WEBVTT - The Resident Builder podcast: December 1, 2024 0:00:06.855 --> 0:00:10.055 You're listening to the Resident build Up podcast with Peter 0:00:10.135 --> 0:00:12.055 wolf Camp from News Talks at Bay. 0:00:19.095 --> 0:00:24.535 The house is a hole, even when it's darks, even 0:00:24.575 --> 0:00:26.815 when the grass is overgrown. 0:00:26.335 --> 0:00:29.975 In the yard, even when. 0:00:29.815 --> 0:00:34.055 A dog is too old to borrow, And when you're 0:00:34.095 --> 0:00:38.135 sitting at the table trying not to stop in the 0:00:38.295 --> 0:00:45.255 house scissor home, even when we are band gone, even when. 0:00:45.215 --> 0:00:54.655 You're there alone, you know. 0:00:57.935 --> 0:01:03.455 A house sizzle hole, even when those goes, even when. 0:01:03.295 --> 0:01:06.095 You got around from the world, you love your move. 0:01:07.895 --> 0:01:10.215 Screamed bling pains being. 0:01:10.015 --> 0:01:11.055 In fund the world. 0:01:12.975 --> 0:01:14.655 Locals lisball when they're going. 0:01:14.695 --> 0:01:15.175 Leaving the. 0:01:17.135 --> 0:01:25.095 House, even when web Ben love even when you're there. 0:01:25.215 --> 0:01:50.335 Lone alrighty, oh, good morning. 0:01:50.455 --> 0:01:52.975 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I hope that you've had a good week. 0:01:53.375 --> 0:01:55.295 My name is pepe off Camp, the Resident Builder, and 0:01:55.415 --> 0:01:58.455 this is the Resident Builder on Sunday. So we are 0:01:58.615 --> 0:02:01.535 here to talk about your place, to talk about all 0:02:01.655 --> 0:02:04.815 things building and construction. So as I say, I trust 0:02:04.855 --> 0:02:06.775 that you've had a good week. For those of you, well, 0:02:06.855 --> 0:02:09.015 I think South Island had a fair amount of rain. 0:02:09.415 --> 0:02:12.255 We've certainly had well steady rain, which came as a 0:02:12.295 --> 0:02:15.695 bit of a surprise after what was a tremendous day 0:02:15.735 --> 0:02:19.215 on Friday. It was hot, it was still, it was light, 0:02:20.055 --> 0:02:21.935 and then Saturday has been a bit sort of but 0:02:22.095 --> 0:02:24.615 ho hum, hasn't it And it's still raining this morning, 0:02:24.655 --> 0:02:27.335 which is probably what do there we say anytime rain 0:02:27.415 --> 0:02:29.535 comes and it's not too bad, Oh, it's good for 0:02:29.615 --> 0:02:34.615 the garden. Well it probably has been, so yeah, it 0:02:34.735 --> 0:02:37.055 was raining last night, which meant that no one could drive, 0:02:37.135 --> 0:02:39.495 which means in the motorways were all blocked up and 0:02:40.135 --> 0:02:42.175 trying it. I was just ready to start a couple 0:02:42.175 --> 0:02:44.375 of jobs around the house, and maybe I'm taking the 0:02:44.455 --> 0:02:46.975 weather as an excuse not to crack into a few things. 0:02:47.015 --> 0:02:49.775 So if you're thinking, gosh, my excuse for not getting 0:02:49.815 --> 0:02:52.815 started is I'm not quite sure what to do, then 0:02:53.215 --> 0:02:56.855 the show is for you. I'm not offering up other excuses, 0:02:56.935 --> 0:02:59.055 the other ways of getting out of doing jobs. I'm 0:02:59.135 --> 0:03:02.415 offering to you the opportunity to talk about a project 0:03:02.495 --> 0:03:04.335 that you might have or a dilemma that you might 0:03:04.375 --> 0:03:06.855 be facing around the house, and we can look for 0:03:07.135 --> 0:03:11.855 some suggestions and some solutions to those challenges that we have. 0:03:12.095 --> 0:03:13.935 So the lines are open. The number to call, oh 0:03:14.015 --> 0:03:17.495 eight hundred eighty ten, eighty. You can text, of course, 0:03:17.535 --> 0:03:20.575 because it is you can text through that's nine two 0:03:20.735 --> 0:03:23.535 nine two or ZEDBZB from your mobile phone. And if 0:03:23.575 --> 0:03:26.135 you'd like to send me an email, you're more than welcome. 0:03:25.855 --> 0:03:26.135 To do that. 0:03:26.295 --> 0:03:30.015 It's Pete at NEWSTALKSEDB dot co dot Nz. So Pete 0:03:30.375 --> 0:03:37.375 at NEWSTALKSEDB dot co dot Nz. Righty, oh, well, construction 0:03:37.455 --> 0:03:40.255 has been so much in the news recently, lots of 0:03:40.295 --> 0:03:46.335 stuff around social housing networks, community housing providers, which is well, 0:03:46.455 --> 0:03:49.255 it's an important issue. I'm more than happy to talk 0:03:49.255 --> 0:03:52.615 about it on the show this morning. And also, well, 0:03:52.815 --> 0:03:54.775 I guess the most significant thing is today is the 0:03:54.815 --> 0:03:57.495 first of December. So if you start to think about 0:03:57.615 --> 0:03:59.815 getting the house ready for Christmas, if you're starting to 0:03:59.895 --> 0:04:02.615 think about perhaps getting some trade, e's in to get 0:04:02.695 --> 0:04:06.935 some jobs. This is the classic Christmas rush sort of 0:04:07.095 --> 0:04:10.815 hasn't felt like it's really kicked off this year. It's 0:04:10.855 --> 0:04:14.775 been a quiet year, right for most tradespeople. So typically 0:04:14.855 --> 0:04:18.375 that Christmas rush, which might start sort of late October, 0:04:18.775 --> 0:04:21.935 sometimes early October if it's been a good year, doesn't 0:04:22.095 --> 0:04:25.095 really feel that it's there right now. But if you 0:04:25.135 --> 0:04:27.415 do have a project that you'd like to get started 0:04:28.015 --> 0:04:31.815 and get finished more importantly before Christmas. Well, today's the 0:04:31.855 --> 0:04:33.775 first of December. You need to get underway with it. 0:04:34.215 --> 0:04:36.255 So if you'd like to call, oh, eight hundred eighty 0:04:36.335 --> 0:04:38.695 ten eighty is that number to call. We are back 0:04:38.735 --> 0:04:42.855 to sort of normal scheduling today on the program No 0:04:43.175 --> 0:04:46.655 Rugby Commentary. The All Blacks obviously have finished their Northern tour, 0:04:47.055 --> 0:04:49.655 so Rid will join us at as regular time at 0:04:49.655 --> 0:04:53.375 around eight point thirty this morning through till nine o'clock. 0:04:53.855 --> 0:04:57.415 We have Bryce McDermott from Razine Paints. He will be 0:04:57.495 --> 0:05:02.415 available to answer any of your specific painting questions. Let's 0:05:02.455 --> 0:05:04.415 do that at around seven forty five this morning, So 0:05:04.535 --> 0:05:07.575 Bryce at seven forty five this morning. If you've got 0:05:07.615 --> 0:05:11.215 any specific painting questions that you would like to ask 0:05:11.455 --> 0:05:14.175 of Bryce, he will be available, as I say, from 0:05:14.535 --> 0:05:17.575 seven forty five this morning, Oh eight hundred eighty ten addy. Though, 0:05:17.775 --> 0:05:22.775 Now if I'm getting some texts already, that's great. If 0:05:22.815 --> 0:05:25.015 you've got any building questions or want to make some 0:05:25.095 --> 0:05:28.575 comments around building and construction, oh, eight hundred eighty ten 0:05:28.655 --> 0:05:31.575 eighty is the number to call. First text was all 0:05:31.575 --> 0:05:36.535 about the song I'm not even going to go there right, yeah, 0:05:36.575 --> 0:05:39.775 good morning, regular caller. However, throat isn't suitable for radio 0:05:39.855 --> 0:05:42.575 this morning. Any ideas on this. I have a unit 0:05:42.655 --> 0:05:45.775 with jib painted unit with a jib painted wall that 0:05:45.975 --> 0:05:48.175 meets a plywood roof and need to sort out a 0:05:48.215 --> 0:05:51.175 flashing to finish it off. At a loss what to 0:05:51.295 --> 0:05:54.615 know what might look good or work well? Kind regards 0:05:54.655 --> 0:05:59.815 from Paul what jumps to mind. So if you've got 0:06:00.135 --> 0:06:04.735 plywood ceiling or a plywood roof and then you've got 0:06:04.815 --> 0:06:09.135 plasterboard running up to it is if it's already done, 0:06:09.295 --> 0:06:12.815 it's a little bit too late. But if I was 0:06:12.935 --> 0:06:15.295 building it from scratch, I would probably look at like 0:06:15.375 --> 0:06:19.735 a little negative detail, a little flashing. There's various different 0:06:20.335 --> 0:06:24.575 jib flashings. They're made by jibs metal flashings that will 0:06:24.615 --> 0:06:26.695 allow you to have like a little negative detail. So 0:06:26.775 --> 0:06:29.615 you'd have the plasterboard running into the wall, then you 0:06:29.735 --> 0:06:32.095 put in a little negative detail and then bring your 0:06:33.055 --> 0:06:35.775 plasterboard or you had to have your plywood rather running 0:06:35.815 --> 0:06:38.735 into the wall, put in a negative detail and stop 0:06:38.855 --> 0:06:40.095 up to that, and you end up with like a 0:06:40.135 --> 0:06:43.175 little ten mil bead or ten mil recess running around 0:06:43.215 --> 0:06:47.335 the perimeter that would look really tight and tidy. I 0:06:47.415 --> 0:06:52.095 guess now, Paul, for you just a scotia and then 0:06:52.175 --> 0:06:55.215 painted in with the wall color. If you pre paint 0:06:55.375 --> 0:06:58.135 the scotia before it goes up, then you don't. Cutting 0:06:58.215 --> 0:07:01.615 in becomes a little bit easier as well, especially when 0:07:01.615 --> 0:07:05.055 you're trying to do paint to plywood, which is probably 0:07:05.095 --> 0:07:07.775 going to be clear finished. Cutting in along there is 0:07:07.775 --> 0:07:09.655 always a bit of a challenge. So if you prepaint 0:07:09.895 --> 0:07:13.335 the scotia, it's much easier to tidy that up later on. 0:07:13.695 --> 0:07:16.055 Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number 0:07:16.095 --> 0:07:19.135 to call. We'll talk all things building construction, and we'll 0:07:19.135 --> 0:07:21.295 have a crack at a little bit of plumbing as well. Simon, 0:07:21.335 --> 0:07:28.695 good morning to you. Gosh, there is something with the screen, gotcha? Silent? Simon, Hello, Sorry, 0:07:28.935 --> 0:07:29.295 go for it. 0:07:30.095 --> 0:07:35.135 Okay. I have an old brass tap and I removed 0:07:35.815 --> 0:07:42.415 I wanted to replace the washer if they want. It's 0:07:42.455 --> 0:07:44.855 not a rubber one. It's one of those light brown ones. 0:07:45.815 --> 0:07:48.135 Yeah. They almost feel sort of fiberish, don't they. 0:07:48.295 --> 0:07:48.695 That's right? 0:07:49.015 --> 0:07:49.175 Yeah? 0:07:49.375 --> 0:07:49.575 Yeah. 0:07:49.975 --> 0:07:53.855 And the old one, I I can't get it off. 0:07:54.095 --> 0:07:56.895 It just seems to be completely. 0:07:58.335 --> 0:08:05.935 As kind of embedded. Yeah, used together and so I. 0:08:06.015 --> 0:08:08.495 Ended up up doing was putting a new one over 0:08:08.615 --> 0:08:11.375 the top of the old one, but it left me 0:08:11.535 --> 0:08:15.575 with very little thread to screw the little nut back 0:08:15.655 --> 0:08:20.815 on the back onto the TAP's the one that closes 0:08:20.855 --> 0:08:25.015 off the water from coming in. So do you know 0:08:25.255 --> 0:08:29.015 how I can get the old washer off? 0:08:29.815 --> 0:08:32.375 I would have thought that to be if it was me, 0:08:32.495 --> 0:08:34.375 I would just attack it with a sharp knife. Right 0:08:34.495 --> 0:08:38.175 in the sense that the washer itself, the fibrous one, 0:08:38.775 --> 0:08:43.015 sits or beds against a plunger, and the plunger is 0:08:43.095 --> 0:08:46.095 made of brass. So in the end, as long as 0:08:46.135 --> 0:08:48.415 you're a little bit delicate, you can't really damage the 0:08:48.495 --> 0:08:51.175 plunger as such. So I just set to it with 0:08:51.255 --> 0:08:54.695 a knife, cut around the perimeter of it and then 0:08:54.775 --> 0:08:57.455 cut it into pieces, cut it off, maybe use a 0:08:57.535 --> 0:09:00.455 wirebrush to clean it up, and then you can seat 0:09:00.575 --> 0:09:05.455 your new washer onto the plunger and have more turns 0:09:05.535 --> 0:09:08.015 on the thread of the nut that goes that holds 0:09:08.055 --> 0:09:11.855 it in place. Yeah, yeah, right, you don't have to 0:09:11.895 --> 0:09:13.855 be I mean, you have to be a little bit delicate, 0:09:13.895 --> 0:09:16.695 but you know it's it's metal versus fiber, so it'll 0:09:16.735 --> 0:09:17.095 be fine. 0:09:17.895 --> 0:09:21.615 Oh okay, Can I ask you another quick question, Do 0:09:21.695 --> 0:09:23.015 you know what a wet back is? 0:09:23.695 --> 0:09:27.175 Yes, So, a wet back typically is a system where 0:09:27.375 --> 0:09:31.695 let's say you have a an argur or you know, 0:09:31.775 --> 0:09:36.375 a type of wood burning fire, you know, either for 0:09:36.455 --> 0:09:39.615 cooking or for heating. And then what people will do 0:09:39.815 --> 0:09:42.655 is they'll set up a system of pipework behind there 0:09:43.175 --> 0:09:46.055 that will have water flowing through it. The water is 0:09:46.135 --> 0:09:50.175 then heated by the appliance, by either the ivan or 0:09:50.215 --> 0:09:53.375 something like that. And what it does is you can 0:09:53.935 --> 0:09:56.815 use it if you've got sufficient storage for all of 0:09:56.895 --> 0:10:00.695 your water supply, or I think most commonly people use 0:10:00.735 --> 0:10:05.335 it to preheat the water going to the cylinder. So 0:10:05.495 --> 0:10:09.855 if so, for example, cold water is twenty two or 0:10:09.895 --> 0:10:13.455 twenty three degrees, typically the maximum temperature we want coming 0:10:13.495 --> 0:10:16.295 out of a cylinder is fifty five degrees. So if 0:10:16.335 --> 0:10:19.415 the water coming in is already at forty degrees, for example, 0:10:19.695 --> 0:10:22.335 because it's passed through the heating system at the back 0:10:22.335 --> 0:10:26.415 of the wet bag, then you're using less energy to 0:10:26.855 --> 0:10:29.575 get the temperature up. That's as I understand, that's how 0:10:29.575 --> 0:10:34.495 the theory, that's how it works. Oh yeah, right, I was. 0:10:34.495 --> 0:10:37.695 Asking is because my plumber was doing some work under 0:10:37.735 --> 0:10:42.695 the house, and there was some kind of flu that 0:10:42.975 --> 0:10:47.415 was under the house that was going out to the side. 0:10:47.895 --> 0:10:51.695 So I've got around the house, I've it's all closed in. Yes, 0:10:52.175 --> 0:10:58.415 it's raised lawboards, and it was connected to one of 0:10:58.535 --> 0:11:05.335 the vents on the underside of the house. So you 0:11:05.415 --> 0:11:09.095 know how you've and you've the in the house when 0:11:09.135 --> 0:11:14.215 you've got raised floor, it's got the concrete around on 0:11:14.375 --> 0:11:17.095 the perimitive the house and all the events. So one 0:11:17.135 --> 0:11:21.335 of the events has this flu attached. And the plumber said, oh, 0:11:21.415 --> 0:11:23.935 that looks as though it might be to do with 0:11:24.055 --> 0:11:29.935 an old wet back, and I was wondering what that was. 0:11:30.295 --> 0:11:35.975 Yeah, okay, I mean a flu typically flues run vertically 0:11:36.175 --> 0:11:41.895 up right, they don't necessarily run across. Yeah, it's it's 0:11:42.095 --> 0:11:45.375 it's quite possible. It's unusual, but it is quite. 0:11:45.215 --> 0:11:48.495 Possible, Okay, Because I was just wondering whether I could 0:11:48.535 --> 0:11:49.175 just remove it. 0:11:50.615 --> 0:11:53.135 Look, I think I would trace it along from outside 0:11:53.255 --> 0:11:56.095 to underneath the house, and if ultimately, if you get 0:11:56.175 --> 0:11:59.375 to the end of it or where something was attached 0:11:59.375 --> 0:12:01.335 to it, and nothing is attached to it, then yes, 0:12:01.415 --> 0:12:06.655 you could remove it. Yeah, what's your existing hot water system, 0:12:06.775 --> 0:12:08.215 what's the heating system. 0:12:08.415 --> 0:12:12.575 Electric ok yeah, low pressure. 0:12:12.535 --> 0:12:15.935 Yeah, okay, so that'll have that doesn't need to be flu, 0:12:16.095 --> 0:12:19.095 but it will have an overflow so that if the 0:12:19.175 --> 0:12:22.175 pressure builds up inside the cylinder, it overflows and the 0:12:22.295 --> 0:12:25.335 water should flow to the outside of the building. Right, 0:12:26.135 --> 0:12:29.775 So obviously that's a different thing. But yeah, the flu. Look, 0:12:29.815 --> 0:12:31.935 if it's if it's not attached to anything you've been 0:12:32.015 --> 0:12:34.575 under there, go ahead and rip it out. 0:12:35.295 --> 0:12:35.495 Yep. 0:12:35.775 --> 0:12:37.815 All right, nice to talk to you. Sign all the 0:12:37.855 --> 0:12:41.535 best by your new salk seed B. If you've got 0:12:41.575 --> 0:12:44.055 a question of a building nature, eight hundred and eighty 0:12:44.335 --> 0:12:50.135 ten eighty is that number to call. So one good 0:12:50.215 --> 0:12:50.695 morning to you. 0:12:52.455 --> 0:12:52.735 Morning. 0:12:53.055 --> 0:12:55.175 How are you morning, mate, I'm very well in yourself. 0:12:56.735 --> 0:12:57.335 Good, good. 0:13:03.095 --> 0:13:03.335 Question. 0:13:03.575 --> 0:13:08.255 I'm gonna love with them. I'm gonna go doing some 0:13:08.535 --> 0:13:12.775 work and realize the platting they're still clading is getting 0:13:12.855 --> 0:13:17.055 for us. And I saw some stuff like ants and 0:13:17.055 --> 0:13:20.775 stuff crossing handier and it looks like we need to 0:13:20.935 --> 0:13:26.935 change it. And knowing that lockhood, the builders are quite hesitant. Yeah, 0:13:27.135 --> 0:13:31.535 anything inside outside, So just when I get some some 0:13:31.735 --> 0:13:35.495 ideas though, the people whom I can call or what's it. 0:13:35.575 --> 0:13:39.615 Of course, we're looking at if there's any standard costing. 0:13:40.855 --> 0:13:43.975 When you say that the clouding is starting to deteriorate, 0:13:44.135 --> 0:13:46.975 or you said it's getting poorous, what do you like 0:13:47.255 --> 0:13:50.055 is it? Is it no longer weather type, which would 0:13:50.055 --> 0:13:53.135 be unusual, or is it just an issue around Obviously 0:13:53.415 --> 0:13:55.815 over time, some vermin, you know, some ants and that 0:13:55.895 --> 0:13:57.535 sort of thing I've managed to make their way into. 0:13:58.295 --> 0:14:01.295 It's it's all time issues. A bit of sun and 0:14:02.015 --> 0:14:04.495 what if you are the natural elements working on it, 0:14:05.815 --> 0:14:08.215 I've got to an excellent depend on it. It's still seen, 0:14:08.375 --> 0:14:11.815 but you can see underneath or where the cladding is 0:14:11.855 --> 0:14:15.015 close to the nown you could see again there's a 0:14:15.055 --> 0:14:16.695 lot it's more deterioration there. 0:14:16.815 --> 0:14:18.615 Yeah, the mud or. 0:14:20.255 --> 0:14:21.175 Other boots as well. 0:14:22.815 --> 0:14:24.575 And this is one of those things that it's often 0:14:24.615 --> 0:14:27.295 a maintenance issue over time. And I'm guessing you know, 0:14:27.335 --> 0:14:29.375 if it's an older lockwood home, it could be sort 0:14:29.375 --> 0:14:34.935 of forty years old something like that. Yeah, okay, well 0:14:35.015 --> 0:14:35.975 that's forty years ago. 0:14:36.055 --> 0:14:36.175 Now. 0:14:36.695 --> 0:14:39.015 It doesn't feel like forty years ago, but it is. 0:14:40.455 --> 0:14:47.015 It's anyway, long story, and sometimes with some of the 0:14:47.095 --> 0:14:49.975 earlier Lockwoods, it was a metal cladding rather than a 0:14:50.895 --> 0:14:53.655 timber cladding. Is it a metal or timber cladding. 0:14:55.535 --> 0:14:56.375 Its timber cladding. 0:14:56.455 --> 0:15:00.335 It is timber. Okay, Look, I think the great thing 0:15:00.415 --> 0:15:03.775 with lockwood is that they're still around, right, So I 0:15:03.855 --> 0:15:06.055 would suggest that your first call is actually to them 0:15:06.135 --> 0:15:09.215 to go, hey, look, I've got an older building. It's 0:15:09.255 --> 0:15:11.295 still in good condition, but I need to do some work. 0:15:11.615 --> 0:15:14.695 You know, are there some local experts that I could 0:15:14.735 --> 0:15:17.895 call on? And I'm sure that within their network of 0:15:18.055 --> 0:15:20.055 builders and so on, they would still have people who 0:15:20.055 --> 0:15:22.575 are involved, So I think that would be a good 0:15:22.655 --> 0:15:26.935 source of information. Otherwise, typically, if the profile of the 0:15:27.015 --> 0:15:30.175 weather board is still available, or if you needed to 0:15:30.295 --> 0:15:32.855 do enough of it that it warranted the cost of 0:15:33.415 --> 0:15:37.255 paying to have the weatherboard's custom made, just fixing the 0:15:37.335 --> 0:15:41.735 weatherboards that are an issue you could do. I suspect 0:15:41.775 --> 0:15:44.135 that the way in which we did vermin treatment forty 0:15:44.215 --> 0:15:47.895 years ago is quite different to today. So today, if 0:15:47.975 --> 0:15:51.135 we've got a cavity on most cladding, which we do, 0:15:51.735 --> 0:15:54.015 there is a little you know, there are a variety 0:15:54.095 --> 0:15:58.215 of pre made strips that will essentially prevent vermin from 0:15:58.335 --> 0:16:00.695 getting in there, saying that ants would get through, but 0:16:00.975 --> 0:16:03.935 other vermin won't. So it's really about mice and other 0:16:05.375 --> 0:16:08.215 creatures like that to get in and nest in the cladding. 0:16:09.455 --> 0:16:11.415 So you could go through if you really wanted to 0:16:11.575 --> 0:16:14.535 and address that. If the ground level, and we see 0:16:14.575 --> 0:16:16.935 this all the time on buildings. You know, a building 0:16:17.055 --> 0:16:19.815 is built and then over time people build up garden 0:16:19.935 --> 0:16:23.215 beds and raise levels and start to get closer and 0:16:23.295 --> 0:16:27.295 closer to the cladding. Ideally, at a bare minimum, you 0:16:27.375 --> 0:16:30.535 should have about a fifty millimeter gap from the bottom 0:16:30.575 --> 0:16:34.855 of your cladding to any other ground surface, right, particularly 0:16:35.135 --> 0:16:38.455 something like a garden bed. So again, if the garden 0:16:38.535 --> 0:16:42.055 beds have grown and raised in height, strip those back 0:16:42.255 --> 0:16:45.735 and lower those levels. Allow those boards to ventilate. If 0:16:45.815 --> 0:16:48.655 those boards have been rotten become rotten, you could replace 0:16:48.735 --> 0:16:54.015 those boards. But I think as the first step i'd know, 0:16:54.135 --> 0:16:56.095 given that the company is still in existence and will 0:16:56.135 --> 0:16:58.055 be for years to come, I'd get in touch with 0:16:58.135 --> 0:17:00.055 Lockwood directly and just go, hey, look, put me in 0:17:00.095 --> 0:17:05.655 touch with someone. Good luck at work today, Yeah, go yeah, 0:17:05.735 --> 0:17:08.615 thank you all the best, go go go. 0:17:09.335 --> 0:17:09.535 Yep. 0:17:11.575 --> 0:17:14.575 You mentioned something about the metal clanning. We've got to reserve, 0:17:15.135 --> 0:17:17.855 to reserve at the back of the house, and more 0:17:17.975 --> 0:17:21.215 than most that's a common problem. The thing is could 0:17:21.215 --> 0:17:23.735 be one of the option if Firings lock with home 0:17:24.015 --> 0:17:29.055 and discuss that, or that's something you wouldn't recommend. 0:17:29.015 --> 0:17:33.895 A look In terms of no, I think I probably. 0:17:35.815 --> 0:17:35.855 No. 0:17:36.175 --> 0:17:38.135 I'd look at it and go in the end even 0:17:38.175 --> 0:17:40.895 if it, you know, whatever the cost of doing some 0:17:41.095 --> 0:17:45.215 remediation and some repairs, it will be considerably less than 0:17:45.255 --> 0:17:48.215 the cost of a reclad And unless you said to me, look, 0:17:48.575 --> 0:17:52.895 the cladding is an extremely poor condition, I would say 0:17:53.455 --> 0:17:57.935 it doesn't strike me as an economic or environmentally friendly 0:17:58.095 --> 0:18:00.255 solution to rip off a whole bunch of clouding that's 0:18:00.295 --> 0:18:03.735 actually serviceable to replace it with a different type of platting. 0:18:03.775 --> 0:18:04.735 That would be my approach. 0:18:06.935 --> 0:18:07.975 All right, now that makes sense. 0:18:08.215 --> 0:18:11.055 Good of you to call take care, enjoy your work today, 0:18:11.175 --> 0:18:13.535 take care your news, stork seed. But as this is 0:18:13.775 --> 0:18:15.655 quite in contrast to a job that I went to 0:18:15.735 --> 0:18:19.375 look at sort of like a little community project. Hey, look, 0:18:19.415 --> 0:18:21.735 can we do some work on this building to restore 0:18:21.815 --> 0:18:25.055 it and get it more functional for the community, et cetera, 0:18:25.095 --> 0:18:27.735 et cetera. But to be fair, it was in such 0:18:27.855 --> 0:18:31.495 poor condition. You know, there were weather boards that had rotted, 0:18:31.535 --> 0:18:34.535 There were weather boards that had rotted, and fallen off 0:18:34.775 --> 0:18:38.975 or been ripped off by vandals, and then the cladding 0:18:39.055 --> 0:18:41.455 had been or their framing had been exposed for such 0:18:41.495 --> 0:18:43.975 a long period of time that there was extensive rot. 0:18:44.375 --> 0:18:45.815 So it's one of those ones where you go along 0:18:45.855 --> 0:18:47.615 to look at it and people go, oh, can we 0:18:47.695 --> 0:18:49.735 tidy up some weather boards and repaint it? And I'm 0:18:49.775 --> 0:18:52.415 looking at it going, well, probably fifty percent of the 0:18:52.455 --> 0:18:54.975 weather boards on this elevation anyway of the building, on 0:18:55.055 --> 0:18:59.375 one wall of the building are unserviceable. They're either completely 0:18:59.455 --> 0:19:02.655 rotten or they're missing. Then beyond that, I can see 0:19:02.695 --> 0:19:05.335 that in some cases fifty percent of the stud has 0:19:05.535 --> 0:19:09.855 been and is missing, so that's got to then be replaced. 0:19:10.215 --> 0:19:12.855 So what starts as a little job, and I'm sure 0:19:12.895 --> 0:19:15.895 for many of us as home owners, this is familiar territory, right, 0:19:15.975 --> 0:19:20.015 what starts as a little job just suddenly just spirals 0:19:20.455 --> 0:19:23.055 out of control in a sense and becomes a much 0:19:23.215 --> 0:19:26.655 much bigger job involving reframing parts of the building, which 0:19:26.695 --> 0:19:30.335 also removes which means you've got to remove the internal lining. 0:19:30.455 --> 0:19:35.055 So suddenly patching a weatherboard becomes replacing studs, replacing internal lining, 0:19:36.495 --> 0:19:40.215 stopping painting inside new weather boards on the outside. Can 0:19:40.255 --> 0:19:42.775 you get that particular profile, you can see how jobs 0:19:42.855 --> 0:19:45.615 grow sometimes, Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is 0:19:45.775 --> 0:19:47.975 the number to call. Will come back straight after the break. 0:19:48.655 --> 0:19:51.735 Thank you to the texter who's come through and just said, Pete, 0:19:51.775 --> 0:19:55.895 there's a really good Facebook group called DIY Lockwood. I 0:19:55.975 --> 0:19:58.055 haven't looked at it. I can't vouch for it, but 0:19:58.695 --> 0:20:02.895 if it's good and the advice is sound, every now 0:20:02.935 --> 0:20:04.215 and then you do have to be a little bit 0:20:04.255 --> 0:20:06.415 cautious about the advice. And some of the stuff you 0:20:06.495 --> 0:20:08.695 see online, isn't it. I mean, that's it. I'm telling 0:20:08.735 --> 0:20:11.975 you nothing you don't know. But sometimes in terms of DIY, 0:20:12.055 --> 0:20:15.015 because look, I watch videos online as well of different 0:20:15.135 --> 0:20:18.175 carpenters and different trades people doing things, and every now 0:20:18.175 --> 0:20:21.255 and then I just kind of go, oh, I hope 0:20:21.295 --> 0:20:25.015 people don't follow that particular piece of advice. But then 0:20:25.015 --> 0:20:26.895 I'm playing in that space as well at the moment. 0:20:27.015 --> 0:20:30.375 So we've got a YouTube channel that's being built and 0:20:30.695 --> 0:20:34.215 a library of topics and discussion and top issues for 0:20:34.335 --> 0:20:39.335 discussion are being loaded into that. So I'd like to 0:20:39.375 --> 0:20:41.175 think that I'm a little bit more considered than some 0:20:41.415 --> 0:20:43.535 in terms of the opinions that I might offer. But 0:20:43.615 --> 0:20:45.375 that's up and running on YouTube as well. You search 0:20:45.455 --> 0:20:47.455 for it under resident builder or Peter wolf Camp. You'll 0:20:47.495 --> 0:20:50.695 find it there. Building up a library there quick text 0:20:50.735 --> 0:20:53.375 as well. Hey, I'm looking at purchasing a property in Wellington. 0:20:53.935 --> 0:20:56.655 The property needs a retaining wall to be fair. If 0:20:56.655 --> 0:20:59.575 you've been to Wellington, you'll understand why most properties have 0:20:59.655 --> 0:21:02.815 retaining walls. The property needs a retaining wall between the properties. 0:21:02.855 --> 0:21:06.775 Who pays for it higher the lower or both regards gilly, 0:21:07.335 --> 0:21:10.135 I would suggest that whoever gets the benefit of it 0:21:11.215 --> 0:21:14.015 pays for it. So if you're on the high side, 0:21:14.175 --> 0:21:17.055 and for example, you want to level out your lawn, 0:21:17.095 --> 0:21:20.135 for example, you know where it's sloping at the moment, 0:21:20.215 --> 0:21:21.975 you're thinking, I'd like to have a nice level lawn, 0:21:22.015 --> 0:21:23.455 So I'm going to put a retaining wall on the 0:21:23.535 --> 0:21:26.735 boundary and that will give me a level lawn. Then 0:21:26.815 --> 0:21:28.495 you will pay for it, and it will need to 0:21:28.615 --> 0:21:31.495 be on your side of the fence. If, for example, 0:21:31.655 --> 0:21:35.775 you're on the lower side of the slope and you're thinking, well, actually, 0:21:35.815 --> 0:21:38.015 if I retained a little bit of that bank, I 0:21:38.095 --> 0:21:41.215 could create a level area in there as well. And 0:21:41.455 --> 0:21:43.895 so it's in your benefit, but you're on the lower side, 0:21:43.975 --> 0:21:46.175 then it would be on your side of the boundary 0:21:46.695 --> 0:21:50.535 and you would need to pay for that as well. 0:21:51.135 --> 0:21:55.175 So retaining walls not like fences in terms of being 0:21:55.215 --> 0:21:57.535 able to seek a contribution from a neighbor. I don't 0:21:57.575 --> 0:22:00.015 think oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number 0:22:00.055 --> 0:22:04.735 to call and David, a very good morning to you, A. 0:22:04.815 --> 0:22:08.375 Very good morning, Peter. I've even intrigued with these packets, 0:22:08.455 --> 0:22:14.535 like from trade tested. I was synthetic decking tiles, you 0:22:14.615 --> 0:22:19.215 know kind of I think met a meter squag about 0:22:19.255 --> 0:22:21.815 ten to a bundle. But I was thinking, I've got 0:22:21.895 --> 0:22:28.135 a decking outside decking. It's twenty five mil highness. And 0:22:29.615 --> 0:22:33.095 when the builder put it in, I queried the you know, 0:22:33.135 --> 0:22:36.935 it's about forty years old. Now I queried the thickness 0:22:37.095 --> 0:22:40.375 and he said no, I've got the bearers closer together 0:22:40.455 --> 0:22:42.975 than normal. So I don't know he's a builder or not. 0:22:43.775 --> 0:22:46.015 And anyway, I just thought, well to reinforce that deck 0:22:46.055 --> 0:22:51.295 and make it newer. Are these synthetic? I don't know 0:22:51.295 --> 0:22:54.535 if that plastic wood or all plastic. Have you any 0:22:54.655 --> 0:22:55.415 dealings with them? 0:22:57.815 --> 0:23:00.575 As in a side I did buy four outdoor chairs 0:23:00.615 --> 0:23:02.895 from trade tested just the other day. But that's not 0:23:03.055 --> 0:23:07.175 really what you're asking about. Very nice cheers by the way, 0:23:07.255 --> 0:23:13.095