WEBVTT - The Resident Builder podcast: January 5, 2025 0:00:06.855 --> 0:00:10.695 You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 0:00:10.895 --> 0:00:15.415 from News Talks at B. Squeaky Door or Squeaky Floor. 0:00:15.895 --> 0:00:19.615 Get the right advice from Peterwolfcamp The Resident Builder with 0:00:19.815 --> 0:00:23.255 Lightfoursolar dot Co, dot insiead switch to solar in twenty 0:00:23.295 --> 0:00:26.015 twenty five and pay less for power us talks at B. 0:00:27.415 --> 0:00:30.615 A house sizzor even when it's dog. 0:00:32.575 --> 0:00:37.815 Even when the grass is overgrown in the yard, even 0:00:37.895 --> 0:00:42.175 when a dog is too old to bar, and when 0:00:42.215 --> 0:00:46.655 you're sitting at the table trying not to start. Oh 0:00:47.335 --> 0:00:48.655 scissor home. 0:00:49.535 --> 0:01:07.095 Even when we bend, even when you're therellonezzo. House is 0:01:07.135 --> 0:01:11.655 a hold, even when there's ghost, even. 0:01:11.375 --> 0:01:15.055 When you got around from the ones you love, your moves. 0:01:16.215 --> 0:01:22.135 Scream doors, broken pants, appeeling from the world, locals, vestment 0:01:22.175 --> 0:01:23.535 when they're gone, and leaving the. 0:01:25.495 --> 0:01:29.295 Have, even when. 0:01:29.215 --> 0:01:41.655 We'll rebne, even when you're very lone. 0:01:41.855 --> 0:01:44.975 A well, a very very good morning and a warm 0:01:45.135 --> 0:01:47.615 welcome to you on this the first show, the first 0:01:47.655 --> 0:01:50.055 Resident Builder on Sunday show here at News Talk Seed 0:01:50.135 --> 0:01:53.775 B for twenty twenty five. So it is a great 0:01:53.815 --> 0:01:57.375 pleasure to return. Well, we haven't really taken a break, 0:01:57.415 --> 0:01:59.655 to be fair, but it's great to be back, and 0:01:59.695 --> 0:02:02.935 it's it is twenty twenty five, and that brings with it, 0:02:03.015 --> 0:02:08.415 I suppose optimism, hope, opportunity, potential for a year ahead. 0:02:09.015 --> 0:02:12.455 Certainly there's plenty of challenges out there for the construction sector, 0:02:12.495 --> 0:02:15.535 for the economy in general, to be fair, so we'll 0:02:15.535 --> 0:02:18.175 see how that pans out over the course of the year. 0:02:18.855 --> 0:02:20.975 But it is delightful to be back. I trust that 0:02:21.015 --> 0:02:25.855 you had a good New Year's celebration. Hopefully if it 0:02:25.975 --> 0:02:28.495 was festive, it was not festive with some sort of 0:02:28.535 --> 0:02:30.495 long lingering hangover or some. 0:02:31.975 --> 0:02:33.695 Yeah something you've got of it later on. 0:02:33.855 --> 0:02:36.575 But anyway, if you've had a hopefully you've had a 0:02:36.615 --> 0:02:40.095 good New Year's and you are preparing yourself for the 0:02:40.175 --> 0:02:42.775 year ahead. If you've been out in the garden, or 0:02:42.855 --> 0:02:45.055 you've been working around the house, or you've been doing 0:02:45.055 --> 0:02:48.255 some jobs inside, I hope they've been going well or 0:02:48.295 --> 0:02:51.655 as well as they possibly can. I did actually notice 0:02:51.695 --> 0:02:55.135 in my neighborhood someone was out with power tools on 0:02:55.255 --> 0:02:58.295 New Year's Day. They were cracking into it. I don't 0:02:58.335 --> 0:03:00.215 know what it was. It might have been a water blaster. 0:03:00.815 --> 0:03:03.655 I'm pretty sure I heard a grinder out there somewhere. 0:03:04.015 --> 0:03:06.295 Not sure that I heard a skill saw or a chainsaw, 0:03:07.175 --> 0:03:09.335 but certainly some people were out and about with power 0:03:09.375 --> 0:03:13.295 tools on New Year's Day, possibly having a sort of 0:03:13.295 --> 0:03:15.495 a very sober night and then wanting to rub in 0:03:15.975 --> 0:03:19.495 their vigor and their determination to greet the new year 0:03:19.535 --> 0:03:22.855 with activity. For those who maybe were lingering a little 0:03:22.855 --> 0:03:25.895 bit in bed a bit longer on New Year's Day radio, 0:03:26.055 --> 0:03:29.175 we're into it. So the year ahead will be fascinating. 0:03:29.255 --> 0:03:32.735 I think from a political point of view, it's going 0:03:32.815 --> 0:03:34.855 to be interesting to see whether so much of what 0:03:35.055 --> 0:03:38.975 was talked about last year, in terms of lessening bureaucracy, 0:03:39.255 --> 0:03:42.895 trying to speed up the construction or the consenting process, 0:03:43.335 --> 0:03:46.455 any of those sorts of things come to fruition, whether 0:03:46.535 --> 0:03:50.455 or not after a lot of consultation around standards, and 0:03:50.495 --> 0:03:53.135 whether or not the increased standards for H one, which 0:03:53.215 --> 0:03:57.255 is the insulation requirements, will be wound back in order 0:03:57.295 --> 0:04:00.135 to try and find some savings for the cost of 0:04:00.175 --> 0:04:04.935 building houses. Whether that actually comes to something I personally 0:04:04.975 --> 0:04:07.535 hope not in the scene. It's that I don't think 0:04:07.575 --> 0:04:10.455 that we need to wind back EH one standards, but 0:04:10.495 --> 0:04:12.055 we do need to get rid of the schedule method, 0:04:12.095 --> 0:04:13.615 so we'll we can talk about that. 0:04:15.055 --> 0:04:16.615 It's going to be a fascinating year. Head. 0:04:16.655 --> 0:04:20.375 So if you've got a project that is underway and 0:04:20.415 --> 0:04:23.615 maybe you'd like some help with it, or you've started something, 0:04:23.695 --> 0:04:27.215 perhaps you've got some new tools. Like me, I don't 0:04:27.215 --> 0:04:30.095 actually get any tools for Christmas. Buying tools for me 0:04:30.175 --> 0:04:33.295 for Christmas could be a little bit tricky. However, I 0:04:33.335 --> 0:04:36.495 have been out shopping over the Christmas break and I 0:04:36.535 --> 0:04:38.855 picked up a couple of little things that I felt 0:04:38.895 --> 0:04:42.735 that I needed that were a gap in the arsenal, 0:04:42.855 --> 0:04:45.415 a gap in the repertoire of tools that I might 0:04:45.455 --> 0:04:46.895 have in the tool shed. So we can talk a 0:04:46.935 --> 0:04:50.175 little bit about those. But later on this morning, and 0:04:50.535 --> 0:04:52.455 I did actually spend a little bit of happy time 0:04:52.535 --> 0:04:57.975 in the workshop, just kind of organizing, sort of puttering. Puttering, 0:04:58.015 --> 0:05:01.255 I think was my word for twenty twenty four. At 0:05:01.255 --> 0:05:03.495 some stage during twenty twenty five, I'll think of another 0:05:03.495 --> 0:05:05.935 word or find another word that I like. I'm not 0:05:05.935 --> 0:05:08.215 making up, I just find them and I like them. 0:05:08.295 --> 0:05:11.415 Puttering was a great word. Actually, I've got a delightful 0:05:11.495 --> 0:05:15.895 card from Dennis, who lives around where I did, and 0:05:17.015 --> 0:05:19.215 he swung by to drop off a card and a 0:05:19.255 --> 0:05:22.495 gift actually, which is very kind of a just to say, hey, look, 0:05:22.655 --> 0:05:25.215 have a good year, and all the best for Christmas 0:05:25.295 --> 0:05:28.735 and so on. And he mentioned in his card that 0:05:28.855 --> 0:05:33.415 he had been out puttering during the day and found 0:05:33.455 --> 0:05:36.215 that enormously satisfying as well. If you don't know what 0:05:36.255 --> 0:05:38.975 puttering means, I'll explain a bit later on. But hey, look, 0:05:39.015 --> 0:05:41.575 we're into it for a new year. So this is 0:05:41.615 --> 0:05:47.015 a show all about essentially building literacy. So what I 0:05:47.055 --> 0:05:49.535 want to talk about is stuff that I read about, 0:05:49.535 --> 0:05:52.615 all that I'm involved with and do. And you know, 0:05:52.695 --> 0:05:54.695 during the course of the year, I'm in a privileged 0:05:54.695 --> 0:05:56.535 position in a sense where I get to attend a 0:05:56.535 --> 0:05:59.535 lot of seminars. I have an opportunity of sort of 0:05:59.535 --> 0:06:04.135 getting an insight into the construction sector and into construction 0:06:04.375 --> 0:06:09.735 practice as well. How we build better houses? And it's complex. 0:06:10.055 --> 0:06:12.735 There's lots and lots of well, initially moving but in 0:06:12.775 --> 0:06:15.255 the end not many moving parts in a house. They 0:06:15.295 --> 0:06:18.335 tend to remain stable. So you know, how do we 0:06:19.055 --> 0:06:21.335 how do we figure out how to do things better 0:06:21.695 --> 0:06:23.975 in order to get better houses? And there was a 0:06:24.055 --> 0:06:25.935 text at the end of last week's show, I obviously 0:06:25.935 --> 0:06:28.855 struck a nerve by talking a little bit about bureaucracy. 0:06:29.855 --> 0:06:33.175 I wasn't actually talking about bureaucracy, but people there are 0:06:33.255 --> 0:06:37.415 several texts actually quite critical of me in their eyes, 0:06:37.535 --> 0:06:42.455 defending bureaucracy, defending regulations. I don't mind talking about that, 0:06:42.495 --> 0:06:44.815 but later on the show as well, right now in 0:06:44.895 --> 0:06:47.175 the show. Actually, let's not do it later. Let's do 0:06:47.215 --> 0:06:49.535 it right now, because the lines are open. Eight hundred 0:06:49.655 --> 0:06:52.735 eighty ten eighty. Is that number to call. You can 0:06:52.855 --> 0:06:55.935 text which is nine two nine two or zbzb from 0:06:55.975 --> 0:06:57.935 your mobile phone, and if you'd like to send me 0:06:57.975 --> 0:07:00.015 an email, you would be more than welcome it as 0:07:00.055 --> 0:07:04.295 Pete atnewstookxb dot co dot nz. So let's get into it. 0:07:04.575 --> 0:07:06.775 The lines are open. The number to call eight hundred 0:07:06.775 --> 0:07:10.135 and eighty ten eighty any building related questions, and it 0:07:10.215 --> 0:07:15.015 might be legislation, it might be tools. More than happy 0:07:15.055 --> 0:07:17.775 to talk about tools. Actually I might give you my 0:07:17.855 --> 0:07:21.135 tool of the year. I was thinking about this after 0:07:21.175 --> 0:07:23.255 the show last week, and I was sort of, you know, 0:07:23.455 --> 0:07:25.055 at the end of the year, you kind of I 0:07:25.055 --> 0:07:28.295 don't know. My habit is to be a little bit reflective. 0:07:28.415 --> 0:07:31.695 Let's say a little contemplative thinking back on the year, 0:07:31.695 --> 0:07:33.775 and I was trying to think in amongst a whole 0:07:33.775 --> 0:07:37.335 lot of other thoughts that were rumbling around and my 0:07:37.415 --> 0:07:40.175 head around things like what was the most useful thing 0:07:40.215 --> 0:07:42.575 that I might have purchased or encountered in terms of 0:07:42.655 --> 0:07:46.015 tools over the course of the year. And so I've 0:07:46.095 --> 0:07:51.335 landed on something, possibly two, but certainly one. Anyway, So 0:07:51.415 --> 0:07:53.335 we can talk tools, we can talk about projects. We 0:07:53.335 --> 0:07:56.095 can talk about projects that you might have ahead of 0:07:56.095 --> 0:07:58.815 you this year. If you've got something on the drawing 0:07:58.855 --> 0:08:01.295 board back in the old days that you'd like to 0:08:01.295 --> 0:08:02.815 bring to life, how are you going to do it? 0:08:02.895 --> 0:08:07.175 What choices do you make, where do you put your resources? 0:08:07.655 --> 0:08:10.335 And in fact I've just at the end of last 0:08:10.415 --> 0:08:14.135 year I was introduced to via a builder that I know, 0:08:15.575 --> 0:08:18.335 an outstanding builder to be fair, a project that he 0:08:18.455 --> 0:08:21.415 started right in the middle of December, so almost at 0:08:21.415 --> 0:08:25.295 the end of the year. A renovation and addition to 0:08:25.335 --> 0:08:29.015 an existing nineteen fifties house where the clients are particularly 0:08:29.015 --> 0:08:31.815 informed and they want to go high performance. They want 0:08:31.855 --> 0:08:37.015 to create a really energy efficient house out of what 0:08:37.215 --> 0:08:40.895 is an older house, So a deep retrofit with a 0:08:40.975 --> 0:08:46.015 view to making it incredibly energy efficient, a very sustainable home. 0:08:46.815 --> 0:08:48.415 So we'll keep you up to date with that project. 0:08:48.455 --> 0:08:50.615 If that's what you've got on your plate that you'd 0:08:50.655 --> 0:08:52.895 like to do, well, we can talk about that as well. 0:08:52.975 --> 0:08:55.295 Or if it's just a more and a sense more 0:08:55.295 --> 0:08:55.855 modest thing. 0:08:55.975 --> 0:08:58.455 I just want to make my house a little bit warmer, 0:08:58.615 --> 0:09:03.135 drier and more comfortable, then let's talk about that too. Oh, 0:09:03.215 --> 0:09:05.415 eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. 0:09:05.655 --> 0:09:07.735 Great to be back with you, really looking forward to 0:09:07.735 --> 0:09:10.735 the year ahead. It is six fifteen here on the 0:09:10.775 --> 0:09:14.295 fifth of January twenty twenty five. We're into it, paul A, 0:09:14.495 --> 0:09:16.215 very good morning to you. How are you this morning? 0:09:16.255 --> 0:09:19.535 Paul, Yeah, good morning. 0:09:19.175 --> 0:09:20.815 Into you, into you. 0:09:21.175 --> 0:09:21.575 I've got a. 0:09:21.575 --> 0:09:24.135 Little chip on my kitchen bench. I've got like an 0:09:24.215 --> 0:09:26.855 undermount think and it's right on the rim of the app. 0:09:27.215 --> 0:09:29.335 I've heard you in the past recommend a couple of 0:09:29.415 --> 0:09:32.175 companies that can come around, and already that up. So 0:09:32.535 --> 0:09:33.735 I'm on Central Auklands. 0:09:34.215 --> 0:09:37.575 Depends what's the material, good. 0:09:37.455 --> 0:09:40.375 Question, not sure at some fall of ermine. I've asked 0:09:40.375 --> 0:09:42.615 some people that have come around. It's like a it's 0:09:42.655 --> 0:09:46.375 Scott Constantino's Spain brand underneath it. I'm not quite sure. 0:09:46.495 --> 0:09:49.455 It looks like some sort of resin sort of. It's 0:09:49.495 --> 0:09:51.455 kind of stone sort effect was in the house when 0:09:51.495 --> 0:09:53.335 we brought it, so we're just really tiding it up 0:09:53.415 --> 0:09:56.815 for the new owner really, So yeah, sure, I'm certain, 0:09:56.895 --> 0:09:58.415 but i'd say some sort of reason. 0:09:59.295 --> 0:10:04.975 Yeah, Okay, now that Costantino was a fairly new brand 0:10:05.015 --> 0:10:07.175 that's out, so. 0:10:07.575 --> 0:10:10.455 Yeah, I think just too. I've said this house for 0:10:10.775 --> 0:10:15.375 over fifteen years ago. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't 0:10:15.375 --> 0:10:17.535 think it's a better look online at that brand. I 0:10:17.535 --> 0:10:19.895 can't see any relevant to what I've got for you. 0:10:19.935 --> 0:10:22.975 No, Okay, Look, composites have been around for a while 0:10:23.135 --> 0:10:27.295 and they are quite repairable, so well, in most cases 0:10:27.295 --> 0:10:32.975 they can be. I would start with bench doctors online, 0:10:33.015 --> 0:10:35.815 so they effectively they're kind of like a franchise. I 0:10:35.815 --> 0:10:39.095 think they're around the country and certainly they'll be in Auckland, 0:10:40.495 --> 0:10:43.535 and if they don't know, they'll probably be able to 0:10:43.575 --> 0:10:46.455 put you onto someone like there's another guy that I 0:10:46.535 --> 0:10:49.455 used a little while ago, a crylic fix, but that 0:10:49.695 --> 0:10:52.695 was specifically for a crylic bench top, so things like 0:10:52.895 --> 0:10:55.055 vanity tops and that sort of thing. Where we had 0:10:55.055 --> 0:10:59.815 the classic, you know, finished the project and someone, possibly me, 0:11:00.015 --> 0:11:03.615 possibly another trade, you know, dropped a hammer or a 0:11:03.695 --> 0:11:06.935 chisel onto the edge of the bench and we ended 0:11:06.975 --> 0:11:12.015 up with a chip in it, right yeah, oh yeah, 0:11:12.015 --> 0:11:13.895 there was another one of those a little while ago. 0:11:15.055 --> 0:11:17.175 So yeah, look, they can be repaired. I'd start with 0:11:17.215 --> 0:11:22.215 bench doctors go from there. Yeah, okay, yeah, And are 0:11:22.255 --> 0:11:24.175 you staying in the house or are you looking to sell? 0:11:25.135 --> 0:11:27.255 No, we're looking to sell. So just tinting it up 0:11:27.255 --> 0:11:28.975 foot and you ain't like it's the bench stoll I 0:11:29.135 --> 0:11:32.095 that's fairly whole, but it's obviously quite good quality seeing 0:11:32.135 --> 0:11:34.855 your life in it, and I'd say, yeah that that 0:11:35.055 --> 0:11:38.855 kitchen sinks had won too many bands with a under 0:11:38.895 --> 0:11:42.095 the water Yeah, just that's a tiny chap. It's only 0:11:42.095 --> 0:11:44.175 about maybe eight meals by a couple of meals, but 0:11:44.255 --> 0:11:46.655 it's just right and the worst possible place. You see 0:11:46.655 --> 0:11:47.455 it every time you go to. 0:11:47.495 --> 0:11:49.575 The thing, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:49.615 --> 0:11:51.535 And it's one of those things that perhaps you know, 0:11:51.615 --> 0:11:54.975 someone coming in to look at the house prior to purchase, 0:11:55.015 --> 0:11:57.255 and then they see that and they think, oh, then 0:11:57.335 --> 0:11:59.975 I've got to find someone to fix it, you know 0:11:59.975 --> 0:12:02.695 what I mean. And then suddenly it becomes it kind 0:12:02.695 --> 0:12:04.535 of in their head. It goes on that side of 0:12:04.535 --> 0:12:06.735 the ledger that goes stuff that I have to do 0:12:06.775 --> 0:12:09.255 once I bought that house. And I've always thought, actually, 0:12:10.615 --> 0:12:12.335 you know, people have often said, oh, what should I 0:12:12.375 --> 0:12:14.735 do prior to selling the house? And I've always thought, 0:12:15.095 --> 0:12:18.055 you try and tack off those things that leave that 0:12:18.295 --> 0:12:22.495 sort of oh impression in a prospective buyer. You don't 0:12:22.535 --> 0:12:24.815 want them to you know, like open. I went to 0:12:24.815 --> 0:12:27.055 one open home a little while ago. Open the door. 0:12:27.975 --> 0:12:30.615 The front door was open, and down the corner on 0:12:30.695 --> 0:12:34.295 the hinge side, they done some really terrible painting, right. 0:12:34.415 --> 0:12:37.535 The painted bled around and you could see the outside 0:12:37.655 --> 0:12:39.615 was dark and the inside was light, and on that 0:12:39.855 --> 0:12:42.575 edge it was just really ragged, and it kind of 0:12:42.615 --> 0:12:46.335 just went, ah, it just feels like a lack of attention. 0:12:46.495 --> 0:12:48.655 And I would have thought, if that's the first thing 0:12:48.695 --> 0:12:50.535 that a buyer sees when they walk through the door, 0:12:50.575 --> 0:12:53.735 why wouldn't you deal with that? You know, it's that 0:12:53.775 --> 0:12:58.535 sort of thing. So wow, oh mate, hey, good luck 0:12:58.535 --> 0:13:02.135 with that. And yeah, the bench doctor people I've used. 0:13:02.135 --> 0:13:05.815 And I'm sure they'll sort you out all the very best. 0:13:06.495 --> 0:13:08.815 Yeah, all of is Paul oh eight hundred and eighty 0:13:08.855 --> 0:13:12.095 ten eighty is that number to call? Quick text has 0:13:12.095 --> 0:13:14.855 come through my house has not been signed off yet? 0:13:14.855 --> 0:13:17.695 Does it have to have things like painting on inside 0:13:17.735 --> 0:13:22.055 walls in carpet or vinyl down? I probably need a 0:13:22.095 --> 0:13:24.135 little bit more detail on that. I presume that when 0:13:24.135 --> 0:13:25.895 you say not signed off yet is. 0:13:27.895 --> 0:13:30.015 I mean? Look, it's unlikely. 0:13:29.535 --> 0:13:33.055 That it would even qualify for a final inspection without 0:13:33.215 --> 0:13:39.215 floor coverings, particularly if floor coverings are necessary in you know, 0:13:39.255 --> 0:13:44.015 wet areas, and that includes now kitchens. So you know, 0:13:44.055 --> 0:13:48.615 if it was let's say explosed plywood, then I don't 0:13:48.615 --> 0:13:51.455 think you'd even get a final inspection. And certainly without 0:13:51.455 --> 0:13:55.335 a final inspection, you won't get a certificate or code 0:13:55.375 --> 0:13:59.415 compliance certificate a CCC. So I think you probably need 0:13:59.455 --> 0:14:00.135 to get that done. 0:14:02.135 --> 0:14:04.335 Another quick text as well, Morning Peak. We're about to 0:14:04.335 --> 0:14:05.575 put in the secondhand kitchen. 0:14:05.615 --> 0:14:07.895 It has a gas hob. Can we put a nine 0:14:07.975 --> 0:14:11.415 kg bottle inside the cupboards instead of outside? 0:14:11.815 --> 0:14:13.055 I don't believe. 0:14:13.175 --> 0:14:17.895 So again I'm not a gas fitter, which is licensed trade. 0:14:18.175 --> 0:14:22.135 I know it's possible to have a nine kg bottle exterior, 0:14:22.735 --> 0:14:25.535 but I'm pretty sure that having them inside, which I 0:14:25.615 --> 0:14:29.095 know was common working on a kitchen probably twenty years 0:14:29.135 --> 0:14:32.735 ago where that was the case. But I don't think 0:14:32.735 --> 0:14:34.935 that that would be done that would be suitable anymore. 0:14:35.255 --> 0:14:39.055 And also any gasworks should be done by a registered 0:14:39.215 --> 0:14:42.175 gas fitter as well. That's really really important to say, Oh, 0:14:42.215 --> 0:14:44.295 eight hundred eighty ten eighty, the lines are open. The 0:14:44.375 --> 0:14:46.855 number to call eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you'd 0:14:46.895 --> 0:14:49.255 like to text like these other people have done, which 0:14:49.255 --> 0:14:51.335 would be great, it is nine two nine two is 0:14:51.375 --> 0:14:53.735 ZBZB from your mobile phone. If you'd like ze me 0:14:53.815 --> 0:14:58.375 an email. It's Pete atnewstalksb dot co dot Nz. Just 0:14:58.415 --> 0:15:01.215 gone twenty one minutes after six. The lines are open. 0:15:01.575 --> 0:15:03.535 We always get busy a little bit later in the show, 0:15:03.775 --> 0:15:06.775 and now is a great time to call eight hundred 0:15:06.855 --> 0:15:07.855 eighty ten eighty. 0:15:09.335 --> 0:15:11.775 Doing other house sorting the garden asked Pete for a 0:15:11.855 --> 0:15:15.415 hand the resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp and Light Force 0:15:15.455 --> 0:15:18.775 Solar your solar journey in twenty twenty five, call oh, 0:15:18.815 --> 0:15:20.095 eight hundred eighty eight. 0:15:20.335 --> 0:15:21.175 News talks in me. 0:15:21.695 --> 0:15:24.375 Right, let's get amongst that. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. 0:15:24.415 --> 0:15:26.535 Then number to call Kate A very good morning to you. 0:15:27.655 --> 0:15:28.495 Good morning, Pete. 0:15:28.495 --> 0:15:30.895 Happy to year to you and to you into you. 0:15:31.775 --> 0:15:32.215 Thank you. 0:15:32.655 --> 0:15:36.015 I'm kind of coming to the end stage of my projects, 0:15:36.135 --> 0:15:41.135 which you have given me okay of advice, thank you, 0:15:41.495 --> 0:15:45.415 since since it started in July and even before. Now 0:15:46.655 --> 0:15:51.375 I'm at the point where I need to install a 0:15:51.535 --> 0:15:58.975 fence tank. It's a thin tank for stormwaterer retention, and 0:15:59.015 --> 0:16:03.055 it's going up against the sense. It's three thousand liters yep. 0:16:03.175 --> 0:16:07.335 And beneath the sense there is a hut that they 0:16:07.415 --> 0:16:09.655 made in the ground. So I've sort of exposed some 0:16:09.735 --> 0:16:14.775 concrete of the concrete post, and I'm worried about putting 0:16:14.815 --> 0:16:19.615 some retaining in there. But i can't dig deeply into 0:16:19.655 --> 0:16:22.775 the ground because there's a storm public storm water line 0:16:22.855 --> 0:16:25.375 nearby and I'm not allowed to do that. So but 0:16:25.575 --> 0:16:27.735 looking at options, I don't want to take up a 0:16:27.735 --> 0:16:30.975 lot of depth front to back because there isn't much 0:16:31.135 --> 0:16:35.295 room between this fence in the back of the house. Sure, 0:16:36.335 --> 0:16:41.295 So I've looked at keystone, which will be quite deep. 0:16:41.535 --> 0:16:43.935 I think it's about three hundred it's going to take 0:16:44.015 --> 0:16:50.375 up with the scoria and over. I've seen online concrete 0:16:51.015 --> 0:16:54.295 slabs that you can put in place or Gabian, but 0:16:54.335 --> 0:16:57.695 they have to be quite deep as well. I need 0:16:57.695 --> 0:16:59.575 to take it five hundred in hype. 0:16:59.655 --> 0:17:01.775 Oh, that was going to be my next question. That's 0:17:01.815 --> 0:17:06.375 actually quite a lot, isn't it. So it's a I 0:17:06.415 --> 0:17:09.335 mean three thousand tank. It's probably about two and a 0:17:09.335 --> 0:17:11.015 half meters long, three meters. 0:17:10.735 --> 0:17:16.775 Long twenty nine fifty three meters long front. 0:17:16.615 --> 0:17:24.975 That yeah, right, do do you have it? 0:17:25.775 --> 0:17:28.415 You know, tanks that are designed to sit on the 0:17:28.455 --> 0:17:32.255 ground are not designed to sit in the ground, right, 0:17:32.695 --> 0:17:37.455 that's obvious, but they can take a little bit of bearing. 0:17:37.535 --> 0:17:41.695 I'm just wondering whether it would be helpful if depending 0:17:41.695 --> 0:17:45.095 on which end the outletters, and you could some tanks 0:17:45.095 --> 0:17:48.175 have outlets at both ends or one end, and the 0:17:49.015 --> 0:17:50.815 sides are both the same, so it doesn't matter which 0:17:50.815 --> 0:17:54.215 way around you put them. I'm just one just obviously 0:17:54.255 --> 0:17:57.215 it's a sloping site. And does it slope sort of 0:17:57.335 --> 0:18:00.015 along the length of the tank along that three meter 0:18:00.135 --> 0:18:03.935 length or does it slope back to front of the tank? No, 0:18:04.055 --> 0:18:05.295 along the length along the length? 0:18:05.415 --> 0:18:07.455 Okay, build it. The builder says he's going to put 0:18:07.455 --> 0:18:10.615 a concrete plint, right, and I've got some sort of 0:18:10.775 --> 0:18:13.735 framing that will hold it. 0:18:14.615 --> 0:18:19.335 Yes, yes, some tanks require restraint, right, so you need 0:18:19.375 --> 0:18:22.255 to cast in like a timber post, which you can 0:18:22.295 --> 0:18:24.775 then secure. Particularly the tanks that have a quite narrow 0:18:24.775 --> 0:18:32.495 footprint will often require seismic restraint. Look, if you can 0:18:32.535 --> 0:18:34.655 do a concrete pad, that's good. You don't actually have 0:18:34.735 --> 0:18:35.895 to have concrete under them. 0:18:36.375 --> 0:18:36.855 You could. 0:18:38.175 --> 0:18:40.775 The last one that I installed, which was a Bailey 0:18:41.175 --> 0:18:45.055 slim gym tank, we again it was on a sloping site, 0:18:45.295 --> 0:18:48.455 probably a similar slope to yours. I ended up excavating 0:18:48.495 --> 0:18:50.215 down at one end a little bit like one hundred 0:18:50.255 --> 0:18:53.415 mill below the ground, and I could just batter that away. 0:18:53.895 --> 0:18:55.615 I made up a hoop. 0:18:55.815 --> 0:18:59.215 Essentially out of some might have been two hundred or 0:18:59.255 --> 0:19:03.375 two fifty by fifty retaining timber set that on the ground, 0:19:03.575 --> 0:19:06.775 got some compacted base course, and so one end it 0:19:06.935 --> 0:19:09.055 was slightly in the ground and at the other end 0:19:09.135 --> 0:19:11.015 it was slightly out of the ground, and kind of 0:19:11.175 --> 0:19:15.615 we balanced that up and I just put in compacted 0:19:15.655 --> 0:19:19.335 hardfilm and that's been absolutely fine. Saying that that was 0:19:19.375 --> 0:19:22.975 a slightly wider tank, and it also didn't require seismic 0:19:23.055 --> 0:19:26.935 restraint in that particular instance. 0:19:28.815 --> 0:19:29.775 Look, I mean, if. 0:19:31.535 --> 0:19:34.255 I would be really tempted to bury one end slightly 0:19:34.455 --> 0:19:37.255 right to excavate down. So you know, if you lose 0:19:37.535 --> 0:19:40.175 two hundred mil there, then suddenly you're only three hundred 0:19:40.215 --> 0:19:42.455 mils out of the ground at the other end. If 0:19:42.455 --> 0:19:45.015 it's five hundred mili slope, you can kind of lose 0:19:45.055 --> 0:19:45.815 it at either end. 0:19:46.015 --> 0:19:49.335 Oh sorry, Pete, I didn't explain it very much. The 0:19:49.455 --> 0:19:52.455 retaining wall has to be five hundred it's not that 0:19:52.615 --> 0:19:53.615 much of a slope. 0:19:53.975 --> 0:19:55.775 Oh okay, But then. 0:19:55.695 --> 0:19:59.095 Why the drop down is five hundred and within that 0:19:59.495 --> 0:20:01.895 there are some massive. 0:20:02.015 --> 0:20:04.255 Tree roots, right, okay, then. 0:20:04.455 --> 0:20:09.575 Ground away we're looking at the side of a tree route. 0:20:09.655 --> 0:20:17.375 Yes, okay, Well it's a little tricky without actually seeing it. 0:20:17.415 --> 0:20:20.455 But in terms of actually providing a stable base for 0:20:20.535 --> 0:20:22.655 a water tank like this, right, the ones that just 0:20:22.695 --> 0:20:26.815 sit on the ground, you can do concrete if you want, 0:20:26.855 --> 0:20:32.295 but it's not really necessary. Compacted hardfill is fine. A 0:20:32.415 --> 0:20:35.455 small retaining around it is fine, certainly if you're settling 0:20:35.535 --> 0:20:37.935 it on areas that you think is loose material. I 0:20:38.055 --> 0:20:40.175 try and remove as much of that as you possibly 0:20:40.215 --> 0:20:44.655 can and replace it with compacted hardfill. And you know, 0:20:44.735 --> 0:20:47.815 even the compacting it's really just if you've got a temper. 0:20:47.815 --> 0:20:48.255 That's fine. 0:20:48.295 --> 0:20:50.135 You don't even have to go out and hire a 0:20:50.175 --> 0:20:51.735 plate compact or anything like that. 0:20:53.535 --> 0:20:58.055 I'm more worried about the wall behind the five hundred retaining. 0:20:57.775 --> 0:21:00.575 Wall right and is it sitting Is that going to 0:21:00.575 --> 0:21:05.495 collapse in? Well, No, I don't think so. And that 0:21:05.535 --> 0:21:08.575 retaining wall behind it. Does that rise above the bottom 0:21:08.615 --> 0:21:10.575 of the tank or does the tank sit on it 0:21:10.655 --> 0:21:12.615 and then the retaining wall is supporting it. 0:21:14.415 --> 0:21:17.095 No, it rises above the bottom of the tank. And 0:21:17.135 --> 0:21:18.655 I'm worried that it's going to cave in on the 0:21:18.695 --> 0:21:21.295 tank and push the tank towards the house. So it's 0:21:21.335 --> 0:21:26.015 five hundred in height at the left land at the 0:21:26.055 --> 0:21:28.735 right hand and it might be four hundred in height. 0:21:28.815 --> 0:21:30.415 It's just dropping a little bit. 0:21:30.535 --> 0:21:32.015 Yeah, okay. Look. 0:21:32.015 --> 0:21:34.055 The other thing that you could do just to offer 0:21:34.135 --> 0:21:36.175 up some support to the retaining wall is given that 0:21:36.175 --> 0:21:38.135 you if you do have to put in some posts, 0:21:38.615 --> 0:21:40.935 you could then dig those in in front of the 0:21:40.975 --> 0:21:44.055 retaining wall and just make sure you go down a 0:21:44.095 --> 0:21:47.855 little bit deeper and perhaps a slightly bigger hole that 0:21:47.895 --> 0:21:49.015 you can fill with concrete. 0:21:49.255 --> 0:21:49.815