Do you have to have an expensive watch or jewellery or important documents that you need to keep safe at work or home? In overseas countries safety deposit boxes are common, but they are very rare in New Zealand. This leads to many people in New Zealand storing expensive valuables and documents insecurely in their […]

What is alarm monitoring? Alarm monitoring is signal communication between your home security system and your alarm monitoring provider’s control centre. The control panel of your alarm system registers an emergency event and sends a signal to the central monitoring station. How does alarm monitoring work? Typically, when your security alarm goes off, the response […]

Concrete is the clearest sign of infrastructure growth and real estate development. An increase in the manufacture of concrete correlates to greater economic activity in residential and commercial real estate sectors, and in the realm of public infrastructure. More houses, more roads, more offices, more schools, more stadiums. But this also leads to a grave […]

In yet another incident of unauthorised electrical work being done, the New Plymouth district court has convicted and fined Mark Pierson, an employee of a home ventilation business in Taranaki, who carried out electrical work without being a registered electrician.  He uninstalled and installed a home ventilation system at a rental property in Stratford in […]

If you live in one of the colder cities in NZ, you are likely to be paying a considerable amount of money on your electricity bills through the year. Wonder which appliances are costing you the most and how you can reduce electrical costs? You’d be surprised. Electricity costs for household appliances and how to […]