Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident build Up podcast with Peter
Speaker 1: wolf Camp from News Talks at Bay.
Speaker 2: The house is a hole even when it's dark, even
Speaker 2: when the grass is overgrown in the yard, even when
Speaker 2: a dog.
Speaker 1: Is too old to bar, and.
Speaker 2: When you're sitting at the table trying not to start
Speaker 2: scissor home, even when we are band gone, even when
Speaker 2: you're there alone. A house is a hole, even when
Speaker 2: those goes, even when you got around from the world.
Speaker 2: You love your moves, scream broken plans, being in funder locals,
Speaker 2: vestball when they're gone, leaving the cars, even when weilravan long,
Speaker 2: even when you're there.
Speaker 3: Alone, And a very good morning to you. It is
Speaker 3: a beautiful Sunday morning. Actually, it was a gorgeous sunrise
Speaker 3: as I headed across the Harbor Bridge this morning on
Speaker 3: my way into the city and caught a glimpse of
Speaker 3: the sun rising through the Putakaoa trees alongside the beach
Speaker 3: not far from where we live. Stunning, stunning day. So
Speaker 3: hopefully it's going to be a beautiful day. I know
Speaker 3: that it has been terrible, terrible weather in parts of
Speaker 3: the South Island and reports of severe damage to the
Speaker 3: motorway network and pictures of cars floating down rivers down
Speaker 3: in the South Island as well, so a day of
Speaker 3: some contrast. Anyway, good morning, welcome along to the show.
Speaker 3: My name's Pete wolf Camp, the resident Builder, and this
Speaker 3: is the Resident Builder on Sunday, an opportunity to talk
Speaker 3: all things building and construction. And when you start to
Speaker 3: look at building and construction, you recognize, I guess the
Speaker 3: sheer scale and scope of it in terms of how
Speaker 3: it intersects with our own lives, that there was a
Speaker 3: job that I suddenly something changed at our place yesterday.
Speaker 3: There's a gap in the fence, right, I've got to
Speaker 3: fix that. That goes on to another list of things
Speaker 3: that I've got to do. So that's one part of
Speaker 3: it I was at. Actually I had the opportunity and
Speaker 3: very kindly invited along to the Apprentice of the Year.
Speaker 3: This is the Carpentry Apprentice of the Year, sponsored by
Speaker 3: Master Builders, sponsored by Carts and undoubtedly a few others,
Speaker 3: and I went out and had to look at the
Speaker 3: practical part of it. This is where the top nine
Speaker 3: apprentices from around the country who have won their regional
Speaker 3: events then compete in a practical challenge. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: a bit more about that later on. And then on
Speaker 3: Friday night at Agala in the city, a formal dinner
Speaker 3: were awarded or the Apprentice of the Year was awarded,
Speaker 3: and you know, so apprenticeships, training, that's all part of
Speaker 3: the construction sector. And then actually I was just tuning
Speaker 3: in and getting things set up here and I've just
Speaker 3: looked at this headline why a builder called the cops
Speaker 3: on a couple that had just built a house for
Speaker 3: so maybe disputes and debate and discussion around how good
Speaker 3: the work is. That's all part of construction as well.
Speaker 3: So at intersects. I think buildings intersects without our lives
Speaker 3: all of the time. So if you've got a question
Speaker 3: about a maintenance project, a question about a new build,
Speaker 3: a question about regulations, which is a big part of
Speaker 3: what we often talk about on the show, questions about
Speaker 3: trades people, questions about sort of managing trades, people selecting
Speaker 3: products and items constantly as well, then this is the
Speaker 3: show for you. Looking forward to your calls, your conversation
Speaker 3: this morning here at Newstalk SEB. A little bit later on,
Speaker 3: and in fact, I bumped into Jay, our painting expert
Speaker 3: from Razine at the Construct event which ran alongside or
Speaker 3: the practical part of the Apprentice of the Year was
Speaker 3: happening at the same time as the trade show Constructed
Speaker 3: was happening on the North Shore on Thursday, so bumped
Speaker 3: into both Ray to j and Bryce out to regular
Speaker 3: Razine painting experts. If you've ever wondered what they look like.
Speaker 3: There's a little photograph on my Facebook page of the
Speaker 3: three of us on Thursday, so I'm the ugly one
Speaker 3: in the corner. So Jay will be with us from
Speaker 3: around seven twenty five. If you've got a painting question
Speaker 3: that you'd like a specific answer to, then give me
Speaker 3: a specific question and I'll put it to Jay, our
Speaker 3: painting expert at around seven to twenty five this morning.
Speaker 3: As always we jump into the garden with roud Climb,
Speaker 3: so if you've got a gardening or entomological question, d
Speaker 3: will be available from eight point thirty this morning. And
Speaker 3: to be fair, I'm not hanging around after the show,
Speaker 3: not that it matters to you a jot, but I'm
Speaker 3: going to shoot off from here. I've got some jobs
Speaker 3: to do at the Saint Leo's Catholic Primary School Fair,
Speaker 3: which is an annual event in Devenport and Auckland's north Shore.
Speaker 3: The fair kicks off, by the way, I'll mentioned this
Speaker 3: a couple of times to be fair. To be fair
Speaker 3: about the fair at eleven o'clock this morning, so I
Speaker 3: went and picked up a generator from high Pool that'll
Speaker 3: run all the food stands. So I've got to go
Speaker 3: and run out some extension cords and check a few things.
Speaker 3: That'll be me for the rest of it. Well, for
Speaker 3: a decent chunk of the day at the Saint Leo's
Speaker 3: Catholic Primary School in Devenport on the Auckland north Shore,
Speaker 3: eleven till three. Great food, can I say as well?
Speaker 3: And the White Elephant Boy they collect some great stuff
Speaker 3: in there as well. So there you go. That's my
Speaker 3: plug for the Saint Leo's School fair later on today.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for something to do and you can
Speaker 3: handle that road, it'd be lovely to see you there. Right,
Speaker 3: let's get into it. What's on your mind? What either
Speaker 3: troubles you, intrigues you keeps you awake at night, or
Speaker 3: you're just generally curious about all things building and construction.
Speaker 3: If you've got a question, i'd really I'll give it
Speaker 3: a red hot crack at giving you a decent answer
Speaker 3: on that. So eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 3: the number to call. Hazel A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4: Good morning. I'm ashamed to say no maintenance has been
Speaker 4: done on a dirty plus years and it's that's hardboard
Speaker 4: that's made to look like timber with grain in it. Now,
Speaker 4: my son in law is coming up to replace a
Speaker 4: rotten Hopes board and he has to lift the where
Speaker 4: the roof comes over the top of it to take
Speaker 4: it off. He's going to clean the area before he
Speaker 4: does it. Now, if he was to use water blasting,
Speaker 4: that wouldn't be good.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: Let's just go back a step. So the weatherboard product
Speaker 3: that you're talking about, is it's effectively like a hardboard
Speaker 3: that was then no, no, it's.
Speaker 4: Like fiber light.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, if it is a fiber cement sheet, then yeah,
Speaker 3: you can use a water blaster. But really, what before
Speaker 3: you do any exterior paint prep. What you well, the
Speaker 3: paint prep you should be doing is essentially using proprietary
Speaker 3: wash like a house washed product, applying that and rinsing
Speaker 3: it off. And yes, you can use use the water
Speaker 3: blast to add a distance to rinse it off. But
Speaker 3: you know, water blasting houses two or three inches away
Speaker 3: from the surface is certainly not recommended.
Speaker 6: Yes, what's that?
Speaker 3: And the condition of the The other thing is you
Speaker 3: need to be a little bit gentle with older fiber
Speaker 3: cement sheets because they do get a little bit brittle.
Speaker 3: So that's another reason not to apply too much force
Speaker 3: when you're cleaning or prepping them, because in some cases
Speaker 3: you can get some breakages.
Speaker 4: Yes, there's mold growing on.
Speaker 3: Well again if you use something like well, we'll be
Speaker 3: talking to j from Razine later on. They have a
Speaker 3: house wash prep which will also deal with that mold
Speaker 3: and all of that sort of organic material that builds up.
Speaker 3: So apply that agitate lightly, let it sit there for
Speaker 3: a little while, and then rinse it off, and then
Speaker 3: that you'll with the organic material. You probably don't even
Speaker 3: really need to give it a sand or if you did,
Speaker 3: just a very light sand, I would actually suggest, and
Speaker 3: I know we're straying into painting territory here a primer
Speaker 3: and then two top coats.
Speaker 4: Is the houses underneath account wood tree. The tree has
Speaker 4: over overhung the house, right, and that's why that area
Speaker 4: when you get to the other end of the house
Speaker 4: where the garret comes out, the budge board is in
Speaker 4: good conditions and just needs painting. But where the tree
Speaker 4: has ever hung the house, it's called when we water
Speaker 4: thirty years ago. The previous zone is that had it
Speaker 4: for two years, and the water drinking on the constant
Speaker 4: the tree. He was actually banging on the roof when
Speaker 4: we came. But the drive is between the tree and
Speaker 4: the house. And so.
Speaker 3: I think too, Hazel, you know, I mean, I'm obviously
Speaker 3: a big fan of suggesting that we need to do
Speaker 3: regular maintenance, and there are huge advantages to doing it.
Speaker 3: But I think also with some types of houses, and
Speaker 3: yours sounds quite robust. It's I don't want to encourage this,
Speaker 3: but it's amazing sometimes just how robust they are and
Speaker 3: how resilient they are. And something like the fiber cment sheet,
Speaker 3: for example, you know that will be probably a lot
Speaker 3: more durable over time with little to no maintenance on
Speaker 3: it than some other products. So you know, I don't
Speaker 3: think you should feel too bad about it in the
Speaker 3: sense that there's probably very little permanent damage done. But
Speaker 3: if you can get up and replace the barge boards,
Speaker 3: and I mean, look, I had some eyes that I
Speaker 3: know working for someone the other day replacing a barge
Speaker 3: board on a house, and that had been well maintained.
Speaker 3: It's just that one happened to rot out other barge
Speaker 3: boards around the house. So I wouldn't beat yourself up
Speaker 3: too much, Hazel, I'm too.
Speaker 4: Old to do it. I used to do maintenance. We
Speaker 4: had a holiday home and we painted. I painted the
Speaker 4: roofs and did all that years ago that i'm too
Speaker 4: old now to I have heard to go I'm not Yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't.
Speaker 3: Want to be up a ladder. No, look, Hazel, it's
Speaker 3: great that someone's coming to help you. It's your family
Speaker 3: that are coming to help out. I'm sure it'll be
Speaker 3: absolutely fine. Just easy on the water blasting and it'll
Speaker 3: be all good. Lovely to talk with you, Hazel, take
Speaker 3: care it is. Let me see eighteen almost eighteen and
Speaker 3: a half minutes after six. We've got a couple of
Speaker 3: spare lines. We always get busy laid in the show,
Speaker 3: so if you've got a question then call now, oh
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. You can text as
Speaker 3: well any questions. Remember our painting expert j will be
Speaker 3: along at around seven twenty five seven thirty this morning.
Speaker 3: So if you've got any specific painting questions or you've
Speaker 3: got some general building questions, text them through nine to
Speaker 3: ninety two. If you'd like to email me, particularly with
Speaker 3: things like pictures and so on, then it's Pete atnewstok
Speaker 3: SB dot co dot n said quick text before we
Speaker 3: go to the bait break building a deck? Are we
Speaker 3: better off using random links or finger jointed quila? You've
Speaker 3: caught me on the hot there alistair, I didn't realize
Speaker 3: that you could buy finger jointed queller. I guess I
Speaker 3: don't see why you shouldn't use it. I suppose the
Speaker 3: advantages that it would come in a regular length, like
Speaker 3: they'll all be four point eight or five point four
Speaker 3: meters long, which case, if that's an advantage, that's great.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think anyone really ever looks at
Speaker 3: a deck and goes, oh, gosh, there's a join there.
Speaker 3: Isn't that unfortunate. If they're neatly detailed, then it's great.
Speaker 3: Although I tell you what, he's a little tip for you.
Speaker 3: Make sure that if you do end up with random
Speaker 3: lengths of timber and you're cutting them and then but
Speaker 3: joining them together, take the thirty seconds it takes to
Speaker 3: take a piece of sandpaper from your apron and just
Speaker 3: give that edge a sand, just a light sand to
Speaker 3: remove the last little bits of furry fiber that poke up.
Speaker 3: I went and had to look at a job the
Speaker 3: other day, I'm not going to say where it was
Speaker 3: or whatever, and we were looking at sort of the
Speaker 3: overall quality of it, et cetera, et cetera. And as
Speaker 3: I wandered around, they just laid a brand new deck
Speaker 3: actually just using pine decking, which is absolutely fine. And
Speaker 3: they'd used straight runs of pine and then had it
Speaker 3: trimmed with like effectively a face or a barge running
Speaker 3: around the perimeter to hide the end grain, which is lovely,
Speaker 3: but no one had taken the time just to take
Speaker 3: a bit of sandpaper and just rub that little furry
Speaker 3: bit off the edge of the cut. Looked at that
Speaker 3: and thought that deck would look a lot better with
Speaker 3: just that little little bit of attention to detail. So
Speaker 3: there you go. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 3: number to call. We'll take a short break, will take
Speaker 3: your calls straight after the break. So call us now
Speaker 3: eight hundred eighty ten eighty. You're with new SOKB. A
Speaker 3: couple of quick texts as well, but love you call
Speaker 3: so I eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number
Speaker 3: to call? Sorry about that morning, Pete. We have an
Speaker 3: MDF lacquered kitchen cabinetry. The door has a small has
Speaker 3: some small swelling due to water. I'd like to repair
Speaker 3: and relacquer the cupboard frontage. Do you have any suggestions
Speaker 3: on the best approach to a repair for that? Look
Speaker 3: One of the challenges with MDF typically, particularly older MDF,
Speaker 3: So there's a new sort of variety of MDF which
Speaker 3: has more resistance to moisture, and it's it's built into
Speaker 3: the product at the time of manufacture, so it's not
Speaker 3: like standard, the old fashioned standard MDF, where if you
Speaker 3: got it wet, it will well and once it's swollen,
Speaker 3: apart from standing it vigorously, there's very little you can
Speaker 3: do about that. So if it's a slightly older kitchen,
Speaker 3: or if you know what type of MDF was used
Speaker 3: in the actual doors, chances are you won't be able
Speaker 3: to do a lot about the swelling of the door
Speaker 3: without sort of stripping the door quite extensively and then
Speaker 3: having it relackered. If you know who made the door
Speaker 3: the kitchen in the first place. I'd be tempted to
Speaker 3: invite them back and have a look at There are
Speaker 3: some companies that come and do the spraying on site,
Speaker 3: so they'll do a color match, or if you still
Speaker 3: have records of the color, they'll do a color match
Speaker 3: or have those records and respray the cabinetry in situ.
Speaker 3: It might be a case that someone comes along, takes
Speaker 3: the cabinetry or the frontages off, takes them to the
Speaker 3: factory and resprays them, and then comes and reinstalls them.
Speaker 3: It's given that it's a lacquer. It's really hard to
Speaker 3: do yourself, let's say, unless you've got spray equipment and
Speaker 3: the right type of paint and so on and so forth.
Speaker 3: So there are some kitchen makeover type companies that are
Speaker 3: out there as well. I'd be getting in touch with them. Shower,
Speaker 3: here's a shower question for you. Showers are a bit
Speaker 3: old and I want to update it. Can I replace
Speaker 3: just the frame or do I have to change the
Speaker 3: liner and the pan? Is it di wiable? Well, ultimately
Speaker 3: everything's di wible. If you really want to have a
Speaker 3: crack now in this case, you can. It'll just be
Speaker 3: a case of finding an off the shelf shower screen
Speaker 3: that will fit your existing one. But you know, if,
Speaker 3: for example, it's a seven fifty by nine hundred or
Speaker 3: a nine hundred by nine hundred return shower, then that
Speaker 3: should be readily available. So unscrew the well, find the
Speaker 3: new one first, make sure that it fits, then unscrew
Speaker 3: the old one and replace it, and just pay a
Speaker 3: little bit of attention to making sure that you get
Speaker 3: the ceilant in the right place and that any penetrations
Speaker 3: additional penetrations you might have put in there are also
Speaker 3: well sealed. Go eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 3: number to call. We'll do a couple more texts in
Speaker 3: just a moment, but if you've got a question you'd
Speaker 3: like an answer to, then call us right now. Oh,
Speaker 3: eight hundred eighty ten eighty Karen, A very good morning
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Hi, how are you, Pete?
Speaker 3: It's pretty good things.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Look, we do regular maintenance on the house every
Speaker 7: year and have the house washed, and I'm so glad
Speaker 7: that I do it. I do it now. I know
Speaker 7: this is probably to do with insects, but you deal
Speaker 7: with damage to wood as well, don't you. So we
Speaker 7: had this moth in the garden and it's laid eggs
Speaker 7: into the wood. Have you heard of that before?
Speaker 3: What type have.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: You know your house, your house would okay.
Speaker 3: So into weatherboards or trims or yeah.
Speaker 7: We've been into the weather board itself. So the guy
Speaker 7: that washed the house, he shows me and he told
Speaker 7: me to pick them off that once they get really
Speaker 7: hard into the wood, you can't pick it up, pick
Speaker 7: it off. And I just wondered if you'd heard about it,
Speaker 7: and how does it really?
Speaker 3: Is it that sort of thing where it almost looks
Speaker 3: like you know when you go to the Rocky Seashore
Speaker 3: and you see the little limpets that are attached and
Speaker 3: they're kind of about well maybe two centimeters long and
Speaker 3: ribbed on the surface. Is it that type of appearance
Speaker 3: where they they.
Speaker 7: Know it's a black spot?
Speaker 3: A black spot? Wow?
Speaker 7: Would they lay the egg into the wood?
Speaker 3: So when you say into the wood, so they drill
Speaker 3: or burrow their way into the timber and then lay
Speaker 3: their eggs there.
Speaker 7: I don't know. He just said that they just to
Speaker 7: get He said it's only just started on a very
Speaker 7: like he got into the plant and told me to
Speaker 7: get rid of the plant. We have done yep, but
Speaker 7: last night is out and I could see all these
Speaker 7: tiny moths.
Speaker 3: You know how interesting?
Speaker 7: Okay, and you said that people have to paint their
Speaker 7: whole houses because of these.
Speaker 3: Moths, right, yeah, look, it's possible. I suppose. What I'm
Speaker 3: kind of intrigued about is that, you know, one of
Speaker 3: the reasons that we treat timber in this country is
Speaker 3: to prevent insects, right, it will prevent infestation from insects,
Speaker 3: so and certainly exterior timbers are treated in the same
Speaker 3: way that it's it's an insecticide. So the thought of
Speaker 3: moths kind of burrowing their way in and then laying
Speaker 3: their eggs there and so on, I wonder whether I mean, look,
Speaker 3: if your house needs a paint at some stage anyway,
Speaker 3: then that'll take care of that problem. And then if
Speaker 3: you I know, rud often talks about the Pyreetherum based
Speaker 3: general insecticide. It's from safe Works, So you do like
Speaker 3: a general application of that to knock back all of
Speaker 3: the insects. And then you deal with the whatever gaps
Speaker 3: and cracks and holes and that have come from the
Speaker 3: moths by just your regular prep.
Speaker 7: Yeah, kind of how the house has been washed. I mean,
Speaker 7: it comes every year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just.
Speaker 7: So interesting that he told me that people have to
Speaker 7: have their whole houses painted, because I just thought you
Speaker 7: might have heard about it.
Speaker 3: No, it's quite intriguing. So if you stood back, let's say,
Speaker 3: two meters from the surface of the weatherboards, would you
Speaker 3: be able to see where these moths have have left
Speaker 3: their mark?
Speaker 7: No, because it's like a black spot, right, it's like
Speaker 7: a tiny, tiny spot, and you can pack them off
Speaker 7: when they've just been laid. That's what he said to me, right,
Speaker 7: and go out and pack them off. But he said
Speaker 7: the ones that are in that you can't pick coffee,
Speaker 7: that you can't get rid of them.
Speaker 3: But if you were to take a piece of sandpaper,
Speaker 3: for example, and.
Speaker 7: I got a little bit of a knife, you can.
Speaker 3: So you literally get I mean, to be fair, I've
Speaker 3: sanded all sorts of things and there's not a lot
Speaker 3: that resists sandpaper. Ultimately, So if you were to take
Speaker 3: a bit of sandpaper and sand over the surface where
Speaker 3: this this black spot is, would you eventually get back
Speaker 3: to either paint or timber beyond it. That would be
Speaker 3: really interesting to know, because you know, maybe trying to
Speaker 3: scrape it off with a knife or a tungsten or
Speaker 3: something like that might be a bit challenging. But I
Speaker 3: suppose I'm intrigued as to if you were to hit
Speaker 3: it with a bit of sandpaper, would you knock it
Speaker 3: back have a bare surface that is then ready for painting,
Speaker 3: or does it somehow penetrate.
Speaker 7: Well, that's what I want to know, surely.
Speaker 3: I mean that, you know, I admire the industrious nature
Speaker 3: of insects, but you know, burrowing through paint in order
Speaker 3: to lay an egg seems like an awful lot of effort.
Speaker 3: I just wonder whether it's on the surface, and maybe
Speaker 3: it's the sort of thing that doesn't come off with
Speaker 3: a house wash or a water.
Speaker 9: Blast because he couldn't get it off.
Speaker 3: But sending it, I think maybe it is that he
Speaker 3: I think I wonder whether what it is that he's
Speaker 3: saying is, look, I can't clean them off, and the
Speaker 3: only way to deal with it is to then go
Speaker 3: and you know, send them off and repaint and then
Speaker 3: maybe treat the exterior with an insecticide that stops them.
Speaker 3: You know, they'll they'll go somewhere else rather than try
Speaker 3: and make a home at your place. And it's definitely
Speaker 3: not borer. It's not like an actual little hole.
Speaker 7: Well, I've locked it up on my phone. All came
Speaker 7: back to boras.
Speaker 3: Yes, but if it is boring, it'll be a hole, right,
Speaker 3: It'll actually be a hole through the surface. And again,
Speaker 3: in reasonably modern weather boards, you just won't see that
Speaker 3: because they're treated.
Speaker 7: Right twelve years old.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No, it's not going to be boring. It's
Speaker 3: not going to be boring. I wonder whether I every
Speaker 3: year and that's great, but you know, again, if this
Speaker 3: is something that's obviously you know, moths have evolved to
Speaker 3: create an environment for the eggs that's that would adhere
Speaker 3: to things, then it will resist water blasting because it
Speaker 3: feels like heavy rain, right, so I kind of get that.
Speaker 3: I just wonder whether you'll need to use maybe even
Speaker 3: an abrasive scouring pad and some household cleaner to knock
Speaker 3: them off with that, but it'll be time consuming. You
Speaker 3: just have to work your way around the house cleaning
Speaker 3: them off individually.
Speaker 7: Failing that, I'm really lucky.
Speaker 8: It's just start, right.
Speaker 7: It's about sustain of them that you can't get all.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but it's just what I was interested in.
Speaker 7: Is a beauty heard of it?
Speaker 3: You haven't I haven't. I'll certainly run it past route
Speaker 3: at eight thirty and.
Speaker 7: Well, I thought i'd bring you just in case I
Speaker 7: couldn't get through to get and you're not busy at
Speaker 7: the moment, I will.
Speaker 3: I will make sure that we talk about it at
Speaker 3: eight thirty as well. I appreciate nice for you to call.
Speaker 3: You have a great day, take care. Then, yeah, I
Speaker 3: do wonder whether you just hit it with a bit
Speaker 3: of sandpaper when you're about to do a repaint and
Speaker 3: then paint over the top and maybe do some treatment
Speaker 3: to the exterior of the house that makes it an
Speaker 3: inhospitable place for for moths. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten
Speaker 3: eighty is the number to call David, text Peter or
Speaker 3: good morning Pete. How long do I need to leave
Speaker 3: new concrete before coating it with a seala? And what
Speaker 3: seala is best? Please David. A couple of extra questions
Speaker 3: is when you say new concrete, is it a pathway,
Speaker 3: is it a garden tay? Is it a driveway? Is
Speaker 3: it a floor slab? Those sorts of things, because they'll
Speaker 3: all have different types of sealers applied. Typically, if you
Speaker 3: want to have a look for sealers, I get the
Speaker 3: stuff that I use from a company called Premiere Group
Speaker 3: and I order it online. I think they're based out
Speaker 3: of Hamilton. They'll have a range of sealers and colors
Speaker 3: as well. I have to say I did some myself
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and I'm not happy with it.
Speaker 3: It's one of those jobs where maybe it's more tricky
Speaker 3: than you think. And I was back there looking at
Speaker 3: it the other day and it's one of those little
Speaker 3: niggles that you have where you go shivers. I can
Speaker 3: see a couple of lines in it and it's not
Speaker 3: quite as even the distribution. Maybe I didn't do the
Speaker 3: acid wash correctly. Maybe I applied the sealer when it
Speaker 3: was too hot and it dried off too quickly or
Speaker 3: something like that. So yeah, depending on the area. But
Speaker 3: have a look at the Premier Group website. They've got
Speaker 3: some good information on sealers. You can also have a
Speaker 3: look at new Lock dot co dot nz get new
Speaker 3: Look rather get New Look website. He's got lots of
Speaker 3: information about sealers and colors and so on for concrete
Speaker 3: as well. Right, we can take sure, No, We'll talk
Speaker 3: to Wendy in just a moment. Other quick text, Hey, Pete.
Speaker 3: I've got a hardy plank and tumbled concrete blocks on
Speaker 3: my house twelve years old. Should I brush it with
Speaker 3: just water or use a cleaning product? I think the
Speaker 3: advantage of using a cleaning product is that it's it's
Speaker 3: obviously got an active ingredient that will deal in particular
Speaker 3: with some of the organic material that builds up on
Speaker 3: our houses, so the moss and molds and lichens and
Speaker 3: those sorts of things. It'll save you a lot of
Speaker 3: elbow grease to use a cleaner, and it will also
Speaker 3: treat the surface. So yeah, proprietary house washers are really
Speaker 3: good to use. That's what I would do. Oh eight
Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call Wendy
Speaker 3: A very good morning.
Speaker 7: Ay, Yes, good morning. I was listening to your caller
Speaker 7: talking about the tiny black spots house and we haven't
Speaker 7: countered a similar problem. And it's actually a fungus and
Speaker 7: it's got several names. It can be called shotgun fungus
Speaker 7: or artillery fungus, and I think New Zealand has a
Speaker 7: variety called birds near fungus. And it's a tiny fungus
Speaker 7: that grows like a very small mushroom and when rain
Speaker 7: drops land on it and it really it inverts itself
Speaker 7: and time to win black sticky balls and they give
Speaker 7: as far as ten or twenty feet. It's not common
Speaker 7: in New Zealand. And it took us several house washes
Speaker 7: before the chap would come in and say, look, I've
Speaker 7: washed your house down. But unfortunately there's these little things
Speaker 7: like spiders marks or something I can't get off. And
Speaker 7: finally when we got to the bottom of it, we
Speaker 7: discovered with this shotgun fungus and it came onto our
Speaker 7: property in the black wooden type chip.
Speaker 3: With black wood that used for malch in the garden.
Speaker 7: Yes, and I heard that that's made out of old
Speaker 7: palettes and a lot of them are important from over
Speaker 7: seas and this fungus has probably come on in old
Speaker 7: palettes which are made from timber that's not treated. And
Speaker 7: she's quite correct that you cannot get it off. And
Speaker 7: when we first discovered it, our daughter parked her lightly
Speaker 7: colored car near our property and she got home and
Speaker 7: rang me and said, Mum, you've got something into a
Speaker 7: house that's put black spots all down one side of
Speaker 7: my car and it's like a sticky car.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, anyway. With over several years we have finally we
Speaker 7: changed all our black mulch with a natural bark which
Speaker 7: is a bit resistant, more resistant to that hype of fungus.
Speaker 7: If this tree bark is meant to shield things and
Speaker 7: protect them, whereas the wood chip really lets that type
Speaker 7: of infestation and anyway to come along sprey short After
Speaker 7: several years, we discovered that a bleach is the way
Speaker 7: to kill it. And you lifed up about five parts
Speaker 7: water to one part bleach, and you can spray it
Speaker 7: or ben water and can onto the bark and that
Speaker 7: does kill it. But we just had to let this
Speaker 7: little black spot settle for several years until it was
Speaker 7: quite hard, and then our painters have sanded, water blasted,
Speaker 7: sanded and got it off and repainted. But I'm still nervous.
Speaker 11: I checked my wood.
Speaker 7: One ter looking for the first little black spot because
Speaker 7: you can see it in the ark. It's like a
Speaker 7: little booth.
Speaker 3: When you say small, are we talking a couple of millimeters?
Speaker 3: Are we talking five millimeters?
Speaker 7: Are you're talking the size of it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: A pinhead?
Speaker 3: Wow? Okay?
Speaker 7: And it sticks, it's up under the eaves out. He's
Speaker 7: almost black with it. After like three seasons and we
Speaker 7: were just distraught, not even knowing what was happening. Irang
Speaker 7: the people that Rude would deal with, and they said, oh,
Speaker 7: we're not interested because New Zealand does have its own variety,
Speaker 7: and right we go. We got absolutely no help. We
Speaker 7: contacted the landscape gardener who did the property like six
Speaker 7: or seven years earlier, and everyone was just at a
Speaker 7: loss and we really had to research it Outselda a.
Speaker 3: Couple of quick questions in around it, because to be fair,
Speaker 3: I've used black mulch at home. Right it's you know,
Speaker 3: it looks a bit more flash or whatever. How close
Speaker 3: to your house is the gardens that have the black mulch.
Speaker 7: The gardens go right up to the house. But this
Speaker 7: right and the and the mulch goes like the mulch
Speaker 7: is like it's a big house. It could be three
Speaker 7: meters of mult going out from the house. But this
Speaker 7: little thing shoot twenty or forty feet when it when
Speaker 7: it If you research it, you can research it under
Speaker 7: shotgun fungus or artillery fungus. And it's called that for
Speaker 7: a name. That name for a reason that.
Speaker 12: It can shoot it twenty or thirty feet And when
Speaker 12: you see it in the bark. It has the initial
Speaker 12: spores are quite yellow, looking like a little.
Speaker 7: Yellow yep spot, and then once it has exploded, it's
Speaker 7: it's very close to the surface of the bark. It's
Speaker 7: not a mushroom that has a stalk. It just sits
Speaker 7: very very close to the surface. One of the best
Speaker 7: ways to get rid of it, they said, you can
Speaker 7: you have to bury the bark about four.
Speaker 8: Inches steep deep, or you can.
Speaker 7: You can get rid of it. Well, the bleach is
Speaker 7: the best thing we have found.
Speaker 3: And the bleach you use on the bark in the garden.
Speaker 7: Yes, just pour it over the bark and it's meant
Speaker 7: to kill.
Speaker 3: The spoards, but surely the plants don't really like having
Speaker 3: the bleach spread around the place as well.
Speaker 7: It doesn't seem to affect anything else. I tested it
Speaker 7: on because there are parts where it's like a mango
Speaker 7: ground cover, and I would like to have poured the
Speaker 7: bleach all over the top, and I have. I found
Speaker 7: that it's quite good with the plants. It hasn't damaged.
Speaker 7: I've been obviously just putting it in between and around
Speaker 7: the plants if we can.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things that you never thought you'd
Speaker 3: become an expert in but obviously you have.
Speaker 7: I really appreciate it right for us for several years,
Speaker 7: and we've just in our house which is white repast it.
Speaker 13: But I still go out.
Speaker 7: After may or in winter time looking for it on
Speaker 7: the glass. You can get it off the glass, yeah,
Speaker 7: with a scrape. And you can get it off the
Speaker 7: metal frame of your window easily too, but very difficult
Speaker 7: to get.
Speaker 3: Off the planted surface the paintwork. How intriguing.
Speaker 7: Thank you to believe it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet well. It'll be on my radar now.
Speaker 3: I'll look out for that. Wendy, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: That was incredibly informative. I really appreciate that. And yes,
Speaker 3: i'll ask about shotgun or artillery or bird's nest fungus
Speaker 3: when you joined us at about eight thirty this morning.
Speaker 3: We'll take a short break. It is six forty three.
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Speaker 3: forty seven and Pat a very good morning to you.
Speaker 14: Hello Peter, Hello, I have got a problem my conservatory roof.
Speaker 14: Yes place stick panels. Well, this is the third time
Speaker 14: that the Hales put holes in it, and their insurance
Speaker 14: of course won't come to the party, but leaks like
Speaker 14: a sieve at the edges. Amazing eight. And I got
Speaker 14: told off by the day because I was like, you're
Speaker 14: right there.
Speaker 15: Not allowed to do that.
Speaker 14: But anyway, my sun in law's planning is putting these
Speaker 14: solid panels up there, and is it going to make
Speaker 14: it look too dark? Is it going to be too
Speaker 14: heavy forever. But them jewdery or I think.
Speaker 3: If they're going to use effectively. And I say this,
Speaker 3: and it's not a gerograthy term like a freezer panel, right,
Speaker 3: so it's metal on both sides, but I'm talking about Yeah,
Speaker 3: that while is a bit of extra weight, I'm sure
Speaker 3: that your aluminium structure will take the weight of that.
Speaker 3: But yes, if it's completely solid, then you will get
Speaker 3: no light through the conservatory roof anymore.
Speaker 14: But we worry it's almost too hot to get out
Speaker 14: there in the summit.
Speaker 3: That's what I wonder whether now, with the way that
Speaker 3: the weather is and so on, that that increasingly, you know,
Speaker 3: just a clear roof, especially if it's you know, facing north,
Speaker 3: and that you would just unless you do a lot
Speaker 3: of extra treatments to the glass that you might have
Speaker 3: in it. If you did have glass, then it's it's
Speaker 3: going to be sweltering in there. So no, look, I
Speaker 3: think that'd be fine. And then ideally just make sure
Speaker 3: that the panels overhang by a decent amount one hundred.
Speaker 14: Hundred and fifty mil on either end and put a
Speaker 14: heavier spout.
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, that would that would work as well.
Speaker 3: Spoutings typically cope with, you know, the load from a
Speaker 3: small roof, but just to give a bit of an
Speaker 3: eve effectively will give you protection around that junction, and
Speaker 3: then if it's well sealed, you'll be fine.
Speaker 14: I wouldn't recommend that plastic stuff to anybody because the
Speaker 14: holes are in the top layer and then the water
Speaker 14: gets and the net doll goes black and green and
Speaker 14: oh it's awful.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I've got some clear light roofing on
Speaker 3: my in my workshop, right, So I've got sort of
Speaker 3: steel and then clear pan and look they I replaced
Speaker 3: them was beginning of last year, but the old ones
Speaker 3: had been there twenty or thirty years. So I tell
Speaker 3: you what I've did foolishly is I went and got
Speaker 3: some clear sheeting, right, and I went, gosh, this is great.
Speaker 3: This is a tremendous amount of light. But then it
Speaker 3: was also swelteringly hot in the workshop over summer, so
Speaker 3: I ended up having to take those sheets off again
Speaker 3: and replace them with some that had more UV protection in,
Speaker 3: which made a big difference.
Speaker 15: But that was my day out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. Yeah, it's warm enough.
Speaker 14: Thank you so much for it, my mind, it thank
Speaker 14: all the best to you, Thank.
Speaker 3: You, thank you, take care all the best and good
Speaker 3: on you. Eighty eight up on the roof. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: I wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
Speaker 3: to call Dana. Good morning to you.
Speaker 15: I was wanted if you can give me advice. I
Speaker 15: was going to go go do my house up and
Speaker 15: I should have don't know what start, And I was wondering,
Speaker 15: how long does the electric work firing about?
Speaker 3: Well, how old is the house?
Speaker 15: Roughly, Well, it's built in the early nineteen.
Speaker 3: Seventies, okay, so it'll be what we'd call generally modern wiring, right,
Speaker 3: So it's TPS, it has a coating around it. And
Speaker 3: given that it's you know, most of it's concealed, right,
Speaker 3: so it's not exposed to UV because it's in the
Speaker 3: walls or it's in the roof space. Realistically, I can't
Speaker 3: imagine that you would need to be concerned about it
Speaker 3: for many, many many years. In fact, I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: concerned about wiring that's forty years old in a house
Speaker 3: at all. Get it by all means, get it tested,
Speaker 3: and if there is a fault, an electrical inspector will
Speaker 3: be able to identify that. But I don't think you've
Speaker 3: really got too many concerns.
Speaker 9: Me.
Speaker 15: One thing is I had an electrician come in once
Speaker 15: and he was looking as a light fitting and he
Speaker 15: said that there was no worse. And I don't know
Speaker 15: whether that's where the shore should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, whether that's a question that there was no
Speaker 3: earth in the fitting, but your house should be earthed.
Speaker 3: So outside your house should be a peg rod that
Speaker 3: goes into the ground and then typically it's a green
Speaker 3: cable that you see running out to it. That's really
Speaker 3: really important that it's there. And if it's not there,
Speaker 3: or if it's a not good condition, and that's what
Speaker 3: happens to them over time they get but knocked or
Speaker 3: the connection gets loose or the wire phrase, you need
Speaker 3: to have that looked at. So yes, having your house
Speaker 3: earthed is really important.
Speaker 15: Okay, Well, it's just there's no green in anything that
Speaker 15: I can see. But I could go to the electrician
Speaker 15: to come in and look. But I just sort of
Speaker 15: you looked at one of the lights, which you said
Speaker 15: that it was on earth. And that's what's.
Speaker 3: Bothering me, is I mean, again, I'm not going to.
Speaker 15: Individual could an individual light vitally not the earth, but
Speaker 15: the rest of the place could be.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is possible. And I'm thinking about some fittings
Speaker 3: that I've seen, you know, as the guys have taken
Speaker 3: them apart in that sort of thing. And sometimes there
Speaker 3: won't be an earth to a light fitting. But your
Speaker 3: house should absolutely be earthed.
Speaker 15: Oh I see, it might just be the light things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you euldn't.
Speaker 3: This circuit will be, but not necessarily the fitting.
Speaker 5: Very much.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you look after yourself, done, take care.
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, will take your calls.
Speaker 3: Will take a short break as well. It is six
Speaker 3: fifty three. I've just had a Eureka moment. For those
Speaker 3: of you who didn't do classics, Eureka was the moment
Speaker 3: where Archimedes was in the bath. I wasn't in the bath.
Speaker 3: I didn't even have a bath during the news break
Speaker 3: or anything like that. But I did have a bit
Speaker 3: of wander around, stretch my legs, and I was thinking
Speaker 3: about something that arrived at my place this week, which
Speaker 3: was a portable dust extractor. So it's a little Rhyobi
Speaker 3: eighteen vault extractor. It's about the size of a large
Speaker 3: lunch box basically with a hose attachment on it. It's
Speaker 3: wet and dry, and you can use it obviously as
Speaker 3: a vacuum, or more importantly for me, I can use
Speaker 3: it as a dust extractor. So it's something that I'm
Speaker 3: fastidious without being obsessive about. And then I got thinking
Speaker 3: about the fact that I had this and I unboxed
Speaker 3: it during the week, and then I'm wandering around the
Speaker 3: house yesterday looking like a crazy person carrying this little
Speaker 3: Robie project vacuum, just randomly vacuuming things, you know, lifted
Speaker 3: the rug, vacuumed underneath the rug, down behind the back
Speaker 3: of the TV, vacuumed the dust from the back of
Speaker 3: the TV, this sort of thing. And then I wandered
Speaker 3: around workshop doing exactly the same thing. And then I
Speaker 3: was thinking earlier on about the fact that now I've
Speaker 3: got this portable vacuum, which is good, but that now
Speaker 3: gets me to four dust extraction systems in my workshop.
Speaker 3: So underneath the workbench, I've got you know, the classic
Speaker 3: sort of bag attached to a big fan. I plug
Speaker 3: that into the table saw when I'm using that, which
Speaker 3: is great. Then I've got another vacuum cleaner, which is
Speaker 3: there on a heavy duty one for general vacuuming. Then
Speaker 3: I've got a small one that's permanently attached to the
Speaker 3: drop saw at the drop saw station. And then I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: is four types of dust extraction in a small workshop
Speaker 3: just a little bit excessive? Could I reduce that? Then
Speaker 3: I got to the point where I remember I picked
Speaker 3: up an additional hose for one of those vacuums, which
Speaker 3: instead of having two vacuums side by side, I could
Speaker 3: just attach one hose permanently to the drop saw and
Speaker 3: just do the connection at the vacuum. That will free
Speaker 3: up some more space. Anyway, that was my Eureka moment. Yeah,
Speaker 3: these things occupy my mind as I'm wandering through the building.
Speaker 3: Here we're talking all things building construction this morning, and
Speaker 3: dust extraction if you want to talk about that as well,
Speaker 3: and a fascinating discussion in the first hour about these
Speaker 3: little black spots that can appear on painted surfaces, exterior
Speaker 3: painted surfaces, particularly weatherboards, and whether they are in one case,
Speaker 3: like a moth that lays an egg which is almost
Speaker 3: impossible to get off the husk of that. And then
Speaker 3: these other things called either shotgun fungus, bird's nest fungus
Speaker 3: or artillery fungus. So we've got a lot to talk
Speaker 3: about with rud when he joins me at around eight
Speaker 3: thirty this morning. This morning on the program, we've got
Speaker 3: our painting expert Jay from Razine. He'll be joining us
Speaker 3: at around seven thirty. If you've got a specific painting question,
Speaker 3: we can have a crack at that with Jay at
Speaker 3: around seven thirty. But right now it's your opportunity to
Speaker 3: talk all things building in construction. Eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: ten eighty is the number to call. Mark a very
Speaker 3: good morning, Good.
Speaker 5: Morning, Peter, thank you very much for the call. I'm
Speaker 5: curious about the definition between a garage and a carboard. Yes,
Speaker 5: for legality wise, obviously councils have in different areas have
Speaker 5: different bi laws. But I'm curious if these are set size.
Speaker 5: If it isn't covered in with walls, then ideally you
Speaker 5: could class it as a carport.
Speaker 3: And that's as I understand it, essentially what it is.
Speaker 3: So garage we would expect, you know, three walls and
Speaker 3: the big door, and car ports are allowed to have
Speaker 3: i think say two sides and closed or you know,
Speaker 3: partly enclosed or sheltered. But the basically they're open, right,
Speaker 3: and so car ports in Underschedule one of the Building Act,
Speaker 3: which talks about work that might not require a building consent.
Speaker 3: Typically you can build up to I think it's forty
Speaker 3: square meter car port without necessarily requiring a building consent,
Speaker 3: depending on where it's located on the property.
Speaker 5: So if it was located sort of straight off the
Speaker 5: drive as you in close proximity to the footpath and
Speaker 5: classic there's a car port, would that get around a
Speaker 5: building not having to have a building perm.
Speaker 3: Maybe not, because often because what you're describing as you
Speaker 3: sort of come in off the roadway, over the curb,
Speaker 3: over the footpath onto your property and that's where you
Speaker 3: would put it. So some planning regulations exclude buildings in
Speaker 3: the front yard. There's often a front yard setback, so
Speaker 3: you might have to be three meters five meters six
Speaker 3: meters back from the entry of your property before you're
Speaker 3: allowed to put a structure on. So I was talking
Speaker 3: about this the other day and a little piece of
Speaker 3: video content that we were making talking about you know,
Speaker 3: we've got this real focus on going. Okay, the Building
Speaker 3: Act determines what we can build, but in fact, all
Speaker 3: sorts of other pieces of legislation also determine what we
Speaker 3: can build, how we can build, and where we can
Speaker 3: build those items. So planning, for example, is one of them.
Speaker 3: In the same way that some councils have requirements and
Speaker 3: regulations around the height of a fence. Front fences is
Speaker 3: limited to a certain height in some parts of the country.
Speaker 5: So yes, yes, yes, I'm a little aware on the
Speaker 5: height of the fence. I think in some areas it's
Speaker 5: two meters, it's eighteen hundred, and then I'm not sure
Speaker 5: about the fronts.
Speaker 3: The front some areas, particularly heritage areas, where you're limited
Speaker 3: to one point two meters height on a front fence.
Speaker 3: But that's not what I know you were asking about.
Speaker 3: So I think you would need to do a specific
Speaker 3: search for the planning regulations of your territorial authority around
Speaker 3: where you can locate certain types of buildings, typically in
Speaker 3: a front yard would trigger a requirement for a building
Speaker 3: concent I'd.
Speaker 5: Say, so a height restriction on a cap or you know,
Speaker 5: if there is one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's probably similar to a
Speaker 3: minor dwelling, so overall it can't exceed I think off
Speaker 3: the top of my head it's somewhere around three and
Speaker 3: a half meters, you know, which would allow you know,
Speaker 3: that's a reasonably high building. The other thing is proximity
Speaker 3: to boundary. So for a lot of buildings that don't
Speaker 3: require a building consent, the rule that allows you to
Speaker 3: do that is that you must be the height of
Speaker 3: the building away from the boundary. And there's a certain
Speaker 3: logic to that. If it fell over right then and
Speaker 3: you've got a three meter high wall and it's three
Speaker 3: meters from the boundary and it falls over, it's not
Speaker 3: going to impact on your neighbor. So you know, if
Speaker 3: you're doing a three meter high wall that's a meter
Speaker 3: from the boundary and it fell over and it headed
Speaker 3: that way, then obviously that's going to impact on the neighbor.
Speaker 3: In that case, you might need a building consent for
Speaker 3: a building like that. Typically, if you're building closer than
Speaker 3: a meter from the boundary, there's also a requirement for
Speaker 3: fire rating and that certainly does need a building consent.
Speaker 5: So just hypothetically, I won't hold this up any longer,
Speaker 5: but if you poured a concrete slab, as I say,
Speaker 5: just inside the boundary to park two cars, would you
Speaker 5: be able to then claim or could it be possible
Speaker 5: that on the boundary you could put in four poles
Speaker 5: and then put a shade cloth. So yeah, I look
Speaker 5: pushing me on the lope.
Speaker 3: No, Essentially you're looking for cover, right, for a vehicle
Speaker 3: or something like that. Yeah, I would imagine that no,
Speaker 3: one's probably going to object too much with the shade cloth.
Speaker 3: And theoretically if you're then attaching it maybe to the
Speaker 3: house for anchoring and that sort of thing, it's going
Speaker 3: to stop it heading towards the neighbors. So yeah. And
Speaker 3: also shade cloths would typically be seen as temporary rather
Speaker 3: than permanent.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much, So no trouble.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what if you wanting to use like
Speaker 3: a yes no checkbox type approach to this, which is
Speaker 3: quite good. It may not off everything, But what you
Speaker 3: do is you go to canibuild it, dot gov, dot
Speaker 3: enz Oh really yeah, and then you just work your
Speaker 3: way through can I build it, and it will say
Speaker 3: what do you want to build? Where do you want
Speaker 3: to build it? And it will give you sort of
Speaker 3: a series of yes no responses and indicate whether or
Speaker 3: not you might need a consent or what other pieces
Speaker 3: of legislation might impact on it. So it's a very
Speaker 3: good website, really helpful, all the best, Yes, Stephen, Oh
Speaker 3: he's gone, he's gone, He's off, right ya try that anyway?
Speaker 3: Can I build it? Dot gov dot NZ is very
Speaker 3: very useful. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 3: the number to call if you've got a question of
Speaker 3: a building nature. We can we can discuss all of
Speaker 3: these things. What's the point of a car port? Please? Well,
Speaker 3: essentially at shelter, isn't it for your vehicle? Simple as that?
Speaker 3: And you know, typically if what you're concerned about is
Speaker 3: keeping the rain a bit a son off, and you're
Speaker 3: not worried about storing lots of other things in there,
Speaker 3: then a carport will provide that. Arguably not as good
Speaker 3: at protecting vehicles as having a garage, but garage, you know,
Speaker 3: might be too expensive, so car port often a more
Speaker 3: cost effective solution. Oh, eight hundred eighteen eighty the number
Speaker 3: to call. Hey, Stephen, good morning, Oh.
Speaker 8: Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Peter. It's
Speaker 8: it's a new build, yep. And it's a long run
Speaker 8: roof and we've got I've got two little points. Depending
Speaker 8: on the the direction of the wind, there's a fluttering noise,
Speaker 8: which I can only presume is the building paper. Yep,
Speaker 8: and it's it's quite loud. And have access to the loft.
Speaker 8: When I'm in the loft of the little ladders, I
Speaker 8: can see a light all all around that area. And
Speaker 8: I'm just wondering whether whether the two are actually going
Speaker 8: to acted.
Speaker 3: What the roofing underlay that's there. Is it black or
Speaker 3: is it colored eye white or blue or something like that.
Speaker 8: The roofing under I can't actually see it because there's
Speaker 8: so much insulation. I've just viewed. I've just viewed it
Speaker 8: from actually from the top of the from the top
Speaker 8: of the ladders into the loft. The sound is quite
Speaker 8: is quite. It sounds like a bird that stuffy yeah.
Speaker 3: And fluttering away.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have to say it's it is a little
Speaker 3: bit unusual. But if the building or the in this case,
Speaker 3: the roofing underlay has been laid and they haven't put
Speaker 3: sufficient fixings in it, or they've inadvertently torn it somewhere
Speaker 3: and then kind of ignored that and roofed over it,
Speaker 3: then yeah, and and depending on the direction where the
Speaker 3: wind is coming from, if wind is getting in underneath
Speaker 3: that sheet, then potentially it's fluttering and and that would
Speaker 3: be frustrating.
Speaker 8: I've had it on all around, all around the actual building,
Speaker 8: depending on the wind, and then on the.
Speaker 14: On the.
Speaker 8: Side of the side of the house tasting east, it
Speaker 8: tends to be in that area from a yeah, and
Speaker 8: likewise the other side of the house, a different wind
Speaker 8: direction creates the same sort of effect.
Speaker 3: And you say it's a new build, yes, okay, so
Speaker 3: there may well be guaranteed attached, or even if there
Speaker 3: isn't a guarantee, you still have protections under the both
Speaker 3: the Building Act and the Consumer Guarantees. So have you
Speaker 3: made an approach to the main contractor to go, hey, look,
Speaker 3: I want you to come back and address this.
Speaker 13: I have.
Speaker 8: We've only been in the house for four weeks.
Speaker 3: Now, okay, so early days it is.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm just wondering what what your opinion would be that, well,
Speaker 8: you know, do they have to but they have to
Speaker 8: put some more flashing in there or.
Speaker 3: Look, it could be any number of things. So for example,
Speaker 3: if at the top of the run of the is
Speaker 3: it a corrugate or is it a different trapezoidal shape
Speaker 3: roofing that you've got, it's.
Speaker 8: It's the like amn decking it used to be called
Speaker 8: in the old days along run color steel.
Speaker 3: Okay ye. So typically you know, for example, at the
Speaker 3: top of the sheet, before you fix the flashing over it,
Speaker 3: you turn up the trough right now, if for some
Speaker 3: reason they didn't do that and air is shooting up there,
Speaker 3: that'll that'll course me if at the bottom of the
Speaker 3: sheet the facial boarders set too low and you might
Speaker 3: have an excessive gap there, depending on the pitch of
Speaker 3: the roof. In some case you need a little underflashing.
Speaker 3: It might be if it's in a high wind zone
Speaker 3: and they haven't done a great job of the underlay,
Speaker 3: then possibly they need to install a foam filler in there,
Speaker 3: So back the sheets off, install a foam filler to
Speaker 3: stop air getting in there. But I think if someone
Speaker 3: is able to get access to the roof space and
Speaker 3: have a look, if you know, you'll always see a
Speaker 3: little bit of light shining through on a roof, but
Speaker 3: it shouldn't be extensive. And maybe if someone was to
Speaker 3: go in there during you know, on a windy day
Speaker 3: and be able to identify where the sound's coming from.
Speaker 3: If it's something like a tear in the roofing, underlay
Speaker 3: that they haven't bothered to fix. Then that's poor workmanship
Speaker 3: and someone should come pull off those sheets, redo the
Speaker 3: roofing underlay and replace it.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, that sounds quite a big it does.
Speaker 3: The only good thing is it's not your problem. It's
Speaker 3: the contractor's problem.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 3: So typically, you know, thousands of roofs are installed every year,
Speaker 3: and it's unusual to have that fluttering sound saying that
Speaker 3: I've I've had it on another building where we used
Speaker 3: metal cladding on a as wall cladding, and it just
Speaker 3: so happened that the way in which the winds sort
Speaker 3: of came across the property hit a lower roof and
Speaker 3: was directed up and there was a slight drumming in that.
Speaker 3: Now that's it was intermittent and there were some things
Speaker 3: we could do to mitigate it. But yeah, I think
Speaker 3: at this early stage it's not something that you should
Speaker 3: be that that should disturb you. I should be.
Speaker 8: Fixed, okay.
Speaker 3: And these things are never easy, you know, the discussions
Speaker 3: are never easy, and sometimes the response is you know,
Speaker 3: you're being a bit pedantic and all the rest of it.
Speaker 3: But I think you've got a genuine concern, and so
Speaker 3: i'd recommend stick to your guns and get it sorted
Speaker 3: out the very best. Take care, Stephen. We'll take a
Speaker 3: short break back in a moment, right as promised and
Speaker 3: almost bang on time. And that's that's me being tardy.
Speaker 3: Jay Sharples from Razine A very good morning to you.
Speaker 17: Jay, Good morning mate, how are you good?
Speaker 3: Good and nice to catch up with you on Thursday
Speaker 3: and Bryce. That was a rarity, all three of us together.
Speaker 7: It was great.
Speaker 3: It was a great event. And as you know well
Speaker 3: in the background because you could hear them working away,
Speaker 3: was the young or the nine Young Apprentices of the Year.
Speaker 3: So they did that practical during construct where you guys were,
Speaker 3: and then on the Friday night had the gala dinner,
Speaker 3: let's say, and one of those young apprentices, young man
Speaker 3: by the name of Hunter Moon, was appointed as the
Speaker 3: Young Apprentice of the Year. So outstanding, it's great, No, excellent, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's good. And I think you know what I quite
Speaker 3: liked about it was the whole thing that you know,
Speaker 3: we do recognize excellence and that we do introduce some
Speaker 3: competition into being an apprentice. And you know, for that
Speaker 3: young person, and there there were nine there, eight males,
Speaker 3: one female. You know, they all get to say from
Speaker 3: here on, look, I made it through to the finals,
Speaker 3: and in some cases for him anyway, Hey, look I
Speaker 3: was Apprentice of the Year twenty twenty four, so it's.
Speaker 16: Great, that's excellent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely right, Oak. Now, we had a curious, curious
Speaker 3: question this morning around you know, like organic growth on
Speaker 3: exterior painted surfaces, particularly weatherboards, and people were calling through
Speaker 3: with it a couple of things. One was like insects,
Speaker 3: so moths in particular that tend to leave a casing
Speaker 3: seemingly that's incredibly hard to remove. And then suddenly we
Speaker 3: got talking about various funguses that are not particularly common
Speaker 3: but can adhere to exterior surfaces. So if you're about
Speaker 3: to do and we're heading into summer some exterior painting,
Speaker 3: where do we start, And as.
Speaker 17: Always we say treat with raze, moss and molecular It's
Speaker 17: it might take more than one sort of treatment to
Speaker 17: remove stuff. I mean, there's plenty of lichens and stuff
Speaker 17: that are very hard to remove, so it's really trying
Speaker 17: to kill it and remove it before you start painting.
Speaker 17: There really is no point sort of painting over the
Speaker 17: top of it. So the paint's only going to adhere
Speaker 17: to that. The lichen that's kind of going to be
Speaker 17: crumbly away on the surface or die and it's your
Speaker 17: paint will just break down in those areas, So it's
Speaker 17: really important to clean outside inside with razim moss and
Speaker 17: molecular The other big one is fly marks on the ceiling.
Speaker 17: Don't just think I'm going to cover it. Give it
Speaker 17: a clean first to remove it. I don't say, will
Speaker 17: bleed through. You spend all this time painting your ceilings
Speaker 17: and in the next week and see all those marks again.
Speaker 17: So you really need to use on those anyway, give
Speaker 17: them a good clean and then use an oil based primer.
Speaker 3: Oil based primers in those circumstances a because increasingly, you know,
Speaker 3: waterborne primers are great, quick dry and that sort of thing,
Speaker 3: but there's still sometimes a specific role for oil based.
Speaker 17: Yes, I mean, ideally you're cleaning it first to remove
Speaker 17: it if there's any sort of marks left. It's a
Speaker 17: mammal undercoats does a really good job of just locking
Speaker 17: that in and stopping.
Speaker 5: It from blean.
Speaker 3: Just on the exterior cleaning, because we were talking about
Speaker 3: that earlier on the show as well, and you know
Speaker 3: people love whipping out the water blaster right, so, which
Speaker 3: is kind of okay but requires restraint in terms of
Speaker 3: if you're using the razine cleaner the housewash, how do
Speaker 3: you actually apply it to the surface.
Speaker 17: I say most people get the water blaster out and
Speaker 17: think that's sufficient. But I know from myself from cleaning
Speaker 17: the car, if you don't agitate the surface and use
Speaker 17: some sort of cleaner, yes, the water blaster doesn't actually
Speaker 17: remove all those masks. It's exactly the same one your
Speaker 17: painted surface. If you don't move all the surface contaminants,
Speaker 17: your new coats of pain aren't going to adhere as well.
Speaker 7: So I know.
Speaker 17: Water blasts have like a soft brush you can attach,
Speaker 17: which you can do low pressure and kind of scrub
Speaker 17: on the cleaner. Yep, I've got one of those. I've
Speaker 17: got an extendable pole that connects to the hose with
Speaker 17: a soft bristle brush on the end, and I've got
Speaker 17: a bucket and make the solution of the razine pain
Speaker 17: prepper and house wash and water up and scrub it on.
Speaker 18: Right.
Speaker 3: Okay, So there, so you've got you make up your solution,
Speaker 3: You get the dilution rate right into a bucket, then
Speaker 3: you dip the heat of the brush into there and
Speaker 3: then apply that so you're getting it. Do you know,
Speaker 3: does anyone ever spray it on, like with a backpeck
Speaker 3: spray or something like that.
Speaker 17: Uh, yes, I suppose you can do, but it's it's
Speaker 17: really you can spread it all long, but you still
Speaker 17: need to agitate the surface, right, Okay, saying like you
Speaker 17: could spray the subd on the car's probably the easiest ones.
Speaker 17: Most people clean their car once or twice the week
Speaker 17: or month, So think about when you're doing that. It's
Speaker 17: any other surface you're cleaning is exactly the same. Like,
Speaker 17: you can't just spread it on, leave it and then
Speaker 17: wash it off because you're just going to have marks
Speaker 17: and runs and leave lots behind. You really need to
Speaker 17: get that sponge out or brush out. Yeah, agitate the
Speaker 17: surface and make sure you clean everything off and then
Speaker 17: wash it down afterwards.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a bit of elbow grisse.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: You can actually get like cordless brushes now that editate,
Speaker 3: so you just but yeah, anyway, we'll talk about that
Speaker 3: some other time. I might have to sort one out
Speaker 3: for you, right Yoh, let's rip into a couple of
Speaker 3: text messages. Actually, first one email recently someone has recently
Speaker 3: bought a mid nineties stucco pibble plaster clad house and
Speaker 3: napier doing some small repairs to the plaster. Can't seem
Speaker 3: to get the color match right, so they've gone out.
Speaker 3: They bought a number of test spots, but not quite
Speaker 3: getting the color right. Is there a sort of definitive
Speaker 3: way to get a color match if you can't use
Speaker 3: the swatches or test pots?
Speaker 17: It's a bit hard on textured surfaces.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 17: A lot of the time, the same paint has been
Speaker 17: used on the dam pipes and the clips that hold
Speaker 17: the damn pipes on, which are really easy to remove,
Speaker 17: So you could take one of those off into local
Speaker 17: razine and they might be able to do a better
Speaker 17: job getting closer with the color. It's usually the easiest
Speaker 17: way to do it, especially on a textured surface.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, oh that's brilliant now. Another one is a
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties house that's got what they're calling vibra pact blocks,
Speaker 3: so just standard masonry blocks. The garage is painted on
Speaker 3: the inside, but it's blistering and flaking. Now they are
Speaker 3: aware that maybe there's an issue with some moisture, like
Speaker 3: the outside ground level is piled up against the block work.
Speaker 3: If they were going to paint it, what's the well
Speaker 3: should they painted.
Speaker 17: Or the thing is is it sort of bubbling and
Speaker 17: blistering on the inside. There's already a coating on and
Speaker 17: it's kind of the effhuorescence causing issues, which is the
Speaker 17: moisture coming through the block If you're in that situation. Obviously,
Speaker 17: if it's soil, it's another big job. It's even if
Speaker 17: it's concrete pathways, you really, ideally that should be sort
Speaker 17: of tank lined before it gets back filled. It might
Speaker 17: have been it might have been damaged, it might have
Speaker 17: been done a long time ago and the coating damaged
Speaker 17: in some way, and that's why there's moisture coming through. Ideally,
Speaker 17: if you can't, you want to locate the point of
Speaker 17: water ingress and eliminate it. So that sort of situation,
Speaker 17: you really want to dig out the outside, let it
Speaker 17: dry out, seal it all up, and then put the
Speaker 17: earth or pathway or whatever it is back. Garden beds
Speaker 17: is another big one before sort of attacking the inside.
Speaker 17: If that really isn't possible and you just want to
Speaker 17: id up the inside, it's a case of removing all
Speaker 17: the loose flaky material ceiling with raisine shore seal, and
Speaker 17: then you can repaint, but it will be an ongo
Speaker 17: an issue. You've still got that moisture getting.
Speaker 3: In from somewhere yep, and you can't expect the paint
Speaker 3: to hold back the moisture. Basically, okay, right, help please.
Speaker 3: I have removed wallpaper, shore sealed, plastered prime to top coats.
Speaker 3: All of the corners have come out late later, so
Speaker 3: I repainted all of the corners. Now they're worse. What's
Speaker 3: going on for Karen there?
Speaker 17: It's kind of without seeing that one, it's a bit
Speaker 17: hard a lot of the time. The first thing that
Speaker 17: jumps to my mind isn't it's where you get a
Speaker 17: lot of the time you cut in with a brush
Speaker 17: and you end up getting more paint on than you
Speaker 17: do with the roller. Yes, it's you need to get
Speaker 17: more paint on with the role that's a uniform. If
Speaker 17: it's not sort of that situation and it's kind of
Speaker 17: lighter in the corners, whether if it's been you said, sealed,
Speaker 17: then plastered and then sealed and painted, could just be
Speaker 17: where that ceiler is. If it's slightly lower in those
Speaker 17: corner areas and there's light coming through it might just
Speaker 17: look lighter due to the clinical light that's coming into
Speaker 17: the room, right, But depending on the area of the country,
Speaker 17: and maybe take some pictures into your local color shop
Speaker 17: or see if we can get somebody to come out
Speaker 17: and have a look. It's a bit hard to kind
Speaker 17: of a light issue to discuss on the phones. A
Speaker 17: little bits up.
Speaker 3: That sort of issue around picture framing, you know when we.
Speaker 17: Take that looking more than Me picture framing.
Speaker 3: We did that little video the other day, so we're
Speaker 3: talking about it that. You know, if you as you're
Speaker 3: cutting and if you go into it, you start painting
Speaker 3: room and you go around your cutter and everywhere, and
Speaker 3: then you grab your roller and start painting. Although the
Speaker 3: area that you first started and is going to be
Speaker 3: bone dry, isn't.
Speaker 17: It, So you really want to keep that wet edge
Speaker 17: blending together.
Speaker 8: It's also.
Speaker 17: If you can roll up as close as possible to
Speaker 17: the ceiling or the edge so you don't end up
Speaker 17: with like a much bigger brush line. If you use
Speaker 17: seventy five hundred mil brush and you're coming a long
Speaker 17: way off the edge and you're only rolling up to that,
Speaker 17: you're going to have the brush marks going one way
Speaker 17: and the roller lines going another and again it just
Speaker 17: comes down to the lighting highlights those kind of imperfections. Yes,
Speaker 17: but it's like I said, the picture framing, which is
Speaker 17: the word I was trying to get out. Really, if
Speaker 17: you want to keep a wet edge, if it's a
Speaker 17: big room, maybe get a couple of people to help,
Speaker 17: so one's cutting in, one's rolling, or only cut in
Speaker 17: so far and then roll and then move on to
Speaker 17: the next wall.
Speaker 3: Brilliant.
Speaker 17: Also, we're coming into the time of year. Razine hot
Speaker 17: weather additive just slows down the dry time, increases the
Speaker 17: flow of the paint and just helps with those situations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and never paint and direct sunlight. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: last one for you. This is a great one. Actually,
Speaker 3: morning pick regarding the cleaning of the exterior of the
Speaker 3: house with say the razine cleaner. Do I need to
Speaker 3: protect my new Vitex decking or is it safe for
Speaker 3: the cleaner to drop onto it?
Speaker 17: Well, the razim what's the mole killer is sort of
Speaker 17: sodium hyperchloride or sort of bleach based cleaner. Yes, so
Speaker 17: you really want to protect anything around it for the decking.
Speaker 17: A lot of time I'd wet the area down first,
Speaker 17: just so anything that goes on kind of gets diluted
Speaker 17: a bit, and it's not going directly onto a dry deck.
Speaker 17: But anything you can do to protect the areas that
Speaker 17: you don't want to get any of the clean or
Speaker 17: get damaged at all. Gardens, plants, Yeah, you see the
Speaker 17: big thing with the sort of cleaners.
Speaker 3: You know, a little while ago I talked to you
Speaker 3: about trying to get some mold growth off the bathroom
Speaker 3: ceiling and a property that I look after, and so
Speaker 3: I got the proper you know, house interior wash and
Speaker 3: prep and mold keller and that sort of thing, and
Speaker 3: I applied lots of it and quite vigorously. And I
Speaker 3: did notice that the old shirt that I'd been wearing
Speaker 3: has got marks all over it, So you do have
Speaker 3: to be a bit careful. It's very effective, like.
Speaker 17: Put it in the backpack spread and it might drip
Speaker 17: on the T shirt, just like if you're doing jobs
Speaker 17: around the house with painting, cleaners, wear old clothes or
Speaker 17: stuff you don't mind I forget damaged.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, all right, great advice as always, mate, Thank
Speaker 3: you very much, and enjoy the day, enjoy the sunshine,
Speaker 3: and we'll we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 17: Sounds good. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: All of this to you, Jay, Jay our painting expert
Speaker 3: from Razine, and great advice that he mentioned earlier. You know,
Speaker 3: if you're struggling to find the color match and so on,
Speaker 3: maybe bring the sample into the store and there'll be
Speaker 3: someone with the experience who'll be able to help you
Speaker 3: out with that as well. Great advice always and great
Speaker 3: advice in store at your local Razine color shop. Your
Speaker 3: news Talks here, b we'll take a short break. We'll
Speaker 3: be back with your calls right up till eight o'clock
Speaker 3: in the next hour. Of course, the red climb passed
Speaker 3: will join us. Looking forward to catching up with him.
Speaker 3: And I want to know more about this artillery fungus.
Speaker 3: It's got to be one of the best names out there.
Speaker 3: Back in your news Talks, he'd be in a quick
Speaker 3: painting question from you. Gary, Good morning, Hi morning.
Speaker 18: I was hanging on that conversation with Jay because it's
Speaker 18: exactly there that I'm.
Speaker 9: Go for it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I can now.
Speaker 8: So so we South Coast, well, I can at the
Speaker 8: bottom levels, you know, usually sort of reinforced steel block,
Speaker 8: but it's got to so render over it. And we've
Speaker 8: been here about ten years. It's it's kind of cantileave
Speaker 8: it out and it's not people, so how I haven't
Speaker 8: got to.
Speaker 17: It over time.
Speaker 18: And so now there's quite a lot of mold and
Speaker 18: like and on the external window leads as well, that
Speaker 18: nasty sort of yellow orangey one. So so we're needing
Speaker 18: to paint, you know, tie up and paint the ex
Speaker 18: stow render. So so I guess from talking to the
Speaker 18: hearing about Jay, I mean that was the mold sounds
Speaker 18: like a part of the process. And but you know,
Speaker 18: it's it's it's it's a render, so it's it's not
Speaker 18: a coarse one.
Speaker 8: It's a really sort of.
Speaker 3: Fine like what they call a sponge finishing with a
Speaker 3: trailed on and sponge finished.
Speaker 18: Yeah yeah, yeah, but you wouldn't sort of have a
Speaker 18: go at it with a water blasts or anything because no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Not at all. And I mean if it's difficult access
Speaker 3: and sign you may have to get some scaffolding obviously
Speaker 3: to get up there because you want to take a
Speaker 3: bit of time. So and most likely it'll be multiple
Speaker 3: applications of the cleaner, so sort of an inn shall clean, agitate, rinse,
Speaker 3: leave it for a little while, do it again and
Speaker 3: be really confident that the treatment that you've used has
Speaker 3: killed any of that organic material it's on the surface
Speaker 3: of the paint. It might be worth getting some advice
Speaker 3: as to whether or not you need to apply if
Speaker 3: typically you can overcoat within a certain period of time,
Speaker 3: but if that time has extended out too long there
Speaker 3: might be a benefit. And then applying a primer that
Speaker 3: will key into the surface so that your top coated
Speaker 3: hair is properly that would be worth.
Speaker 18: Actually, yeah, and then from what when Jay was talking
Speaker 18: about the based prime so apply.
Speaker 3: Because no, possibly not. I mean, I know, for example,
Speaker 3: you will often use pigmented seala on beer masonry. The
Speaker 3: fact that's already been coated and has you know, so
Speaker 3: you've got the masonry or the semititious material, then you've
Speaker 3: got a paint finish, and now you're applying over the top.
Speaker 3: Certainly you could go back to the manufacturers. You could
Speaker 3: go to Razine Construction and see because they have similar products,
Speaker 3: they might be able to give you some advice on that.
Speaker 3: But I would highly recommend getting some advice from either
Speaker 3: the manufacturer or someone who's really experienced in it, just
Speaker 3: to make sure that you're using the right system and
Speaker 3: that you're not inadvertently having compatibility issues that is going
Speaker 3: to cause a paint failure in the future.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 18: Called talking to you.
Speaker 3: There's a bit of work to do.
Speaker 18: I mean, it's going to be a cheery thicker I
Speaker 18: think for some of it because it's kind of vehicle
Speaker 18: axis too at the sione that's can't leave it out. Wow,
Speaker 18: okay under the house, you know sort of, so you
Speaker 18: want to be able to move it as well. Okay,
Speaker 18: but we've got the original plans too, so there's definitely
Speaker 18: a color code, so we should a.
Speaker 3: Well, that'll that'll help. Good luck take care of it there.
Speaker 3: All right, all the this see, we're going to take
Speaker 3: another break and then Maverick, we'll be talking to you
Speaker 3: in just a moment. Right. I mentioned Jay, our painting expert.
Speaker 3: We were both at Construct on Thursday, which was also
Speaker 3: the venue for the practical challenge for the Apprentice of
Speaker 3: the Year. This is the carpentry Apprentice of the Year.
Speaker 3: And I mentioned I've went to the gala dinner was
Speaker 3: introduced to the young man Hunter who is the Apprentice
Speaker 3: of the Year. We'll actually get him on the show
Speaker 3: next week and talk to him about what he's doing
Speaker 3: and what he hopes to do in the future. Outstanding
Speaker 3: young man. Actually, all of the people that were there
Speaker 3: were you know, we often get that sort of vision
Speaker 3: of maybe young people and we tune into the news
Speaker 3: so much and so on, and it can get a
Speaker 3: bit doubt disheartening. Let's say, I'll tell you what. Everyone
Speaker 3: that I saw up on that stage and competing eight men,
Speaker 3: one young woman just fantastic young people. You know the
Speaker 3: fact that they've chosen to be carpenter as that sets
Speaker 3: them above everybody else anyway, But they were just fantastic.
Speaker 3: And then they had some past winners as well in
Speaker 3: regional finalists and that who got up to talk about
Speaker 3: where they'd gone to, you know, in their careers and
Speaker 3: again motivated, enthusiastic, engaged, active, you know, just fantastic to
Speaker 3: see young people like that getting a little bit of attention,
Speaker 3: which I thought was fantastic, Right, Maverick, talk to me, Hello.
Speaker 9: Hello, can you hear me?
Speaker 3: I sure can go for it.
Speaker 9: Okay, I've got a good mate down south of Auckland.
Speaker 9: I can't tell you where as well, south of Auckland,
Speaker 9: and about ten years ago, he bought a property beer
Speaker 9: Land except for an old wolfshed and planted out with
Speaker 9: three other fruit trees. He's an ecologist, prima closure guy
Speaker 9: and also a lanscape architect and very clever guy. So
Speaker 9: he converted the woolshed and into a well for his
Speaker 9: Family's got a beautiful white and three young daughters and
Speaker 9: did a stunning job. It's only fifty square meters, but
Speaker 9: he's worked out space savings, et cetera. And all the
Speaker 9: time he approached council to get compliance, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 9: they kept changing the rules and after years and years
Speaker 9: and years of trying, he gave up and told him
Speaker 9: never to cast a shadow on his property again, which
Speaker 9: was a mistake in hindfight. Was now the council. After
Speaker 9: years and years of fighting them and him fighting back
Speaker 9: with interest, they've got a court order from the local
Speaker 9: district court to demolish his house.
Speaker 3: At the very beginning of that process, did he get
Speaker 3: a building consent for the conversion of effectively a farm
Speaker 3: building into a habitable space into a home.
Speaker 9: I honestly don't know, Pete, I don't know all right.
Speaker 3: There could be a couple of things going on. One
Speaker 3: of them is that he didn't and maybe he got
Speaker 3: some advice that he didn't need to get a building
Speaker 3: consent for that. If it's work, it's been done in
Speaker 3: the last twenty twenty five years. It has always required
Speaker 3: a building consent. So if he went ahead and did
Speaker 3: the conversion and didn't get a building consent, then yeah,
Speaker 3: the building is going to be deemed to be non
Speaker 3: compliant unless he can prove a certificate of acceptance. But
Speaker 3: the burden of proof for that is nowadays equal to
Speaker 3: your building consent, and he would have to prove compliance
Speaker 3: with a building code for you know, just a myriad
Speaker 3: of things. And if he's dug his toes in with
Speaker 3: counsel and doesn't want to play that game, then and
Speaker 3: he's managed to get offside with counsel, which sounds like
Speaker 3: he has, then counsel will push for an enforcement and
Speaker 3: say you can't live in that dwelling and that dwell
Speaker 3: and because it's unlikely that you'll move out of it
Speaker 3: and not go back into it, where going to push hard. Personally,
Speaker 3: I think it's a tremendous waste of time and energy
Speaker 3: for counsel to be pursuing this, and it would have
Speaker 3: cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. So
Speaker 3: I don't like to see our ratepayers money being spent
Speaker 3: on this sort of thing. But it would seem that,
Speaker 3: you know, let's assume that counsel are being lawful and
Speaker 3: that somewhere along the line, unfortunately what he's done has
Speaker 3: been unlawful.
Speaker 9: And he's applied to a CoA over a year ago
Speaker 9: and they refuse to accept his submission. They don't want
Speaker 9: to know that they've got a vendetta against them because
Speaker 9: he's one of these guys.
Speaker 3: That, yeah, and look good on him for standing up
Speaker 3: to the man, and you know, I'm all for that, right,
Speaker 3: but you know, he's also got to prove compliance. Now,
Speaker 3: if counsel decide that they won't accept his submission, then
Speaker 3: perhaps he needs to get some advice from some one
Speaker 3: who will go into bat for him. So maybe a
Speaker 3: building surveyor or a building scientist who can then argue
Speaker 3: on his behalf. If he's just said to them, hey, look,
Speaker 3: the building's fine, give me a CEO A. They're not
Speaker 3: going to do that. But if he can prove compliance,
Speaker 3: and then you know, if if counsel and look, councils
Speaker 3: can be unreasonable right, and councils have been challenged by
Speaker 3: people who have got determinations from himby and have been
Speaker 3: found to have acted incorrectly. So he could go down
Speaker 3: that path, but he needs to then get you know,
Speaker 3: a building expert, like a surveyor on his side to
Speaker 3: help with that battle.
Speaker 9: The problem is they will not accept any submission from
Speaker 9: them whatsoever. It's offered every possibility to the Delah.
Speaker 3: That sounds unreasonable.
Speaker 9: Yeah, totally, and he is stressed for the MAXI is
Speaker 9: a bloody good guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I do just quickly because we're going to
Speaker 3: run into the news. You know, maybe it's worth talking
Speaker 3: to like a council, like an elected representative, or possibly
Speaker 3: even to your MP to at least stave it off,
Speaker 3: because you know, I think it's unjustified for counsel to
Speaker 3: come in and just demand that they're going to demolish
Speaker 3: the house. That seems excessive and an abusive power. Frankly,
Speaker 3: so could you yeah, well it may well be. Can
Speaker 3: you let us know how you get on with that
Speaker 3: or how you make it gets on and appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: We're back after the news at eight o'clock. Well, welcome
Speaker 3: back to the program. At Pete wolf Camp's my name.
Speaker 3: This is the resident builder. On Sunday, we'll talk all
Speaker 3: things building in construction and just a moment just prior
Speaker 3: to the news, Maverick was talking about the situation that
Speaker 3: his mates got into where council have decided to enforce
Speaker 3: a sort of non compliance order by demolishing the guy's house.
Speaker 3: And I agree with this text that came through the
Speaker 3: guy about his friends dwelling. Sounds very upset. Understandably, even
Speaker 3: if it's noncom client, to demolish it as ridiculous. Go
Speaker 3: and see the local MP to see if they can
Speaker 3: help and mediate it. If it's perfectly livable, I mean,
Speaker 3: if it is liverable, he needs to get compliance for it.
Speaker 3: That's fair enough. But to enforce a demolition order does
Speaker 3: seem vindictive, doesn't it?
Speaker 19: Right?
Speaker 3: Oh, we are going to be talking to rud climb
Speaker 3: Past at around eight point thirty this morning. We'll take
Speaker 3: your calls between now and then. It is seven after eight.
Speaker 3: Zi b Skyline Buildings is a trusted name in New
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Speaker 16: How are you now?
Speaker 3: I'm very well, thank you. Now, key advantages for you
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Speaker 10: Oh, look, there's three big advantages for us. First of all,
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Speaker 10: the clouding from the exterior. You can see to milo
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Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: Jframe has been around since two thousand and six. When
Speaker 3: did Skyline Buildings start using it?
Speaker 10: Well, look, we were made aware of it from Buddings
Speaker 10: in about twenty thirteen and they strongly recommend They've been
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Speaker 3: So in terms of that transition, any challenges if any
Speaker 3: for Skyline when you moved to J frame and the
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Speaker 17: Oh, look we've.
Speaker 10: No challenges. No, Look, I mean the comment that we've
Speaker 10: heard initially was that the timber is incredibly hard and
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Speaker 8: What have you.
Speaker 10: But look, I would wouldn't end be anyone wanting to
Speaker 10: put a garage together with a hammer and nail.
Speaker 8: But that's a positive.
Speaker 3: Hey, And what's really important for you. Jframe contributes to
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Speaker 3: given that many of your products are transported, don't they.
Speaker 10: They are indeed, And look if you see a Skyland building,
Speaker 10: the Skyland garage, it looks I suppose when in transport,
Speaker 10: they look like a pack of timber covered with plastic
Speaker 10: cheating over the top of it. And look at the
Speaker 10: absorption of moisture is particularly where our garages go. They
Speaker 10: go from you know deep in to the South Island
Speaker 10: all the way up to the throughous parts of the
Speaker 10: North Island. Yeah, whether the absorption of water and moisture
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Speaker 10: gone to j Frame, it has been absolutely fantastic and
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Speaker 3: thanks very much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 10: Oh absolute pleasure, Peter.
Speaker 3: News dogs'd be news dogs. He'd be eleven minutes after
Speaker 3: eight eight hundred eighty ten eighty is then number to call.
Speaker 3: Raywan A very good morning to you.
Speaker 13: Oh good morning, Pete. I've got well, it's probably not
Speaker 13: my problem because I live in a retirement village. But
Speaker 13: I noticed of probably a couple of months ago now
Speaker 13: or more, notice this brown mark on the carpet between
Speaker 13: the bathroom and the living area. And so I got
Speaker 13: the village village assistant guy to come and have a lock,
Speaker 13: and he pulled the carpet away and it was all
Speaker 13: moldy under there, all MOLDI along the well on the underlay,
Speaker 13: and a piece of what appears to be a wooden strip,
Speaker 13: and then you can see down to the concrete. And
Speaker 13: so he drives do all up and we've been just checking,
Speaker 13: but they don't know where it's coming from. And I
Speaker 13: don't know if it's still leaking, because I've given up
Speaker 13: looking at it every time I have a shower.
Speaker 3: So where do you see the evidence of moisture and grease?
Speaker 3: So the brown standing is it inside the bathroom or
Speaker 3: in an adjoining room.
Speaker 13: There's no evidence of any They thought it was water
Speaker 13: running down from the shower across the fine I said,
Speaker 13: I would notice it it was running, I'd see it,
Speaker 13: and so there's not. And then they thought it was
Speaker 13: a drip from the shower door. But the shower door,
Speaker 13: the way it hangs, it drips inside inside the power.
Speaker 13: So they're just they just bewildered at what caused it.
Speaker 13: If it is caused by a leak under the tiles,
Speaker 13: then they'd have to dig all the tiles up and
Speaker 13: I have to move out, but for a while. But
Speaker 13: I just thought you you may have any other suggestions.
Speaker 13: It's checked that my son is a builder, and he's
Speaker 13: suggested looking up in the manhole in the adjoining bedroom
Speaker 13: see there's anything coming through through the walls. But they
Speaker 13: didn't see anything up there.
Speaker 3: Do you know if there's an isolation valve for the
Speaker 3: water just to your.
Speaker 13: Unit, Yeah, there would be. There would be to turn
Speaker 13: the water off on the outside.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm thinking, just sometimes. You know, obviously we
Speaker 3: can get leaks from that are active because it's coming
Speaker 3: from the pipework, and the simplest way to identify that
Speaker 3: is to be able to turn the water off and
Speaker 3: then see whether or not the meter continues to run, right.
Speaker 8: So sorry, the meta.
Speaker 13: I don't know whether there's a meta there that'll be.
Speaker 3: The hard thing, or potentially be able to isolate the
Speaker 3: water and see whether the patch goes away, or if
Speaker 3: it's an issue worth waterproofing or selant around the bathroom.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe the waterproofing has been compromised and water's
Speaker 3: getting in behind. Is it tiles on the floor and
Speaker 3: tiles on the wall.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Yeah, it's just really strange. There's no evidence of
Speaker 13: any water on the floor that could be going that way,
Speaker 13: and it's just really strange. And they blamed the dog first,
Speaker 13: but the dogs doesn't weed there, right, But come inside
Speaker 13: after I've been away for a day or something and
Speaker 13: I've come in in the house of smell or meat
Speaker 13: or denk and must and I didn't know it was
Speaker 13: there then, So it's obvious it's just leaked further and
Speaker 13: further up into the carpet and made the carpets round
Speaker 13: them right dark. It's not hideous or anything, but it's there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think you know, often we sort of
Speaker 3: are alerted to what the interior environment of our buildings
Speaker 3: is like is when we do go away for a
Speaker 3: couple of days and then there's that feeling when you
Speaker 3: that smell really open the door and suddenly go, yeah,
Speaker 3: it feels you know, I can tell that the house
Speaker 3: has been locked up, so there's obviously issues with moisture
Speaker 3: or humidity inside the building. Look, I mean the great
Speaker 3: thing is that, ultimately, I assume you've got a lice,
Speaker 3: it's to occupy rather than owning the building, in which
Speaker 3: case the person who administers the license is responsible for it.
Speaker 3: And it's just a question of kind of putting your
Speaker 3: hands on your hips and going I need you to
Speaker 3: sort this out, and I need you to sort out
Speaker 3: now because ultimately it isn't actually your problem, it's theirs.
Speaker 13: That's right, I think.
Speaker 3: Pay good luck with it all, Okay, thank you all
Speaker 3: the best, and Bruce, a very good morning to you.
Speaker 5: Hello, Bruce, good morning to you.
Speaker 16: Peter, good morning, and just listening to your program, you're
Speaker 16: like an alarm clock from listen to it, Peter, and
Speaker 16: reply to a question one of your listeners had about
Speaker 16: flattening under I just this little point and I've experienced
Speaker 16: it on a new build, is that it's the plastic
Speaker 16: and I assume got metal facia around their home. It's
Speaker 16: the meta if the protection plastic hasn't been pulled off
Speaker 16: cleanly on the facia and there's a line of it's
Speaker 16: still left on the top of a facia, that that
Speaker 16: if it's not torn cleanly and not taken all off,
Speaker 16: that can be caught because of the of the flapping
Speaker 16: now so much so the client said to us on
Speaker 16: several occasions and we could never work this one out,
Speaker 16: that they've actually got a screaming noise and we had
Speaker 16: to get it in an I'm in Canterbury and it
Speaker 16: generally happened in a northwest wind and the flapping actually
Speaker 16: developed into a high pitch streaming noise. Just an example.
Speaker 16: I don't know quite a few of my generation, but
Speaker 16: as kids, we used to get sort of a wide
Speaker 16: lead piece of grass, put it between our thumbs and
Speaker 16: blow it and it was like a whistle and that
Speaker 16: that's what the problem was. And it actually was quite
Speaker 16: a big problem for the facial contractor to do to
Speaker 16: remove that because the spouting had to be disconnected to
Speaker 16: get at it to pull it off. So that's what
Speaker 16: we found.
Speaker 3: Are your web, Big Peter, sometimes It is just the
Speaker 3: little things that kind of come back and trip us up.
Speaker 3: Isn't it worth building? You go, Okay, I'm just going
Speaker 3: to peel that protective wrap off and where it rolls
Speaker 3: around the top edge of the facia, no one can
Speaker 3: see it. I'll leave it on there. It's fiddly to
Speaker 3: get off, and then you know suddenly you're back a
Speaker 3: year later, spending hours and hours and hours and maybe
Speaker 3: having the big scaffolding, et cetera, et cetera. So attention
Speaker 3: to detail is always the key. Bruce really appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: A couple of people have texted with regard to that
Speaker 3: demolition order. Obviously there's slowly more to the story, but
Speaker 3: it would be interesting to know more about that. But look,
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone would disagree and say it does
Speaker 3: seem to be an extraordinary heavy handed gesture to go
Speaker 3: and do that. Also, just on the leaking in the shower, Hey, Pete,
Speaker 3: we had a leak in our shower and it was
Speaker 3: told that we had to pay for anything internal in
Speaker 3: a retirement village. So I would have thought that's a
Speaker 3: little bit unfair. I mean, in the end, you didn't
Speaker 3: do the building, your work, that was done by the
Speaker 3: retirement village owner. Certainly, if it was a lack of maintenance,
Speaker 3: let's say that there was a reasonable expectation that you
Speaker 3: would do certain tasks in order to prevent mold growth
Speaker 3: or something like that. I can understand that. But if
Speaker 3: it's an issue with waterproofing or workmanship of pipework and
Speaker 3: so on, how can that be your responsibility? But I
Speaker 3: appreciate the text on that as well. Radio we will
Speaker 3: remember we've got Red Climb passed. At around eight thirty
Speaker 3: this morning. We'll talk to him, definitely going to ask
Speaker 3: about artillery fungus. It's going to be the best name
Speaker 3: for a plant or an organism ever. It's remarkable, So
Speaker 3: we talk about that. But your opportunity to talk to
Speaker 3: route from eight thirty. Will come back with a couple
Speaker 3: more calls in just a moment, right, Oh, last couple
Speaker 3: of calls for the morning on building Dave, Good morning.
Speaker 19: Good morning, Pete. I have a problem in my kitchen.
Speaker 19: You know, it's all tile floor were they've done and
Speaker 19: we've got an island. We have done the cutout for
Speaker 19: the dishwasher. The tile cracked, we have covered out. It's
Speaker 19: about one hundred mill wide. So we've got a guy
Speaker 19: into to repair it. And when he went to repair it,
Speaker 19: we've got the water pipe going out. He put a
Speaker 19: hole in the water pile.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 19: But you know, like now it's it's cracked again, and
Speaker 19: the tile in front of it is actually cracked as well,
Speaker 19: and we're going to walk around on the tile floor.
Speaker 19: There's a sort of making noise when I stand on
Speaker 19: quite a few of the tiles which they're not fixed down,
Speaker 19: so I'm a bit worried about it.
Speaker 3: The challenge is that if for example, the substrate is
Speaker 3: not well fixed down or possibly an and that could
Speaker 3: be like if you look at the building code today,
Speaker 3: if we're going to do tiles in a bathroom, we
Speaker 3: need to set our choice out at four hundred centers
Speaker 3: and we need to nog at four hundred centers right,
Speaker 3: so it's a massive amount of timber. Then we put
Speaker 3: down a substrate which might be a treated ply, it
Speaker 3: might be a five or cement sheet, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 3: and then eventually we put our tiles on it. Now,
Speaker 3: what I'm thinking is that in your situation, an existing
Speaker 3: building that's had tiles applied down over the floor joice
Speaker 3: might be at six hundred centers nogging at two meter centers.
Speaker 3: There's a certain amount of flexibility in there, which in
Speaker 3: some case, if you choose the right adhesive I a
Speaker 3: flexible one rather and a rigid one, it'll take up
Speaker 3: a little bit of that and the tiles will be okay.
Speaker 3: So it might be a problem from when the tiles
Speaker 3: were installed that's causing the issue today, and it's been
Speaker 3: exacerbated by the fact that you've had to cut into
Speaker 3: tiles and loading it up with a dishwasher and so on.
Speaker 3: So it could be a slightly bigger problem than just
Speaker 3: one or two tiles would be my conserner.
Speaker 19: Yeah, the thing is there is a concrete floor in
Speaker 19: the nise.
Speaker 3: Oh it is on a concrete slab.
Speaker 19: There's a concrete slab.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well then that's hopefully that's not years old.
Speaker 19: Yep, it's fifteen years old sort of thing. So I'm
Speaker 19: not sure what what I can do about it, you know,
Speaker 19: like with all these when you walk around, you know
Speaker 19: and hear a sort of clicking noise on quite a
Speaker 19: few of the tiles around the on the floor, is it?
Speaker 19: I know, you can get a flexible ceiling to put
Speaker 19: it down or a hard one.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't well, I mean, look again potentially and maybe
Speaker 3: there's been a bit of moisture that's got through the
Speaker 3: tiles and so on, and what you're starting to see
Speaker 3: is the tiles reaching the end of their sort of
Speaker 3: workable life that they're starting to delaminate. The adhesive is
Speaker 3: coming off, and really the solution, thankfully you've got a
Speaker 3: concrete slab. If you needed to, you get in there,
Speaker 3: chisel off all of the old tiles completely, maybe waterproof
Speaker 3: the slab a little bit more, use the right adhesive,
Speaker 3: so the right system all the way from bear concrete
Speaker 3: up and then replace all of the tiles. But that's
Speaker 3: a much bigger job than just you know, one or two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Maybe instead of
Speaker 3: like you know, as trades people were often involved in
Speaker 3: working in other people's trades, right, But I wonder whether
Speaker 3: it might be worthwhile getting an experienced tiler. So if
Speaker 3: you go somewhere like tile Space, go down to the
Speaker 3: back to the trade depot and go look, I need
Speaker 3: someone in the local area to come and just do
Speaker 3: an assessment. They might come and just see whether it's
Speaker 3: drum me or whatever and give you some advice. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's repairable, maybe it's not. But I think talking to
Speaker 3: a professional tiler is probably not a bad option at
Speaker 3: the stage.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's that's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that. All the very best to you,
Speaker 3: Take care and don it very quickly. Good morning to you.
Speaker 11: Good morning. I have I'm an o rental property. I've
Speaker 11: only been here for nearly three months, and I've noticed
Speaker 11: that some of the floors, particularly where heavy things, are
Speaker 11: starting to sort of slop. Should I be worried about it?
Speaker 3: Well, your landlord should because it's your landlord's.
Speaker 5: Asset, So yeah, I know.
Speaker 11: But should I be pushing like I've been told? If
Speaker 11: I'm not dripping over.
Speaker 3: It, it's not a problem, okay, right, okay.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So we're like in the spare room where there's
Speaker 11: a heavy dressing table in the bed it's and the kitchen.
Speaker 11: It was fine when I came in, but now that
Speaker 11: I've put things in the cupboard and used the dishwasher
Speaker 11: right where the fridge is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, presume it's a timber floor and it's elevated.
Speaker 7: I'm not.
Speaker 11: It's got lemmet over it, But I don't know what's underneath.
Speaker 3: Right, if you walk around the outside of the house, though,
Speaker 3: a floor level up a little bit or is it
Speaker 3: quite the ground, it's up a bit, it's up it Okay,
Speaker 3: So let's assume that it's a timber floor. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure within your circle of frenzy might be a
Speaker 3: carpenter or a builder who might just come and look underneath.
Speaker 3: Possibly there's some sbsidence in the building, in which case,
Speaker 3: you know, you could say to the landlord, look, I
Speaker 3: think and it's in your own interests to come and
Speaker 3: have a lock. Maybe the landlord doesn't care. The other
Speaker 3: thing that can happen is, you know, if it's a
Speaker 3: building of it's in vintage, the particle board might be
Speaker 3: starting to sort of decay a little bit, in which
Speaker 3: case I've seen that where let's say you put a
Speaker 3: heavy weight in the middle, in the between the span
Speaker 3: of the joist right, so the particle board might span
Speaker 3: six hundred You put the edge of a dresser, for example,
Speaker 3: the feet of addresser in the middle of that, and
Speaker 3: it can over time cause that to sag if it's
Speaker 3: old particle board, So there might be a little bit
Speaker 3: of that, or there's just like I say general subsidence, but.
Speaker 11: Think it's the nineteen fifties or nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3: You know, it is incredibly rare for buildings to actually collapse.
Speaker 3: I know we're worried about it all the time, but
Speaker 3: it's incredibly rare. So if you're thinking, gosh, is this
Speaker 3: slope going to accelerate to the point where it's going
Speaker 3: to collapse, I would be unbelievably surprised if that was
Speaker 3: the case. Is it annoying? Yeah, maybe it is. You know,
Speaker 3: if you feel that it's unsafe, then go back to
Speaker 3: the landlord. Otherwise I guess you've done what you need
Speaker 3: to do as a responsible tenant. Hey, I'd like to
Speaker 3: draw this to your attention. If the landlord doesn't care
Speaker 3: about their asset, well, unfortunately that's their problem. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: all the very best to take care there. You can
Speaker 3: do the old marble track, you know, to determine how
Speaker 3: much slope there is on a floor. You figure out
Speaker 3: where you think the high point is, but the marble
Speaker 3: down and see where it rolls. That'll soon tell you
Speaker 3: what the slope's like. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
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Speaker 3: Z right oh, last couple of calls for the morning
Speaker 3: on Building Dave, Good morning.
Speaker 19: Good morning Pete. I have a problem in my kitchen.
Speaker 19: You know, it's all tile floor with they've done and
Speaker 19: we've got an island. We have done the cutout for
Speaker 19: the dishwasher. The tile cracked, we have covered out. It's
Speaker 19: about one hundred mill wide. So we've got a guy
Speaker 19: into to repair it. And when he went to repair it,
Speaker 19: we've got the water pipe going out. He put a
Speaker 19: hole in the water pole.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 19: But you know, like now it's it's cracked again and
Speaker 19: the tile in front of it is actually as well,
Speaker 19: and we're going to walk around on the tile floor.
Speaker 19: There's a sort of clicking noise when I stand on
Speaker 19: quite a few of the tiles which they're not fixed down,
Speaker 19: so I'm a bit worried about it.
Speaker 3: The challenge is that if, for example, the substrate is
Speaker 3: not well fixed down or possibly and that could be
Speaker 3: like if you look at the building code today, if
Speaker 3: we're going to do tiles in a bathroom, we need
Speaker 3: to set our choice out at four hundred centers and
Speaker 3: we need to nog at four hundred centers right, So
Speaker 3: it's a massive amount of timber. Then we put down
Speaker 3: a substrate, which might be a treated ply, it might
Speaker 3: be a five or cement sheet, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 3: and then eventually we put our tiles on it. Now,
Speaker 3: what I'm thinking is that in your situation, an existing
Speaker 3: building that's had tiles applied down over the floor Joyce
Speaker 3: might be at six hundred centers nogging at two meter centers.
Speaker 3: There's a certain amount of flexibility in there, which in
Speaker 3: some case if you choose the right adhesive, a flexible
Speaker 3: one rather than a rigid one, it'll take up a
Speaker 3: little bit of that and the tiles will be okay.
Speaker 3: So it might be a problem from when the tiles
Speaker 3: were installed that's causing the issue today, and it's been
Speaker 3: exacerbated by the fact that you've had to cut into
Speaker 3: tiles and loading it up with a dishwasher and so on.
Speaker 3: So it could be a slightly bigger problem than just
Speaker 3: one or two tiles would be my concern.
Speaker 19: Yes, the thing is a concrete floor in the nise.
Speaker 3: Well, it is on a concrete slab.
Speaker 19: There's a concrete slab, okay, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, then hopefully that's not moving years old.
Speaker 19: Yep, it's fifteen years old sort of thing. So I'm
Speaker 19: not sure what what I can do about it with
Speaker 19: all these When you walk around, you know, and hear
Speaker 19: a sort of clicking noise on quite a few of
Speaker 19: the tiles around the on the floor that I know
Speaker 19: you can get a flexible it put it down, or
Speaker 19: a hard one.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't well, I mean, look again potentially and maybe
Speaker 3: there's been a bit of moisture that's got through the
Speaker 3: tiles and so on, and what you're starting to see
Speaker 3: is the tiles reaching the end of their sort of
Speaker 3: workable life that they're starting to delaminate. The adhesive is
Speaker 3: coming off, and really the solution, thankfully, you've got a
Speaker 3: concrete slab. If you needed to, you get in there,
Speaker 3: chisel off all of the old tiles completely, maybe waterproof
Speaker 3: the slab a little bit more, use the right adhesive,
Speaker 3: so the right system all the way from bear concrete up,
Speaker 3: and then replace all of the tiles. But that's a
Speaker 3: much bigger job than just you know, one or two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Maybe instead
Speaker 3: of like you know, as trades people were often involved
Speaker 3: in working in other people's trades, right, But I wonder
Speaker 3: whether it might be worthwhile getting an experienced tiler. So
Speaker 3: if you go somewhere like tile Space, go down to
Speaker 3: the back to the trade depot and go, look, I
Speaker 3: need someone in the local area to come and just
Speaker 3: do an assessment. They might come and just see whether
Speaker 3: it's drummy or whatever and give you some advice. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's repairable, maybe it's not. But I think talking to
Speaker 3: a professional tyler is probably not a bad option at
Speaker 3: the stage.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's that's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that. All the very best to you,
Speaker 3: Take care and don it very quickly. Good morning to you.
Speaker 11: Good morning. I have I'm an o rental property. I've
Speaker 11: only been here for nearly three months, and I've noticed
Speaker 11: that some of the floors, particularly where heavy things, are
Speaker 11: putting the sort of slop. Should I be worried about it?
Speaker 3: Well, your landlord should because it's your landlord's asset.
Speaker 11: So yeah, I know. But should I be pushing like
Speaker 11: I've been told? If I'm not dripping over it, it's
Speaker 11: not a problem, okay, right, okay, Yeah, So it's we're
Speaker 11: like in the spare room where there's a heavy dressing
Speaker 11: table and the bed. It's in the kitchen. It was
Speaker 11: fine when I came in, but now that I've put
Speaker 11: things in the cupboard and used the dish right.
Speaker 7: Where the fridge is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, presume it's a timber floor and it's elevated.
Speaker 11: I'm not it's got lemit over it, but I don't
Speaker 11: know what's underneath.
Speaker 3: Right, if you walk around the outside of the house, though,
Speaker 3: a floor level up a little bit or is it
Speaker 3: quite the ground, it's up a bit, it's up it. Okay,
Speaker 3: So let's assume that it's a timber floor. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure within your circle of frenzy might be a
Speaker 3: carpenter or a builder who might just come and look underneath.
Speaker 3: Possibly there's some subsidence in the building, in which case,
Speaker 3: you know, you could say to the landlord, look, I
Speaker 3: think and it's in your own interests to come and
Speaker 3: have a lock. Maybe the landlord doesn't care. The other
Speaker 3: thing that can happen is, you know, if it's a
Speaker 3: building of it's in vintage, the particle board might be
Speaker 3: starting to sort of decay a little bit, in which
Speaker 3: case I've seen that where let's say you put a
Speaker 3: heavy weight in the middle in the between the span
Speaker 3: of the joist right so the particle board might span
Speaker 3: six hundred. You put the edge of a dresser, for example,
Speaker 3: the heat of addresser in the middle of that, and
Speaker 3: it can over time cause that to sag if it's
Speaker 3: older particle board. So there might be a little bit
Speaker 3: of that, or there's just like I say, general subsidence, but.
Speaker 11: I think it's the nineteen fifties or nineteen sixties place.
Speaker 3: You know, it is incredibly rare for buildings to actually collapse.
Speaker 3: I know we're worried about it all the time, but
Speaker 3: it's incredibly rare. So if you're thinking, gosh, is this
Speaker 3: slope going to accelerate to the point where it's going
Speaker 3: to collapse, I would be unbelievably surprised if that was
Speaker 3: the case. Is it annoying? Yeah, maybe it is. You know,
Speaker 3: if you feel that it's unsafe, then go back to
Speaker 3: the landlord. Otherwise I guess you've done what you need
Speaker 3: to do as a responsible tenant. Hey, I'd like to
Speaker 3: draw this to your attention. If the landlord doesn't care
Speaker 3: about their asset, well, unfortunately that's their problem. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: all the very best to take care by there. You
Speaker 3: can do the old marble track, you know, to determine
Speaker 3: how much slope there is on a floor. You figure
Speaker 3: out where you think the high point is. Put the
Speaker 3: marble down and see where it rolls. That'll soon tell
Speaker 3: you what's slopes like, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 3: Let us get into the is that a terrible pun
Speaker 3: let us? If we're talking about gardening, let us get
Speaker 3: into the garden with a rid climb pass in just
Speaker 3: a money right red climb pass.
Speaker 20: Good morning, sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero
Speaker 20: Are you all good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, very well, thank you, now right, But we've got
Speaker 3: a whole boarder of calls. But artillery fungus, shotgun fungus,
Speaker 3: tell me.
Speaker 20: It's it is actually a fungus that lives that originates
Speaker 20: from mulch in the garden, if you like. So, if
Speaker 20: you've got a lot of mulch there, there's a fungus
Speaker 20: if you like, that wants to spread its spores literally
Speaker 20: by shooting it into the quite a long way, usually
Speaker 20: to something with a light colored surface. It has deliberately, yes,
Speaker 20: because that's probably the best way for the fungal spores
Speaker 20: to actually germinate. Okay, so so it knows where your
Speaker 20: carriers back.
Speaker 3: Wow, I love it.
Speaker 20: I've ever got my car before too.
Speaker 3: And and so that's.
Speaker 20: Basically how it works. So it's it's it's in a
Speaker 20: fungus that occurs in New Zealand, and it hasn't it
Speaker 20: hasn't a wonderful name. Actually it's sphere o bolus stellatus,
Speaker 20: which means it's it's aiming at things, you know, like
Speaker 20: literally like an artillery.
Speaker 7: What can you do?
Speaker 20: Well? The first thing is, if you have this stuff
Speaker 20: in your in your mulch, try using pine mulch. I
Speaker 20: understand that pine mulch is not that good for that
Speaker 20: particular fungus. That's number one. Number two, try wet and forget.
Speaker 20: It's really hard to get rid of by the way,
Speaker 20: try wet and forget. You never know if that's going
Speaker 20: to work that out. Otherwise you use some nice warm
Speaker 20: look warm water or warm water. Maybe what can you
Speaker 20: put into it? Oh gosh, maybe some soap and things
Speaker 20: like that. But it's pretty hard to get out of
Speaker 20: there actually, to be quite honest, it's really hard.
Speaker 12: That was what you know.
Speaker 3: The original question was around sort of the durability, right,
Speaker 3: the persistence of this growth, and that in some cases
Speaker 3: someone had had it on weatherboards and then trying to
Speaker 3: get it off with the boards. Now, the other comment
Speaker 3: just very quickly. I don't want to take too much
Speaker 3: of your time, but it was about a caller said,
Speaker 3: it's moths that were leaving like a shell casing on
Speaker 3: the exterior of the weatherboard that was also incredibly difficult
Speaker 3: to get off.
Speaker 20: Oh, don't think so. I know they can lay their
Speaker 20: eggs on surfaces like that, and they but especially once
Speaker 20: they hatch, they will be kay. I've also heard of
Speaker 20: spiderwebe's and I call them websites now, kids love that
Speaker 20: I call them anyway, those websites. But the moths egg
Speaker 20: cases as well. Yes, it's you need to be very careful,
Speaker 20: you know. With paint, you've got to you can't craper
Speaker 20: too much because you can damage you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 20: but it's stuff like that. It'll come off, and so
Speaker 20: will that artillery fungus, but it can take quite a.
Speaker 3: Long time, right, and a lot of elbow grease.
Speaker 20: But I think it's so cool of nature of these things.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's so exciting. Well, I don't want it, but
Speaker 3: the fact that it's out there is awesome. Right, Let's
Speaker 3: rip into a few calls. Errol, A very good.
Speaker 6: Morning, Good morning to you, Rude. I've got a problem
Speaker 6: with a plum tree. It's about three years old. Last
Speaker 6: year we only got one plumb off it. I've sprayed
Speaker 6: it during winter with two lots of copper and now
Speaker 6: we've got plums on there, but some of them look
Speaker 6: like they've got a punch out. They've gone flat.
Speaker 3: Ah, yes, I know what you mean.
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh that is bladder plum
Speaker 20: and I think you should have had some if you like,
Speaker 20: some fungal material on there. Yes, actually bladder plum. If
Speaker 20: you want to google it, you can do that yourself.
Speaker 20: It's it's I think you need some fungicide before there's
Speaker 20: Those plums are starting to ripen, and I think some
Speaker 20: of that could from memory. It might have something to
Speaker 20: do with spraying it in autumn time as well. I'll
Speaker 20: have to look that up to be quite honest, Errol,
Speaker 20: I haven't seen it for a while, and it's famous
Speaker 20: on certain plum species. The fact that you have few
Speaker 20: plums could something could be something to do with the
Speaker 20: fact that you might need a pollinator.
Speaker 6: Does that makes sense, Yeah, yeah, So have have another.
Speaker 20: Have another plump tree nearby that will that will so
Speaker 20: you get to cross pollination and that gives you a
Speaker 20: lot more fruit this year.
Speaker 6: There are there are quite a few other plums there,
Speaker 6: but there there are the flat one as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there later.
Speaker 20: Okay, in that case, it might not be that problem,
Speaker 20: but bladder bloom certainly is. And it's it's a it's
Speaker 20: a it's a lovely it's a strange look.
Speaker 12: Isn't it.
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Will it go away or will it just continue?
Speaker 6: Or is it doing any damage to the tree?
Speaker 20: Or let me have a look in the head break
Speaker 20: to see what I can do with leader plum for you,
Speaker 20: and I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
Speaker 20: I'll just quickly google that.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you very much, No worries.
Speaker 3: Take one quick call from UK good morning to UK.
Speaker 21: Good morning, gentlemen. I have a bee well kind of problem.
Speaker 21: I've got bumblebees coming into my nice flairy gun. But
Speaker 21: now I've noticed they come have come to the little
Speaker 21: vent in the Omoru stone at the base where there's
Speaker 21: like a little earth wire and the gap, and they're
Speaker 21: just coming in busifusly, you know, I do all the bees,
Speaker 21: but should I be doing something about it or can
Speaker 21: we just enjoy them.
Speaker 20: Last week I've been working at the school in Tecpo
Speaker 20: where we are going to put bee bumblebee nest boxes
Speaker 20: up and also the right plants to get bumblebees back
Speaker 20: into Tachapo. And there's four species in New Zealand and
Speaker 20: they want to do something about a really rare species that,
Speaker 20: by the way, is no.
Speaker 3: Extinct in the UK.
Speaker 20: But bumblebees. The nests themselves in your wall usually are
Speaker 20: of no concern to your house or to the bees
Speaker 20: or anything else, and it might be just a wonderful
Speaker 20: place for them to live and pollinate your all your
Speaker 20: plants in the garden. I don't think they are of
Speaker 20: any concern for you whatsoever.
Speaker 21: Oh, thank you very much, we'll enjoy them.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Bye bye all UK. Take care.
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Speaker 3: talk to Diane in just a moment moment for more.
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