Self-Assessment
The Homestar™ Self Assessment is a free, and easy to use online tool designed to assess your own home. Answering multiple choice questions provides you with a self assessment report, a provisional Homestar™ rating and a set of recommendations that are reasonably tailored to your home.
The Homestar™ Self Assessment involves completing multi-choice questions about your home and its features, this should take about 15-20 minutes.
There is a little investigation work you could do to prepare, such as measure your shower flow and how much insulation you have, but the tool explains how in the 'Show Tips' section.
This tool automatically calculates your self assessed provisional rating based on how energy and water efficient, healthy, comfortable and sustainable your home is. You will get a provisional Homestar™ rating on a scale of 0 to 10 stars – most existing New Zealand homes would be between 1 and 5 stars so there is always room for improvement. You will also get a report that recommends the best ways to improve your home’s performance. You can prioritise this list to suit what is important to you and your family - by cost for example, or health and comfort benefits.