WEBVTT - The Resident Builder podcast: August 4, 2024 0:00:06.855 --> 0:00:10.695 You're listening to the Resonant Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 0:00:10.895 --> 0:00:13.495 from News Talks ed B fifth place. 0:00:13.815 --> 0:00:18.015 That won't be enough, unfortunately for zoe Hobbs. Not in 0:00:18.055 --> 0:00:21.335 the top two and two others faster than her in 0:00:21.375 --> 0:00:25.095 this semi final. It was a great start from Zoey Hobbs. 0:00:25.575 --> 0:00:29.015 We'll check the times, but by my eye she was fifth. 0:00:29.175 --> 0:00:34.335 Zoey Hobbs, twenty shit Terry won it. Tia Clayton there 0:00:34.375 --> 0:00:38.295 as well. I've got Hobbs and fifth. We'll wait for 0:00:38.375 --> 0:00:45.055 official confirmation, but Tia Clayton and twenty shit Terry fastest. 0:00:49.255 --> 0:00:53.375 We'll check Zoey Hobbs' time. She got away well and 0:00:53.495 --> 0:00:55.415 lane three did Zoey Hobbs. She was up with the 0:00:55.495 --> 0:00:59.935 leaders who were Clayton and Terry, and then through fifteen 0:00:59.935 --> 0:01:03.095 meters just a grimace on her face. Darryl Natter from 0:01:03.135 --> 0:01:07.735 Great Britain went past her and it may be sixth 0:01:07.775 --> 0:01:11.055 even for Zoey Hobbs. Will check the time though, to 0:01:11.095 --> 0:01:13.055 see if she's close to that mark of hers of 0:01:13.135 --> 0:01:18.135 ten ninety six, a national record. Sixth place for Zoey 0:01:18.135 --> 0:01:22.375 Hobbs in the semi final. Absolutely no disgrace there even 0:01:22.415 --> 0:01:32.615 reaching the semi is quite something. Official confirmation of Zoey 0:01:32.615 --> 0:01:36.095 Hobbs's time eleven one three, so quite away outside her PB. 0:01:36.335 --> 0:01:39.975 She will not progress to the final unfortunately. Tea Clayton 0:01:40.055 --> 0:01:42.855 ten eight nine. Daryl Nita from Great Britain got up 0:01:42.855 --> 0:01:47.015 to second in ten ninety seven, so Twanisha Terry only 0:01:47.055 --> 0:01:53.415 going through as one of the best next Alfred Richardson Clayton, 0:01:53.495 --> 0:01:55.975 Nita Jefferson Tether you have it. 0:01:56.015 --> 0:01:58.895 That was live from Paris this morning. So zoe Hobbes 0:01:59.015 --> 0:02:02.615 a fantastic achievement to achieve a semi final in the 0:02:02.615 --> 0:02:06.175 woman's one hundred meters and phenomenal pace, I must have. 0:02:06.535 --> 0:02:08.735 And there's been discussion. We're not going to go down 0:02:08.735 --> 0:02:11.895 a sports talk type thing, but I was part of 0:02:11.935 --> 0:02:15.015 a fascinating discussion the other day where people were suggesting 0:02:15.055 --> 0:02:18.415 that we don't for us as mere immortals. And you know, 0:02:18.495 --> 0:02:20.335 if the last time you ran the hundred meters was 0:02:20.375 --> 0:02:22.895 when you're in the school athletics program or something like that, 0:02:23.735 --> 0:02:25.615 you know you should really sort of line up an 0:02:25.655 --> 0:02:27.935 average sort of runner along with these people, or an 0:02:27.935 --> 0:02:30.495 average swimmer or something. I was watching the ten thousand 0:02:30.495 --> 0:02:37.175 meters men's final the other day extraordinary. We will bring 0:02:37.215 --> 0:02:39.495 you up to date. Well, we will get a little 0:02:39.535 --> 0:02:46.095 bit sidetracked by this, but that's absolutely fine. That's not 0:02:46.135 --> 0:02:54.495 looking good. Tom Walsh seems to have injured himself during 0:02:54.535 --> 0:03:00.015 the shot. We'll bring you more news on that. We 0:03:00.095 --> 0:03:02.015 might have to go to the sports team get some updates. Right, 0:03:02.575 --> 0:03:05.255 eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call 0:03:05.375 --> 0:03:07.975 if you would like to to join in and discuss all. 0:03:08.215 --> 0:03:08.895 Oh, that's right. 0:03:08.935 --> 0:03:11.335 I was doing a task that was slightly unfamiliar to 0:03:11.375 --> 0:03:15.775 me this week, along with the occasional observation from my 0:03:15.775 --> 0:03:19.855 beloved as to do you know what you're doing, to 0:03:19.895 --> 0:03:22.535 which I replied, yes, it's okay. I listened to that 0:03:22.575 --> 0:03:27.655 guy on Sunday morning. So I was doing the taps 0:03:27.815 --> 0:03:31.575 in the bathroom, right, which have been slowly dripping and 0:03:31.615 --> 0:03:34.015 got harder and harder to turn on and turn off. 0:03:35.335 --> 0:03:38.015 When we renovated our place, we put the bathroom in 0:03:38.135 --> 0:03:42.295 probably twenty odd years ago. It all still works. It's 0:03:42.335 --> 0:03:44.095 just that the tap was getting a little bit stiff 0:03:44.175 --> 0:03:47.175 to turn on and off, and it was starting to drip. 0:03:47.335 --> 0:03:49.415 That's what happens with taps, right, That's why they have 0:03:49.455 --> 0:03:52.015 a replaceable washer in them. Turns out that the tap 0:03:52.135 --> 0:03:56.415 was slightly more complicated than I was expecting. I've pulled 0:03:56.415 --> 0:03:58.855 apart a number of them over the years, partly out 0:03:58.895 --> 0:04:02.695 of curiosity. This one was unlike anything else that I'd seen, 0:04:02.735 --> 0:04:05.695 and when I ended up on the workbench with several 0:04:05.775 --> 0:04:08.535 parts of the tap, I did start to question my 0:04:08.575 --> 0:04:10.815 ability to put it back together, and started to think 0:04:10.815 --> 0:04:12.655 about whether or not I could call Jerry, who's a 0:04:12.655 --> 0:04:15.175 plumber who lives around the corner, to sort this out. 0:04:15.455 --> 0:04:18.215 The other thing that I did realize but pushed through 0:04:18.255 --> 0:04:21.855 the reluctance, was it's never a wise idea to start 0:04:21.895 --> 0:04:26.935 a job at four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. So 0:04:27.175 --> 0:04:29.055 this was gnawing away in the back of my mind 0:04:29.095 --> 0:04:31.215 as well. But anyway, we got there in the end, 0:04:32.535 --> 0:04:34.575 and in fact, I was so excited by the overall 0:04:34.615 --> 0:04:38.135 performance of the now newly refurbished, cleaned up in what 0:04:38.375 --> 0:04:44.335 and greased tap with its complicated mechanism, that I'm quite 0:04:44.375 --> 0:04:47.975 excited to do the pot tap on Monday. So that'll 0:04:48.015 --> 0:04:50.895 be my task for tomorrow, rightio, Open line talkback on 0:04:51.055 --> 0:04:53.935 all things building construction. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten 0:04:54.095 --> 0:04:56.615 eighty is the number to call. We can talk about 0:04:56.815 --> 0:04:59.335 Actually I had a great conversation with someone. I'll talk 0:04:59.335 --> 0:05:01.455 about it bit later on about ventilation. 0:05:02.535 --> 0:05:05.535 I know. Actually it was really very exciting. 0:05:06.295 --> 0:05:08.535 We also had the opportunity this week to tag along 0:05:08.655 --> 0:05:12.095 with some guys from Apex Boots that I do some 0:05:12.135 --> 0:05:16.135 work with to the Miter ten expo, so they have 0:05:16.455 --> 0:05:21.335 an exhibitor's expo every year. And then I was lucky 0:05:21.455 --> 0:05:26.335 enough to attend the gala dinner in Hamilton on Wednesday 0:05:26.415 --> 0:05:29.495 night with the people from Mite to ten. So I 0:05:29.535 --> 0:05:32.295 think it was almost one thousand people, one thousand delegates. 0:05:32.295 --> 0:05:34.055 So these are the people that own the stores, These 0:05:34.095 --> 0:05:37.415 are the people that supply into the stores, the support office, 0:05:37.455 --> 0:05:41.535 the executive team, the cooperative and the chair and the 0:05:41.615 --> 0:05:45.895 chief executive and a very swanky and very entertaining gala 0:05:45.935 --> 0:05:51.575 dinner and prize giving at Claudland's Globbox on Wednesday night. 0:05:51.735 --> 0:05:54.975 So my thanks to them for their hospitality. It was 0:05:55.015 --> 0:05:58.695 a fantastic evening and quite an interesting insight into a 0:05:58.815 --> 0:06:01.495 very very large business when it comes to New Zealand. 0:06:01.535 --> 0:06:06.615 So revenue two point two billion dollars goes through Minor 0:06:06.695 --> 0:06:10.815 ten stores. It's remarkable and a tremendous bunch of people, 0:06:10.815 --> 0:06:12.655 to be fair, So thanks very much for your company 0:06:12.975 --> 0:06:15.735 or for letting me join you on at might a 0:06:15.855 --> 0:06:17.695 Tens gala on Wednesday night. 0:06:17.975 --> 0:06:19.095 Rightio, let's get into it. 0:06:19.135 --> 0:06:21.455 If you've got a progrem project that. 0:06:21.535 --> 0:06:24.415 Is well, like mine, a little bit a little bit. 0:06:24.815 --> 0:06:26.775 Uncertain as to what the outcome is going to be 0:06:27.015 --> 0:06:28.495 and you want to talk about it, or you've got 0:06:28.495 --> 0:06:30.375 a project that you're thinking about, or you've got a 0:06:30.375 --> 0:06:33.775 project that's just turned into an absolute disaster that you 0:06:33.815 --> 0:06:36.855 want to ask questions about and issues around contractors. 0:06:36.855 --> 0:06:38.415 I've sort of replied to a couple. 0:06:38.255 --> 0:06:41.135 Of emails this week where people have struggled with the 0:06:41.655 --> 0:06:44.895 quality of the contractors that they've engaged and what do 0:06:44.935 --> 0:06:47.615 you do about that? Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty 0:06:47.735 --> 0:06:49.615 is the number to call. We will keep one eye 0:06:49.615 --> 0:06:53.215 on the Olympics as well. I have to say, not 0:06:53.295 --> 0:06:55.935 looking particularly good for Tom Walsh. Looked like he was 0:06:55.975 --> 0:06:58.975 in a great deal of pain after his last throw. 0:06:59.255 --> 0:07:01.175 So we'll try and bring you more information on that 0:07:01.255 --> 0:07:03.735 peat Wolf camp here at Newstalks there'd beat lines are open. 0:07:03.975 --> 0:07:06.255 The number eight hundred eighty ten eighty. You can tell 0:07:06.575 --> 0:07:10.015 that's nine two nine two was ABZB from your mobile phone. 0:07:10.095 --> 0:07:12.175 And if you'd like to email me, it's Pete at 0:07:12.255 --> 0:07:14.975 newstalksb dot Co dot Nz. But the lines are free 0:07:15.095 --> 0:07:17.255 right now. We always get busy later in the show, 0:07:17.295 --> 0:07:19.255 so now it's a great time to call. Eight hundred 0:07:19.255 --> 0:07:21.695 and eighty ten eighty you a news talks heb Pete 0:07:21.695 --> 0:07:24.735 wolf Camp with you open line on all things building construction. 0:07:24.895 --> 0:07:26.535 A very good morning to you, Paul. 0:07:27.615 --> 0:07:28.815 Oh, good morning to morning. 0:07:32.175 --> 0:07:33.815 I needed a staw bench and I went down to 0:07:33.815 --> 0:07:35.295 mine at ten and got one and brought it at 0:07:35.295 --> 0:07:37.055 home and all this is a good looking staw bench 0:07:37.055 --> 0:07:39.735 for two hundred ninety nine and black in deca right, 0:07:40.815 --> 0:07:44.375 And I put the guard on it and it flew 0:07:44.375 --> 0:07:47.055 off when I started at that, so I thought, well, 0:07:47.135 --> 0:07:48.735 must have done that wrong, So I put it on 0:07:48.815 --> 0:07:51.735 again and checked it as the book said, I put 0:07:51.735 --> 0:07:54.575 it on correctly, put another bit of timber stirt and 0:07:54.575 --> 0:07:57.415 it flew off again. So I took it back to 0:07:57.455 --> 0:07:58.975 my out of ten and they said, oh, there's nothing 0:07:58.975 --> 0:08:01.255 wrong with that, all right, and you have a look 0:08:01.255 --> 0:08:02.495 at it, and I'll come back in the next day. 0:08:02.975 --> 0:08:05.215 And the next day you had a bit of Timber 0:08:05.255 --> 0:08:07.935 City by thirty and about a foot foot or too wrong. 0:08:07.975 --> 0:08:10.695 And he cuts through that his note words perfectly, and 0:08:10.775 --> 0:08:13.135 I says, no, it doesn't And I just ripped just 0:08:13.135 --> 0:08:15.415 by putting my hand. Well it was twitched off, of course. 0:08:15.895 --> 0:08:19.015 I just pushed my hand up and off came the guard. 0:08:19.735 --> 0:08:22.095 And I says that there's two faults of this. The 0:08:22.255 --> 0:08:24.695 on off switch is covered by a flat. Now a 0:08:24.775 --> 0:08:27.055 child will look at and see them stairdy working on it, 0:08:27.095 --> 0:08:29.575 would look up that flat, press the go button and 0:08:29.735 --> 0:08:31.535 allays that spinny thing and then put their hands to 0:08:31.575 --> 0:08:32.615 it and they would lose their hands. 0:08:33.695 --> 0:08:36.535 Yeah, but that's really about how you control your workspace, 0:08:36.615 --> 0:08:38.575 to be fair, And I'll tell you a story about that. 0:08:39.775 --> 0:08:43.095 Yeah, it's a very bad sword to have a home, 0:08:43.135 --> 0:08:46.255 you know. And so they don't think it's faulty. So 0:08:46.295 --> 0:08:48.335 I rang up the Commerce Commission and then got onto ITOUN. 0:08:48.415 --> 0:08:49.775 So there may be a recall of them. 0:08:50.015 --> 0:08:52.855 Okay, look, I'm to be fair. I'm not actually interested 0:08:52.895 --> 0:08:58.615 in slinging off tools, right. I understand where you're coming from. 0:08:58.655 --> 0:09:03.455 And obviously safety is phenomenally important when it comes to 0:09:03.655 --> 0:09:07.455 two power tools. Yeah, I guess too. There's there's a 0:09:07.775 --> 0:09:09.975 I mean, how much research did you do in terms 0:09:10.015 --> 0:09:13.575 of selecting a table saw, and like, what sorts of 0:09:13.695 --> 0:09:15.735 tasks will you do with your table saw? 0:09:17.095 --> 0:09:19.575 Well, with the table saw, I've got to build a 0:09:19.615 --> 0:09:23.535 new book. Thinks cup tops cut things up? And as yeah, 0:09:24.975 --> 0:09:27.975 I only found out of about eight there, I only 0:09:27.975 --> 0:09:30.295 found one that had a steel guard that would not 0:09:30.415 --> 0:09:34.255 move right would move, and I thought, this is not right. 0:09:34.815 --> 0:09:36.975 And even the one that had the good guard only 0:09:36.975 --> 0:09:39.695 had a flip cover on the on off switch. And 0:09:39.775 --> 0:09:42.295 little kids are very excited around tools and very interested 0:09:42.335 --> 0:09:44.055 in things, especially a little. 0:09:43.815 --> 0:09:44.375 More I know. 0:09:44.415 --> 0:09:49.015 But again, and look, I've got a young son, and 0:09:49.135 --> 0:09:51.775 I've got a table saw, and I can remember a 0:09:51.815 --> 0:09:54.495 time years ago when I was working in the shed 0:09:54.535 --> 0:09:58.615 and I had the table saw set up, thankfully, with 0:09:58.695 --> 0:10:01.175 the blade down and all the rest of it, and 0:10:01.295 --> 0:10:04.615 my little eye wandered and was looking around and curious 0:10:04.655 --> 0:10:07.055 and so on, and he flicked a switch on the 0:10:07.095 --> 0:10:10.175 table saw and it started. Now he was standing reasonably 0:10:10.175 --> 0:10:12.015 way back and all the rest of it. So I 0:10:12.055 --> 0:10:16.015 know exactly what you mean. It's scared the living daylights 0:10:16.055 --> 0:10:18.415 out of him. And to be fair, it's scared the 0:10:18.415 --> 0:10:21.815 living daylights out of me too. But you know, in 0:10:21.855 --> 0:10:24.135 the end, if you're going to let children into a workspace, 0:10:24.175 --> 0:10:26.255 that's your responsibility, not the tool owners. 0:10:27.015 --> 0:10:28.135 Well he's at home, you know. 0:10:28.575 --> 0:10:31.735 Yeah, that's right. But ultimately it's your responsibility, not the taller. 0:10:31.975 --> 0:10:33.855 So what are you going to do? Wait for the 0:10:33.975 --> 0:10:35.655 com com to tell you. 0:10:35.615 --> 0:10:36.055 What to do? 0:10:37.175 --> 0:10:38.975 What I did is I rang up the Commerce Commission 0:10:39.015 --> 0:10:41.175 and they're looking into it. They say they could be 0:10:41.175 --> 0:10:41.975 a product recall. 0:10:42.895 --> 0:10:45.415 Yeah, well look, and you know, if the guard's not 0:10:45.455 --> 0:10:48.055 supposed to come off and it does, then that's obviously 0:10:49.055 --> 0:10:49.775 not accepted and. 0:10:49.775 --> 0:10:52.655 The other switch should be protected. Well ahead was a 0:10:52.655 --> 0:10:54.335 flat that went over? That's all here. 0:10:54.415 --> 0:10:56.535 Yeah, but that's enough, isn't it. I mean, what else would. 0:10:56.375 --> 0:10:56.775 You want to do? 0:10:57.095 --> 0:10:59.135 No, that's not enough because kids look up there. 0:11:00.015 --> 0:11:02.575 Again, kids shouldn't be in the workshop if they're not supervised. 0:11:03.375 --> 0:11:05.175 I mean it could be or could be in the 0:11:05.215 --> 0:11:06.255 workshop if either. 0:11:06.095 --> 0:11:10.335 One either way either way A flap over this that, 0:11:10.735 --> 0:11:12.215 I mean the way that I would look at it 0:11:12.295 --> 0:11:14.215 is And I'm just trying to think. My sword doesn't 0:11:14.215 --> 0:11:16.855 even have a flap over the guard right over the 0:11:17.375 --> 0:11:19.895 on off switch. The on off switch is simply a toggle. 0:11:20.295 --> 0:11:21.975 You lift it up to start it and you press 0:11:21.975 --> 0:11:24.495 it down to turn it off. Right, So it's easy 0:11:24.495 --> 0:11:29.375 to turn off. And that's that that prevents you exit 0:11:29.415 --> 0:11:33.215 because you have to lift the trigger on up. It 0:11:33.295 --> 0:11:38.615 stops you inadvertently bumping it. Yep, right, So I think 0:11:38.615 --> 0:11:41.575 that's safe enough. I don't think you need a cover 0:11:41.895 --> 0:11:43.775 with a switch underneath it. I mean I've got another 0:11:44.455 --> 0:11:45.535 some other power tools. 0:11:46.015 --> 0:11:49.335 It needs to have the cover that you can lock switch. 0:11:50.335 --> 0:11:55.295 No, no, no, then I disagree with you. 0:11:56.175 --> 0:11:57.975 Okay, all right, then I'll agree with you. 0:11:58.055 --> 0:12:00.535 I'll like to leave that on off switch available to suppress. 0:12:01.575 --> 0:12:05.135 Well, no, I'm saying to you that ultimately, responsibility in 0:12:05.575 --> 0:12:08.535 workshops is up to the owner, right and to your 0:12:08.575 --> 0:12:13.855 person responsible. So having a lockable switch on power tools 0:12:14.055 --> 0:12:21.215 is not required it it is the manufacturers. 0:12:21.215 --> 0:12:23.895 The manufacturers should not have let it get through the testing. 0:12:24.055 --> 0:12:26.415 No, that's one hundred percent disagree with you. 0:12:27.415 --> 0:12:29.095 Okay, okay mate, we'll just leave it there. 0:12:29.135 --> 0:12:31.095 Okay, all right, much appreciate it. Thanks for the call 0:12:31.775 --> 0:12:36.095 much and you take care. There is a thing called 0:12:36.135 --> 0:12:39.495 personal responsibility. That's where I'm coming from. Sows and power 0:12:39.495 --> 0:12:42.175 tools need to be safe, but they are also power 0:12:42.255 --> 0:12:44.695 tools designed for use, and they don't need to have 0:12:44.775 --> 0:12:48.535 lockable covers on them in my opinion, Oh, eight hundred 0:12:48.615 --> 0:12:50.935 eighty ten eighty is the number to call Joe. 0:12:50.975 --> 0:12:54.215 Good morning, Good morning, Peter. 0:12:55.375 --> 0:12:58.575 We're in the process of building a garage and we've 0:12:58.615 --> 0:13:02.615 got our firewall. Is a block wall, and it's filled 0:13:02.615 --> 0:13:06.775 with concrete. Yes, we had a big grain for about 0:13:06.775 --> 0:13:09.415 three or four days here and some of the water 0:13:09.535 --> 0:13:13.135 has seeped through. So we just need to know what 0:13:13.215 --> 0:13:16.055 product do we use to see all the X year 0:13:16.175 --> 0:13:19.255 the outside of it to prevent the water coming through. 0:13:22.655 --> 0:13:25.335 I'm really curious because over the years I would have 0:13:25.375 --> 0:13:28.735 had tens, if not hundreds of questions very much like yours, 0:13:28.775 --> 0:13:32.735 but typically they're about, you know, a nineteen seventies block 0:13:32.775 --> 0:13:35.735 wall or something like that. So a new block wall 0:13:36.935 --> 0:13:40.815 that's solid filled as ' grouted and it's sitting I 0:13:40.895 --> 0:13:44.655 presume on a concrete slab yep. And the concrete slab 0:13:44.775 --> 0:13:49.055 is not in the ground as a retaining wall, or 0:13:49.695 --> 0:13:55.095 the wall's not a retaining wall as such. No, is 0:13:55.135 --> 0:13:57.015 the building finished and it's leaking. 0:13:59.055 --> 0:14:00.895 Yeah, we're just about there, yep. 0:14:01.775 --> 0:14:05.575 So all the down pipes, flashing, spouting, everything. 0:14:05.255 --> 0:14:07.175 Is right, Okay. 0:14:11.135 --> 0:14:13.775 I am quite curious as to where that leak might 0:14:13.815 --> 0:14:17.815 be coming from, because it would require a lot of 0:14:17.855 --> 0:14:22.415 water to force its way through what is effectively one 0:14:22.455 --> 0:14:26.135 hundred and ninety mili block that's then grouted if it's 0:14:26.215 --> 0:14:31.415 solid filled. Right, So, potentially do the block sit on 0:14:31.535 --> 0:14:34.455 top of the concrete slab or do the blocks extend 0:14:34.895 --> 0:14:38.615 from the foundations up and the slab is cast into 0:14:38.655 --> 0:14:39.255 the side of. 0:14:39.215 --> 0:14:41.575 It if you record out of it, on top of it. 0:14:41.535 --> 0:14:44.215 They sit on top of right? And where are you 0:14:44.295 --> 0:14:45.055 seeing the water? 0:14:46.055 --> 0:14:50.135 Most of the water was down the bottom. 0:14:49.935 --> 0:14:52.855 Down the bottom at that junction between the slab. 0:14:54.015 --> 0:14:57.295 Yeah, and there was a little, just a little, a 0:14:57.335 --> 0:14:59.295 couple of little pitches sort of midway up. 0:14:59.495 --> 0:14:59.975 Yeah. 0:15:00.015 --> 0:15:02.015 And the block wall is it only one wall and 0:15:02.055 --> 0:15:04.415 then the other walls are timber framed that sort of thing. 0:15:05.175 --> 0:15:06.855 Or is the whole garage block wall? 0:15:07.575 --> 0:15:10.015 No, just the one, just the one wall. 0:15:10.215 --> 0:15:10.415 Yeah. 0:15:11.255 --> 0:15:13.095 I mean, look, I think you should be talking to 0:15:13.455 --> 0:15:17.215 the builder and go, hey, look what's the plan here. 0:15:17.255 --> 0:15:19.295 The other thing is obviously this work. If it's a 0:15:19.335 --> 0:15:22.255 block wall and it's required for fire rating, the work 0:15:22.295 --> 0:15:25.095 will have a building consent be interesting to have a 0:15:25.135 --> 0:15:28.015 look on the building consent to see what is required 0:15:28.055 --> 0:15:34.335 on the exterior typically for and I've seen unpainted masonry 0:15:34.415 --> 0:15:38.735 walls not lead in water for decades, right, So I 0:15:38.775 --> 0:15:43.655 am genuinely a little bit surprised. But I would say, look, 0:15:44.295 --> 0:15:46.095 have a talk to the builder, Talk to them about 0:15:46.135 --> 0:15:48.335 what flashings might still need to go on, where the 0:15:48.375 --> 0:15:50.295 spouting has to go on, down pipes have to go on, 0:15:50.375 --> 0:15:52.815 that sort of thing. That might actually solve the problem. 0:15:53.015 --> 0:15:54.935 But the other thing is just in general, what you 0:15:54.975 --> 0:15:59.255 can do is seal the masonry wall, So seal the 0:15:59.255 --> 0:16:03.495 blocks on the exterior with preferably a pigmented sealer so 0:16:03.775 --> 0:16:08.255 something like shore Seal right from razine, and then paint 0:16:08.255 --> 0:16:13.495 it with X two hundred, which is essentially a waterproofing 0:16:13.615 --> 0:16:18.375 paint right designed specifically for masonry surfaces, so you can 0:16:18.455 --> 0:16:21.095 use it on plaster, you can use it on blocks, 0:16:21.135 --> 0:16:24.775 et cetera. And that will give you a waterproof membrane 0:16:24.815 --> 0:16:28.175 on the exterior of there, and that will seal up 0:16:28.215 --> 0:16:31.535 any minor pores and bits and pieces where water might 0:16:31.535 --> 0:16:34.135 be coming through. But I would still have a serious 0:16:34.175 --> 0:16:37.135 discussion with the builder about what flashings need to be 0:16:37.175 --> 0:16:41.215 done where the drainage goes. And I presume the ground 0:16:41.295 --> 0:16:43.455 level on the outside of the block will isn't going 0:16:43.495 --> 0:16:45.695 to be elevated. It's not like there's a requirement to 0:16:45.735 --> 0:16:50.175 do waterproofing there or anything like that. Okay, Yeah, have 0:16:50.215 --> 0:16:52.575 a look on the consent too, because it may well 0:16:52.615 --> 0:16:56.415 specify that the wall needs to be painted, and it 0:16:56.495 --> 0:16:58.455 might specify a particular product. 0:16:58.935 --> 0:17:02.015 Okay, alrighty, okay, let us know how you get on. Alrighty, 0:17:02.055 --> 0:17:02.495 take care. 0:17:08.695 --> 0:17:10.935 Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call? 0:17:11.175 --> 0:17:13.455 Eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to two ninety two 0:17:13.455 --> 0:17:16.495 on the text. A couple of interesting texts coming through 0:17:19.135 --> 0:17:20.935 with regard to our first call it to be fair 0:17:21.135 --> 0:17:23.055 I eight hundred eighty ten eighty. We'll take a short 0:17:23.055 --> 0:17:24.895 break back with Dean in a moment. If you'd like 0:17:24.935 --> 0:17:28.735 to join us. The lines are open. Some fascinating texts 0:17:28.735 --> 0:17:32.495 coming in off the back of Paul's comments, not so 0:17:32.615 --> 0:17:36.495 much necessarily about the particular choice of tool and all 0:17:36.535 --> 0:17:40.455 the rest of it, just around attitudes to safety and look, 0:17:40.495 --> 0:17:43.775 we all work at home, right. If you're listening to 0:17:43.815 --> 0:17:47.455 the show, chances are you've you've done some work. You 0:17:47.535 --> 0:17:49.815 might have used a ladder, or you've had a couple 0:17:49.855 --> 0:17:52.455 of sawhorses with a plank on it, or you've had 0:17:53.415 --> 0:17:56.175 a sander that you've used to strip back some timber, 0:17:56.375 --> 0:17:58.415 or in some case you might have a power tool, 0:17:58.775 --> 0:18:01.575 a drill or a driver, or a multi tool, or 0:18:01.615 --> 0:18:05.335 a jigsaw, or a receip saw or a chainsaw, or 0:18:05.375 --> 0:18:08.815 a weed eater or a motor motor motama. Sorry, you 0:18:08.855 --> 0:18:12.215 know all of these items, right. If we're this whole 0:18:12.255 --> 0:18:14.255 show is about doing it yourself, right, So if you're 0:18:14.255 --> 0:18:16.175 going to do it yourself, you're probably gonna mean it. 0:18:16.815 --> 0:18:20.095 I was sharpening chisels on Friday, right, chisels are well 0:18:20.375 --> 0:18:23.215 sharp now because I sharpened them. You know all of 0:18:23.255 --> 0:18:25.615 these things, And I have to say in my own head, 0:18:25.735 --> 0:18:29.815 I often have to consciously remind myself when I'm using 0:18:29.855 --> 0:18:33.615 a table saw or saw bench. I've got to remember 0:18:33.615 --> 0:18:35.615 that this thing wants to take my bits off, right, 0:18:35.655 --> 0:18:37.455 It wants to take my finger off if I get 0:18:37.455 --> 0:18:40.935 too close to that blade. And I know guys who 0:18:40.935 --> 0:18:45.175 have lost either whole fingers, parts of fingers, parts of 0:18:45.335 --> 0:18:50.055 thumbs and that sort of thing. You know, you do 0:18:50.095 --> 0:18:52.135 you have to keep that presence of mind to go 0:18:52.695 --> 0:18:55.055 that blade. If it's cutting that piece of timber that 0:18:55.095 --> 0:18:58.335 I'm watching go through the blade, then it's not going 0:18:58.415 --> 0:19:03.215 to have a problem with one of my digits. But 0:19:03.535 --> 0:19:10.135 that's about your own presence of mind, your own awareness 0:19:10.815 --> 0:19:15.015 of the situation, and your own control around health and 0:19:15.055 --> 0:19:18.975 safety and proper practices around power tools, all of which 0:19:19.175 --> 0:19:20.335 will hurt you if you. 0:19:20.255 --> 0:19:20.855 Don't use them. 0:19:20.855 --> 0:19:23.335 Well, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number 0:19:23.375 --> 0:19:27.015 to call Dean. Good morning, Good Dane. 0:19:26.815 --> 0:19:27.375 Morning Pete. 0:19:27.455 --> 0:19:30.775 Yep, sorry, mate, just said the microphone in the wrong place. Yeah, 0:19:30.775 --> 0:19:34.335 couldn't agree. Couldn't agree more. Our tools are dangerous, inherently dangerous. 0:19:34.975 --> 0:19:38.015 Look like, I was looking at some gear the other day, 0:19:38.015 --> 0:19:41.535 and I've got some stuff which has real, you know, 0:19:41.895 --> 0:19:45.215 additional safety features that are really useful. So a grinder 0:19:45.255 --> 0:19:49.855 that I use, for example, has a mechanism and it's 0:19:49.855 --> 0:19:52.495 beyond me to explain it. That means that when you 0:19:52.775 --> 0:19:54.975 overtalk it. 0:19:54.295 --> 0:19:55.855 It will stop. Right. 0:19:55.935 --> 0:19:59.775 So if you're cutting, let's say, with a grinder, and 0:19:59.975 --> 0:20:02.775 you're pressing too hard, you've twisted the blade and you're 0:20:02.815 --> 0:20:07.695 putting too much pressure onto the cutting, it will trip out. Now, 0:20:07.695 --> 0:20:10.775 that's useful because typically the next stage after that is 0:20:10.815 --> 0:20:13.415 it will kick back right, and that's dangerous. And I 0:20:13.575 --> 0:20:16.215 was looking at some gear the other day where they 0:20:16.255 --> 0:20:20.335 had that feature into a drill and again the same thing. 0:20:20.415 --> 0:20:23.815 I have a small fracture on my left wrist where 0:20:23.895 --> 0:20:25.615 the drill I was using when I was drilling through 0:20:25.615 --> 0:20:29.695 a steel bean bit and the drill just dragged my 0:20:29.855 --> 0:20:33.295 arm around and cracked it into the steel to the 0:20:33.375 --> 0:20:36.255 edge of an ee bean and hey, presto, there's a 0:20:36.255 --> 0:20:38.495 small little fracture there. Us kind of wondering why it 0:20:38.575 --> 0:20:40.775 hurts so much. But anyway, so you know, I mean, 0:20:41.095 --> 0:20:43.775 I think it's great that there are additional safety features 0:20:43.815 --> 0:20:47.975 in power tools, but ultimately, if it's your workspace, you're 0:20:48.055 --> 0:20:51.775 responsible for who's there and their competency and your own, 0:20:51.975 --> 0:20:55.695 is my opinion. Yeah, anyway, that's not probably what we were 0:20:55.615 --> 0:20:56.495 going to talk about, Deane. 0:20:56.495 --> 0:20:57.135 Tell me what's. 0:20:58.575 --> 0:21:02.855 So We're getting a house very extensively re roosted and hated, right, 0:21:03.215 --> 0:21:08.215 and it's a house, and so well, the scaffolds. It's 0:21:08.215 --> 0:21:10.135 been suggested that I should replace the gathering. 0:21:10.535 --> 0:21:12.295 Yep, sounds sensible. 0:21:12.415 --> 0:21:17.135 It's yeah, the gathering's okay, it doesn't really need to 0:21:17.175 --> 0:21:19.775 be replaced, but you know it probably will sometime the 0:21:19.815 --> 0:21:25.095 next ten years or so. Sure, So my question is basically, 0:21:25.335 --> 0:21:29.535 how much does it cost to head flash windows? And 0:21:29.575 --> 0:21:31.775 how much does it cost to put gathering on in 0:21:31.855 --> 0:21:36.855 your experience? Okay, so the scaffolding is already up, so 0:21:36.895 --> 0:21:39.855