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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter August 2010
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In this issue:
- Results from the HomeSmart Renovation project
- A happy renovator: Holger’s story
- Matt and Megan’s bungalow renovation
- Passive solar design and thermal mass
- Forced air ventilation systems: how well do they work?
- Homestar: a rating tool for New Zealand
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter March 2010 (PDF 373KB)
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In this issue:
- Update on the project: Withdrawing monitoring equipment; solar hot water and heat pump hot water interviews
- The key to a good solar hot water system
- The problem with downlights
- The trials of getting solar water heating: Nick’s story
- Cooling down in Auckland: Jeremy’s story
- My own home renovation: getting double glazing
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter December 2009 (PDF 443KB)
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In this issue:
- Update on the project: First findings from the interviews; further interviews and more results to come
- Do your own home monitoring
- DIY renovations
- Charlie and Stephanie’s experience with secondary double glazing
- Bera’s experience stepping through her Renovation Plan
- Renovating in baby steps - Lisa’s story
- Secondary vs double glazing
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter September 2009 (PDF 686KB)
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In this issue:
- Update on the project: assessments and plans nearly complete; what to do with temperature monitors
- Warm Up New Zealand subsidies
- Your questions answered: should we stay in the project
- Choosing the right heater
- Getting the best from your solar water heater
- Sorting out those large westerly windows: a home renovation story
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter June 2009 (PDF 394KB)
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In this issue:
- Update on the project: end of recruitment, phone surveys, water monitoring
- Temperature monitoring: a plea from BRANZ
- The solar and heat pump hot water sub-project
- Top tips: Efficient heating
- Retrofitting double glazing: a home renovation story
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter March 2009 (PDF 352KB)
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In this issue:
- Update on the project: ventilation sub-project, solar and heat pump hot water sub-project
- An assessor’s view: Gary Robertson from CEA
- What we learned in the Papakowhai Renovation project
- Top tips: Weatherising for winter
- Battling the summer heat and drought: a home renovation story
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter December 2008 (PDF 229KB)
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In this issue:
- What’s underway? Assessments, renovation plans, temperature monitoring
- Your questions answered: subsidies, product information
- Top tips: Summer cooling in your home
- From too hot to too cold: a home renovation story(continued)
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HomeSmart Renovations Homeowner Newsletter September 2008 (PDF 291KB)
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In this issue:
- What is the HomeSmart Renovation project all about?
- What do you need to do?
- A timeline of what to expect
- Our partners in the project
- From too hot to too cold - a home renovation story
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