Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resonant Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
Speaker 1: from News Talks ed B fifth place.
Speaker 2: That won't be enough, unfortunately for zoe Hobbs. Not in
Speaker 2: the top two and two others faster than her in
Speaker 2: this semi final. It was a great start from Zoey Hobbs.
Speaker 2: We'll check the times, but by my eye she was fifth.
Speaker 2: Zoey Hobbs, twenty shit Terry won it. Tia Clayton there
Speaker 2: as well. I've got Hobbs and fifth. We'll wait for
Speaker 2: official confirmation, but Tia Clayton and twenty shit Terry fastest.
Speaker 2: We'll check Zoey Hobbs' time. She got away well and
Speaker 2: lane three did Zoey Hobbs. She was up with the
Speaker 2: leaders who were Clayton and Terry, and then through fifteen
Speaker 2: meters just a grimace on her face. Darryl Natter from
Speaker 2: Great Britain went past her and it may be sixth
Speaker 2: even for Zoey Hobbs. Will check the time though, to
Speaker 2: see if she's close to that mark of hers of
Speaker 2: ten ninety six, a national record. Sixth place for Zoey
Speaker 2: Hobbs in the semi final. Absolutely no disgrace there even
Speaker 2: reaching the semi is quite something. Official confirmation of Zoey
Speaker 2: Hobbs's time eleven one three, so quite away outside her PB.
Speaker 2: She will not progress to the final unfortunately. Tea Clayton
Speaker 2: ten eight nine. Daryl Nita from Great Britain got up
Speaker 2: to second in ten ninety seven, so Twanisha Terry only
Speaker 2: going through as one of the best next Alfred Richardson Clayton,
Speaker 2: Nita Jefferson Tether you have it.
Speaker 3: That was live from Paris this morning. So zoe Hobbes
Speaker 3: a fantastic achievement to achieve a semi final in the
Speaker 3: woman's one hundred meters and phenomenal pace, I must have.
Speaker 3: And there's been discussion. We're not going to go down
Speaker 3: a sports talk type thing, but I was part of
Speaker 3: a fascinating discussion the other day where people were suggesting
Speaker 3: that we don't for us as mere immortals. And you know,
Speaker 3: if the last time you ran the hundred meters was
Speaker 3: when you're in the school athletics program or something like that,
Speaker 3: you know you should really sort of line up an
Speaker 3: average sort of runner along with these people, or an
Speaker 3: average swimmer or something. I was watching the ten thousand
Speaker 3: meters men's final the other day extraordinary. We will bring
Speaker 3: you up to date. Well, we will get a little
Speaker 3: bit sidetracked by this, but that's absolutely fine. That's not
Speaker 3: looking good. Tom Walsh seems to have injured himself during
Speaker 3: the shot. We'll bring you more news on that. We
Speaker 3: might have to go to the sports team get some updates. Right,
Speaker 3: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call
Speaker 3: if you would like to to join in and discuss all.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3: I was doing a task that was slightly unfamiliar to
Speaker 3: me this week, along with the occasional observation from my
Speaker 3: beloved as to do you know what you're doing, to
Speaker 3: which I replied, yes, it's okay. I listened to that
Speaker 3: guy on Sunday morning. So I was doing the taps
Speaker 3: in the bathroom, right, which have been slowly dripping and
Speaker 3: got harder and harder to turn on and turn off.
Speaker 3: When we renovated our place, we put the bathroom in
Speaker 3: probably twenty odd years ago. It all still works. It's
Speaker 3: just that the tap was getting a little bit stiff
Speaker 3: to turn on and off, and it was starting to drip.
Speaker 3: That's what happens with taps, right, That's why they have
Speaker 3: a replaceable washer in them. Turns out that the tap
Speaker 3: was slightly more complicated than I was expecting. I've pulled
Speaker 3: apart a number of them over the years, partly out
Speaker 3: of curiosity. This one was unlike anything else that I'd seen,
Speaker 3: and when I ended up on the workbench with several
Speaker 3: parts of the tap, I did start to question my
Speaker 3: ability to put it back together, and started to think
Speaker 3: about whether or not I could call Jerry, who's a
Speaker 3: plumber who lives around the corner, to sort this out.
Speaker 3: The other thing that I did realize but pushed through
Speaker 3: the reluctance, was it's never a wise idea to start
Speaker 3: a job at four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. So
Speaker 3: this was gnawing away in the back of my mind
Speaker 3: as well. But anyway, we got there in the end,
Speaker 3: and in fact, I was so excited by the overall
Speaker 3: performance of the now newly refurbished, cleaned up in what
Speaker 3: and greased tap with its complicated mechanism, that I'm quite
Speaker 3: excited to do the pot tap on Monday. So that'll
Speaker 3: be my task for tomorrow, rightio, Open line talkback on
Speaker 3: all things building construction. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty is the number to call. We can talk about
Speaker 3: Actually I had a great conversation with someone. I'll talk
Speaker 3: about it bit later on about ventilation.
Speaker 4: I know. Actually it was really very exciting.
Speaker 3: We also had the opportunity this week to tag along
Speaker 3: with some guys from Apex Boots that I do some
Speaker 3: work with to the Miter ten expo, so they have
Speaker 3: an exhibitor's expo every year. And then I was lucky
Speaker 3: enough to attend the gala dinner in Hamilton on Wednesday
Speaker 3: night with the people from Mite to ten. So I
Speaker 3: think it was almost one thousand people, one thousand delegates.
Speaker 3: So these are the people that own the stores, These
Speaker 3: are the people that supply into the stores, the support office,
Speaker 3: the executive team, the cooperative and the chair and the
Speaker 3: chief executive and a very swanky and very entertaining gala
Speaker 3: dinner and prize giving at Claudland's Globbox on Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: So my thanks to them for their hospitality. It was
Speaker 3: a fantastic evening and quite an interesting insight into a
Speaker 3: very very large business when it comes to New Zealand.
Speaker 3: So revenue two point two billion dollars goes through Minor
Speaker 3: ten stores. It's remarkable and a tremendous bunch of people,
Speaker 3: to be fair, So thanks very much for your company
Speaker 3: or for letting me join you on at might a
Speaker 3: Tens gala on Wednesday night.
Speaker 4: Rightio, let's get into it.
Speaker 3: If you've got a progrem project that.
Speaker 4: Is well, like mine, a little bit a little bit.
Speaker 3: Uncertain as to what the outcome is going to be
Speaker 3: and you want to talk about it, or you've got
Speaker 3: a project that you're thinking about, or you've got a
Speaker 3: project that's just turned into an absolute disaster that you
Speaker 3: want to ask questions about and issues around contractors.
Speaker 4: I've sort of replied to a couple.
Speaker 3: Of emails this week where people have struggled with the
Speaker 3: quality of the contractors that they've engaged and what do
Speaker 3: you do about that? Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Speaker 3: is the number to call. We will keep one eye
Speaker 3: on the Olympics as well. I have to say, not
Speaker 3: looking particularly good for Tom Walsh. Looked like he was
Speaker 3: in a great deal of pain after his last throw.
Speaker 3: So we'll try and bring you more information on that
Speaker 3: peat Wolf camp here at Newstalks there'd beat lines are open.
Speaker 3: The number eight hundred eighty ten eighty. You can tell
Speaker 3: that's nine two nine two was ABZB from your mobile phone.
Speaker 3: And if you'd like to email me, it's Pete at
Speaker 3: newstalksb dot Co dot Nz. But the lines are free
Speaker 3: right now. We always get busy later in the show,
Speaker 3: so now it's a great time to call. Eight hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty ten eighty you a news talks heb Pete
Speaker 3: wolf Camp with you open line on all things building construction.
Speaker 3: A very good morning to you, Paul.
Speaker 5: Oh, good morning to morning.
Speaker 6: I needed a staw bench and I went down to
Speaker 6: mine at ten and got one and brought it at
Speaker 6: home and all this is a good looking staw bench
Speaker 6: for two hundred ninety nine and black in deca right,
Speaker 6: And I put the guard on it and it flew
Speaker 6: off when I started at that, so I thought, well,
Speaker 6: must have done that wrong, So I put it on
Speaker 6: again and checked it as the book said, I put
Speaker 6: it on correctly, put another bit of timber stirt and
Speaker 6: it flew off again. So I took it back to
Speaker 6: my out of ten and they said, oh, there's nothing
Speaker 6: wrong with that, all right, and you have a look
Speaker 6: at it, and I'll come back in the next day.
Speaker 6: And the next day you had a bit of Timber
Speaker 6: City by thirty and about a foot foot or too wrong.
Speaker 6: And he cuts through that his note words perfectly, and
Speaker 6: I says, no, it doesn't And I just ripped just
Speaker 6: by putting my hand. Well it was twitched off, of course.
Speaker 6: I just pushed my hand up and off came the guard.
Speaker 6: And I says that there's two faults of this. The
Speaker 6: on off switch is covered by a flat. Now a
Speaker 6: child will look at and see them stairdy working on it,
Speaker 6: would look up that flat, press the go button and
Speaker 6: allays that spinny thing and then put their hands to
Speaker 6: it and they would lose their hands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's really about how you control your workspace,
Speaker 3: to be fair, And I'll tell you a story about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a very bad sword to have a home,
Speaker 6: you know. And so they don't think it's faulty. So
Speaker 6: I rang up the Commerce Commission and then got onto ITOUN.
Speaker 6: So there may be a recall of them.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, I'm to be fair. I'm not actually interested
Speaker 3: in slinging off tools, right. I understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 3: And obviously safety is phenomenally important when it comes to
Speaker 3: two power tools. Yeah, I guess too. There's there's a
Speaker 3: I mean, how much research did you do in terms
Speaker 3: of selecting a table saw, and like, what sorts of
Speaker 3: tasks will you do with your table saw?
Speaker 6: Well, with the table saw, I've got to build a
Speaker 6: new book. Thinks cup tops cut things up? And as yeah,
Speaker 6: I only found out of about eight there, I only
Speaker 6: found one that had a steel guard that would not
Speaker 6: move right would move, and I thought, this is not right.
Speaker 6: And even the one that had the good guard only
Speaker 6: had a flip cover on the on off switch. And
Speaker 6: little kids are very excited around tools and very interested
Speaker 6: in things, especially a little.
Speaker 4: More I know.
Speaker 3: But again, and look, I've got a young son, and
Speaker 3: I've got a table saw, and I can remember a
Speaker 3: time years ago when I was working in the shed
Speaker 3: and I had the table saw set up, thankfully, with
Speaker 3: the blade down and all the rest of it, and
Speaker 3: my little eye wandered and was looking around and curious
Speaker 3: and so on, and he flicked a switch on the
Speaker 3: table saw and it started. Now he was standing reasonably
Speaker 3: way back and all the rest of it. So I
Speaker 3: know exactly what you mean. It's scared the living daylights
Speaker 3: out of him. And to be fair, it's scared the
Speaker 3: living daylights out of me too. But you know, in
Speaker 3: the end, if you're going to let children into a workspace,
Speaker 3: that's your responsibility, not the tool owners.
Speaker 6: Well he's at home, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. But ultimately it's your responsibility, not the taller.
Speaker 3: So what are you going to do? Wait for the
Speaker 3: com com to tell you.
Speaker 4: What to do?
Speaker 6: What I did is I rang up the Commerce Commission
Speaker 6: and they're looking into it. They say they could be
Speaker 6: a product recall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well look, and you know, if the guard's not
Speaker 3: supposed to come off and it does, then that's obviously
Speaker 3: not accepted and.
Speaker 6: The other switch should be protected. Well ahead was a
Speaker 6: flat that went over? That's all here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's enough, isn't it. I mean, what else would.
Speaker 4: You want to do?
Speaker 6: No, that's not enough because kids look up there.
Speaker 3: Again, kids shouldn't be in the workshop if they're not supervised.
Speaker 6: I mean it could be or could be in the
Speaker 6: workshop if either.
Speaker 3: One either way either way A flap over this that,
Speaker 3: I mean the way that I would look at it
Speaker 3: is And I'm just trying to think. My sword doesn't
Speaker 3: even have a flap over the guard right over the
Speaker 3: on off switch. The on off switch is simply a toggle.
Speaker 3: You lift it up to start it and you press
Speaker 3: it down to turn it off. Right, So it's easy
Speaker 3: to turn off. And that's that that prevents you exit
Speaker 3: because you have to lift the trigger on up. It
Speaker 3: stops you inadvertently bumping it. Yep, right, So I think
Speaker 3: that's safe enough. I don't think you need a cover
Speaker 3: with a switch underneath it. I mean I've got another
Speaker 3: some other power tools.
Speaker 6: It needs to have the cover that you can lock switch.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, then I disagree with you.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, then I'll agree with you.
Speaker 6: I'll like to leave that on off switch available to suppress.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm saying to you that ultimately, responsibility in
Speaker 3: workshops is up to the owner, right and to your
Speaker 3: person responsible. So having a lockable switch on power tools
Speaker 3: is not required it it is the manufacturers.
Speaker 6: The manufacturers should not have let it get through the testing.
Speaker 3: No, that's one hundred percent disagree with you.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay mate, we'll just leave it there.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, much appreciate it. Thanks for the call
Speaker 3: much and you take care. There is a thing called
Speaker 3: personal responsibility. That's where I'm coming from. Sows and power
Speaker 3: tools need to be safe, but they are also power
Speaker 3: tools designed for use, and they don't need to have
Speaker 3: lockable covers on them in my opinion, Oh, eight hundred
Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty is the number to call Joe.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 8: We're in the process of building a garage and we've
Speaker 8: got our firewall. Is a block wall, and it's filled
Speaker 8: with concrete. Yes, we had a big grain for about
Speaker 8: three or four days here and some of the water
Speaker 8: has seeped through. So we just need to know what
Speaker 8: product do we use to see all the X year
Speaker 8: the outside of it to prevent the water coming through.
Speaker 3: I'm really curious because over the years I would have
Speaker 3: had tens, if not hundreds of questions very much like yours,
Speaker 3: but typically they're about, you know, a nineteen seventies block
Speaker 3: wall or something like that. So a new block wall
Speaker 3: that's solid filled as ' grouted and it's sitting I
Speaker 3: presume on a concrete slab yep. And the concrete slab
Speaker 3: is not in the ground as a retaining wall, or
Speaker 3: the wall's not a retaining wall as such. No, is
Speaker 3: the building finished and it's leaking.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're just about there, yep.
Speaker 3: So all the down pipes, flashing, spouting, everything.
Speaker 4: Is right, Okay.
Speaker 3: I am quite curious as to where that leak might
Speaker 3: be coming from, because it would require a lot of
Speaker 3: water to force its way through what is effectively one
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety mili block that's then grouted if it's
Speaker 3: solid filled. Right, So, potentially do the block sit on
Speaker 3: top of the concrete slab or do the blocks extend
Speaker 3: from the foundations up and the slab is cast into
Speaker 3: the side of.
Speaker 9: It if you record out of it, on top of it.
Speaker 4: They sit on top of right? And where are you
Speaker 4: seeing the water?
Speaker 8: Most of the water was down the bottom.
Speaker 3: Down the bottom at that junction between the slab.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and there was a little, just a little, a
Speaker 8: couple of little pitches sort of midway up.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the block wall is it only one wall and
Speaker 3: then the other walls are timber framed that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Or is the whole garage block wall?
Speaker 8: No, just the one, just the one wall.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think you should be talking to
Speaker 3: the builder and go, hey, look what's the plan here.
Speaker 3: The other thing is obviously this work. If it's a
Speaker 3: block wall and it's required for fire rating, the work
Speaker 3: will have a building consent be interesting to have a
Speaker 3: look on the building consent to see what is required
Speaker 3: on the exterior typically for and I've seen unpainted masonry
Speaker 3: walls not lead in water for decades, right, So I
Speaker 3: am genuinely a little bit surprised. But I would say, look,
Speaker 3: have a talk to the builder, Talk to them about
Speaker 3: what flashings might still need to go on, where the
Speaker 3: spouting has to go on, down pipes have to go on,
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. That might actually solve the problem.
Speaker 3: But the other thing is just in general, what you
Speaker 3: can do is seal the masonry wall, So seal the
Speaker 3: blocks on the exterior with preferably a pigmented sealer so
Speaker 3: something like shore Seal right from razine, and then paint
Speaker 3: it with X two hundred, which is essentially a waterproofing
Speaker 3: paint right designed specifically for masonry surfaces, so you can
Speaker 3: use it on plaster, you can use it on blocks,
Speaker 3: et cetera. And that will give you a waterproof membrane
Speaker 3: on the exterior of there, and that will seal up
Speaker 3: any minor pores and bits and pieces where water might
Speaker 3: be coming through. But I would still have a serious
Speaker 3: discussion with the builder about what flashings need to be
Speaker 3: done where the drainage goes. And I presume the ground
Speaker 3: level on the outside of the block will isn't going
Speaker 3: to be elevated. It's not like there's a requirement to
Speaker 3: do waterproofing there or anything like that. Okay, Yeah, have
Speaker 3: a look on the consent too, because it may well
Speaker 3: specify that the wall needs to be painted, and it
Speaker 3: might specify a particular product.
Speaker 4: Okay, alrighty, okay, let us know how you get on. Alrighty,
Speaker 4: take care.
Speaker 3: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call?
Speaker 3: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to two ninety two
Speaker 3: on the text. A couple of interesting texts coming through
Speaker 3: with regard to our first call it to be fair
Speaker 3: I eight hundred eighty ten eighty. We'll take a short
Speaker 3: break back with Dean in a moment. If you'd like
Speaker 3: to join us. The lines are open. Some fascinating texts
Speaker 3: coming in off the back of Paul's comments, not so
Speaker 3: much necessarily about the particular choice of tool and all
Speaker 3: the rest of it, just around attitudes to safety and look,
Speaker 3: we all work at home, right. If you're listening to
Speaker 3: the show, chances are you've you've done some work. You
Speaker 3: might have used a ladder, or you've had a couple
Speaker 3: of sawhorses with a plank on it, or you've had
Speaker 3: a sander that you've used to strip back some timber,
Speaker 3: or in some case you might have a power tool,
Speaker 3: a drill or a driver, or a multi tool, or
Speaker 3: a jigsaw, or a receip saw or a chainsaw, or
Speaker 3: a weed eater or a motor motor motama. Sorry, you
Speaker 3: know all of these items, right. If we're this whole
Speaker 3: show is about doing it yourself, right, So if you're
Speaker 3: going to do it yourself, you're probably gonna mean it.
Speaker 3: I was sharpening chisels on Friday, right, chisels are well
Speaker 3: sharp now because I sharpened them. You know all of
Speaker 3: these things, And I have to say in my own head,
Speaker 3: I often have to consciously remind myself when I'm using
Speaker 3: a table saw or saw bench. I've got to remember
Speaker 3: that this thing wants to take my bits off, right,
Speaker 3: It wants to take my finger off if I get
Speaker 3: too close to that blade. And I know guys who
Speaker 3: have lost either whole fingers, parts of fingers, parts of
Speaker 3: thumbs and that sort of thing. You know, you do
Speaker 3: you have to keep that presence of mind to go
Speaker 3: that blade. If it's cutting that piece of timber that
Speaker 3: I'm watching go through the blade, then it's not going
Speaker 3: to have a problem with one of my digits. But
Speaker 3: that's about your own presence of mind, your own awareness
Speaker 3: of the situation, and your own control around health and
Speaker 3: safety and proper practices around power tools, all of which
Speaker 3: will hurt you if you.
Speaker 4: Don't use them.
Speaker 3: Well, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
Speaker 3: to call Dean. Good morning, Good Dane.
Speaker 7: Morning Pete.
Speaker 10: Yep, sorry, mate, just said the microphone in the wrong place. Yeah,
Speaker 10: couldn't agree. Couldn't agree more. Our tools are dangerous, inherently dangerous.
Speaker 3: Look like, I was looking at some gear the other day,
Speaker 3: and I've got some stuff which has real, you know,
Speaker 3: additional safety features that are really useful. So a grinder
Speaker 3: that I use, for example, has a mechanism and it's
Speaker 3: beyond me to explain it. That means that when you
Speaker 3: overtalk it.
Speaker 4: It will stop. Right.
Speaker 3: So if you're cutting, let's say, with a grinder, and
Speaker 3: you're pressing too hard, you've twisted the blade and you're
Speaker 3: putting too much pressure onto the cutting, it will trip out. Now,
Speaker 3: that's useful because typically the next stage after that is
Speaker 3: it will kick back right, and that's dangerous. And I
Speaker 3: was looking at some gear the other day where they
Speaker 3: had that feature into a drill and again the same thing.
Speaker 3: I have a small fracture on my left wrist where
Speaker 3: the drill I was using when I was drilling through
Speaker 3: a steel bean bit and the drill just dragged my
Speaker 3: arm around and cracked it into the steel to the
Speaker 3: edge of an ee bean and hey, presto, there's a
Speaker 3: small little fracture there. Us kind of wondering why it
Speaker 3: hurts so much. But anyway, so you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think it's great that there are additional safety features
Speaker 3: in power tools, but ultimately, if it's your workspace, you're
Speaker 3: responsible for who's there and their competency and your own,
Speaker 3: is my opinion. Yeah, anyway, that's not probably what we were
Speaker 3: going to talk about, Deane.
Speaker 4: Tell me what's.
Speaker 10: So We're getting a house very extensively re roosted and hated, right,
Speaker 10: and it's a house, and so well, the scaffolds. It's
Speaker 10: been suggested that I should replace the gathering.
Speaker 4: Yep, sounds sensible.
Speaker 10: It's yeah, the gathering's okay, it doesn't really need to
Speaker 10: be replaced, but you know it probably will sometime the
Speaker 10: next ten years or so. Sure, So my question is basically,
Speaker 10: how much does it cost to head flash windows? And
Speaker 10: how much does it cost to put gathering on in
Speaker 10: your experience? Okay, so the scaffolding is already up, so
Speaker 10: you know that cost has already been absorbed. Yes, we're
Speaker 10: so nothing additional there. So we have sixteen head flashings,
Speaker 10: some of which are very definitely marginal. I mean, the
Speaker 10: house is one hundred years old, so okay, time with you, yep, yep.
Speaker 10: So basically we have sixteen of these things that could
Speaker 10: be replaced. What does it cost to replace a head
Speaker 10: flashing on a window? As a ballpark figure?
Speaker 3: A couple of questions for exterior clading is a weatherboard
Speaker 3: and a traditional style weatherboard or a rusticided board?
Speaker 10: No, just traditional, okay, all right?
Speaker 3: And so the head flashing sits over the top of
Speaker 3: the facings. There's probably a little like a headboard that's
Speaker 3: slightly sloped and timber, and then the flashing itself sits
Speaker 3: over that and then tucks up to the underneath the
Speaker 3: board above, so it's not recessed into the timber.
Speaker 10: No, it's not recessed or it is the old style
Speaker 10: pete I imagined. You know, you've got your window projecting
Speaker 10: out to right, You've got a weather ball behind it,
Speaker 10: and there's a flashing that sits on it weather board
Speaker 10: and folds over the window, and it's it. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 10: it might it might lodge into the weather board above
Speaker 10: the weather board above the window. Yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: Basically yeah, Okay.
Speaker 10: What could you expect to pay peer flashing to take
Speaker 10: the old one off? You know, you know, you cramp
Speaker 10: a new one presumably, and then put the new one on.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just thinking about that. Like, let's say
Speaker 3: you've well one, chances are the flesh won't be standard, right,
Speaker 3: so you have to go to site measure probably each
Speaker 3: window and get them folded up. So that's going to
Speaker 3: cost you, you know, a couple of hours of work,
Speaker 3: and then the flashings, the freshings probably will cost you
Speaker 3: over a thousand bucks for the oh maybe not that much.
Speaker 4: Let's say it's five hundred bucks for the flashings themselves.
Speaker 10: It's not basically a big long window.
Speaker 3: But you know, by the time you send it off
Speaker 3: to someone, they've got to cut them all. They've got
Speaker 3: to fold them. You've got to get the angle right
Speaker 3: and all the rest of it. So if you get that,
Speaker 3: but right then when you arrive back on site with
Speaker 3: all of your flashings number one through sixteen, you've got
Speaker 3: to pull the old one off. You've got to pry
Speaker 3: open the gap between the lower and the upper weatherboard.
Speaker 3: You've got to take the old one out. You've got
Speaker 3: to fold the ends round, so there's a little bit
Speaker 3: of funky sort of cutting and folding that you need
Speaker 3: to do because they're all bespoke, and then slide it
Speaker 3: up and put a couple of pins through the side.
Speaker 7: Look.
Speaker 4: To be fair, I would probably.
Speaker 3: Allow an hour per window to move a flashing, making
Speaker 3: new one and put one in.
Speaker 4: I could probably do.
Speaker 3: It a little bit faster than that, but I think
Speaker 3: if I was quoting, i'd probably allow close to an
Speaker 3: hour per window, so it'd be a two day job.
Speaker 3: Chippies at sixty bucks an hour, you know you're talking
Speaker 3: twelve to fourteen hundred dollars plus the materials could be
Speaker 3: almost a two thousand dollars exercise. And I know I'm
Speaker 3: going to get a bunch of texts in a minute.
Speaker 10: Agoousand dollars we're talking sixteen flashings here. Yeah, so you're
Speaker 10: saying about one thousand dollars to flashing, were you?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I was thinking to buy the flashings,
Speaker 3: to buy all of them, I think it'd be I
Speaker 3: think it's probably more like five hundred bucks right to
Speaker 3: go and get them made by someone and have them.
Speaker 4: Do they need to be stainless? Well, now to comply.
Speaker 10: All sixteen one thousand dollars in total?
Speaker 3: No, five hundred. Let's make it five hundred for sixteen, right.
Speaker 10: Five hundred for sixteen or so, Yeah, somewhere between a
Speaker 10: five hundred.
Speaker 3: And then let's allow two days work for a carpenter,
Speaker 3: so at sixty bucks an hour or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be a fifteen hundred and sixteen hundred dollars exercise,
Speaker 3: I would think, and spouting interestingly enough, I heard an
Speaker 3: ad actually running on this station the other day that
Speaker 3: for its continuous group doing starting at twenty six dollars
Speaker 3: a linear meter.
Speaker 10: Now, yes, which raises my second question, So how much
Speaker 10: do you think it would cost to put in thirty
Speaker 10: three meters of gathering? There's nothing special about the gathering,
Speaker 10: and they are talking about having brackets every four hundred mili.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 10: There's about nine outlets yep, and end caps and clips
Speaker 10: and stuff. So thirty three meters skateboarding is already up,
Speaker 10: so no extra costs for that.
Speaker 4: Twenty three members.
Speaker 3: I mean, thirty three meters is actually not that much,
Speaker 3: to be fair, but if there's you know, droppers are
Speaker 3: more expensive than a straight run. You've got to do
Speaker 3: end caps and that sort of thing. I mean, I've
Speaker 3: done some numbers. I've come up with sixteen hundred bucks,
Speaker 3: but let's call it two.
Speaker 10: Grand two grand?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so where have you ended up with?
Speaker 10: Quotes?
Speaker 3: And for good reason you can understand why I'm reluctant
Speaker 3: to sort of discuss numbers, because it's different areas and
Speaker 3: I don't want to comment on anyone else's.
Speaker 10: Work, particularly special. Right, So thirty three meters five thousand,
Speaker 10: one hundred and twenty plus.
Speaker 4: Gsc sorry how much? Five thousand, five.
Speaker 10: One hundred and twenty and I just couldn't get my
Speaker 10: head around it. So I did some pricing for one.
Speaker 3: Hundred and fifty five dollars a linear meter.
Speaker 10: Yeah cool, wait, friky.
Speaker 4: Krakey yeah yeah.
Speaker 10: So I thought, well, gosh, there must be a lot
Speaker 10: more guttering than I thought, so I asked how much,
Speaker 10: how many meters and he consumed, there's thirty three meters
Speaker 10: of guttering nine outdates. We need to replace all the
Speaker 10: end kept and clips. To replace the external bends on
Speaker 10: the bottom level, we'll be using stainless or screws, very
Speaker 10: gutter brackets, so they'll be putting brackets in every four hundred.
Speaker 4: Milk basically, yeah, but screws are not Unit wasn't talking.
Speaker 10: About this though, peak, which I thought a bit surprising.
Speaker 10: The gathering code also includes installing timber in between the
Speaker 10: current timber fixings. Now that I don't quite understand. Yes,
Speaker 10: because basically all but one chunk there is one bit
Speaker 10: there where the gathering is basically sitting on nothing. So
Speaker 10: they need to put another board and take the existing
Speaker 10: gathering off put a board in, But that's about two
Speaker 10: three meters worth of you know. The rest of them
Speaker 10: they just attached to the body. We call them faces,
Speaker 10: I guess, like normal gathering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, okay, Well, I mean maybe you could
Speaker 3: tag that out and say that's a five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: cost or something like that to do that extra.
Speaker 10: But I just don't see where this coat comes from.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, it just doesn't make any sense. Can you
Speaker 10: just can you just remind me what you said you
Speaker 10: think the gathering should go? Well, no, I thirty three meters.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm listening to z B during the day, and
Speaker 3: I know that there's a company they're advertising and they're saying, hey,
Speaker 3: look spouting starting from twenty nine dollars a meter. I
Speaker 3: put in fifty dollars a meter, and I came up
Speaker 3: with a sort of a sixty sixteen hundred dollars fee.
Speaker 10: Right, So they're fifty dollars for meter that you're talking about, Pete.
Speaker 10: That is basically to get the materials, get you know,
Speaker 10: and the bits and in caps and screws and go
Speaker 10: and blah blah blah. It's the fifty dollars a meter
Speaker 10: and that's installed.
Speaker 7: You reckon?
Speaker 3: Yeah, typically yeah.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: Look the beauty of it is and this is the
Speaker 3: beauty of capitalism. You get more than one quote, right,
Speaker 3: And so you invited people.
Speaker 10: People doing the rufic, so in for those heads snatings, Pete,
Speaker 10: what do you reckon?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 3: Look, I again, you know, I don't know the circumstances,
Speaker 3: don't know how complicated, but you know. I know, having
Speaker 3: done especially on villas. I know having done a lot
Speaker 3: of work on villas, they can be time consuming. So
Speaker 3: if I if I was looking at it myself, i'd
Speaker 3: allow myself an hour per window, right, so it'd be
Speaker 3: a two day job. And then I so at sixty
Speaker 3: bucks an hour, you can figure that out and then say, well, look,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go and get a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: flashings made up and we're going to put five hundred
Speaker 3: dollar fee on that. That's roughly where you are. It'd
Speaker 3: be interesting if someone does text and go I'm either
Speaker 3: too high or too low, but look, great thing is
Speaker 3: hopefully ask around, get a couple of extra quotes, and
Speaker 3: then go from there.
Speaker 4: Let us know how you get on.
Speaker 10: Take care.
Speaker 4: My pleasure.
Speaker 3: Nice to talk to you, Bob, your news talks. It'd
Speaker 3: be if you've got a question of a building nature
Speaker 3: and it's it's broad right. It can be around product selection,
Speaker 3: it can be around tool use. John, I'm more than
Speaker 3: happy to talk about, you know, selecting the right tool
Speaker 3: for the job. And yeah, I'm really keen to talk
Speaker 3: about safety as well. I think these figures are a
Speaker 3: little bit out of date, but I know from some reading.
Speaker 3: I did maybe a year or two ago, ACC pay
Speaker 3: out about seventy six million dollars and compensation or funding
Speaker 3: for people that have injuries at home as a result
Speaker 3: of falling from ladders. The total amount that they would
Speaker 3: pay out on sort of home injuries, let's say, caused
Speaker 3: by power tools actually on my list as well to
Speaker 3: reach out and go. It'd be really fascinating to know
Speaker 3: what that number would be. And I don't want to
Speaker 3: make light of people having injuries, but I also don't
Speaker 3: want people to feel that somehow the power tool is
Speaker 3: responsible for the injury, not the operator. Most of the
Speaker 3: time it's the operator. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty is the number to call. It is six forty
Speaker 3: seven here at news Talk said quick text with regard
Speaker 3: to the conversation with Dean was that including or excluding scaffolding.
Speaker 3: That was the whole point of the part of the
Speaker 3: story was that the scaffolding was already up because they
Speaker 3: were doing roof for replacements. And I mean scaffolding's are
Speaker 3: significant costs. So yeah, just purely for the materials in labor.
Speaker 3: Hello and good morning, Oh, good morning.
Speaker 13: I have a seventy year old house or remu I'm
Speaker 13: getting two double doors put in. They are what you
Speaker 13: have in front of the mosque, So each one is
Speaker 13: four point five kg that carved so and they are
Speaker 13: higher than the existing doorway. I'm replacing it, taking the
Speaker 13: old doorway out and putting the ornamental things in as
Speaker 13: an ornament.
Speaker 6: But they will also be a door.
Speaker 5: They will.
Speaker 14: But when they join together.
Speaker 13: There has so the top above the door has to.
Speaker 9: Be heightened by about two fifty and they have to
Speaker 9: be made wide. But there's room for that. What sort
Speaker 9: of a cost should they be?
Speaker 3: Look, I'm really reluctant to get into the whole. Can
Speaker 3: you quote a job for me without seeing it? The
Speaker 3: other thing that I would point out to you in
Speaker 3: is that that what you're describing there, The fact that
Speaker 3: you want to widen the opening also triggers a requirement
Speaker 3: for a building consent.
Speaker 5: In an internal door.
Speaker 3: Internal door Okay, no, probably not, but if it's a
Speaker 3: load bearing wall, then you will definitely need to have
Speaker 3: some specific engineering or design done. So the lintel will
Speaker 3: need to be sized to take the load above.
Speaker 4: And look hanging old.
Speaker 3: Doors that are slightly twisted and all the rest of it. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, either way, it's still.
Speaker 4: Quite a lot of work.
Speaker 3: So look, there is no point in me offering up
Speaker 3: a price because I'm not doing the work right. So
Speaker 3: the best bet is to find a contractor that's recommended
Speaker 3: to you, someone who's got some skills.
Speaker 7: I know, the builder is very good.
Speaker 5: Okay, eighty bucks.
Speaker 3: An now, yep, that's that's where Chippy's are sitting at
Speaker 3: the moment. To be fair, labor rates are coming back,
Speaker 3: but that will depend on where you are in the
Speaker 3: country and what type of work. And you know, what
Speaker 3: you're asking them to do is it's not outside of
Speaker 3: what most people would be able to do every day,
Speaker 3: but it will require a set of skills that's probably
Speaker 3: to be fair beyond some people. So I think the
Speaker 3: best bet is to get a you know what the
Speaker 3: hourly rate is. They should be able to tell you.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to take me two days, three days,
Speaker 3: you know, something like that. Shouldn't really be much more
Speaker 3: than that, and then if you're happy with the price,
Speaker 3: go ahead, and if you're not, then find another price. So,
Speaker 3: like I said, not really wanting to engage in lots
Speaker 3: of discussion around how much do you think it should cost?
Speaker 3: Just get an extra price. Good luck to you in Liz.
Speaker 5: Hello there, Hello, how are you today?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 15: It's it.
Speaker 9: I decided to get a new garage door installed because
Speaker 9: the other one was old and apparently the other and
Speaker 9: has had trouble with the garage door on trying to
Speaker 9: open it with a remote. Yes, anyway, installed this lovely
Speaker 9: new garage door, and the garage door just seems to
Speaker 9: like to open whenever it feels like right.
Speaker 3: Look, if it's a new door, then there will be
Speaker 3: warranties and guarantees around the door. So it's just a
Speaker 3: case of going back to the supplier or to the
Speaker 3: installer and explaining that to them it just simply shouldn't happen.
Speaker 9: So it's some installed for new motors already. Then I
Speaker 9: had to get a Sparky in to check, putting a
Speaker 9: new plug up the top yep and then the Sparky
Speaker 9: in check, which was fantastic or my worrying to see
Speaker 9: what there was no faults in my warrant and it's
Speaker 9: still opening.
Speaker 3: I tell you what, I wonder whether it's worth getting
Speaker 3: next time someone comes out to check it, getting a
Speaker 3: new remote and programming it again because it is quite
Speaker 3: possible that someone nearby has a very similar remote and
Speaker 3: when they open their door, your door opens as well.
Speaker 3: That you'd want to that that can happen, right.
Speaker 9: We've gone through that Scenarioka and his program Offsite offside.
Speaker 3: Wow and its look ultimately, you know you, I know
Speaker 3: it's it can become disheartening to constantly be ringing the contractor,
Speaker 3: but that's not how doors a garage doors are supposed
Speaker 3: to work. So it's completely the responsibility of the contractor
Speaker 3: to keep fixing it at no cost to you.
Speaker 9: Yes, well, well I have to pay for the sparky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's okay, that's an upgrade. But in terms
Speaker 3: of actually getting the door to stay closed until you
Speaker 3: want it to open, is what they need to do
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 15: And and.
Speaker 4: I can imagine the frustration.
Speaker 9: But you've just got the insecurity of having a door.
Speaker 9: Like I was watching the Olympics the other n I
Speaker 9: went to bed at one thot and the garage door
Speaker 9: wide open.
Speaker 3: I don't know enough about them to make a comment
Speaker 3: around that, but you know, please persist with phoning them,
Speaker 3: and you know, if you're not getting the right reply,
Speaker 3: then you can seek redress through like the commuce commissioners
Speaker 3: or just remind them of their responsibilities under the Consumer
Speaker 3: Guarantees Act. That tends to get people operating a little
Speaker 3: bit better.
Speaker 4: So good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not easy, all right, you take care? See then, crikey.
Speaker 3: That would be quite disconcerting, wouldn't it if you wake
Speaker 3: up in the morning and find that garage doors open
Speaker 3: and it's just opened randomly.
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 4: I like this song.
Speaker 3: You and New Stalks at b We're into the second
Speaker 3: hour of the show. Welcome back.
Speaker 4: Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the.
Speaker 3: Number to call if you've got a building question or
Speaker 3: a building related question. And we did, interestingly have a
Speaker 3: bit of a conversation around safety, and I guess it's
Speaker 3: around sort of responsibility that I'm very aware that many
Speaker 3: of us will do work at home, and while we're
Speaker 3: doing it, we'll have tools, and some of them will
Speaker 3: be power tools, some will be hand tools. Generally, most
Speaker 3: tools are sharp, and most tools can hurt you. If
Speaker 3: you've ever hit your thumb with a hammer, it hurts.
Speaker 3: If you've ever cut yourself with a saw, it hurts.
Speaker 3: If you've ever slipped off a ladder, it hurts. So
Speaker 3: a little bit of discussion around safety and machinery was good,
Speaker 3: and just before the break we were talking with Liz
Speaker 3: who mentioned a garage door, a replacement garage door that
Speaker 3: seems to have a mind of its own and what
Speaker 3: might be causing that, And ultimately it does come down
Speaker 3: to the contractor being coming back and sorting out a
Speaker 3: couple of texts on that we turn our door off
Speaker 3: at night with a long pole for that reason security.
Speaker 3: It seems to be how the door relates to the ground.
Speaker 3: If it runs a bit on it can decide to
Speaker 3: go back up. Yeah, but I know that that's what
Speaker 3: happens when you're tuning the door, right, So if it
Speaker 3: comes down, it sort of does a bounce thing and
Speaker 3: you have to reset the travel on the door to
Speaker 3: ensure that it doesn't think that it's hit something and
Speaker 3: comes back up. But typically that happens when you're either
Speaker 3: when you're closing the door, it bounces back up. But
Speaker 3: for it to randomly open at one o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 3: that's a slightly different question regarding yeah, someone else has
Speaker 3: ticked through, just with regard to doors being inadvertently opened
Speaker 3: by other remote.
Speaker 4: Controlls in the area. So you have to look at that.
Speaker 3: We'll take some calls on all things building and building
Speaker 3: related here at Newstalk z B. It is coming up
Speaker 3: to ten minutes eight minutes after seven.
Speaker 4: A very good morning, Oh good morning.
Speaker 16: I just heard the lady for the news, and my
Speaker 16: comments mirror the ones you've just read out from text.
Speaker 16: Which was my first reaction was we'll turn the thing
Speaker 16: off at the PowerPoint at night time, which we do.
Speaker 16: If you know we're going to be away for a
Speaker 16: period of prime on holiday, you just turn the switch
Speaker 16: so that they can't it can't go up to it.
Speaker 16: So it won't solve a problem, but in the meantime
Speaker 16: for it to feel secure. If she has a post
Speaker 16: or broomstick or something and just switch pushes the switch
Speaker 16: off at least when she's finished for the day, she
Speaker 16: knows it won't open. Yes, she turns it back on
Speaker 16: again the same. We do the same the door. If
Speaker 16: the wind comes from a certain direction that makes the
Speaker 16: door rattle. So if that case, I go out and
Speaker 16: lift up the wire as there's an older door, but
Speaker 16: the wire thing and hook it up over it.
Speaker 6: Oh, you hook it off the hook.
Speaker 16: Unhook it off the hook, so the locks actually lock
Speaker 16: on either side of it at the bottom so that
Speaker 16: that stops the wind from rattling. And then when the
Speaker 16: storm's over, I go back and I put the wire
Speaker 16: back over the hook and it's back into automatic mode.
Speaker 16: So's it's just, yeah, it won't solve her problem, but
Speaker 16: it might help her peace of mind if you well until.
Speaker 3: The problem was solved. That's probably not a bad step
Speaker 3: to take. It if you worried that you're going to
Speaker 3: wake up in the morning and find the garage door open,
Speaker 3: then at nighttime when you close it, turn the switch
Speaker 3: off and it'll stay closed.
Speaker 16: And there is that tiny uncertainty with those doors. I
Speaker 16: was driving home at two thirty one night past the
Speaker 16: neighbor's place and saw their door wide open and thought,
Speaker 16: oh no, it's got all sorts of stuff in there,
Speaker 16: and cleansing his hunting rifles. I'll go and wake him
Speaker 16: up at two thirty in the morning, hopefully he won't mind.
Speaker 16: And he said, oh shit, thank.
Speaker 7: You so much.
Speaker 16: Yes, it's got my hunting rifles in there, I think.
Speaker 3: Hopefully be in a safe and all the rest of it.
Speaker 16: But yeah, they were all his antlers and his head,
Speaker 16: oh crack, all his meat in the freezer and things
Speaker 16: like that, and I'm going, well, I think you'll prefer
Speaker 16: me waking you up and then finding out in the
Speaker 16: morning that's coming. Yeah, but he thought he'd shut it
Speaker 16: from the house, that he pressed the button as he
Speaker 16: went into the house and didn't look back. Yeah, and
Speaker 16: of course it hadn't shut.
Speaker 14: Brilliant in that case.
Speaker 16: So you've got to you've got to check.
Speaker 3: Appreciate the call, lovely to chat all the best, Thank
Speaker 3: you very much. Quick text on the lady with the
Speaker 3: garage door issue. Take the batteries out of all of
Speaker 3: the remotes and see if that stops it happening. Then
Speaker 3: it may show that if it's in the motor brain
Speaker 3: or in the remote controls. Very good suggestion, Roger, Good
Speaker 3: morning to you.
Speaker 15: How are you, Peter. I haven't talked to you for
Speaker 15: a while.
Speaker 4: Nice to hear from you. You will.
Speaker 15: Yeah. About machinery and it's safety and I work for
Speaker 15: Ray Golfinch for eight years working on machinery all day
Speaker 15: and every day, yep, And there was no There was
Speaker 15: no safety cover for the switches. There was no The
Speaker 15: on off switch was simple and it was easy to
Speaker 15: get at if you needed to turn it off anytime.
Speaker 15: So therefore, really the guy is talking rubbish, and nobody
Speaker 15: would sell you a machine with a flap over the
Speaker 15: switch that stops you from turning it off as well
Speaker 15: as on.
Speaker 3: H Actually, I'm thinking like I got no, I've got
Speaker 3: that arrangement on a dust extractor that I have in
Speaker 3: my workshop in the garage, right. So there is a
Speaker 3: flap that you have to release and lift up in
Speaker 3: order to turn the dust extractor on. And then when
Speaker 3: you put the flat back down, it has a red
Speaker 3: button on the top, which means that if you need
Speaker 3: to turn it off quickly, you can just hit that
Speaker 3: so you can turn it off without doing any intervention.
Speaker 3: But you can only turn it on with a two
Speaker 3: step process, which is modern.
Speaker 15: That's a bit that's modern.
Speaker 3: Pretty good situation. The table saw that I currently have
Speaker 3: has essentially a toggle, so to turn it on you
Speaker 3: have to lift it up, as in just you know,
Speaker 3: leave it up right. It's it's not a it's just
Speaker 3: a one step thing. You just put your fingers undereath it,
Speaker 3: flick it up. But it also means that if you
Speaker 3: need to turn it off quickly, it's simply a downward
Speaker 3: motion and it's off what.
Speaker 15: I'm trying to say. That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah,
Speaker 15: his his if he's buying machinery for a workshop at
Speaker 15: home where the kids are around, he should take the
Speaker 15: pair supply away from each of the machines when he's
Speaker 15: not using it.
Speaker 4: And that it's a really simple safety precaution right.
Speaker 15: Well in it's common sense.
Speaker 3: And look, you know, over the years, I'm sure most
Speaker 3: of us have used power tools inside the house, possibly
Speaker 3: when other people are around, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: So you're right if you're not standing by, you know,
Speaker 3: like a circular saw for example, back in the day
Speaker 3: that we had, you know, used more corded tools than
Speaker 3: cordless ones for example.
Speaker 15: Of course that's negated there isn't it.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, it has.
Speaker 3: But interestingly enough, like all of the cutting tools that
Speaker 3: I have, I would you know, in terms of circular saw,
Speaker 3: recep saw, jigsaw and those sorts of things all have
Speaker 3: it's not just to pull the trigger, right, they all
Speaker 3: have an additional either a toggle or a lever or
Speaker 3: something like that that you have to depress before you
Speaker 3: can pull the trigger.
Speaker 15: So the circular not to mention all those modern tools,
Speaker 15: now you pull the batrio and that stops everything doesn't.
Speaker 3: And that's absolutely true as well. But you know, so
Speaker 3: there is more inbuilt safety, but which I think is
Speaker 3: good because it does mean that, you know, for something
Speaker 3: like a circular sort, for example, if that's left unattended
Speaker 3: for a moment and somebody does wander and think, oh,
Speaker 3: I wonder what happens when I grab the trigger, that's
Speaker 3: it prevents someone from doing that. But ultimately, my attitude
Speaker 3: has always been, you know, if it's my gear, then
Speaker 3: I'm responsible for the environment and I'll make sure that
Speaker 3: it doesn't stay on or that I'm supervising it correctly.
Speaker 15: Yeah. I had machinery around the place all my fifty
Speaker 15: years of building and never never had any problem. Still
Speaker 15: got all my own fingers, and I did a lot
Speaker 15: of work for Gregolf, a lot of machinery work for
Speaker 15: Rey golfinch right, a lot of it, to be fair.
Speaker 3: I do know that name, yeah.
Speaker 15: Grason Avenue, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got two
Speaker 15: boys that would be your age.
Speaker 3: He might be right because my dad's factory was down
Speaker 3: there as well. Yeah, Grace Avenue. I drove by there
Speaker 3: the other day. Actually it's changed a bit, but well,
Speaker 3: In fact, when when Dad had the factory there, Grace
Speaker 3: Nevenue didn't go all the way through, It stopped at
Speaker 3: a kind of where duff at Doors was and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing.
Speaker 15: And that's where you their concrete outfit too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right at the end, brilliant. Hey, lovely to
Speaker 3: talk to you, Roger, better move On's nice to talk
Speaker 3: to you by by then. So the reason that we
Speaker 3: were a couple of old codges reminiscing is that my dad,
Speaker 3: when he was in business, had a factory. We made metal.
Speaker 3: Dad made metal furniture and anchors in a small factory
Speaker 3: that he established in Grace Avenue, and Worry Papa Toy
Speaker 3: and obviously Roger Goldfinchers were down there as well. Duffer
Speaker 3: he was actually was a polystyrene manufacturing factory across the
Speaker 3: road that burnt down one night. That was kind of
Speaker 3: scary but kind of exciting as well. And a couple
Speaker 3: of other businesses that I still remember from back in
Speaker 3: the day. One hundred and eighty eighty is that number
Speaker 3: to call Grant A very good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hyde, just some ideas with the door, sure, okay,
Speaker 5: so the old doors have the old star remotes just
Speaker 5: with you a little battery in it, but they are
Speaker 5: they are prone to being opened by people that might
Speaker 5: have scanners unfortunately or something else. Some of the new
Speaker 5: doors have Wi Fi opening. Ah, so that's quite good.
Speaker 5: That's much much better.
Speaker 3: This is a new door, by the way, so it's
Speaker 3: a replacement door that's been installed and now they've got
Speaker 3: this issue where it's intermittent.
Speaker 5: So here's a remedy for those people that have the
Speaker 5: old remote but might be having this problem of the
Speaker 5: door it's on the opening or finding it open. It
Speaker 5: may have been just you know, like for instance, there's
Speaker 5: it was a scenario of certain vehicles run at certain
Speaker 5: frequencies going past the street and doors kind of opening.
Speaker 5: You might have heard about that before. Well, anyway, we'll
Speaker 5: forget about that. But for that lady, she's just got
Speaker 5: a old style remote. But if she, if she has
Speaker 5: a smartphone and maybe WiFi, has put a little Wi
Speaker 5: Fi plug between on on that circuit that she can
Speaker 5: turn on as she drives up. She can pack up
Speaker 5: for thirty seconds, use a smartphone to use it to
Speaker 5: turn the Wi Fi plug on which powers the powers
Speaker 5: the door, and then she can use her remote and
Speaker 5: then and then when she's left left the building, she
Speaker 5: can turn the Wi Fi plug off and she knows
Speaker 5: that the the door is who's not being powered she's away. Okay,
Speaker 5: Wi Fi plug, you'd flail all for about twenty bucks
Speaker 5: and then just and then just program it with your
Speaker 5: your Wi Fi Internet and your your that goes with
Speaker 5: the Wi Fi plug.
Speaker 3: Would that mean that it would override the remote?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Could she have both systems operating?
Speaker 5: The Wi Fi plug is? All it's doing is turning
Speaker 5: on the power to the door, right, So the first
Speaker 5: thing you do is you just drive up to the door,
Speaker 5: go to your smartphone and the Wi Fi plug on
Speaker 5: the door, then hit the remote and up comes the door.
Speaker 3: And you can do that Wi Fi plug just in
Speaker 3: that individual plug. It's not like a smart wiring with
Speaker 3: throughout the house.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's quite a few. There's for instance, just
Speaker 5: for when I know quite close by that that that
Speaker 5: door is, how just off a conventional plug that's in
Speaker 5: the garage way and you just put it, plug it in,
Speaker 5: plug it into the wall socket and then plug the
Speaker 5: cord from the from the door into the brilliant into
Speaker 5: the Wi Fi plug.
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate that ground.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, much appreciate it. You have a great day
Speaker 3: actually talking about power this week, there's a place that
Speaker 3: I look after, and there was there's been some infrastructure
Speaker 3: upgrade work happening in the street, including a notice that hey, look,
Speaker 3: the power is going to be off while we underground
Speaker 3: power to a certain number of houses, including the one
Speaker 3: that I look after, and so there's been correspondent. So
Speaker 3: over the last couple of weeks there's been activity in
Speaker 3: the street. There's been excavations and there's been you know,
Speaker 3: patching of pavement and excavation of pavement and installation of pits.
Speaker 3: And then was it Tuesday they came along and livened
Speaker 3: up the new underground supply to the house, which also
Speaker 3: means new cable into the meter board outside. Then electrical
Speaker 3: inspectors have to come through and test the connection so
Speaker 3: independently of the contractor and then confirm that that's safe
Speaker 3: and then the power could go back on and the
Speaker 3: guys are up, you know, unclipping overheadlines and all phenomenal
Speaker 3: to watch. It's quite more actually, and they did an
Speaker 3: awesome job, which is great. Oh eight hundred eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty we'll talk someone text through before can I talk
Speaker 3: to you about power tools?
Speaker 4: Mate? We can talk about power tools all day long.
Speaker 4: Give us a call.
Speaker 3: I eight hundred eighty ten eighty when New Talk said
Speaker 3: B and we're I've unplugged myself.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 3: I'm not as incompetent with tools in the house. I
Speaker 3: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 3: Matt A very good morning.
Speaker 4: Oh, good morning morning mate?
Speaker 11: You do yeah, yeah, very good, look like chext through
Speaker 11: saying can we hear the talk about tools as some advice.
Speaker 11: I've just borrowing a table sawer from my father in law,
Speaker 11: an older one, and I'm quite keen to buy one,
Speaker 11: but he's such a variety out there.
Speaker 14: Yes, and I'm not very good at.
Speaker 11: Buying just rubbish tools. I'm a bit of a kida person.
Speaker 11: I've got some old Tashi Jop saws and I'd like
Speaker 11: to stay within one of those brands. But I mean,
Speaker 11: there's so much variety in the cost. You know, just
Speaker 11: a bit of advice about you know what you should
Speaker 11: be looking at?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, and look.
Speaker 3: It is a it's a tricky one in that You're right,
Speaker 3: there is a lot of variety and there's a there's
Speaker 3: variety in terms of quality, and it's it's it's often
Speaker 3: about like we know that there are like you can
Speaker 3: buy a cordless drell for one hundred and twenty bucks, right,
Speaker 3: and you can buy a cordless drill for five hundred
Speaker 3: bucks and both of them ultimately drill holes. Right, But
Speaker 3: the difference is often around run time.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: It's about you as a user, how much time are
Speaker 3: you going to be using it and sort of what
Speaker 3: performance do you need from it. If you're working around
Speaker 3: the home and you use it intermittently, then chances are
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty dollars cordless drill, for example, will
Speaker 3: do what you need it to do ninety five percent
Speaker 3: of the time. Now, if you're a commercial operator and you're,
Speaker 3: for example, screwing roofing down or something like that, and
Speaker 3: you're doing that all day long, then you're going to
Speaker 3: need to choose something from the other end of the range.
Speaker 3: Table saws. I guess if I was choosing one and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about the one that I've got at home
Speaker 3: without revealing what that particular brand might be. One of
Speaker 3: the things that I'm often really critical about some of
Speaker 3: the table saws is they only clamp at one side.
Speaker 3: So the ripping guide right the fence I think should
Speaker 3: be able to be clamped or should clamp and locate
Speaker 3: at both ends of the guide, because that holds it
Speaker 3: a lot more secure than just being at one end
Speaker 3: of the guide. So that would be part of my
Speaker 3: criteria there. The other thing is, I guess I know
Speaker 3: power tools are expensive, particularly if you buy them brand new.
Speaker 3: Over the years, I've actually bought a reasonable amount of
Speaker 3: gear secondhand, and sometimes that can be quite I mean,
Speaker 3: sometimes you can end up with rubbish, so you've got
Speaker 3: to be a bit careful. I absolutely loathe with a
Speaker 3: passion people that steal power tools and then sell them.
Speaker 3: So I think you've got to be super cautious around
Speaker 3: buying from some one who you think might have stolen
Speaker 3: or come into possession of stolen goods. So you've got
Speaker 3: to be a bit careful around that.
Speaker 4: Seriously.
Speaker 15: I love.
Speaker 11: A real market for that type of stolen tols, and
Speaker 11: you know, very hard to people don't record these serial
Speaker 11: numbers and all that sort of you know, you sort
Speaker 11: of going off track of.
Speaker 3: That, no, but look on that though, like a thing
Speaker 3: that I have been part of and I would encourage
Speaker 3: as the police through some of their community policing thing,
Speaker 3: we'll do programs with they'll they'll engrave or get tradees
Speaker 3: to engrave their driver's license number onto their power tools.
Speaker 3: And I've done exactly the same with mine, so you know,
Speaker 3: all of my gear has got my driver's license on it,
Speaker 3: because you know, I might paint my tools green and go,
Speaker 3: oh that's great, now I know which are mine. But
Speaker 3: if the police, you know, kick the door down on
Speaker 3: a meth house right and find there's a room full
Speaker 3: of power tools, and this is exactly what happens, and
Speaker 3: then hey, look, you know I've painted mine green or I've.
Speaker 4: Put p W on it. Well, who the hell's p W?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: I mean, Whereas if you've got the driver's license, even
Speaker 3: if it's not your, you know, like let's say I've
Speaker 3: sold it to you, right, but at least if it
Speaker 3: gets pinched from you, then they'll contact me and I'll go, oh,
Speaker 3: that's right. I sold it to Matt a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago, you know, and it's legitimate, So I think
Speaker 3: that's great. But it look in terms of selecting the
Speaker 3: power I think you've got to look at obviously you've
Speaker 3: got to look at price, you've got to look at
Speaker 3: some of the basic features that the tool will have.
Speaker 3: And you know, again you might end up spending not
Speaker 3: that much on a table sort for example, but it does,
Speaker 3: you know, like I think it's really important. The guide
Speaker 3: gets clamped at both ends. And then sometimes what happens
Speaker 3: with more budget tools is they come with not particularly
Speaker 3: good quality blades. So often swapping the blade out and
Speaker 3: getting a really good blade into it can actually make
Speaker 3: the difference. But all you know, but you've got to
Speaker 3: be realistic too, And I get frustrated with people that go, oh, look,
Speaker 3: I bought this table saw and it cost me four
Speaker 3: hundred bucks and I was trying to rip down, you know,
Speaker 3: forty meters of hardwood and it's darnell. You know, seriously, mate,
Speaker 3: that's that's not what you should be doing with that tool.
Speaker 11: Do you do you have anything to say? You know,
Speaker 11: sort of right, the wattage one of the themes I'm
Speaker 11: looking at. It's been a thousand odd dollars. Yeah, it's
Speaker 11: good quality, comes with the built in stein, it's got
Speaker 11: an arbor, so you put data or data blade into it.
Speaker 11: Rack and pinion. But it's only fifteen hundred.
Speaker 4: What I think fifteen hundred will would do?
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 11: Oh and I agree around what you said about Second
Speaker 11: End at tools of just can I speak to that brand?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't mind you you can.
Speaker 11: So, yeah, good Second End HTASHI older model C or
Speaker 11: seating FSB condition, A good solid saw, really well looked after.
Speaker 11: I think, you know, that's a lifetime saw.
Speaker 3: I ran that saw for about fifteen years, so I
Speaker 3: know it intimately in a sense. They're awesome, they really are.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And then you know, I know they're not. You
Speaker 11: know a lot of people going to these forty volt systems,
Speaker 11: but you know for power or brilliant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 3: I haven't moved to that yet, but you know, at
Speaker 3: this point in time, like the the two drop saws
Speaker 3: that I have fine, right, so I don't need to upgrade. Certainly,
Speaker 3: I know a lot of a lot of contractors who
Speaker 3: are moving to cordless drop saws, and by all accounts,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm still getting my head around the performance there,
Speaker 3: but it's it's pretty damn good to be fair.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that main and mine has got a forty volt.
Speaker 11: It's brilliant. However it's a lot more money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, again, you know, it's one of those things
Speaker 3: that if, for example, you're like for finishing work for
Speaker 3: you know, if you're moving around the house doing finishing work,
Speaker 3: I think having a cordless or battery powered set up
Speaker 3: is fantastic. If you're working in a site where power
Speaker 3: is a little bit unreliable, then that's fantastic as well.
Speaker 3: But most of the time, I mean yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 3: I to be fair, I've still got, for example, a
Speaker 3: corded skill saw at home. Have I used it much
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Does the battery powered gear that I've got suffice for
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent of what I do one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: It's amazing how quickly we've swapped across. Yeah, chat, okay, buddy,
Speaker 3: take care. All the best followed then, Pete. Someone buying
Speaker 3: a table so should also get a good pusher such
Speaker 3: as the gripper to save their hands and fingers. Cheers
Speaker 3: from Moz If you're wondering what that is, it's like
Speaker 3: you shouldn't have your fingers any w near the blade, right,
Speaker 3: So typically if you're cutting something that's smaller and you need.
Speaker 3: It needs to be close to the blade. Then you
Speaker 3: end up with a push stick and you can get
Speaker 3: flash ones like the gripper and things like that. To
Speaker 3: be fair, I make my own. I've made a number
Speaker 3: of them over the years, and if you look online
Speaker 3: there's all sorts of different varieties and so on. The
Speaker 3: one that I made the other day has got a
Speaker 3: lot handle on the top works absolutely fine. Oh, eight
Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 4: Do we take break?
Speaker 3: I think so let's do that and a bunch of
Speaker 3: great texts as well. With regard to power tools, more
Speaker 3: than happy to talk tools, particularly around you know, I
Speaker 3: suppose it's a competency thing where you need to have
Speaker 3: the time on the tool to become competent in its
Speaker 3: use without becoming complacent, because that's that's when things go wrong.
Speaker 3: We'll come back and talk more about tools. We'll talk
Speaker 3: all things building construction here at new Stalk SeeDB. The
Speaker 3: lines are open. The number is eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty back in a moment your.
Speaker 4: News stalk s hed B.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, I'm kind of in a happy
Speaker 3: place talking about power tools, so we can talk power tools.
Speaker 3: We can talk power tool safety usage and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing, and it's I'm very much in favor of
Speaker 3: you encouraging.
Speaker 4: Anyone to.
Speaker 3: Purchase and use and develop their skills with power tools.
Speaker 3: So I'm very conscious, having, you know, years and years
Speaker 3: of working with people, some of whom have had life
Speaker 3: changing injuries as a result of incidents involving power tools,
Speaker 3: that safety is also powera amount that I'm absolutely convinced to.
Speaker 3: Safety always, most cases always comes down to the competency
Speaker 3: and the attitude and the awareness of the operator.
Speaker 4: Every now and.
Speaker 3: Then, you know, tools will kind of bite you in
Speaker 3: the sense that they fail and that becomes a problem.
Speaker 3: But nine times out of ten, it's always about the operator.
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 4: Parvin. Good morning to you.
Speaker 15: How are you?
Speaker 4: Good morning?
Speaker 14: I'm well, thanks, sadly about I've got about nineteen seventy
Speaker 14: property and when it rains, not every time, but it's
Speaker 14: what it comes through the popular window into the house. Yep,
Speaker 14: you haven't heard of anything like that before. What the
Speaker 14: best way we live that would be?
Speaker 3: It really comes down to finding out where and why, right,
Speaker 3: so you can fix it if you know exactly where
Speaker 3: it's coming from. It's interesting that it owns it doesn't
Speaker 3: happen every time it rains. So what that tells me
Speaker 3: is that it's about a combination of wind.
Speaker 14: And rain that kind of kind We didn't rule it that,
Speaker 14: but we're not that could or not because that even
Speaker 14: on non wind as it's come through as well close
Speaker 14: to the window, yes, and worked our way good. We
Speaker 14: couldn't just kind of like, yeah, lostedness system.
Speaker 3: So when you've if you're using a hose and ideally
Speaker 3: not you know, with the hose on direct but use
Speaker 3: it like the soaka setting or a sprinkler setting or
Speaker 3: a shower setting or something like that, so that you've
Speaker 3: got trying to replicate normal weather conditions and you couldn't
Speaker 3: make it leak.
Speaker 4: Then no, it did that.
Speaker 14: We got to a stadium, it didn't it, but you
Speaker 14: couldn't stand to exactly. We kind of feeled the whole
Speaker 14: area of ceiling.
Speaker 15: Yep, and we thought.
Speaker 14: About two three weeks later.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, Yeah, it definitely only leaks when it rains. Yes, Okay, Now,
Speaker 3: because it's a question I often ask people because sometimes
Speaker 3: in fact the leak is not about the weather.
Speaker 4: It's about a pipe for example.
Speaker 14: True.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's just a sort of process of elimination, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I aluminium jewry, timber jowinery.
Speaker 14: Timber jewry. It's kind of weather on. It's got flatboards
Speaker 14: in the middle with the window that she placed in the.
Speaker 3: Building, and above the window. What happens above the window
Speaker 3: how far up to either the roof or to the
Speaker 3: second story.
Speaker 14: It goes to a second story to another window which
Speaker 14: doesn't which is really kind of strange because of this
Speaker 14: window one above the other ones one on one story,
Speaker 14: ones on the other, the top one doesn't think.
Speaker 3: It's unless potentially what's happening is that the top one
Speaker 3: does leak, but it leaks at the sill and the
Speaker 3: water is draining down through the building envelope, and then
Speaker 3: you're seeing it on the lower story window. Does it
Speaker 3: leak at the top of the bottom of the window.
Speaker 14: Top of the window comes through that l like you know,
Speaker 14: you've got a window frame that comes from the top
Speaker 14: of the frame. Basically just kind of natally, it's quite
Speaker 14: hard sometimes, you know, it's just like when it's coming
Speaker 14: through quite a lot, and it's sometimes it's just a
Speaker 14: light to drop. Sometimes I'm not a gash of that
Speaker 14: comes down quite a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when you were using the hose to get
Speaker 3: it to leak, did it leak when you were on
Speaker 3: the lower window? If you work from the sill up
Speaker 3: to the head, did it leak when you hit the head?
Speaker 4: It did?
Speaker 14: Okay, not a centure?
Speaker 5: Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 3: Have you had a professional coming hell look around, because.
Speaker 11: It look at it and he went through and sealed
Speaker 11: it as well.
Speaker 14: But he's said, of failing that, you must have the whole.
Speaker 3: Wall off and kind of investigate where it's actually coming from.
Speaker 14: Pretty much. Yeah, basically, yeah, yeah, that's what I got.
Speaker 14: Just another quick fixel that the way that because I've
Speaker 14: seen the stuff on TV, like I'm not onto, but
Speaker 14: on Edge on Facebook where people put like a spray
Speaker 14: or silicons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've used those.
Speaker 3: I've used those in the right setting, so for example,
Speaker 3: corner of the spouting where the ceilant might have broken down, right,
Speaker 3: or a long flashing where there's a junction that might
Speaker 3: need to be sealed, or I think I even used
Speaker 3: it on some really rotten clear light roofing and just
Speaker 3: sprayed that over the top and it kind of worked
Speaker 3: as a temporary fix. But in terms of effects for
Speaker 3: what you've got, I don't know that you would that.
Speaker 4: Would be the solution.
Speaker 14: I want to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, interesting that you like. If you can make
Speaker 3: it leak, typically you can then identify if you know
Speaker 3: where you're spraying the water, like when you do that investigation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think so, and do it with someone on the
Speaker 3: inside and someone on the outside so that you absolutely
Speaker 3: typically that should identify it. And so I guess there's
Speaker 3: a couple of things. One is it might be leaking
Speaker 3: around the actual window frame, right, so if a sash
Speaker 3: is not well fitted, you can get leakage around there.
Speaker 3: Typically it'll leak around the head flashing, but in this instance,
Speaker 3: with another window above, the leak might be happening there
Speaker 3: and coming down. So i'd have a look at the
Speaker 3: seal flashing there. Yeah, but apart from that, I think
Speaker 3: it might be a little bit on your own. Their pardon,
Speaker 3: good luck with it all. Oh, eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty is then number to call. We will take
Speaker 3: another break. We'll come back to Leslie and a quick
Speaker 3: text on the powertool theme.
Speaker 4: Pick.
Speaker 3: My husband has an old saw bench which he got
Speaker 3: in the nineteen seventies, so it has no safety guard
Speaker 3: on it. Can I buy one from Mary? You'd have
Speaker 3: to scour, you know, trade me your second hand tools
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing to find one. I certainly
Speaker 3: don't think there'll be one on the shelves anymore. If
Speaker 3: it's a nineteen seventy one, it's probably a good old
Speaker 3: fashioned tenor that's what we had when I was doing
Speaker 3: my early years of building, big old heavy thing. Lugged
Speaker 3: it on and off the trailer like he rattled, and
Speaker 3: carried on cut plenty kitchens out with it, though. That
Speaker 3: was a remarkable thing. Hello as and cut them and
Speaker 3: made them not cut them up and got rid of
Speaker 3: them like we used to.
Speaker 4: Make our own kitchens, Leslie. Good morning to you.
Speaker 17: Yeah, good morning, Peter. Look I've got an area of
Speaker 17: backlawn i'm doing away with, and I've put down matting
Speaker 17: and I want to put some stones on top yep.
Speaker 17: And I went to the quarry the other day to
Speaker 17: find out, you know, because the guy asked what period
Speaker 17: is and it's five x seven meters, yes, And I
Speaker 17: couldn't understand how many stones, you know, he was talking
Speaker 17: meters or something. I just couldn't understand he.
Speaker 3: Would typically do a measurement in cubic meters. And so
Speaker 3: if so, it's five by seven year, right, and what
Speaker 3: type of stones are you talking? Like river pebbles that sort.
Speaker 17: Of thing, yes, yes, not too light, but not you
Speaker 17: not the big stone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a decorative pebble types thing. So you would
Speaker 3: probably put maybe fifty millimeters two inches of decorative pebble down.
Speaker 3: Anything less than that it would be hard to get cover.
Speaker 3: So let's let's assume that you're putting fifty millimeters down, Okay,
Speaker 3: so to be seven by five, which is seven seven
Speaker 3: times five equals thirty five times point oh five, which
Speaker 3: is one point seventy five. So if you asked him
Speaker 3: to deliver two cubic meters of stones, that would be
Speaker 3: around Now, two cubic meters is not a small pile,
Speaker 3: by the way, So an average eight by four trailer,
Speaker 3: so an eight or two point four by one point
Speaker 3: two trailer with a reasonable upstand on it will take
Speaker 3: about a cubic meter, so it would be two trailer
Speaker 3: loads of metal or these days they often will deliver
Speaker 3: those sorts of landscaping supplies in one cubic meter bags.
Speaker 3: So if you got two of those bags dropped off
Speaker 3: that would give you enough to cover that area about
Speaker 3: fifty millimeters deep.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, I think I'll get him to deliver it.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, and then I'm thinking this would be
Speaker 3: a great job for a young nephew or grandson or
Speaker 3: something like that to barrow that around because there'll be
Speaker 3: a little bit of work involved in that too.
Speaker 17: Oh yes, yes, yes, well worth you know, for them
Speaker 17: to deliver. Yeah, absolutely, saying oh, you can hire a
Speaker 17: trailer for thirty dollars, you know, And I said, I said,
Speaker 17: do I have to do all the work to load
Speaker 17: all the stone?
Speaker 3: I know they'll load it, but it's the unloading which
Speaker 3: is the hardbit. So yeah, yeah, I'd probably look at
Speaker 3: getting someone to give you a hand at the other
Speaker 3: end with a wheelbarrow and a shovel. And also when
Speaker 3: you do that, when you clear that area, make sure
Speaker 3: you put down some weed mat underneath the stone. That awesome, perfect, Yeah,
Speaker 3: two cubic meters will get you there. Okay, okay, no
Speaker 3: trouble at all. Nice to check see. Then I wait,
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 3: Ray A very good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, we've got a downstairs tiled shower which
Speaker 7: we've just replaced, and the tiler and breaking out the
Speaker 7: existing tiles damaged the pipe that coast on the outlet
Speaker 7: down the drain. Yes, he got a plumber and who
Speaker 7: instead of putting a straight piece of pipe in which
Speaker 7: was normally, he put a pipe with a bend, a
Speaker 7: vertical bend in it. I guess it was easy to
Speaker 7: access the point. So we haven't been able to use
Speaker 7: the shower for a couple of weeks off and strive,
Speaker 7: And yesterday we used the shower and we found that
Speaker 7: the water didn't run away as quickly as it should.
Speaker 7: Then we understand that it's because it's got a vertical
Speaker 7: bend there the water. We ran it for about five
Speaker 7: minutes and it pulled about one centimeter on the floor
Speaker 7: of the shower before running away. Is that acceptable?
Speaker 3: It's not uncommon to have water build up. You know
Speaker 3: that in the end of the volume of water coming
Speaker 3: out of the shower heater is greater than what can
Speaker 3: quickly get through through the trap and out. I suppose
Speaker 3: the issue would be if you had a shower, Let's
Speaker 3: say you do a three minute shower for example, and
Speaker 3: at the end of that time you've found that you've
Speaker 3: got two or three centimeters of water, or it's getting
Speaker 3: to the point where it might overflow the hob, then
Speaker 3: that's probably an issue. If it's a small amount of water,
Speaker 3: it's not ideal, but it might not be the end
Speaker 3: of the world. I suppose the thing to do would
Speaker 3: be to get an assurance from the plumber that long
Speaker 3: term you're not going to have any issues with that. Ideally,
Speaker 3: you want the water to get away as quickly as possible.
Speaker 3: And the damage to the existing was that to the
Speaker 3: waste water outlet? Was that with what got broken?
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 7: He was in jack cammering the tiles out that jackamer
Speaker 7: went through the pipe.
Speaker 3: Right, did you I'm always a little bit cautious around
Speaker 3: those sorts of repair, you know, where you can't see
Speaker 3: it later on, and particularly is it on in a
Speaker 3: concrete slab or yeah, it would have been yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: And I saw them put concrete encasement around it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Did they test the line.
Speaker 7: So they put water down it? They put water down it?
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, Typically for testing what you would do is you'd
Speaker 3: put a plug in the line, right so to block
Speaker 3: it off and then fill the line with water and
Speaker 3: make sure that it holds water.
Speaker 7: No, they didn't do that.
Speaker 3: That in my mind, that wouldn't be an unreasonable thing
Speaker 3: to ask the contractor to do, because chances are your
Speaker 3: shower is one of the lowest outlets, right, so if
Speaker 3: you if there's an inspection junction outside, you could take
Speaker 3: that inspection cap off, install a plug or a bung
Speaker 3: into the line, and then fill the shower until you
Speaker 3: see the water coming up because obviously it can't escape,
Speaker 3: so it will come up. And then you fill that.
Speaker 3: That will mean that where the junction is, that connection
Speaker 3: is then fully saturated. It's underwater. And so if the
Speaker 3: level in the shower recedes, let's say over a two
Speaker 3: hour period, then you know that there's a leak somewhere,
Speaker 3: and I'd be I would always be concerned around that junction.
Speaker 3: So I think doing a test is not an unreasonable
Speaker 3: thing to ask.
Speaker 7: But a general water on the bottom at full bore
Speaker 7: is probably not a big issue. I don't think it's
Speaker 7: probably not the most desirable, but.
Speaker 3: No, it probably isn't. And I you know, sometimes we
Speaker 3: just have to be a bit pragmatic around these things, right,
Speaker 3: So no, that's probably not an issue.
Speaker 11: But I thought I.
Speaker 7: Had was to change the shower head to a less flow.
Speaker 3: I mean, look for a number of reasons, that's not
Speaker 3: a bad idea. I mean, and to be fair, number
Speaker 3: of new shower heads now are actually they're they're restricted
Speaker 3: in some way, so they don't allow the same volume
Speaker 3: of water. Should still be a comfortable shower in terms
Speaker 3: of water efficiency, Yes, it's a good idea to have
Speaker 3: a efficient Have you got.
Speaker 7: One time for one more question?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 15: Sure.
Speaker 7: We've got an engineered large bench top in our kitchen.
Speaker 7: It's a black black colored and yesterday my wife put
Speaker 7: a very hot cup on it and it made a
Speaker 7: white mark yep. And then I got some silly me
Speaker 7: got some arm just cleaner, yeah yeah, and I've tried
Speaker 7: to remove it. First of all, I use method SPIRITSTO.
Speaker 7: I used some cleaner, and the cleaner took the dullness
Speaker 7: of the area, the black area, and there's probably a
Speaker 7: two hundred mil sort of skirkle where I've tried to
Speaker 7: take the mark away, but it's sort of flattened the color,
Speaker 7: and I'm wondering how I can bring that color backer.
Speaker 7: The very simple thing I thought about was keeping a
Speaker 7: tin and nugget and.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, right, right, right.
Speaker 3: The best thing to do is to there are a
Speaker 3: couple of companies out there that specialize in that sort
Speaker 3: of remediation. As it happens, not a similar incident happened
Speaker 3: close to home, in fact, in my home, and so
Speaker 3: when I reached out and went to there's a couple
Speaker 3: of companies around. There's people like bench top Doctor, for example,
Speaker 3: who will come and do repairs to benchtops. Leave it
Speaker 3: to the professionals, because I think anything you probably try
Speaker 3: and do yourself, will you know, worsen it rather than
Speaker 3: use that company In the end, I didn't. I've used
Speaker 3: them on other jobs. So there's there's people that specialize
Speaker 3: in stone. There's people that specialize in if you know
Speaker 3: who installed the stone in the first place, go back
Speaker 3: to them. They've probably got contacts for repairs and remediation.
Speaker 3: But I think something like this it is really a
Speaker 3: professional job. So have a scout around. I've used guys
Speaker 3: who do acrylics, for example, but bench stops get a
Speaker 3: professional and back after the break question of a building nature,
Speaker 3: we are more than happy to talk about that. Oh
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
Speaker 3: call here at News Talk s DBC you with people
Speaker 3: wolf Camp resident Builder.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 3: Later on in the program, we have the delightful Recline
Speaker 3: Past from eight thirty this morning. So if you've got
Speaker 3: questions of a entomological I eat the Wonderful world of
Speaker 3: bugs or a gardening nature then you can call us
Speaker 3: around eight thirty this morning. Bit of an update from
Speaker 3: the Olympics as well to answer the most recent question
Speaker 3: text why is there no mention of Emma Tweg on
Speaker 3: the silver medal? Well, the good news is is that
Speaker 3: Francesca Rudkin has secured an interview with said Emma Twig
Speaker 3: and they will be talking during Francesca's show, which starts
Speaker 3: at nine o'clock this morning. So there you go, a
Speaker 3: live interview. Oh W eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 3: If you've got a question we've been talking about. We've
Speaker 3: got talking a little bit about power tools at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the program and really around safety and what's
Speaker 3: sort of an adequate a minimum level of safety in
Speaker 3: terms of ensuring that if somebody who's unfamiliar with them,
Speaker 3: or if a child comes into your workspace, what precautions
Speaker 3: can there be. Now, I'm very much of the attitude
Speaker 3: that if you're the one doing the job, and this
Speaker 3: is whether you're a contractor, you're responsible for the environment
Speaker 3: and for controlling that. If you're a homeowner like most
Speaker 3: of us are, and we're doing work around the house,
Speaker 3: then it becomes our responsibility. I think the person doing
Speaker 3: the job to ensure that the environment is safe, and
Speaker 3: that includes taking sensible precautions.
Speaker 4: Around power tools.
Speaker 3: If you and all of us, most of us would
Speaker 3: have done this over the years. You're doing a job
Speaker 3: at home and there might be small children floating around,
Speaker 3: There might be people who are unfamiliar with power tools around,
Speaker 3: so what are sensible precautions to ensure that they don't
Speaker 3: either out of curiosity or lack of knowledge, inadvertently turn
Speaker 3: on a power tool, cut themselves, hurt themselves in any way.
Speaker 3: But ultimately, I think it always comes down to you
Speaker 3: being in control of the environment, you setting the standards
Speaker 3: for that. So we've had a whole number of texts
Speaker 3: and calls around safety switches and one person who had
Speaker 3: like a complete power override in their workshop so that
Speaker 3: they could simply flip one switch and kill all of
Speaker 3: the power or deenergize. This is a new word that
Speaker 3: I learn this week when I was talking to some
Speaker 3: guys who were doing taking overhead power lines and connected
Speaker 3: or disconnecting those and doing new underground power in a street,
Speaker 3: and I had to give them access to the house
Speaker 3: for the electrical inspector to come through and do a
Speaker 3: certificate at the end to make sure that the work
Speaker 3: done by the contractor was safe and compliant. And so, yeah,
Speaker 3: the guy was talking normally. I don't know, it's just
Speaker 3: my old language. I would say you kill the power,
Speaker 3: right that means you've turned it off, But no, you
Speaker 3: de energize the power. These days, I guess for reasonable reasons.
Speaker 3: Talking about killing things is not that nice. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that was a new word that I let And the
Speaker 3: other day actually on this show, we were talking about
Speaker 3: electrical safety and electrical safety certificates and what sort of
Speaker 3: documentation is required by people undertaking this work in terms
Speaker 3: of at the end of the work of documents will
Speaker 3: you should you receive from the contractor. So the team
Speaker 3: that was working in the street and the house that
Speaker 3: I had to give them access to, they had my
Speaker 3: email and so at the end of the job they
Speaker 3: completed the work. On the Tuesday, they had the electrical
Speaker 3: safety inspector come and inspect the work done by the
Speaker 3: main contractor, and then from both of those people I
Speaker 3: received documentation the next day, one which was sort of
Speaker 3: a record of inspection for high risk work i eat.
Speaker 4: Connecting a new.
Speaker 3: Mains to the house, and another one was a certificate
Speaker 3: of compliance from the electricians that did the work did
Speaker 3: the actual installation of the connection of the new power
Speaker 3: to the meet aboard. Both of them sent me documentations,
Speaker 3: got their registration number on It describes the type of
Speaker 3: work done. One signed off by the electrical inspector and
Speaker 3: one signed off by the electricians that actually did the work.
Speaker 3: So that's the sort of basic documentation that you should
Speaker 3: get after electrical work is undertaken. This instance, it's high
Speaker 3: risk because it involves the mains, but regardless of what
Speaker 3: you do, you should get a COOC from your electrician
Speaker 3: for any electrical work done on your property. Oh eight,
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 3: If you've got a question of a building nature, you
Speaker 3: can give us a call, a quick one on a
Speaker 3: text on the showers. We were talking about that with
Speaker 3: ray just before the news. So a shower has been refurbished.
Speaker 3: During the process, the tiler seemingly, while they were chipping
Speaker 3: away at the tiles, ended up breaking the wastewater pipe,
Speaker 3: and so the plumber had to come and install, make
Speaker 3: a new connection to the broken wastewater pipe, and then
Speaker 3: do the trap install. The waste tiler's finished the job,
Speaker 3: water doesn't seem to flow as much as it used to,
Speaker 3: and I'm saying, well, I think it wouldn't be unreasonable
Speaker 3: to ask them to test that line to make sure
Speaker 3: that they also have sealed that junction. So again, if
Speaker 3: you're doing a new build, you're doing renovations, Council, as
Speaker 3: part of their inspection for the waste water lines, will
Speaker 3: ask the plumbers to install a bun or a plug
Speaker 3: into the line and then you fill that line to
Speaker 3: make sure that it's holding water. And it's quite a
Speaker 3: simple thing. You fill it up to the you can
Speaker 3: see where the water is, you can mark that on
Speaker 3: the pipe, and then if over a period of an
Speaker 3: hour or two that drops, well, you know you've got
Speaker 3: a leak somewhere. Really simple, so fix it before you
Speaker 3: close it in. I'm just wondering whether they haven't done
Speaker 3: that on this particular job. Oh eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty lines are open. Oh and a lot of
Speaker 3: talk about power tools and safety. So more than happy
Speaker 3: to talk tools and tool selection and safety. That there
Speaker 3: is that trepidition at trepidation rather when if it's unfamiliar
Speaker 3: to you, but you want to start out down that
Speaker 3: sort of I'm going to own some power tool journeys journey,
Speaker 3: then how do you start? You know that if you
Speaker 3: buy a table saw, you've never used one in your life.
Speaker 3: You decide that you've got a project that you want
Speaker 3: to use one for and you're unfamiliar with them, or
Speaker 3: perhaps you've never used one at all, and so you
Speaker 3: bring it home, you unwrap it, you put it together.
Speaker 3: It's got to be just slightly terrifying the first time
Speaker 3: you turn it on. So where do you go to learn?
Speaker 3: I would suggest you should spend some time with someone
Speaker 3: who's competent with them and understand the processes before you
Speaker 3: had to go yourself. Oh Wa eight one hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty. Will take a short break, we'll be
Speaker 3: back in just a moment. Your news talk said be.
Speaker 4: Fascinating.
Speaker 3: Texts from Michael just very briefly, morning, Pete. I'm an
Speaker 3: electrical engineer and love doing work at home. I've made
Speaker 3: a foot operated powerboard with COC and AC to run
Speaker 3: my table saw another electrical power tool, so that i
Speaker 3: always have both hands on the workpiece or the tool
Speaker 3: without having to remove a hand to switch the tool off.
Speaker 3: Especially the table chairs from Michael. Interesting approach. I'm fascinated
Speaker 3: by that.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to think of all of the time
Speaker 3: that I used the table saw. I would I would
Speaker 3: finish using you know, I've cut something, or I've done
Speaker 3: a rebayto or something like that, and I've finished, I've
Speaker 3: removed the timber from the saw, put that aside, and
Speaker 3: then I'll reach down and turn the saw off. That's
Speaker 3: that's enough.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't need to keep my I don't want
Speaker 3: to keep my hands by the blade to be fair.
Speaker 3: And then have and then think foot control. Look, I
Speaker 3: can see the advantage of it, and I've certainly worked
Speaker 3: in factories where we've had foot control, for example, for
Speaker 3: things like guillotines and that sort of thing. They are
Speaker 3: really nifty, interesting, fascinating. Thank you Michael for that. Ernest
Speaker 3: Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 12: Good morning, sir morning. I'm working on a nineteen sixties
Speaker 12: half at the moment from my home, and I'm redoing
Speaker 12: the kitchen, and last night I started taking the sort
Speaker 12: of lino plastic flooring, which underneath that was a dark
Speaker 12: brown board which I know is masonite, and then underneath
Speaker 12: that is the floor in absolutely beautiful conditions. However, the
Speaker 12: masonite has been staple down and you can break the
Speaker 12: masonright off and you're left with the staples. Most of
Speaker 12: the staples, like four four out of five will come out,
Speaker 12: and I found using a pair of vice grips and
Speaker 12: a plank underneath them and sort of pulled them out
Speaker 12: that way. But some of them don't come out. I'm
Speaker 12: just wondering if there is a neck to it. Like
Speaker 12: I tried tapping the staple before putting it out, but
Speaker 12: I felt bad about doing that. So some of the
Speaker 12: staples bake off, so you've got two pins sticking up
Speaker 12: the any way of coping with it better?
Speaker 3: And part of me is just smiling from year to
Speaker 3: ear because I did a job exactly like that, but
Speaker 3: just between you and I, I did it when I
Speaker 3: was a much younger man, And to be fair, I'd
Speaker 3: had a big night out the night before, and my
Speaker 3: job the next day was to pull staples out of
Speaker 3: the floor. So spending a day on your hands and
Speaker 3: knees pulling staples out of the floor with just the
Speaker 3: most massive hangover was not pleasant, So I understand how
Speaker 3: difficult that job is. Look to be fair, if you're
Speaker 3: achieving four out of five, you're doing better than I did.
Speaker 3: My performance might have been slightly impaired at the time,
Speaker 3: but in the end, I think what I found and
Speaker 3: over the years that if you can get them out,
Speaker 3: that's great. Tapping them to sort of release the tension
Speaker 3: or the grip that they have, because the staples rust
Speaker 3: a little bit over time, right, so if you can
Speaker 3: loosen that bond by giving them a small tap. The
Speaker 3: hard thing is, because they're not particularly strong, you tend
Speaker 3: to flatten a head, and in fact, if you hit
Speaker 3: them too hard, you'll create a crease in the in
Speaker 3: the wire and that'll just make it more fragile. So
Speaker 3: it's a small tap. If you really wanted to, you
Speaker 3: could try soaking the floor to make the timber wet,
Speaker 3: but I don't know that it'll have a significant impact.
Speaker 3: What I found is that I got most of the
Speaker 3: staples out like you have, and then the ones that
Speaker 3: broke off and that I couldn't get any purchase on anymore,
Speaker 3: I would simply drive them down with a nail punch.
Speaker 3: And in fact, the ones that I missed once the
Speaker 3: sander went over them. It's you're talking about a millimeter, right,
Speaker 3: You kind of hardly even notice that if that's your
Speaker 3: intention is to stand the floor.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, it is my intention. And I wondered about
Speaker 12: that that I had visions of it ripping up the
Speaker 12: sand paper.
Speaker 3: No, don't worry about that. And the slightest can I
Speaker 3: How much of the removal of your ex lino have
Speaker 3: you done?
Speaker 12: I've done about a square meter or so.
Speaker 3: Okay, there, have you done an asbestos test?
Speaker 4: The what s an asbestos?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 12: No, this is a wood product. Yeah, and I think
Speaker 12: it's called Mason Night.
Speaker 3: And look just it would be remissive me if I
Speaker 3: didn't raise this right because I'm I'm aware that in
Speaker 3: certain types of lino underlays and certain types of those
Speaker 3: that may snite board, there may well be asbestos containing
Speaker 3: material or ACM. And so before you go and do
Speaker 3: lots more work. Certainly, I hope that you're wearing a
Speaker 3: mask and those sorts of things, but I would suggest
Speaker 3: that you take a sample of it, send it off
Speaker 3: to an industrial laboratory. And there are lots of them
Speaker 3: that are or there are more of them available. Our
Speaker 3: testing is not uncommon, and just have for your own
Speaker 3: peace of mind, because even if during the removal, you know,
Speaker 3: if you're creating dust that's going to stay in the house,
Speaker 3: then you've effectively spread those asbestos fibers throughout the house.
Speaker 3: So have it tested before you do too much work
Speaker 3: would be my recommendation. What you do is up to you,
Speaker 3: but that I feel that I need to tell you
Speaker 3: that thank you for that. Yeah, no trouble at all.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and once it's done, I think if you've
Speaker 3: got most of them out and the last ones you sand,
Speaker 3: and if you don't like the look of them when
Speaker 3: you've sanded them, you could punch them and fill that
Speaker 3: and that'll be fine.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm not that fussy about it. And you know
Speaker 12: they're like centers about ten so the hundreds.
Speaker 3: I am painfully aware of the work that you are doing.
Speaker 3: Someone has text through and said use pencers, but I
Speaker 3: actually think that by using the vice script you might
Speaker 3: be onto a winner there because the pencers, because they're
Speaker 3: designed to cut through material, will often end up there's
Speaker 3: a really fine juggling act with a set of pencers
Speaker 3: to get enough pressure to get purchase on the material
Speaker 3: so that you can leave it out. But if you
Speaker 3: press too hard on the pencer, you'll just cut through
Speaker 3: the staples. So I think using.
Speaker 12: Idea, yeah, I went to the princers initially, that's exactly
Speaker 12: what happened. Is it actually cut off a lot of
Speaker 12: the staples anyway, Okay, thank you, I'll try doing the
Speaker 12: tap bit.
Speaker 7: I think you're.
Speaker 3: Thanks all right, much appreciate it. You take care, thank
Speaker 3: you very much. All the best, Bob. Then that is
Speaker 3: one completely unpleasant job, as if you you know often
Speaker 3: so look at this text right there you go again
Speaker 3: with your over the top caution, so annoying. Have you
Speaker 3: ever been with someone who's died as a result of
Speaker 3: exposure to asbestos? You probably haven't, right, So the risk
Speaker 3: of exposure is real. So it's a sensible precaution in
Speaker 3: my mind. If you're going to spend hours getting down
Speaker 3: close to a material that you're going to break up
Speaker 3: and the fibers become friable as an airborne then I
Speaker 3: think it's a sensible precaution to test for asbestos. And
Speaker 3: I don't believe that that's over the top so annoying. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: okay O eight hundred eighty ten eighty. We're going to
Speaker 3: track down Rudd, which is a bit of a challenge
Speaker 3: right now. So Rudd, time to go to the studio
Speaker 3: Sunshine I eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you've got
Speaker 3: a question for Ridd, you can text through your questions
Speaker 3: through as well. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 3: number to call. Just on that staple room. There are
Speaker 3: staple removal tools like a little wedge that you can
Speaker 3: get underneath the harp of the staple or the staples
Speaker 3: go up, across and back down, so if you can
Speaker 3: get under there, sometimes you can leave them up if
Speaker 3: you can get under there. Often with that type of work,
Speaker 3: where the staple is held down the board, there's actually
Speaker 3: the remnants of the board trapped underneath the staple, hence
Speaker 3: using pliers or pincers to get to the top of
Speaker 3: the staple. I am so intimately involved with the removal
Speaker 3: of staples that it disturbs me that I know this
Speaker 3: much about doing them.
Speaker 4: I eight hundred eighty.
Speaker 3: Here we go remove the staples and breads by rocking
Speaker 3: back and forth, and then they break off below the surface.
Speaker 3: Interesting technique, not bad. People have obviously shared my pain
Speaker 3: with doing this particular job. I eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 3: We'll take short break. We've got rid coming up in
Speaker 3: just a moment, just before we jump into the garden
Speaker 3: with Red climb Past who's on standby. I mentioned earlier
Speaker 3: that during the course of the week several discussions, been
Speaker 3: to a few events and that sort of thing, and
Speaker 3: ended up having a really good session with a young
Speaker 3: engineer Storm who has done a lot of research on
Speaker 3: ventilation in particular. So it's my intention sometime in the
Speaker 3: next couple of weeks to have her join me on
Speaker 3: the program to talk about ventilation again. It's one of
Speaker 3: those hot button topics at the moment because people are
Speaker 3: talking about H one in terms of the energy efficiency
Speaker 3: and the insulation requirements, and then people are going, well,
Speaker 3: because we're putting too much insulation at the houses, that's
Speaker 3: why they're overheating, which is not true, by the way,
Speaker 3: and we're starting to get understandably, but more focused on
Speaker 3: ventilation and air quality and ventilation requirements and so on.
Speaker 3: So it was delightful actually to sit with her and
Speaker 3: talk for a couple of hours about insulation, insulation, insulation
Speaker 3: and ventilation, particularly ventilation and ventilation standards and what systems work,
Speaker 3: and negative pressure and positive pressure and so on and
Speaker 3: so forth. So we'll take a deep dive into ventilation
Speaker 3: in the coming weeks. Righty, oh, we have Rid on standby.
Speaker 3: Rid's okay, we've got root, we don't have rit, we
Speaker 3: don't have rot right now, we might swap over and
Speaker 3: do that a slightly different way. If you've got any
Speaker 3: questions for it, then the lines are open and the
Speaker 3: number to call is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 3: You can text through as well. A couple of people
Speaker 3: have already text through about Slimy Nostoc. Don't know anything
Speaker 3: about that. That's why Rid's on the show spraying roses
Speaker 3: with once they're pruned. We'll talk to Rid about that
Speaker 3: as well. Just on the asbestos, which was the last
Speaker 3: thing that we talked about on the program, let me
Speaker 3: just sort this out there.
Speaker 4: We go.
Speaker 3: On the we're talking about asbestos pete where we see
Speaker 3: floor sanders and we check every single floor that we uplift,
Speaker 3: and about five percent contain asbestos. While the thing would
Speaker 3: be if you want to be in that five percent
Speaker 3: and potentially expose yourselves to something that is going to
Speaker 3: have in detrimental impact on your health in the future. Right,
Speaker 3: we're going to get rid sort it out. If you
Speaker 3: would like to call and talk with Ridd, the lines
Speaker 3: are open. Might take the break now and then we'll
Speaker 3: come back, get Rid up and then we're into it.
Speaker 4: Here at Newstalk SEDB.
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