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How to Reduce Moisture and Condensation In Your Home Throughout Winter

How to Reduce Moisture and Condensation In Your Home Throughout Winter In the cold months moisture can build up around your home in Central Otago if your home is older and inadequately insulated and ventilated.  Reducing moisture in your home is important for maintaining a healthy living environment, preventing mould growth, reducing running costs and ...

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Posted: July 4, 2024Category:

How To Avoid Blocking Your Waste Disposal Unit

Optum’s Guide to Looking After Your Waste Disposal Waste disposal units are popular in NZ homes but when they are blocked it can be very frustrating and expensive to repair.  Waste disposal manufacturers have different advice on what you can and cant dispose of in their units. Here we have prepared a general guide for ...

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5 Reasons to Replace Your Heating System Before Winter

5 Reasons to Replace Your Heating System Before Winter Kicks In Winter in the deep South of New Zealand is fast approaching, bringing with it the necessity for a reliable and efficient home heating system.  With temperatures that can plummet below 0 degrees if you’re heating isn’t working optimally then it is going to wreck ...

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The Henderson Home: All Round Performance

The owners of the Henderson Home were, quite frankly, fed up with cold draughty homes and ever-increasing power bills. They wanted to invest in a home that provided the comfort they wanted, with minimal power costs.    They have now been in the home for 12 months. The home has far exceeded their expectations with ...

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Posted: January 7, 2024Category:

Plumbing Excellence takes flight: How Optum optimised “Wings Over Water”

  Recently featured in Abode Magazine, this new- build overlooking Coronet Peak gave us the opportunity to fully showcase our culture of innovation when designing & installing their plumbing, heating and ventilation systems. The large 323m2 home, known as “Wings over Water”,  has a double twisted plane roofline, beautifully resembling a butterfly. The house is ...

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Posted: August 25, 2023Category:

Camp Glenorchy Project

Described as “An exemplar application of technology to achieve zero energy”, Camp Glenorchy Eco Retreat is a true living marvel, and we say “living” for a reason.

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Posted: May 19, 2020Category:

Leading the way with heat pump technology

Our brief for this stunning Jack’s Point home was clear; the heating system needed to seamlessly meld into the home design in both aesthetics and operation, while retaining a high level of efficiency for both underfloor heating and domestic hot water.

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Posted: March 19, 2020Category:

Harness the sun’s energy with solar

Central Otago, Wanaka and Queenstown all have the most beautiful bright sunny days. The weather in our region is perfect for harnessing the energy from the sun and turning it into power or home heating.

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Posted: November 19, 2019Category:

Sun, gas and wood powered home heating

In a recent rural project at Mt Barker, Wanaka, we installed a complex yet highly efficient off-grid system that involved utilising power from sun, wood and gas for water and home heating.

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Posted: May 19, 2019Category:

New efficient radiant heating system

The new Messana Active Panel provides a new option to heat a home from the ceiling or walls within the home.

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Posted: April 19, 2019Category: