Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident build Up podcast with Peter
Speaker 1: wolf Camp from News Talks at Bay.
Speaker 2: The house is a hole even when it's darns, even
Speaker 2: when the grass is overgrown in the yard, even when.
Speaker 3: A dog is too old to bar.
Speaker 2: And when you're sitting at the table trying not to
Speaker 2: start scissor home, even when we leave a band gone,
Speaker 2: even when you're there alone. A house is a hole
Speaker 2: even when those goes, Even when you got around from
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Speaker 3: Well, very good morning, and welcome along to the Resident
Speaker 3: Builder on Sunday. My name's Peak wolf Camp and this
Speaker 3: is a program well pretty much all about your place.
Speaker 3: So if you've got a project that's underway, or you've
Speaker 3: got some house maintenance tasks that you want to undertake.
Speaker 3: And I don't know whoever came up with the idea
Speaker 3: of maintenance free, I think deserves well halfway decent flogging.
Speaker 3: To be fair, there is no such thing. There's always
Speaker 3: work to do. That's what I've spent a reasonable amount
Speaker 3: of this week doing. With a fairly long list of
Speaker 3: tasks to achieve over the summer months, and I'm guessing
Speaker 3: that if you own or occupy a property, then you've
Speaker 3: probably got that list similar to mine. Is in fact,
Speaker 3: even this morning, as I tried to sneak out of
Speaker 3: the house just a little bit quietly, notice that the
Speaker 3: hinges on the front door have lost all of their
Speaker 3: previous lubrication. And there's that gentle sort of squeaking sound
Speaker 3: as I try and close the front door quietly without
Speaker 3: waking the rest of the household. So that's another job
Speaker 3: to go on the list. Do you actually make a list,
Speaker 3: That'll be an interesting question too, or is it just
Speaker 3: that thing that sort of rumbles round in your head, going,
Speaker 3: I've got to do. I've got to do. I've got
Speaker 3: to do. I've got to get that done. I've got
Speaker 3: to get that sorted out. Anyway, if we want to
Speaker 3: talk building all morning till right through till nine o'clock,
Speaker 3: we will do exactly that. Eight hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty is the number to call. I trust you've had
Speaker 3: a good week. If you might have had just a
Speaker 3: slightly sleepless week as you've been catching up with the
Speaker 3: America's Cup racing off bus Slona that has now come
Speaker 3: to a conclusion and of course congratulations to Emirates Team
Speaker 3: New Zealand for a fantastic victory there. So at around
Speaker 3: six thirty this morning, actually we're going to touch base
Speaker 3: with Richard from Razine. He's part of the Automotive and
Speaker 3: Specialist Finisher's division Coating's division, and it's basically we might
Speaker 3: have found the secret source for the reason that the
Speaker 3: New Zealand boat is so fast, and that is pretty
Speaker 3: much that it's covered in razine coatings. So anyway, he's
Speaker 3: there in Barcelona, so we'll get a sense of the
Speaker 3: vibe and also just an insight into what goes into
Speaker 3: the technology and the development behind razine coatings that allow
Speaker 3: it to be applied to those vessels and apparently possibly
Speaker 3: to a number of other nations America's cupboats as well,
Speaker 3: So we touch base with them at around six thirty.
Speaker 3: Then we will also touch base with our regular contributor
Speaker 3: from Razine, So painting questions, specific painting questions from seven
Speaker 3: thirty this morning. Bryce McDermott, our painting expert from Razine,
Speaker 3: will be joining us then so you can text through
Speaker 3: your questions. Any specific painting questions. Nine to ninety two
Speaker 3: is the text number is BZB. We'll take those. And
Speaker 3: then I had a chance this week just leting you
Speaker 3: know what's coming up on the show today, to catch
Speaker 3: up with Marlon Johnson, who is from Late four Solar,
Speaker 3: who are the sponsors of the show, and we were
Speaker 3: talking about solar and we had Marlon on a couple
Speaker 3: of months ago just to talk about solar panels, how
Speaker 3: they work, installation, where you can put them where you can't.
Speaker 3: But what we didn't really get a chance to talk
Speaker 3: about is batteries and how the two combine and the
Speaker 3: interconnection between those two parts of a solar setup. So
Speaker 3: I've invited Marlin to come back on the show. He'll
Speaker 3: be with us after eight o'clock. And if you've ever
Speaker 3: had a question about solar, so in our first interview
Speaker 3: we didn't get a chance to take any of your questions.
Speaker 3: At eight o'clock this morning, we'll take your questions about
Speaker 3: sola if you've got it and you want to ask
Speaker 3: a couple of questions, if you're thinking about it, if
Speaker 3: you're unsure, if you're unsure about the impact of having
Speaker 3: combining solar generation with battery storage, you might have a
Speaker 3: question on that will take your text questions on all
Speaker 3: things solar after eight o'clock and of course thirty at
Speaker 3: climb Past will be in his studio which is in
Speaker 3: christ Church, and he will join us and we will
Speaker 3: talk all things gardening and the wonderful world of bugs
Speaker 3: as well. So it's a busy old show. It'll get
Speaker 3: pretty chopper later on. If you've got a question right now,
Speaker 3: if you've got a project like me, and you're thinking,
Speaker 3: I've got to do something about that squeaky door, or
Speaker 3: maybe it's a little bit more significant, i e. You know,
Speaker 3: might have discovered a leak, or you've got some rot
Speaker 3: that you've seen. I mean, it's terrible in a sense
Speaker 3: doing the job that I do, because everywhere I walk
Speaker 3: I'm looking for things. And I pulled up at my
Speaker 3: brother in law's to place yesterday to drop something off,
Speaker 3: and I cast a glimpse across at the neighbors the
Speaker 3: upstairs windows, and I was thinking, gosh, you know, if
Speaker 3: you don't get onto maintaining those soon, it's going to
Speaker 3: become a really big job. I mean, it's a beautiful
Speaker 3: house and it was well built. I remember the extension
Speaker 3: being added on, but it's timber and it's timber facings
Speaker 3: around the window, and it's in a part of the
Speaker 3: house that you wouldn't necessarily walk by every time, and
Speaker 3: you can just see a little bit of mold growth
Speaker 3: starting to come. You can see the paint starting to
Speaker 3: peel off or split away. And if you don't get
Speaker 3: up there in the next year or so, it's going
Speaker 3: to become a replacement job rather than regular repair and maintenance.
Speaker 3: And that's what we're looking to avoid, is that whole
Speaker 3: thing around having if you do the maintenance, then maybe
Speaker 3: you don't have to go to the expense of repairs
Speaker 3: later on. Maybe someone could have told Ekipnuku that. In Auckland,
Speaker 3: a huge embarrassment for the city, I think is the
Speaker 3: fact that the bridge, so we've spent all that time
Speaker 3: developing the viaduct put in a funky bridge. Apparently temporarily
Speaker 3: it was temporary back in twenty eleven or something like
Speaker 3: that for the America's Cup and then somebody forgot to
Speaker 3: boil the hinges and the next thing, Orgland councils up
Speaker 3: for ten million dollars to repair it, and it's been
Speaker 3: a massive disruption. But anyway, I only mentioned that because
Speaker 3: I was down that part of town the other night,
Speaker 3: thinking well, I could have taken the ferry and walked
Speaker 3: if the bridge was working, but it's not, and so
Speaker 3: I ended up driving, which is not what I wanted
Speaker 3: to do. Anyway, my rant is over. It is your
Speaker 3: turn to rant, to rage and just have a bit
Speaker 3: of a chat. Really, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 3: the number to call if you've got a question of
Speaker 3: a building nature. We're into it. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 3: Welcome and good morning to you. Chris. Hello there, good
Speaker 3: chrisp hang on, it's there we go, Chris, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 4: Mate. It's a bit of a pathetic question to be
Speaker 4: honest at all. But basically, I've got an old one
Speaker 4: of those houses that have been shipped right for aiding ninety.
Speaker 5: Circus on the door of the door on it has
Speaker 5: got three hinges, yes, the middle one the hinge pin
Speaker 5: that goes them from the top.
Speaker 4: It's been fined for twenty odd years, but it's started
Speaker 4: to creep out all time, and it makes horrible screeching
Speaker 4: noises when it hits seened. So I think they sort
Speaker 4: of keep hamming it back in. And I wasn't sure
Speaker 4: what the best way of holding in an ereror is
Speaker 4: whether it was I was going to try seperately, but
Speaker 4: then I thought that might stop the hinge working even worse.
Speaker 3: So when you say the hinge, when you say the
Speaker 3: hinges working out, is it that the screws have started
Speaker 3: to Because what happens is over time, of course the
Speaker 3: screw you know, the tension on the timber, and especially
Speaker 3: if the hinge is not working particularly well, it starts
Speaker 3: to pull on those screws and they'll pull out from
Speaker 3: the timber.
Speaker 5: Is that what's happening, that's the center hinge.
Speaker 3: Oh, the pin itself is dropping out.
Speaker 4: Pulling out. It's from the top, so it's pulling out
Speaker 4: top ways.
Speaker 3: So what it's rising? Yeah, ah, unusual. I mean gravity
Speaker 3: typically tends to take care of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you think so that.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a it's between the lounge and our
Speaker 4: hallway and bedroom, so it's kind of used all the time,
Speaker 4: So continuous squeaking. Sometimes I just don't bother thirteam for
Speaker 4: a better week, but it just gets irritating.
Speaker 3: Understandably, it is a bit unusual that the pin works
Speaker 3: its way up the hinge might be misaligned or something
Speaker 3: like that. Look I would I would probably just tap
Speaker 3: it back. And if you tap it back in, how
Speaker 3: long does it take for it to start rising again?
Speaker 4: A bet a week?
Speaker 3: About a week? Man, it must be out of alignment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that were either some sort of pressure things.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, if you wanted to, what you could
Speaker 3: try and do is tap it out right, So tap
Speaker 3: the pin out all the way to the top. And
Speaker 3: it must be a replacement hinge, because old hinges like
Speaker 3: that don't. You can't tap the pin out. It's only
Speaker 3: more modern hinges where you can tap the pin out
Speaker 3: in some cases. So some hinges have got the pin
Speaker 3: is sealed at both ends or it's rounded over, so
Speaker 3: you can't remove the pin, which stops someone taking the
Speaker 3: pins out and lifting the door off and breaking into
Speaker 3: your house. Or most domestic doors have the pin that
Speaker 3: drops in from the top. Gravity holds it in place effectively,
Speaker 3: and if you ever need to take the door off,
Speaker 3: you can just knock the pin out and take it out.
Speaker 3: I would say, probably if it's working its way out,
Speaker 3: I'd knock it out, So just use a nail punch
Speaker 3: to drive it up and then hok it out. Give
Speaker 3: the actual pin a bit of a sand put a
Speaker 3: little bit of you can get special like graphite lubricants
Speaker 3: that work particularly well on hinges and hardware and door
Speaker 3: locks and things like that. A little bit of that,
Speaker 3: drop that back in and that should just free it
Speaker 3: up enough that it'll stay in place, would be my suggestion.
Speaker 3: I think someone else has text through the same thing.
Speaker 3: So Chris, good luck on that one. If it's type
Speaker 3: removed sand loop and put back in place.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And there are these. I had it for some
Speaker 3: door locks, like actually putting inside the door lock every
Speaker 3: now and then they can get a bit corroded or
Speaker 3: exposed or something like that. And there's a special type
Speaker 3: of graphite lubricant so it's actually feels like it's a
Speaker 3: black powdery type material. You biden a little bottle and
Speaker 3: just inject that into the locks as well. That makes
Speaker 3: a big difference. But there is also what I pick
Speaker 3: up the other day, some garage door. So if you've
Speaker 3: got an older sort of sliding track garage door, and
Speaker 3: again lubricant on that has deteriorated, you can apply it's
Speaker 3: out of a spray into the air as well. So
Speaker 3: there's some good stuff out there. Oh eight hundred eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty. Were talking all things building in construction this
Speaker 3: morning on the program. If you've got a question of
Speaker 3: a building nature, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 3: the number. So out of the corner of my eye,
Speaker 3: I've also got I've got a couple of TV screens
Speaker 3: on here in the studio and it is kind of
Speaker 3: exciting to watch Liam Lawson getting kitted up and ready
Speaker 3: to go out American Grand Prix, and Austin is on
Speaker 3: for this weekend as well, and of course he's now
Speaker 3: got a full time drive. So Kiwi's winning the America's Cup.
Speaker 3: Kiwi's in the Formula one. It's not bad.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
Speaker 3: to call quick text hey Pete. I'm in the process
Speaker 3: of doing up the on suite of a nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: six house. The shower as one hundred and thirty five
Speaker 3: by eighteen timber around the shower opening pretty typical. The
Speaker 3: timber has rotted out in one corner, leaving a very
Speaker 3: small spot of rot and a little bit of black mold.
Speaker 3: Am I better off treating this with something or dig
Speaker 3: out the minimum minimal damage and use something like Builder's bob.
Speaker 3: Before sealing well and replacing the timber, I will be
Speaker 3: adding some powder coated aluminum trim to stop it happening again, Jim.
Speaker 3: If it's small ish, like the size of a head
Speaker 3: of a hammer, let's say, then yeah, you could probably
Speaker 3: rather than strip out the whole thing and have to
Speaker 3: go through the rebuild process, would I would cut out
Speaker 3: or fetch out any rotten material in there. I would
Speaker 3: treat the timber with a timber preservative so protein, frame, savor,
Speaker 3: metal X, anything like that, let that dry thoroughly. I
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't use and I use Builder's bog, but I
Speaker 3: wouldn't use it in that situation. I would use something
Speaker 3: like repair Care, which is a two pot sort of
Speaker 3: it's a mixture of an adhesive and a filler and
Speaker 3: a POxy filler. Actually, as it happens, you can get
Speaker 3: it at razine color stores, So repair Care use that
Speaker 3: to fill the area and then send that off. And
Speaker 3: I would paint the whole thing with an ideally an
Speaker 3: oil based enamel or at least a water borne enamel
Speaker 3: over there. And yes, adding a trim to keep that
Speaker 3: moisture away would be a good idea, but I think
Speaker 3: if it's relatively small, absolutely use something like repair care.
Speaker 3: It'll work well. Good luck to you, Jim. We then
Speaker 3: take short break. We're going to talk to Crystal in
Speaker 3: just a moment. Your newstalks'd be we're taking your calls.
Speaker 3: We're also taking your texts. Apparently it is a common
Speaker 3: problem with the pin working its way out. Take the
Speaker 3: pin out, replaced from the bottom. Problem fixed. Take the
Speaker 3: pin out and replace from the bottom. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that makes sense. Oh, eight hundred and eighty. Ten eighty
Speaker 3: is the number to call Crystal. Good morning to you.
Speaker 8: Good morning. Normally when you pull the pin, it's a
Speaker 8: hand grenade on the end of this very good. So
Speaker 8: with again, what I would do is just dot punch
Speaker 8: the top of it around the circumference of the pin,
Speaker 8: you know, put swage at little dot punches, and then
Speaker 8: it effectively swages a pin out a big wider and
Speaker 8: then tap it back and that should work right because
Speaker 8: the doors o'ten closing, it's like it's like riding it up.
Speaker 6: And riding up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's the first thing. Second thing, so you
Speaker 8: know the windows days, when you open your window, you
Speaker 8: got a little holes and so you can latch the
Speaker 8: window in the summer.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've got them.
Speaker 8: All of my windows, and some of the good condition,
Speaker 8: but a lot of them are very old. And yes,
Speaker 8: I could spend hours pannel being the mount and trying
Speaker 8: to fix them. Where would I buy new ones to
Speaker 8: replace those at a reasonable price? Like Michael ten months
Speaker 8: sixty bucks the one. So is there somewhere else you could?
Speaker 4: She did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that that's kind of the price that they are.
Speaker 3: And I've because I used to do a lot of
Speaker 3: work on sort of not quite well heretage homes or
Speaker 3: homes with timber joinery, and every now and then, if
Speaker 3: you were doing a refirb you would you'd go and
Speaker 3: buy some more of those days. And yes, they are expensive.
Speaker 3: I guess your other option is if you're looking for something,
Speaker 3: you could try demolition yards. Yes, but then of course
Speaker 3: you are going to end up with something at secondhand
Speaker 3: and might require some work. Yeah. Are they what sort
Speaker 3: of vintage are they? Nineteen thirties, nineteen sixties?
Speaker 8: You know they're a mixture of all sorts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, mismatched.
Speaker 8: I would have a look at a websites called Screwfix
Speaker 8: in the UK. Have a look there and then don't
Speaker 8: have a look at the prices, you'll be.
Speaker 3: Just look in crystal. I'm in a sense the same.
Speaker 3: I go to the States and I go to hammer
Speaker 3: to what is it home Depot or Low's or Rockler
Speaker 3: or somewhere like that, and I look at the prices
Speaker 3: sometimes and I do despair, saying that actually just doesn't aside.
Speaker 3: Last time we were up there, I did go to
Speaker 3: a home depot store and have a look at like
Speaker 3: the price of plaster board. So an eight x four
Speaker 3: plaster board sheet in the States was about twelve or
Speaker 3: thirteen US dollars, which is not a million miles away
Speaker 3: from what we pay here. And I kind of cruised
Speaker 3: around they had a look at lumber and it wasn't
Speaker 3: terribly different in price. Things like paint and sometimes tools
Speaker 3: to some degree I buy us time. I was, yeah,
Speaker 3: some stuff is cheaper, but not necessarily by a massive amount.
Speaker 3: But look with the hardware, yeah, I look. Demolition yards
Speaker 3: are great, and there is obviously that great delight in
Speaker 3: being able to reuse something rather than sending it off
Speaker 3: to landfill or recycling, so there's an upside to that,
Speaker 3: But otherwise, yeah, they are expensive.
Speaker 8: Can I even forgges something that you might like to
Speaker 8: look at. Have you ever heard of Sibsey. Sibsey is
Speaker 8: a society of international building engineers and it's all things building.
Speaker 8: They develop maintenance regimes and programs with Sibsey Wellington Google.
Speaker 8: Have a look up. There's a lot of free semmars
Speaker 8: and things on solar, on maintenance regimes, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 8: And it's the worldwide governing body on all things maintenance
Speaker 8: for buildings. And they even produce hit to pay for them.
Speaker 8: But they produce maintenance planners and maintenance regimes, you know, monthly, quarterly,
Speaker 8: annual checks.
Speaker 9: Yeah, have a look at it.
Speaker 3: Look much appreciated. Good luck with the hardware, all the
Speaker 3: best chrystals. Always likes to check take care bother there.
Speaker 3: Oh eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 3: number to call now if you've been captivated as I
Speaker 3: have to some degree by the America's Cup racing and
Speaker 3: have been. I mean, I'm still pretty convinced by fossic
Speaker 3: Around the back of the dry I could probably find
Speaker 3: a pair of red socks from back in the day.
Speaker 3: But I did actually wait reasonably early this morning and
Speaker 3: watch the final race of the Louis Vu Tom Cup,
Speaker 3: meaning that the Team New Zealand Emirates Team New Zealand
Speaker 3: have again not only won it, but defended it two
Speaker 3: times in a row, so three in the modern era,
Speaker 3: this is quite unusual. This is quite remarkable for a
Speaker 3: team to win three times in a row, which is
Speaker 3: exactly what Emorates Team New Zealand have done. And then
Speaker 3: I was chatting with a guy during the week from Razine.
Speaker 3: He goes, did you know that, as it happens, the
Speaker 3: boat has Razine coatings on it, as in, over the
Speaker 3: top of all of that fancy carbon fiber, they do
Speaker 3: apply a coat and that coat is made by Razine.
Speaker 3: And one of the people involved in that is Richard
Speaker 3: Mearhead from Razine, part of their Automotive and Light Industrial
Speaker 3: Coating's division. Richard, A very well, good evening to you
Speaker 3: in Barcelona.
Speaker 10: Yeah, good evening, teat How are you, critics.
Speaker 3: I'm very well and I would imagine it's a fairly
Speaker 3: festive atmosphere where you might be it Right.
Speaker 10: Now, I'm about one hundred yards from the main stage
Speaker 10: here in the the presentation is just starting, so maybe
Speaker 10: we can make this fast.
Speaker 3: We will make it really fast. So tell me what
Speaker 3: the what's the razine contribution to this? It's the coating
Speaker 3: the boat.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we've been involved with Emra's Team New Zealand for
Speaker 10: twenty five years classes their coating supplier and Emma's Team
Speaker 10: New Zealand have chosen our product, Durapox for many, many years,
Speaker 10: but especially so in the last few years where the
Speaker 10: foiling technology is kicked off and as you can imagine,
Speaker 10: at speeds of approaching one hundred klometers per hour or more,
Speaker 10: there's a lot of pressure on those foils. They've found
Speaker 10: that the Durapox is the only product that can withstand it.
Speaker 10: In fact, I was talking to some of our distributors
Speaker 10: here in Europe over the last few days and we
Speaker 10: think Durapox is on every single boat that has challenged
Speaker 10: the Cup this year.
Speaker 3: Wow, well, how's that for an endorsement.
Speaker 10: New Zealand Company.
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 3: Absolutely. And in terms of like, is that a special
Speaker 3: development of that product for this application or is this
Speaker 3: a product that back in New Zealand you can go
Speaker 3: and order it and apply it in the right situation.
Speaker 10: This is no, it's a commercial product in the beyond
Speaker 10: and we sell it all over the world now. But
Speaker 10: there is there has been a development for the foil,
Speaker 10: of course, acularly because because that was a bit out
Speaker 10: of bit out of left field, the pressure and so
Speaker 10: forth that they were exerted on. So but it is
Speaker 10: a product that we developed here some twenty years ago
Speaker 10: and it's still being fine tuned and improved every every
Speaker 10: year for the marine industry and the carbon fiber fiber industry.
Speaker 3: Because I guess from an outsider's point of view, we
Speaker 3: tend to regard water as somehow quite benign. But as
Speaker 3: you say, if you're hurtling through it, it speeds approaching
Speaker 3: one hundred kilometers an hour, and you've got all the
Speaker 3: way to that boat sitting on those foils. Those foils
Speaker 3: want to cut through the water as efficiently as possible.
Speaker 3: The coating suddenly gets under enormous pressure.
Speaker 10: Enormous pressure, and I've had varying levels of what that
Speaker 10: pressure is. I don't think anyone can really tell us,
Speaker 10: but it is just an incredible amount of pressure and
Speaker 10: the friction that comes with that. So, yeah, jurapox has
Speaker 10: really found its niche in this industry. And talking to
Speaker 10: our distributors over here again over the last few days,
Speaker 10: we're finding that the opportunity in Europe for us with
Speaker 10: this product is just growing and growing, and particularly on
Speaker 10: the back of what's going on with this technology with
Speaker 10: the America's Cup.
Speaker 3: I'm going to let you enjoy the celebrations. I think
Speaker 3: it's hard fought and well deserved and thank you for
Speaker 3: your contribution to it as well.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Peter. Fantastic for New Zealand to be involved
Speaker 10: in it. Absolutely, I think from our point of view,
Speaker 10: everyone in New Zealand should be incredibly proud of what
Speaker 10: this team has achieved for us as a country because,
Speaker 10: as you said a Newer Intro, it's an incredible achievement
Speaker 10: to get the three peet and to be one of
Speaker 10: four countries that have that have ever won the Cup
Speaker 10: and it's one hundred and fifty four years or one
Speaker 10: hundred and sixty four years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a magnificent achievement. Really appreciate you taking the time,
Speaker 3: enjoy the celebrations and safe travels.
Speaker 10: Thanks take to you now look forward to.
Speaker 3: Take care by your news. Talk seed B. That's Richard
Speaker 3: Muirhead from Razine Automotive and Light Industrial and I got
Speaker 3: in touch with him because it mate put me on
Speaker 3: to the fact that Hey, look, it's actually Razine Products
Speaker 3: that is the coating around the boats has been for
Speaker 3: a number of years and a small, well maybe significant
Speaker 3: contributor to the success of Emirates Team New Zealand and
Speaker 3: Barcelona and defending their ownership they're holding of the America's Cup.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty four, your News Talk Seed B will
Speaker 3: take your calls and we will be talking specifically about painting,
Speaker 3: maybe not something as high tech as trying to paint
Speaker 3: your America's Cup boat in the next hour, but if
Speaker 3: you've got a painting project coming up and you need
Speaker 3: specific advice from our painting experts, then text me now
Speaker 3: nine to nine two and Bryce McDermott, our painting expert
Speaker 3: from Razine, will be with us at around seven thirty
Speaker 3: this morning. But right now we're talking all things building.
Speaker 3: If you've got a question a maintenance one, hardware, hinges,
Speaker 3: maintenance repairs, alterations, new builds, products, trades people, get in
Speaker 3: the right trades person. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 3: the number to call call us now your News Talk,
Speaker 3: said B. If you've got a question of a building nature,
Speaker 3: then we've got a couple of spell lines for you
Speaker 3: right now. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty. You can also
Speaker 3: text through any questions nine to nine two, and if
Speaker 3: you'd like to send me an email, I've got back
Speaker 3: into the system. You can email me. It's Pete at
Speaker 3: Newstalk SEDB dot co dot nz. So Pete at NEWSTALKSEDB
Speaker 3: dot co dot nz. If you want to send through
Speaker 3: pictures or something like that, which you can't do on
Speaker 3: the text machine. I know we can text pictures typically
Speaker 3: between phones, but that doesn't work when you're trying to
Speaker 3: send them in to me via the nine two nine two.
Speaker 3: But your texts are more than welcome. Oh eight hundred
Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty, though, is the number to call. We
Speaker 3: always get a bit busy towards the end of the show,
Speaker 3: so if you've got a question, now is a very
Speaker 3: very good time to phone through. Eight hundred eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty is that number to call. A couple more comments
Speaker 3: that have come in on the text Claire, there was
Speaker 3: rather baffling one. I hadn't watched the America's Cup and
Speaker 3: was lying on you not to say anything. We're a
Speaker 3: news station. What else do you think we're going to do?
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call.
Speaker 3: And common problem apparently take the pin out replaced from
Speaker 3: the bottom. I'm not such about replacing it from the bottom.
Speaker 3: I think you just drive it in from the top.
Speaker 3: But a little bit of lubricant that means that it
Speaker 3: just doesn't bind and work its way upwards as it
Speaker 3: as you open and close the door. The reason we
Speaker 3: got on to talking about that was was thinking, as
Speaker 3: always about repairs and maintenance, and as I was leaving
Speaker 3: the house earlier this morning, an hour or so ago,
Speaker 3: the we've got an old door, old hinges every now
Speaker 3: and then they need a little bit of lubricant to
Speaker 3: stop them squeaking, and I haven't done that for a
Speaker 3: little while. And so as I'm trying to close the
Speaker 3: door quietly this morning, there is not a terribly loud
Speaker 3: squeaking sound, but it was. It was there. So that's
Speaker 3: another job on the list later on today, after I've
Speaker 3: finished the jobs that I started yesterday but I didn't
Speaker 3: get quite finished, which are sort of the same jobs
Speaker 3: that I started on Friday, but realize that they're going
Speaker 3: to take me a little bit longer. So this is
Speaker 3: the nature of looking after your own property. Oh eight
Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighty. If you'd like to call, we'll
Speaker 3: take your calls right now, Oh eight hundred eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty back in a month your news talks. The'd be
Speaker 3: lines are open. The number of call, Oh, eight hundred
Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty. Hello June, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 12: Now I'll try and explain it. I have a pump
Speaker 12: on my lawn because I've got a very wet back section,
Speaker 12: and it pumps the water off my sections onto the street.
Speaker 12: I have a down pipe off my house between the
Speaker 12: two bedrooms. My neighbor next door has a down pipe
Speaker 12: off his garage his water. His downpipe comes across my place,
Speaker 12: joins up with my lot, and goes out onto the street. Now,
Speaker 12: this year, with all the heavy rain we've had, my
Speaker 12: pump doesn't seem to be able to cope with all
Speaker 12: of that water, and I've been having a great big
Speaker 12: puddle on my backyard. How do I tell him to
Speaker 12: disconnect with down pipe?
Speaker 3: Can I just ask? Are your two properties joined together?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 12: They're not. No, I have a big sense between his
Speaker 12: property and mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, and the distance let's say, from the wooden
Speaker 3: fence to the garage and then the distance from the
Speaker 3: wooden fence to your house is how much roughly.
Speaker 12: The distance between I'm in the bedroom now, I just
Speaker 12: wanted to hear me exactly. My place in the garage
Speaker 12: would be about three meters, okay, and then his down
Speaker 12: pipe would be from the fence to his place about
Speaker 12: a meter. He did when I first shifted in. The
Speaker 12: down pipe wasn't always used to fall down, and the
Speaker 12: water that fell off that refused to keep me awake
Speaker 12: all night. I said, yes, I said to him, can
Speaker 12: you connect it now? It's having trouble with the neighbor
Speaker 12: on the other side as well, with water off his
Speaker 12: property running over there. Okay, is a pain in the bars.
Speaker 3: So and your properties are not joined. It's not a
Speaker 3: cross lea situation. You're on your own title. They are
Speaker 3: on their.
Speaker 12: Own time, my own rights.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Look, I mean to be fair. If
Speaker 3: it was me, I just let go up to the
Speaker 3: fence and cut the downpipe off and turn it round
Speaker 3: and just poke it back onto his property. I know
Speaker 3: that we'll eventually.
Speaker 12: End up the ground though it's dug. It's on the ground.
Speaker 12: He's got underground, so he must have done all that.
Speaker 12: When some other person was here or when the house
Speaker 12: was first built.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm wondering whether it may well be possible
Speaker 3: that in order to the storm water, the public stormwater
Speaker 3: line might be one of those ones that runs, you know,
Speaker 3: across your property and goes through a number of properties. Right,
Speaker 3: so everyone should connect into it on their own property.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't. I don't think you should be able to
Speaker 3: connect your stormwater via another neighbor's property into it.
Speaker 12: It runs out my lot and off my roof and
Speaker 12: off my property with this pump thing I've got on,
Speaker 12: it runs along along the fence line on my side
Speaker 12: and out onto the guttering, out into the out into
Speaker 12: the gut you know the gas because I watch it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I watch it.
Speaker 12: It runs out there.
Speaker 3: I am still kind of trying to get my head
Speaker 3: around how this might all work. But the simple, the
Speaker 3: simple factor is there. The neighbors stormwater should be controlled
Speaker 3: on their property. It shouldn't have come.
Speaker 12: Everybody tells me, yes, yes, yes. They also people say
Speaker 12: to me, he's self aloud, there.
Speaker 3: You can't drag your stormwater across into your neighbors and
Speaker 3: attach it to that connection there. I mean, how do
Speaker 3: you go about solving that I suppose in.
Speaker 12: The end about telling him, well, it becomes.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing, actually, that'll be a great question to ask,
Speaker 3: because in the next couple of weeks we've got a
Speaker 3: gentleman by the name of Ben Johnson who's going to
Speaker 3: join me, and he's actually a lawyer specializing in property law,
Speaker 3: and we were going to be talking about the Fencing
Speaker 3: Act and those sorts of things. But I might be
Speaker 3: able to get that into the question as well. So
Speaker 3: you know, like, you have rights to your land right,
Speaker 3: that's the whole point of being a homeowner. And so
Speaker 3: the only way that someone gets to interfere with those
Speaker 3: rights in terms of putting services in is if they
Speaker 3: get an easement right and it's registered on the title,
Speaker 3: to say, hey, look to get access to storm water, wastewater, electricity,
Speaker 3: telecoms or something like that, I have to intersect or
Speaker 3: I have to cross over your property, but it's registered
Speaker 3: on the title. Typically, so I would think that a
Speaker 3: letter informing them that in fact, the situation is no
Speaker 3: longer acceptable, that they have to control their own storm water,
Speaker 3: and then saying to them, you've got fourteen days to
Speaker 3: comply with this, at which time I'm going to get
Speaker 3: a drain layer to come or a plumber to come
Speaker 3: and disconnect your stormwater, and that if you don't make
Speaker 3: your own connection, it then becomes an issue for the
Speaker 3: local council to deal with because there is a requirement
Speaker 3: in urban settings right for every property to control their
Speaker 3: own stormwater.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've got it. They've got a concrete
Speaker 12: path up the drive behind the fence. They've got a
Speaker 12: concrete path, so they'd have to rub it under that
Speaker 12: concrete path. They're having to be fair. On the other side,
Speaker 12: he had a going the fact that.
Speaker 3: It's going to be difficult for them is not actually
Speaker 3: your problem.
Speaker 10: So that's true, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11: I know we all.
Speaker 3: Tend to be we all tend to be considerate, and
Speaker 3: we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But in this
Speaker 3: instance here, what they've done is incorrect, or whoever allowed
Speaker 3: them to do it shouldn't have allowed them to do it.
Speaker 3: It's their responsibility to control their own storm water. And
Speaker 3: an instance is where people don't control storm water off
Speaker 3: their own property. You can go to the council and
Speaker 3: sort of go, hey, look this has become a nuisance.
Speaker 3: I think there's something wrong with their stormwater system.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much in you way.
Speaker 3: But look, it's never easy confronting a neighbor and having
Speaker 3: those conversations. But if it's causing disruption to you, then
Speaker 3: I think you do need to say something. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: I know, it's not an easy one. All the best
Speaker 3: of you, do you take care? All right? Then? Now
Speaker 3: on this can I seek your advice if you're a
Speaker 3: particularly if you're involved in drain laying or plumbing. Very briefly,
Speaker 3: it was a conversation I had while sitting at a
Speaker 3: cafe yesterday with a mate who lives up the road.
Speaker 3: They have a driveway that slopes down to the basement
Speaker 3: garage right, So at the bottom of that they have
Speaker 3: a catch pit with a pump in it. Because the
Speaker 3: stormwater then is below the level of the council stormwater line,
Speaker 3: so water that collects into that chamber has to be pumped,
Speaker 3: doubt and that's regardless of the level of rainfall. No
Speaker 3: water will escape from the pump from the chamber without
Speaker 3: the pump, so the pump's pretty important. When the pump
Speaker 3: failed during that heavy rain last year, they got the
Speaker 3: basement flooded, right, So the pump is really important. The
Speaker 3: question is is there like a ups an uninterrupted power
Speaker 3: supply system that you can get as a backup, because
Speaker 3: in the event that heavy rain occurs at the same
Speaker 3: time as the power goes off, likely the flooding is
Speaker 3: going to occur. So is there a setup where you
Speaker 3: can add a generator or a battery supply that will
Speaker 3: automatically turn on in the event of a power cut.
Speaker 3: I'm going to investigate on and do a bit of
Speaker 3: reading and research. But if someone's already thought about this
Speaker 3: and got a solution, feel free to either give me
Speaker 3: a call or a text. That'd be awesome. Eight hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty ten eighty is that number to call, get
Speaker 3: a bigger pump and make them pay for it. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's a great solution. I appreciate the text,
Speaker 3: but I'm not sure that's a in able solution. Eight
Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighty ten away from seven oh and
Speaker 3: good morning, Good morning, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 13: I've got I've got a double being a question on
Speaker 13: the same topic. One is if you've got home. At
Speaker 13: one stage you talked about Taylor Facio, and there's another company.
Speaker 3: Who does custom pasure as well.
Speaker 13: Of concealed What was the other one?
Speaker 3: Sorry, custom, so have a look for customer on you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, they do a replacement system for concealed guttering. Yes,
Speaker 13: and one of those seemed like a good idea at
Speaker 13: the time. Things that can sell guttering.
Speaker 3: To be fair, I've always been a bit skeptical about it,
Speaker 3: even back in the day, when you know, it seemed
Speaker 3: like every house in a new subdivision was getting them.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, I don't know.
Speaker 13: Yeah anyway, Yes, but with my place, I've made it
Speaker 13: just the right words. So if you try and get
Speaker 13: your hand in there to them and clear them in
Speaker 13: the nice sharp.
Speaker 3: Edge, yeah, it cuts you the shreds.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 13: Anyway, what I wondered is to do that kind of change,
Speaker 13: do you need a permit? That's the first part of
Speaker 13: the question. The other part of the question is, sorry,
Speaker 13: I will let you answer that.
Speaker 3: I think in a word, i'd say no, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't see why. I mean, typically things that impact
Speaker 3: on weather tightness and that do require consent. But I
Speaker 3: think that making a change from a concealed spouting to
Speaker 3: an external one with a system, you know, like the
Speaker 3: I know that the custom guys have have developed a
Speaker 3: system that works. It has well. In fact, it's a
Speaker 3: benefit in terms of weather tightness because we know that
Speaker 3: those things leak and have caused moisture ingress. So no,
Speaker 3: I don't think you need a building consent for that.
Speaker 13: Oh got on. And the other thing is, well, I
Speaker 13: the idea of prevention rather than cure. I wondered if
Speaker 13: it was because we don't have a leg problem at
Speaker 13: the moment. It seems in good neck virvis is sooner
Speaker 13: or later everything suffed out. And well, I wondered if
Speaker 13: it was possible to put in a Yeah, maybe not,
Speaker 13: but no, but you know what I mean, put in
Speaker 13: put in an improving because then it only has to
Speaker 13: the existing guttering only has to act as a foundation
Speaker 13: for it rather than a water trap.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And look, I think the problem sometimes with some
Speaker 3: of those ones that have caused issues has been that
Speaker 3: often the interior gutter that was put in behind the
Speaker 3: concealed facia or yeah, was often laid almost dead flat, right,
Speaker 3: and you're always kind of asking for trouble, I think
Speaker 3: if you do your spouting dead flat. So if and
Speaker 3: also sometimes there were not that many outlets, so again,
Speaker 3: in heavy rain, the volume of water that was getting
Speaker 3: out through the downpipe was insufficient, and so they would
Speaker 3: tend to overtop and then they would overflow, sometimes at
Speaker 3: the back of the spouting rather than at the front
Speaker 3: of the spouting and out onto the ground. Now, if
Speaker 3: you don't have any of those problems, then yeah, I
Speaker 3: can see the attraction of going Actually, what about if
Speaker 3: I do some really good prep on the inside and
Speaker 3: apply like a coating or a lining to it, that
Speaker 3: will extend it out.
Speaker 13: Many suggestions on the on the different approaches it could
Speaker 13: be used there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I've done some stuff with a
Speaker 3: product called EPM sixty or during one nine to five.
Speaker 3: And again I'm not I'm not suggesting either of those
Speaker 3: two brush on applications will be a permanent solution, but
Speaker 3: I have applied it to internal gutters where I've just
Speaker 3: wanted to get an extra couple of years out of it,
Speaker 3: you know, for example. And so in that sense, it
Speaker 3: might be if you can get in there. Often with
Speaker 3: these things, it's the difficulty of getting in, you know,
Speaker 3: with a wire brush and then with a vacuum to
Speaker 3: clean it out, and then applying the coating and so on.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of gap in there for maintenance, anything.
Speaker 13: You could heat and torturing, or a molding that could play.
Speaker 3: Some h not that I know. I mean, there are
Speaker 3: obviously torch on membranes and TPOs and things like that,
Speaker 3: but you know, applying them in a way that does
Speaker 3: the job become that difficult that you're unlikely to get
Speaker 3: a good seal on it, in which case it kind
Speaker 3: of defeats the purpose. I think a brush on application,
Speaker 3: just because of the complexity of getting in there, the
Speaker 3: difficulty of access, is probably going to be the best solution.
Speaker 9: But you know, there was.
Speaker 3: Also to be fair to these sorts of systems. Sometimes
Speaker 3: they fail because people don't maintain them, and arguably they're
Speaker 3: difficult to maintain because they're difficult to access, and so
Speaker 3: we tend to ignore them. But I think if you've
Speaker 3: got a system that's still working and you continue to
Speaker 3: maintain it, then partly leave well enough alone, because you
Speaker 3: know it wouldn't be a cheap exercise to remove all
Speaker 3: of that and replace it with an exterior spouting No, was.
Speaker 13: That EPN like November or no?
Speaker 3: EPM Mary, what's what's military for?
Speaker 13: M Mike?
Speaker 3: I think Mike, Okay, yeah, Echo Papa Mike sixty. There
Speaker 3: you go. All right, mate, all the very best to you,
Speaker 3: Take care, all the best, take care of your newsok CB.
Speaker 3: We're coming up to news top of the r at
Speaker 3: six o'clock. We'll talk to Mary straight after the news
Speaker 3: at around seven thirty. We will have our razine painting
Speaker 3: expert Brice McDermott joining us from seven thirty this morning.
Speaker 3: After eight o'clock, our solar expert Marlon Johnson from Life
Speaker 3: Force Sola will be joining me. So if you've got
Speaker 3: any specific questions about solar, about maybe batteries, about generation,
Speaker 3: about reply and the other thing we talked about is
Speaker 3: some of these eco loans that are available. So we'll
Speaker 3: talk all things Sola with Marlon from Life Force Sola
Speaker 3: after eight o'clock this morning, back after the news. Righty, oh,
Speaker 3: good morning, Welcome back to the program. Pete wolf Camp,
Speaker 3: the Resident Builder, with you here on the Resident Builder
Speaker 3: on Sunday. If you've got a building question, a maintenance question,
Speaker 3: a product question, a subcontract a question, maybe even a
Speaker 3: nabally type question. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 3: is the number to call. Trust You've had a good week,
Speaker 3: looking forward to your calls your conversation. Remember, at around
Speaker 3: seven thirty this morning, we'll grab Bryce McDermott from Razine
Speaker 3: Color Shops and here is our painting expert. If you've
Speaker 3: got a specific painting question, then text it through right
Speaker 3: now to nine to nine two and I can put
Speaker 3: those to Bryce when he joins us at seven point
Speaker 3: thirty in the next hour of the program. Marlon Johnson
Speaker 3: from Life Force Solar, who are our sponsors, obviously he
Speaker 3: will be joining us. We had Marlon on the show
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago just to sort of do
Speaker 3: a basic introduction into Solo, but it's surprisingly complex and
Speaker 3: there's a lot more to it. So I thought, right,
Speaker 3: we'll get them back on the show and if you've
Speaker 3: got any specific questions about Solar, and to be fair,
Speaker 3: I had some. I had a chat with them this
Speaker 3: week and I found out that I had a whole
Speaker 3: series of assumptions around Solar and around batteries that were
Speaker 3: not quite fully formed. Let's say I'm being kind to myself,
Speaker 3: so we're going to talk about batteries solar, the connection
Speaker 3: between the two, how they link together. Are they are
Speaker 3: so intertwined that you I had basically come up with
Speaker 3: this idea that you to make use of it, you
Speaker 3: really needed to have battery. Turns out that that's not
Speaker 3: quite completely true, So we'll talk about that. But if
Speaker 3: you've got any specific, any specific solar questions, feel free
Speaker 3: to text those through now as well, because Marlon, our
Speaker 3: expert on that, is going to join us after eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: So it's a busy old morning. Take the opportunity to
Speaker 3: jump in now, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty if
Speaker 3: you've got any questions. I mentioned just before the news
Speaker 3: about this particular dilemma that I happen to be chatting
Speaker 3: with a mate who lives up the road about yesterday.
Speaker 3: We're sitting at the cafe and coffee wanders over and
Speaker 3: he goes, oh, can I talk to you about this? Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, no problem at all. So an issue with
Speaker 3: a pump or no, no problem with the pump. Pump
Speaker 3: works fine. It's in a chamber. It catches the water
Speaker 3: that comes down from the driveway, but that is below
Speaker 3: the level of the invert for the stormwater mainz right,
Speaker 3: So it has to be pumped from the chamber to
Speaker 3: get into the council stormwater line. So someone said, what
Speaker 3: about a bubble up sump, and I had a quick
Speaker 3: look just to refresh myself as to what they are. Well,
Speaker 3: that wouldn't work because when it bubbles over, it's going
Speaker 3: to bubble over and go straight in the garret. So
Speaker 3: that's not an option. It's got to be a solution
Speaker 3: for when the pump if there's a power cut, how
Speaker 3: do you keep the pump running? Is are there batteries
Speaker 3: or generators that you can hook up specifically to the pump.
Speaker 3: If you've got a solution, feel free to text it through.
Speaker 3: I w eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Otherwise I'll continue
Speaker 3: to answer your questions rather than ask them. I wait
Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighties the number to call Mary A
Speaker 3: very good morning.
Speaker 14: Oh, good morning, Pete, Hey Mary Scott query. I was
Speaker 14: looking into the shower dough yes to put in the
Speaker 14: bathroom to help keep keep steam down. But I wonder
Speaker 14: if the regulations have changed a tool on extractor fans
Speaker 14: for bathrooms, because in their advertising it says there's no
Speaker 14: need for an extractor fan, and I thought you had
Speaker 14: to have one in your bathrooms.
Speaker 3: To the best of my knowledge, certainly the building code
Speaker 3: requires extraction from bathrooms and from wet areas increasingly, right, So,
Speaker 3: and I I'm not sure if you submitted a building
Speaker 3: consent and said this is going to be my solution,
Speaker 3: whether it would be accept to counsel or to a
Speaker 3: territorial authority as part of a building consent application. So
Speaker 3: typically we install extraction in bathrooms to deal with moisture.
Speaker 3: That's the common way, and that is approved by counsel.
Speaker 14: So I can see how it would suppress it. But
Speaker 14: the steam's still got to go somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think the theory behind them is
Speaker 3: that essentially it becomes condensation and drains down the inside
Speaker 3: of the shower and into the waste, and in that
Speaker 3: sense it's a neat solution. I would have to do
Speaker 3: some more research to see whether or not that would
Speaker 3: suffice for building consent, But I think in all the
Speaker 3: bathrooms I've done, we've installed extraction. We had Storm Harpen,
Speaker 3: a ventilation expert, on the show a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and I intend to get her back as well. She
Speaker 3: had some great advice on ventilation and extraction and so on.
Speaker 3: I think a good solution is getting it out. So
Speaker 3: if you've got bathroom, I would always go for extraction. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: then you know, and maybe do both of them.
Speaker 14: But yeah, extraction to me, it just doesn't seem totally right.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 3: Look, the people that I know who have that I've
Speaker 3: spoken with have got them swear by them, right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So in that sense there's there's a real efficacy about them.
Speaker 3: But in terms of compliance, I'm not sure. Okay, I
Speaker 3: can find it. I will find out. There we go.
Speaker 3: I'll add that to another nice of you to take
Speaker 3: care of. Bye by then, Oh eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty is that number to call Tanya A very
Speaker 3: good morning to you.
Speaker 14: Oh, good morning. Deep.
Speaker 6: I've got mold on my Queen led.
Speaker 7: Dick and I've used lissons to get and hit the deck,
Speaker 7: which hasn't worked in removing them mold. Could I use
Speaker 7: a light water blood?
Speaker 3: Be very careful, I know, seriously, And to be fair,
Speaker 3: it was on my list to do some water blasting
Speaker 3: yesterday of concrete paths. I wasn't going to water blast
Speaker 3: any timber yesterday. I just didn't get round to it.
Speaker 3: I big fan of water blasting, but I prefer to
Speaker 3: call it pressure washing, right, So there's a role for
Speaker 3: the water blasting it is not going two thousand psi
Speaker 3: at two and a half inches above the timber, ripping
Speaker 3: through all of the fibers, right, which is what I
Speaker 3: saw someone do the other day. And it looks great today,
Speaker 3: you know, it looks bright and all the rest of it.
Speaker 3: But the damage to the fiber is now permanent. Right,
Speaker 3: So look, I think, yeah, I've used the wit and
Speaker 3: forget the had the deck right, and had quite good
Speaker 3: of results from it. Right, So I wonder whether another
Speaker 3: application of that might help. And certainly applying like applying
Speaker 3: a proprietary deck wash solution is far more effective than
Speaker 3: not applying a solution. So just hitting it with water
Speaker 3: blast or hitting it with a scrubbing brush is not
Speaker 3: as effective as treating it. So that's definitely the way
Speaker 3: to go, whether or not you might have to do too.
Speaker 3: And then the other question is if what you're going
Speaker 3: to do is just clean the deck and then wait
Speaker 3: for the mold to reappear, you might want to start
Speaker 3: looking at well, if I clean the deck, let it
Speaker 3: dry thoroughly, do I apply a coating to it, maybe
Speaker 3: like a penetrating oil stain that will help resist some
Speaker 3: of that mold growth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do want to stain it.
Speaker 7: There's a stain on there at the moment, but just
Speaker 7: needs restain there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now it's the other thing, and I'm sort of straying
Speaker 3: into Bryce's territory here, but one of the things that
Speaker 3: I have learned from both Bryce and Jay our razine
Speaker 3: experts is whatever system you've got, you kind of have
Speaker 3: to stick with it. So, you know, if it's a
Speaker 3: waterborne stain, then stick with water born. If it's an
Speaker 3: oil based stain, stick with oil base. And if you
Speaker 3: if you're unsure about what system was already there, do
Speaker 3: a little bit of testing to make sure that you
Speaker 3: don't run into incompatibility issues.
Speaker 4: Yep, understand what you're saying. Yep, I've got that.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what it is. Okay, then it's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe just another application of the cleaner and certainly rinse
Speaker 3: off with a water blaster. But either if you've got
Speaker 3: the function to dial down the temp the pressure of them,
Speaker 3: or just you know, come back a little bit further
Speaker 3: understand Yeah, little alrighty all the best take care. By then,
Speaker 3: oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eight, you've got
Speaker 3: time for a couple of calls before we talk to Bryce,
Speaker 3: our painting expert, at six seven thirty this morning. It
Speaker 3: is currently just after seven point fifteen here in New Storks.
Speaker 3: The b a couple of texts through. I'll give them
Speaker 3: some good painting questions, which is awesome, so send those
Speaker 3: through for Bryce. Someone has steps through to say shower
Speaker 3: domes do not meet the Healthy Home standards and you
Speaker 3: still require extra when renting. I thought that would have
Speaker 3: been the case because it's quite clear in the Healthy
Speaker 3: Home Standards this is for residential tendencies that you now
Speaker 3: must have extraction from bathrooms and of course you have
Speaker 3: to have extraction from ventilation into kitchens as well. So
Speaker 3: thanks very much for that. And with regard to my question,
Speaker 3: I was looking for an uninterrupted power supplier a UPS,
Speaker 3: so you get a battery bank that will automatically change
Speaker 3: over when the powers interrupted. This is if you've got
Speaker 3: a in this instance a chamber that collects a bit
Speaker 3: of storm water but also groundwater. Will surface water drops
Speaker 3: into a chamber in front of a basement area. The
Speaker 3: only way to get rid of the water from there
Speaker 3: is via the pump. So even if it was a
Speaker 3: bubble up one, that's not useful. So can you get
Speaker 3: a system whereby if you get heavy rain and a
Speaker 3: power cut, which, to be fair, is not unlikely that
Speaker 3: you've got a dedicated power source for that, that will
Speaker 3: change over automatically. And I mean automatically too. If you
Speaker 3: weren't home, would it change over? And apparently they're out there.
Speaker 3: If anyone happens to have an name, that would be
Speaker 3: even more helpful. Oh, eight hundred eighty eighty is the
Speaker 3: number to call Fred A very good morning to you.
Speaker 11: Oh, good morning, So Fred might be a a week question.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, ask it first.
Speaker 11: We've got a shower which backs onto the hall, and
Speaker 11: I'm getting a little bit of water back into the
Speaker 11: carpet in the hall.
Speaker 3: Gotcha.
Speaker 11: The house is about twenty five years old, so I
Speaker 11: don't know where they where. Your ceilings for showers was
Speaker 11: strong in those days. That is what it does now.
Speaker 11: It doesn't appear to be any obvious from the grouting
Speaker 11: from the inside. The shower looks.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, twenty five years ago. Is it a fully
Speaker 3: tiled shower, so the floor and the walls are all tiled.
Speaker 3: Do the tiles extend outside of the shower and onto
Speaker 3: the walls?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: Okay? And is there a. Is it level entry or
Speaker 3: is there a hob like a little upstand that you
Speaker 3: step over?
Speaker 11: There's an upstand.
Speaker 3: There is an upstand. Okay. Is the mixer or the
Speaker 3: shower rose itself on the wall where you're seeing the leak.
Speaker 11: No, it's on the opposite wall.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right. The reason I asked that is sometimes
Speaker 3: you know, the leak can actually come from the fittings,
Speaker 3: in which case it'll be draining down through the wall
Speaker 3: cavity and you'll see it on that side because the
Speaker 3: waterproofing is stopping it going into the shower in this case,
Speaker 3: and it's pointing it the other way. And I presume
Speaker 3: that the leaking or the moisture that you're seeing is
Speaker 3: around the skirting line. So it's at the bottom, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: Concrete floor, timber floor, concrete floor. Right, So it's not
Speaker 3: like you can get under and have a look.
Speaker 11: No difficult.
Speaker 3: I think if it's obvious, and given that you've seen it,
Speaker 3: let's assume that it is. I wonder whether the first
Speaker 3: thing you're probably going to have to do is cut
Speaker 3: a section out of the plaster board on the hallway
Speaker 3: side and have a look inside, and that'll because in
Speaker 3: the end, you know, if you have to do a
Speaker 3: repair there, it's not actually that hard to repair plaster board,
Speaker 3: but it'll give you an idea of what's happening. I suspect,
Speaker 3: knowing what I know and having done waterproofing twenty five
Speaker 3: years ago, it's some systems were good. Many systems were
Speaker 3: not as good as what we've got today. And so
Speaker 3: I do wonder whether there's been either some movement and
Speaker 3: some tearing in the junctions, particularly often ninety degree corners,
Speaker 3: or around the shower waste itself, if that's not particularly
Speaker 3: well sealed. When you have a shower, does the water
Speaker 3: go out through the waste quickly?
Speaker 11: Well, it's not not a shower I personally use very much.
Speaker 3: But right, okay, from.
Speaker 11: What I remember when I did use it, it was okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, went away quickly. Okay, Look, I think Fred unfortunately,
Speaker 3: I would probably cut a hole in the plaster board
Speaker 3: so that I can see what's happening there and then
Speaker 3: go from there. And you know, if it is a
Speaker 3: case that yes, it's obviously leaking through. You know, when
Speaker 3: you have a shower, the water is going through the tiles,
Speaker 3: through the groud, through the waterproofing and coming out underneath
Speaker 3: the bottom plate and into the hallway. Then it's going
Speaker 3: to be a strip out of the shower and a
Speaker 3: complete replacement. There's there's no easy repair to that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So so if you went the whole hog replacement,
Speaker 11: would would you retile and that sort of thing or
Speaker 11: would you go for the cubicle showers.
Speaker 3: Look, there's no reason that you shouldn't retile it, like,
Speaker 3: if that's your preference, then, but you'd have to do
Speaker 3: it to today's building coat, so the substrate might be
Speaker 3: slightly different. Certainly, the waterproofing systems have improved dramatically, whether
Speaker 3: that's a peel and stick type system, so a membrane
Speaker 3: type system or a brush on waterproofing system. But today,
Speaker 3: you know, we often put bond breakers in and tapes
Speaker 3: and those sorts of things that we might not have
Speaker 3: done twenty five years ago. And then but chances are
Speaker 3: when you take the tiles off, it'll damage the waterproofing.
Speaker 3: Waterproofing's already failed, so you got to take the waterproofing off.
Speaker 3: You won't get the waterproofing off without replacing the substrate.
Speaker 3: So in that shower area and probably for quite a
Speaker 3: distance beyond you'll be pulling it right off back to
Speaker 3: the beer framing and starting again and building up from there.
Speaker 11: So yes, stupid question. On a substraate, Oh.
Speaker 3: Substrate is just a term that we have for the
Speaker 3: layer underneath the waterproofing. So in some cases it might
Speaker 3: be a fiber cement sheet is an option, and other
Speaker 3: cases you can use specific types of plaster board are
Speaker 3: options and they are the substrate for the waterproofing. So
Speaker 3: again it depends a little bit. Today there are other
Speaker 3: options as well where you've actually got wall linings that
Speaker 3: are the waterproofing system. Now that might that might actually
Speaker 3: work as a substitution. So there's there's specific boards that
Speaker 3: are available. I think probably your next step after investigating,
Speaker 3: and that might be a job for a plumber or
Speaker 3: possibly a tiler would come and have a look, or
Speaker 3: an experienced LBP would be to then you know, talk
Speaker 3: to someone and get them to facilitate the coordination of
Speaker 3: all of those trades. Yeah, and bathrooms are complicated because
Speaker 3: there's so much happening in a small area. You know,
Speaker 3: typically if you think about doing some work on a bedroom,
Speaker 3: you know, if you strip it out, you've got a
Speaker 3: carpenter comes in strips, the wall lining out, replaces the
Speaker 3: wall lining, does the trims, stopping and painting. Right. But
Speaker 3: in a bathroom, suddenly you've got you know, tyler, waterproofer, carpenter, plumber,
Speaker 3: glass installer. That's why bathrooms are expensive because there's so
Speaker 3: many subtraits involved.
Speaker 11: M well, sorry, it's well.
Speaker 3: I can tell you one thing with les, they never
Speaker 3: get better on their own. Yeah, very good, all right,
Speaker 3: good luck with that. But a bit of investigation is
Speaker 3: the first step. Yeah, all the very best. You take
Speaker 3: care for them. Let me see I need, I need
Speaker 3: to take a break. Let's do that, and then we'll
Speaker 3: have a chat with Daniel back in a moment a
Speaker 3: year with news talks there we're talking all things building. Daniel,
Speaker 3: Good morning to you. I have a game mate, not
Speaker 3: too bad in yourself.
Speaker 15: No, good, good. I just had a quick question. Sure
Speaker 15: the council like they they wrung me up and the
Speaker 15: next door neighbor had been flooding, and they were like, oh,
Speaker 15: can we put a pipe running straight through the back
Speaker 15: of your section and you know, to get rid of
Speaker 15: their water. And I said, oh, you know, that's fine.
Speaker 15: That was just on a phone call. And then and
Speaker 15: now they've just I've just noticed that there's there's a
Speaker 15: manhole in the back of the section, you know, right, yeah,
Speaker 15: And I don't know what to do about because I
Speaker 15: never signed anything, or I was just wondering sort of
Speaker 15: how will you go about that?
Speaker 3: I have to say it sounds a little bit unusual
Speaker 3: that just verbally, like on a phone call, council would say, hey, look,
Speaker 3: can we come and extend the public storm water through
Speaker 3: your property and to your neighbor because obviously did they
Speaker 3: rock up there with diggers and rip open a trench
Speaker 3: lay and pipe and all that sort of thing, or
Speaker 3: did they thrust it through.
Speaker 15: Most of I was never there because it was a
Speaker 15: rental property, right okay, And the people have moved out,
Speaker 15: And now I've just noticed that there's a dirty, great
Speaker 15: big manhole there, you know.
Speaker 3: And that manhole is that there to allow your stormwater
Speaker 3: to connect to the new Like where was your storm
Speaker 3: water going?
Speaker 15: Well, my stormwater was already there was already one going
Speaker 15: straight through my property from the man hole above their property,
Speaker 15: right okay, So since they like their man hole was
Speaker 15: always like blowing out and all the water was rushing
Speaker 15: down and flooding this other place. And then so they
Speaker 15: must have put a pipe from down there somewhere and
Speaker 15: right and shot it across. But now there's a manhole
Speaker 15: right in the back of my.
Speaker 3: Section, which I mean.
Speaker 15: We would I would have thought there there would have been,
Speaker 15: you know, something there. We would have awad to sign
Speaker 15: and plans. I would have seen them to be fair.
Speaker 3: That's the bit that I'm a little bit perplexed by,
Speaker 3: right that, like, there must have been even even for
Speaker 3: them to go and get the work done, they would
Speaker 3: have had to have drawn a plan, submit it and
Speaker 3: given it to their contractors in order to follow. You
Speaker 3: don't just ring the contractor and say, hey, look, just
Speaker 3: pop round to Daniel's place there, rip up the back
Speaker 3: law and throw in some pipe, whacking a manhole while
Speaker 3: you're there, and you guys just do what you feel
Speaker 3: like doing. So there's got to be a bit of
Speaker 3: a paper trail. I think in the first instance, I
Speaker 3: would probably go back to counsel and go, look, I'm
Speaker 3: the property owner of such and such a property DP
Speaker 3: number Da Da da da da. Can you please send
Speaker 3: me a copy of the plans that consent or the
Speaker 3: authority to do the work and an as belt for
Speaker 3: my records? Right, because you've obviously entered my property to
Speaker 3: do this work. See what their response is. I mean,
Speaker 3: if they don't have a response to that, that would
Speaker 3: be quite interesting. But I would start there.
Speaker 15: Yeah. I did go to the council and then the
Speaker 15: body of the city council one and then they said, oh,
Speaker 15: I know, there's not something we would have done that
Speaker 15: there would have been well Into Water okay, And yeah,
Speaker 15: they sent something through to them and said that they'll
Speaker 15: get hold of me and and they sent an email.
Speaker 15: But I've tried getting hold of them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I can understand the frustration. I think
Speaker 3: in this instance, if it is Wellington Water acting sort
Speaker 3: of as the authority in the area, I would still
Speaker 3: have thought that they would have needed permission to enter
Speaker 3: the property and there would there should be a paper trail, right,
Speaker 3: So I'd start with them. I can imagine that it
Speaker 3: might not be that easy, but you're just going to
Speaker 3: be persistent and get a paper trail and get an
Speaker 3: ass built. Ideally, if it's a public line that runs
Speaker 3: through your property, I would ask for a copy of
Speaker 3: the cc CCTV survey that they should have done at
Speaker 3: the end of it to show that it works. Properly,
Speaker 3: and yeah, there's got to be a paper trail.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, it's just everyone. I'm talking to them. No
Speaker 15: one knows nothing, you know, and you know, and they
Speaker 15: put you onto someone else and then they know nothing.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
Speaker 15: Bar want to gone?
Speaker 13: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: I don't know that you'll have much luck in getting
Speaker 3: it gone. And I raised an issue a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago where I'd read an article online about a
Speaker 3: guy who kind of was a bit upset and a
Speaker 3: bit you know, perplexed as to how this manhole suddenly
Speaker 3: appeared in his driveway right outside his front door. And
Speaker 3: it was a development across the road where they thrust
Speaker 3: a new storm water line underneath the road, underneath his
Speaker 3: driveway or shared driveway to make a connection to a
Speaker 3: public stormwater line, and then installed, as they often do,
Speaker 3: a manhole at that point for maintenance purposes, right, And
Speaker 3: I think he had little to know ability to prevent
Speaker 3: that from happening. So I think in these instances where
Speaker 3: it's a public good, let's say, counsel could possibly override
Speaker 3: your individual rights. Again, great question to ask our property guy,
Speaker 3: who's going to join me in a few weeks time.
Speaker 3: Got a specialist public property lawyer coming on the show,
Speaker 3: so I'll add that to my lot increasingly growing list
Speaker 3: of questions to ask him. But I think in your instance,
Speaker 3: none of this could have happened without there being some
Speaker 3: paper trail. So it's just a question now of going, hey,
Speaker 3: I need answers for this. The other thing is if
Speaker 3: you're not getting answers from the bureaucrats right the people
Speaker 3: at Wellington Water, is to go to your local board
Speaker 3: representative and go, hey, here's a good issue for you.
Speaker 3: Can you give some heft Given that we've all got
Speaker 3: local body elections happening next year, you'll tend to find
Speaker 3: that you get a decent response from them. So try
Speaker 3: Wellington Water tray your local board representative, and I'm pretty
Speaker 3: curious to be honestandiel, So if you get some answers,
Speaker 3: give us a call back in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, because when when when I when I was
Speaker 15: talking to them and I said, oh, yeah, it's okay,
Speaker 15: I said, but I want to I want to build
Speaker 15: down there at some stage.
Speaker 3: So they've got afore you in which case now you
Speaker 3: have to bridge over it. So that's not easy.
Speaker 15: Yeah, but but I said to them, as long as
Speaker 15: you know, as long as it doesn't you know, you know,
Speaker 15: you're given the way of what I'm trying to do,
Speaker 15: and it.
Speaker 3: Will be now, and you don't want to go through
Speaker 3: the expense of changing it, so suddenly you'll be bridging it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, get onto council and let us know how
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 15: On Yet thinking alright, you.
Speaker 3: Take court care all the best by way. Um, someone's
Speaker 3: text through and said, if it was a rental property,
Speaker 3: I bet you they dealt with the tenants thinking they
Speaker 3: were the owners. It's possible, but you'd also look at
Speaker 3: that and go, crikey, that's that's pretty poor administration if
Speaker 3: you don't. Actually, I mean, how long would it take
Speaker 3: to figure out who the actual legal owner of the
Speaker 3: property is a couple of minutes with the records that
Speaker 3: they've got. I mean, Daniel's paying the rates. You think
Speaker 3: you'd give him a call, but he's not there. It
Speaker 3: could be the landlord's permission to the owners pipe through
Speaker 3: our question who pays on our section? That's a big ouch.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. Oh eight one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty. Well, we'll put that on hold for a
Speaker 3: minute because we'll take your text questions for our painting
Speaker 3: expert Bryce McDermott from regularly contributed to the show. Always
Speaker 3: great to have him on. He's going to join me
Speaker 3: in just a moment straight after the break. If you've
Speaker 3: got some specific painting question. Nine to nine two zid
Speaker 3: BZB is the text number for you right now. You
Speaker 3: when you talk, there be people of camp with you
Speaker 3: and our painting expert Bryce from Razine A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 7: Good morning, how are you good?
Speaker 3: Good? And we talked to one of your colleagues earlier on,
Speaker 3: Richard Meurehead, who does the automotive and light industrial stuff,
Speaker 3: so he's up in Barcelona. Because it seems like the
Speaker 3: secret sauce for the for the Kiwi's has been the
Speaker 3: razine coating. It makes it all go faster.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's exactly sure. What the coating is.
Speaker 3: Dura box Apparently, whatever it is, it's worked, it's worked.
Speaker 3: Theah absolutely. Hey, as it happens, one of our earlier
Speaker 3: callers was saying, look, I've had a go at cleaning
Speaker 3: some moss and mold off my queeler deck and now
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about water blasting, at which time I sort
Speaker 3: of went, oh, I'm not sure about the water blasting.
Speaker 3: So if we are cleaning our decks, and it's pretty
Speaker 3: much that time. I bumped into another guy yesterday we're
Speaker 3: down at the food trucks, and I said, what you've
Speaker 3: been up to? He says, I've just finished coating the deck,
Speaker 3: done all the cleaning, getting it all ready for summer.
Speaker 3: So it's the season, right, If we're cleaning our decks,
Speaker 3: what do we do.
Speaker 7: Well, We've got a product called Timber and Deck Wash, yep.
Speaker 7: And you apply that with a garden spray or something
Speaker 7: like that and basically scrub it as well, you know,
Speaker 7: as roughly as you possibly can with a stiff nylon
Speaker 7: bristle broom, and it will basically render the deck ready
Speaker 7: to accept stain. The material actually opens up the timber
Speaker 7: fibers and allows the timber to readily accept some more stain. Yes,
Speaker 7: it also removes old stained residue as well, and then
Speaker 7: you're basically ready to go. If it's moss and mold
Speaker 7: there as well, you could probably use it in conjunction
Speaker 7: with moss and mold killer, but not at the same time.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it gets timber quite quite clean. There's a
Speaker 7: good video on YouTube that we've done called how to
Speaker 7: clean your deck with wrist and stain with Zum decking
Speaker 7: oil stack and it shows you graphically how good this
Speaker 7: material is without wanting your listeners to abandon you.
Speaker 3: No, I agree. If you need some online content, check
Speaker 3: it out. It's great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, physically actually seeing the material in action,
Speaker 7: it is quite a good thing. I watched it on
Speaker 7: Friday and I said, I mention that absolutely.
Speaker 3: Is this the one that features our co collaborator on
Speaker 3: this jay he's out there doing No, it's another one.
Speaker 7: I think it's brilliant. I think it's somebody from Wellington
Speaker 7: perhaps who was doing it. They never showed their face. Awesome,
Speaker 7: but you know it's well worth the look and it
Speaker 7: just shows you how good this stuff is.
Speaker 3: Tips and tricks okay, and the product is timber and
Speaker 3: deck wash. Yes, okay, all right, now here we go.
Speaker 3: First text in good morning. My deck has had the
Speaker 3: full water blast treatment. It's not great now, very black
Speaker 3: and mildewy. Any tips on recovery. So in this instance
Speaker 3: here they've cleaned it. The mold growth has come back.
Speaker 3: So for Sarah, it's a case of timber and deckwash,
Speaker 3: stiff broom agitate rintse.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you actually leave the material on the timber for
Speaker 7: about ten to fifteen minutes, yep. Don't let it dry
Speaker 7: in that time, to just sort of hang around and
Speaker 7: retauch it, work it around a bit, you know, scrub
Speaker 7: and leave it on for fifteen minutes and it should
Speaker 7: do the trick. If it's still black. You may want
Speaker 7: to use some moss and mold killer as well, but
Speaker 7: you do that separately to the timber and deckwish. I'll
Speaker 7: probably do the mossi mal treatment first, Yes, the the
Speaker 7: timber and deckwish after that.
Speaker 3: After that everything right. Just in terms of like you
Speaker 3: made the comment about the timber and deckwash opens up
Speaker 3: the fiber to make it more readily acceptable of a
Speaker 3: coating hatten, Like does it need to be dry when
Speaker 3: you apply the coating? Like how do you determine when
Speaker 3: is the right time to then start the coating after
Speaker 3: you finish the washing.
Speaker 7: Well, I would do all your preparation one day, and
Speaker 7: depending on the weather, the timber should be dry enough
Speaker 7: to accept stain or whatever coating that you're putting on
Speaker 7: there the next day. So yeah, if you've got a nice,
Speaker 7: good drying day, you know, the sun's out, the winds
Speaker 7: carrying on, you know, like it normally does. You should
Speaker 7: be able to do it the next day, but you know,
Speaker 7: use your judgment obviously. If the timber still looks wet,
Speaker 7: then you know, just make it hold as you see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, brilliant, Thank you, Stephen has taxed through. Hey
Speaker 3: I've got a forty year old house. I'm planning to
Speaker 3: paint it, but I have found that the top enamel
Speaker 3: coat can be separated from the undercoat very easily with
Speaker 3: a scraper. Is this usual? Do I need to remove
Speaker 3: the whole top coat to achieve a good job?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's sounds like there's something in this there. It's
Speaker 7: probably mean to actually strip that material off, you know,
Speaker 7: take it back to be a timber and start again,
Speaker 7: because it'll just, you know, it'll just create problems further
Speaker 7: down the line for you.
Speaker 3: Yep, Because otherwise all you're going to do is apply
Speaker 3: your new paint to the old paint. The old paint's
Speaker 3: going to fall off and take the new paint with it.
Speaker 7: Well, yes, and you know, the the new paint as
Speaker 7: it's drying and during it creates surface tension as well,
Speaker 7: and you know it can actually right after the old
Speaker 7: coating is right back to be a timber and the
Speaker 7: annually way to fix it is tostrip it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. It also hadn't another one interesting one where someone
Speaker 3: has had some painting done recently and admittedly they've used
Speaker 3: razine paint, so they've done the sefites. It was painted
Speaker 3: about three weeks ago. When it's a bit cold or damp,
Speaker 3: they're seeing bubbles appear, and then as the temperature heats up,
Speaker 3: the bubbles disappear. What's happening there?
Speaker 7: It could have been applied and you know, too cold
Speaker 7: or too damp conditions, right, or maybe you know late
Speaker 7: in the day when you know you're not actually getting
Speaker 7: proper curing of the paint coating. Yes, so you know,
Speaker 7: when moisture gets on it and it blisters, there's you know,
Speaker 7: it says to me that something's gone wrong at the
Speaker 7: point of our initial application.
Speaker 3: Solutions start again.
Speaker 7: I've seen you know, the whole side of the house
Speaker 7: blister and then you later on in the day it's
Speaker 7: all sucked back and looks fine again. You know, It's right.
Speaker 7: Paint does very odd things sometimes.
Speaker 3: I guess the paint itself holds itself together, but might
Speaker 3: not stick always to the to the substrate. And that's
Speaker 3: the preparation issue, isn't it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But you know you've got to you've got to
Speaker 7: allow you know, the paint to do its thing. You know,
Speaker 7: if it's it's not put on in the right conditions,
Speaker 7: then it will suffer. So paint too late in the
Speaker 7: day and it's been pretty cold and wet of late,
Speaker 7: so which is unus surprising yep. Yeah, So just bear
Speaker 7: that in mind. You know, as you know I've said
Speaker 7: in the past, we lifted days cold or if it's
Speaker 7: you know, there's a bit of moisture around in the year,
Speaker 7: check your humidity on you on your whether at on
Speaker 7: your phone yep. And you know, paint between ten and
Speaker 7: two and everything should be fined. But you make a
Speaker 7: judgment call at the time.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now, this is a classic what's the best practice
Speaker 3: when painting old wood grained, hardy plank weatherboards. If you
Speaker 3: do the sanding, you only end up hitting the high spots, right.
Speaker 3: So in that instance there where you've got effectively a
Speaker 3: wood grain or a textured surface to it. Preparation prior
Speaker 3: to painting for that.
Speaker 7: Ye, well, if the if the paint cating that's there
Speaker 7: already is in sound condition, and a good scrub down
Speaker 7: with house washing paint preple get it ready for painting.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, yes, you can't really sand it,
Speaker 7: so the house wash and paint prep. We'll we'll bring
Speaker 7: that up and you know, nice and clean and get
Speaker 7: and ready for a new coat of paint. Any beer areas.
Speaker 7: Just spot that was the good old shore.
Speaker 3: Seal yeap, okay, so sure seal, clean, sure seal and
Speaker 3: then top coat.
Speaker 6: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: Someone has used a five year old water based paint
Speaker 3: on the inside of a double wardrobe and now it
Speaker 3: smells slightly of cat We I've redone it with a
Speaker 3: wall board sealer, but it's still detectable. What to do now?
Speaker 3: Just before that in terms of you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: we're we all do this right. We do a job,
Speaker 3: and then we keep the tin and we keep it
Speaker 3: under the bench and the workshopper and the garage and
Speaker 3: all the rest of it, and then we drag it
Speaker 3: out years later and we go, oh, just use that last.
Speaker 3: But how do you know when paint's basically gone.
Speaker 6: Off, Well, you'd be able to smell it, right.
Speaker 7: If it's more than five years all depending on how
Speaker 7: it was stored. I would be viewing it with some caution.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's not a good cat.
Speaker 6: I don't think I.
Speaker 7: But you know, I would probably you'd probably have to
Speaker 7: look at you know, maybe coating it with big mended
Speaker 7: Zieler and getting a new batch of paint to try
Speaker 7: and lock at it. M Yeah, okay, so strange things sometimes.
Speaker 3: Sure does Now roof painting, how do you wreck This
Speaker 3: isn't good news. How do you rectify a ten month
Speaker 3: old paint job that's bubbled? What causes the bubbling? The
Speaker 3: house roof is about twenty two years old. It's an
Speaker 3: old iron trappersoidol. Let's assume that it might have been
Speaker 3: a color coated product in the first place. It's faded,
Speaker 3: they've had it repainted. Now it's bubbling.
Speaker 7: So when you say color coated, you mean something.
Speaker 6: Like like color steel like that. Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, I mean the only time I've ever seen
Speaker 7: rufes blister like that is there are previous coatings that
Speaker 7: are already right that maybe the preparation wasn't that great
Speaker 7: in the first place. When whoever did it originally didn't
Speaker 7: do their preparation well and the old coatings are blistering away,
Speaker 7: So you might want to pop a couple of those
Speaker 7: blisters and just see how far back that goes, gotcha. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you might find a couple of layers of paint underneath it.
Speaker 7: So it depends. But if it's color steel and it
Speaker 7: hasn't had a coating on it before, if it's bubbling
Speaker 7: or blistering, then again it could have been affected by
Speaker 7: weather and temperature, because steel is normally about ten degrees
Speaker 7: colder than the surrounding atmosphere. So another thing you have
Speaker 7: to take into account. You know, if you're doing it
Speaker 7: on a cold day, maybe it's not a good idea.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is if you are painting over
Speaker 3: something that's already had like color steel or one of
Speaker 3: those sort of pre finished coatings on it, is that
Speaker 3: there's a specific primer. Is that right?
Speaker 6: There is?
Speaker 7: The product is called three coated steel primer, right.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you're thinking about recoating something that's already
Speaker 3: had a coat or repainting, you need to use that
Speaker 3: primer to get that bonding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and make sure that you give it a good
Speaker 7: washdown and just to remove all the lichen and dust
Speaker 7: and yes, and sold if you're right next to the ocean.
Speaker 7: Mind you, you know in New Zealand everybody lives right
Speaker 7: next door to.
Speaker 3: The ocean pretty much.
Speaker 7: Even if you live on Mount Cook. Evidently you can
Speaker 7: get salt in the atmosphere, right.
Speaker 3: And I think to your comment about allowing enough time
Speaker 3: for product to dry properly is really important. And I
Speaker 3: went and had a look at a property the other
Speaker 3: day and they said, oh, they've just repainted the roof.
Speaker 3: And I got up on the ladder and there was
Speaker 3: all us water in the spouting and it was the
Speaker 3: same color as the roof, so that obviously painted it
Speaker 3: in a hell of a rush. And then that had
Speaker 3: some rain and half of it was in the spouting.
Speaker 7: So one of the first things I ever had a
Speaker 7: look at when I started, you know, being a sales
Speaker 7: with it, chat brung me. He says, I painted this
Speaker 7: roof yesterday and now it's all gone, Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 7: And I, you know, being a bit green, I didn't
Speaker 7: know what all that was. There was basically the primer
Speaker 7: and color and the channels of the corrugated iron. It
Speaker 7: had been hit by dew overnight before it had cured properly, right,
Speaker 7: and ran down together.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So even if it's not the rain, it's the
Speaker 3: dew overnight that'll take it off.
Speaker 7: And again the temperature of the metal as well if
Speaker 7: it was painted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, pace to read the instructions. A.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just what's that you the ad.
Speaker 3: A think about it, think about it for a moment.
Speaker 3: Very wise words. As always Bryce McDermott, our painting expert
Speaker 3: from the good people at Razine, Thank you very much
Speaker 3: for your time this morning. Much appreciated. Take care all
Speaker 3: of us. By then we'll take a short break. We'll
Speaker 3: be back with Brian in just a moment. I typically
Speaker 3: use this music when I think back of someone that
Speaker 3: I've encountered during the week who's kind of gone above
Speaker 3: and beyond or helped me out in some way. So
Speaker 3: I just want to take a moment before the break
Speaker 3: to shout out to hire Paul to the North Shore
Speaker 3: branch in particular. So I'm involved in a number of
Speaker 3: community projects over various over time and that sort of thing,
Speaker 3: and every now and then I'll sort of reach out
Speaker 3: to someone that I know and go, hey, look, can
Speaker 3: you help me out with some materials or some labor
Speaker 3: or some product or supply something, and so when the
Speaker 3: local school that I'm involved with needed to separate out
Speaker 3: the work area repainting the hall from the kids, obviously
Speaker 3: with their return at the beginning of the week, I
Speaker 3: went to hire Paul and said, hey, look, can you
Speaker 3: help out with some sight fencing, which they did, which
Speaker 3: I thought was pretty damn stunning. So my thanks to
Speaker 3: them for their support. And this isn't the first time,
Speaker 3: and to be fair, it probably won't be the last
Speaker 3: time that I sort of reach out shoulder tap them
Speaker 3: and say, hey, look can you help me out? Can
Speaker 3: you be my hero for a day? So thanks to
Speaker 3: the team out at Highpool for that. The other one
Speaker 3: is I just want to let you know. Last week
Speaker 3: on the program we had a call from Rachel, who
Speaker 3: was a woman who lived in an older bungalow was
Speaker 3: really worried about the state of the electrics and had
Speaker 3: been told that there was some risk. I rang my
Speaker 3: mate Paul, who's an electrical inspector, just to get some
Speaker 3: advice and to ask whether he knew someone in the area.
Speaker 3: In the end we chatted for a few months and
Speaker 3: you said, oh look mate, leave it with me. I'll
Speaker 3: go and have a lock and I'll go on and
Speaker 3: sort it out. Give us some advice. So again, Paul
Speaker 3: from Devenport Electrical. Thanks mate, So thanks to hypoul. Thanks
Speaker 3: to those guys for helping me out on the show.
Speaker 3: Your news talk z'd b. It is almost eight o'clock. Well,
Speaker 3: very good morning, welcome back to the program. Oh eight
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call
Speaker 3: for all of your building questions. Where we can take
Speaker 3: one more call. Then we're going to jump into our
Speaker 3: expert segment with Marlon Johnson from Life Force Solar. So
Speaker 3: I had a bit of a chat with Marlon on air,
Speaker 3: probably a couple of months ago. There were a couple
Speaker 3: of other issues that we hadn't covered. So we've got
Speaker 3: him back. He's going to be joining us in just
Speaker 3: a moment to talk all things solar. If you've got
Speaker 3: any specific questions around SOLA, maybe a unit that you
Speaker 3: already have, maybe it's something you're considering as part of
Speaker 3: an alteration, maybe you're just going to add them in.
Speaker 3: Feel free to text those questions through Marlon. Our expert
Speaker 3: will join us in the moment. But Brian, thanks for
Speaker 3: holding on. A quick question for you.
Speaker 9: Sir, Yeah, quick question was We've got some got some
Speaker 9: commercial building and outside of there, there's some concrete sort
Speaker 9: of foundations, you know, coming up out of the ground
Speaker 9: with still coming out of the top of them. And
Speaker 9: it's got a sort of a light texture on it,
Speaker 9: almost like it's been it's sprayed with sand and then
Speaker 9: and then painted over the top, right, and it it
Speaker 9: had some blistering, and I popped the because I do
Speaker 9: a bit of maintenance, so I popped popped the holes
Speaker 9: on the thing, and some water came out. Now, how
Speaker 9: the water is getting into those pillars, I have no idea.
Speaker 6: But I did try.
Speaker 9: Painting some of the paint off and repainting it, and
Speaker 9: that's just removed that that very fine texture that was
Speaker 9: originally on there. That's uniformly over now you go all
Speaker 9: the sides of the thing. So I'm just trying to
Speaker 9: work out what the heck that is.
Speaker 3: What the moisture is, what the texture, No.
Speaker 7: What the texture is?
Speaker 9: Yeah, because I can't you know, I've painted the top
Speaker 9: with a with a decent paint, but unfortunately you can
Speaker 9: you can see it's quite obvious death the actual the
Speaker 9: paint that was textured because it was painted over the
Speaker 9: it's almost like the you know, the cast the cast
Speaker 9: the concrete supports, and then sprayed it with with sort
Speaker 9: of like a feedy, grainy sort of sand and let
Speaker 9: that dry, and then they've painted over the top. So
Speaker 9: it's got this very fine years.
Speaker 3: I wonder whether you know, if you think back in
Speaker 3: the day she was we used to do like fiber
Speaker 3: cement sheet. I mean, this isn't best practice, right, but
Speaker 3: this is what we used to fiber smentt sheet. Take
Speaker 3: the joints and then just spray like with a hopper
Speaker 3: gun a texture coating over it, and then paint over that.
Speaker 3: And I wonder whether that's what they've done. If the
Speaker 3: grains are reasonably large, as in sort of three to
Speaker 3: four millimeters, then typically sorry, they're not. They're smaller than that.
Speaker 9: It's almost like almost like you base your base sand
Speaker 9: you put under cobblestones.
Speaker 3: When you're doing.
Speaker 6: That sort of size.
Speaker 3: There was a very popular paint system again back in
Speaker 3: the day called sand. It was like a sand text. Essentially,
Speaker 3: it's just sand in paint, right, So I would probably
Speaker 3: do exactly that. Now that you've got a good new
Speaker 3: surface on, just take some of the same paint that
Speaker 3: you had add some some grip to it, so maybe
Speaker 3: some silica sand, quite fine sand, make sure it's really dry,
Speaker 3: make up a paste and then just paint that on
Speaker 3: and it'll be your van go moment. Whether you can
Speaker 3: get it to blend in and look a bit like
Speaker 3: what was already there. Okay, that will get you somewhere
Speaker 3: towards making it match.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yep, we'll do that. And before you go, I
Speaker 9: just wanted to make a cheek comment about last week.
Speaker 9: I was going to I was going to ring your
Speaker 9: last week and if you can become a successful builder
Speaker 9: and run run a building show on a three week apprenticeship,
Speaker 9: then when then we need to send everyone on the
Speaker 9: three week alls.
Speaker 3: There was a beauty was it? That was awesome? Caller
Speaker 3: of the year that guy, Thank you all. You take care.
Speaker 3: Then right, we're starting to get some text questions, which
Speaker 3: is awesome around solar because it's one of those things
Speaker 3: you know, it seems simple, but it is quite complex.
Speaker 3: And I have to say, for all of the years
Speaker 3: that I've been involved with building, and I've had some
Speaker 3: interest in solar because of its you know, eco credential
Speaker 3: sustainability endurance in terms of resilience and that sort of
Speaker 3: thing I had I had developed in my own mind
Speaker 3: a series of assumptions. It was great to actually have
Speaker 3: a chat with Marlon during the week, and I thought
Speaker 3: we'd share that conversation with you today around the combination
Speaker 3: between solar and batteries and how they link together and
Speaker 3: what the benefits are and so on. So it is
Speaker 3: my great pleasure to welcome back onto the program the
Speaker 3: smalling Marlin Johnson from Life for Solar. A very good morning,
Speaker 3: and thanks for joining us this morning.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Pete. Great to talk to you again as well.
Speaker 3: It's a pleasure, hey, Marlon. So one of the things
Speaker 3: that we talked quite a bit a couple of probably
Speaker 3: a few months ago now around solar and some tips
Speaker 3: and tracks in terms of installation where you can put it,
Speaker 3: what size panels are, pre wiring, those sorts of things.
Speaker 3: So one of the other things to talk about is
Speaker 3: often we're often talking about solar and battery right with
Speaker 3: the assumption being that will hang on at night time
Speaker 3: when I might want to watch television, for example, then
Speaker 3: a battery is quite useful. So just run me through
Speaker 3: that combination solar and generation and storage effectively.
Speaker 6: Okay, sure, So as you've said, most people assume that
Speaker 6: you should have a battery when you're getting a solar
Speaker 6: system because people are using their energy in the evenings,
Speaker 6: and so there's a couple of things with that, And
Speaker 6: the main thing would be if you're getting sold with
Speaker 6: a battery, there's usually a much larger upfront cost, right.
Speaker 6: And when when you have a battery, you do use it,
Speaker 6: use the stored energy in the evenings, but you don't,
Speaker 6: it's not always the most cost effective or the best
Speaker 6: returnament of investment type of solution, right.
Speaker 3: And that's a really honest appraisal, isn't it, Because if
Speaker 3: you're adding batteries, batteries typically are expensive. You would be
Speaker 3: spending five to ten thousand dollars for battery storage.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're probably starting more closer to ten and moving
Speaker 6: up from there just for the battery portion. And so
Speaker 6: what people will typically do instead of getting batteries go
Speaker 6: to the boundy soon as well. But what people typically
Speaker 6: do otherwise is get panels only. And what most companies,
Speaker 6: what most solar companies will try and do in terms
Speaker 6: of right sizing a system, will be to generate as
Speaker 6: much energy as you're using across the year day and night. Right.
Speaker 6: So let's say you use seven thousand units of power
Speaker 6: in your home and night. The goal would be to
Speaker 6: then generate seven thousand, at least seven thousand units on
Speaker 6: your roof during the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6: And the reason for that is if you're over generating
Speaker 6: in the summer, which you would be in that sort
Speaker 6: of scenario, if you have that amount of panels, then
Speaker 6: you would be exporting energy to the grid and getting
Speaker 6: a credit for it, which will supplement that even usage, right,
Speaker 6: and will supplement the winter usage as well, if you
Speaker 6: have enough generation on the roof. So that's how you
Speaker 6: would go about having the evenings covered without a battery yep, right,
Speaker 6: and is typically the more cost effective way to do so.
Speaker 3: Okay. So and I mean, taking that sort of financial
Speaker 3: analysis of the investment, that that's kind of the conclusion
Speaker 3: that you get. I mean, I think that no one.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that batteries can be an enormous advantage,
Speaker 3: but it shouldn't be. I think in our conversation we
Speaker 3: kind of got to the place where if you can
Speaker 3: afford the solar and not the batteries, it shouldn't put
Speaker 3: you off getting the solar. Yes, that's right, Okay, the
Speaker 3: generation side of it, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, because you're still getting a
Speaker 6: massive benefit.
Speaker 3: Yes, And I would say that.
Speaker 6: The people that go for batteries will typically have more
Speaker 6: of a use case than just the savings side of it.
Speaker 3: Right, So we're talking resilience. We're talking people that might
Speaker 3: be isolated and main supply is unreliable, or possibly main
Speaker 3: supply if you're doing sort of new development, might be
Speaker 3: prohibitively expensive to bring mainz to the property exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. So we find that typically
Speaker 6: people that are getting battery storage are needing that resilience.
Speaker 6: Maybe they have water pumps that need to be backed
Speaker 6: up in the case of an outage. Ye. And then
Speaker 6: also people as well that just want to have that
Speaker 6: protection even though they don't experience that many power cuts.
Speaker 6: But last year, when we had a lot of areas
Speaker 6: having massive power cuts or for long periods of time,
Speaker 6: people wanting to just protect themselves against that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean most of us in an urban environment,
Speaker 3: you can put up with power cut that might last
Speaker 3: a couple of hours, but if it's a few days,
Speaker 3: then it's a pretty big issue, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, and usually the people that will typically have
Speaker 6: there would be a couple of hours you usually had
Speaker 6: more of their systems running off there, you know, like
Speaker 6: water septic tanks running off the electricity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and these are critical systems that are part of
Speaker 3: being able to live comfortably in the house exactly. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Hey,
Speaker 3: I've invited people to send through a couple of text
Speaker 3: questions as well, so I'm starting to get a couple.
Speaker 3: You never know what you're going to get when you
Speaker 3: invite people to send in questions. So let's start with
Speaker 3: this one which I've never thought of before. Can you
Speaker 3: please comment on how to remove birds nests from under
Speaker 3: solar panels? Also, is there a tip to preventing birds
Speaker 3: from nesting under the panels?
Speaker 6: It's a great question. Yeah, So in terms of the removal,
Speaker 6: I haven't heard of, you know, a specific method to
Speaker 6: do so it would probably be very carefully. So in
Speaker 6: terms of preventing it, which I know it doesn't really
Speaker 6: help if it's already occurred, but in terms of preventing it,
Speaker 6: there are little skirts that you can put around your
Speaker 6: panel array and install around the panels in order to
Speaker 6: not have the birds be able to get under the panels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just in terms of maybe doing that work the
Speaker 3: underside of the panel. Is there anything sensitive or delicate
Speaker 3: or that can be broken on the underside of the panel?
Speaker 6: Not typically no, no, okay, so yeah.
Speaker 3: But it also asks the further question, which is typically
Speaker 3: in terms of maintenance. So if the panels are up
Speaker 3: there on the roof, what is the preferred or recommended
Speaker 3: maintenance schedule for panels over time?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So panels are pretty static, right, they don't need
Speaker 6: a huge amount of maintenance, But in terms of cleaning them,
Speaker 6: it kind of depends where you are in the country.
Speaker 6: We'd usually recommend once a year to give it a clean.
Speaker 6: Some places will need less than that, some places will
Speaker 6: need more. I was in Nelson recently at their trade
Speaker 6: show down there, and every second person talked to me
Speaker 6: about the pollen, right that is in Nelson. So that's
Speaker 6: a huge thing Nelson in terms of pollen that'll get
Speaker 6: on the panels and if it doesn't rain too often,
Speaker 6: they'll stick on there. So maybe in Nelson it might
Speaker 6: be a case of every six to cent a months
Speaker 6: or something like that instead of every year. Yeah. There
Speaker 6: are also services around that will do this for you. Yep.
Speaker 6: If your roof is more a more dangerous one to
Speaker 6: get up to a ponto.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we've this sort of a note of caution.
Speaker 3: There isn't it. You know, if it's a roof where
Speaker 3: it's you know, relatively low pitch and you can do
Speaker 3: so safely, sure, But otherwise I think that work should
Speaker 3: be left the experts. In terms of cleaning it, is
Speaker 3: it just water and a soft broom, is it? Can
Speaker 3: you use a detergent or a cleaner on the surface
Speaker 3: of a solar panel?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just a soft bristle brush and distrushing the quid
Speaker 6: that kind of thing. Just very very like not to
Speaker 6: embraces right.
Speaker 3: Certainly no water blasting. We've been talking about work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah, definitely it does come up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet it does. Ridio, Marlon, just stay on
Speaker 3: the line. We're going to take a short break. Marl
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Speaker 3: free to text them through. Who's going to be with
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Speaker 3: zedb Marlon is with us just a couple of minutes
Speaker 3: to go, Marlon, couple of quick questions for you, Um,
Speaker 3: A couple of people have sort of asking in terms
Speaker 3: of commercial. So if you you are running a business
Speaker 3: and you've got warehouse or office space, what are the
Speaker 3: advantages of solar for a commercial situation one person's takes
Speaker 3: through in a farming situation for example, Are you starting
Speaker 3: to see an uptake in commercial applications of solar?
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, definitely seeing more commercial come through as well.
Speaker 6: And it makes sense right for a lot of businesses,
Speaker 6: especially if they have a very long term lease, or
Speaker 6: they are the building that they're operating out of, or
Speaker 6: the owner of the building is happy with putting solar
Speaker 6: on the roof. A lot of businesses are operating during
Speaker 6: some light hours, yeah, you know, and so their main
Speaker 6: loads are during the day, which can be brought down
Speaker 6: by the use of solo on the roof. There is
Speaker 6: a little bit of is there enough roof space for
Speaker 6: the amount of power needed the type of business, but
Speaker 6: it's you know, it's still a really good option to
Speaker 6: reduce some costs.
Speaker 3: Another quick question, I am someone who has sixteen panels
Speaker 3: already and they actually have Tesla power wall as well.
Speaker 3: Can do you easily add solar panels and nets in general?
Speaker 3: If you've got ten and you want to do fourteen,
Speaker 3: can you do that?
Speaker 6: You can? You can? There's there is a little bit
Speaker 6: of resistance from solar companies to add panels to other companies, right, right,
Speaker 6: And that's you know where that sort of comes from
Speaker 6: is around warranties and guarantees, especially around electrical work. One
Speaker 6: company does the work on one person's home and then
Speaker 6: someone else they want someone else to do additional work
Speaker 6: on their system. That company can't guarantee the work done before,
Speaker 6: and so adding to it is a liability because they's
Speaker 6: sort of take on the responsibility of everything else. You know,
Speaker 6: if they're connecting to the original system, right, it is possible,
Speaker 6: best usually to go back to the company that did
Speaker 6: your solar system originally. If that's non an option. You
Speaker 6: can have a parallel system, right having another one there
Speaker 6: as well. And I mean some companies will have more
Speaker 6: appetite to add to an existing system than more than others. Right,
Speaker 6: So it might be a case of shopping around a
Speaker 6: little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now talking about shopping around, because we're only a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes. One of the things that I found
Speaker 3: fascinating the other day is I was reading about various
Speaker 3: banks and I'm not sure whether they all do it,
Speaker 3: but certainly a number of banks are offering essentially eco loans. Right.
Speaker 3: So they're saying, if you're doing something to increase the
Speaker 3: sustainability of your house, you can borrow a certain amount
Speaker 3: for very low rates. And we're talking like one percent.
Speaker 3: And I know a couple of people who have taken
Speaker 3: that up to add, for example, solar to their houses.
Speaker 3: So is this something that you've encountered as well.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I would say it's like the vast majority of
Speaker 6: people that get solar presently are taking advantage of these loans. Wow.
Speaker 6: And so it's most large banks. So you need to
Speaker 6: check with your mortgage provider if that is one of yours.
Speaker 6: But basically the different terms three or four of them
Speaker 6: are three years at one percent for up to eighty
Speaker 6: thousand dollars for things like solar yep. And then also
Speaker 6: one of them is five years fifty grand, zero interest. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and so you need to have a mortgage with the bank,
Speaker 6: haven't had a certain level of equity, But then it's
Speaker 6: very cheap lending in order to get something that will
Speaker 6: further reduce the costs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely right, So that that's with people checking out, Marlon.
Speaker 3: We've we've got some more texts. Unfortune we run out
Speaker 3: of time, so I'm going to keep them and I
Speaker 3: think we'll get you back at some stage. But if
Speaker 3: people want, if people have got technical questions and they
Speaker 3: need answers, they can call you guys. Yeah, absolutely, what's
Speaker 3: the number?
Speaker 6: Got me on the spot there one moment.
Speaker 3: Please, no worries at all.
Speaker 6: I used to have it ingrained in my mind, but
Speaker 6: that's all right. This one's sick ALRIGHTY one hundred five
Speaker 6: three seven six five to seven. Alternatively, you can send
Speaker 6: me an email as well, and then I can direct
Speaker 6: you in the right place. And that's my name, Marlon M.
Speaker 7: A R.
Speaker 6: L o O N at Lightforce dot com dot Oh brilliant.
Speaker 3: I think your inbox is going to be full shortly.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of questions, answer the questions. Really
Speaker 3: appreciate your time this morning, Marlon. Thank you very much
Speaker 3: for your time. Take care all of this. So that's
Speaker 3: Marlin from life Force solo and very generously. If you've
Speaker 3: got a specific question, he's happy to answer it so,
Speaker 3: Marlon at lifeforce dot co dot m zaid right, we're
Speaker 3: going to jump into the garden. The Red Climb passed
Speaker 3: in just a moment.
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