of your control .
- Lower carbon footprint: Minimise energy consumption, promoting an eco-friendly living while reducing those power bills and help reduce your carbon food print.
Benefits of Canterbury Warmer Homes’ New Build Insulation Services:
- Comprehensive Project Consultations: Our experienced team conducts thorough consultations to identify the best insulation products for your project, ensuring alignment with structural requirements and budgets.
- Full Compliance with New Zealand’s Healthy Home Standards: Our insulation solutions adhere to the 2008 Building Code Insulation Standard and Healthy Home requirements, guaranteeing optimal thickness and compliance with industry standards.
- Unmatched Customer Service: From initial consultation to installation completion, our insulation professionals prioritize exceptional customer service, ensuring seamless communication with project stakeholders and exceeding expectations every step of the way.
Why choose Canterbury Warmer Homes for your new home insulation needs?
- Experience – We have years of experience working with building companies on a wide range of new build projects across the South Island. We are highly trained and experienced in installing insulation in new homes with our teams having over 40 years combined experience, and understanding the requirements of each different project.
- Quality – We not only use trusted, recognised products of the highest quality on the market, we take care to ensure that every install is completed to pass the all-important pre-line inspection using the highest attention to detail while on time.
- H1 Knowledge – The new code emphasises the importance of quality installation of insulation in new homes, and we pride ourselves on staying up to date with the latest industry regulations, technology and best practices to ensure that all insulation is installed correctly without over-insulating and ensuring all plans are signed of by our own QS .
- Service – We are committed to providing exceptional customer service to building companies and individuals alike. We understand that you have deadlines to meet and budgets to stick to, and we work closely with your systems to ensure that our insulation installs are completed on time and within budgets.
If you are a building company looking for reliable and experienced insulation installers, we provide free quotes completed by our QS team for upcoming residential builds.
New climate zones
Previously, New Zealand was divided into three climate zones – Zones 1 and 2 for most of the North Island and Zone 3 for the South Island and the central plateau. There are now six climate zones across New Zealand, and the new insulation requirements are tied to the zones.
In 2020 the government updated the thermal performance requirements for insulation. The new standards, called H1 Energy Efficiency Acceptable Solution H1/AS1 apply to new homes and buildings up to 300 m2. Requirements for buildings over 300 m2 have been combined into the new Acceptable Solution H1/AS2. The new standards are designed to make our buildings warmer, drier and up to 40% more energy efficient. For builders and installers, this means changes to the way insulation is specified and installed.
So how do we increase the R-Value of floors, walls and roofs?
By increasing the amount and the quality of the insulation products we’re using in the construction of your home.
Floors – Adding underslab (concrete) insulation, slab edge insulation or, for timber floors, extra and better quality underfloor insulation.
Walls – Increasing the quality and depth of the insulation we’re using in the walls, often meaning thicker walls to hold larger insulation and reducing the number of studs and nogs which are treated as thermal bridges.
Roofs – This is the biggy. With the minimum R-Value doubling, double layers of high quality insulation are required, or very dense high R-Value insulation needs to be installed in the roof cavity. Condensation is a large risk with adding insulation in roof spaces, so extra measures need to be taken to ensure moisture isn’t a home for mould growth.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| Roofs | ||||||
| Current Minimum Requirements | R2.9 | R2.9/3.3 | R3.3 | |||
| 1 May 2023 | R6.6 | |||||
| Walls | ||||||
| Current Minimum Requirements | R1.9 | R1.9/2.0 | R2.0 | |||
| 1 May 2023 | R2.0 | |||||
| Floors | ||||||
| Current Minimum Requirements | R1.3 | |||||
| Slab-on-ground floors 1 May 2023 | R1.5 | R1.5 | R1.5 | R1.5 | R1.6 | R1.7 |
| Other floors 1 May 2023 | R2.5 | R2.8 | R3.0 | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| Roof | R3.5 | R4.0 | R5.0 | R5.4 | R6.0 | R7.0 |
| Window | R0.33 | R0.33 | R0.37 | R0.37 | R0.40 | R0.42 |
| Wall | R2.2 | R2.4 | R2.7 | R3.0 | R3.0 | R3.2 |
| Underfloor | R2.2 | R2.2 | R2.2 | R2.4 | R2.5 | R2.6 |
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