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Speaker 6: A well, a very very good morning and a warm
Speaker 6: welcome to you on this the first show, the first
Speaker 6: Resident Builder on Sunday show here at News Talk Seed
Speaker 6: B for twenty twenty five. So it is a great
Speaker 6: pleasure to return. Well, we haven't really taken a break,
Speaker 6: to be fair, but it's great to be back, and
Speaker 6: it's it is twenty twenty five, and that brings with it,
Speaker 6: I suppose optimism, hope, opportunity, potential for a year ahead.
Speaker 6: Certainly there's plenty of challenges out there for the construction sector,
Speaker 6: for the economy in general, to be fair, so we'll
Speaker 6: see how that pans out over the course of the year.
Speaker 6: But it is delightful to be back. I trust that
Speaker 6: you had a good New Year's celebration. Hopefully if it
Speaker 6: was festive, it was not festive with some sort of
Speaker 6: long lingering hangover or some.
Speaker 7: Yeah something you've got of it later on.
Speaker 6: But anyway, if you've had a hopefully you've had a
Speaker 6: good New Year's and you are preparing yourself for the
Speaker 6: year ahead. If you've been out in the garden, or
Speaker 6: you've been working around the house, or you've been doing
Speaker 6: some jobs inside, I hope they've been going well or
Speaker 6: as well as they possibly can. I did actually notice
Speaker 6: in my neighborhood someone was out with power tools on
Speaker 6: New Year's Day. They were cracking into it. I don't
Speaker 6: know what it was. It might have been a water blaster.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure I heard a grinder out there somewhere.
Speaker 6: Not sure that I heard a skill saw or a chainsaw,
Speaker 6: but certainly some people were out and about with power
Speaker 6: tools on New Year's Day, possibly having a sort of
Speaker 6: a very sober night and then wanting to rub in
Speaker 6: their vigor and their determination to greet the new year
Speaker 6: with activity. For those who maybe were lingering a little
Speaker 6: bit in bed a bit longer on New Year's Day radio,
Speaker 6: we're into it. So the year ahead will be fascinating.
Speaker 6: I think from a political point of view, it's going
Speaker 6: to be interesting to see whether so much of what
Speaker 6: was talked about last year, in terms of lessening bureaucracy,
Speaker 6: trying to speed up the construction or the consenting process,
Speaker 6: any of those sorts of things come to fruition, whether
Speaker 6: or not after a lot of consultation around standards, and
Speaker 6: whether or not the increased standards for H one, which
Speaker 6: is the insulation requirements, will be wound back in order
Speaker 6: to try and find some savings for the cost of
Speaker 6: building houses. Whether that actually comes to something I personally
Speaker 6: hope not in the scene. It's that I don't think
Speaker 6: that we need to wind back EH one standards, but
Speaker 6: we do need to get rid of the schedule method,
Speaker 6: so we'll we can talk about that.
Speaker 7: It's going to be a fascinating year. Head.
Speaker 6: So if you've got a project that is underway and
Speaker 6: maybe you'd like some help with it, or you've started something,
Speaker 6: perhaps you've got some new tools. Like me, I don't
Speaker 6: actually get any tools for Christmas. Buying tools for me
Speaker 6: for Christmas could be a little bit tricky. However, I
Speaker 6: have been out shopping over the Christmas break and I
Speaker 6: picked up a couple of little things that I felt
Speaker 6: that I needed that were a gap in the arsenal,
Speaker 6: a gap in the repertoire of tools that I might
Speaker 6: have in the tool shed. So we can talk a
Speaker 6: little bit about those. But later on this morning, and
Speaker 6: I did actually spend a little bit of happy time
Speaker 6: in the workshop, just kind of organizing, sort of puttering. Puttering,
Speaker 6: I think was my word for twenty twenty four. At
Speaker 6: some stage during twenty twenty five, I'll think of another
Speaker 6: word or find another word that I like. I'm not
Speaker 6: making up, I just find them and I like them.
Speaker 6: Puttering was a great word. Actually, I've got a delightful
Speaker 6: card from Dennis, who lives around where I did, and
Speaker 6: he swung by to drop off a card and a
Speaker 6: gift actually, which is very kind of a just to say, hey, look,
Speaker 6: have a good year, and all the best for Christmas
Speaker 6: and so on. And he mentioned in his card that
Speaker 6: he had been out puttering during the day and found
Speaker 6: that enormously satisfying as well. If you don't know what
Speaker 6: puttering means, I'll explain a bit later on. But hey, look,
Speaker 6: we're into it for a new year. So this is
Speaker 6: a show all about essentially building literacy. So what I
Speaker 6: want to talk about is stuff that I read about,
Speaker 6: all that I'm involved with and do. And you know,
Speaker 6: during the course of the year, I'm in a privileged
Speaker 6: position in a sense where I get to attend a
Speaker 6: lot of seminars. I have an opportunity of sort of
Speaker 6: getting an insight into the construction sector and into construction
Speaker 6: practice as well. How we build better houses? And it's complex.
Speaker 6: There's lots and lots of well, initially moving but in
Speaker 6: the end not many moving parts in a house. They
Speaker 6: tend to remain stable. So you know, how do we
Speaker 6: how do we figure out how to do things better
Speaker 6: in order to get better houses? And there was a
Speaker 6: text at the end of last week's show, I obviously
Speaker 6: struck a nerve by talking a little bit about bureaucracy.
Speaker 6: I wasn't actually talking about bureaucracy, but people there are
Speaker 6: several texts actually quite critical of me in their eyes,
Speaker 6: defending bureaucracy, defending regulations. I don't mind talking about that,
Speaker 6: but later on the show as well, right now in
Speaker 6: the show. Actually, let's not do it later. Let's do
Speaker 6: it right now, because the lines are open. Eight hundred
Speaker 6: eighty ten eighty. Is that number to call. You can
Speaker 6: text which is nine two nine two or zbzb from
Speaker 6: your mobile phone, and if you'd like to send me
Speaker 6: an email, you would be more than welcome it as
Speaker 6: Pete atnewstookxb dot co dot nz. So let's get into it.
Speaker 6: The lines are open. The number to call eight hundred
Speaker 6: and eighty ten eighty any building related questions, and it
Speaker 6: might be legislation, it might be tools. More than happy
Speaker 6: to talk about tools. Actually I might give you my
Speaker 6: tool of the year. I was thinking about this after
Speaker 6: the show last week, and I was sort of, you know,
Speaker 6: at the end of the year, you kind of I
Speaker 6: don't know. My habit is to be a little bit reflective.
Speaker 6: Let's say a little contemplative thinking back on the year,
Speaker 6: and I was trying to think in amongst a whole
Speaker 6: lot of other thoughts that were rumbling around and my
Speaker 6: head around things like what was the most useful thing
Speaker 6: that I might have purchased or encountered in terms of
Speaker 6: tools over the course of the year. And so I've
Speaker 6: landed on something, possibly two, but certainly one. Anyway, So
Speaker 6: we can talk tools, we can talk about projects. We
Speaker 6: can talk about projects that you might have ahead of
Speaker 6: you this year. If you've got something on the drawing
Speaker 6: board back in the old days that you'd like to
Speaker 6: bring to life, how are you going to do it?
Speaker 6: What choices do you make, where do you put your resources?
Speaker 6: And in fact I've just at the end of last
Speaker 6: year I was introduced to via a builder that I know,
Speaker 6: an outstanding builder to be fair, a project that he
Speaker 6: started right in the middle of December, so almost at
Speaker 6: the end of the year. A renovation and addition to
Speaker 6: an existing nineteen fifties house where the clients are particularly
Speaker 6: informed and they want to go high performance. They want
Speaker 6: to create a really energy efficient house out of what
Speaker 6: is an older house, So a deep retrofit with a
Speaker 6: view to making it incredibly energy efficient, a very sustainable home.
Speaker 6: So we'll keep you up to date with that project.
Speaker 6: If that's what you've got on your plate that you'd
Speaker 6: like to do, well, we can talk about that as well.
Speaker 7: Or if it's just a more and a sense more
Speaker 7: modest thing.
Speaker 6: I just want to make my house a little bit warmer,
Speaker 6: drier and more comfortable, then let's talk about that too. Oh,
Speaker 6: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 6: Great to be back with you, really looking forward to
Speaker 6: the year ahead. It is six fifteen here on the
Speaker 6: fifth of January twenty twenty five. We're into it, paul A,
Speaker 6: very good morning to you. How are you this morning?
Speaker 8: Paul, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 7: Into you, into you.
Speaker 5: I've got a.
Speaker 8: Little chip on my kitchen bench. I've got like an
Speaker 8: undermount think and it's right on the rim of the app.
Speaker 8: I've heard you in the past recommend a couple of
Speaker 8: companies that can come around, and already that up. So
Speaker 8: I'm on Central Auklands.
Speaker 6: Depends what's the material, good.
Speaker 8: Question, not sure at some fall of ermine. I've asked
Speaker 8: some people that have come around. It's like a it's
Speaker 8: Scott Constantino's Spain brand underneath it. I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 8: It looks like some sort of resin sort of. It's
Speaker 8: kind of stone sort effect was in the house when
Speaker 8: we brought it, so we're just really tiding it up
Speaker 8: for the new owner really, So yeah, sure, I'm certain,
Speaker 8: but i'd say some sort of reason.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay, now that Costantino was a fairly new brand
Speaker 6: that's out, so.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think just too. I've said this house for
Speaker 8: over fifteen years ago. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't
Speaker 8: think it's a better look online at that brand. I
Speaker 8: can't see any relevant to what I've got for you.
Speaker 6: No, Okay, Look, composites have been around for a while
Speaker 6: and they are quite repairable, so well, in most cases
Speaker 6: they can be. I would start with bench doctors online,
Speaker 6: so they effectively they're kind of like a franchise. I
Speaker 6: think they're around the country and certainly they'll be in Auckland,
Speaker 6: and if they don't know, they'll probably be able to
Speaker 6: put you onto someone like there's another guy that I
Speaker 6: used a little while ago, a crylic fix, but that
Speaker 6: was specifically for a crylic bench top, so things like
Speaker 6: vanity tops and that sort of thing. Where we had
Speaker 6: the classic, you know, finished the project and someone, possibly me,
Speaker 6: possibly another trade, you know, dropped a hammer or a
Speaker 6: chisel onto the edge of the bench and we ended
Speaker 6: up with a chip in it, right yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: there was another one of those a little while ago.
Speaker 6: So yeah, look, they can be repaired. I'd start with
Speaker 6: bench doctors go from there. Yeah, okay, yeah, And are
Speaker 6: you staying in the house or are you looking to sell?
Speaker 8: No, we're looking to sell. So just tinting it up
Speaker 8: foot and you ain't like it's the bench stoll I
Speaker 8: that's fairly whole, but it's obviously quite good quality seeing
Speaker 8: your life in it, and I'd say, yeah that that
Speaker 8: kitchen sinks had won too many bands with a under
Speaker 8: the water Yeah, just that's a tiny chap. It's only
Speaker 8: about maybe eight meals by a couple of meals, but
Speaker 8: it's just right and the worst possible place. You see
Speaker 8: it every time you go to.
Speaker 7: The thing, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: And it's one of those things that perhaps you know,
Speaker 6: someone coming in to look at the house prior to purchase,
Speaker 6: and then they see that and they think, oh, then
Speaker 6: I've got to find someone to fix it, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. And then suddenly it becomes it kind
Speaker 6: of in their head. It goes on that side of
Speaker 6: the ledger that goes stuff that I have to do
Speaker 6: once I bought that house. And I've always thought, actually,
Speaker 6: you know, people have often said, oh, what should I
Speaker 6: do prior to selling the house? And I've always thought,
Speaker 6: you try and tack off those things that leave that
Speaker 6: sort of oh impression in a prospective buyer. You don't
Speaker 6: want them to you know, like open. I went to
Speaker 6: one open home a little while ago. Open the door.
Speaker 6: The front door was open, and down the corner on
Speaker 6: the hinge side, they done some really terrible painting, right.
Speaker 6: The painted bled around and you could see the outside
Speaker 6: was dark and the inside was light, and on that
Speaker 6: edge it was just really ragged, and it kind of
Speaker 6: just went, ah, it just feels like a lack of attention.
Speaker 6: And I would have thought, if that's the first thing
Speaker 6: that a buyer sees when they walk through the door,
Speaker 6: why wouldn't you deal with that? You know, it's that
Speaker 6: sort of thing. So wow, oh mate, hey, good luck
Speaker 6: with that. And yeah, the bench doctor people I've used.
Speaker 7: And I'm sure they'll sort you out all the very best.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all of is Paul oh eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 6: ten eighty is that number to call? Quick text has
Speaker 6: come through my house has not been signed off yet?
Speaker 6: Does it have to have things like painting on inside
Speaker 6: walls in carpet or vinyl down? I probably need a
Speaker 6: little bit more detail on that. I presume that when
Speaker 6: you say not signed off yet is.
Speaker 7: I mean? Look, it's unlikely.
Speaker 6: That it would even qualify for a final inspection without
Speaker 6: floor coverings, particularly if floor coverings are necessary in you know,
Speaker 6: wet areas, and that includes now kitchens. So you know,
Speaker 6: if it was let's say explosed plywood, then I don't
Speaker 6: think you'd even get a final inspection. And certainly without
Speaker 6: a final inspection, you won't get a certificate or code
Speaker 6: compliance certificate a CCC. So I think you probably need
Speaker 6: to get that done.
Speaker 7: Another quick text as well, Morning Peak. We're about to
Speaker 7: put in the secondhand kitchen.
Speaker 6: It has a gas hob. Can we put a nine
Speaker 6: kg bottle inside the cupboards instead of outside?
Speaker 7: I don't believe.
Speaker 6: So again I'm not a gas fitter, which is licensed trade.
Speaker 6: I know it's possible to have a nine kg bottle exterior,
Speaker 6: but I'm pretty sure that having them inside, which I
Speaker 6: know was common working on a kitchen probably twenty years
Speaker 6: ago where that was the case. But I don't think
Speaker 6: that that would be done that would be suitable anymore.
Speaker 6: And also any gasworks should be done by a registered
Speaker 6: gas fitter as well. That's really really important to say, Oh,
Speaker 6: eight hundred eighty ten eighty, the lines are open. The
Speaker 6: number to call eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you'd
Speaker 6: like to text like these other people have done, which
Speaker 6: would be great, it is nine two nine two is
Speaker 6: ZBZB from your mobile phone. If you'd like ze me
Speaker 6: an email. It's Pete atnewstalksb dot co dot Nz. Just
Speaker 6: gone twenty one minutes after six. The lines are open.
Speaker 6: We always get busy a little bit later in the show,
Speaker 6: and now is a great time to call eight hundred
Speaker 6: eighty ten eighty.
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Speaker 6: Right, let's get amongst that. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 6: Then number to call Kate A very good morning to you.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Pete.
Speaker 7: Happy to year to you and to you into you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 9: I'm kind of coming to the end stage of my projects,
Speaker 9: which you have given me okay of advice, thank you,
Speaker 9: since since it started in July and even before. Now
Speaker 9: I'm at the point where I need to install a
Speaker 9: fence tank. It's a thin tank for stormwaterer retention, and
Speaker 9: it's going up against the sense. It's three thousand liters yep.
Speaker 9: And beneath the sense there is a hut that they
Speaker 9: made in the ground. So I've sort of exposed some
Speaker 9: concrete of the concrete post, and I'm worried about putting
Speaker 9: some retaining in there. But i can't dig deeply into
Speaker 9: the ground because there's a storm public storm water line
Speaker 9: nearby and I'm not allowed to do that. So but
Speaker 9: looking at options, I don't want to take up a
Speaker 9: lot of depth front to back because there isn't much
Speaker 9: room between this fence in the back of the house. Sure,
Speaker 9: So I've looked at keystone, which will be quite deep.
Speaker 9: I think it's about three hundred it's going to take
Speaker 9: up with the scoria and over. I've seen online concrete
Speaker 9: slabs that you can put in place or Gabian, but
Speaker 9: they have to be quite deep as well. I need
Speaker 9: to take it five hundred in hype.
Speaker 7: Oh, that was going to be my next question. That's
Speaker 7: actually quite a lot, isn't it. So it's a I
Speaker 7: mean three thousand tank. It's probably about two and a
Speaker 7: half meters long, three meters.
Speaker 9: Long twenty nine fifty three meters long front.
Speaker 7: That yeah, right, do do you have it?
Speaker 6: You know, tanks that are designed to sit on the
Speaker 6: ground are not designed to sit in the ground, right,
Speaker 6: that's obvious, but they can take a little bit of bearing.
Speaker 6: I'm just wondering whether it would be helpful if depending
Speaker 6: on which end the outletters, and you could some tanks
Speaker 6: have outlets at both ends or one end, and the
Speaker 6: sides are both the same, so it doesn't matter which
Speaker 6: way around you put them. I'm just one just obviously
Speaker 6: it's a sloping site. And does it slope sort of
Speaker 6: along the length of the tank along that three meter
Speaker 6: length or does it slope back to front of the tank? No,
Speaker 6: along the length along the length?
Speaker 9: Okay, build it. The builder says he's going to put
Speaker 9: a concrete plint, right, and I've got some sort of
Speaker 9: framing that will hold it.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, some tanks require restraint, right, so you need
Speaker 6: to cast in like a timber post, which you can
Speaker 6: then secure. Particularly the tanks that have a quite narrow
Speaker 6: footprint will often require seismic restraint. Look, if you can
Speaker 6: do a concrete pad, that's good. You don't actually have
Speaker 6: to have concrete under them.
Speaker 7: You could.
Speaker 6: The last one that I installed, which was a Bailey
Speaker 6: slim gym tank, we again it was on a sloping site,
Speaker 6: probably a similar slope to yours. I ended up excavating
Speaker 6: down at one end a little bit like one hundred
Speaker 6: mill below the ground, and I could just batter that away.
Speaker 7: I made up a hoop.
Speaker 6: Essentially out of some might have been two hundred or
Speaker 6: two fifty by fifty retaining timber set that on the ground,
Speaker 6: got some compacted base course, and so one end it
Speaker 6: was slightly in the ground and at the other end
Speaker 6: it was slightly out of the ground, and kind of
Speaker 6: we balanced that up and I just put in compacted
Speaker 6: hardfilm and that's been absolutely fine. Saying that that was
Speaker 6: a slightly wider tank, and it also didn't require seismic
Speaker 6: restraint in that particular instance.
Speaker 7: Look, I mean, if.
Speaker 6: I would be really tempted to bury one end slightly
Speaker 6: right to excavate down. So you know, if you lose
Speaker 6: two hundred mil there, then suddenly you're only three hundred
Speaker 6: mils out of the ground at the other end. If
Speaker 6: it's five hundred mili slope, you can kind of lose
Speaker 6: it at either end.
Speaker 9: Oh sorry, Pete, I didn't explain it very much. The
Speaker 9: retaining wall has to be five hundred it's not that
Speaker 9: much of a slope.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, But then.
Speaker 9: Why the drop down is five hundred and within that
Speaker 9: there are some massive.
Speaker 7: Tree roots, right, okay, then.
Speaker 9: Ground away we're looking at the side of a tree route.
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, Well it's a little tricky without actually seeing it.
Speaker 6: But in terms of actually providing a stable base for
Speaker 6: a water tank like this, right, the ones that just
Speaker 6: sit on the ground, you can do concrete if you want,
Speaker 6: but it's not really necessary. Compacted hardfill is fine. A
Speaker 6: small retaining around it is fine, certainly if you're settling
Speaker 6: it on areas that you think is loose material. I
Speaker 6: try and remove as much of that as you possibly
Speaker 6: can and replace it with compacted hardfill. And you know,
Speaker 6: even the compacting it's really just if you've got a temper.
Speaker 7: That's fine.
Speaker 6: You don't even have to go out and hire a
Speaker 6: plate compact or anything like that.
Speaker 9: I'm more worried about the wall behind the five hundred retaining.
Speaker 6: Wall right and is it sitting Is that going to
Speaker 6: collapse in? Well, No, I don't think so. And that
Speaker 6: retaining wall behind it. Does that rise above the bottom
Speaker 6: of the tank or does the tank sit on it
Speaker 6: and then the retaining wall is supporting it.
Speaker 9: No, it rises above the bottom of the tank. And
Speaker 9: I'm worried that it's going to cave in on the
Speaker 9: tank and push the tank towards the house. So it's
Speaker 9: five hundred in height at the left land at the
Speaker 9: right hand and it might be four hundred in height.
Speaker 9: It's just dropping a little bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay. Look.
Speaker 6: The other thing that you could do just to offer
Speaker 6: up some support to the retaining wall is given that
Speaker 6: you if you do have to put in some posts,
Speaker 6: you could then dig those in in front of the
Speaker 6: retaining wall and just make sure you go down a
Speaker 6: little bit deeper and perhaps a slightly bigger hole that
Speaker 6: you can fill with concrete.
Speaker 7: Put that in.
Speaker 6: That will offer up some support to the retaining wall.
Speaker 6: It will also give you the support you need for
Speaker 6: that particular type of tank for the seismic restraint.
Speaker 9: Well, I need to put an overcoil and scoria behind that.
Speaker 6: Look for something that's five hundred high, no, I mean
Speaker 6: you know, generally, yes, you need an overcoil and some
Speaker 6: scuory would be good. Putting in some drainage coil. Unless
Speaker 6: it's actually directed somewhere and connected to assessment and connected
Speaker 6: to the storm water, it's probably not a lot of
Speaker 6: point in doing it. I would just put in some
Speaker 6: free drainage material at five hundred high.
Speaker 9: I think on the plans it shows connecting to a
Speaker 9: catch pet.
Speaker 7: Great.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well again, if it's on the plans, then please
Speaker 6: do what's on the plan, because just in case someone
Speaker 6: wants to check it. And yeah, I mean look, drainage
Speaker 6: coil behind a wall makes a massive difference to how
Speaker 6: that wall performs over time. And if there is the
Speaker 6: ability to drop it into a catch pit, which is
Speaker 6: the right thing to do to control the sediment, then
Speaker 6: that's great. And if it's on the plans.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, But I'm not allowed to dig down because of
Speaker 9: the storm water. I'm close to a water care stormwater line.
Speaker 7: Right and that's obviously allow me to go public line
Speaker 7: it is.
Speaker 9: They won't allow me to dig within a meter of it,
Speaker 9: I think, so I just got to stay above that's
Speaker 9: the ground, just a little putting in. I was thinking
Speaker 9: for creative ideas of what products could be used that
Speaker 9: won't take up the whole depth of the space.
Speaker 6: Have got again, the picture I have in my mind
Speaker 6: is I'm coming back to what I did on a
Speaker 6: project about a year ago, probably a bit longer now,
Speaker 6: where I just made up like a hoop, excavated the
Speaker 6: ground a bit, removed the loose material, put that down.
Speaker 6: So that was my form work for my base for
Speaker 6: the water tank like the slim Gin one, and then
Speaker 6: filled it with I probably used half a meter or
Speaker 6: so of base course and put the tank on top
Speaker 6: of there, and that was absolutely fine. Then I'm not
Speaker 6: digging anything down and as long as the base is sound,
Speaker 6: and in your case, you do have I keep emphasizing
Speaker 6: the seismic restraint because again, if it's part of the
Speaker 6: manufacturer speci vacation, then it pays to do it, you.
Speaker 7: Know, if you need to do it.
Speaker 6: But then if you need to dig in some posts
Speaker 6: and you're not allowed to dig because of the proximity
Speaker 6: to the water care line. I guess this is the
Speaker 6: only option in terms of location for the tank.
Speaker 9: It is. Yeah, okay, yes, you know what has become
Speaker 9: quite tricky about it is it's a longer fence line
Speaker 9: which was in the wrong place, right. The neighbor built
Speaker 9: it too far on my boundary. So I took a
Speaker 9: notchot and I took a not chot that was large
Speaker 9: enough for the tank to sit in so that it
Speaker 9: would be one straight line and on the existing fence.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm with you, not okay.
Speaker 9: So it's going to be all right. But but it's
Speaker 9: just beneath the base of the fence where the posts
Speaker 9: go into the ground. They had to dig down five
Speaker 9: hundred Yes, that's the thing, so that the sense all
Speaker 9: the sense sort of above the ground. It's not eigh
Speaker 9: level or anything.
Speaker 7: I'm with you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I've got this cut in the ground and
Speaker 9: I'm worried the fence is going to kay, then something
Speaker 9: needs to be filling in some of the gaps that
Speaker 9: either notch Yes, so I place the fence there. Look,
Speaker 9: it has to be at each en. It's going to
Speaker 9: take up some of the length of the tank, I'm
Speaker 9: going to have to make that much bigger. I didn't realize.
Speaker 9: I didn't realize that to retain.
Speaker 6: It a little bit, I would try and even out
Speaker 6: the retaining by excavating, you know, pushing down in one
Speaker 6: area and then the height of the retaining in the
Speaker 6: other area is diminished. And also I think, you know,
Speaker 6: I mean, I know, in terms of protecting the public asset,
Speaker 6: what water care are concerned about when you build over
Speaker 6: is that you have nothing that bears on the pipe, right,
Speaker 6: But that typically is more of a focus in terms
Speaker 6: of actual buildings. Right, So in the unlikely event that
Speaker 6: someone needs to come and repair that public line in
Speaker 6: the future, they could drain the tank and lift it
Speaker 6: off and do the excavation and get down to it. So,
Speaker 6: you know, it's not quite the same I'm thinking about
Speaker 6: the principle of it. It's not quite the same as
Speaker 6: if you had a house sitting over a public either
Speaker 6: wastewater or storm water line. So I think, well that
Speaker 6: makes sense, Yeah, yeah, you know, it's not quite the
Speaker 6: same duty of care. Let's say, given that it's a
Speaker 6: structure that could be in the event of it needing
Speaker 6: to be moved, could be moved, so again i'd sort
Speaker 6: of dial back the caution on that.
Speaker 9: A little bit, right, Okay, but they still say in
Speaker 9: the plans as they specify keystone. So I'm just looking
Speaker 9: for products.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and look, I've used keystones. And remember there's two.
Speaker 6: There's kind of two different types of keystones as well.
Speaker 6: There's the big heavy one for doing much higher wall,
Speaker 6: and then there's kind of a garden edging one which
Speaker 6: is much smaller, still effective.
Speaker 7: But a lot smaller.
Speaker 9: Take a look how bigger they.
Speaker 6: I think you're probably about three hundred long and maybe
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty deep.
Speaker 9: Okay, Look, so I find those in high restorers.
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Oh, you take care all this wrapping up the project.
Speaker 6: Take care you were new stalks, B and Michelle A
Speaker 6: very good morning.
Speaker 2: Oh did you peak?
Speaker 5: Happy New Year?
Speaker 7: And to you, my dear, how are you.
Speaker 5: No complaint?
Speaker 7: Box of fluffies in my corner of the world.
Speaker 5: But I've got plenty to say about the regional.
Speaker 2: Council in the HA space, Go right ahead. I am
Speaker 2: visually impaired.
Speaker 5: Ten years living lockdown, all these problems that came kept
Speaker 5: depector uh COVID you name it, Gabriel. I've survived a lot,
Speaker 5: but I can't do the regional council. I live in Headlock.
Speaker 5: We're a village. We have a district council who looks
Speaker 5: after football stormwater. This is this lovely lady, the last
Speaker 5: corner and it just brought it all back.
Speaker 2: He is my beautiful home wreck and ruined. No stormwater runoff.
Speaker 2: My whole place is thinking. It's the blitter. I'm not
Speaker 2: covered by insurance because it's neglect and it's the whole
Speaker 2: wil thing. It just breaks my heart. It's legislation. There's
Speaker 2: my issue. I'm old, I'm blind, I live alone, independent,
Speaker 2: with gorgeous help for mate concern, but adding flex there's
Speaker 2: no vehicle crossing. There is no way for this water
Speaker 2: from maybe road to go to a storm water there
Speaker 2: is none. I live in a sinkhole. Now the house
Speaker 2: is splitting. It's all coming apart and I have nothing
Speaker 2: to picture. My dad passed away. It was my everythink,
Speaker 2: my brains in the world. It gives me sanity and
Speaker 2: there do you go? Where do you go with a
Speaker 2: vesical crossing content to stop? I have a shared driveway
Speaker 2: with three others. I'm the only occupy, our owner and
Speaker 2: it only affects my left.
Speaker 6: There any answers, they're probably well, to be fair, sometimes
Speaker 6: there are answers, but you won't like them, right, give
Speaker 6: it to me, No, no, because because I can't you know,
Speaker 6: I don't know all of the details, and and these
Speaker 6: things do get incredibly complex. But you know, I think
Speaker 6: one of the things that as a country we're probably
Speaker 6: going to have to face is that some areas that
Speaker 6: we thought we could live in, we can't write that
Speaker 6: that was the.
Speaker 2: Change the subdivision.
Speaker 6: You're right, you know, and possibly areas that we've lived
Speaker 6: in for a you know, a longer period of time
Speaker 6: now a subject of flooding and inundation in ways that
Speaker 6: the only answer is pretty much retreats.
Speaker 2: Me completely, because there's no run off, no still order,
Speaker 2: it's no drainage.
Speaker 6: At that point, you would hope that the state, whether
Speaker 6: that's regional or national, would would be able to say
Speaker 6: to people, hey, look, you know, we we gave you
Speaker 6: a consent to build there thirty forty fifty years ago, but.
Speaker 2: It's it's not nineteen sixty.
Speaker 6: It's no good anymore, and we're going to help you
Speaker 6: to move on.
Speaker 2: You know that it's just a repair drob that should
Speaker 2: have been.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I think some councils are facing the fact
Speaker 6: that they what they're trying to repair. The repair is
Speaker 6: not going to work right that you know, I'm aware of.
Speaker 6: I went to a house that was flooded while ago,
Speaker 6: and I'm now aware that that area they've simply bought
Speaker 6: all of the owners out and they've said it's in practice,
Speaker 6: nothing we can do is going to stop the flooding
Speaker 6: in the future, So we're just going to have to
Speaker 6: buy you out now. Obviously counsels don't really want to
Speaker 6: be in that position because that's a really expensive activity
Speaker 6: and so on, but it is going to be a
Speaker 6: reality that we're going to have to accept, I think,
Speaker 6: and maybe you fall into that category.
Speaker 7: I just wonder if not.
Speaker 5: Really neglect any right, this is why there's no insurance
Speaker 5: because when I actually got a lawyer onto the case
Speaker 5: because she said this is wrong, they've just not finished
Speaker 5: the job because they're not on the same page. Why
Speaker 5: are they a regional look after the roading and the
Speaker 5: district look after the footpath? They did a new footpath.
Speaker 2: Used half of my property as.
Speaker 5: Except to the vehicle crossing on the main road, but
Speaker 5: they didn't put a storm water. So I am the
Speaker 5: one who wears all the runoff from Napier Road. It's
Speaker 5: poisoned my land.
Speaker 6: It's poisoned that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 6: You know, there is provision within I think it's the
Speaker 6: Property Act in particular that talks about.
Speaker 7: Right about it. Okay.
Speaker 6: So I'm just wondering whether for you, Michelle, given your circumstances,
Speaker 6: is that maybe maybe through age concern, or through great
Speaker 6: power or through advice at all.
Speaker 8: Okay, you're the next step, darling.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up. Squeaking will get the results.
Speaker 6: And sometimes I had this conversation with him, with your knowledge,
Speaker 6: who had an idea and he's like, tell me if
Speaker 6: it's a good idea or not. Look, I My sense
Speaker 6: is for in your circumstances, you kind of want an advocate,
Speaker 6: right which might be a retired lawyer. It might be
Speaker 6: someone who's involved in community work, who can sort of
Speaker 6: assess all of the documentation, all of the.
Speaker 2: From the district council. He tried to advocate on my behalfer.
Speaker 7: He didn't get any want.
Speaker 2: To see the exit. He did as much as he
Speaker 2: was in his power. It's legislation on the regional council
Speaker 2: and a lot.
Speaker 7: Of it, either local councilor or member of parliament.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been there.
Speaker 5: They're beautiful.
Speaker 7: So still don't get anywhere.
Speaker 2: Feeling for the situation, but can't fix it themselves. It's
Speaker 2: up to legislation. And I couldn't get a constant to
Speaker 2: get another person to do a vehicle exit because it's
Speaker 2: ENCROATIREUS on regional and they wouldn't pay. And then we
Speaker 2: had Cabrielle and now and then my son died and
Speaker 2: he was my advocate, and now I'm just lost. Yeah,
Speaker 2: with weird age concern. They are my best freens, the
Speaker 2: beautiful people and what they do, so they provide that
Speaker 2: I don't have to leave home. There's no transport, there's
Speaker 2: no buzzers in my side of the road to accommodate transport.
Speaker 2: I won't use the free taxi. It's a burden on
Speaker 2: some tax player, but I don't need it.
Speaker 6: Because it's all Are you in a position where you
Speaker 6: could sell.
Speaker 7: And move on.
Speaker 2: I'm still paying a mortgage. It's not good because it's
Speaker 2: just moosing value. And I'm on a bench only night
Speaker 2: and day all my life to get every home that's
Speaker 2: the same thing. She said, get ready. Our village is
Speaker 2: more understanding because in township, you just come the next
Speaker 2: door neighbor. The village is amazing. I live independent, alone,
Speaker 2: and I I'm so blessed with the kindness of others.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't fix legislation and can't fix it.
Speaker 6: No, And that's where I wonder whether, in some sense, Michelle,
Speaker 6: that the problem is. I mean, we like to think
Speaker 6: of all problems are being solvable, but possibly they're not.
Speaker 6: And I don't mean that in a dismissive sense. I
Speaker 6: just know sometimes it feels I do feel that an advocate.
Speaker 6: You mentioned you lost your son. My condolence is for that.
Speaker 6: I'm just I tell you, could you just stay on
Speaker 6: the line, keep you and Mark will get your number
Speaker 6: and I'll put my thinking cap on and we'll see
Speaker 6: what we can do. Maybe the one with the runoff
Speaker 6: needs to go to the Minister of Building. Probably not
Speaker 6: really their thing. I think it's that local advocate thing,
Speaker 6: you know, maybe a retired lawyer looking for a bit
Speaker 6: of a push.
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Speaker 10: Question is rather trivial compared to the last role. I
Speaker 10: have a shower enclosure which I want to revamp. It's
Speaker 10: very old. It's been in the in the downstairs here
Speaker 10: of our property, so it's got a concrete floor and
Speaker 10: the shower there has and I don't know what you
Speaker 10: call it, but it's an old fashioned trap. It's not
Speaker 10: an easy waste one, so you have to step step
Speaker 10: up into it. Yes, I want to do a complete
Speaker 10: revamp of a whole lot. I was wondering, can I
Speaker 10: lower that down and do an easy trap trap installation,
Speaker 10: but it would have to drain from it has got
Speaker 10: about one point five meters to the outside wall to
Speaker 10: where the trap is, So I don't know what sort
Speaker 10: of height I'm going to get in the advantage changing
Speaker 10: to an easy trap, or still better to stay with
Speaker 10: the old one.
Speaker 6: So when you say the old one, so what you
Speaker 6: think is underneath the shower tray is a sort of
Speaker 6: conventional P or an S trap, right, So.
Speaker 10: It comes down like you have under a hand basin.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So I mean typically that's what I was
Speaker 6: looking at one the other day.
Speaker 7: Maybe a two.
Speaker 6: Hundred mil turn and thirty mil from let's say the
Speaker 6: outlet to the bottom of the bend and then back
Speaker 6: up again, and an easy waste are often about eighty
Speaker 6: to ninety. So I think there's an easy one hundred,
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty mil that you might get out
Speaker 6: of it by changing that. Obviously it will require removing
Speaker 6: the lining, pulling out the shower tray, reframing that area,
Speaker 6: dropping it down lower. But yeah, I mean yes, there
Speaker 6: are obvious savings by using an easy trap.
Speaker 7: Which is a lot sharp.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, Now, so that brings me to my next question.
Speaker 10: All of the sort of custom built shower trays now
Speaker 10: because this has got an old stone still, Yeah, all
Speaker 10: of the custom built ones now there's sort of for
Speaker 10: sort of more level thraw a level plumbing underneath. Of course,
Speaker 10: it's a concrete saw, so we can't do that. It's
Speaker 10: got to go out the wall. Do you know how
Speaker 10: do you need to build a frame for those?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know what you're saying, Yes you would, So
Speaker 6: it's essentially, you know, you know where your pipe work's
Speaker 6: got to go, so you can't frame up there, but
Speaker 6: you can frame around it, lay in, use tennalized timber,
Speaker 6: and put some tannalized ply down. Create a platform for
Speaker 6: your now lower shower tray to sit on. And as
Speaker 6: long as the shower tray is fully supported just as
Speaker 6: if it was sitting on the ground, then that'll.
Speaker 10: Be fine, right, fine, Okay, then how do you finish
Speaker 10: off sort of the front face of it, because you're
Speaker 10: still going to have to step up there.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's right, you will.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 6: The most simple way would probably be tiles or something similar.
Speaker 6: If you were using a vinyl on the floor, you
Speaker 6: could bring the vinyl up. But what's what's on the
Speaker 6: concrete floor of the bathroom anyway?
Speaker 10: It's four in which is all getting ripped up, So
Speaker 10: we're put to be doing a complete revamp of that downstairs.
Speaker 6: Would you put vinyl as in sheet vinyl down again?
Speaker 7: Yes? Okay?
Speaker 6: Then I would just form an upstand and have the
Speaker 6: vinyl come up. And ideally, if when you're framing the
Speaker 6: platform for the shower tray, you set it back a
Speaker 6: couple of millimeters so that the vinyl can actually tuck
Speaker 6: up underneath the lip of the shower tray, right okay,
Speaker 6: Or you could have a little step flashing in there
Speaker 6: as another option. But you just want to make sure
Speaker 6: that if you're going to bring the vinyl up that upstand,
Speaker 6: that you don't provide access for water to penetrate, you know,
Speaker 6: from the top, right, so just condensation and overflow from
Speaker 6: the shower, So as long as it tucks either tucks
Speaker 6: underneath the shower tray or you have a little step
Speaker 6: flashing there that will make it waterproof.
Speaker 10: Well okay, yep, no, no, that's fine. And you don't
Speaker 10: like with the old fashion traps you needed to have
Speaker 10: access to these.
Speaker 6: You can clean from the top, you can clean from
Speaker 6: the trot.
Speaker 2: A way to go.
Speaker 6: It'll make a big difference to that that step up,
Speaker 6: because that's always a bit nervous, isn't it nerve racking?
Speaker 6: I think it's more nerve racking stepping out of the
Speaker 6: shower and when you're slightly unbalanced.
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