What seemed like a crazy idea 15 years ago has turned out to be the most innovative, cool and effective, certainly the most cost-efficient and non-disruptive, way to insulate a home.
What’s important to note about this story is the writer has used this process on a rental property in Mt Victoria 10 years ago, and has recently been captured by the pros and cons, and how advantageous this could be in the pursuit of a first home or making your nest egg more valuable. GET INFO?
First, let’s look at the facts.
“This process avoids all this hassle, mess and disruption”.
A quote from a quality builder to insulate a 3 brm 60s home came in at around 22k and ⅔ months of construction, pink batts everywhere, and there was a suggestion that as the home was to be delined and pulled to pieces, you might as well do the bathroom and kitchen, 70k later.
It was also not clear if their quote needed us to move out.
This way is 5/7k, done and dusted in 7 days according to the company.
So we looked at funding as 6% interest is a killer, only to find a rather pleasant surprise, the Big four banks Asb, Westpac, and ANZ Kiwibank offer a Green loan, 0 to 1% up to 4 years for insulating homes.
The good news goes on.
Effective insulation can reduce the monthly energy bill by up to 20/30 %. Let’s take the low end, In some cases that’s $2000 + annually.
A staggering amount of cash.
The process gets added to the lim report which is the council document of record like your home’s warrant of fitness / hence adding value to the equity side of things.
So we called some builders. When something seems that good, surely there is a hook in this somewhere.
From what we can gather Insulmax is the real deal, affordable and in these times, anything that reduces money stress is accepted, healthy/ fast. All things that stack up when choosing a healthy home.
Tell us what your experience has been, if you need insulation or if you have other ways to insulate.
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