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Speaker 3: Well, very very good morning, and welcome along to the
Speaker 3: Resident Builder. On Sunday, you were me people wolf Camp
Speaker 3: the resident builder, And this is a show. Well, to
Speaker 3: be blunt, it's kind of a show about your place.
Speaker 3: It's about things that might be happening quietly in the background.
Speaker 3: Rust is active, decay happens, Maintenance is a constant requirement
Speaker 3: on our properties. And how do we deal with all
Speaker 3: of that. Well, we've got to be active. We've got
Speaker 3: to be in there, we've got to be searching it out,
Speaker 3: and we've got to be targeting those repairs and that maintenance.
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Speaker 3: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 3: Like I say, I hope you've had a really good week.
Speaker 3: I have to say, just very briefly, I had the
Speaker 3: opportunity to go down and be part of Field Days
Speaker 3: for a coup couple of days, so Thursday Friday down
Speaker 3: in Hamilton and staying out or staying in Hamilton out
Speaker 3: at Field Days both days, and I have to And
Speaker 3: I'm a slightly embarrassingly kind of a late convert to
Speaker 3: field Days in the sense that you know, I think
Speaker 3: the first time I went was probably six or seven
Speaker 3: years ago, eight years ago maybe, and I've been there
Speaker 3: fairly regularly since then. But I feel I've probably missed
Speaker 3: out on something over the last thirty or forty odd
Speaker 3: years that I could have been going to Field Days.
Speaker 3: It is a fantastic event every single year, and for me,
Speaker 3: just quickly, one of the things that I most enjoy.
Speaker 3: One it's the opportunity just to have a chat with
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of people. And the other part of
Speaker 3: it is that when you get the opportunity to talk
Speaker 3: to young people at field Days. It would be too
Speaker 3: easy to say they're kind of different than city kids.
Speaker 3: But undoubtedly I come away from field Days chatting with
Speaker 3: a classic. I'm there doing some stuff with Apex boots,
Speaker 3: and people are coming in. They're looking for new safety
Speaker 3: gear and that sort of thing. And then there'll be
Speaker 3: a bunch of young fellas and so they're standing there
Speaker 3: and their gum boots and their Swan dryers or their
Speaker 3: Stony creek and all their attire and wet weather gear
Speaker 3: and you needed that at field Days this year. And
Speaker 3: then I'll go, Okay, so what are you guys up to,
Speaker 3: and young fellow goes, oh, I work in air traffic
Speaker 3: control at Total.
Speaker 2: On the airport.
Speaker 8: Awesome.
Speaker 3: The other young chap oh, I'm studying at Lincoln University
Speaker 3: for an agricultural a finance agricultural degree. I'm like, this
Speaker 3: is awesome.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: A couple of others were either into training or into jobs.
Speaker 3: They were motivated. They were not waiting around for the
Speaker 3: world to help them out or anything. They just go
Speaker 3: get us. And I think that's the really nice thing
Speaker 3: about being at field Days is that pretty much everyone
Speaker 3: you meet is doing stuff and that's awesome. That's what
Speaker 3: we want to be doing. We want to be doing
Speaker 3: stuff around the house. So if you need a hand
Speaker 3: with that, I can help by talking and chatting and discussing.
Speaker 3: Maybe not on the end of a hammer or giving
Speaker 3: a hand with a paint brush, but let's get stuck
Speaker 3: into it. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 3: number to call pretty much all calls today on the program,
Speaker 3: which I'm delighted about. I love having the guests, but
Speaker 3: the opportunity to just spend the entire morning talking about
Speaker 3: your place is great. So let's get into it. Oh
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Speaker 3: things building construction. This is the resident builder on Sunday
Speaker 3: and Marty A very good morning to you all.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Pete.
Speaker 8: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm very well. Thanks.
Speaker 10: We're just looking.
Speaker 9: We've got a property that we're looking at. It's a rural,
Speaker 9: rural property. It's a it's got to shed on it,
Speaker 9: nothing's permitted. It's got a shed on it, which I
Speaker 9: think would be you know, built under the amount of
Speaker 9: squares needed. Short no permanent, but they've got a but
Speaker 9: they've put an living accommodations a fireplace. Nothing's permitted. They've
Speaker 9: got off the side of the shed.
Speaker 11: They've got a.
Speaker 9: You could call a utility room with a kitchen, at toilet,
Speaker 9: shower set, The tanks are all there. There's two of
Speaker 9: them on the property. What's the what's the go about
Speaker 9: getting it permitted through the council?
Speaker 3: Ah, okay, Look, to be fair, it's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a tortuous pro you know, pathway. So, with the
Speaker 3: risk of repeating myself, one of the things, like back
Speaker 3: in the day, let's say you're in a situation like
Speaker 3: this where either you're looking at purchasing the property or
Speaker 3: something like that, and you've found something that is non
Speaker 3: compliant in the sense that there was never a consent
Speaker 3: for the work. But clearly that sort of work does
Speaker 3: require a consent. When you first said, look, there's a
Speaker 3: shit on the property and it's not consented, I'm like, yeah, well, okay,
Speaker 3: that's probably not an issue regardless. But because it's a
Speaker 3: habitable space and because it's got plumbing in it, it
Speaker 3: would those sorts of buildings always require a consent.
Speaker 9: I don't know whether the shed's got plumbing in it,
Speaker 9: that sheds a standalone everything, okay.
Speaker 3: But adjacent to it, is this living space.
Speaker 11: This accommodation beside.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, so they put a fire box in the
Speaker 9: shed itself yep. And a bedroom, but the kitchenette and
Speaker 9: the share and that sort of things in a separate area.
Speaker 9: And whether it's over a septic tank or a plugs
Speaker 9: into a septic tank.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. Like the pathway would typically be to apply
Speaker 3: for a certificate of acceptance, so you won't get it.
Speaker 3: There's no such thing anymore as a retro retrospective building consent,
Speaker 3: so you could go for a CoA certificate of acceptance.
Speaker 3: The burden of proof is very similar to basically to
Speaker 3: putting in a building consent, So you've got to prove
Speaker 3: that the structure is up to it and whether you
Speaker 3: can do that in terms of you know, is it
Speaker 3: framed with the correct material, are the LINTL sizes correct?
Speaker 3: Are the foundations correct? Then you have to prove that
Speaker 3: the plumbing systems are compliant with the code, so you
Speaker 3: need to have someone assess the septic system. You need
Speaker 3: to get a consent or a certificate for the fireplace,
Speaker 3: because they that alone triggers the requirement for a building consent.
Speaker 3: It might be doable, and potentially rural areas might have
Speaker 3: a slightly different approach to these sorts of structures than
Speaker 3: urban areas, but in terms of actually getting it fully compliant,
Speaker 3: it is quite the process.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, cost wise too, it would be.
Speaker 3: And again, at the risk of repeating myself, I've often
Speaker 3: told this story where let's say a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: you used to have safe and sanitary reports. Right, So
Speaker 3: let's say you discovered that part of a house that
Speaker 3: you were interested and had work that had been done
Speaker 3: that obviously didn't get a building consent, and so you
Speaker 3: rang the council. They came out, they had a walk around,
Speaker 3: they went, yep, it looks like it's not going to
Speaker 3: fall down, and it looks like it's reasonably sanitary, and
Speaker 3: they'll issue you a safe and sanitary But people started
Speaker 3: to take advantage of that by going I'm going to
Speaker 3: do the work and then I'm just going to ask
Speaker 3: for a safe and sanitary at the end or a
Speaker 3: CoA at the end. Ooh, sorry, silly me, I forgot
Speaker 3: to get one. And now councils have really tightened up
Speaker 3: on the issuing of those, and the burden, like I say,
Speaker 3: is the burden of proof is equivalent to a building consent,
Speaker 3: all right now, And I guess the other part of
Speaker 3: this is, so what happens if you don't do it? Like,
Speaker 3: what are the issues?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I certainly I have noticed that both in terms
Speaker 3: of lending and in terms of insurance, those sorts of
Speaker 3: things tend to be a real big red flag now
Speaker 3: for insurers and for lenders. And then the other part
Speaker 3: of it, A yeah, I've just heard of people not
Speaker 3: being able to get lending because a building doesn't have
Speaker 3: a CCC, for example, and you won't get a CCC
Speaker 3: for work that doesn't have a well, you won't get
Speaker 3: a CCC regardless if you get to see a certificate
Speaker 3: of acceptance. That's not like having a code compliance certificate.
Speaker 3: And then I you know, insurers might be reluctant to
Speaker 3: ensure a property because they don't know anything about how
Speaker 3: it's been put together and whether it's compliant, right yeah.
Speaker 3: And then the other part of it is when you
Speaker 3: go to sell, then you've got you're passing on the
Speaker 3: issue to another person.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so.
Speaker 9: So yeah, maybe you could maybe if you buy with
Speaker 9: the leave it, leave it uncomplied.
Speaker 7: But then.
Speaker 9: Through the time pull down and replace.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, absolutely, I mean look if like in your instance,
Speaker 3: and I certainly I can tell you what to do,
Speaker 3: But the I guess you're in a position where if
Speaker 3: it's a secondary dwelling on the property and you don't
Speaker 3: need it for your use, then potentially you could either
Speaker 3: pull it down or replace it, or you could work
Speaker 3: away on that as a project over a period of
Speaker 3: time to get it up to stand it. I suppose
Speaker 3: it's very different if the building that you were going
Speaker 3: to occupy was non compliant. Someone else's text through actually
Speaker 3: and said, you know, are you sure that you're allowed
Speaker 3: to habitable dwellings on that section?
Speaker 9: Are you sure you're what?
Speaker 3: Well, someone has just texted through and said, hey, look,
Speaker 3: the biggest problem is that only one dwelling might be
Speaker 3: allowed on that section. So you'd want to go and
Speaker 3: check planning regulation as to whether or not you're actually
Speaker 3: allowed to have multiple dwellings on one title. Even if
Speaker 3: it is right.
Speaker 9: It is one dwelling although they have put an up,
Speaker 9: they put a little sleep out further up away from
Speaker 9: the shed, and they put a septic tank in there,
Speaker 9: so that you know that can be non user. But
Speaker 9: the what I'm looking at I thought, well, the shed's
Speaker 9: properly built. It's got steel beams, you know and all
Speaker 9: that sort of thing, proper steel beams. But what they've
Speaker 9: done is just added on, added on a smaller shed
Speaker 9: off the side of that shed. I don't think they've
Speaker 9: they've done anything to the shed to incorporate the other building,
Speaker 9: so it's sort of stand alone ish. So you know,
Speaker 9: you could, yeah, you could sort of take that away
Speaker 9: and then do something properly, you know what I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 9: with the council compliance and all.
Speaker 3: That sort of crowd Yeah, that's right, but you would
Speaker 3: want to check.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, the building that we've.
Speaker 3: Been talking about, is that the one that you would
Speaker 3: live in. Is its secondary too?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, the shed, what were the main The main building
Speaker 9: is the shed that they've put on it, and it's
Speaker 9: proper it's you know, it's done right. But these other
Speaker 9: buildings and the septic tank obviously aren't permitted, but they've
Speaker 9: sort of been. And they look at a little bit
Speaker 9: too that they've been put on as an after thoughts
Speaker 9: or you know, we're kind of kitchen in here, or
Speaker 9: we won't put it in part of the shed sort
Speaker 9: of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mmm. I mean, it just does sound like there's
Speaker 3: you know, there's lots of well this is not quite
Speaker 3: right and that's not quite right. But look, you know
Speaker 3: you've got to do your own due diligence on all
Speaker 3: of that. So good luck with that. I hope it
Speaker 3: all works out for you, Kathy. If you just be
Speaker 3: with us a moment, we'll take the break and then
Speaker 3: we'll come back and talk to Kathy in just a moment.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Kathy, Oh, good morning.
Speaker 13: How are you today?
Speaker 3: Morning? Very well on yourself, good good.
Speaker 13: Hey, You've been very helpful to me over the years.
Speaker 13: And I've got another little problem that needs a teaching.
Speaker 13: I've got it was a verandah out the front of
Speaker 13: my place. It's a ninety late nineteen sixty house, and
Speaker 13: the previous zoners put a conservatory over the top, and
Speaker 13: so they built out the branda a little bit and
Speaker 13: used concrete blocks right the corner block right in the corner,
Speaker 13: you know, the outside corner head was cracked when I
Speaker 13: bought it, but now it's actually fallen out and it's
Speaker 13: actually gone.
Speaker 14: I don't know.
Speaker 13: I've picked it up and you know, just probably about
Speaker 13: a food of the block. Right, So the corner, the
Speaker 13: corner of the conservatory sort of sitting on the area,
Speaker 13: but there is blocked underneath that, the top blockers. So
Speaker 13: I'm just wondering how the best.
Speaker 3: Okay, So is the block the piece that's fallen out,
Speaker 3: is that behind it? Was it solid filled or is
Speaker 3: it the blocks are laid with mortar, but they're not
Speaker 3: full with concrete yellow Kathy, Hello, yeah, Hi, Sorry, it's
Speaker 3: not a great line, Kathy. So that the peak, can
Speaker 3: you hear me?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, So the piece that's fallen out behind it is
Speaker 3: there like a void? Is there space or is there
Speaker 3: solid concrete behind it?
Speaker 9: There's solid concrete?
Speaker 3: Okay. If you had the piece, potentially you could glue
Speaker 3: it in. Look, you could make up a render of
Speaker 3: sand and cement, maybe with a bit of a plasticize.
Speaker 3: And you can actually buy like concrete patch repair kits
Speaker 3: which have a sementitious material in them which you can use.
Speaker 3: You can mix it up and what you probably can't
Speaker 3: do is fill it all in one go, but you
Speaker 3: could mix up a little bit, apply a layer maybe
Speaker 3: a centimeter thick or something like that, let that dry off,
Speaker 3: then apply another layer and build it up over two
Speaker 3: or three applications and fill that piece in given that
Speaker 3: you've got something solid for it to adhere to. And
Speaker 3: what you're looking for with those sorts of things is
Speaker 3: that you get a product that has an adhesive included
Speaker 3: in it, which most of the repair kits do have.
Speaker 13: Okay, and so where would I get that?
Speaker 3: All of the large hardware stores will have it, and
Speaker 3: it'll typically be either a Seeker or a ce Mix brand,
Speaker 3: So C mixes ce M I X and then Seeker
Speaker 3: is s I KA. They would be the two largest
Speaker 3: supplies of those types of products. But all of the
Speaker 3: large stores will have it.
Speaker 13: Oh great, yeap, Okay, I'm I've got another question. I
Speaker 13: recently had the store of my house insulated.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, Kathy, we might have to
Speaker 3: get you back on another line because I couldn't hear
Speaker 3: the question. Unfortunate. I hope I've helped you out with
Speaker 3: the bricks hell they're grig okaybe agreed.
Speaker 15: A yeah, question about Falkland council permits. Right, I had
Speaker 15: a free standing fire installed seven years ago. Now I
Speaker 15: was just cleaning it up the other day, doing the
Speaker 15: chimney and the flu sort of thing, and I thought,
Speaker 15: I never sided a completion certificate for this sort of thing,
Speaker 15: so I paid for it when they did the quote, Yeah,
Speaker 15: there's two hundred and ninety five dollars with a permit
Speaker 15: there sort of thing. Should have something been sent to
Speaker 15: me by counsel or by them or yeah, that's a question.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, that's a great question. So all right, let's
Speaker 3: just work through this. So you had obviously a registered
Speaker 3: installer come and install the free standing fireplace, and in
Speaker 3: their quote to you, they said, look, we will do
Speaker 3: the compliance part of it, so we'll make an application
Speaker 3: for a consent, a building consent and it can be
Speaker 3: a limited building consent just to that right. So they
Speaker 3: would have hopefully provided some documentation to council. Council would
Speaker 3: have issued a building consent number and then they may
Speaker 3: not necessarily need to come and inspect that like you
Speaker 3: might not have had a council inspection for it. So
Speaker 3: some types of building work, what happens is and this
Speaker 3: can often be the case with let's say retrofitting insulation. Right,
Speaker 3: so counsel know what the process is, know who the
Speaker 3: companies are that are doing it, and you still have
Speaker 3: to have the formality of applying for a building consent.
Speaker 3: The building consent is granted, but they don't necessarily come
Speaker 3: and do an inspection. They're reliant on a producer statement
Speaker 3: from the installer to say that they've done it in
Speaker 3: accordance with the building code and then and the specifications
Speaker 3: of the precisely specific fireplace. Yeah, I'm just I suppose
Speaker 3: what I'm a little bit unsure about is whether or
Speaker 3: not how you get like typically the last part of
Speaker 3: that process. So you apply for a building consent, you
Speaker 3: have the inspections, you provide the documentations, you apply for
Speaker 3: a Code Compliance Certificate CCC, and then if there's nothing
Speaker 3: missing in there, they will issue you with a CCC statement. Right,
Speaker 3: So in this instance here you don't necessarily need inspection.
Speaker 3: Does that mean that they you immediately get a CCC
Speaker 3: for it? I guess the thing would be is if
Speaker 3: you could go back to the installer and see whether
Speaker 3: or not they've got any paperwork, or you could actually
Speaker 3: go directly to council, give them the address and say
Speaker 3: is there a building consent for this type of work registered? A?
Speaker 15: Right? Yeah, that's yeah, that's that's sort of wondering if
Speaker 15: I could go.
Speaker 3: There and in fact whatever even if you get a
Speaker 3: limb right, a land information memorandum on the.
Speaker 15: That's another four hundred backs on it.
Speaker 3: You can get the property file for about seventy odd bucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're true, but.
Speaker 3: Like like if not paid for it, Oh hey, look
Speaker 3: in that case, what I in seventy years? Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: fair enough to but looks you know seven years ago,
Speaker 3: it's not that long. If the company is still in existence, right,
Speaker 3: then you go back to them and go, hey, look,
Speaker 3: I'm the owner of such and such property. You came
Speaker 3: and did this work. Can you show me that you've
Speaker 3: completed the work and that I'm now compliant? So that
Speaker 3: would be a first date. Let's say they're not still there,
Speaker 3: or they've lost the paperwork, or they had a fire
Speaker 3: d D. Then I would probably go directly to counsel
Speaker 3: and go, can you provide me with the records for
Speaker 3: any building consents that were applied for at this property?
Speaker 3: And then you can track it from there and I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to think. Let's say the worst case scenario
Speaker 3: is they go, yep, we received a building consent application,
Speaker 3: but we haven't received any documentation from the installer to
Speaker 3: say that it's compliant. What you could do is get
Speaker 3: or yeah that's right. But what you could do is
Speaker 3: then get someone who's licensed in terms of fireplace installation
Speaker 3: right to come assess it, give you a certificate that says, look,
Speaker 3: I've checked it, it's compliant. You could then submit that
Speaker 3: to council and they should hopefully just issue you with
Speaker 3: a sort of a completion certificate.
Speaker 15: Basically, yeah, yeah, I've done where you suggest that I've
Speaker 15: been in touch with the installers, they're still operational.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 15: But if yeah, they don't come through with it. I
Speaker 15: think I was just wondering what the next step was,
Speaker 15: or even even if when that was issued, the consent
Speaker 15: was completed, whether us being the owner, we get a
Speaker 15: copy or it's just just put on filet council.
Speaker 3: If you've applied for a c ccply you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Installers, Look, it might it may well be
Speaker 3: that it's sitting on a council record, right and they
Speaker 3: haven't sent it to you because you didn't apply for
Speaker 3: it directly. So let's remember that in the legislation, the
Speaker 3: getting a CCC is required. Right, So if you've had
Speaker 3: a building, if you've had work done restricted building work done,
Speaker 3: you've had a consent, you must apply for a CCC.
Speaker 3: And the responsibility for applying for the CCC is always
Speaker 3: the homeowner.
Speaker 15: On the owner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that too.
Speaker 3: Or you've learned that now. Yeah. Look, hopefully you know
Speaker 3: it'll be one of those things where it might take you,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit of effort to get it,
Speaker 3: but hopefully it should.
Speaker 2: All be there.
Speaker 11: Good luck with it.
Speaker 15: One of the things.
Speaker 11: Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 15: One other things. Just looking at buying a block of
Speaker 15: four flats down down Hamilton left and in the in
Speaker 15: the bathroom and a couple of them. It's got pony
Speaker 15: floor dodge, Yes, right, you can, you can. You can
Speaker 15: always put your foot through it. Can you cut out
Speaker 15: the dodgy bit? Or does the whole bathroom need to
Speaker 15: be cut out and replaced with ply sort of thing?
Speaker 3: Funny I was looking at it, well, not funny haha,
Speaker 3: but I was looking at exactly that on Monday, where
Speaker 3: in an area that had kind of been used as
Speaker 3: a kitchenette and so on. It was particle board flooring.
Speaker 3: It was kind of nineteen nineties and they obviously hadn't
Speaker 3: done a great job in seventy Yeah, okay, so yeah,
Speaker 3: if it's had a slow, persistent leak there, that floor
Speaker 3: will be pretty average. The challenge is often that joys
Speaker 3: are laid down, the flooring is laid down, and the
Speaker 3: timber frames sit on top, right, and so yeah, you
Speaker 3: can cut the floor out, but how do you get
Speaker 3: that piece of flooring out from underneath the bottom plate,
Speaker 3: And in some cases you can't. You just leave it
Speaker 3: in there. You cut alongside the bottom plate, nouget, and
Speaker 3: then sheet in a new piece. Look, I mean, if
Speaker 3: you're going to you know, if you're going to the
Speaker 3: extent of repairing part of it, knowing perhaps that there
Speaker 3: is some decay that's on the way, but isn't that
Speaker 3: bad and the rest of it? Wouldn't you try and
Speaker 3: do the whole floor? But then that's stripping out a
Speaker 3: whole bathroom.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's taken out the Yeah that the vanity the
Speaker 15: bath the isn't it.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, you know you've obviously got to.
Speaker 15: Just keep taking it away until you get to sound, yes, ideally, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 15: but so so yeah, once you get the sound, it's
Speaker 15: not you don't necessarily have to take the whole thing
Speaker 15: out of the bathroom. It can be replaced. Well, these days,
Speaker 15: I think you replace it with ply. It's got to
Speaker 15: be so it's nice and smooth and put your line down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: And sometimes this is what happens. You know, typically the
Speaker 3: leak is in one area, right, in this case, the
Speaker 3: one that I was looking at, it was actually not
Speaker 3: from any of the fittings inside the room. It was
Speaker 3: poor flashing detail on the joinery, right, and so water
Speaker 3: are tracked in there and and right on the corner
Speaker 3: of the joinery, you know, that's where it had like
Speaker 3: literally I could put my hand through the floor it was.
Speaker 3: It was in that sort of state. So yeah, in
Speaker 3: this instance here, because we're changing the use of the room,
Speaker 3: we've stripped out the entire floor. But you don't necessarily
Speaker 3: need to do that. You can sort of take a
Speaker 3: targeted approach. No good, all right, good luck with that, Okay,
Speaker 3: take care. Nice to see people still getting into property investment.
Speaker 3: I suppose now is god I heard a story like that,
Speaker 3: you know, lots of talk about the property market and
Speaker 3: where it's at. So a property that I'm aware of
Speaker 3: has a CV of about one point six vendor expectation
Speaker 3: being realistic, was maybe one point two offer on the
Speaker 3: table eight point fifty. Yeah, that might indicate where part
Speaker 3: of the housing market is. But good on your greg
Speaker 3: for having a crack. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 3: is the call, Margaret. We will come back to you
Speaker 3: straight after the break.
Speaker 2: Measure twice god once, but maybe call Pete first.
Speaker 1: Peter wild Gap, the resident builder with late four solar
Speaker 1: offering affordable solar solutions, used.
Speaker 3: Your news talks B. We're taking your calls on all
Speaker 3: things building, construction, renovating and maintenance, and Margaret are very
Speaker 3: good morning to you.
Speaker 16: Good morning, Peter morning. I have a garage that's part
Speaker 16: of my house and I want to extend the garage
Speaker 16: door and get a new electric door. Do I need
Speaker 16: a permit?
Speaker 3: Okay? So there's two parts of that one. You say
Speaker 3: you wanted to extend your garage door. Do you want
Speaker 3: to make the opening wider?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, So making the opening wider will trigger a requirement
Speaker 3: for a building consent. Changing the door itself won't so
Speaker 3: because because making the doorway open means that you've got
Speaker 3: to extend the lintel the beam that spans that opening,
Speaker 3: and so counsel will want to know that that work
Speaker 3: is done to the building code. Therefore you'll need a
Speaker 3: building consent for that.
Speaker 16: So that's not the same as a permit, or is it?
Speaker 11: Yees?
Speaker 3: So in the it's a change in language. So prior
Speaker 3: to about nineteen ninety we had building permits. After nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety ish we've got building consents. So yes, a building
Speaker 3: consent is the new terminology.
Speaker 16: Yes, so thank you very much for that.
Speaker 3: But yes, you will need a building consent for that. Yes,
Speaker 3: thank you, No trouble at all. Margaret, all the best,
Speaker 3: and Craig, a very good morning to you.
Speaker 11: Good morning. How's the game today?
Speaker 3: Not bad things?
Speaker 11: I thought a continuity projud I was stalking the other
Speaker 11: day about the underground lab. Oh yes, yeah, we've done
Speaker 11: a bit of a cleanout, had a whole of plywood
Speaker 11: floor on that. Basically the property. You come up like
Speaker 11: a hell to the house. It's sound like about a
Speaker 11: ten Aker site. Yeah, it's kind of ruish, not two
Speaker 11: close to neighbors, but yeah, you come up the house.
Speaker 11: You got the house there, and then you've got the
Speaker 11: pre mentioned underground place underneath it. But then the back
Speaker 11: lawns all got gardens of flower gardens you would and
Speaker 11: couldn't really tell at all. But then right at the
Speaker 11: back of the back lawn there's a big concrete wall
Speaker 11: and behind that it steps down to like a pond.
Speaker 11: There's got like probably about a probably about a one
Speaker 11: acre pond there with like ducks and stuff on it. Yeah,
Speaker 11: it's kind of a little little jutty thing. You could
Speaker 11: sit on there. Fish, but I think you didn't catch much,
Speaker 11: probably carp and eels. But anyway, we're cleaning up the
Speaker 11: the underground part. They're taking all the plot in the
Speaker 11: corner and we found there's like a little hole in
Speaker 11: the corner, so we cleared it out, and what we
Speaker 11: found is is in the corner it's got like about
Speaker 11: a meter and a half pipe to go straight down
Speaker 11: congrege pipe, and there's all the mud in the bottoms.
Speaker 11: It cleared down and it started flooding the wood. And
Speaker 11: what worked out is it goes down from there and
Speaker 11: then does the right nineteen, goes under and then pops
Speaker 11: out in the pond. Crighty, So I think the guy
Speaker 11: must have been in to dive in or whatever it
Speaker 11: may be used to. Just I don't know that's where
Speaker 11: and where.
Speaker 3: I have to say, it's got to be one of
Speaker 3: the best stories I've heard ever while I've been doing
Speaker 3: the show. It's just extraordinary.
Speaker 11: So it's fine for us too.
Speaker 3: For a bit of context without going into too much detail.
Speaker 3: This is a native yours who's purchased a property to
Speaker 3: uncover a tunnel that leads to a subterranean room. And
Speaker 3: I'm right with the sizes. A you're talking like it's
Speaker 3: six meters by twenty meters.
Speaker 11: And it's about nine meters by twenty meters nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's massive, massive, like genuinely massive. And it's not
Speaker 3: like it's nine foot by twenty foot eight. We're talking
Speaker 3: the right measurements. It's nine meters.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking out here at the studio that we're in,
Speaker 3: and I mean it's a big space.
Speaker 11: It's actually bigger than the footprint of the foundation footprint
Speaker 11: of the house.
Speaker 3: And then, to be fair, when we were talking about
Speaker 3: it last week, I was thinking, hey, on how in
Speaker 3: a standard residential dwelling you're never going to fit this
Speaker 3: on right, just won't fit onto a five six hundred
Speaker 3: and seven hundred square meter section, but obviously it's slightly rural.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and then a connection to a pond, it
Speaker 3: must make that space incredibly damp.
Speaker 11: It's not too bad now I've actually gone through. And
Speaker 11: what I've done is put a whole lot of about
Speaker 11: throwing the mill round PBC pipes through down the hallway
Speaker 11: front the main building with their conditioners and put a
Speaker 11: fan on drawlerway down through it. And then what we've
Speaker 11: done is actually just got the old skilly out and
Speaker 11: cut slits in the pipe every kind of moll all
Speaker 11: the way down it. Yep, so you get quite a
Speaker 11: lot of warm here coming through. So it's actually driven
Speaker 11: it quite a lot. But the question I've got is
Speaker 11: the floor, And it's just concrete. What we're looking to
Speaker 11: do and is putting down some floor, And I was running,
Speaker 11: could I probably just use the same sort of stuff
Speaker 11: you put like in marine gray carpet, you using like
Speaker 11: garret because they don't really work underlayer or anything. Just
Speaker 11: something like that, which means it should tide it up
Speaker 11: a little bit and then give it a little bit
Speaker 11: resistance to getting.
Speaker 3: Wet garage carpet's great in that location because you know,
Speaker 3: if you think about it's designed to get wet, right,
Speaker 3: you drive on it with your car and the water
Speaker 3: drops down onto it. So yeah, in that sense, yeah,
Speaker 3: that would be ideal. And the other you'd want to
Speaker 3: check with the garage carpet guys. But depending on the
Speaker 3: condition of the concrete, you may also want to apply
Speaker 3: like a vapor barrier to the concrete before you put
Speaker 3: the flooring down, just just to help keep moisture out
Speaker 3: of that space.
Speaker 11: Well, funny you should say that we're already done that
Speaker 11: with done if we've got a whole lot of this stuff.
Speaker 11: We did the floor the other day and the so
Speaker 11: called tunnel and also the walls or the everything it
Speaker 11: was also in the blocks or congrue. Basically done the
Speaker 11: whole thing. Fantast a little bit extra layer because we
Speaker 11: thought possibly later on putting lining around the walls, and
Speaker 11: we're looking at possibly just using probably marine imply just
Speaker 11: to give it a little bit more protection in case
Speaker 11: around just to get well, i'd rather look into concrete
Speaker 11: walls because you're standing here for a while and it
Speaker 11: looks like you're in a prison cell. So we started
Speaker 11: doing that. Just what I've done is we've got eighty
Speaker 11: more mariingray ply. I atually showed about twenty something of
Speaker 11: that and cut it in the strips, and this year
Speaker 11: there for Bettons to go onto the wall.
Speaker 3: And plan and then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: That's all kind of but yeah, it's just like we're
Speaker 11: moving on sole plan in the corner and nearly fell
Speaker 11: in this whole and ago there's a hole down here,
Speaker 11: and he goes, so he started cleaning out and goes, no,
Speaker 11: that's around concrete pipe, and I go, were jaking, Go,
Speaker 11: I wonder where that goes. Maybe there's another layup, maybe
Speaker 11: there's another level blow.
Speaker 3: But that's just extraordinary.
Speaker 11: Kind of makes sense because when we moved the kidney
Speaker 11: out of the way, there was a whole lot of
Speaker 11: old diving equipment and National.
Speaker 3: Metal Government yep.
Speaker 11: So I was thinking he probably used to just maybe
Speaker 11: worried about the zombie populace or whatever. I thought, well,
Speaker 11: you have an escape plane. You can just go into
Speaker 11: the pond. But it's like, well, once you get it
Speaker 11: where you can, well, i'll keep you update.
Speaker 3: Of you please do I love the story a work
Speaker 3: in progress. Hey really appreciate it's fantastic. That's absolutely stunning.
Speaker 3: Eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Robbie.
Speaker 3: Greetings to you.
Speaker 14: Yes, good morning, Pete. Hey there, just wondering if you
Speaker 14: can remember you often referred to a wood restorer. What
Speaker 14: I've got. I've got to patch up some stuff from
Speaker 14: my daughter's place. And the bottom of the little piece
Speaker 14: of form one ground the outside of the window is
Speaker 14: rotten at the bottom. Yes, of those about twenty five
Speaker 14: miles And I'm just wondering with that. I've tried a
Speaker 14: couple of hardware out that's.
Speaker 11: I don't know what I'm talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, that Builder's.
Speaker 14: Bog or something like that. Do you have a brand
Speaker 14: for this?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is so the product that I use, and
Speaker 3: I tend like I'm just thinking about something that's twenty
Speaker 3: five mil Ideally, what you should do is cut that
Speaker 3: section out and put in another piece of timber, because
Speaker 3: it's a lot of filler to put in there. But
Speaker 3: what just because it's quicker, right Ultimately, So if you've
Speaker 3: got access to a multi tool, that's where these things
Speaker 3: come in handy, you could get in there cut cut
Speaker 3: out a little bit of the timber, apply some timber
Speaker 3: preservative to the exposed grain that'll stop the decay from expanding.
Speaker 3: And then find a piece of tantalized or treated timber,
Speaker 3: just roughly cut that to size, glue that in with
Speaker 3: some exterior wood glue, and then if it's still a
Speaker 3: little bit hollow, which it will be, because it's easier
Speaker 3: just to put a piece in there, right, and then
Speaker 3: grab The one that I use is it's called Repair Care, right,
Speaker 3: Repair Care, and you can buy it from Rasine color shops.
Speaker 3: They've got it. Read the instructions. It's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a process. It has like a primer that you
Speaker 3: apply and then it extrudes and mixes together. And then
Speaker 3: the beauty of it is is that it's it's an
Speaker 3: adhesive and a filler, and so you can apply it
Speaker 3: and then you can shape it and finish it and
Speaker 3: sand it and then paint it. So Repair Care is
Speaker 3: the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 14: Yep, yep. I think I'd probably have to take the
Speaker 14: effort and take those off and get a bit of
Speaker 14: form one terenalized just place the whole thing.
Speaker 8: Jolly.
Speaker 3: It may well be easier to do, but you know, sometimes,
Speaker 3: like I've done, it where you might have a little
Speaker 3: bit of rot, let's say in the corner of a sill.
Speaker 3: You don't have to take the whole sill out because
Speaker 3: essentially go take the window out and in that instance,
Speaker 3: if you can cut out any of that rotten material,
Speaker 3: chizzle it out, apply some timber preservative to stop it
Speaker 3: that decay extending and expanding and continuing to grow in
Speaker 3: that space, dropping a piece of tantalize, and then finish
Speaker 3: the with the repair care is great, all the best, the.
Speaker 14: Likes of Buss.
Speaker 3: And there will be similar types of products possibly, but
Speaker 3: I just know that if you go to Razine you'll
Speaker 3: find it there. Yes, mate, so thank you my pleasure,
Speaker 3: all the best, Take care, Craig. We'll take a break.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with some texts before new sport and
Speaker 3: we're the top of the hour at seven, which is
Speaker 3: nine minutes away.
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Speaker 3: Your news talks b We're coming up to news time.
Speaker 3: Couple of texts before then, Hey Pete, A sparky I
Speaker 3: E and electrician in the formal language, installed two bathroom
Speaker 3: fans for us about a year ago. I've discovered that
Speaker 3: he did not vent them to the outside properly. He
Speaker 3: also did not leave us with the COC. Is the
Speaker 3: problem and if so, what recourse do I have?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, look, that's poor work, right. The whole point
Speaker 3: of putting a fan is that you extend it to
Speaker 3: the exterior and make sure that it vents either through
Speaker 3: the cladding or the roof or the safita or something
Speaker 3: like that. So that's poor work. And yes, all electricians,
Speaker 3: the best of my knowledge, should leave with their clients
Speaker 3: a COC certificate of compliance after they finished the job.
Speaker 3: That's standard practice. I guess you could go back to
Speaker 3: them in the first instance. But electricians are also registered, right,
Speaker 3: so you could go to the Electrical Safety Board Electrical
Speaker 3: Registration Board and point out that this is poor work
Speaker 3: on their part. So maybe tell them that you're going
Speaker 3: to do it, and I hope that they'll come back
Speaker 3: and do the work and make sure that it's compliant.
Speaker 3: And you could also have the work assessed by an
Speaker 3: inspector as well if you wanted to talk of the bunker,
Speaker 3: because undoubtedly we're going to be talking about this for years.
Speaker 3: Nobody really knows what it was ever designed to do.
Speaker 3: This is the great mystery that we have uncovered, right.
Speaker 3: Another text, is it possible to replace a corner shower
Speaker 3: tray which has developed a crack? Very hard to take
Speaker 3: the shower tray out without taking the doors and the
Speaker 3: wall lining off? In fact, pretty much almost impossible. And
Speaker 3: a fairly large number of texts with regard to the
Speaker 3: change in opening song for the show. Some love it,
Speaker 3: some don't. I'm inclined to persevere and we'll come back
Speaker 3: with a couple more texts. Now, quick, qu quick, very quick.
Speaker 3: I have a corner valiante for an on suite. We
Speaker 3: want to take this corner vanity out and replace it
Speaker 3: with a standard vanity with a bowl on top. Do
Speaker 3: we need to inform the council due to the change
Speaker 3: as on the plans it shows Da da da da da. No,
Speaker 3: you can change the vanity without conforming the council. There
Speaker 3: you go back hard and break.
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Speaker 3: There'd be righty, Oh, good morning, welcome back to the
Speaker 3: program at Pete Wolf Camp with you the Resident Builder
Speaker 3: here on a Sunday doing a not particularly imaginatively named
Speaker 3: show called The Resident Builder on Sunday.
Speaker 6: There you go.
Speaker 3: Let's keep it simple. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Speaker 3: is the number to call if you would like to
Speaker 3: talk construction, building renovations, compliance regulations, dealing with tradespeople. So
Speaker 3: just before the news we rushed through a couple of
Speaker 3: texts there, including one that said, Hey, look, I've had
Speaker 3: an electrician come to install two fans and I presume
Speaker 3: in two separate bathrooms, and all I've done seemingly is
Speaker 3: put the fan in the ceiling, hocked it up, but
Speaker 3: haven't ducted it to outside. Maybe they had some ducting
Speaker 3: that kind of ran somewhere through the ceiling, but it
Speaker 3: didn't go to outside. And look, there's two parts of that.
Speaker 3: One is, how did it take you, with the growth
Speaker 3: of respect, how did it take you a year to
Speaker 3: notice that there was no ducting on the outside, Because
Speaker 3: that's kind of quite straightforward, to be really honest. But
Speaker 3: the fact that they didn't do it knowing full well
Speaker 3: that that's the proper thing to do, would say that
Speaker 3: they're not a terribly good electrician. And then, to the
Speaker 3: best of my knowledge, all electrical work, so electrician comes,
Speaker 3: let's say, adds a PowerPoint or does some changing the
Speaker 3: light bulb, they're not going to issue you with a COC.
Speaker 3: But typically for all electrical work at the end of
Speaker 3: the work, at the end of the job, they will
Speaker 3: write down what they did and issue you with a statement.
Speaker 3: So like on a triplicate form that goes this is
Speaker 3: a COC, a certificate of compliance for the electrical work
Speaker 3: that's done. And my understanding is that all electricians must
Speaker 3: issue that for the work that they do. So the
Speaker 3: fact that this one didn't vent to the outside and
Speaker 3: didn't issue a COEOC would say that they have breached
Speaker 3: their guidelines. Reations and electricians, a little bit like gas
Speaker 3: fitters and so on, are self regulating in the sense
Speaker 3: that if you get a if you're doing an alteration
Speaker 3: or you've done a new build, the electrician will come,
Speaker 3: they will do the work. There's no council inspector that
Speaker 3: looks at the electrical work. You might get an inspector,
Speaker 3: another electrical inspector to come and check their work at
Speaker 3: the end, particularly for work that's done on distribution board.
Speaker 3: But there's no outside authority that comes and checks their work.
Speaker 3: So they are self regulating. So I suppose the requirements
Speaker 3: around the type of work that they do would be
Speaker 3: higher because they are self certifying. That's what I'm trying
Speaker 3: to say. So yeah, and in that sense, I would
Speaker 3: also be thinking seriously perhaps about registering a complaint with
Speaker 3: the Electrical Registration Board on that type of behavior and
Speaker 3: that type of work as well. Oh, eight one hundred
Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty is number to call. And somebody liked
Speaker 3: what I said about field days, and yeah, I have
Speaker 3: spent Thursday Friday of this week just past at field Days,
Speaker 3: and I mentioned then I'm a bit of a late
Speaker 3: convert to it, but I always enjoyed the time. And
Speaker 3: one of the things I most enjoy is that typically
Speaker 3: you're there with people who are doers. They are people
Speaker 3: who are doing stuff, and I love that they're making stuff,
Speaker 3: they're active and they're involved, whether that's you know, the
Speaker 3: old farmer that I was chatting to, who's kind of
Speaker 3: you know, semi retired off the farm because the back
Speaker 3: sow and the knees giving out, and you know, life's
Speaker 3: about more than just working. Through to the younguns who
Speaker 3: are looking at a career knowing that there are real
Speaker 3: challenges to this industry and to that sector of the economy,
Speaker 3: but wanting to be active and engaged. And they're motivated
Speaker 3: and they're smart and they're dedicated, and I love every
Speaker 3: bit of that. And I've got to say one of
Speaker 3: the nicest things about doing these sorts of events is
Speaker 3: that I get to chat to all sorts of people,
Speaker 3: including a a lightful woman who came up to me
Speaker 3: in the Ryobi stand and said, look, my dad listens
Speaker 3: to the show regularly and really enjoys the show, which
Speaker 3: is lovely. He tells us all about it later in
Speaker 3: the day and you can imagine what that's like at
Speaker 3: family lunch later in the day. So I said that
Speaker 3: I would definitely say hello to Brian Cleary Kerry, who
Speaker 3: is in fielding, who is probably listening right now, Thank
Speaker 3: you for listening, thank you for your kind words. Lovely
Speaker 3: to meet your daughter at field Days the other day,
Speaker 3: and Brian, I hope you well today. Oh eight hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. David
Speaker 3: A very good morning to you.
Speaker 18: Oh Peter, how are you this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm very well, thank you, David.
Speaker 18: Good Thanks Peter. I've got a question here at our house.
Speaker 18: We're wondering about whether we can rent the downstairs or not.
Speaker 18: I understand it well. I think you need to have
Speaker 18: fire proof the floor and or at least the setting
Speaker 18: of the downstairs, and so it's one about rules to
Speaker 18: how would you do that work?
Speaker 3: Okay? So yep, all right. So essentially, in order to
Speaker 3: create a sublet within an existing building, you have to
Speaker 3: prove that that building is isolated in terms of acoustics,
Speaker 3: but in particular in terms of fire from the rest
Speaker 3: of the dwelling. And you might find that that's not
Speaker 3: just the case of it of doing fire rating on
Speaker 3: the ceiling, it may also extend to walls. There are
Speaker 3: some other requirements as well, around things like egress and
Speaker 3: so on. You'd also need. Ultimately, short answer is you're
Speaker 3: going to need a building consent for that work, right yep.
Speaker 3: And in order to get that, you'll need to have
Speaker 3: someone draw ups and plans. You'll need to check that
Speaker 3: in fact it is permissible under planning regulations to have
Speaker 3: a separate rental unit attached. You wouldn't look to change
Speaker 3: the title. It's not like you going to crod a
Speaker 3: new title and effectively subdivide that off. It's always going
Speaker 3: to be part of one dwelling. But you want a
Speaker 3: legal sublet in the on the ground floor, let's say yep, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely building consent. You probably in terms of the scope
Speaker 3: of the work, I would imagine you probably end up
Speaker 3: having to take down the existing ceilings replace them with
Speaker 3: fire rated ceilings. There'll be a bunch you know, like that.
Speaker 3: If there's a door that connects that unit to the
Speaker 3: rest of the house, that door will need to be
Speaker 3: birated door. Any walls that adjoin the other habitable part
Speaker 3: of the property will also need to be fire rated.
Speaker 3: In some cases, that fire rating might be able to
Speaker 3: be achieved by putting a lining on one side, but
Speaker 3: most likely the lining's got to go on both sides
Speaker 3: of the wall. So yeah, it's all doable, but don't
Speaker 3: underestimate the scope of the work that you're going to
Speaker 3: have to undertake to make it compliant. And then from
Speaker 3: what I've heard talking about this with people, you know
Speaker 3: the risk of courses. If you decide, gosh, that seems
Speaker 3: like a lot of work, I'm just going to rent
Speaker 3: it quietly and so on. If there's a problem, then
Speaker 3: you might find that your insurance is not that keen
Speaker 3: on paying out exactly.
Speaker 18: Yeah, so I guess our first first port of call
Speaker 18: would we go to counsel and find out what their
Speaker 18: rules are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so so. And typically most councils have
Speaker 3: like a building helpline or a you know, and you
Speaker 3: might be able to say, look, my intention is to
Speaker 3: formalize having a sublet in my on my ground floor.
Speaker 3: What are the planning regulations? And then from there on
Speaker 3: and if it's permissible, And council may not want to
Speaker 3: answer that question, so you might have to go to
Speaker 3: a planner or to a surveyor and ask that question.
Speaker 3: And of then if they know the rules for the area,
Speaker 3: they might say yes, it's permissible. Then you're off to
Speaker 3: someone to draw up plans for that, submit the building consent.
Speaker 3: Then it's restricted building work. So you've got to have
Speaker 3: an LBP either do or supervise the work, undertake the work,
Speaker 3: do the final inspection, do the CCC, and the can
Speaker 3: go these your income.
Speaker 18: Right, So building planner is that an architect or is
Speaker 18: that a super.
Speaker 3: So in order to submit plans like draw plans and
Speaker 3: submit them to counsel, you have to be a design LBP. Now,
Speaker 3: by default, all architects are design lbps in the same
Speaker 3: way that architectural designers. So someone who's a member of
Speaker 3: the New Zealand Institute of Architectural Draftsmen or Architectural Designers
Speaker 3: will be one. But yes, so you have to have
Speaker 3: a now under the new legislation not so new ten
Speaker 3: to fifteen years, you've got to be a design LBP
Speaker 3: in order to submit plans. And the reason that that's
Speaker 3: kind of interesting is that back in the day, anyone
Speaker 3: could plans as long as the plans were up to standard,
Speaker 3: and it wasn't uncommon to work with people who were
Speaker 3: builders who would also do their own plans. And that's
Speaker 3: a little bit uncommon these days. So there's a few
Speaker 3: hurdles to jump over.
Speaker 18: There are Well, that's pretty helpful, thank you for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the very best. You take it over them.
Speaker 3: That's one of those things that it's like funny, I've
Speaker 3: been to a couple of places, you know, sort of
Speaker 3: pre purchased inspections and that sort of thing, and you're
Speaker 3: looking around and someone will say, oh, yeah, and we've
Speaker 3: got this little flat downstairs and you know, we get
Speaker 3: three hundred bucks a week for it, et cetera. And
Speaker 3: then you go, so is that actually compliant in terms
Speaker 3: of was it designed to be a sublet or if
Speaker 3: you just added you know, you might have a big
Speaker 3: bedroom and a rumpus room downstairs and it happened to
Speaker 3: have an on sweet and then you plug in a
Speaker 3: pop and a sink in the corner and add a
Speaker 3: little cooker and hey, presto, there's our sublet. And that's
Speaker 3: typically if that's the case, that's not compliant. So if
Speaker 3: you're looking at them, they're either compliant or they're not.
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to
Speaker 3: call ah interesting one. Oh here we go. So we're
Speaker 3: talking about we're talking about the electrical work that was
Speaker 3: done by someone who texts and someone's just sent through,
Speaker 3: Hey Pete, I've just had three separate electrical jobs done.
Speaker 3: All were issued as coc by email. Okay, so that's
Speaker 3: the new way of doing it as well. Used to
Speaker 3: be on triplicate form. Obviously, these days, digitally you can
Speaker 3: do it as well. The interesting thing with that comment
Speaker 3: via the text is that the person did the electrician
Speaker 3: did issue a COC and I my understand, and then
Speaker 3: someone else's text through Hey, Pete, I thought a COC
Speaker 3: was only required to be issued by an independent and
Speaker 3: when a building consent was involved, would an electrician just
Speaker 3: not issue a PS four? Electricians don't issue PS fours
Speaker 3: that I even for work that I've had done by
Speaker 3: an electrician that doesn't wasn't done with a building consent,
Speaker 3: they have still issued me COC and I think that's
Speaker 3: standard practice. I'll find out. Oh eight hundred eighty ten
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Speaker 3: Just on the electrical And who was I gos? I
Speaker 3: was talking to someone the other day. It might have
Speaker 3: been at Field Days actually who was an electrician, And
Speaker 3: I said, look, I'm happy to comment on electrical matters,
Speaker 3: but I do hasten to point out the fact that
Speaker 3: I'm obviously not a registered electrician, and that I'm trying
Speaker 3: to restrain my comments to things that I know something about.
Speaker 3: But ultimately it's a very specialist task. And if in
Speaker 3: any doubt, because of the safety issues around electricity and
Speaker 3: the horrible things that can go wrong, you should always
Speaker 3: be using a registered electrician. And this might apply to
Speaker 3: the person that's just text as well. My electrics keep
Speaker 3: turning off after a few minutes. The kettle boils, turns off,
Speaker 3: then won't restart. Sounds like an expense. Now, it depends
Speaker 3: on whether it's is it a problem with the kettle
Speaker 3: or is the kettle overloading the circuit and the circuit
Speaker 3: or the breaker on the board is tripping out, which
Speaker 3: it shouldn't. Just for a kettle either way, if you've
Speaker 3: just moved and if you own it, I would suggest,
Speaker 3: in fact, what I would suggest for anyone who's maybe
Speaker 3: moving into a new house or you've purchased a property
Speaker 3: and you don't know who's worked on the property and
Speaker 3: all the rest of it is actually get an electrician
Speaker 3: in a registered electrician, ideally an electrical inspector, which is
Speaker 3: kind of the next step up, and get them to
Speaker 3: come through and test the house because there are fantastic
Speaker 3: testing equipment that they have that can identify a fault
Speaker 3: that might in the future cause, you know, a fire
Speaker 3: or something like that. So you can have your whole
Speaker 3: house tested by an electrical inspector. And I think that
Speaker 3: would actually be money well spent, oh eight hundred eight.
Speaker 3: And for the person who's got the kettle, if that's
Speaker 3: tripping the board, then yes, I would get an electrician
Speaker 3: to come and check that as well. Oh eight hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty ten eighty. Hello they're headley, Oh goody, I
Speaker 3: don't have a question, I have information.
Speaker 19: I'm an electrical inspector. Awesome, So your man that's installed
Speaker 19: the bathroom fan. He if any instant, any electrical work
Speaker 19: that requires a running of cables or relocating things or
Speaker 19: anything like that has to have a COC issued and
Speaker 19: when it's completed in love, and it has to have
Speaker 19: an electrical safety certificate.
Speaker 3: Any stock, Yeah, yep, and no not only stock.
Speaker 19: That's a completely separate thing. And that's too big for
Speaker 19: this session. Okay, elect an electrical safety certificate. If I
Speaker 19: replace a light switch, an electrical safety certificate, ifire replace
Speaker 19: of PowerPoint and electrical safety certificate. So you must do
Speaker 19: that paperwork, and you must give it to the person
Speaker 19: who contracted you to do the work. If you don't
Speaker 19: give that paperwork, you've committed two offenses, failing to certify
Speaker 19: and failing to provide the document. So you're in trouble already.
Speaker 19: The fans not being vented to the outside. It's probably
Speaker 19: not an electrical problem, but most certainly, and it would
Speaker 19: be a breach of the building code.
Speaker 3: Well, it speaks to poor workmanship, doesn't it.
Speaker 19: Absolutely. There are also boxes on the COOC to tick,
Speaker 19: and one of those boxes is in relation to complying
Speaker 19: with manufacturers instructions right, and most manufacturers instructions for a
Speaker 19: for a fan probably say things like stick it out
Speaker 19: through this, defeat all of you know whatever the roof.
Speaker 19: You know, just vending them into the sailing space was
Speaker 19: like thirty years ago, no longer acceptable.
Speaker 3: But is there any electrical I'm just thinking about practical
Speaker 3: things that you might call an electrician in to do.
Speaker 3: Is there any work at all where an electrician would
Speaker 3: do the work but not be expected to issue a COEC,
Speaker 3: which is a certificate of compliance, isn't it?
Speaker 19: Yeah, the typical compliance actually requires you to do some
Speaker 19: physical work. The only thing that you probably would get
Speaker 19: away with not certifying would be if you just went
Speaker 19: in and did testing.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you went.
Speaker 19: But there's another document called a certificate verification, which is
Speaker 19: typically issued when you want to relive on a property
Speaker 19: after it's been turned off for more than six months.
Speaker 19: But you can get an electrician to do a certificate
Speaker 19: of verification at any time, and you can get an
Speaker 19: inspector to do one as well. And a certificate verification
Speaker 19: has several levels. There are several sort of sections of
Speaker 19: the standard that you do them under, so ranges from
Speaker 19: having has got to look at it to you know,
Speaker 19: like a visual inspection, and then there's kind of a
Speaker 19: physical inspection, and then there's a testing inspection. So there's
Speaker 19: three different layers. You can go to bed and but
Speaker 19: you issue a certificate of.
Speaker 3: Verification, right, I'm just thinking in terms of practical terms.
Speaker 3: People like a story that people might relate to. Let's
Speaker 3: say you've got the old, old fashioned incandescent down lights
Speaker 3: right circa nineteen ninety and so you decide, I'm going
Speaker 3: to upgrade those and put in new energy efficient LED replacements,
Speaker 3: so no building work required, but I'm going to take
Speaker 3: out that old incandescent fitting and replace it. You do
Speaker 3: that work. It's relatively straightforward, I guess would that work automate?
Speaker 3: You would expect a COC from the electrician for that.
Speaker 19: Work, and most likely just electrical safety.
Speaker 3: Certificate, right, okay.
Speaker 19: Which is if you look at a COC if you've
Speaker 19: ever seen the triple get one. Yep, the bottom seach
Speaker 19: and the bottom two inches or so. Yes, the electrical
Speaker 19: safety certificate part of it. So you're filling everything else,
Speaker 19: but you have to sign the bottom but the electrical
Speaker 19: safe testificate because you haven't done any you haven't run
Speaker 19: any cables. What you've done is replaced fittings. Yes, and
Speaker 19: that makes it that's low risk work. And the only
Speaker 19: work that requires inspection with the capital is high risk
Speaker 19: work which is relating to mainz and main earthing systems. So,
Speaker 19: but typically your inspectors responsibilities for a new build or
Speaker 19: stop at the main switch in the main switchboard. He's
Speaker 19: the inspector is only required to inspect the mains in
Speaker 19: the main earthing system. That's that's kind of his remit.
Speaker 19: There After that, the electrician self certifies exactly the same
Speaker 19: as the gaft fitter or the or the plumber. But
Speaker 19: if if the guy has done the work, I would
Speaker 19: ring him and offer him the opportunity to remedy.
Speaker 14: For work.
Speaker 19: That and then for your refuses, and he won't give
Speaker 19: you paperwork your avenue of complaints to the electric work
Speaker 19: as a registration board, and they'll be only too happy
Speaker 19: to come along and you know, Tip's pockets out and
Speaker 19: give my good telling off. But you must offered him
Speaker 19: the opportunity to rectify.
Speaker 3: That would be the smart hope, wouldn't it.
Speaker 19: I know, I know circumstances where where the customers come
Speaker 19: back to the electricians said they want their money back,
Speaker 19: and he said no, I'll come and fix it. And
Speaker 19: you know, it didn't go well for the customer in
Speaker 19: the head didn't go so good for the electrician either,
Speaker 19: because he knew he'd made a mistake, but he wasn't
Speaker 19: going to be you.
Speaker 7: Know, blackmail.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough too. No, No, I mean again, I
Speaker 3: think it's pretty clear. And most electricians, you would hope
Speaker 3: they're aware of what their you know, requirements, legal requirements
Speaker 3: are and they should comply with you know, I suppose
Speaker 3: what it is is that you're given a great deal
Speaker 3: of responsibility and of being able to self certify right,
Speaker 3: and so given that people are entrusting you with that,
Speaker 3: and that your training and professionalism would say that you're
Speaker 3: up to the standard, then it must be disappointing within
Speaker 3: the industry where you see people within the industry letting
Speaker 3: down those standards.
Speaker 19: Oh yeah, I mean I've been doing this for forty years,
Speaker 19: speak of a more than tweety and I haven't had
Speaker 19: much need to complain about people. But a few people
Speaker 19: I have complained about, you know, they learn the lesson,
Speaker 19: I hope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good good. I really appreciate you phoning through all
Speaker 3: the very best you headly take care by I think
Speaker 3: so hopefully that was reasonably clear. So there's COCs, which
Speaker 3: is a certificate of compliance with relation to electrical work,
Speaker 3: and then there's an electrical Safety Certificate as well, and
Speaker 3: there in some cases they're the same thing, but they're
Speaker 3: also separate things, and one might be issued with the
Speaker 3: other or issued separately. And then the point about the
Speaker 3: requirement to have an electrical inspector. Typically, if you think
Speaker 3: about like if you're changing the distribution board at home,
Speaker 3: maybe you've got an old board. You're doing some renovations
Speaker 3: or some extensions, and as part of that work you
Speaker 3: end up taking out the old board. It might still
Speaker 3: have fuse wires in it, you know, and I've been
Speaker 3: in plenty of houses where the old board is still there.
Speaker 3: Let's say you're upgrading the board, which also means that
Speaker 3: you've got a new connection to the mains because you'll
Speaker 3: have to disconnect the mains while the board comes out.
Speaker 3: That work then typically is the inspected by an electrical
Speaker 3: inspector who is not the electrician who has done the work.
Speaker 3: So there's those checks and balances in the system as well. Oh,
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty we're talking all things
Speaker 3: building construction, and you know, happy to talk about sort
Speaker 3: of other parts of the building world, let's say, in
Speaker 3: terms of electrical and plumbing and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: But fully accepting the fact that I'm not a registered electrician,
Speaker 3: but I guess as part of the project management of
Speaker 3: a job, typically you end up being engaged with all
Speaker 3: of these other trades as well to get the job done.
Speaker 3: I W eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call.
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Speaker 3: Of quick texts before we talk to Chris Electricians. We
Speaker 3: are not permitted to withhold a COC because the bill
Speaker 3: has not been paid. We're obliged to issue it on completion.
Speaker 3: That's from Howard. I think, thank you very much for that, Howard.
Speaker 3: And it's true for LBPS as well. So you know
Speaker 3: I'm a carpentry LBP, right, so if I do restricted
Speaker 3: building work, the requirement is that I issue a record
Speaker 3: of works or a memorandum to describe the work and
Speaker 3: to state that it complies with the building code. And
Speaker 3: I must do that as soon as I finish the work.
Speaker 3: And I can't withhold it, let's say, because I'm worried
Speaker 3: that I won't get paid by the client. So when
Speaker 3: the work is done, you're expected to issue the either
Speaker 3: record of work, all those sorts of things, you can't
Speaker 3: withhold it. I do know one instance where a guy,
Speaker 3: it was building related work, it was LBP, he was
Speaker 3: an LBP. He needed to assue a record of work.
Speaker 3: He had a sense that the client was not going
Speaker 3: to pay the final invoice, right, so there'd been some changes,
Speaker 3: there are a few extras, And he did the work
Speaker 3: and said I'll give you the record of work when
Speaker 3: I've been paid, didn't get paid, refused to issue the
Speaker 3: record of work. The client took him to the disciplinary board,
Speaker 3: and the disciplinary board find him two thousand dollars. The
Speaker 3: irony of that is the final invoice was about two
Speaker 3: thousand dollars as well. So yeah, it might seem unfair,
Speaker 3: but the reality is, if you're an LVP or in
Speaker 3: this case electricians and so on and you're expected to
Speaker 3: issue documentation about compliance of your work. You must, regardless
Speaker 3: of whether or not you've been paid. Quick text as well,
Speaker 3: what are the rules for older houses in Auckland having
Speaker 3: insulation and double glazing? I'm a tenant and the house
Speaker 3: is cold, Okay, Well, in a nutshell, your landlord should
Speaker 3: there should have been when you signed your residential tendency
Speaker 3: agreement a healthy home certificate attached to that, and to
Speaker 3: rent out a property now you have to comply with
Speaker 3: healthy homes requirements in terms of insulation, that is that
Speaker 3: there needs to be insula in accessible ceiling and subfloor spaces.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: So if, for example, it's a skillion roof and you
Speaker 3: can't get into it, then there's no requirement to add
Speaker 3: insulation there. If it's not there already, if it's inaccessible
Speaker 3: subfloor space or a concrete slab, you can't do anything
Speaker 3: about that. Double glazing is not required. Draft proofing reasonable
Speaker 3: draft proofing is a fixed form of heating, is a requirement,
Speaker 3: so I think Sarah, for you, the first thing to
Speaker 3: do is to go back and check that when you
Speaker 3: signed your residential tendency agreement that it did have a
Speaker 3: healthy home certificate attached to it. If it didn't, I'd
Speaker 3: either be talking to the property manager or to the
Speaker 3: landlord about why that wasn't available. And then I guess
Speaker 3: you could also look whether or not that healthy home
Speaker 3: standard is in fact correct or has it simply been
Speaker 3: issued by someone who's kind of incohoots with a property
Speaker 3: manager or the landlord to issue a false statement. It's unlikely,
Speaker 3: but it's possible. Interesting to note too, just briefly, that
Speaker 3: government decided not to go ahead with proposed legislation to
Speaker 3: register property managers. So they've been quite a lot of
Speaker 3: work done by previous administration to introduce a basically a
Speaker 3: qualification regime and a registration of property managers. Because right
Speaker 3: now anyone can start up business as a property manager,
Speaker 3: and while there are guidelines, there's no requirement to actually
Speaker 3: stand by those guidelines, right but National and their wisdom
Speaker 3: have said, no, we're not going to go ahead with that.
Speaker 3: Interesting to your get your thoughts on that. Actually, oh
Speaker 3: eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call Chris, Hello.
Speaker 17: There, got a query. But problem Actually we've got with
Speaker 17: a retaining wall. It's found the back of the house
Speaker 17: and it's supportable section so it drops away from the house.
Speaker 17: Reasonable size, I'm not sure six or seven meters high?
Speaker 3: Sorry, just I want to be absolutely clear. The retaining
Speaker 3: wall is six or seven meters high, yes, yeah.
Speaker 17: Quite quite tall, it's yeah. And it's made out of wooden,
Speaker 17: you know, it's like wooden crimp. Yes, not concrete, surprise that.
Speaker 17: And it's got a bow in it. It's got running
Speaker 17: running through it, the storm water and sewerage, and it's
Speaker 17: also got an easy on the property coming over some
Speaker 17: perendicular to the road, down through the property and then
Speaker 17: along along the retainable ametha back end from the retaining wall,
Speaker 17: but buried there's a council.
Speaker 7: Water.
Speaker 17: There's water running through there up on the street. There's
Speaker 17: pity of water running parallel to the road, but there's
Speaker 17: an easement and running off the road and through their property.
Speaker 17: There's also water which runs down to other properties.
Speaker 3: I presume when you say water running is the storm
Speaker 3: water or is the main supply?
Speaker 17: Main supply is blue wine, blue line. The council don't
Speaker 17: want to know anything about the bulge, and so we're
Speaker 17: still sort of working through that. I suppose. My first
Speaker 17: question is about remedying whether a remedy for it is
Speaker 17: to sort of another retaining wall in front of what's
Speaker 17: already there, or is the best practice to take out
Speaker 17: the wall and replace the war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would imagine that. The one of the questions
Speaker 3: then would be is there sufficient space, let's say, downhill
Speaker 3: from the existing wall, to build a new retaining wall
Speaker 3: that would still be on your property.
Speaker 17: I'm not exactly sure the boundary I would probably imagine not,
Speaker 17: but the land below us is council land.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you still you can't build on their land,
Speaker 3: I would have thought without either express permission from them,
Speaker 3: in which case then you would have to get an
Speaker 3: easement on their title for their land. And you can
Speaker 3: imagine that's not going to happen. So in terms of
Speaker 3: practical solutions for remediating that, because you know, given the
Speaker 3: height of it, and it's bulging, right, and it wasn't
Speaker 3: designed to bulge, So if it was straight once and
Speaker 3: it's bent now, that's not a good sign with a
Speaker 3: six meter high retaining wall. The engineering involved in that
Speaker 3: because obviously the land that it's supporting, right, so the
Speaker 3: land behind the retaining wall, is any of that supporting
Speaker 3: the house that you're in.
Speaker 17: The house is about I think it's about eight meters.
Speaker 11: Back, so it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so it's getting close. I mean typically a
Speaker 3: line of inference would be at forty five degrees from
Speaker 3: the base of the wall, right, So I at six
Speaker 3: meters high, you go back six meters, that's about forty
Speaker 3: five degrees. You know, anything on top of that in
Speaker 3: that area and that triangle would be loading up on
Speaker 3: the wall. So your house is set back slightly more
Speaker 3: than that. But again I think any engineer looking at
Speaker 3: it would say, well, actually, that retaining wall, should it fail,
Speaker 3: is likely to undermine your house, in which case the
Speaker 3: engineering of that wall would be extensive, right, And if
Speaker 3: it's on your property, my understanding is it is your responsibility.
Speaker 3: It's a fairly significant wall. Getting an engineer, most of
Speaker 3: whom are risk averse, they will design something for you
Speaker 3: that will rival the Hoover Dam in its scale, and
Speaker 3: the number of zeros at the end of that project
Speaker 3: could be quite extensive. So I can understand in this
Speaker 3: instance why perhaps counsel are saying it's not our responsibility.
Speaker 3: And given it's not on their land, it might be
Speaker 3: interesting to talk to a lot about you know, if
Speaker 3: there's an easement, right, and other people have the benefit
Speaker 3: of the passageway through your property for their services. Whether
Speaker 3: you could then go back and ask them to contribute
Speaker 3: because obviously if the retaining wall fails, it will it
Speaker 3: will damage all of those services, right, which means it
Speaker 3: has an impact on a neighbor. So if a neighbor
Speaker 3: has the benefit of an easement, then maybe they could
Speaker 3: contribute something to the cost of it. Look, I guess
Speaker 3: a planner then a geotechnical engineer is probably going to
Speaker 3: be a next steps in terms of remediation. But it's
Speaker 3: going that's that's a big wall and it's going to
Speaker 3: be a lot of work, and trust me, it'll be
Speaker 3: a lot of money.
Speaker 17: Right, Yes, okay, you know.
Speaker 3: Could could you go to your insurer and say my
Speaker 3: retaining wall has collapsed or is endangered?
Speaker 17: Yeah, we are. We are talking with them, just trying
Speaker 17: to find out and really the counselor's involvement as well,
Speaker 17: because we were there all the time that an initial
Speaker 17: neighbor said that the section wasn't planned for our house.
Speaker 17: It was originally for the counsel to have this access
Speaker 17: going through, and then later in the development the developers
Speaker 17: are presumed. I not quite. You can't quite get the
Speaker 17: right decided that for the section there as well, And
Speaker 17: so yeah, I'm trying.
Speaker 3: I wonder whether some of this, Yeah, is also going
Speaker 3: to be like an experienced property lawyer to act on
Speaker 3: your behalf, because I think if I would say that,
Speaker 3: if it seems to me that if counsel are deriving
Speaker 3: some benefit it right from the easement, they should then
Speaker 3: contribute to the cost of it, or you could use
Speaker 3: that as leverage, that would change things. Because the fact
Speaker 3: that there's an easement to provide services, so that's a
Speaker 3: benefit to someone else. I think you could use that
Speaker 3: to get a contribution from someone else. But it's I
Speaker 3: can imagine this is going to be a very involved process,
Speaker 3: and that's to try and understand who might be responsible,
Speaker 3: who could contribute, And then once you get into the
Speaker 3: actual engineering of it again, you know it's going to
Speaker 3: be a fairly significant wall that's going to go in
Speaker 3: there to replace it, and what's access like.
Speaker 17: Access from the bottom will be fine, Okay, well, so
Speaker 17: long accounts and yes, and we can come around the
Speaker 17: sign in the honds to work from the top. Yeah,
Speaker 17: but it should probably not should probably.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey, look, there's a lot to try and dig
Speaker 3: through now, but pardon the punt, but yeah, good luck.
Speaker 12: With it all.
Speaker 17: And you suggested what was a property is lawyer?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: I guess it would be really good to have someone
Speaker 3: else look at the situation from a legal point of
Speaker 3: view to give you, especially because of the easement that's involved. Right,
Speaker 3: So for someone to review your property file, to look
Speaker 3: at the terms of the easement and to explain to
Speaker 3: you what whether or not there's any other someone else
Speaker 3: might have some liability for this as well, that's what
Speaker 3: you're looking for. And then if they do, could you
Speaker 3: then draw them in in terms of contributing to the
Speaker 3: cost of the repair.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 17: I did go to the counselor to get the file
Speaker 17: or applied for our property and that seemed to be
Speaker 17: a bit difficult. So that star for the neighboring property
Speaker 17: because they've got the same right, they share the same war.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask that actually, but they don't
Speaker 3: have them.
Speaker 17: They don't have the easement issue. But I'm just trying
Speaker 17: to find a bit of history about yeah, how the
Speaker 17: wall got built because it awarded crid wall to me
Speaker 17: seems a read it.
Speaker 3: Well but again, you know, back in the day, it
Speaker 3: might be thirty forty years ago. I do remember seeing
Speaker 3: them being built, and perhaps today they wouldn't get approval,
Speaker 3: but I suspect that at that time it would have
Speaker 3: got approval. And then what would be interesting too, is
Speaker 3: if it did get approval and it had let's say
Speaker 3: a maximum a minimum life span. Let's say there was
Speaker 3: a building consent issued for that work and the expectation
Speaker 3: is that it would be it would have a lifespan
Speaker 3: of twenty years. Then you're probably outside of that. Let's
Speaker 3: say it had a lifespan of fifty years. Then you
Speaker 3: could go, well, actually might then they've issued the consent,
Speaker 3: they've said that it's going to last fifty years, they've
Speaker 3: accepted it. If it all got signed off and now
Speaker 3: it has failed within that time period, again, could you
Speaker 3: get them to have a you know, could you get
Speaker 3: them to contribute all of which is legal? Right, So
Speaker 3: I think the next step is probably going to be
Speaker 3: spend a bit of money with the lawyer. Yeah, good luck,
Speaker 3: christ all the very best. You take care and let
Speaker 3: us know how you get on. I'll give you an
Speaker 3: update on our last week's retaining will story straight after
Speaker 3: the break.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm just curious.
Speaker 20: When tig Or was given the opportunity they got given extra.
Speaker 3: Time to do their healthy owns plants yeap.
Speaker 20: Healthy climate, Yes, with all apply to providers that they
Speaker 20: sold properties do to back in twenty sixteen, seventeen?
Speaker 3: No Ah, Oh, that's a very good question. So what
Speaker 3: you're saying is, let's say there's an old kayn or
Speaker 3: a house it's been sold to not a private individual,
Speaker 3: but a community housing network type group. Do they also
Speaker 3: get that extension? I suspect that they probably do, but
Speaker 3: that extension is rapidly running out. I think we're talking
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, isn't it.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well there's where I'm talking. We're talking twelve houses, yep,
Speaker 20: just in complete that basically the original leaky homes they
Speaker 20: were built in eighty six, so before anyone started building
Speaker 20: with the chains hardy product. These houses built as press tapes, yep.
Speaker 20: So it's pretty sad that they're still standing, Right's shocking
Speaker 20: the abs that you're rotten, you know. And I believe
Speaker 20: they won't pull them down because the second they take
Speaker 20: the cletting off that everyone's going to see what's behind.
Speaker 3: And that's quite and maybe what they'll do is they'll
Speaker 3: just say, well, look, we're just going to keep letting
Speaker 3: them because we don't have to comply with the healthy
Speaker 3: home standard until the day that we do, at which
Speaker 3: case we'll probably evict people and pull the houses down,
Speaker 3: which is not ideal. But you know, we're also in
Speaker 3: that space where there's a tension between you know, do
Speaker 3: we set a set of standards that exclude people from
Speaker 3: housing even if it's poor housing, given that we have
Speaker 3: such a huge demand for social housing, right so, you know,
Speaker 3: would you rather sleep in a car or sleep in
Speaker 3: the house that's not compliant? Probably want to be in
Speaker 3: a house that's not compliant, even if it's it's.
Speaker 21: Still you know, long term illnesses.
Speaker 3: Not I'm not ignoring that. I'm not ignoring that, but
Speaker 3: you know, I'm just raising that as an issue. I
Speaker 3: think there are some that would that would argue that, hey, look,
Speaker 3: you know, setting up a whole series of regulations around
Speaker 3: housing at the time of a housing crisis might not
Speaker 3: have been the best way to ensure that people have
Speaker 3: at least got somewhere to live, even if it's not great.
Speaker 3: And I'm a huge supporter of good housing for people. Right,
Speaker 3: I'm just being practical as well. Appreciate the comics, Tracy. Right,
Speaker 3: We'll give you an update on the retaining wall straight
Speaker 3: afternoons Sport and weather at eight and remember we're into
Speaker 3: the garden with a red cling past from eight point
Speaker 3: thirty this morning as well.
Speaker 2: Doing other house sorting the garden.
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Speaker 3: Be welcome back to the program. Eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty is the number to call an update on
Speaker 3: a story that we talked about, or a caller last
Speaker 3: week to the program around this time. Actually, Arian who
Speaker 3: lives in Auckland, I think on the north Shore, rang
Speaker 3: and said, look, I've got a retaining wall that's on
Speaker 3: the boundary. It's on my side of the boundary and
Speaker 3: it's collapsing and it borders a council reserve, and so
Speaker 3: I've gone to council to say, hey, look the wall's collapsing,
Speaker 3: you know, can you help out and they've said no,
Speaker 3: not our responsibility. It's on your side of the boundary.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, that was listening to the story
Speaker 3: last week, that's exactly what I thought would be the
Speaker 3: likely outcome. If it's on your side of the boundary,
Speaker 3: it's your wall, you as the homeowner, are responsible for it. However,
Speaker 3: these things are never as simple as they seem, and
Speaker 3: a mate who at the stage will just remain nameless,
Speaker 3: who's very experienced in this area, contacted me, flipped me
Speaker 3: a text while we were talking and said, hey, I
Speaker 3: could go and have a look at that. I've got
Speaker 3: some experience in this field. And he did, and I
Speaker 3: got an email from Rianne saying thank you very much.
Speaker 3: He was very helpful, very knowledgeable, very experienced. And there
Speaker 3: is more to the story, as in the reason that
Speaker 3: the retaining wall is collapsing is because the land, the
Speaker 3: council land is collapsing, is falling away, is eroding, and
Speaker 3: that's undermined the retaining wall of the private property, let's say, so,
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be a little bit more
Speaker 3: to the story over the next couple of months, and
Speaker 3: a geotech engineer is going to go out and investigate
Speaker 3: it as well. So if I get an update, I
Speaker 3: will let you know. Now, just prior to the news
Speaker 3: we were talking with Tracy, she mentioned ko or or
Speaker 3: houses and whether or not. So when Healthy Homes legislation
Speaker 3: came in, which was about twenty seventeen, and houses need
Speaker 3: to be compliant from about twenty nineteen, then I guess,
Speaker 3: with a whole lot of reasons for delay, some of
Speaker 3: those deadlines were pushed out, but most private landlords by
Speaker 3: now would need to be compliant with the new healthy
Speaker 3: Homes standards. So that's around extraction, around insulation, fixed form
Speaker 3: of heating, vapor b areas, et cetera, et cetera, all
Speaker 3: of the regulations that we've become reasonably familiar with now.
Speaker 3: So but interestingly enough, the government's own housing provider, being
Speaker 3: kol kind of order, they had an extension to those
Speaker 3: deadlines so they didn't have to do the same sort
Speaker 3: of work as a private landlord would have to do. Interesting,
Speaker 3: I just thought, I'll see where we're at because my
Speaker 3: understanding was, Okay, they've got slightly longer to do the work,
Speaker 3: but it's actually not that much longer. So I'm looking
Speaker 3: at A press release from November twenty twenty two updates
Speaker 3: to the Healthy Home Standards compliance dates taking effect from
Speaker 3: the twenty sixth of November twenty twenty two. The Government
Speaker 3: has extended the time frame to comply with the Healthy
Speaker 3: Home Standards for private landslords for coming order and for
Speaker 3: community housing providers who have not yet been required to
Speaker 3: comply under the Healthy Home Standards. So all private rentals
Speaker 3: must comply with the Healthy Home Standards within one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty days of any new or renewed tenancy, with
Speaker 3: all private rentals complying by the first of July twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. Now, the reason that it's first of July
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five is, let's say you have an existing tenant.
Speaker 3: You haven't renewed the tenancy because they've gone from fixed
Speaker 3: term to periodical or whatever it is. So you might
Speaker 3: have a tenant who's been in the house for five
Speaker 3: years and who plans to stay for another five years.
Speaker 3: So as a private landlord, you haven't actually had to
Speaker 3: comply with the regulations because nobody's moved out. Short answer,
Speaker 3: but you will have to comply by the first of
Speaker 3: July twenty twenty five, regardless of the nature of the
Speaker 3: tenancy or the agreement. Second part of that, all houses
Speaker 3: rented by a congora formerly Housing New Zealand and registered
Speaker 3: community housing providers must comply by the first of July
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, end of the month beginning of next month.
Speaker 3: That's going to be really interesting to see. All boarding
Speaker 3: houses must already comply with the Healthy Home standards as
Speaker 3: of the first of July twenty twenty one. And then
Speaker 3: there's some useful tools to have a look at. And
Speaker 3: all of this is from the Tenancy dot gov dot
Speaker 3: NZ website. That's that deadline first of July twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four for all KO houses. That's going to be really
Speaker 3: interesting to see how that works out in the next
Speaker 3: what fifteen days before the or less until the first
Speaker 3: of July. Certainly for private landlords if you're doing it
Speaker 3: new tenancy, new tenancy agreement's got to be in there. Oh,
Speaker 3: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 3: What was the other quick text that came through? Good morning,
Speaker 3: Do you need a building consent to fully replace an
Speaker 3: old tile roof with a tinroof from Craig, Yes, would
Speaker 3: be my answer. And part of that is I worked
Speaker 3: my way through during the break through what I find
Speaker 3: actually is a very useful government website, so it's tied
Speaker 3: in with it, you know, building dot gov dot enz.
Speaker 3: If you are ever unsure about what work requires a
Speaker 3: building consent and what doesn't, go to canibuild it dot
Speaker 3: gov dot enz. So can I build it all one
Speaker 3: word effectively all lower case dot gov dot nz And
Speaker 3: in fact, I'll put that a link to that up
Speaker 3: on my Facebook page this morning, so if you go
Speaker 3: to resident builder you'll find the link there. I find it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not one hundred percent like you may
Speaker 3: not get all of the answers, but it will give
Speaker 3: you an indication of whether or not you require a
Speaker 3: building consent for certain types of work. So I worked
Speaker 3: my way through that with that question do I need
Speaker 3: a building consent to fully replace an old tile roof?
Speaker 3: And it said yes. And the reason for it being
Speaker 3: is that if you are planning a substantial or complete
Speaker 3: replacement of any component or assembly that contributes to the
Speaker 3: building's structural behavior, or fire safety. So swapping a heavy
Speaker 3: roof to a light roof has an impact on uplift
Speaker 3: and that might then trigger a requirement for a building consent.
Speaker 3: But either way, on my Facebook page, I will put
Speaker 3: up a link to that site. This morning, Oh eight
Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighty is then number to call goes
Speaker 3: good morning to you. Wait there you go out, augur,
Speaker 3: Please tell me that you're best made? Is Maverick.
Speaker 10: He comes to a sticky geam though, all right, girls,
Speaker 10: what's up? I retains, I'll just listening to your story. Yes,
Speaker 10: on reading a oldest boys looking at buying a house
Speaker 10: over at Wanganui. We went over last week and it
Speaker 10: opened over and had a good look at it. It's
Speaker 10: a beauty or house being Bolton Lne Scene sixteen, but
Speaker 10: one of a retaining wall. On the section that we
Speaker 10: hopefully he does get there's about four foot lower than
Speaker 10: the section beside him, and that's got a concrete drive
Speaker 10: leaning into the retaining wall, and the retaining wall has
Speaker 10: falling over that much as it's sets you leaning up
Speaker 10: against the garage. Then you can see people have tried
Speaker 10: to image it further down along the side of the
Speaker 10: house by putting pillars in it. But that's full of
Speaker 10: black scens like that all the sections of black seeds.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Is that because it will be on the boundary. Is
Speaker 10: that a cost of both parties?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 3: No, Like my typical rule of thumb is that you
Speaker 3: know if it's if it's on let's say it's on
Speaker 3: your mate who's interested in the property. If it's on
Speaker 3: his side of the boundary or her side of the boundary,
Speaker 3: it'll be their response ability. So it's typically who benefits
Speaker 3: from the retaining wall. So again, if I'm on the
Speaker 3: high side and i want a level back section, I'm
Speaker 3: going to put a retaining wall in inside the boundary
Speaker 3: on my side of the boundary line and then backfill
Speaker 3: it to get a level garden. Then I'm responsible for it.
Speaker 3: Let's say the neighbor goes, actually I need to be
Speaker 3: able to excavate down in order to get my house
Speaker 3: to fit underneath the heightened relation to boundary line. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to put a retaining wall on on my
Speaker 3: side of the boundary and excavate down. Well, then they're
Speaker 3: responsible for it. But it sounds like the one that
Speaker 3: you're interested in is the retaining walls on the property
Speaker 3: that you're interested in or your friend is interested in.
Speaker 3: If it's failing, it'll be your responsibility.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, it's quite a big one because the cock
Speaker 10: drawing is actually slip and the water's going off the
Speaker 10: drive down into the black scene and it's just pushed
Speaker 10: it all over. But to do the draw properly you
Speaker 10: have to you have to remove part of this joy
Speaker 10: and then input it. But if it's on the boundary
Speaker 10: rights on too, on the boundary pigs and it's half
Speaker 10: each side, that's a different story.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that would Well, hopefully that's not
Speaker 3: the case, right because you know, retaining walls are different
Speaker 3: to fences, right, and it's not uncommon to put a fence.
Speaker 3: You know, you can go, you can agree with your neighbor.
Speaker 3: Here's the boundary, and we're going to put the post
Speaker 3: half on your side, half on my side. Retaining wolves
Speaker 3: are not like that. They shouldn't be built like that.
Speaker 3: Retaining walls should be solely on one property or the other.
Speaker 10: Okay, well, we can find it.
Speaker 3: Probably, well it might not be in the limb. And
Speaker 3: also don't assume, like if there's not an actual legal
Speaker 3: boundary marker there don't listen to anybody, because I've had
Speaker 3: this once before where someone said, oh, hey, the fence
Speaker 3: is on the boundary, and then when we've actually had
Speaker 3: the survey done founded in fact the boundary was a
Speaker 3: meter and a half, they're away. So unless there's a
Speaker 3: legal boundary peg, Yeah, don't don't take anybody's word for it.
Speaker 10: What we can do then, because because he's done the
Speaker 10: cheat the different things, and then when you probably end
Speaker 10: up owning it, which switch it. Well, it's really the
Speaker 10: best way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, if you make wants to buy it, then
Speaker 3: they're going to and the boundary, the retaining wall is
Speaker 3: on their property. They're going to be liable for the repair.
Speaker 3: So as long as he knows that he's got you know,
Speaker 3: tens of thousands of dollars to spend.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right, that will refleet the price, or say
Speaker 10: but i'll get morning them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, all right, buddy, all the best, take care everybody,
Speaker 3: Ghost fantastic, got to be Maverick's best mate. Oh eight
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number to call?
Speaker 3: Here we go. I knew that would start a bit
Speaker 3: of stuff around the tendancy stuff morning Peak. I've got
Speaker 3: two ghost homes that I personally can live in, but
Speaker 3: sadly I'm not allowed to rent out you to the
Speaker 3: Healthy home standard. Not worth fixing it. Sad but true
Speaker 3: because to be blunt, I don't find that the healthy
Speaker 3: home standard is like, it's not a terribly high bar. Right,
Speaker 3: And to be fair, I have I understand that you know,
Speaker 3: if you choose not to upgrade your property to make
Speaker 3: it Healthy Homes compliant, that's completely up to you as
Speaker 3: a landlord and as a property owner. But to be blunt,
Speaker 3: I've got very little time for landlords who complain about
Speaker 3: complying with the Healthy Home standards because it's just not
Speaker 3: that high a bar. And I speak for experience. It
Speaker 3: is eighteen and a half minutes after eight. We'll take
Speaker 3: short break, then we're going to talk to Ash, then
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Monty, and then we're going
Speaker 3: to jump into the garden with the root climb passed
Speaker 3: from eight thirty.
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Speaker 3: Lying NEWSTALKSB your news talks B. I've popped up the
Speaker 3: link on my Facebook page that you search for a
Speaker 3: resident builder on Facebook, you'll find it there to that
Speaker 3: can I Build It dot gov dot NZ website which
Speaker 3: helps sort of guide you through kind of a yes no,
Speaker 3: sort of flow chart pattern to figure out whether or
Speaker 3: not you might need a building consent for certain types
Speaker 3: of building work. I found it quite useful, so have
Speaker 3: a look at that. And then I found a picture
Speaker 3: of myself at field Days. I might put that up
Speaker 3: as well. We had a great time at field Days.
Speaker 3: I eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number. Ash
Speaker 3: Good morning, Hello, Ash Hey, good morning, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 15: Hey.
Speaker 22: I wanted to know about subsident. Yes, we've recently discovered
Speaker 22: that one of our properties has got subsident along the
Speaker 22: fence side and it's more kind of on the neighbors
Speaker 22: side that it has got more impact on their site,
Speaker 22: but it does touch our boundary.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm just wondering is.
Speaker 22: There a way to get this fixed or is there
Speaker 22: a way because neighbors quite elderly person and they're probably
Speaker 22: not interested in doing anything.
Speaker 3: So I mean, these things do get complicated. So broadly speaking,
Speaker 3: there has been some movement of the land on your
Speaker 3: neighbour's property which has then caused slumping or subsidence on
Speaker 3: your property.
Speaker 22: That's correct, And only where I found out is when
Speaker 22: I put it back on the market. I've tried to
Speaker 22: sell it and the potential purchaser got a report in
Speaker 22: which the subsidence has shown. So we're just wondering what
Speaker 22: could be the next step.
Speaker 11: How do I affect it.
Speaker 3: Without seeing it. It's a little bit difficult to say.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if ground has moved, let's say,
Speaker 3: because typically you know, if there's a slope and the
Speaker 3: slope is moving, and that's considered like a slip or
Speaker 3: a landslide or something like that, then you might end
Speaker 3: up going to EQC and having them engaged. But if
Speaker 3: it's ground movement caused by let's say your neighbor's retaining
Speaker 3: wall giving way and that undermining yours, then you could
Speaker 3: take action against your neighbor potentially. I understand what you're
Speaker 3: saying that they are an elderly person and you don't
Speaker 3: necessarily want to cause upset. The next stage might be
Speaker 3: to have a geotechnical engineer assess the situation, inspect both properties,
Speaker 3: and determine what the cause of it is. And if
Speaker 3: the cause is related to a failure something that your
Speaker 3: neighbor is responsible for, then I suppose you could take
Speaker 3: the attitude well, regardless of age and circumstance, they are
Speaker 3: still responsible for that they're causing potential damage or movement
Speaker 3: to my property as a result of their lack of
Speaker 3: maintenance or poor workmanship in the first place, In which
Speaker 3: case it does, age and circumstance doesn't absolve you of
Speaker 3: your responsibilities. You could go to them, But I suspect
Speaker 3: that your next call is probably going to be to
Speaker 3: a geotechnical engineer.
Speaker 22: Sure, and just pointing that out, this section that we
Speaker 22: have is a quarterreca flat pancake section. The QUARTERCA so
Speaker 22: it's not on a s law, right.
Speaker 3: You sure the subsidence isn't caused by something like a
Speaker 3: pipe collapsing underground or something like that.
Speaker 22: I have no clue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I think I think a geotechnical investigation is
Speaker 3: going to be your next stage because and the reason
Speaker 3: that that might be valuable is also that if there's
Speaker 3: going to be any remedial work done. It's also going
Speaker 3: to require assessment by a geotechnical engineer, so you know,
Speaker 3: any money that you might spend, you'll find that it's
Speaker 3: useful as part of the repair process. Sure, okay, good,
Speaker 3: all the best us take care, Thank you, I think
Speaker 3: and Monty just very quickly, how are you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks McCall beck. You very kindly gave me the
Speaker 8: name of the of a seiler for doing the joints
Speaker 8: and a deck fib like deck. I cannot all those damned?
Speaker 8: Can you what the brand?
Speaker 10: What I should go for?
Speaker 3: Chances are it would have been fixed All. So I
Speaker 3: f I X A double L and that's made by
Speaker 3: sud L h.
Speaker 11: D A L so you d A L.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pseudor is the brand, and then fix All would
Speaker 3: have been the product. And the great thing with that
Speaker 3: is it's a mixture of a silicon so filler with
Speaker 3: an adhesive as well. So once if you've got the
Speaker 3: substrate prepared well and you put that in, it will stay.
Speaker 2: There right now?
Speaker 8: Will that be able to be painted over with?
Speaker 3: You can paint fix All?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 8: For preparations where the thing makes all the difference and
Speaker 8: that's what I'm endeavoring to do and do it properly.
Speaker 3: So it's always it's always about the preparation. Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: so right, and we don't want to hear that when
Speaker 3: we're trying to clean something or we're standing something, or
Speaker 3: we're scraping something or whatever. But ultimately, you know, it's
Speaker 3: always preparation. Good preparation, good result. Poor preparation, no matter
Speaker 3: how good the product is, it ain't going to work.
Speaker 8: No, No, that's great.
Speaker 17: Oh, thank so so much.
Speaker 3: Once again, nice to take care, take care, all the best,
Speaker 3: think your news talks. It'd be let's jump into the garden.
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Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: That must be my turn, and more importantly, Rudd, it's
Speaker 3: your turn.
Speaker 6: Hello, good a how are you.
Speaker 3: You're good, very good and slightly you know, taking a
Speaker 3: Rosie view of the world after having spent a couple
Speaker 3: of days at field days because they're just such good people.
Speaker 6: Evan been there for a while, but I always I
Speaker 6: always enjoy I've always find I have not enough time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know, And it's amazing. What's you
Speaker 3: know like and like I say, I've only been going
Speaker 3: the last on seven or eight years or something like that.
Speaker 3: But you know, you're wandering along and these drones that
Speaker 3: you can use for spraying or you know, the technology
Speaker 3: side of it is amazing. The equipment, of course is fascinating.
Speaker 3: And I just find that the people because they're all doers, right,
Speaker 3: everyone's if everyone's engaged, and I love being around people
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 6: Certainly is talk about drone spraying. You know, when we
Speaker 6: do predator free New Zealand, And for instance, we noticed
Speaker 6: that well not me or but you know the people
Speaker 6: that do it, they knows that the helicopter has missed
Speaker 6: let's say ten meters. Yeah, sure, and obviously they send
Speaker 6: a drone into to fix that. That sort of stuff
Speaker 6: is really cool start.
Speaker 3: But even some of that technology and the use of
Speaker 3: AI to identify predators and pests and traps.
Speaker 6: Yep, you know.
Speaker 3: The I guess the old way of trapping was that
Speaker 3: you had lots of people walking miles and miles through
Speaker 3: the forest and that sort of thing. And now some
Speaker 3: of them, you traps, will recognize what they've captured, they'll
Speaker 3: release ort of you know, it's just incredible.
Speaker 6: You have to remember that I was at in in
Speaker 6: Queenstown this last week where we had a kiwi WHOI
Speaker 6: so whoey about kiwi? Three days of talks about kiwi
Speaker 6: and ai. Stuff is becoming more and more. It comes
Speaker 6: more and more to the actually quite interesting. So these
Speaker 6: traps now identify who's at the front of the trap,
Speaker 6: and then they are to said, no, it's not it's
Speaker 6: not it's not a pest, it's a kiwi or it's
Speaker 6: a you know, something we like, and they hold back,
Speaker 6: they shut up. That's it. But the moment of comes
Speaker 6: make my day.
Speaker 15: That's right.
Speaker 3: Bring it on, sunshine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, you're talking about that. This is just a
Speaker 6: couple of little little things. First of all, we stayed
Speaker 6: in a wonderful little place at Lakeland Christian Camp and
Speaker 6: and there was this is the other thing about this.
Speaker 6: So you go to a place like that and you're
Speaker 6: there with one hundred and something people, and then there's
Speaker 6: Rachel Paula who feed you everything that you can have.
Speaker 6: It's just unbelievable. I just want to shout out to
Speaker 6: these guys. That's wonderful. That is exactly the way it was.
Speaker 6: And the other thing that I think a lot of
Speaker 6: people that are not in the South Island will forget
Speaker 6: is that we now have very soon on the twenty
Speaker 6: first of June, that famous place, the Wanica Mountain Film
Speaker 6: Festival is starting on the twenty first For about sixty
Speaker 6: nine bucks or so, you can actually get yourself a
Speaker 6: subscription for the whole month to watch all these amazing films.
Speaker 6: If you see the trailer of the film Festival, the
Speaker 6: Film Festival in Wanica, you will watch it. I'll bet
Speaker 6: you you will. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I just thought i'd tell you fantastic. Right, let's get
Speaker 3: amongst the calls, fullball calls already and lislie. Let's start
Speaker 3: with you Heally, Hello, Rode.
Speaker 23: I want to know if you can help me. My
Speaker 23: passion fruit has gone feral. It's gone everywhere, and the
Speaker 23: fruit is there as well, so what can I do?
Speaker 23: When should I prune and how far should I prune it?
Speaker 6: I would first of all, let those fruit ripen if
Speaker 6: that's still happening, and then do it afterwards. Yeah, in
Speaker 6: the winter time, you can prune it back. Don't go
Speaker 6: over the top. But but but make it suit your sight,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean.
Speaker 23: Yes, it's okay, thank you, no problem have you?
Speaker 6: Is it still ripening?
Speaker 23: You think, well, I'm not sure that it's just producing
Speaker 23: more fruit.
Speaker 6: Where you were from where you're ringing, you don't have
Speaker 6: any frost. So take it while it goes, keep going.
Speaker 6: But you can then take off at the moment if
Speaker 6: you want to start early, take off those particular vines
Speaker 6: that haven't got fruit on if you like. You can
Speaker 6: prune those back already.
Speaker 23: And probably pinch back the ends with that help.
Speaker 6: Not necessarily, but you could try it. You might find
Speaker 6: it starts to spread out a bit more. You know,
Speaker 6: it starts to put new new branches off just beyond
Speaker 6: the way you pruned it.
Speaker 23: That's six feet high and about about twelve feet wide
Speaker 23: and lush all over.
Speaker 6: And that's why I want you to prune it for
Speaker 6: your own. If you like your own size and height
Speaker 6: that you can reach comfortably.
Speaker 3: I say, right, I'll do that, Okay, all very busy
Speaker 3: to take care, Leslie and Andrew A very good morning
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 24: Morning morning, Rude. Oh on a dairy farm, and we've
Speaker 24: got a lot of native planting that we're interested in going.
Speaker 24: We've already started. But what I was wanting to know
Speaker 24: is a couple of things. How easy is it to
Speaker 24: grow notice from cuttings?
Speaker 6: Quite easy, some of them quite easy, I'll give you. Oh,
Speaker 6: there so many things, peosporums, quite easy, lots of different things,
Speaker 6: whatever you want to do. Are you thinking of hedges
Speaker 6: or just basically trees that are going to be becoming
Speaker 6: trees or shrubs.
Speaker 24: Everything. We've got probably three kilometers just of road frontage
Speaker 24: on a boundary, and then a couple of weird areas,
Speaker 24: some internal planting as well. It's various stages. But I'm
Speaker 24: just wondering, is there any particular site or book or
Speaker 24: anything that you can point me to that might help
Speaker 24: me out and understanding this a bit bitter?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think there is quite I am not sure
Speaker 6: I've got it. For instance, a Yates garden guard here,
Speaker 6: which I usually take with me to the studio. But
Speaker 6: I know that I've at home, I've got quite a
Speaker 6: few books on and taking cuttings and all that sort
Speaker 6: of stuff, but also how you can take cuttings by,
Speaker 6: for instance, layering we call that layering, such as certain
Speaker 6: branches underground by literally digging them into the ground, put
Speaker 6: a brick on them, and basically those little twigs will
Speaker 6: also form roots. You can then cut it off after
Speaker 6: a year if they're all okay, and you use that
Speaker 6: as a new plant. And to be quite honest, if
Speaker 6: you're talking about three and a half kilometers of frontage,
Speaker 6: you might want to save yourself some dish by doing
Speaker 6: it yourself. And for that reason, I suggest get something
Speaker 6: like a shade house that is usually very useful for
Speaker 6: seeds but also for cuttings.
Speaker 3: Okay, Can I jump in as well and just say
Speaker 3: the other thing, Andrew is have a look around your community,
Speaker 3: right and undoubtedly you'll find some ecological restoration groups that
Speaker 3: have sprung up because you know this bitter than I do.
Speaker 3: They're everywhere now, which is so awesome. And get the
Speaker 3: advice and connect with them. And again, I'm thinking about
Speaker 3: restoring takodonghaki that work me where I am you know
Speaker 3: this community group that's now developed a nursery and is
Speaker 3: propagating maybe as many as forty thousand seedlings a year.
Speaker 3: So you know, if you connect with a local group
Speaker 3: and then get some advice and some guidance from them,
Speaker 3: or perhaps work collaboratively with them, you know, you don't
Speaker 3: have to reinvent the wheel, do you.
Speaker 24: No, sorry, one to look on a thing quickly. So
Speaker 24: the pest protectors that you put on to protect plants
Speaker 24: when they're young, how long would you leave them on for?
Speaker 24: Because we do have pakekiko and other birds on farm
Speaker 24: that can be but a little frustrating if you take
Speaker 24: them off or don't even put the protectors on initially.
Speaker 24: So I was just wondering how long you'd.
Speaker 11: Leave them on.
Speaker 6: Well, the problem is that I haven't. I haven't got
Speaker 6: a good because we don't, thank god, haven't got many
Speaker 6: pook kickers where I have been and where i'm so
Speaker 6: I'm not that good at this. But protectors are always
Speaker 6: good for the first year or two sometimes because it
Speaker 6: also stops weeds overgrowing your new plants. That's quite an
Speaker 6: important thing. But you know what if I have if
Speaker 6: I were really cheeky, I would say, especially if you're
Speaker 6: near Christchurch, go to Burnside Primary and ask the years,
Speaker 6: the kids who are eight, nine, ten years because they
Speaker 6: actually build gardens to reintroduce a rather amazing butterfly back
Speaker 6: into the city of Grossiers. And they now to take cuttings,
Speaker 6: no how to do the seeds. They know it all.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. You know, connect with your local
Speaker 3: ecological groups and you know just so much information and
Speaker 3: so much goodwill as well. Great one, Andrew, Thanks, appreciate
Speaker 3: it and love the w that you're about to do.
Speaker 3: I think that's super exciting. We should take a break
Speaker 3: and then we'll talk to Bruce and then we'll be
Speaker 3: back in just a moment.
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Speaker 3: Your News Talks. It been Bruce. Good morning to you, sir,
Speaker 3: is good morning.
Speaker 4: I've got a problem with strawberries.
Speaker 6: What's the problem.
Speaker 4: Wonderful plants, great rubbers, but no throat. All I produce
Speaker 4: is some rubbers after runner after runner.
Speaker 6: Which is good because there was a real scarcity of
Speaker 6: plants last year.
Speaker 4: Remember that's right. And I've now got probably fifty plants.
Speaker 6: That's fine, that's okay, But here we go from here on.
Speaker 6: What do you use as fertilized bruise, Well.
Speaker 4: The normal strawberry fertilizer, and of I've got a few
Speaker 4: extra plants on the glasshouse and I've got so potters
Speaker 4: on them.
Speaker 6: Yes you don't, you don't. That's quite often the way
Speaker 6: to go. But you have to remember that this time
Speaker 6: of the year. Of course, there's not much flowering going
Speaker 6: on in nothing, no, no, no, but it does pay
Speaker 6: to give him from from early spring, really early spring,
Speaker 6: let's say August September, a little bit of that potage
Speaker 6: to just remind them, hello, wake up, time to flower. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that is probably the way to go. Have you
Speaker 6: done that last year too?
Speaker 4: Well? I thought I did last year, but all my
Speaker 4: producer was runner Still I just think them out or
Speaker 4: keep persevering, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Keep persevering. But that potage should do it. That's self
Speaker 6: made of potash. If you water that into the soil,
Speaker 6: you know, of course, the soil's got to be nice
Speaker 6: and well drained and full of organic material. As you know,
Speaker 6: you do that too, I'm sure yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Well then it's the potage that should really wake those
Speaker 6: plants up. I would persevere with it.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, thanks for that.
Speaker 6: Good luck, Bruce, bye bye.
Speaker 3: All the best Bruce, you take care, and Diane a
Speaker 3: very good morning.
Speaker 25: Good morning Rose. I've got a bit of a challenge,
Speaker 25: and you helped me once before with my gloggy soil.
Speaker 25: It's about three or four years ago. But now I
Speaker 25: have gardens full of breastcas and spinach and silver beet
Speaker 25: at for different stages and all sorts of varieties of things.
Speaker 25: My leaks, however, have green soil.
Speaker 7: What have I done?
Speaker 25: Everything tiled apart from around my leaks.
Speaker 6: Oh, so, so the leaks are still in? What you
Speaker 6: mean you haven't? You haven't literally this is a new
Speaker 6: winter garden, okay. And what's wrong with the leaks.
Speaker 25: Well, the soil around the leaks has gone green.
Speaker 6: Soil has gone green? What with wheat or what?
Speaker 12: Am?
Speaker 20: I started it with a with a.
Speaker 25: Put the normal sheep poos and then chicken pools, and
Speaker 25: then I put the leaks in. After that, so normal
Speaker 25: trenching and then put the leaks in.
Speaker 6: That is the way I would do it for leaks.
Speaker 6: Because leaks are very nitrogen hungry things, aren't they. And
Speaker 6: but they are not growing very well. Is that what
Speaker 6: you're saying.
Speaker 25: No, they're not growing. But the soil, the soil has
Speaker 25: has got a green tinge. So the rist of guns
Speaker 25: fine toiled and everything, but the soil around the lakes
Speaker 25: has gone green.
Speaker 6: I would I've never seen it like described like that,
Speaker 6: or never seen it like the way you described it.
Speaker 6: Let's put it that way. I'm not sure what that
Speaker 6: green tinge means, and it might be that it wants
Speaker 6: some uh, phosphates for the for the roots of the
Speaker 6: plants to grow with, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 6: you can't just you can't just have an animal manure.
Speaker 6: I suppose on plants like that you sometimes do have
Speaker 6: to give them a little bit of general fertilizer with
Speaker 6: the normal balance of N, P and K. But in
Speaker 6: this case, especially the P you don't need the K,
Speaker 6: you don't want it the flower, but the phosphate is
Speaker 6: the one that might be lacking.
Speaker 25: Okay, I'll give that a try. Thank you very much
Speaker 25: for your help.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Diane, take care and Jerry, hey.
Speaker 7: There, good morning. I'd like to speaks rude about blackberries.
Speaker 7: Please go for it.
Speaker 6: Tell me what's the problem.
Speaker 7: We're we have some lovely BlackBerry wines. We get a
Speaker 7: lot of blackberries off them, but we find that the
Speaker 7: fruit is not as sweet as the local nature blackberries.
Speaker 7: What can I add to the soil to improve that sweetness?
Speaker 6: Potash? I know that for a fact. It goes for
Speaker 6: a lot of different plants like this, especially the berry plants.
Speaker 6: If you give them a little bit of selfate of potash,
Speaker 6: they not only set more fruit and are more willing
Speaker 6: to put more fruit, but the fruits also become sweeter.
Speaker 6: The same with the with the citrus as well. By
Speaker 6: the way, Oh great, yeah, So get yourself a little
Speaker 6: big selfate of potash already. Yeah, And you use it
Speaker 6: with and you use it as an add on to
Speaker 6: the normal general fertilizer like United Fosco Blue or whatever
Speaker 6: you use, and.
Speaker 7: You'll find it occasionally throughout.
Speaker 12: The year or.
Speaker 6: Night when you remember there you were just a bit
Speaker 6: thank you.
Speaker 7: And on another line, you will know Peter Sware Sport
Speaker 7: with the Doctor in college. Yeah yeah, what a great
Speaker 7: what a great band.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know the trinkle has been You don't worry,
Speaker 6: do you know? I'm a Jespianist.
Speaker 7: I did. That's one reason why I mentioned it, because
Speaker 7: I know you're into chat.
Speaker 3: Playing all of this theory. Take care and Jason, a
Speaker 3: very good morning to you.
Speaker 6: Oh hello, hello Jason. Where are you? Madiard?
Speaker 21: Thank you list. I went to the walk to Point Ship,
Speaker 21: which is an Auckland western springs at the zoo. Yeah,
Speaker 21: and it was raining and I spripped back two treezes
Speaker 21: bar and I couldn't see one water.
Speaker 6: Oh where did where?
Speaker 19: Did?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 6: Did you look for them?
Speaker 21: Just in the It was raining at the time, so
Speaker 21: I was under under a shelter of the trees. Yeah,
Speaker 21: you know, I thought I barking under some subs under
Speaker 21: the lea leaves and stuff, and I didn't see one
Speaker 21: meta wondering.
Speaker 17: W fot them?
Speaker 6: Well, if you if you go in that area. I
Speaker 6: used to find them hidden in the back of large
Speaker 6: pine trees, for.
Speaker 3: Instance, pine trees.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, no, they don't eat pine trees. But what
Speaker 6: I mean is, do you know how pine tree bark
Speaker 6: has got these wonderful grooves in it?
Speaker 19: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Not not okay, Well there you go. It's stuff like that.
Speaker 6: That's one place where you'd find them. The second place
Speaker 6: you could find them is especially when it's dark. Of course,
Speaker 6: when they come out is when they come out of
Speaker 6: old holes made by poor moth caterpillars. And you can
Speaker 6: find those not only in poor but also in the
Speaker 6: wetter in trees like that. And you'll find them coming
Speaker 6: out of those holes in Aukland, especially at night.
Speaker 21: What what what are these words for?
Speaker 7: Quite?
Speaker 6: What do these their worms look like? What do you mean?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 6: What do those holes look like?
Speaker 3: The holes?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the holes look like somebody has chewed a little
Speaker 6: bit on the bark in a diamond shaped pattern. There's
Speaker 6: a hole in the middle that goes into the tree
Speaker 6: and down in the shape of a seven. And that
Speaker 6: is a second hand dwelling for a tree weather and
Speaker 6: you'll find them even in the Chinese privet trees. They
Speaker 6: seem to love Chinese privt trees. So those holes are
Speaker 6: made by caterpillars over about five year time spent, and
Speaker 6: when they have emerged as big moths and flown away
Speaker 6: and did their mating and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 6: the holes remain and weather go like this is my
Speaker 6: house and they take it over really well, never go.
Speaker 10: You do they bite?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they do, especially if you pick them up. But
Speaker 6: if you let them walk on you. When you let
Speaker 6: let them walk on you and you touch their antenna
Speaker 6: so they know what you smell like and get used
Speaker 6: to you, you can have a weather literally as a pet.
Speaker 6: And most of the kids that have worked with me
Speaker 6: will know exactly. My girlfriend is Dorothy. She's a female weather.
Speaker 6: She goes to all the schools and and she walks
Speaker 6: over the kids. She does everything. But initially, if you,
Speaker 6: for instance, mishandle them, Yep, they can bite and it
Speaker 6: can hurt.
Speaker 21: Well, I see them and I think, well they must
Speaker 21: arg you, but they don't.
Speaker 6: Well they can, they can.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Jason, you have a great day, and
Speaker 3: ian a very good morning to you.
Speaker 17: Good morning to you.
Speaker 26: I'm looking to take cuttings off Lily Pilly and grow
Speaker 26: it and I'm watching to see what sort of length
Speaker 26: I should be cutting them out, and then what sort
Speaker 26: of media I should put it into. Tried putting it
Speaker 26: into a promised next, but it didn't seem to take
Speaker 26: very well.
Speaker 6: Okay are you And the reason you've said promise is
Speaker 6: because you needed You know that you need to take
Speaker 6: cuttings in reasonably well drained materials, right, Yeah, okay, what
Speaker 6: I do with Look, first of all, why would you
Speaker 6: use lily Pilly? By the way, can I ask some
Speaker 6: I'm quite quite curious about that for hedge for a hedge, okay,
Speaker 6: may I warning warning, Lily Pilly will get sillots, they
Speaker 6: will get honeyjew on them, they get sooty mold on them.
Speaker 6: Lily Pilly are also the plants that can transmit myrtle rust.
Speaker 6: So as a hedge, I think lily Pilly should from
Speaker 6: now on bee band. As an Australian interloper or South America,
Speaker 6: I might never is sure where they're from. Australian or
Speaker 6: South American interloper. That is actually causing usually more questions
Speaker 6: to this talkback radio show than any other plants. So
Speaker 6: if you, if you're a nice hatch, get yourself a
Speaker 6: native one, a karakia or a bit of sporum or
Speaker 6: something like that. Where where where do you? Where are
Speaker 6: you ringing from?
Speaker 10: Ian?
Speaker 6: Where do you live?
Speaker 7: Hy?
Speaker 6: Is that near Auckland?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 11: No, it's out of.
Speaker 6: Oh there? Okay, See if you can go to a
Speaker 6: local the Hamilton Botannic Gardens would problems probably have really
Speaker 6: good examples of what you can plant in your area
Speaker 6: and find a really nice native thing that you can
Speaker 6: use as a hedge. And to me quite honest, the
Speaker 6: cuttings go. Here's my recipe, half botting mix, half fine pumas,
Speaker 6: and probably it's the lack of the potting miss mix
Speaker 6: that caused it to dry out too quick. Your your cuttings,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, And that's why they failed.
Speaker 3: Okay, ex no, you know everything you can do it
Speaker 3: probably not where Ian thought the conversation was going to go,
Speaker 3: But as soon as he said, Lily Pili I'm going
Speaker 3: to I was like, Hey, I'm wondering how long it's
Speaker 3: going to take for the hammer drops any gues? Yeah,
Speaker 3: not a great plant.
Speaker 6: I might as well be honest about that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it is. Yeah, yeah, No, I mean anyone I
Speaker 3: know who's put on lipoli hedges it just Ton pain, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and contributing to, you know, the spirad of metal rust,
Speaker 3: which is not a great thing. So yeah, you're right,
Speaker 3: let's let's get rid of the damn thing. There you go, right,
Speaker 3: A very quick final call from you, Roger, how are you? Sir?
Speaker 12: Oh coo moya one minds lives in our isn't.
Speaker 6: Sorry? Sorry I could didn't get that.
Speaker 12: Sorry, one unranger knew and fun guard and one blows
Speaker 12: to believe and one loss leaves yet oh that.
Speaker 6: Could be because it's a different genetic genetic genetic species
Speaker 6: if you like. And also you're fertilized them both, have you. Yeah,
Speaker 6: well then they should be going all right, don't worry,
Speaker 6: it's just a matter of time. They might be a
Speaker 6: couple of weeks late.
Speaker 3: There you are, thank you don't always have to freak
Speaker 3: out a that's.
Speaker 6: Right, certainly not.
Speaker 3: Stay calm and yours too. In fact, let's do it
Speaker 3: again next week. Take care of mate, all the best now.
Speaker 3: Last week, a couple of weeks ago on the show,
Speaker 3: we did a little giveaway from my mates at Roobe,
Speaker 3: which was great and Cheryl was the winner of that,
Speaker 3: and as it happens, she lived not too far from
Speaker 3: where I had to run some errand, so I dropped
Speaker 3: in to see her last Sunday, which was delightful and
Speaker 3: a very worthy recipient of that prize pack from Raobi,
Speaker 3: so that was a big pleasure. That was lovely. Actually
Speaker 3: last week Cheryl having a bit of a chat with you,
Speaker 3: and actually turns out today's my nephew next birthday, so
Speaker 3: I'm going to embarrass him by saying happy birthday and
Speaker 3: lots of love.
Speaker 2: Mate.
Speaker 3: Right, let's go and do this all again next Sunday.
Speaker 3: Have a great week and we will see you, Oh Joseph.
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