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Speaker 5: into a couple of hours of open line conversation about
Speaker 5: all things building and construction. So if you've got some
Speaker 5: questions of a building nature, you should call me right now. Inevitably,
Speaker 5: as I mentioned a few times, we do get a
Speaker 5: little bit busy later on the show and don't always
Speaker 5: get to all of the callers. So if you've got
Speaker 5: a question and you're up and about, maybe you've you've
Speaker 5: already had the toast and the tea and that sort
Speaker 5: of thing, or perhaps you just tucked up still in bed.
Speaker 5: It is kind of the middle of winter, doesn't It
Speaker 5: feels reasonably sort of settled in this part of the
Speaker 5: country at the moment. But if you're up at about
Speaker 5: and you're listening to the show and you think, yee,
Speaker 5: I wish I knew kind of what to do about.
Speaker 5: You know, someone who's text me before when it rains
Speaker 5: a little area just by the back door that gets
Speaker 5: wet right the back door's undercover, so I suspect that
Speaker 5: the moisture is coming up through the slab. What do
Speaker 5: I do about that? Or another email that I got
Speaker 5: during the course of the week, it was someone who's going, hey, look,
Speaker 5: I was told that I didn't need a building consent
Speaker 5: for this particular type of work. Turns out I did.
Speaker 5: What can I do about it?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: I have to say on that matter, it's been sort
Speaker 5: of a project of mine for the last little while
Speaker 5: to try and get a building consent that was issued
Speaker 5: in two thousand and two. The work was completed, the
Speaker 5: person lived in the house. They went for a final
Speaker 5: inspection in two thousand and twelve found that there was
Speaker 5: some work that was not properly done, that required more work,
Speaker 5: which required a new building consent that got done, That
Speaker 5: consent got signed off. Excuse me, my client got me
Speaker 5: to do some work on that house almost ten years ago,
Speaker 5: which got a building consent. Well, had a building consent
Speaker 5: and got signed off and a CCC was issued. But
Speaker 5: then a couple of years ago it was found that, hey,
Speaker 5: actually that other earlier consent never got signed off. We've
Speaker 5: got to get that signed off. I can assure you
Speaker 5: that has been quite the process, and it wasn't just
Speaker 5: a sort of desktop review type thing. Oh well, that
Speaker 5: should have got signed off. There was inspections, there's been meetings,
Speaker 5: there's been the engagement of building surveys to do a
Speaker 5: essentially a performance review of the exterior cladding, to satisfy
Speaker 5: council that it's going to it's going to perform, and
Speaker 5: that they can feel comfortable about issuing a CCC for
Speaker 5: that very early consent, which means that when someone looks
Speaker 5: at the limb the land Information Memorandum of the property,
Speaker 5: they'll see that every consent that was issued, every building
Speaker 5: consent that was issued, has in fact been resolved signed
Speaker 5: off with a CCC. These things take a bit of time,
Speaker 5: so that that text that came through with that email
Speaker 5: that came through about oh gosh, we've done the shower
Speaker 5: and now realize that we should have had a building
Speaker 5: consent might actually be quite a process sway. We'll get
Speaker 5: into that a little bit later on radio. What's going
Speaker 5: on at your place? Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 5: eighty is the number to call if you've got a
Speaker 5: building question. It could be about, you know, the actual
Speaker 5: practicalities of getting something constructed. It might be around the
Speaker 5: rules and regulations that govern what we build, how we build,
Speaker 5: and how we get it to be compliant. And there's
Speaker 5: some pretty well pretty significant changes. Something that's been talked
Speaker 5: about We've talked about it on the show a number
Speaker 5: of times over the last couple of months. Probably actually
Speaker 5: would go back almost a year. Cast your mind back
Speaker 5: to the arrival I guess of a new government and
Speaker 5: a new Minister for Construction and Building. That is the
Speaker 5: honorable Chris Pink, who's been a guest on this show
Speaker 5: a couple of times, came into the studio a few
Speaker 5: months ago. One of the things that was floated very
Speaker 5: early on is, hey, look I've been told or feedback
Speaker 5: from the industry, is that the recent changes to H
Speaker 5: one of the Building Code, which is what sets the
Speaker 5: sort of energy performance or the insulation standards for the
Speaker 5: Building Code, which had just only recently been taken up
Speaker 5: a couple of notches right to make our buildings more
Speaker 5: energy efficient, to make them war Alma basically, or to
Speaker 5: upgrade the amount of insulation that came into effect in
Speaker 5: November twenty twenty three, and then, of course about less
Speaker 5: than a year later that the incoming government goes, oh, well, look,
Speaker 5: the feedback from the sector has been that the insulation
Speaker 5: standards are too high. They've added significant costs to buildings.
Speaker 5: We should look at winding that. And that was kind
Speaker 5: of the first one of the first announcements. Look, we're
Speaker 5: going to look at this. We've being told it adds
Speaker 5: fifty thousand dollars to the cost of a new build.
Speaker 5: We're going to save you fifty thousand dollars by winding
Speaker 5: back h one fascinating debate. We've talked about it a
Speaker 5: couple of times on the show over a fairly long
Speaker 5: period of time, consultation, and finally, as in this week,
Speaker 5: decision has been made and the decision and I have
Speaker 5: to say my frustration with the way that this has
Speaker 5: been reported in the media has been enormous. There has
Speaker 5: been much shouting at televisions, radios, stomping of feet, banging
Speaker 5: of hands on the desk or reading the newspaper at
Speaker 5: the way in which it's been presented. And so often
Speaker 5: the reporting will be along lines of insulation standards are
Speaker 5: going to be reduced, right, which is not actually true.
Speaker 5: Insallation standards, the actual performance criteria for the house are
Speaker 5: not changing. The way in which you get to the
Speaker 5: best of my knowl which the way in which you
Speaker 5: get there is going to change. So there used to
Speaker 5: be a thing called the schedule method. It's still out
Speaker 5: there it means that you can go to the code
Speaker 5: and you go right every If I use the schedule
Speaker 5: method to determine the amount of insulation I need in
Speaker 5: my house, I'm going to end up with six point
Speaker 5: six in the ceiling, because that's what's required everywhere in
Speaker 5: the country, in the Cargol to Kaitaire, everywhere in the country.
Speaker 5: If you use the schedule method six point six. To
Speaker 5: be fair, that I think an ill conceived idea when
Speaker 5: it came out. So anyway, the schedule method at this stage, anyway,
Speaker 5: it seems like the decision is we're going to discard
Speaker 5: that in favor of two other pathways to compliance, one
Speaker 5: of which is calculation method. The other is the modeling method.
Speaker 5: Happy to talk about this, I think it's really important,
Speaker 5: but I do want to state that this is not
Speaker 5: a reduction in the insulation standards. It's just a better,
Speaker 5: more nuanced way of actually figuring out what's going on
Speaker 5: in our houses. Last week on the show as well,
Speaker 5: I mentioned another little project that I've been involved in,
Speaker 5: which is looking at the heating requirements for Healthy Home
Speaker 5: standards for in this case an apartment, so an inner
Speaker 5: city apartment relatively new built late about nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 5: so not a terribly old building, still had stand dolominium joinery,
Speaker 5: single glazing, it's concrete construction, et cetera. But the people
Speaker 5: who are the landlords, are the owners of the property.
Speaker 5: Had had a healthy homes assessment done by someone, and
Speaker 5: in fact, I was reading the report last night, so
Speaker 5: I've got the original report that was done, and the
Speaker 5: heating calculation that that person determined was four kilowatts of
Speaker 5: heating in that particular space. This is forty five forty
Speaker 5: six square meters, which isn't massive, right, and it's in
Speaker 5: the apartment, and there are apartments above and below and
Speaker 5: next to it, and okay, so they went out, they
Speaker 5: got heating that complied to that amount, in fact exceeded it.
Speaker 5: Then they found out that the heating that they'd put
Speaker 5: in was not going to be compliant with healthy home
Speaker 5: standards because it was more than two point four kilowats
Speaker 5: and it wasn't a heat pump. They had fixed in
Speaker 5: panel heaters, very very good quality panel heaters, but they
Speaker 5: don't comply because if you have a heating requirement over
Speaker 5: two point four, it must be a heat pump. So
Speaker 5: then someone else did a heating assessment on it their results,
Speaker 5: and again I read that report last night as well.
Speaker 5: I wasn't very good company last night said that the
Speaker 5: heating requirement for that space was three killer what I
Speaker 5: looked at it and kind of used the calculator and
Speaker 5: adjusted the figures. Let's say, so, I haven't submitted this.
Speaker 5: I just used the online tool that everyone can use
Speaker 5: if you go to tendency Services, and I figured out
Speaker 5: that it would be I thought, in terms of actual
Speaker 5: practical use, given that there's an apartment above and one
Speaker 5: below and some on each side, that the heating requirement
Speaker 5: might be around one point two. We went out and
Speaker 5: had it probably properly modeled by a basically building scientist
Speaker 5: who determined that the actual heating requirement was zero point
Speaker 5: five to seven killer watts of energy. Now that's a
Speaker 5: long way from four. Still a long way or four
Speaker 5: point two, I think it was. It's a long way
Speaker 5: from three. It's even quite a long way from one
Speaker 5: point two. So just dwell on that for a moment.
Speaker 5: Think about the potential implications that if you use the
Speaker 5: online tool you're going to end up with a number. Well,
Speaker 5: it just raises so many questions. One is how do
Speaker 5: two people assessing exactly the same building come up with
Speaker 5: two numbers that are completely different? And then how do
Speaker 5: I come up with a number that's even less than
Speaker 5: that looking at a real world example, how does this
Speaker 5: building actually perform? And then having it independently scientifically showing
Speaker 5: that in fact, the heating requirement is considerably less. Again,
Speaker 5: we can talk about that as well. And oh, I
Speaker 5: got to tell you about this phone call? Random phone call.
Speaker 5: Chappy rings up and goes, what do you know about
Speaker 5: this rock Coat stuff? Because I'm about to buy a house.
Speaker 5: I said, what do you mean? I don't know him?
Speaker 5: You just I don't know. To be fair, I don't
Speaker 5: even know who he got my number. He listens to
Speaker 5: the show and somehow you got my number, Good on you,
Speaker 5: and he goes the auctions later on today. Can you
Speaker 5: tell me anything about it as it happens? I could,
Speaker 5: And the only reason I could is because I know
Speaker 5: the guy who is the general manager for Razine Construction
Speaker 5: and rock Coat, and so I was able to ring
Speaker 5: him and go, here's the address. What do you know
Speaker 5: about the house? He knows a lot about it. I'll
Speaker 5: tell you about that a bit later on as well.
Speaker 5: Radio folks, thank you very much for listening. Let's get
Speaker 5: into it. Sorry about the the heck up at the start.
Speaker 5: We got that sorted. I've got some technical ability. It
Speaker 5: is twenty minutes after six. We're going to take short break.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Steve in a moment. We've
Speaker 5: got some lines free. Eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty.
Speaker 5: There is lots to talk about.
Speaker 1: Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing with feds, or wondering
Speaker 1: how to fix that hole in the wall. Give Peter
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Speaker 5: That'd be I'm slightly baffled by this text. To be fair,
Speaker 5: we'll come to Stephen just a second. Your example describes
Speaker 5: exactly why there's a schedule method, Peter, I'm not sure
Speaker 5: what you're trying to say there. Yeah, anyway, if you'd
Speaker 5: like to give me some more details, or better still,
Speaker 5: give me a call, that'd be great. Other texts from Owen,
Speaker 5: good to hear the minister listened. If not keeping everyone happy.
Speaker 5: What I want to know is why any government thinks
Speaker 5: it's okay for the situation to continue where developers can
Speaker 5: build or modify buildings into apartments walk away with the
Speaker 5: profits and leave apartment purchases with huge remediation costs that
Speaker 5: in many cases ruin them. I want to see the
Speaker 5: responsibility follow the money and the man not to a
Speaker 5: dissolve company. Look, that has historically been an issue, and
Speaker 5: there's any number of bits of litigation. In fact, I
Speaker 5: know a guy who's a lawyer who's kind of a
Speaker 5: mate as well, who's been involved in one case. I
Speaker 5: think for some like twelve years. In terms of remediation,
Speaker 5: there was a I think there was a couple of
Speaker 5: sort of forced sales the other day where people had
Speaker 5: refused to pay their body corporate contribution to a remedial building,
Speaker 5: and then the body corporate is basically going to either
Speaker 5: bankrupt them or get them out of the property and
Speaker 5: sell it on their behalf. And so yeah, I look,
Speaker 5: I don't disagree with you. I think that's some either
Speaker 5: unscrupulous builders or developers have built buildings that have been
Speaker 5: terribly poorly performed, and the devastation that's wrought on people's
Speaker 5: lives is immense. I don't disagree with you. Oh eight
Speaker 5: hundred eighty ten eighty, let's get amongst the call. Steve,
Speaker 5: good morning.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Pepe. Thanks to you and enjoy your program.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've moved a house. It's sort of been consented
Speaker 7: by the council into a property and as well underway,
Speaker 7: we want to just change the plumbing plan around a
Speaker 7: little bit. Had another toilet and just moves a tub
Speaker 7: and stuff like that. There's a layout of the plumbing
Speaker 7: and drainage obviously, and the registered plumber drain layer. He
Speaker 7: didn't think it's too much of a problem with it,
Speaker 7: and he will draw up a plan at the end
Speaker 7: of it and it goes into council. What I want
Speaker 7: to avoid is I'm having a big delay with going
Speaker 7: to apply for it now and then you know, and
Speaker 7: then all that sort of carry on. I'd sort of
Speaker 7: rather do it respectfully.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't suggest so the changes that you're proposing to
Speaker 5: make will add to the number of sanitary fitting fittings
Speaker 5: that are shown on the existing building consent. Yes, okay,
Speaker 5: that triggers the requirement for building consent in itself. So
Speaker 5: given that you've already got one and it's active, my
Speaker 5: advice to you would be to I would put it
Speaker 5: in as a minor variation. Right, So have your plumber
Speaker 5: won't be able to draw the plans. The plans have
Speaker 5: to be drawn by someone who has a LBP or
Speaker 5: is an LBP so has their design license, which I
Speaker 5: doubt your plumber is. So go back to the original
Speaker 5: drafts personal architect who did the drawings, ask them to
Speaker 5: amend the existing drawings showing the location and the pipework
Speaker 5: for the new sanitary fittings, and then submit that as
Speaker 5: a minor variation. Now, the council might not accept it
Speaker 5: as a minor variation, in which case it then becomes
Speaker 5: an amendment to the consent. That might take some time
Speaker 5: to process. But typically, depending on which council, or maybe
Speaker 5: even which inspector you know, a minor variation can often
Speaker 5: be just processed on site so they, you know, next inspection,
Speaker 5: or you book a special inspection meeting, get the inspector
Speaker 5: out and go, hey, look, just now that we're here
Speaker 5: and we've seen how it all works, we'd like to
Speaker 5: make this change. Here's some documentation for it. So if
Speaker 5: you've got the plan there straight away, here's the updated plan.
Speaker 5: They'll look at it, they can stamp it, sign it,
Speaker 5: and you can carry on. But doing it doing it
Speaker 5: later is to be blunt recipe for disaster.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, good advice.
Speaker 5: Do it now. I know it's a bit of a
Speaker 5: fair but do it now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, good advice. I've got the drafts from its
Speaker 7: registered and everything. Yeah, I'll draw it up. We'll get
Speaker 7: him to modify it and in a minor variation.
Speaker 5: And look, it's not too different to you know people going, oh, well, look,
Speaker 5: now that i've got the framing up, I've noticed that
Speaker 5: if I move that window over a little bit, I'll
Speaker 5: get a better view. And you know, it's relatively that's
Speaker 5: what happens right all the time, or gosh, you know,
Speaker 5: I've realized that, you know, I if I move that
Speaker 5: wall slightly, it'll increase the flow through the building, or
Speaker 5: you know all of those reasons. And you guys have obviously,
Speaker 5: now that you've got the house on site, you're probably
Speaker 5: walking through it going, oh gosh, if we made this
Speaker 5: little change, it'll be so much better.
Speaker 6: But do it now.
Speaker 7: Yeah. The only thing is that I want to put
Speaker 7: the extra toilet into a laundry that it joins the kitchen.
Speaker 7: There's a door between them. Is there any other problems
Speaker 7: of that?
Speaker 5: Do you think you might have to just check. For
Speaker 5: a while, there was rules that said you needed two
Speaker 5: doors between a toilet and a kitchen. Now I don't
Speaker 5: know if that's still the case, but often that was
Speaker 5: the case. So you needed two doors between a toilet
Speaker 5: and a kitchen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, although I'm just.
Speaker 5: Thinking about like a downstairs powder room that might be
Speaker 5: like tucked in underneath the stairs of an open plan living.
Speaker 5: It'll only be one door. That might be the only
Speaker 5: thing that might trip you up. But your your architecture,
Speaker 5: your drafts person or your arciticct will will know how
Speaker 5: that should work. Okay, but yeah, do it now. Thanks,
Speaker 5: do it now, buddy, all the best, Okay, take care
Speaker 5: of Thank you, sir, Steve your news talks. He'd be
Speaker 5: people of camp with you, the resident builder here at Newstalks.
Speaker 5: He'd be coming up six thirty Colin, Good morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning tea.
Speaker 2: How are you on?
Speaker 5: Very well? Thank you Colin yourself.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll run out of doubt one day. Next seat,
Speaker 8: I've got someone to come and and check my root
Speaker 8: before they painted. It's got the point upon that teter.
Speaker 5: Yes, So it's now just just for listeners, is it
Speaker 5: a So it's one of those like pressed metal tile
Speaker 5: with the chips embedded on it, you should yeah, okay, yep.
Speaker 8: In the kitchen, Tita, I have got some crack in
Speaker 8: the ceiling through the taint. The taint is actually peeled,
Speaker 8: and that it's my way. I don't know why it's
Speaker 8: like it's since I've been in the place, but I've
Speaker 8: got it at half a dozen little spot and there's
Speaker 8: little cracks through the paint. Isn't because the way it's
Speaker 8: being prepared.
Speaker 5: It could be a combination of things. So one most
Speaker 5: likely it's the preparation. Right, So when the ceiling was painted,
Speaker 5: if let's say it was, if it's an older house
Speaker 5: and it's been painted a number of times, you put
Speaker 5: a new coat of paint over an old coat of paint,
Speaker 5: but the old code of paint fails and so starts
Speaker 5: to peel away, So that might be part of it.
Speaker 5: The other thing might be is if you've got not
Speaker 5: great insulation in the roof, then you'll be collecting a
Speaker 5: bit of moisture up there as well. So it's not
Speaker 5: necessarily a leak as in coming from the roof, but
Speaker 5: you're you're getting moisture collecting on the ceiling and that
Speaker 5: might affect the paint. And then, of course, the third
Speaker 5: possibility is that it actually is leaking if it's an
Speaker 5: older roof, in which case you'd want to try and
Speaker 5: identify that and fix the roof before you had the
Speaker 5: roof painted. Now's the time to fix it.
Speaker 8: I'll take the guy out once and he set the
Speaker 8: ceilings fine. I mean, the roof is fine, but yeah,
Speaker 8: it just puzzles me why it's got so many little
Speaker 8: cracks in it. I've got to get something to come
Speaker 8: in and do it. But I'm going to get the
Speaker 8: job done too. Yeah, so that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: In terms of the ceiling, I'd have a quick look
Speaker 5: inside the roof space and see what the insallation's like
Speaker 5: because that might have an impact on it. But then
Speaker 5: in terms of prepping that ceiling, you'd want to give
Speaker 5: it a really thorough clean, like with a proper paint
Speaker 5: preparation cleaner, so something that's going to be quite powerful.
Speaker 5: Clean the ceiling down, give it a light sand to
Speaker 5: knock black back the gloss level, and then I would recommend,
Speaker 5: especially if it's in a kitchen sort of an area
Speaker 5: with a bit of humid, put a coat of pigmented
Speaker 5: sealer on it first. That binds everything together, and then
Speaker 5: go ahead and put your top coats on. So you know,
Speaker 5: I think often what happens is people go, oh, I'm
Speaker 5: going to repaint the ceiling and they just get out
Speaker 5: the roller in a bucket of paint, tip it and
Speaker 5: roll the ceiling and then six months later they go,
Speaker 5: I wonder why that's peeling off. Well, because you haven't
Speaker 5: done the preparation. So good prep, I'll give you a
Speaker 5: good paint job.
Speaker 9: Yeah I was.
Speaker 8: Actually I'm going to get a a twadem and tun
Speaker 8: them and actually do the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Perfect, okay, but again make sure you say to
Speaker 5: them how are you going to do it? And I
Speaker 5: think that the best way to do it is to
Speaker 5: you know, clean it, send it pigmented sealer top coats
Speaker 5: and if they go, oh no, I'm just going to
Speaker 5: paint it, then you kind of go, well, I might
Speaker 5: look for another painter.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all the best, Thank you mate, take care by bye.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 5: One hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 5: Just referring to Steve's comments about the building consent wanting
Speaker 5: to make some small changes, particularly about adding for example,
Speaker 5: a toilet into I think a laundry area. Someone's text Pete.
Speaker 5: If it's already in for consent, get the consent and
Speaker 5: get underway, or your builder is going to be held up. No,
Speaker 5: I disagree with you there. If you're going to make
Speaker 5: a change like that that you know requires a building
Speaker 5: consent or an amendment to the building consent or a
Speaker 5: minor variation, get that sorted out. My impression is that
Speaker 5: the project's already underway right. The house has been moved on,
Speaker 5: they're doing the work on it. It's got a building
Speaker 5: consent for the relocation of the building. So if you're
Speaker 5: going to make a change, get that into counsel as
Speaker 5: soon as possible. Don't expect to counsel to look kindly
Speaker 5: on you making changes and then kind of asking for
Speaker 5: permission later on. Just doesn't work that way, right. Six
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Speaker 5: News Talk's HEDB. We're talking all things building in construction.
Speaker 5: Off with a Hisstener Raw this morning. If you've got
Speaker 5: a question of a building nature. You should call me
Speaker 5: right now. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 5: that number to call. Owen's text through as well. Just
Speaker 5: with regard to Colin talking about you know what could
Speaker 5: cause cracking in the paint work of the ceiling, has
Speaker 5: suggested that painting an enamel over and acrylic may result
Speaker 5: in cracking too because of generally the inflexibility of the
Speaker 5: enamel on the expanding and contracting a crilic Thank you
Speaker 5: very much for that one. Yeah, it is quite And
Speaker 5: I made the comment about a legislation or rules building
Speaker 5: code rules around whether or not you needed more than
Speaker 5: one door between a toilet and the kitchen. It's just
Speaker 5: it's one of those old rules that sort of floated around. Anyway,
Speaker 5: Someone's text, hey where can I send you a pack? Well,
Speaker 5: if you want to send a pick, you have to
Speaker 5: email it to me. That's Pete at newstalksb dot co
Speaker 5: dot nz. And one we have one bathroom in our house.
Speaker 5: It's literally seven steps away from the kitchen bench and
Speaker 5: there is only one door. Just trying thing about my
Speaker 5: own house. And we got some doors into the hallway
Speaker 5: which are typically always open, and then one door to
Speaker 5: the bathroom which is off the hallway, typical old villa.
Speaker 5: So if the doors are open, which they are most
Speaker 5: of the time, and it's only one one door between
Speaker 5: the kitchen, maybe it's a distance thing as well. It
Speaker 5: just it stuck with me. I remember discussing it. To
Speaker 5: be fair, it could have been twenty or thirty years ago,
Speaker 5: but anyway, right, and someone takes through. I get this
Speaker 5: all the time. It's hilarious song, so depressing it really
Speaker 5: gets a bad start to the show. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: what in kindness, I'll say this. I did last year
Speaker 5: on the anniversary of the show. Decided to change the
Speaker 5: song and I came up with something else, and then
Speaker 5: everyone went, we liked the song, We like the song
Speaker 5: back please So oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 5: is the number to call New Texas. Just come in morning, Pete.
Speaker 5: What happens if the council has no limb or any
Speaker 5: other records of our house? Is there anywhere else to
Speaker 5: find information for consents? Et cetera. We recently bought a
Speaker 5: house in the Rangutiki district and council and they say
Speaker 5: that they had a fire sometime ago and all of
Speaker 5: the records were lost. Apparently it's a common thing. I
Speaker 5: tell you, what's a common thing. And I'm amazed that
Speaker 5: there are any records left. But I have heard we
Speaker 5: had a fire and all the records were lost. I
Speaker 5: was going to say hundreds of times. No, not hundreds
Speaker 5: of times, but I've heard it from almost every single
Speaker 5: council in the country over the last umpteen years. We
Speaker 5: had a fire and all the records were lost. I've
Speaker 5: heard that over and over and over again. I don't
Speaker 5: think that council buildings are that likely to burn down
Speaker 5: and destroy all of the council records for building consents
Speaker 5: and building permits and all the rest of it. I
Speaker 5: think that councils just lose stuff. So look, in the
Speaker 5: event that council don't have anything on the limb, you
Speaker 5: could ask for the property file, which is slightly different
Speaker 5: to the limb, and that literally is anything that they've
Speaker 5: got on file about the building. But it is also
Speaker 5: not uncommon for older buildings that there are simply no.
Speaker 6: Records.
Speaker 5: And I've had exactly the same I requested the property
Speaker 5: file for a property and I did it online, paid
Speaker 5: my money. It was like seventy six dollars or something
Speaker 5: like that paid for it, and about two or three
Speaker 5: days later I got a phone call from someone working
Speaker 5: at that particular council saying, hey, look, we know that
Speaker 5: you've made this request, but to be fair, we've got nothing.
Speaker 5: We got nothing, so you know, send us an email
Speaker 5: and we'll refund your money. There you go. Oh eight
Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty eighty is the number. Call Call
Speaker 5: seems to have dropped off. That's a right if you've
Speaker 5: got a question about building or about building consents and
Speaker 5: rules regulations. And I am quite keen to discuss the
Speaker 5: whole heating assessment tool thing, just based on my own
Speaker 5: experience of using it recently and then looking at and
Speaker 5: I've got them up on my laptop A. This is
Speaker 5: all part of the Healthy Home Standards right, So as
Speaker 5: a landlord, now there's no more time to get yourself
Speaker 5: sorted in terms of complying with Healthy Home standards. As
Speaker 5: of the first of July, so six days ago, all
Speaker 5: New Zealand residential rental properties must have a must be
Speaker 5: Healthy Homes compliant right. There are no more exceptions, there's
Speaker 5: no more delays, there's no more I'll get round to
Speaker 5: it tomorrow. It's all just got to happen. And so
Speaker 5: everyone who has a residential rental property will need to
Speaker 5: do a heating assessment to prove that the building can
Speaker 5: get to twenty degrees on the coldest day of the year,
Speaker 5: and that varies across the country depending on what climatic
Speaker 5: zone you're in. And then obviously what it takes to
Speaker 5: get to twenty degrees in terms of this calculation depends
Speaker 5: on what the building is made of. Is there a
Speaker 5: lots of insulation, not much insulation, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: And so you use the tool, it's the government's tool.
Speaker 5: It's on the Tendency Services website. You use the tool,
Speaker 5: you enter in the data and it spits out a number.
Speaker 5: So one report, this is bearing in mind, this is
Speaker 5: exactly the same building right that we're looking at here.
Speaker 5: One report and I'm reading it right now, ends up
Speaker 5: with a heating recommendation of So the building you require
Speaker 5: four point five kilowats of heating capacity to heat the
Speaker 5: living room. Heating needs to provide this heating capacity with
Speaker 5: an outdoor temperature of one degree. So that's the assumption
Speaker 5: in Auckland that it might be one degree outside when
Speaker 5: it's one degree outside. You've got to be able to
Speaker 5: get that room to twenty degrees and in order to
Speaker 5: do that, you've got to have four point five kilowatts
Speaker 5: of heating. Then exactly the same building, another report done
Speaker 5: by another assessor generates a number that says you need
Speaker 5: three kilowatts of heating, just quite a bit different. Then
Speaker 5: I did calculations based on how I think the building
Speaker 5: actually performs using the tool, and I got one point two.
Speaker 5: Then we went out and got a professional to do
Speaker 5: a model of the building, a theoretical model of the
Speaker 5: building to see what heating requirement there was actually going
Speaker 5: to be. Came back at zero point five to seven killowatts.
Speaker 5: Think about what's required to heat to four point five
Speaker 5: versus zero point five to seven. It is significant difference, right,
Speaker 5: and what you need to do. I e. In one case,
Speaker 5: you must install a heat pump, which means penetrating the
Speaker 5: exterior cladding, doing lots of electrical work, making sure that
Speaker 5: you've got a drainage pathway from the indoor unit to
Speaker 5: the outside. For the comments eight, you've got to have
Speaker 5: somewhere to sit that outdoor unit, which in an apartment
Speaker 5: could be a little bit challenging, and you know all
Speaker 5: of the cost involved to do something that in the end,
Speaker 5: in my opinion, you don't actually need. So give us
Speaker 5: a call on that if you'd like. Oh, eight hundred
Speaker 5: eighty ten eighty is the number to call. James. Good
Speaker 5: morning to.
Speaker 9: You, Jane.
Speaker 11: That's good things, just kind of all. My mother's on
Speaker 11: her own. She's got a naked aker land and he's
Speaker 11: beside her. Baker Land has been subdivided, and they've got
Speaker 11: the neighbor has built a big his house is slightly raised,
Speaker 11: and he's built a long cronky drive from the road
Speaker 11: up to his house in the in the fall of
Speaker 11: the of the driveways going towards my mother's house, and
Speaker 11: it's flooding. She's never had that film before and so
Speaker 11: I had to talk to him and then I said,
Speaker 11: you need to such that drive. The fool is wrong
Speaker 11: and he said that costs me quite a bit. And
Speaker 11: I said, well, well, He said, how vert if I
Speaker 11: put a sum the so caol and your parents just
Speaker 11: through the fence into the appearance place. And I said, no,
Speaker 11: you can't do that, I thought the council. He said, oh,
Speaker 11: you get them, get her to agree. She's in her eighties.
Speaker 11: And I said no, I said, you can't do that.
Speaker 11: So I don't think you can, kiddy, Hell no, yeah,
Speaker 11: oh sort of, because that would come under lund too.
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 11: You have told the house, wouldn't you.
Speaker 10: No, you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't allow the neighbor who's basically lazy and maybe
Speaker 5: a little bit of a bully to do that, right,
Speaker 5: So that that and also that type of drainage would
Speaker 5: require a consent. You never get consent for it, right,
Speaker 5: So this this development that's going on next door obviously
Speaker 5: is consented.
Speaker 11: He felt, well, yeah, that's quite long. She's her the
Speaker 11: back of her sections panic and and his house is
Speaker 11: right the end of the pedic in a very long driveway.
Speaker 11: So the water comes raw and down, Yeah, raised coming
Speaker 11: down because the foolall is going to my mother's place.
Speaker 11: She's well in.
Speaker 7: And what is flooding in ord?
Speaker 11: And I said, yeah, you're going to have to change
Speaker 11: four of it?
Speaker 5: So yeah, so he could you know, in terms of
Speaker 5: actually fixing it, what he could do is add a curb, right,
Speaker 5: so it might fall to one side, but then he
Speaker 5: catches it in with a curb and then directs that down.
Speaker 5: But then he's got to collect that somewhere as well,
Speaker 5: right and dispose of it, and all of that is
Speaker 5: required by law. So that's why I asked if he's
Speaker 5: got a building consent, I would say that on the
Speaker 5: building consent, it will show us a particular design for
Speaker 5: the driveway. And I wonder whether what he's done is
Speaker 5: not complied with the design for the drive way. He's
Speaker 5: just gone ahead whack something in in the hope that
Speaker 5: no one's going to complain, but obviously it is causing flooding.
Speaker 5: So one option would be to go to him and say,
Speaker 5: can you show me the design for the driveway please,
Speaker 5: and then have a look at it, and if it
Speaker 5: doesn't match up, you know that like if he's saying,
Speaker 5: it's not my problem, I've just put the driveway, and
Speaker 5: then you could say, well, look we do have a
Speaker 5: problem because we're flooding or my mum's flooding, and so
Speaker 5: I'm not convinced that the driveway is built as per
Speaker 5: the consent. Yeah, So and then you know, if he's
Speaker 5: reluctant to play ball again, I'd probably get in touch
Speaker 5: with counsel. If he's doing a subdivision, there'll be both
Speaker 5: a resource consent and a building consent.
Speaker 11: The house is already established. But yeah, and already is stablished.
Speaker 11: It's don't come a year and year and her maybe
Speaker 11: two years done, but with an increasing rain with it.
Speaker 11: But just notice got worse and then it's just a
Speaker 11: fund of the bed that's all coming.
Speaker 5: So on the adjoining property. On the adjoining property, James is,
Speaker 5: there's still just one dwelling.
Speaker 11: These three in the driveway. That in the driveway feeds
Speaker 11: two houses on the So the the driveway runs right
Speaker 11: along the Yeah, it's coming under the fence and flooding
Speaker 11: into the water.
Speaker 5: And I'd be happy to bet dollars to donuts that
Speaker 5: the driveway design probably shows either a swale or a
Speaker 5: curb as catchment and then that should be directed to
Speaker 5: some controlled storm water. If he hasn't done that, it's
Speaker 5: it's absolutely his problem, right you just it's a requirement
Speaker 5: under the property law that you have to control stormwater
Speaker 5: discharge from your property. He's not doing that, and he's
Speaker 5: in a breach. So the other person to talk to
Speaker 5: James would be go to counsel and ask to speak
Speaker 5: to the resource Consents compliance monitoring officer and ask them
Speaker 5: to go out.
Speaker 6: And have a look, yes.
Speaker 11: Next week, so very much that no trouble.
Speaker 5: Back, all the best, take care see then frustrating A.
Speaker 5: I mean, because it's to be blunt. It's not that
Speaker 5: hard to do a driveway where you are catching the
Speaker 5: water that falls onto the driveway. It's a hard surface,
Speaker 5: it's impermeable, it's going to sheet off somewhere. So most
Speaker 5: driveways will have either a bit of a dish running
Speaker 5: down one side which will catch the water directed into
Speaker 5: a catch pit or to a channel grate and then
Speaker 5: discharge it into stormwater. But just sloping the driveway so
Speaker 5: it falls to your neighbors is simply not acceptable.
Speaker 1: Take short break back in a moth helping you get
Speaker 1: those diway projects done to the resident builder with Peter
Speaker 1: Wolfcat call.
Speaker 5: Talk news sport and with the top of the air
Speaker 5: coming up shortly but Gerald, good morning.
Speaker 12: Good morning, Yeah, listen to to program and a lot.
Speaker 12: I've got a problem an older cottage with a corrugated
Speaker 12: iron roof. The organized now the leadhead nails are going
Speaker 12: ted leadheads in it, which I wanted to get rid of.
Speaker 12: They've gone getting rush marks around them, so we pulled
Speaker 12: them out and there's a little bit of rusty. He
Speaker 12: needs treating, and I was advised to put the screws
Speaker 12: in the proper screws with brother to get some big
Speaker 12: get some big washes that you buy that go around
Speaker 12: them to increase the area. Ye, what do we how
Speaker 12: do we treat that? Okay, I can divert the water
Speaker 12: off the roof for a while enough.
Speaker 6: Yeah sure, yeah, that's what shape.
Speaker 5: Okay, Look, I think the idea would be I agree
Speaker 5: with you pulling the old lead heads out. And there's
Speaker 5: a bit of a trick to doing that without damaging
Speaker 5: the corrigo die. So if you can take the lead
Speaker 5: heads out, and ideally you want to try and pull
Speaker 5: those out as straight up as possible, right so that
Speaker 5: stops it making a bigger hole through the top of
Speaker 5: the corrugate. So get the lead heads out. In most
Speaker 5: cases you'll find that if you get them out neatly,
Speaker 5: the screw that you use with a neoprene washer on
Speaker 5: it will be enough to cover the hole. And in
Speaker 5: the occasional one where it doesn't, I would you could
Speaker 5: add a larger washer if you want to, or just
Speaker 5: put a dob of silicon in there. When you've pulled
Speaker 5: the nail out I would be inclined to treat the
Speaker 5: area with a bit of rust converter and then some
Speaker 5: russ killed primer, and then eventually you'll put a new
Speaker 5: acrylic coat over the top. It's job done, So that's
Speaker 5: how I would approach it. But the key is getting
Speaker 5: the nail out straight up and not making that whole
Speaker 5: much bigger radio. Thanks for that, Gerald, all the very best.
Speaker 5: We are back straight after news, sport and weather measure
Speaker 5: twice God was but maybe called Pete first video WOLFCAF
Speaker 5: the resident builder news talk, sa'd be radio. That must
Speaker 5: be my turn. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 5: is the number to call. I don't know why someone's
Speaker 5: texting me about the All Blacks, but.
Speaker 10: Hey, um.
Speaker 5: Can Oh here's sorry, just a completely random text. This's fascinating.
Speaker 5: Can you recommend a silicon spray to squirt on galvanized
Speaker 5: chicken wire prevent to that is, preventing the starlings from
Speaker 5: nesting in the corners of the spouting and under the eaves.
Speaker 5: The chicken wire will eventually rust being near the coast,
Speaker 5: but we want to slow it down if possible. The
Speaker 5: roof and spouting a powder coated metal and are seven
Speaker 5: years old. Okay, that's not where I thought it was
Speaker 5: going to go. I would suggest that you rip out
Speaker 5: that galvanized chicken wire and replace it with plastics, right,
Speaker 5: because that won't rust and almost anything that you could
Speaker 5: spray on, you're still going to miss a spot and
Speaker 5: you're going to get the rust.
Speaker 9: So I do that.
Speaker 5: The reason that I perked up with that one is
Speaker 5: a place that I look after suddenly has had birds
Speaker 5: roosting in the veranda roof. And the reason I know
Speaker 5: that is because there's droppings all over the veranda and
Speaker 5: the handrail. And I was there the other day and
Speaker 5: I washed all of that down and I went back
Speaker 5: a couple of days later and it's all covered in
Speaker 5: bird pil again. So I'm going to try I've never
Speaker 5: tried the stuff before, the sort of no bird's gel
Speaker 5: that you can squirt into these areas and it dissuades
Speaker 5: them from hanging around there. But I've got to wash
Speaker 5: it first. So that means today possibly I'll go and
Speaker 5: do some water blasting, ah, clean all that up, and
Speaker 5: then apply that gel. If you've had luck with the
Speaker 5: gel and you've got a moment, just let me quick
Speaker 5: Text nine to two. Does it actually work? Oh wait,
Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty ten eighty, let's get amongst the calls,
Speaker 5: the conversation, Judy, good morning to you.
Speaker 13: Hi there people.
Speaker 14: I just need some advice. I've got a unit, it's
Speaker 14: a cross cross lease, and I need some advice on
Speaker 14: a party wall. The next door neighbors have placed their
Speaker 14: garden on this party wall, and I'm finding there's mold
Speaker 14: coming through into my bedroom.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 15: Is this the cause?
Speaker 9: Do you think.
Speaker 5: Possibly? When you say they've placed the garden against it,
Speaker 5: have they like built a planter box and then filled
Speaker 5: it with soil and that's against the cladding above the
Speaker 5: floor level.
Speaker 14: No, it's it's two units. My unit that's lower than
Speaker 14: their unit, and I've put a fence in between the
Speaker 14: two units. If you can sort of get the idea
Speaker 14: and dub that filled all their section up against the
Speaker 14: party wall. So it's probably about four feet deep.
Speaker 5: And the party wall that you describe, is that part
Speaker 5: of that is exterior and it backs onto your habitable space.
Speaker 14: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: And then they've backfilled against that, so there's soil where
Speaker 5: there wasn't soil before. Yes, And the leaking has come
Speaker 5: about after they've done that.
Speaker 15: I think.
Speaker 14: So it happened before I actually came here. I haven't
Speaker 14: noticed it until probably a couple of years, and now
Speaker 14: that is causing a lot of Well, I think it
Speaker 14: is there's mold in that corner where the party wall is.
Speaker 5: I think it's not an unreasonable assumption to make. I mean,
Speaker 5: if the building when it was designed had you know,
Speaker 5: the wall was there and lots of fresh air on
Speaker 5: one side of it, and now there isn't any fresh
Speaker 5: air and there's lots of soil pushed up against it,
Speaker 5: is going to hold moisture. And if there was either
Speaker 5: no or inadequate waterproofing against that wall, then yes, you
Speaker 5: can imagine the water is held there by the soil
Speaker 5: it's being deposited, and then that's literally just soaking through
Speaker 5: the block work and then it will saturate the space,
Speaker 5: and even if it's not a leak, it will introduce
Speaker 5: so much moisture that it will give the right conditions
Speaker 5: for mold to grow. So I think you're probably onto
Speaker 5: something given that it's a cross lease title, unless in
Speaker 5: the cross lease agreement there is such a thing as
Speaker 5: exclusive rights to a certain area. Yes, there is, ah Okay,
Speaker 5: that's interesting. I'm just wondering whether that might mean that
Speaker 5: it's a little bit more challenging for you to intervene
Speaker 5: and to go to the neighbor and say, look, I
Speaker 5: need you to remove this because it's causing issues with
Speaker 5: my building.
Speaker 14: Yes, the exclusive rights are that I can actually go
Speaker 14: on to their property on that side and they can
Speaker 14: come onto mine. But now there's a fence in between
Speaker 14: the two and the back filled the garden. That can't happen, right,
Speaker 14: Not that I want to anyway, but I just know
Speaker 14: what it is I can do to get this removed
Speaker 14: off the party wall.
Speaker 5: Look, I think from what you have described, it's not
Speaker 5: unreasonable to say, hey, look, particularly if your floor level
Speaker 5: is lower than the ground level that they've created. It
Speaker 5: wasn't the original ground level. They've created it by backfilling it,
Speaker 5: and they've put soil up against what's the wall. Is
Speaker 5: it just a concrete block wall, standard concrete block wall.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's the nineteen seventies units that's got there, just
Speaker 14: the block wall.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so there's no waterproofing membrane against that block wall.
Speaker 5: There's probably no drainage at the bottom of that block wall.
Speaker 14: That's correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, look, I think that's most likely the cause.
Speaker 5: So I mean, theoretically they could excavate all of that
Speaker 5: material out, thoroughly waterproof the wall, add drainage, and backfill
Speaker 5: it and not have that cause a problem to you.
Speaker 14: I have asked them, and I have got quotes which
Speaker 14: I've given them. Of course they are refusing to pay,
Speaker 14: but I just point of.
Speaker 16: What my rights are.
Speaker 5: I think the strongest point would be that when the
Speaker 5: building was constructed, the ground level was lower, and that
Speaker 5: they have altered or someone has altered, whether it was
Speaker 5: their or the previous owner, it kind of doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: It's their responsibility. I think that he was never intended
Speaker 5: to be a retaining wall, which is what it's become. Right,
Speaker 5: So a block wall is a block wall, and a
Speaker 5: retaining wall might be made out of block, but it
Speaker 5: doesn't make it a retaining wall. And because it was
Speaker 5: never designed to be a retaining wall, it's causing moisture
Speaker 5: or moisture is accumulating there, and so I think I
Speaker 5: would think that you do have a right to say
Speaker 5: it needs to be removed because it was not there originally,
Speaker 5: and by making a change and not allowing for drainage
Speaker 5: and waterproofing. Your building is suffering as a result, it is.
Speaker 14: How can I enforce that If they're not willing to
Speaker 14: actually do anything.
Speaker 5: I suspect it becomes a matter for lawyers in terms
Speaker 5: of enforcing your rights under the Property Act.
Speaker 14: Okay, yeah, all right, So you just think I need
Speaker 14: to go forward with a lawyer to actually get this.
Speaker 5: I think if they're going to be unreasonable, then yes, probably. Okay,
Speaker 5: you've got to do something that's enforceable.
Speaker 14: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: Okay, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a bad one, but.
Speaker 5: I think you're on the right track. Good luck with that.
Speaker 5: Take care of all of this study, Bye bye. Actually
Speaker 5: talking about cross leases next week on the program, Ben Thompson,
Speaker 5: who is a lawyer who specializes in cross lease. And
Speaker 5: when I say specializes, like when I talked to him
Speaker 5: a little while ago before he came on the show
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks months ago, he'd just been presenting
Speaker 5: to the Law Society about cross leases. Anyway, we had
Speaker 5: a great session with him last time he was on,
Speaker 5: and I've reached out to him to say, look, could
Speaker 5: you join us again next Sunday on the program, so
Speaker 5: after eight o'clock next week and can we take some questions.
Speaker 5: So next week, if you've got a specific question about
Speaker 5: cross leases, we can get some answers from a lawyer
Speaker 5: who specializes, and that Ben will be with me on
Speaker 5: the show next Sunday. Really looking forward to that. Coming
Speaker 5: upteen minutes after seven round quarter to eight, we're going
Speaker 5: to catch up with Mike Olds from Razine Construction. Good
Speaker 5: timing because earlier this week, I think it was it
Speaker 5: was Wednesday morning and I was at my desk doing
Speaker 5: I've got a pap work in the phone rings and
Speaker 5: it was like a number that i'd recognize, and the
Speaker 5: guy goes, oh, hi, it's I won't say his name,
Speaker 5: and I thought I would reach out because I listened
Speaker 5: to the show, and I'm like, okay, just to be blunt,
Speaker 5: my number is not easy to find for a reason. Anyway,
Speaker 5: he called and said, look, I'm interested in a property
Speaker 5: that's up for sale and it's got rock coat on
Speaker 5: the exterior, which is a Razine Construction system's render on
Speaker 5: the exterior. Can you tell me much about it? And
Speaker 5: I said, well, look, yeah, I think so because these
Speaker 5: things have got records, right, because I know the people
Speaker 5: at Razine Construction, and they'll probably have some records of
Speaker 5: the job. It's a two thy twelve constructed house by
Speaker 5: well known builder in a relatively new subdivision. So I
Speaker 5: contacted the mic at Razine Construction, said, look, this chepie's
Speaker 5: phoned me and I'll help him out. Can you have
Speaker 5: a look on your records, and within minutes he was
Speaker 5: able to bring up who the contractor was when the
Speaker 5: job was done, what the building consent was records of
Speaker 5: all of the inspections done not by counsel but by
Speaker 5: their own team, right, so their own people go and
Speaker 5: inspect the work, Photographs of it under construction, so showing
Speaker 5: the fixing, showing the flashings, showing the sealant, showing ground clearances,
Speaker 5: showing the ventilation, all of that sort of thing, and
Speaker 5: then a certificate to say that the building has been
Speaker 5: completed and all of that is kept. And what really
Speaker 5: impressed me about that is I'm struggling to think of
Speaker 5: another cladding system in the country that would have that
Speaker 5: level of detail about it. And if we're moving towards
Speaker 5: self certification, if we're moving towards being able to build
Speaker 5: Grannie flats without having council do the inspections. I think
Speaker 5: that's an example of what companies should be providing if
Speaker 5: your product's going to be used in a situation where
Speaker 5: it doesn't get or doesn't require a building consent. Takes
Speaker 5: some comments on that too.
Speaker 6: Morning to you, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 9: How are you good, buddy?
Speaker 10: In yourself good?
Speaker 17: I've been the last few wns. I've been running around
Speaker 17: the city in him open here looking for stuff to pull.
Speaker 17: We've got going to put in this plank flooring, and
Speaker 17: the hyprin one we're going to.
Speaker 10: Put in, and.
Speaker 17: Some of the floorboards. The flooring in the kitchen is
Speaker 17: just flaking air that chipboard.
Speaker 7: When you.
Speaker 17: And I've been eblewhere to get this something to level
Speaker 17: the floor off? I asked him about you know this
Speaker 17: floor leveler, and I can't use it on wooden floors,
Speaker 17: don't matter which one it is, the multi purpose one
Speaker 17: of that do if you can't use them on wooden fools.
Speaker 17: So I want to use the build this book for
Speaker 17: Can I use that instead?
Speaker 5: I think, well, I suppose one of the concerns is
Speaker 5: that nothing It's it's going to be really hard for
Speaker 5: something to stick to the timber floor, right, it won't
Speaker 5: bond and then potentially you put your new laminate floor,
Speaker 5: your hybrid floor over the top, and then the material
Speaker 5: underneath that you've used for leveling delaminates and starts to rumble,
Speaker 5: right that that's what the concern would be. I I'm
Speaker 5: wondering whether, like how how out of level is it?
Speaker 17: What would say.
Speaker 5: How out of level is the floor?
Speaker 17: Like obviously having all but there's just a few dips,
Speaker 17: you know, it's the chip board is coming out, you know,
Speaker 17: faking then yeah, sure, and we're going to put that
Speaker 17: underfilled under rod as well, because quite but one's got
Speaker 17: that rubbish stuff underneath on it or really and we're
Speaker 17: going to put that in the kitchen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, we're going to.
Speaker 17: Put that kind fill.
Speaker 5: I wonder whether you know this is your house right
Speaker 5: that you're doing it, So let's say it doesn't work,
Speaker 5: it's only you to blame, Okay. So I'm just looking
Speaker 5: at this like, if you're working for someone, you'd arguably
Speaker 5: want to do it absolutely right because you don't want
Speaker 5: to someone to call it up and say it didn't work.
Speaker 5: But in this instance, because if you're skimming I don't know,
Speaker 5: five or six millimeters of if LC over the top
Speaker 5: of that. What you might look for is to see
Speaker 5: whether there's like a primer and adhesion primer that you
Speaker 5: could apply to the particle board that will help the
Speaker 5: floor leveling compound to bind to it. I'll be interest
Speaker 5: because I do know a couple of flooring guys who
Speaker 5: might have a product that will stick to timber, and
Speaker 5: possibly the laminate or the hybrid flooring manufacturer or supplier
Speaker 5: might be able to recommend because it can't be an
Speaker 5: uncommon problem, right, Timber floors can be as out of
Speaker 5: levels as a concrete slab, so there may well be
Speaker 5: a product product If there isn't and you used FLC
Speaker 5: and you used it sparingly and only the worst few areas,
Speaker 5: if there was a problem with it later on, well yeah, I've.
Speaker 17: Been aund everywhere and a wrong m Yeah, we've got it.
Speaker 17: You know, a multipurpose one. Windy at the Nakoy had
Speaker 17: a look on the computer and said it said, no,
Speaker 17: it can't be used on board warden flooring, So why
Speaker 17: use a multi purpose? One will make a multi that's right.
Speaker 5: If it's only.
Speaker 17: Must papers means you can use it anyway.
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 17: Yeah, So.
Speaker 10: And there we go.
Speaker 5: Here we go rd X K sixty five.
Speaker 13: R X A r D e x.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, formulated to adhere to timber and flexible enough
Speaker 5: to accommodate timber movement. You do a primer and then
Speaker 5: you do an Ardix floor leveling compound. There you go,
Speaker 5: problem solved.
Speaker 3: Ardix A R D e x who makes it?
Speaker 5: Ardix do that's the company?
Speaker 9: So A R D e X O A d X.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, just just jump online see if you can find
Speaker 5: a local supply. It might be a specialist store, it
Speaker 5: might be a tiling shop or possibly just sooner you're called.
Speaker 17: I've been to all those places, you know they deal
Speaker 17: and floor and they can tell me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, look Ardis, I mean I know the brand.
Speaker 5: I've used their products over the years. Just get in
Speaker 5: contact with them and and it's a Ardix K sixty
Speaker 5: five will probably help you out there, all right, make
Speaker 5: all the very best problem take care about it. Take care,
Speaker 5: uh andy, just hold the line, but it will come
Speaker 5: to you in just a moment. It is twenty three
Speaker 5: minutes after seven.
Speaker 3: Doing other house storting. The garden asked Pete for ahead.
Speaker 1: The resident builder with Peter Wolfkere calls you and a.
Speaker 5: Couple of texts as well a craggy This is frustrating. Hey, pek,
Speaker 5: my neighbor has dire did new spouting from the three
Speaker 5: story townhouse or three story house onto the carport roof
Speaker 5: onto the lawn into a ditch that he dug next
Speaker 5: to our joint fence. The paving area is gushing rain
Speaker 5: water from the carports, spouting lawn floods next to this
Speaker 5: joint fence, So the fence between the two properties where
Speaker 5: he's dug a ditch for the spouting water from his roof.
Speaker 5: I've spoken to him many times for quite a while now,
Speaker 5: and he does nothing. I told the Wellington Council and
Speaker 5: they've told me it's a civil matter and I'll need
Speaker 5: to take him to the tribunal or to court. I
Speaker 5: can't afford that I agree with your sentiments. I mean,
Speaker 5: the fact is the neighbor needs to control the stormwater
Speaker 5: right and it's absolutely their responsibility and obligation to do
Speaker 5: exactly that in terms of enforcing it. If the building
Speaker 5: is older and might not have a building consent, then
Speaker 5: it's hard to go back to the council and go hey,
Speaker 5: look it's a problem with the building consent. The conditions
Speaker 5: of the building consent haven't been met, so I'd look
Speaker 5: into that first. Actually, is it relatively new? Does it
Speaker 5: have a building consent? The building consent will detail how
Speaker 5: the storm water is mitigated or controlled, and if they
Speaker 5: haven't done those controls then it is a council issue. Thereafter, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you probably have to go to the tribunal, but getting
Speaker 5: enforcement on that sort of thing is difficult and if
Speaker 5: people don't want to do the right thing. Interestingly enough, though,
Speaker 5: I'm just thinking about this water care in Auckland, who
Speaker 5: to be blunts seemed to be doing a hell of
Speaker 5: a lot better job than Wellington Water does have actually
Speaker 5: taken the initiative of sending people out to pick up
Speaker 5: on these sorts of things. So a downpipe that discharges
Speaker 5: onto the ground or onto a pathway with no obvious controls,
Speaker 5: they'll literally go up, knock on the door and go, hey,
Speaker 5: we've noticed that you're going to have a bit of
Speaker 5: a problem here, or even if you don't, your neighbors
Speaker 5: probably will. What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 5: So they're being proactive, which I think is great to
Speaker 5: be fair, because you know, in these times, with the
Speaker 5: amount of water that we're getting. It's increasingly a problem
Speaker 5: if you and I, as individual homeowners don't take responsibility
Speaker 5: for the water that we are collecting. Oh eight one
Speaker 5: hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call glen us.
Speaker 15: Hello, Oh how are you? I've lost my boys?
Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm sure sure you found it again just a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 15: And my birthday to day too, so that's oh, happy birthday.
Speaker 15: I know what a data happen in. I've got a
Speaker 15: Healthy homes form sure. In two thousand and nine, they
Speaker 15: insulated this seading with fluff. The thickness is two point
Speaker 15: nine and it's got pulleys to acrylic carpet on the floor.
Speaker 15: You can't go under the house, and that is one
Speaker 15: point one point three meters. Now this carpet on the
Speaker 15: floor is and he's sitting on the concrete on the
Speaker 15: concrete underneath. Because I've got an open planned lounge and
Speaker 15: kitchen here upstairs, there's a got a fan heater. That said,
Speaker 15: my bedroom's got a heater. The spare room hasn't got
Speaker 15: a heater. They put like a heat pump in, but
Speaker 15: it's got air conditioner written on it right by the
Speaker 15: front door. Basically, the house is still cold. It's pubably
Speaker 15: because it's concrete. I'm not used to concrete houses. Now,
Speaker 15: my power was rising up like a warmer than what
Speaker 15: the house is at the moment. I don't know what
Speaker 15: to do. It's more's paying power for nothing, you know.
Speaker 5: Look, this is one of the challenges with the heating
Speaker 5: requirement for the Healthy Home standards is that you know,
Speaker 5: in order to comply, the landlord will need to put
Speaker 5: in a fixed form of heating that can get your
Speaker 5: room to or that the living room only the living room.
Speaker 5: But if the living room has a staircase or is
Speaker 5: open plan, then it ends up being quite a large area.
Speaker 15: To thirty feet long from the front door to the
Speaker 15: ranch ludders here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it is the house to story.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's one of those then no, but joined on
Speaker 15: to people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but then see for that. If you're doing a
Speaker 5: Healthy Homes assessment on the heating, you need to calculate
Speaker 5: the floor space of the living area, and if that
Speaker 5: includes the dining area in the kitchen, that's got to
Speaker 5: be included in it. And then because it's open plan
Speaker 5: with a staircase, you have to calculate the space of
Speaker 5: the staircase and the upstairs landing until you get to
Speaker 5: the doors right to any of the rooms upstairs, So
Speaker 5: that ends up being quite a large space. If there's
Speaker 5: also relatively low levels of insulation, then what tends to
Speaker 5: happen is your heating requirement will will go up quite
Speaker 5: a lot. So I wonder whether you're the tenant not the.
Speaker 15: Years here.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you're the tenant. So what you could do
Speaker 5: is ask the landlord to provide an updated heating.
Speaker 16: Calculation in front of me at the moment.
Speaker 5: Okay, and what does it give you?
Speaker 15: Nine when they put the insulation in. But this is
Speaker 15: it was stated on the thirties, but the insulation was
Speaker 15: put in on two thousand and nine in the ceiling.
Speaker 5: Which is fine. But remember the Healthy Homes legislation didn't
Speaker 5: exist in two thousand and nine, right.
Speaker 15: So well that's what they've got written down here. Yeah,
Speaker 15: they say it fits regulation to the house. But because
Speaker 15: it's so big, it's probably why it's so cold.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 5: What I suspect is that the if you did a
Speaker 5: proper calculation of the heating requirement, what form of heating
Speaker 5: you've got is probably insufficient and needs to be topped up.
Speaker 5: And that's I think an obligation on the landlord to
Speaker 5: do that in order to stay compliant.
Speaker 15: Yeah, they put the machine of the heat pump in
Speaker 15: the backyard behind me and full of weeds in the garden,
Speaker 15: so having it in the front of the house. They've
Speaker 15: got it at the back of the house.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't really matter where it is as long
Speaker 5: as Yeah, but they do need to ventilate, so if
Speaker 5: the weeds are growing up in front of it, maybe
Speaker 5: you need to just cut the weeds back a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 5: all right, So it'll be about the heating requirements, and
Speaker 5: I wonder whether they haven't done a great job of
Speaker 5: the requirements and therefore you're not able to generate the heat.
Speaker 5: The problem is, and this is often talked about I
Speaker 5: guess for tenants and landlords, is you can put the
Speaker 5: heat and requirement in, but to run it requires power.
Speaker 5: Power is expensive, and so people not to run it.
Speaker 5: So you can put it in and people won't turn
Speaker 5: it on. That's what happens too. Robin, greetings to you,
Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning, Robin.
Speaker 16: I've got a query regarding the insulation of my house,
Speaker 16: sure which I bought in nineteen eighty six, and it
Speaker 16: was the nineteen seventy five brickhouse New World at the time.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 16: And the insulation of pink bats, which has been very good.
Speaker 16: Now I'm just wondering whether there's any point in putting
Speaker 16: a loose layer of a number of more pink bats
Speaker 16: over the top. I have got two heat pumps, one
Speaker 16: in the lounge and one up the front hall, which
Speaker 16: are very effective. No problem with those, but I'm just
Speaker 16: wondering whether I go to the expense of putting.
Speaker 5: More insulation into the roof.
Speaker 16: That's the roof.
Speaker 5: I would heartily recommend that you do exactly that. So
Speaker 5: if the insulation was installed all those years ago, and
Speaker 5: the pink bats and it's nothing. It's not derogatory about
Speaker 5: the pink bats, but they do sag over time. They settle, right,
Speaker 5: so the actual insulation value decreases over time. Because they settle,
Speaker 5: they don't have as much loft. So leave it in
Speaker 5: there and get an insulation installer to do another layer
Speaker 5: of insulation over the top of it, and ideally over
Speaker 5: the top of all of the timber that's in there,
Speaker 5: so the bottom court of the trusses and as far
Speaker 5: out to the top plate around the perimeter as they
Speaker 5: possibly can do have that installed. That will make a
Speaker 5: significant difference to keeping the heat into the house. Okay, yep,
Speaker 5: definitely a good idea.
Speaker 3: Alrighty all, bestie.
Speaker 5: Robin, you take care.
Speaker 7: Bye.
Speaker 5: We'll come back with Jeremy in just a moment. If
Speaker 5: you've got a question, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 5: the number.
Speaker 1: Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fence, or wondering
Speaker 1: how to fix that hole in the wall. Give Peter
Speaker 1: wolf capercall on eighty the resident builder on youth Dogs'
Speaker 1: b Right, Oh.
Speaker 5: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty, then number to call peak
Speaker 5: the coller with the heat pump problem. I'm exactly sure
Speaker 5: whether it is actually a heat pump. Should ask the
Speaker 5: landlord when it was last service, and if she keeps
Speaker 5: the filters clean, that does make a big difference. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're absolutely right, Michael. It's on my list for a
Speaker 5: couple of places I look after to have the servicing done.
Speaker 5: It'll probably extend the life of the heat pump, and
Speaker 5: certainly they perform a lot better if you clean them
Speaker 5: and look after them. Jeremy, Hello, good morning, Peter. How
Speaker 5: are we very well? What's up?
Speaker 7: Good man?
Speaker 13: Good so at the moment, good rental properly in that.
Speaker 13: Oh and the nineteen sixties build frickin' tile, like really
Speaker 13: good home in general on piles and the back patio.
Speaker 13: It's just like cobbles laid on soil and sand. I've
Speaker 13: been like that for like years, you know, but it
Speaker 13: just it's always so damp and just you know, just wet.
Speaker 13: And so I've hide one of those chained trench and yeah,
Speaker 13: bro and trench the back, the back, the whole in
Speaker 13: for the house at back fence, laid on one ten
Speaker 13: overcall and chucked and some I forget the grade, but
Speaker 13: Scoria basse so about two hundred yeah, about two hundred
Speaker 13: worth a Scoria laid the overcare and then put scorer
Speaker 13: on top. Now there's no suspits or or or drainage
Speaker 13: like that I can feed into. Now, can I obviously
Speaker 13: obviously it's got to have fall, But can I create
Speaker 13: some sort of like scorier kind of kind of drainage
Speaker 13: pit at all?
Speaker 5: I mean, look, I've got to say that the best
Speaker 5: solution would be to try and find stormwater, your own
Speaker 5: storm water and tee into it, which technically I think
Speaker 5: would require it consent but anyway, we'll put that to
Speaker 5: one side for now. So ideally, what you want to
Speaker 5: do is have that drainage coil dropping into a catch pit,
Speaker 5: which will allow the sediment to sink to the bottom
Speaker 5: and only clean water to go into the storm water.
Speaker 7: Light.
Speaker 5: So that's that's your gold plated solution. Let's say you
Speaker 5: can't do that, or it's you know, the stormwater's miles
Speaker 5: away or something like that. I guess what you could
Speaker 5: do is do a soakage pit. I would suggest that
Speaker 5: you try and move that away from the boundary so
Speaker 5: that if it did get inundated, it doesn't impact on
Speaker 5: the neighbor. And we've been talking about that where people
Speaker 5: don't control this stormwater and it impacts the neighbor. So
Speaker 5: and one of the keys to doing those soakage pits
Speaker 5: is to so dig you know, a decent sized hole,
Speaker 5: and we're talking like, you know, met deep met a
Speaker 5: square sort of thing, take all of the material out
Speaker 5: line that with geotextile cloth, right, which is like a
Speaker 5: matting that you'd put under driveways and behind retaining walls
Speaker 5: and those sorts of things, and then fill that with scoria.
Speaker 5: And when I've done them, I actually take like a
Speaker 5: couple of meters of that drainage coil or black snake,
Speaker 5: whatever one you're using, and I loop that in there.
Speaker 5: So I've got like a volume that can't be crushed
Speaker 5: if you imagine, right, Because what typically often happens is
Speaker 5: you'll run your drainage coil into the scoria, but then
Speaker 5: it kind of just hits the scoria, right. What you
Speaker 5: want is for it to have some space to percolate
Speaker 5: out through the scoria. So I do a big loop
Speaker 5: of drainage coil in there and then fill it with scoria,
Speaker 5: fold the bittom cloth or the geotextile cloth over the top,
Speaker 5: and then put your soil back over there. And that
Speaker 5: if you're in the right sort of environment where you
Speaker 5: don't have heavy clays and that sort of thing, the water,
Speaker 5: because you're only collecting groundwater, will drain away and percolate
Speaker 5: back into there. Yeah, but ideally you'd want that to
Speaker 5: be a reasonable way away from the neighbor. And you know,
Speaker 5: if you're really in heavy, heavy clays, then in the
Speaker 5: end the clay is just going to hold it and
Speaker 5: it's going to fill up with water and not actually
Speaker 5: go anywhere. So you've got to be a bit reasonable
Speaker 5: about where you can actually put it.
Speaker 13: Yes, sweet, I mean like it's not like weat weat wheat.
Speaker 13: It's like essentially it's we're actually copecting the drainage from
Speaker 13: the neighbor. So it's kind of yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 13: we just kind of want.
Speaker 7: To dry it out.
Speaker 5: So and look, even the fact that you're collecting some
Speaker 5: of that water and running it through a length of
Speaker 5: the drainage coil will help with the moisture that's held
Speaker 5: in the in the soil around the patio on that
Speaker 5: sort of thing. So just just having the field drains themselves,
Speaker 5: the French drains themselves, will help.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean French, it's just right out already, you know.
Speaker 5: So yeah, direck that into a into a soakage pit.
Speaker 5: But the key to the soakage pit is having that
Speaker 5: geotextile cloth. Right, the old ones that I've dug up,
Speaker 5: where they've just dug a hole put scoria in it,
Speaker 5: they end up just filling with sediment and then they
Speaker 5: don't work. So the is the key.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Now, when when when I relay the patio tiles
Speaker 13: like by three two fifty, just old like terracotta looking one. Now,
Speaker 13: can I should I should I run like a sand
Speaker 13: or some sort of like gap over the scoria between
Speaker 13: the cobbles and the soil, or and it'll still.
Speaker 5: Move around a little bit if you can be bothered.
Speaker 5: I would actually do that scene. I'd do a scene
Speaker 5: in cement mix like a slurry. So compact. Yeah, compact
Speaker 5: the base down really well and then literally bed your
Speaker 5: pavers down into a sand and cement mortar bed and
Speaker 5: that will keep it level for a lot longer than
Speaker 5: just putting it down onto the sand over the top
Speaker 5: of the scory.
Speaker 13: Yes, and what the natural is, the natural moisture will
Speaker 13: just harden the cement in the sand and.
Speaker 5: It'll just bond. Or what you can do is do
Speaker 5: the sand and cement and then just before you lay
Speaker 5: the tile, just take a little handful of cement and
Speaker 5: scatter it over the top and you'll see it change
Speaker 5: color because it'll hit the moisture. And then when you
Speaker 5: bed the tile down over the top, it'll it'll help bond.
Speaker 13: Gotcha, what's the ratio to sand cement?
Speaker 5: Six to one six one six scoops of sand one
Speaker 5: of cement. That'll be a nice strong mix.
Speaker 7: And the where you go.
Speaker 10: Take care.
Speaker 5: Actually, that'll that ratio is exactly what I'll be using
Speaker 5: tomorrow when I mix up some concrete for the fence posts.
Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna go. I don't know, the bags
Speaker 5: are great, but I kind of like old school, so
Speaker 5: I'll go and get some builders mix. I'll get a
Speaker 5: bag of cement, the mixer out, or not even the mixer.
Speaker 5: I'll just do it in the wheelbarrow and then six
Speaker 5: to one, nice strong mix, not too much water.
Speaker 18: Bingo.
Speaker 5: Job done. That's tomorrow sorted. Right, We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 5: We're gonna talk to Mike Olds from Razine Construction straight
Speaker 5: after the break.
Speaker 3: Squeaky door or squeaky floor.
Speaker 1: Get the right advice from Peter Wolfcare, the resident builder
Speaker 1: on News Talks.
Speaker 5: HEB you and News Talks heb so interesting sort of
Speaker 5: situation for me this week where just doing some paperwork
Speaker 5: at home, phone rings number that I didn't know, not
Speaker 5: a hidden name, but just a number that I didn't know,
Speaker 5: and talk to a delightful gentleman in christ Church who said, look,
Speaker 5: I'm reaching out because I listened to the show. I've
Speaker 5: heard you talk about different claddings and I'm looking at
Speaker 5: a house. In fact, I'm looking at a house that
Speaker 5: I might buy this afternoon. The auctions twelve o'clock. We're
Speaker 5: talking at like eight thirty in the morning. And it's
Speaker 5: got rock coat as the exterior render. Basically all of
Speaker 5: the house bar a little bit of weatherboard, was all
Speaker 5: done with that. Do you know much about it? And
Speaker 5: I said, well, yeah, I do. I know the guys
Speaker 5: quite well. But also if you tell me the address,
Speaker 5: I can go to Razine Construction, who supervise these jobs,
Speaker 5: provide the product, and they've got records of it. And
Speaker 5: so that's exactly what I did, quite genuinely. What I
Speaker 5: was surprised about was the level of detail held by
Speaker 5: the manufacturer, let's say Razine Construction, about each individual job
Speaker 5: that they do. Because the only way you can do
Speaker 5: rock coat is by using a licensed applicator. They then
Speaker 5: have phenomenally detailed processes to record every step of that job. Flashings, installation,
Speaker 5: cavity batons, type for fixings, whether or not they've sealed
Speaker 5: the cuts, all of these sorts of things is all recorded.
Speaker 5: That was all available so I could phone this gentleman
Speaker 5: back later in the day and so, yeah, I've seen
Speaker 5: the records don't have a problem with it. So a
Speaker 5: person who runs all of this is Mike Olds, and Mike,
Speaker 5: thanks for your time on Wednesday, So.
Speaker 8: You know what I was.
Speaker 5: It's not completely surprising, but I was still quite impressed,
Speaker 5: to be honest, about the level of detail that you
Speaker 5: guys at Reseen Construction hold about every single clouding job
Speaker 5: that you do. And this is obviously something that you've
Speaker 5: built up over time. So that's the process, and every
Speaker 5: single job gets recorded.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Pete. And it was a sort of perfect
Speaker 6: scenario when the person that contacted you wanted to know
Speaker 6: some information that normally, as I think we spoke the
Speaker 6: vendor would normally have a lot of information. Yeah, for
Speaker 6: potential for our purchases and this particular project in christ Church. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you gave us the address and if it's one of
Speaker 6: our systems. I mean a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 6: of projects would potentially have a specification on a project,
Speaker 6: but sometimes that specification doesn't get achieved. So we do
Speaker 6: we do it again. Pine calls and people saying I've
Speaker 6: got your clouding system on our home, but I want
Speaker 6: to see if it's in the system, and if it's
Speaker 6: not in the system, we can generally say that possibly
Speaker 6: the even the specification has been changed and it's unbeknown
Speaker 6: to the original owners or even potential purchases. But part
Speaker 6: of our process and it started way back and I
Speaker 6: think two thousand and five we really got into this,
Speaker 6: and it involves a substrate review on all residential projects
Speaker 6: where we go and check the cavity bats, the flashings
Speaker 6: and this photographic evidence. There's a checklist that we go
Speaker 6: through and then we go through and do a final
Speaker 6: review in terms of workmanship detailing other sub trades. The
Speaker 6: first one is probably the most important in terms of
Speaker 6: the substrate stall that deals with other sub trades and
Speaker 6: pipe penetrations, electrical penetrations, root flashing connections where we connect
Speaker 6: with other other trades as well. But as you generally
Speaker 6: find where there's connections with other trades, they don't they
Speaker 6: do their trade and we do our trade. That there's
Speaker 6: there is definite crossovers and that's that's some of our
Speaker 6: biggest focus focus areas. But it stays on that file
Speaker 6: on that particular project, goes through for the for the
Speaker 6: life of the project and it's always available. We also
Speaker 6: it also flows through in terms of the warranties, so
Speaker 6: that whole documentation package. Then we send that out to
Speaker 6: the clients. Then in seven seven years we actually touch
Speaker 6: base with that particular residence are known. If it's the
Speaker 6: same home for the original owner, we send them some
Speaker 6: messaging around starting to budget for general maintenance purposes. We're
Speaker 6: looking at repaints and all all that sort of good stuff.
Speaker 6: So we sort of customers for life, is probably the
Speaker 6: best way to describe it. And it gives us because
Speaker 6: you never remember everything.
Speaker 7: You know, you should look back at a job you.
Speaker 6: Did fifteen twenty years ago and trying to recall a
Speaker 6: who did the job, and b what was a color,
Speaker 6: what was the finish, all of those sorts of things
Speaker 6: just coming very very handy down the track, and you've
Speaker 6: got a really really good record.
Speaker 5: And it was the level of detail that in the
Speaker 5: recording that really again really impressed me in the sense
Speaker 5: that you know, there's a tremendous surety for a homeowner
Speaker 5: many years later. So this is a person this house
Speaker 5: was built in twenty twelve, all of those records existed.
Speaker 5: This person's interested to know, you know, who did the work,
Speaker 5: was it done well? Is there a record of the
Speaker 5: actual the installation and you know, how do I know
Speaker 5: that the flashings were installed all of these sorts of
Speaker 5: things and you can find it. And the other thing
Speaker 5: I guess that I'm thinking about is that you know,
Speaker 5: potentially we're going to move to bards, a situation where
Speaker 5: more dwellings can be built without necessarily requiring a council consent.
Speaker 5: Therefore you're not having council inspectors. And if you're going
Speaker 5: to own one of those properties, how do you know
Speaker 5: that the work has been done well? And that level
Speaker 5: of reporting and review is kind of like a template
Speaker 5: for what we might see in the future for all
Speaker 5: sorts of building performance systems.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I absolutely absolutely think this is this is the
Speaker 6: this is the bar for, particularly for supplies and a
Speaker 6: market to go yeah and say this is this is
Speaker 6: the expectation, because I don't think it's reasonable for for
Speaker 6: manufacturers by and large to say we understand that the
Speaker 6: materials have been supplied and installed in accordance, because we
Speaker 6: generally get the first phone call if there is ever
Speaker 6: an issue, and if you're just reliant on just supply
Speaker 6: and not taking into regard the skill and the competencies
Speaker 6: of the people that are installing your products.
Speaker 7: Then, yeah, it up a really big gap.
Speaker 6: And I think this is something that's just so normal
Speaker 6: for our business and our contractors, our LBP contractor network,
Speaker 6: that it's a great practice and process for them as well.
Speaker 7: You know, we've got it to the stage.
Speaker 6: We've actually got it to the stage now where all
Speaker 6: the LVP contractors can undertake and do these reviews with
Speaker 6: the digital information photography, all the checks and balances themselves
Speaker 6: on single story dwellings. You know, they go through and
Speaker 6: do that when we get into the more complex projects
Speaker 6: we get involved. So yeah, it's pretty comprehensive and it's
Speaker 6: a good backup and it saves a lot of racking
Speaker 6: the brain in terms of memories of what what actually
Speaker 6: happened and who did what.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 6: They also they also put notes on the project files
Speaker 6: just in terms of conversations that have been held about
Speaker 6: someone said this or someone said that. You know, there's
Speaker 6: a there's a number of things, so I can avoid
Speaker 6: those types of you know, a few years time.
Speaker 7: So it's really really works.
Speaker 5: Really appreciate your time this morning, we're going to rush
Speaker 5: for the news. Good luck with the golf today. He's
Speaker 5: not playing, he's looking after his boys playing. We'll come
Speaker 5: back and talk a little bit more about all things
Speaker 5: building in construction straight after the news, sport and weather
Speaker 5: here at News Talks EDB.
Speaker 1: Helping you get those DIY projects done right. The resident
Speaker 1: Filder with Peter WOLFCAF call OH eight hundred eighty eighty
Speaker 1: Youth Talks EDB.
Speaker 5: A righty Oh, welcome back to the show. Oh eight
Speaker 5: hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Will
Speaker 5: take your building questions right through till eight thirty. Then
Speaker 5: we're into the garden with the red climb past as
Speaker 5: always at around eight thirty this morning. Just a heads
Speaker 5: up too next week on the show at this time
Speaker 5: Ben Thompson, who is a lawyer who specializes in cross
Speaker 5: leases and property law in general, but cross leases very particularly,
Speaker 5: will be available and we're going to we've had a
Speaker 5: conversation with him before just kind of general stuff about
Speaker 5: cross leases. But we'll cover the same topic next week
Speaker 5: on the show. But you can text a new questions,
Speaker 5: so if you've got specific questions about your cross lease
Speaker 5: or a cross lease that you're involved with, then fire
Speaker 5: them through. We'll do that next Sunday on the show.
Speaker 5: And my thanks again to Mike OL's from Razine Construction
Speaker 5: Systems for making himself available just before again, following on
Speaker 5: from this completely random conversation I had with someone the
Speaker 5: other day, rang me and said, look, I'm interested in
Speaker 5: this property. I'm about to buy it. They're an older
Speaker 5: couple looking for a retirement sort of property, low maintenance,
Speaker 5: single level, all of those sorts of things, and said,
Speaker 5: do you know much about the clouding system? And so
Speaker 5: when I rang Mike, all of the records was there.
Speaker 5: And what struck me, particularly at a time where there's
Speaker 5: a lot of discussion now about government allowing up to
Speaker 5: seventy square meters of building to be granny flats to
Speaker 5: be constructed without necessarily requiring a building consent, which means,
Speaker 5: how do you know you've got a good building right?
Speaker 5: Because typically the default position has been well, because you
Speaker 5: get a building can and because a council inspector comes
Speaker 5: out and has a look at it, you feel confident
Speaker 5: that the building, once it's got its final inspection, got
Speaker 5: a code of compliance, is going to be okay. It's
Speaker 5: going to comply with the code. So if we're not
Speaker 5: going to have counsel there as the gatekeeper, let's say
Speaker 5: to compliance, how do you know it's going to comply?
Speaker 5: And then it shifts the responsibility, let's say, on to
Speaker 5: individual contractors or suppliers of materials to say, look, I
Speaker 5: think it's it's okay.
Speaker 10: How do you know.
Speaker 5: Well, that's where you need good systems and checks and
Speaker 5: reviews and paperwork basically to ensure that compliance. And these
Speaker 5: guys are they've been doing it for twenty years, so
Speaker 5: good on them. I say, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 5: Apparently someone else text through and said, look, we do
Speaker 5: a similar sort of system and we've got these certified
Speaker 5: contractors to do the work. So a lot of these
Speaker 5: products and I went to buy something, I don't know,
Speaker 5: a little waterproofing product and they said, ah, you are
Speaker 5: licensed applicator and I said, no, I'm not, and they said,
Speaker 5: we're not going to sell it to you. That's fine,
Speaker 5: It's absolutely fine. You know, if you're going to have
Speaker 5: a product that is going to be critical to the
Speaker 5: building performance, some of those products will then only be
Speaker 5: sold to people who are licensed to install them. And
Speaker 5: I think that's a sensible safeguard. Quick text as well,
Speaker 5: can you please ask your rock coat specialist what painting
Speaker 5: systems required for upkeep? How often should it be repainted? Typically?
Speaker 5: You know houses should be washed every year anyway. And
Speaker 5: in terms of recoat for razine construction or for rock coat,
Speaker 5: I think the recommendation is sort of six to seven years,
Speaker 5: and it'll be razine X two hundred for the top coat. Oh,
Speaker 5: eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Let's get amongst it, Roger,
Speaker 5: good morning.
Speaker 18: Morning, morning, thanks, no problem. On the topic of birds,
Speaker 18: yes under eaves, Yes, I've got a large covered deck.
Speaker 18: When we moved into the house, there was a couple
Speaker 18: of pairs of birds that were determined to put their
Speaker 18: nests there. After knocking the nests down a few times,
Speaker 18: realized that wasn't working. Long story short, I climbed up
Speaker 18: a ladder and the one I put a round a
Speaker 18: tennis ball another one I stuck a lemon and filled
Speaker 18: the nest up with a foreign body who sat back
Speaker 18: and watched the birds come back, and they were not happy.
Speaker 18: They perched on top of them for a little while
Speaker 18: and made a lot of very upset noise. Basically, I'm
Speaker 18: glad I didn't speak bird, because it sounded like they
Speaker 18: were swearing in about live different dialects.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah.
Speaker 18: They were not happy. Yes, oh yes, that result. They
Speaker 18: didn't come back. They abandoned the location as an unsuitable neighborhood.
Speaker 18: Following year, one of them tried again. I did this thing,
Speaker 18: and same result, and six years I've never had a
Speaker 18: bird under any of the eaves here.
Speaker 5: Interesting, okay, because this was something. I went and washed
Speaker 5: the deck down last week and in lo and behold
Speaker 5: them back there again the other day and I'm like,
Speaker 5: what the you know, it's all the bird poops back again.
Speaker 5: And then I look up and I think, oh, look
Speaker 5: at the little buggers. They're good on them. They got
Speaker 5: to find a home. Everybody's got to live somewhere. They're
Speaker 5: just not going to live at that place.
Speaker 9: So yeah, well you can.
Speaker 18: Keep knocking the nest down and they'll keep coming back.
Speaker 18: So I just made it so they decided themselves not
Speaker 18: to come here. I've told this to friends.
Speaker 9: They sort of like, yeah, give it a try.
Speaker 18: They did saw them a while later and they go, yeah,
Speaker 18: no more birds.
Speaker 5: Good stuff. I'm going to have a crack at using
Speaker 5: one of these gels that apparently dissuade the birds from
Speaker 5: coming back. So I've got to clean the area thoroughly
Speaker 5: knock the nest out, clean the area. So I'm can
Speaker 5: to do a bit of water blasting and then I
Speaker 5: will try this gel and we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 5: Appreciate the call, Roger, and thank you. We're on the
Speaker 5: same page and you're right the determination of birds to
Speaker 5: come back, and it took me about three years to
Speaker 5: beat them at my own place where they were hopping
Speaker 5: into the spouting on the bullnose veranda and then ducking
Speaker 5: their heads underneath the corrugated iron, jumping up over the
Speaker 5: facerboard and into a little gap that was there, a
Speaker 5: little safite that ran around there, and they were roosting
Speaker 5: in there, but they were very, very determined. Appreciate the call, Roger.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. Steve. Good morning.
Speaker 10: Can I Steve Phillip? Oh yeah, get hey, yeah, look
Speaker 10: I just got a question. Can I talk about a
Speaker 10: cross Lea's situation?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely, okay, right, right, look, got this project and
Speaker 10: because I'm very interested in the hearing from.
Speaker 5: Is it ben at A the next week on the show.
Speaker 10: Is his last name Thompson? It is yep? Okay, good hey, listen,
Speaker 10: because we've got this situation where we've got a house
Speaker 10: that's going to be demoed. It's a plaster house and
Speaker 10: then rebuilt, right, And so the house is being designed
Speaker 10: and it's on the southern side. It's on a cross
Speaker 10: lease house section with the front house being a villa
Speaker 10: on the front. Now, the people on the front, the
Speaker 10: cross lease neighbors have to sign off on the new
Speaker 10: plans for the rebuilt of the house because of the
Speaker 10: you know what's required, and they are not wanting the
Speaker 10: rare property to have any windows on the northern face
Speaker 10: that's facing their house, right. And now, from my understanding,
Speaker 10: you can't object unreasonably. You have to be reasonable in
Speaker 10: your objections, right, And so they're only their concern is
Speaker 10: that they think the neighbors in the new house would
Speaker 10: windows on At the moment, the house doesn't have that.
Speaker 10: It's more of a single level and a large roof.
Speaker 10: So all they're looking at the moment as a roof
Speaker 10: no windows. The new house will be a double level,
Speaker 10: it will have windows, and it'll have windows on the
Speaker 10: on that on the northern face that will peer into
Speaker 10: their backyard. But it's on the southern side, so the
Speaker 10: light's not being blocked at all, and the house hasn't
Speaker 10: even close to them, so it complies with all the
Speaker 10: other rigs. The only objection is that they don't want
Speaker 10: any windows. They don't want any glass facing their backyard,
Speaker 10: and I would have thought that.
Speaker 5: Would be the questions. Is that reasonable?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you could understand if the house is blocking out
Speaker 10: some sure, nor it's on the southern side and the
Speaker 10: house is a fair ways back. It's actually ten meters
Speaker 10: back from the boundary, so it's not even close. Biness factors,
Speaker 10: They've just got this be in their bonnet. They've got
Speaker 10: their backyard.
Speaker 5: At the moment, they don't have any I guess uish
Speaker 5: is going to be around. How do you enforce reasonableness?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but look, I'm happy to keep a note of this,
Speaker 5: and look, if you'd like to text through again next
Speaker 5: Sunday when Ben's actually available, that that would be a
Speaker 5: great question. But yeah, trying to enforce reasonableness. Gee, that's
Speaker 5: it's a tricky one, isn't it.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 5: I mean we've all met people who are just downright
Speaker 5: ornery and just won't be reasonable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we're all.
Speaker 10: We should be allowed to have your sunlight, right, you
Speaker 10: should be able to have your your son, your neighbor
Speaker 10: shouldn't be able to tell you just because they're worried
Speaker 10: about it. A few people peering out windows and look.
Speaker 5: I guess you know, listening to what you're saying. If
Speaker 5: it's ten meters away, then you could also do some
Speaker 5: planting on the boundary. It's not like it's one meter
Speaker 5: away and three meters up in the air and looking
Speaker 5: straight into there. So it would seem that there is
Speaker 5: some way of being a little bit reasonable around that.
Speaker 5: Really appreciate that. We'll put that to Ben Thompson who
Speaker 5: is from Pigeon Judge Lawyers and a specialist in Crossley,
Speaker 5: so he's going to be available to answer some questions
Speaker 5: text questions next week on the show. Really looking forward
Speaker 5: to that. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, would
Speaker 5: take a short break. We'll be back with Peter after
Speaker 5: the break.
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Speaker 5: is the number to call, just my own experience of it.
Speaker 5: Hey Peter, good morning to.
Speaker 19: You, and good morning do you, Peter.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 19: So we've got a small house that's been converted into
Speaker 19: a retail shop on the main road. The question I've
Speaker 19: got is does a Healthy Homes rules mean that we
Speaker 19: need to supply a heat pump in that situation or
Speaker 19: does it just apply to accommodation.
Speaker 5: I would think it's only accommodation because essentially what it's
Speaker 5: about is the Healthy Homes requirements relate to It's part
Speaker 5: of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act. So if it's not
Speaker 5: a residential tenancy, then it basically it's irrelevant. Right, So
Speaker 5: if you're using what was a residential property for a
Speaker 5: commercial purpose a shop or an office or something like that,
Speaker 5: then no, I don't see how if there's no tenancy
Speaker 5: agreement in place, then I guess you don't need to
Speaker 5: apply with the Healthy Home standards.
Speaker 7: That's what I thought.
Speaker 19: But someone suggested to me that the rules might have
Speaker 19: changed from one July. No, no, that Google I couldn't
Speaker 19: find anything.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, what happened on the first of July is that
Speaker 5: this is a piece of legislation that's had a really
Speaker 5: long gestation, right, so it was signalled gosh, I think
Speaker 5: as far back as twenty seventeen. Then there was a
Speaker 5: whole series of deadlines. Certain types of dwellings needed to
Speaker 5: comply by certain dates, and then there were always exemptions. So,
Speaker 5: for example, if you had a sitting tenant in a
Speaker 5: property and maybe they'd been there for five years, right,
Speaker 5: you didn't need to comply with the regulations until they
Speaker 5: moved out or until they renewed their tendancy. And if
Speaker 5: they just went onto a periodic, they wouldn't renew it, right.
Speaker 5: So so in effect. You might have had a long
Speaker 5: term tenant in a residential property up until the first
Speaker 5: of July, so six days ago that that building didn't
Speaker 5: need to comply because the tenant never moved out. That
Speaker 5: exemption has ended, right, So from the first of July,
Speaker 5: every single residential property, including state houses, all need to
Speaker 5: comply with the healthy home standards from now. That's that's
Speaker 5: the change that you might have been talking about. Great listen,
Speaker 5: Thank you very much, Pleasure all the best, pleasure to
Speaker 5: take care your new stork seed b oh, good point.
Speaker 5: Just quick text. We were talking with Robin who's in
Speaker 5: an older sort of nineteen seventy house had some insulation,
Speaker 5: but insulation standards there were pretty poor, to be blunt
Speaker 5: to the lady who was asking about putting up bats
Speaker 5: on top of old bats, or more insulation over the
Speaker 5: existing one in her ceiling if she has a community
Speaker 5: services card. There are all sorts of government grants for
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff, and the cost is actually really cheap,
Speaker 5: and there are many companies that do it, and believe me,
Speaker 5: it's definitely worthwhile. Plus they'll also do underfloor installation if possible,
Speaker 5: and the vapor barrier onto the floor from Ron, Thanks
Speaker 5: very much, and you're absolutely right. There's quite a lot
Speaker 5: of support available if you're in the right category for that.
Speaker 5: And you've got a hats off Taika, who run the
Speaker 5: Warmer Homes program. The actual number of dwellings, and I
Speaker 5: was surprised by this because I talk about this quite
Speaker 5: a lot at different seminars and presentations and that sort
Speaker 5: of thing, and I had always assumed that there was
Speaker 5: a significant like hundreds of thousands of New Zealand homes
Speaker 5: that are either completely uninsulated or poorly insulated. Talking with
Speaker 5: ECA who measure this, they actually think that the number
Speaker 5: of houses that are really poorly insulated is possibly down
Speaker 5: in the one hundred, one hundred and fifty thousand dwellings.
Speaker 5: Now there's about two million dwellings in New Zealand, there's
Speaker 5: about five hundred it's almost six hundred thousand rental properties
Speaker 5: in New Zealand. So if we're down to a nub
Speaker 5: of about somewhere, be nice if it was zero. But realistically,
Speaker 5: there has been actually great progress for most of our
Speaker 5: housing stock to add some insulation where it's practical to
Speaker 5: do so, and that I think is a really really
Speaker 5: good thing. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number
Speaker 5: to call. Last call for the morning Peter, Hello there.
Speaker 9: Hello, just spring up. Really on a tight budget, yes,
Speaker 9: really on a Tiday's budget. What happened was ah two
Speaker 9: messive holes in the war. What I did was, being
Speaker 9: on the type budget, I had a block of wood.
Speaker 7: I placed the.
Speaker 9: Wooden in the in the middle of the hole. And
Speaker 9: what I did was I nailed the wood in the
Speaker 9: whole winded. I placed a piece of two year car
Speaker 9: well paper. Well, you know, for exactly the same color
Speaker 9: as the war.
Speaker 7: It didn't.
Speaker 9: I placed bother because look, I'm on the type budget.
Speaker 9: Flower in water and looks the flower up. It worked.
Speaker 9: It worked, honestly it worked.
Speaker 5: Is it your own place, Peter, or is it a
Speaker 5: rented place that you're in.
Speaker 9: Well, apparently I got the job done. Landlord came to
Speaker 9: day and he didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 5: You cod mate, if it works for you, it works
Speaker 5: for you, and maybe later on the landlord, I want
Speaker 5: to take the flower out and put in some plaster
Speaker 5: or some jib compound or something like that. Appreciate the call.
Speaker 5: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
Speaker 5: call for rid climb pass because he is standing by.
Speaker 5: And just another quick reminder, So next week at this
Speaker 5: time from eight to eight thirty, we'll have Ben Thompson,
Speaker 5: who's a lawyer who specializes in Crossley's I'm already getting
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of texts. You'll need to text in
Speaker 5: next week if you've got a specific question. And I
Speaker 5: think it's going to be a very very busy half
Speaker 5: hour on the show. So looking forward to that next week,
Speaker 5: looking forward to talking with Rut as well. And love
Speaker 5: the text that came in just a moment ago, so
Speaker 5: says the texter from last week's show with Rud. I've
Speaker 5: made a RUU box. Now could I ask where would
Speaker 5: be the best place to put it? We will answer
Speaker 5: that question and many more than just a moment back
Speaker 5: with Rut.
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