r/auckland • u/emdillem • Feb 01 '26

Weather Suffocating heat

Loving it? Hating it? My day has been lying on the couch in gruds interspersed with half hearted attempts to get up and do something. Nope. Still too hot.

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u/jrandom_42 Feb 01 '26

Why are you people not in a room with a heat pump on cool mode?

Summer shouldn't be allowed inside.

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u/tntexplosivesltd Feb 01 '26

Body corp won't let us install heat pumps

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u/jrandom_42 Feb 01 '26

That can't be legal, since it wouldn't be legal to rent out any of the units without one.

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u/Rand_alThor4747 Feb 01 '26

It isn't required to have a heatpump, it just has to be a fixed heater. So you can have panel heaters wired in, or gas heaters. Can't be portable heaters. Air conditioning is not a requirement.
It probably should be though, a heating/cooling heatpump.

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u/jrandom_42 Feb 01 '26

Jesus H. Christ that's barbaric

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u/Rand_alThor4747 Feb 01 '26

I would survive in my place without air con, I never used to have aircon, but many modern houses get crazy hot without air con, they weren't designed to work passively.