Golden Homes Canterbury

With prime inner-city sections, suburban and rural subdivisions constantly coming onto the market the team at Golden Homes secure the very best to then offer to our discerning customers.

You can search below by region and by section size so whether you're after sophisticated inner-city style, suburban bliss to bring up your family or a slice of rural bliss we are always introducing new house and land packages to our portfolio

Search our range of designer plans which you can customise to suit your land and lifestyle. Our designers would love to work with you to build your dream home.

Our Gold Standard Building System is your assurance that your dream home will be built to the highest standard.

They're homes designed for New Zealand lifestyles and New Zealand conditions, with top quality fittings, finishes and building materials. Now you get the benefit of all our years in house building with our very own Gold Standard Building System. It's where every aspect of building your home comes together in one superior package and makes your Golden Home stand out above the rest.

But what's in the Gold Standard Building System that makes your Golden Home a better home?

Your home is built on a RibRaft concrete floor, a method where foundations sit directly on the ground. These types of foundations are often quicker to construct than traditional methods. They perform better in earthquakes and have been recommended for Christchurch rebuilds. For warmth and comfort, they come with insulation rating up to R2.2.

To keep the elements outside where they belong, Golden Homes® use metal tile or long-run roofs. They’re lightweight, easy to maintain with long-lasting colour, and ideally suited to New Zealand weather conditions - so you know the roof will do its job for many years to come.

Breathe easy - we install natural air integrated ventilators in all our bathrooms and toilets to remove damp, stale air and keep it fresh.

With 10mm GIB Ultraline® on your ceilings and walls, you’ll have plenty of peace and quiet. With its special Pearlcoat™ technology on its surface, you’ll have a beautiful paint finish that can stand up to the rigours of daily living.

Aluminium window joinery specifically designed so the extruded frames are directly fixed to the ZOG® steel framing, providing superior strength and exceptional security against adverse weather conditions.

With R5.0 insulation in your ceiling and a total of R2.5 insulation in your walls (thanks to the R2.2 insulation and R0.3 Home-RAB® thermal barrier sheet), your home will stay cool in the summer and be toasty warm in winter - and use as little energy as possible

With Home-RAB® thermal barrier sheets, your steel framing is well protected from any temperature fluctuations and you gain R0.3 in total wall insulation.

Featuring components such as ZOG steel roof purlins, steel fascia and spouting ZOG steel framing, plus fire-retardant roofing paper and interior wallboard means your home is highly fire-resistant or totally fireproof.

With our very own New Zealand made ZOG steel framing, the structure of your home will be as strong as anything. Controlled testing has shown that a steel-framed house with brick cladding can withstand major seismic activity, and because steel can’t rot or grow mould, it’s healthier for your family too.

Thermal breaks on all your windows give you a warmer, drier home. They keep the condensation off your glass, as well as your aluminium window frames, so you’ll have no problems with mould or the winter chill.

The LED lights you’ll find throughout your home use up to 80 per cent less energy than regular bulbs and last up to 20 times longer. The insulation you have invested in, keeping your home both cool and warm, means you’ll love the reduced power bills.

Your interior walls are painted with Resene Spacecote®, an exceptionally durable, abrasion-resistant and easily cleaned finish. Outside we use Resene Sonyx ® which is designed to reflect the heat and last longer, even in New Zealand’s harsh UV conditions.

ZOG is more than just steel framing, ZOG is a comprehensively engineered steel framing system that has been specifically designed for New Zealand's unique conditions and the demands of New Zealand families for a stronger, more durable, healthier living environment.

Earthquakes

ZOG steel frames exceed expectations in earthquakes. Tested independently in Australia, the steel frame and bricks successfully exceeded 9 on the Richter scale. ZOG’s patented bottom plate anchors were 100% successful in the recent Christchurch earthquakes. This is of course a significant advantage in New Zealand where many cities are situated on or very near to known fault lines.

“The test house performed right at the upper end of my expectations and it’s as good as we could have hoped for and certainly better than I expected. This means that we have a system that is incredibly robust in earthquakes and it means that we can show that the system will deliver the best possible performance in an earthquake and performance that I believe is demonstrably better than any other system that’s been tested in New Zealand to date.”

- Dr G Charles Clifton, University of Auckland, NZ.

Electrical Safety

ZOG steel frames are permanently earthed in accordance with the requirements of the local electrical authorities. Steel is an excellent conductor of electricity it is improbable that any current would actually pass through the human body (high resistance) instead of the frame to earth system (low resistance). Non-conducting building materials with higher electrical resistances than steel actually increase the chance that more current will pass through the person.

It is a requirement that any new dwelling must be fitted with a safety switch, also known as an RCD (Residual Current Device) or an ELCN (Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker). These devices are designed to prevent death by accidental electrocution in a majority of cases.

Fire Safety

No home can completely fire safe but there are a number of ways you can plan for a house that has high fire-resistance. Your choice of building materials is very important. Sometimes life depends on it. The right materials can significantly delay, minimise or prevent damage to your home. Should damage occur, the materials of construction could mean the difference between repairing your home or having to rebuild it completely. Put simply: FIRE CANNOT SPREAD WITHOUT FUEL.

ZOG steel frames do not ignite, propagate or add fuel to a fire. Golden Homes utilise premium 10mm Ultraline® on ceilings and 10mm Ultraline on walls throughout their homes as a standard specification. Ultraline has similar fire resistance characteristics to Fyreline®. Substituting combustible materials, such as Ultraline, will assist in reducing the consequences of uncontrolled fire. The frames and trusses will not burn and are electrically safe, largely reducing the flammable materials in your home. ZOG steel is engineered to be used for our roof battens, along with fire-retardant roofing paper. When fire resistance is a critical consideration in construction, ZOG steel framing provides a great solution.

Healthy

ZOG steel frames are chemical-free, allergen-free and dust-free and have been recognised by the Asthma Foundation of New Zealand as a ‘Sensitive Choice’. Specifically developed sealing techniques for around windows, plus a moisture barrier system are combined with ZOG steel frames to help achieve this. This stability of the dimensions & shape of ZOG steel framing is a major factor in being able to maintain effective long-term sealing reducing the ingress of dust and moisture.

ZOG steel doesn’t support mould growth or rot and its stability gives it the potential to reduce cracks in claddings and linings. ZOG steel does not contain additional preservative chemicals and won’t give off gases or emit violent and/or obnoxious chemicals (VOCs).

Climate/ Environment

Golden Homes have pioneered double glazing, introducing it as a standard feature in 2003. Today, we are again leading the building industry with thermally improved aluminium frames becoming a standard feature in our homes. This complements the overall thermal performance and comfort level of the entire home. Our Golden specification insulation is R5.0 in ceilings and R2.5 in walls.

Construction of any building material has some impact on the environment. Effects can occur in production, transport, distribution, the building process, service and disposal.

Consumers are urged to consider the wider picture. They will be bombarded by isolated “facts” given out of context to create a favourable image. For example, the planting of trees is promoted as a wholly good thing: “young growing trees use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere”. The loss of habitat, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the downstream effects of the planting of introduced species of trees on large tracts of land, large factories producing treatment chemicals, heavy machinery for clearing, milling, drying and much more, are conveniently ignored.

Independent bodies (and some steel producers) around the world have performed life-cycle analyses on the environmental impacts of using steel.

• ZOG steel frames are 100% recyclable and approximately 55% of all steel in use has been produced from recycled scrap. Steel recycling programs reduce the solid waste stream, resulting in saved landfill space and the conservation of natural resources.
• ZOG steel-framed homes are energy-efficient homes that are not only “liveable”, but minimise total energy consumed in heating and cooling over its lifetime due to the highly efficient insulation. This saves the homeowner money and just as importantly, lessens the impact on the environment.
• ZOG steel frames are lightweight but strong. They are made from 0.75mm BMT, high tensile steel and have been engineered to achieve a very high efficiency of material use.
• ZOG steel frames are fabricated from components made specifically for each individual home, thus minimising wastage due to scrap. Scrap wastage on the actual building site is also minimal because very little, if any, cutting is required.

Construction

ZOG steel is manufactured in New Zealand from locally mined iron sand and a component of recycled steel. The roll forming technology behind steel framing allows fabrication to exact specifications before they’re erected. About 60% of NZ Steel output is exported. NZ Steel operates to the stringent ISO 9000 quality standards and is committed to being a world-class steelmaker.

During periods of wet weather or during winter months, the moisture level in timber frames can become too high and so internal wall linings cannot be commenced until the moisture levels drop sufficiently. ZOG steel frames do not suffer from the inconvenience so construction times are often significantly reduced.

As ZOG steel frames are so dimensionally straight, tradespeople find there is no need for packing to compensate for non-linear dimensions as is often the case with timber framing. Internal lining trade’s people prefer ZOG steel framing because of its straightness and accuracy. Specialist sub-contractors can install bathrooms and kitchens more easily and at a lower cost for the same reasons.

The dimensionally stable properties of ZOG steel framing assists in providing a very high standard of internal finish that will last as ZOG steel framing will not warp, twist or shrink after installation.

Durability 

Steel framing is the only framing material for which any kind of structural durability warranty is offered. ZOG steel frames come with a 50-year durability warranty from New Zealand Steel. Warranties for ZOG steel frames cover thermal areas such as Rotorua and coastal areas (sea-spray) such as Kapiti Coast.

ZOG represents the leading edge in framing for homes in New Zealand and delivers to the homeowner all the additional benefits of strength, structural integrity, durability and rigidity at a comparable, often more competitive price to traditional timber. Steel framing is more likely to maintain its structural integrity over the long-term because it is impervious to rot, termites and other pests that can slowly degrade the structural integrity of framing members, lessening the ability of a house to withstand seismic forces.