Wall Insulation FAQ
Finance
The cost of wall insulation can vary considerably depending on the size and shape of your home. The best thing for us to do is to send out one of our qualified and experienced technicians to take a look at your home and do a proper evaluation.
The best news about having CosyWall insulation installed is that once it’s installed in your home there’s no additional cost or expenses and it will last the life of the home.
Chat to us today to arrange a quote for your property.
We understand that for many New Zealand families, finance is going to be tight over the next year as the country economically recovers. While insulation may seem like a luxury, having a warm and insulated home is one of the best things you can do for your families health and wellbeing!
One of the great things about the team at CosyWall is that they’re going to make your installation affordable. Our team will work hard to make sure we can get CosyWall installed into your home and win most circumstances, we can work with you to arrange the best finance option or payment plan to make your home warm and comfortable.
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For Home Owners
Having CosyWall Insulation installed in your home is probably one of the best things you can do for the health and wellbeing of your family.
Many customers find that a well insulated home actually decreases the cost of your monthly power bills. The major advantage of having wall insulation installed however isn’t the savings in money, but the health benefits of living in a warmer and dryer home.
We know you’ll love the difference wall insulation can make to your life! Talk to the team at CosyWall today to find out more!
CosyWall Insulation has been installed in New Zealand homes since 2002. We are the leading experts in retrofitting dry fiber wall insulation in New Zealand.
Over the last 18 years, we’ve continually worked to develop and improve our systems and processes and have worked to develop cutting edge technology which improves the efficiency and delivery of our service.
While many homes have ceiling and underfloor insulation, we find wall insulation has generally not been installed or overlooked. This means that for most older NZ homes, heat escapes through the walls making the home difficult to heat, and often leading to other health issues.
The benefits of having CosyWall insulation installed is that it completes the thermal envelope, making your house warmer, dryer and a much nicer place to live.
CosyWall Insulation is a completely safe dry fiber product. It’s also been awarded the Eurofins Gold Certificate for Indoor Air Quality in Europe. Having CosyWall installed will not add any moisture to your walls, there is no curing period, no formaldehyde, and it will never shrink or slump over time.
It is also made from a non-combustible material so there is no risk to it catching fire. In fact in the unfortunate event you do experience a fire, CosyWall Insulation will actually help to inhibit the spread of it throughout the home.
There are no adverse health effects of the product and it has a 50-year durability rating. Once it’s in the building, it’s in there to perform for the life of the building.
Talk to us today about having CosyWall Insulation installed in your home.
CosyWall Insulation can be installed from either the outside or the inside of the house.
Internal installations are usually only done when you’re renovating or redecorating the inside of the home. External installations are much easier and can be done all year round.
Talk to the team at CosyWall Insulation today about installing wall insulation into your home.
For Landlords
As a landlord, you have a legal responsibility to your tenants to provide them an insulated home. Your obligated to provide a minimal standard of underfloor and ceiling insulation but landlords are often introducing wall insulation as well.
It increases the value of your home as well as the comfort level of your tenants.
There are several different places you can go to learn more about your responsibilities as a landlord including:
The tenancy website (https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/)
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority website (https://www.eeca.govt.nz/).
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (https://www.mbie.govt.nz/)
For Renters
If you’re living in rented accommodation and you’re seeing signs of moisture of mould then you might have an insulation issue.
Typically if there are areas that are missed with insulation, whether it’s the ceiling, underfloor or walls, you’ll see a presence of some form of mould or condensation building up. It becomes quite obvious in bathrooms, behind furniture in your living room and in the back of wardrobes.
If you are seeing these types of problems then you should have a chat to your landlord and point them in the direction of CosyWall. We can work with your landlord to do a home assessment and see what needs sorting out.
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In New Zealand, your landlord is legally obligated to provide a minimum standard of insulation in your home. If you’re living in your home and you’re finding issues with cold, dampness or moisture build-up, it’s possible your home is not up to standard.
The best thing to do is get in touch with your landlord and have a chat with them about getting an assessment done on the property. The team at CosyWall can come and have a look to see if there are any insulation deficiencies and provide you an obligation free quote to bring the property up to standard.
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General Knowledge
Having CosyWall Insulation installed in your home will change your life. Wall Insulation fundamentally changes the feel of your home. You’ll notice how quickly your home warms up in the winter, how cool it stays during the summer.
Additionally, wall insulation has acoustic properties which usually means the house will be a lot quieter overall. You’ll probably notice a decrease in exterior sounds like road noise and those neighbours that like to party every Saturday night.
Installing CosyWall insulation will make your home feel great, and you’ll love living in it even more! Talk to the team today to find out how you can have CosyWall insulation installed.
We’ve been installing CosyWall in New Zealand homes since 2002 and over that time we have continually been developing our systems. We have several pathways to compliance including Codemark certification, full internal auditing systems and a significant history of use on various New Zealand homes over the past 18 years.
We’ve proven time and time again that having CosyWall Insulation installed will create beautiful warm living environment and a much healthier home for your family.
Talk to the team today to find out how we can help insulate your home!
Most people are surprised how quickly CosyWall Insulation can be installed. Officially it depends on the size and complexity of your home, but in most cases, the installation can be completed in a couple of days.
Just head away for one day and when you come back your home will be filled with CosyWall Insulation and you won’t believe the difference!
One of the questions we get asked on a regular basis is if we can install CosyWall Insulation into a brick home. Yes, we can install CosyWall into a brick house, and CosyWall is CodeMark certified to be installed into brick houses.
The product is a specialised German engineered product that’s been designed to be installed into the double brick cavity homes in Europe. CosyWall is designed to go against wet or damp surfaces and includes a water-repellant with specially designed fibers making it ideal for New Zealand brick homes.
Technical Info
CosyWall insulation has Codemark certification and what this means is that we’ve been through all the steps involved in proving to the government that our CosyWall System complies with the building code.
Codemark certification helps provide you peace of mind that when you choose CosyWall Insulation, it is a durable, long-lasting product that will be installed by qualified experts. The system is continually reviewed through regular auditing and testing procedure,s giving you the reassurance that the installation will be done to the highest quality standards.
The simplest way to describe how CosyWall insulation works is by using the example of a chilly bin effect.
Typically in a home, you have a lid (the roof insulation). and a base (the floor insulation) and all your homes heat passes out through the walls. CosyWall insulation completes your home’s thermal envelope by adding a barrier to the walls of your home, allowing your home to retain its heat.
The great thing about CosyWall Insulation is that we install it to such a high density that it’s never going to slump or shink inside your walls.
CosyWall is based on European technology and is proven overseas as well as in New Zealand. The product is not going to deteriorate over time, and once it’s in your walls, it’s there to stay. It will continue performing day in, day out and will never cost you a cent to run.
The result is a much warmer, healthier home that you’ll love to live in!
Talk to the team today about having CosyWall Insulation installed into your home.
CosyWall has been designed to be retrofitted into most New Zealand homes. The only requirement to comply with the New Zealand building code is that your home must be weathertight.
Provided that’s not an issue, chances are we’ll be able to install into your home with no issues. The best thing to do is contact us so we can have a chat about your needs and arrange a qualified assessor to provide an obligation free quote for your property.
CosyWall Insulation is very easy to install into the homes. If you install a segment product, you usually have to remove all the linings of your home to install it. This can be a costly process and take a long amount of time to install.
With CosyWall the installation is very simple. It’s blown into your walls through small holes from either the interior or exterior of your home depending on your preference. When we’re done we seal up all the holes and once we’re finished you’ll never know we were there.
At CosyWall, we often get questions about the size of the hole we blow through. We’ve been blowing insulation into New Zealand homes for more than 18 years, and over this time we’ve tried different hole sizes from large to very small to test the difference in installation quality and performance.
What we’ve found is that there is an optimum whole size that enables us to do the job properly, and we choose that hole size based on your specific house. If you’d like to know more, please contact the team at CosyWall and we’d be happy to chat!
We often get asked about R-values in CosyWall. An R-value is simply a measure of a thermal resistance of an insulation product. The higher the number the better it will retain heat inside your house.
CosyWall Insulation has the highest R-value that’s obtainable in this type of product and is equivalent to the top batts and blown insulation products available in New Zealand.
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