1 00:00:06,855 --> 00:00:10,055 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident build Up podcast with Peter 2 00:00:10,135 --> 00:00:12,055 Speaker 1: Wolfcamp from News Talks at Bay. 3 00:00:18,975 --> 00:00:24,455 Speaker 2: The house is a hole, even when it's darns, even 4 00:00:24,495 --> 00:00:29,415 Speaker 2: when the grass is overgrown in the yard, and even 5 00:00:29,455 --> 00:00:33,775 Speaker 2: when the dog is too old to borrow, and when 6 00:00:33,775 --> 00:00:39,335 Speaker 2: you're sitting at the table trying to start. 7 00:00:38,895 --> 00:00:45,375 Speaker 3: Scissor home, even when we are band even when you're 8 00:00:45,615 --> 00:01:01,335 Speaker 3: there alone, the house is a hole, even when those goes, 9 00:01:02,615 --> 00:01:03,295 Speaker 3: Even when you. 10 00:01:03,415 --> 00:01:06,175 Speaker 2: Got around from the world you love your most. 11 00:01:07,775 --> 00:01:10,015 Speaker 4: Scream does pins being in. 12 00:01:10,055 --> 00:01:20,735 Speaker 2: Fund locals when these. 13 00:01:20,015 --> 00:01:25,415 Speaker 3: Even when we ben, even when you're there alone. 14 00:01:40,575 --> 00:01:43,415 Speaker 4: Well, very very good morning to you. Welcome along to 15 00:01:43,575 --> 00:01:46,215 Speaker 4: the Resident Builder on Sunday morning's people off camp the 16 00:01:46,255 --> 00:01:49,775 Speaker 4: Resident Builder. And this is an opportunity for the next 17 00:01:49,815 --> 00:01:52,215 Speaker 4: two and a half, well kind of three hours to 18 00:01:52,415 --> 00:01:55,615 Speaker 4: talk all things building and construction. And it's a big, 19 00:01:55,695 --> 00:01:58,695 Speaker 4: wide open playing field really that we can sort of 20 00:01:58,775 --> 00:02:03,815 Speaker 4: romp around on taking our pack of topics around. It 21 00:02:03,895 --> 00:02:06,575 Speaker 4: might be around compliance, it might be around trades people, 22 00:02:06,615 --> 00:02:12,535 Speaker 4: it might be around renovations, alterations, contracts, move and dates, 23 00:02:12,575 --> 00:02:14,855 Speaker 4: these sorts of things. And there's a few things that 24 00:02:14,975 --> 00:02:18,415 Speaker 4: sort of come through my week where I go, oh, 25 00:02:18,535 --> 00:02:21,295 Speaker 4: actually that's not something we could talk about on the show, 26 00:02:22,295 --> 00:02:24,895 Speaker 4: and I'm prompted. Actually I saw a couple of stories 27 00:02:24,935 --> 00:02:27,735 Speaker 4: this week. It's still pretty tough times. In fact, it's 28 00:02:28,175 --> 00:02:32,615 Speaker 4: extremely tough times out there in the construction sector, and 29 00:02:32,655 --> 00:02:37,735 Speaker 4: it's tough for trades people often. But what obviously comes 30 00:02:37,775 --> 00:02:41,175 Speaker 4: along with these tough times as well is the impact 31 00:02:41,175 --> 00:02:44,135 Speaker 4: on people who have perhaps purchased off the plans they've 32 00:02:44,135 --> 00:02:46,895 Speaker 4: got to move and date that move and date keep shifting, 33 00:02:47,175 --> 00:02:51,095 Speaker 4: or really distressing story that I picked up online during 34 00:02:51,135 --> 00:02:53,695 Speaker 4: the course of this week where people have actually put 35 00:02:53,735 --> 00:02:58,455 Speaker 4: down deposits on a house and land package where in 36 00:02:58,495 --> 00:03:01,655 Speaker 4: the end the developer, the person to whom they've paid 37 00:03:01,655 --> 00:03:05,215 Speaker 4: the deposit for their new home sometime in the future, 38 00:03:05,455 --> 00:03:09,695 Speaker 4: has ended up going into liquidation. In fact, there's no land, 39 00:03:10,055 --> 00:03:13,575 Speaker 4: no house, and the deposit money has gone as well. 40 00:03:14,015 --> 00:03:17,015 Speaker 4: So there's some tough still some tough times out there 41 00:03:17,015 --> 00:03:19,095 Speaker 4: in the sector. If you've been caught in that somehow, 42 00:03:20,015 --> 00:03:22,575 Speaker 4: certainly hope it all works out okay for you, but 43 00:03:22,615 --> 00:03:27,055 Speaker 4: we may want to talk about that certainly as the 44 00:03:27,695 --> 00:03:31,495 Speaker 4: days get a little bit longer. Beautiful, beautiful sunrise this morning, 45 00:03:32,055 --> 00:03:34,375 Speaker 4: as I was turtning my way over the Harbor Bridge. 46 00:03:34,655 --> 00:03:40,215 Speaker 4: If you're thinking about, as we all are, projects that 47 00:03:40,255 --> 00:03:43,015 Speaker 4: we might want to do. G I was thinking get 48 00:03:43,055 --> 00:03:46,255 Speaker 4: done before Christmas, but there's not that many days left 49 00:03:46,335 --> 00:03:49,775 Speaker 4: before Christmas realistically to get a decent sized project done. 50 00:03:50,175 --> 00:03:52,095 Speaker 4: Or perhaps you're thinking, well, actually, I'm going to take 51 00:03:52,135 --> 00:03:55,175 Speaker 4: advantage of some time off over the Christmas break and 52 00:03:55,215 --> 00:03:58,215 Speaker 4: I want to add a pergola. I'm going to extend 53 00:03:58,215 --> 00:04:01,695 Speaker 4: the deck, maybe do some alterations the interior of the property. 54 00:04:01,895 --> 00:04:03,895 Speaker 4: Those sorts of things we can talk about. Those, we 55 00:04:03,935 --> 00:04:09,055 Speaker 4: can talk about what regulations might be around. Do I 56 00:04:09,055 --> 00:04:11,055 Speaker 4: need a building consent for this? Do I not need 57 00:04:11,055 --> 00:04:13,815 Speaker 4: a building consent for this? Certainly if you did need one, 58 00:04:13,855 --> 00:04:16,375 Speaker 4: I think the chances of getting one before Christmas probably 59 00:04:16,415 --> 00:04:19,855 Speaker 4: a bit unlikely right now. So we can talk about 60 00:04:19,895 --> 00:04:25,095 Speaker 4: your place, about legislation, about products, about new ideas. A 61 00:04:25,135 --> 00:04:28,855 Speaker 4: little bit of a revelation for me, not revelation, yes, 62 00:04:28,895 --> 00:04:30,895 Speaker 4: sort of a revelation for me, just in terms of 63 00:04:32,455 --> 00:04:35,535 Speaker 4: tools that I have been dismissive of. So a confession 64 00:04:35,855 --> 00:04:38,375 Speaker 4: from me a little bit later on this morning, where 65 00:04:38,415 --> 00:04:41,615 Speaker 4: I may have been dismissive of a particular type of tool, 66 00:04:42,455 --> 00:04:45,855 Speaker 4: it has now fast become one of my favorite and 67 00:04:45,975 --> 00:04:49,015 Speaker 4: most well used tools in the workshop. Anyway, we'll talk 68 00:04:49,015 --> 00:04:51,775 Speaker 4: about that a little bit later on, but today is 69 00:04:51,895 --> 00:04:54,695 Speaker 4: all about you. So if you've got a question about 70 00:04:54,735 --> 00:04:58,455 Speaker 4: building and about the wide variety of topics that come 71 00:04:58,535 --> 00:05:01,415 Speaker 4: under a heading that says, let's talk about building, we 72 00:05:01,495 --> 00:05:03,735 Speaker 4: can do that this morning on the program. We will 73 00:05:03,735 --> 00:05:06,815 Speaker 4: do that right through till about nine eight thirty this morning. 74 00:05:07,175 --> 00:05:09,415 Speaker 4: Then the Red Climb Past will join us. We'll talk 75 00:05:09,455 --> 00:05:12,135 Speaker 4: all things gardening and the wonderful world of entomology, the 76 00:05:12,135 --> 00:05:14,815 Speaker 4: wonderful world of bugs as well from about eight thirty 77 00:05:15,015 --> 00:05:17,775 Speaker 4: this morning. And to be fair, I'm going to keep 78 00:05:17,815 --> 00:05:20,855 Speaker 4: one eye on the television screens is live pictures coming 79 00:05:20,895 --> 00:05:26,215 Speaker 4: out from Paris. Dignitaries are starting to arrive in Paris 80 00:05:26,695 --> 00:05:30,775 Speaker 4: for the opening of Notre Dame, the official sort of 81 00:05:31,055 --> 00:05:35,215 Speaker 4: high faluting opening of Notre Dame. I have been following 82 00:05:35,255 --> 00:05:39,135 Speaker 4: this ever since the fire. I thought, when the fire 83 00:05:39,255 --> 00:05:42,255 Speaker 4: happened and you saw those images of the flames licking 84 00:05:42,295 --> 00:05:45,535 Speaker 4: through the roof and then the spire crashing down through 85 00:05:45,575 --> 00:05:47,855 Speaker 4: the top of the roof and the scaffolding melting and 86 00:05:48,535 --> 00:05:55,455 Speaker 4: falling into the inferno, and then the typical frenchness. I 87 00:05:55,455 --> 00:05:58,135 Speaker 4: guess of Macron just standing and saying we are going 88 00:05:58,175 --> 00:06:00,015 Speaker 4: to fix it, and we're going to fix it by 89 00:06:00,055 --> 00:06:02,735 Speaker 4: the Olympics. Didn't quite make it by the Olympics, but 90 00:06:02,935 --> 00:06:07,575 Speaker 4: not far off. So a remarkable room. I have been 91 00:06:07,655 --> 00:06:11,095 Speaker 4: absolutely captivated over the last couple of years by especially, 92 00:06:11,215 --> 00:06:15,775 Speaker 4: you know, the little video clips you see online of carpenters, 93 00:06:15,855 --> 00:06:19,975 Speaker 4: stone masons, lead work people, people who do gilding, people 94 00:06:19,975 --> 00:06:24,615 Speaker 4: who do restoration of stained glass, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera working 95 00:06:24,695 --> 00:06:27,735 Speaker 4: on this building, and then to see it all come together, 96 00:06:27,975 --> 00:06:32,135 Speaker 4: it's gosh, it's about far out. It will be almost 97 00:06:32,175 --> 00:06:36,575 Speaker 4: twenty years since I've been to Paris and had a 98 00:06:36,615 --> 00:06:39,775 Speaker 4: wand around the Notre Dame, and to see it today 99 00:06:39,855 --> 00:06:45,135 Speaker 4: it looks absolutely absolutely stunning. We could go political, say 100 00:06:45,175 --> 00:06:47,935 Speaker 4: contrast that to christ Church. Anyway, we won't go there 101 00:06:47,975 --> 00:06:51,495 Speaker 4: this morning. I think we just celebrate the crafts people, 102 00:06:51,615 --> 00:06:55,175 Speaker 4: the craftsmen who have worked, the stone masons, the carpenters, 103 00:06:55,295 --> 00:06:58,695 Speaker 4: the people doing the shingles, the people you know, restoring 104 00:06:58,735 --> 00:07:04,215 Speaker 4: the stone masons, remaking the gargoyles. It's just been absolutely phenomenal. 105 00:07:04,495 --> 00:07:07,095 Speaker 4: Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is that number 106 00:07:07,095 --> 00:07:09,415 Speaker 4: to call. Let's talk all things, building a few projects 107 00:07:09,455 --> 00:07:12,615 Speaker 4: a little bit smaller than Notre Dame. That's okay as well. Oh, 108 00:07:12,615 --> 00:07:15,295 Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty eighty is the number to call. Mike, 109 00:07:15,415 --> 00:07:18,495 Speaker 4: A very good morning to you. I don't know what 110 00:07:18,535 --> 00:07:20,575 Speaker 4: it is with the screen, but it's given up being 111 00:07:20,575 --> 00:07:22,535 Speaker 4: a touch screen. I can tell you that for a fact, 112 00:07:22,895 --> 00:07:25,095 Speaker 4: right Mike, good morning. 113 00:07:25,655 --> 00:07:26,255 Speaker 5: Good morning. 114 00:07:27,255 --> 00:07:32,335 Speaker 6: I was very fifty house with five us past siy yes, beautiful, 115 00:07:33,055 --> 00:07:38,375 Speaker 6: and the seiling in places, the surfaces breaking down a 116 00:07:38,415 --> 00:07:41,575 Speaker 6: little bit. It's a cracker and crazy and lift a 117 00:07:41,575 --> 00:07:44,975 Speaker 6: little bit. I was talking to a guy some time 118 00:07:45,015 --> 00:07:46,935 Speaker 6: ago who used to make them, and he said, well, 119 00:07:47,615 --> 00:07:49,335 Speaker 6: he said, when we made them, we knew they're going 120 00:07:49,335 --> 00:07:51,255 Speaker 6: to know who last about fifty years. But ever he 121 00:07:51,335 --> 00:07:55,575 Speaker 6: told me that when I bought the house. Yeah, my 122 00:07:55,655 --> 00:07:58,375 Speaker 6: mother in law next door she had the same problem. 123 00:07:58,495 --> 00:08:03,535 Speaker 6: She put battens and jim because it's a very big 124 00:08:03,615 --> 00:08:07,855 Speaker 6: caller sid it, yes and jib and you know, I'm 125 00:08:07,935 --> 00:08:14,095 Speaker 6: plaster that. Somebody said you can you can coat over 126 00:08:14,135 --> 00:08:18,495 Speaker 6: it with a plaster skin coated and that would work. 127 00:08:18,815 --> 00:08:21,295 Speaker 6: But I'm not too sure or do you need to 128 00:08:21,295 --> 00:08:27,175 Speaker 6: put beatons on. Can you just secure a small sort 129 00:08:27,175 --> 00:08:28,815 Speaker 6: of jibs directly to the ceiling. 130 00:08:29,935 --> 00:08:33,135 Speaker 4: Would you say the surface is cracking? Is that actually 131 00:08:33,175 --> 00:08:36,375 Speaker 4: the plaster board or the fibrous plaster, or is it 132 00:08:36,575 --> 00:08:39,615 Speaker 4: just the layers of paint that might have been applied 133 00:08:39,655 --> 00:08:40,535 Speaker 4: to it over the years. 134 00:08:41,095 --> 00:08:44,895 Speaker 6: Well, it could well be. It's it's sort of cracking 135 00:08:44,935 --> 00:08:50,535 Speaker 6: in places and and sort of lifting a bit. Yeah, 136 00:08:51,055 --> 00:08:53,415 Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not too sure. I haven't gone up 137 00:08:53,455 --> 00:08:54,895 Speaker 6: there and satis scraping. 138 00:08:54,575 --> 00:08:58,895 Speaker 4: Because yeah, okay, look, I think one of the great 139 00:08:59,015 --> 00:09:03,215 Speaker 4: benefits of fibrous plaster is it is remarkably robust, right, 140 00:09:03,455 --> 00:09:07,335 Speaker 4: So it's it's literally plaster all the ways through, with 141 00:09:07,615 --> 00:09:11,895 Speaker 4: obviously some reinforcing, which is like the old Hessian on. 142 00:09:12,215 --> 00:09:14,255 Speaker 4: One of the issues sometimes can be that the way 143 00:09:14,295 --> 00:09:18,335 Speaker 4: in which they were fixed to the ceiling joists in 144 00:09:18,775 --> 00:09:22,415 Speaker 4: most houses is they fix the sheet up and they 145 00:09:22,455 --> 00:09:24,615 Speaker 4: put a clout through it. But they'd also climb up 146 00:09:24,655 --> 00:09:27,775 Speaker 4: into the roof space, sometimes with a bucket of plaster 147 00:09:27,935 --> 00:09:31,695 Speaker 4: and some wadding, some of this reinforcing, this fibrous reinforcing, 148 00:09:32,135 --> 00:09:35,295 Speaker 4: and make like a little saddle that glued down to 149 00:09:35,375 --> 00:09:37,775 Speaker 4: the surface of the sheet and then went up and 150 00:09:37,895 --> 00:09:42,695 Speaker 4: over the ceiling joist. Now, if they've started to deteriorate, 151 00:09:43,735 --> 00:09:46,455 Speaker 4: which can happen I guess over time, and you've got 152 00:09:46,495 --> 00:09:49,015 Speaker 4: some movement, then you might want to fix that. But 153 00:09:49,455 --> 00:09:51,655 Speaker 4: I suspect yeah. 154 00:09:52,535 --> 00:09:55,415 Speaker 6: And I don't see anything right up there. I don't 155 00:09:55,455 --> 00:09:57,375 Speaker 6: see this sadly, as you talk about the. 156 00:09:58,335 --> 00:10:03,455 Speaker 4: Roof, right, look, are there any issues with moisture like 157 00:10:03,575 --> 00:10:05,655 Speaker 4: you get there's no leaks in the roof or anything 158 00:10:05,695 --> 00:10:06,055 Speaker 4: like that. 159 00:10:06,375 --> 00:10:07,815 Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, nothing like that. 160 00:10:08,575 --> 00:10:12,215 Speaker 4: I would have thought that scraping back the loose flaking 161 00:10:12,255 --> 00:10:15,135 Speaker 4: areas because what would it be two three percent of 162 00:10:15,175 --> 00:10:18,175 Speaker 4: the entire surface of the ceiling. 163 00:10:18,735 --> 00:10:21,615 Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess, so, yeah, right. 164 00:10:22,215 --> 00:10:26,295 Speaker 4: I reckon scraping those back, maybe getting someone into skim 165 00:10:26,535 --> 00:10:29,335 Speaker 4: the surface in those areas to bring them up flat 166 00:10:29,855 --> 00:10:32,975 Speaker 4: standing it using I would go for a pigmented seala, 167 00:10:33,495 --> 00:10:37,255 Speaker 4: so an oil based pigmented seala like sure seal from razine, 168 00:10:37,415 --> 00:10:39,775 Speaker 4: and then go over the top of that with your 169 00:10:39,815 --> 00:10:42,575 Speaker 4: top coats. Because I mean, like the other day, I 170 00:10:42,615 --> 00:10:45,455 Speaker 4: went to look at a house that was unfortunately she 171 00:10:45,575 --> 00:10:48,935 Speaker 4: was a deceased estate. Someone that I knew was thinking 172 00:10:48,935 --> 00:10:52,815 Speaker 4: about making an offer on it, and it was nineteen fifties. 173 00:10:52,975 --> 00:10:56,095 Speaker 4: It had fibrous plaster ceilings all the way through with 174 00:10:56,295 --> 00:11:00,455 Speaker 4: quite a heavy detailed cornice around it as well. And yeah, 175 00:11:00,495 --> 00:11:03,615 Speaker 4: while it needed repair, it certainly didn't need replacement, so 176 00:11:04,015 --> 00:11:08,215 Speaker 4: I would have thought replacement or relining would be unnecessary. 177 00:11:08,655 --> 00:11:09,375 Speaker 4: I think you can. 178 00:11:09,735 --> 00:11:13,095 Speaker 6: See in the wall is the same as the wall 179 00:11:13,135 --> 00:11:18,135 Speaker 6: fibers past, and you could see some places where there's 180 00:11:18,175 --> 00:11:21,575 Speaker 6: lottery bold with it looks like the nails are popped. 181 00:11:23,175 --> 00:11:27,695 Speaker 4: But again you can. You could either take the take 182 00:11:27,695 --> 00:11:30,495 Speaker 4: the nails, take the old nail out, or drive it 183 00:11:30,575 --> 00:11:36,575 Speaker 4: back in, fix a brand new you know, some new 184 00:11:36,775 --> 00:11:41,215 Speaker 4: fixings either side and then go from there. The other 185 00:11:41,255 --> 00:11:43,295 Speaker 4: option for you is to get in touch. I know 186 00:11:43,495 --> 00:11:46,935 Speaker 4: in Auckland there's surprisingly there's still actually a couple of 187 00:11:46,975 --> 00:11:53,015 Speaker 4: people that make fibrous plaster sheets and plaster Craft is 188 00:11:53,175 --> 00:11:55,575 Speaker 4: one company that are still doing it. They used to 189 00:11:55,575 --> 00:11:57,775 Speaker 4: be out and only Hunger. They're out Mount Wellington Way now, 190 00:11:58,015 --> 00:11:59,735 Speaker 4: so I'm not sure where you are in the country, 191 00:11:59,775 --> 00:12:04,775 Speaker 4: but okay, look, you know a phone call to someone 192 00:12:04,815 --> 00:12:08,335 Speaker 4: who's still involved in it, or if I remember the 193 00:12:08,415 --> 00:12:11,015 Speaker 4: guys that I used to use for my jibs stopping 194 00:12:11,375 --> 00:12:14,095 Speaker 4: years and years ago, and they were old boys. Then 195 00:12:15,655 --> 00:12:17,775 Speaker 4: they when they started out in their trades, they were 196 00:12:17,775 --> 00:12:20,775 Speaker 4: doing fibrous plaster all the time. I don't know that 197 00:12:20,815 --> 00:12:25,775 Speaker 4: you find many older tradesmen basically these days who would 198 00:12:25,775 --> 00:12:28,175 Speaker 4: still be familiar with it. But my sense is that 199 00:12:28,295 --> 00:12:32,295 Speaker 4: you can repair it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be looking 200 00:12:32,335 --> 00:12:38,495 Speaker 4: at replacing it. No, look at replace here you or 201 00:12:38,535 --> 00:12:39,255 Speaker 4: relining it. 202 00:12:39,295 --> 00:12:43,815 Speaker 5: Or molded mold. Yeah, beautiful. 203 00:12:45,695 --> 00:12:46,415 Speaker 7: I'd stick with it. 204 00:12:46,895 --> 00:12:50,095 Speaker 4: I think it'll be It'll need some work, but I 205 00:12:50,175 --> 00:12:56,775 Speaker 4: think you'll be rewarded for your efforts some money. Yeah, 206 00:12:56,895 --> 00:13:02,055 Speaker 4: I know, I know. And yeah, all right, nice to 207 00:13:02,055 --> 00:13:03,975 Speaker 4: talk to you. All the best, Mike, you take care 208 00:13:04,095 --> 00:13:08,495 Speaker 4: see them. Yeah, isn't there. It's not the work, it's 209 00:13:08,535 --> 00:13:11,215 Speaker 4: the money. You're absolutely right, of course. Oh, eight hundred 210 00:13:11,255 --> 00:13:13,255 Speaker 4: and eighty ten eighty. We'll take your calls. We'll talk 211 00:13:13,255 --> 00:13:16,215 Speaker 4: five rous plaster, we'll talk jobs around the house. Maybe 212 00:13:16,215 --> 00:13:20,135 Speaker 4: we talk money and budgets and how do you I've 213 00:13:20,175 --> 00:13:22,575 Speaker 4: always maintained I haven't said this for a while now. 214 00:13:24,055 --> 00:13:28,295 Speaker 4: As if you're a home owner, right, I think you 215 00:13:28,455 --> 00:13:34,375 Speaker 4: need to either have money set aside or have the 216 00:13:34,415 --> 00:13:37,415 Speaker 4: ability to access that money either by drawing down on 217 00:13:37,415 --> 00:13:39,575 Speaker 4: the mortgage or something like that. And I've always thought 218 00:13:39,615 --> 00:13:41,255 Speaker 4: you should put aside. And I don't know where I 219 00:13:41,255 --> 00:13:43,095 Speaker 4: got this figure from, so it might be a bit random. 220 00:13:43,495 --> 00:13:47,255 Speaker 4: Around zero point five percent of the value of the 221 00:13:47,335 --> 00:13:52,415 Speaker 4: house into a maintenance pool about point five percent, So 222 00:13:52,495 --> 00:13:55,895 Speaker 4: do the calculations about point five percent, and that will 223 00:13:56,175 --> 00:13:59,575 Speaker 4: if it's a fund that builds up over time. You 224 00:13:59,615 --> 00:14:01,535 Speaker 4: know you'll have money there when you need to replace 225 00:14:01,575 --> 00:14:04,095 Speaker 4: the roof, or if you need to do a complete 226 00:14:04,175 --> 00:14:08,895 Speaker 4: exterior repaint including you know, potentially scaffolding and a few 227 00:14:08,975 --> 00:14:11,975 Speaker 4: maintenance but some pieces to weather boards or cladding and 228 00:14:12,015 --> 00:14:14,455 Speaker 4: that sort of thing, you'll have it there. Because the 229 00:14:14,535 --> 00:14:20,255 Speaker 4: one thing that's absolutely certain is maintenance delayed is just 230 00:14:20,375 --> 00:14:24,215 Speaker 4: ends up resulting in a much bigger job. And I've 231 00:14:24,295 --> 00:14:27,255 Speaker 4: seen that a thousand times eight hundred eighty ten eighty 232 00:14:27,295 --> 00:14:28,815 Speaker 4: is the number to call if you've got a question 233 00:14:28,855 --> 00:14:34,775 Speaker 4: about building, around construction, around materials to use, products to use, 234 00:14:34,895 --> 00:14:37,535 Speaker 4: tools to use. I mean we're coming up to Christmas. 235 00:14:37,615 --> 00:14:41,375 Speaker 4: We could talk Christmas gift buying as well. The person 236 00:14:41,375 --> 00:14:43,415 Speaker 4: who has everything, what do you get the person who's 237 00:14:43,415 --> 00:14:45,935 Speaker 4: got everything? I might even have a tip on that 238 00:14:45,975 --> 00:14:48,455 Speaker 4: one as well. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the 239 00:14:48,535 --> 00:14:51,415 Speaker 4: number to call. The lines are open ready for your calls. 240 00:14:51,655 --> 00:14:54,295 Speaker 4: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call. 241 00:14:54,335 --> 00:14:55,855 Speaker 4: You can text as well. We've got a couple of 242 00:14:55,855 --> 00:14:58,775 Speaker 4: texts come through this morning. Text nine to nine two 243 00:14:58,935 --> 00:15:01,695 Speaker 4: is ABCB from mobile phone. And if you would like 244 00:15:01,735 --> 00:15:04,535 Speaker 4: to email me, you more than welcome. It is Pete 245 00:15:04,655 --> 00:15:08,375 Speaker 4: at Newstalk SB dot code. So Pete, p E t 246 00:15:08,575 --> 00:15:13,535 Speaker 4: E at Newstalk ZB dot co dot NZI. Okay, a 247 00:15:13,535 --> 00:15:15,295 Speaker 4: couple of quick texts, Hey, Pete, I live in a 248 00:15:15,375 --> 00:15:19,455 Speaker 4: nineteen forties house with a brick A nineteen forties house 249 00:15:19,455 --> 00:15:22,975 Speaker 4: with a brick exterior that has been plastered. The plaster 250 00:15:23,095 --> 00:15:25,935 Speaker 4: has some hairline cracks that seem to have been created 251 00:15:26,375 --> 00:15:30,575 Speaker 4: by normal house movement. What solutions are available to repair 252 00:15:30,655 --> 00:15:35,215 Speaker 4: these cracks? Thanks from Sam, Let's assume that the cracks 253 00:15:35,255 --> 00:15:38,815 Speaker 4: are relatively minor, so they're the sort of movement cracks that, 254 00:15:39,055 --> 00:15:42,375 Speaker 4: as you quite rightly say, you'd expect from normal house movement. 255 00:15:43,215 --> 00:15:45,695 Speaker 4: And if it's been painted, if you're going to use 256 00:15:46,015 --> 00:15:51,415 Speaker 4: a good quality paint designed for rendered surfaces, then you'll 257 00:15:51,415 --> 00:15:55,815 Speaker 4: probably find that anything up to about two millimeters, the 258 00:15:55,895 --> 00:16:00,495 Speaker 4: paint will actually span that and cover that. Anything more 259 00:16:00,535 --> 00:16:06,775 Speaker 4: than that, given that you're going to paint it use 260 00:16:07,335 --> 00:16:10,695 Speaker 4: you could use flexible sealant. The hard thing is trying 261 00:16:10,735 --> 00:16:14,975 Speaker 4: to not make that look really obvious. You know, we've 262 00:16:15,015 --> 00:16:17,615 Speaker 4: probably all seen lots of repairs and masonry work where 263 00:16:17,655 --> 00:16:21,255 Speaker 4: someone's just taken a tube of silicon and squirted out 264 00:16:21,255 --> 00:16:23,855 Speaker 4: a bead of silicon and then smeared it off with 265 00:16:23,855 --> 00:16:26,575 Speaker 4: their finger, and you get this great, big wide swadge 266 00:16:26,895 --> 00:16:30,135 Speaker 4: of silicon on the outside of the building and then 267 00:16:30,175 --> 00:16:33,095 Speaker 4: paint over it, and it just draws attention to it 268 00:16:33,215 --> 00:16:37,175 Speaker 4: rather than hide the defect. It just draws attention to 269 00:16:37,215 --> 00:16:40,295 Speaker 4: the defect. But if you were very neat with that, 270 00:16:40,335 --> 00:16:44,335 Speaker 4: you could use it. There are also some semonititious based 271 00:16:44,375 --> 00:16:47,135 Speaker 4: repair products, So if the crack's a little bit bigger, 272 00:16:47,175 --> 00:16:49,695 Speaker 4: and if it's got a slightly textured surface, you could 273 00:16:49,735 --> 00:16:53,295 Speaker 4: make up a slurry with this, apply it into the 274 00:16:53,375 --> 00:16:56,855 Speaker 4: crack and then use a sponge or even a brush 275 00:16:57,095 --> 00:16:59,695 Speaker 4: and then brush it off so that it matches the 276 00:16:59,735 --> 00:17:04,335 Speaker 4: exterior texture of the building, and then prime and recope. 277 00:17:04,335 --> 00:17:06,535 Speaker 4: That so a couple of options there, But I think 278 00:17:06,575 --> 00:17:09,775 Speaker 4: if they're relatively minor. New coat of paint will actually 279 00:17:10,175 --> 00:17:13,135 Speaker 4: be able to span most of those. And this is 280 00:17:13,215 --> 00:17:16,175 Speaker 4: delightful text from Helen this morning, Morning Peak. I listen 281 00:17:16,255 --> 00:17:18,695 Speaker 4: to you each week. I'm a hopeless I'm sure that's 282 00:17:18,695 --> 00:17:21,335 Speaker 4: not true. Seventy three year old female not able to 283 00:17:21,335 --> 00:17:25,095 Speaker 4: fix anything regards building. Friday, the bottom screws fell out 284 00:17:25,135 --> 00:17:27,535 Speaker 4: of a kitchen door. What do I do? I remembered 285 00:17:27,615 --> 00:17:30,135 Speaker 4: you said to put a broken match into the hole 286 00:17:30,575 --> 00:17:33,095 Speaker 4: so the screw has some grip. So I had some 287 00:17:33,175 --> 00:17:36,655 Speaker 4: screws that matched with the old Phillips screwdriver. Thank you. 288 00:17:36,735 --> 00:17:42,495 Speaker 4: It's fixed. How satisfying. And I think Helen and you 289 00:17:42,615 --> 00:17:52,375 Speaker 4: have encapsulated expressed the satisfaction of DIY right there, and 290 00:17:52,415 --> 00:17:57,295 Speaker 4: then there is a tremendous, tremendous satisfaction in going I 291 00:17:57,335 --> 00:18:01,975 Speaker 4: fixed it, And you know, in this case it's a 292 00:18:02,455 --> 00:18:04,695 Speaker 4: that's actually quite a tricky job to do, to be fair, 293 00:18:06,455 --> 00:18:09,815 Speaker 4: So well done to you. I think that's absolutely brilliant. 294 00:18:10,815 --> 00:18:13,175 Speaker 4: Thank you very very much for your call, Helen. I 295 00:18:13,215 --> 00:18:15,255 Speaker 4: wish you all the very best for Christmas and the 296 00:18:15,295 --> 00:18:17,175 Speaker 4: new Year. We're going to take a short break. If 297 00:18:17,215 --> 00:18:19,615 Speaker 4: you've got a text or a question you should call. Now, oh, 298 00:18:19,695 --> 00:18:21,855 Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number. Getting a 299 00:18:21,895 --> 00:18:25,895 Speaker 4: number of texts and on that comment that I made 300 00:18:25,895 --> 00:18:30,015 Speaker 4: around sort of a maintenance savings plan. Now, look, I 301 00:18:30,055 --> 00:18:34,855 Speaker 4: absolutely acknowledge the fact that that's in today's times, that's 302 00:18:35,455 --> 00:18:41,655 Speaker 4: possibly not durable or not easily durable. But someone's responded 303 00:18:41,695 --> 00:18:48,855 Speaker 4: by saying, hey, Pete, regards your comment about the home maintenance. Recently, 304 00:18:48,935 --> 00:18:51,095 Speaker 4: I heard a comment that you should look at spending 305 00:18:51,175 --> 00:18:55,335 Speaker 4: one percent of the value of your house purchase per year. Now, 306 00:18:55,375 --> 00:18:57,935 Speaker 4: I guess this would mean that, as you said, you 307 00:18:58,015 --> 00:19:00,735 Speaker 4: regularly put this amount of money aside each year, some 308 00:19:00,815 --> 00:19:03,135 Speaker 4: of which may be spent in the year or more 309 00:19:03,175 --> 00:19:08,135 Speaker 4: importantly saved for the big job. So yeah, I mean 310 00:19:08,975 --> 00:19:11,735 Speaker 4: zero point five might be a little bit light better 311 00:19:11,815 --> 00:19:16,415 Speaker 4: than nothing. One percent would be great. And even if 312 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:19,775 Speaker 4: it wasn't money that you had, you know, term deposit 313 00:19:19,895 --> 00:19:23,295 Speaker 4: or something like that, but you were able to access, 314 00:19:25,895 --> 00:19:28,335 Speaker 4: get the sense that it's probably not far off the 315 00:19:28,375 --> 00:19:33,375 Speaker 4: mark one percent. Maybe I don't know, do the numbs numbers, 316 00:19:33,495 --> 00:19:36,575 Speaker 4: let me know what you think, and you know, if 317 00:19:36,615 --> 00:19:39,215 Speaker 4: you've done let's say you've been in the house for 318 00:19:39,215 --> 00:19:42,375 Speaker 4: a number of years and you've done a reroof. For example, 319 00:19:43,055 --> 00:19:46,655 Speaker 4: I suspect for most houses the cost of a reroof 320 00:19:46,775 --> 00:19:50,655 Speaker 4: would be more than one percent of the value of 321 00:19:50,695 --> 00:19:55,935 Speaker 4: the house. It's probably a good example. Or an exterior 322 00:19:55,975 --> 00:19:59,935 Speaker 4: paint job would be worth more than one percent of 323 00:19:59,975 --> 00:20:04,415 Speaker 4: the value of the house. And again these are not 324 00:20:04,455 --> 00:20:06,415 Speaker 4: things that you do. You know, reroof you might do 325 00:20:06,455 --> 00:20:11,055 Speaker 4: every twenty years or so, but a repaint seven eight 326 00:20:11,135 --> 00:20:14,455 Speaker 4: years probably certainly. I mean we did a big paint 327 00:20:14,495 --> 00:20:17,975 Speaker 4: job on our place about that time and it needs maintenance. 328 00:20:18,015 --> 00:20:21,495 Speaker 4: Now that's one of well, it goes on a very 329 00:20:21,535 --> 00:20:23,695 Speaker 4: long list of jobs that I've got for the summer. Oh, 330 00:20:23,695 --> 00:20:25,935 Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call Johnny, 331 00:20:25,975 --> 00:20:27,855 Speaker 4: good morning to you. How are you doing. 332 00:20:29,255 --> 00:20:33,695 Speaker 8: Understring? From christ six on that I thoroughly enjoy your program. 333 00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:36,735 Speaker 8: And you have in an oler house like I do. 334 00:20:37,095 --> 00:20:41,295 Speaker 8: Ye Now our a a section you probably know this 335 00:20:41,455 --> 00:20:44,575 Speaker 8: section twenty six of the Housing Corporation Act fifty five 336 00:20:45,375 --> 00:20:52,255 Speaker 8: on drainage, Property and Pipelines. Now this is an each 337 00:20:52,295 --> 00:20:55,015 Speaker 8: state house and as you probably know, they used to 338 00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:58,135 Speaker 8: reroute them to join up two or three properties. And 339 00:21:01,455 --> 00:21:04,655 Speaker 8: you know for drainage. Now when you've been told by 340 00:21:04,655 --> 00:21:08,535 Speaker 8: a neighbor that get your own dan and things like that, 341 00:21:08,615 --> 00:21:13,935 Speaker 8: and she's used two contractors. They had taken no notice 342 00:21:13,935 --> 00:21:16,495 Speaker 8: from me, and that they just plowed through things, broke 343 00:21:16,535 --> 00:21:19,655 Speaker 8: the pipe first one that had to be paid for 344 00:21:20,015 --> 00:21:23,815 Speaker 8: by cost, costing me money all the time in the 345 00:21:23,855 --> 00:21:28,415 Speaker 8: bottom of the section C. I think of that Act 346 00:21:29,295 --> 00:21:33,455 Speaker 8: twenty six, the Housing Corporation Act since sixte and four 347 00:21:33,615 --> 00:21:39,535 Speaker 8: c says that provided that when relaying or appears that 348 00:21:39,975 --> 00:21:42,735 Speaker 8: rendered necessary by the Act of the default, if any 349 00:21:42,735 --> 00:21:45,575 Speaker 8: get one of the people that owned the pipe sort 350 00:21:45,575 --> 00:21:48,895 Speaker 8: of thing here, or they should be the whole cost 351 00:21:48,935 --> 00:21:54,295 Speaker 8: of the exact exact cost. So what happens there is 352 00:21:54,295 --> 00:21:56,335 Speaker 8: that still a prie or has it been superseded? 353 00:21:57,135 --> 00:22:01,255 Speaker 4: Wow, given that there is no housing Corporation anymore, potentially 354 00:22:01,295 --> 00:22:06,295 Speaker 4: the Act will will have changed. But I think responsibility 355 00:22:06,655 --> 00:22:11,455 Speaker 4: for drainage and services and utilities on your section typically 356 00:22:11,575 --> 00:22:16,415 Speaker 4: are pretty straightforward. So if for example, it's a wastewater 357 00:22:16,495 --> 00:22:20,735 Speaker 4: pipe that's connected to your house, you're responsible at for 358 00:22:20,895 --> 00:22:24,375 Speaker 4: it until such time as it reaches the public line. 359 00:22:26,215 --> 00:22:29,855 Speaker 8: Right that through the neighbors. The first thing they did 360 00:22:29,975 --> 00:22:31,135 Speaker 8: is put a new driveway in. 361 00:22:32,775 --> 00:22:35,095 Speaker 4: Yeah, well again and then. 362 00:22:34,935 --> 00:22:38,495 Speaker 8: They get that contract. I had to get the council 363 00:22:38,535 --> 00:22:41,895 Speaker 8: approved guy out here to put a camera through there, 364 00:22:41,975 --> 00:22:48,095 Speaker 8: and they backed up truction smashed the pipe so that 365 00:22:48,135 --> 00:22:51,615 Speaker 8: the contractor had to come back out. Then I told him, well, 366 00:22:51,615 --> 00:22:54,135 Speaker 8: you can run my line straight out the street, but 367 00:22:54,255 --> 00:22:57,575 Speaker 8: they say, oh no, So they ripped up her bit 368 00:22:57,615 --> 00:23:00,415 Speaker 8: of concrete there and put a piece of plastic in there. 369 00:23:03,495 --> 00:23:05,855 Speaker 8: The second contract to the contractor to doing know anything 370 00:23:05,895 --> 00:23:07,655 Speaker 8: about it from these jobs. 371 00:23:07,975 --> 00:23:12,255 Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think in those instances where like if 372 00:23:12,455 --> 00:23:16,695 Speaker 4: if your pipe it must have an easement, Well, I 373 00:23:16,735 --> 00:23:20,415 Speaker 4: guess so this is still a it's no longer housing 374 00:23:20,415 --> 00:23:24,855 Speaker 4: Corporates kind of order property and the adjacent properties are 375 00:23:24,895 --> 00:23:26,335 Speaker 4: also owned by KO. 376 00:23:27,015 --> 00:23:29,135 Speaker 8: No no, no, they're both brokenly. 377 00:23:28,855 --> 00:23:34,335 Speaker 4: Ain't right? Then I presume that they are the other one. 378 00:23:34,735 --> 00:23:39,895 Speaker 4: You have an easement that allows your drainage drainage to 379 00:23:40,375 --> 00:23:44,815 Speaker 4: run through the neighboring property. But you know, as a contractor, 380 00:23:44,895 --> 00:23:48,935 Speaker 4: if I damaged that, I would be responsible for it. Right, 381 00:23:49,015 --> 00:23:51,295 Speaker 4: So if I've done work on adjoining property and it's 382 00:23:51,375 --> 00:23:56,055 Speaker 4: damaged your drainage that has a legal right to be there, 383 00:23:58,335 --> 00:24:00,735 Speaker 4: it's not your responsibility to fix it. It's the person 384 00:24:00,775 --> 00:24:02,495 Speaker 4: who damaged its responsibility. 385 00:24:03,055 --> 00:24:05,735 Speaker 8: I know that's still as well, is it I. 386 00:24:05,735 --> 00:24:08,015 Speaker 4: Would have thought so, yes, I can't see that having. 387 00:24:07,895 --> 00:24:13,855 Speaker 8: Changed at the time. At first. The first contrary, does 388 00:24:13,895 --> 00:24:16,135 Speaker 8: it run the line straight out to the street. 389 00:24:17,415 --> 00:24:20,935 Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't just make changes to where drainage 390 00:24:20,975 --> 00:24:24,255 Speaker 4: runs to suit you. That would have required a consent, 391 00:24:24,335 --> 00:24:28,535 Speaker 4: would have required permission from the council as to making 392 00:24:28,575 --> 00:24:31,135 Speaker 4: a new connection. Except is it stormwater or wastewater that 393 00:24:31,175 --> 00:24:37,695 Speaker 4: we're talking about. Primarily it's just stormwater stormwater. Yeah, councils 394 00:24:37,775 --> 00:24:41,895 Speaker 4: very reluctant to have more curb discharges these days. They 395 00:24:42,015 --> 00:24:47,255 Speaker 4: want most stormwater to be piped. If christ Church is 396 00:24:47,295 --> 00:24:50,335 Speaker 4: anything like Auckland, you'll also have to introduce some mitigation 397 00:24:50,935 --> 00:24:54,095 Speaker 4: around what you do with your storm water, so controlling 398 00:24:54,255 --> 00:24:57,575 Speaker 4: flow and during heavy rain events which were more frequent 399 00:24:57,615 --> 00:25:00,335 Speaker 4: these days. So yeah, just p hoping it straight out 400 00:25:00,335 --> 00:25:05,655 Speaker 4: into the street wouldn't have been acceptable, right, In other words, 401 00:25:05,735 --> 00:25:07,615 Speaker 4: the problem and I got to pay for it. Well, Look, 402 00:25:07,615 --> 00:25:10,615 Speaker 4: if someone has damaged your pipes, it is their problem, right, 403 00:25:10,815 --> 00:25:12,215 Speaker 4: It's as simple as that, and you just got to 404 00:25:12,215 --> 00:25:12,615 Speaker 4: stay on. 405 00:25:12,575 --> 00:25:17,175 Speaker 8: Them, right, And that's mainly the second contract at this time. 406 00:25:18,255 --> 00:25:21,375 Speaker 8: M being punch holes through, holding up a new fence down. 407 00:25:21,175 --> 00:25:24,455 Speaker 4: There, right yeah. 408 00:25:23,575 --> 00:25:26,175 Speaker 8: And then just the best big heavy pigs in there 409 00:25:26,375 --> 00:25:27,575 Speaker 8: right down the drain line. 410 00:25:28,895 --> 00:25:31,655 Speaker 4: I've done it myself, so I understand what it's like. 411 00:25:33,375 --> 00:25:38,135 Speaker 4: So anyway, very long story, very long time ago. But yes, 412 00:25:38,735 --> 00:25:41,455 Speaker 4: enormously it's amazing what you can do with the waratah 413 00:25:41,695 --> 00:25:43,695 Speaker 4: through the top of one hundred and fifty mili line. 414 00:25:44,175 --> 00:25:46,975 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, just went straight through perfect. 415 00:25:48,175 --> 00:25:49,695 Speaker 9: Yeah. 416 00:25:50,095 --> 00:25:52,175 Speaker 4: To be fair, it wasn't me driving the war retar in, 417 00:25:52,335 --> 00:25:55,335 Speaker 4: but I did find the end result and had to 418 00:25:55,335 --> 00:25:57,455 Speaker 4: get guys in to fix it. So that was a 419 00:25:57,455 --> 00:26:00,815 Speaker 4: while ago. But look, I think if someone damages your drainage, 420 00:26:00,895 --> 00:26:04,335 Speaker 4: then I think you've got to go. Hey, that's your problem. 421 00:26:04,375 --> 00:26:06,535 Speaker 4: All the very best of you, Johnny, you take take 422 00:26:06,575 --> 00:26:08,775 Speaker 4: care of that. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is 423 00:26:08,775 --> 00:26:10,815 Speaker 4: the number to called Mike a very good morning. 424 00:26:10,535 --> 00:26:12,455 Speaker 9: To you morning. 425 00:26:12,495 --> 00:26:12,735 Speaker 5: Pete. 426 00:26:13,295 --> 00:26:15,775 Speaker 9: Hey, up on the roof the other day and I 427 00:26:15,895 --> 00:26:19,495 Speaker 9: noticed that a few of the old lead head nails. 428 00:26:19,855 --> 00:26:22,895 Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah. 429 00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:27,175 Speaker 9: So I thought, well, I'll get around to replacing them all. Yes, 430 00:26:28,615 --> 00:26:31,095 Speaker 9: what's a little trick to getting the ones out without no. 431 00:26:31,175 --> 00:26:35,455 Speaker 4: Heads h without it like the head has gone or 432 00:26:35,495 --> 00:26:36,775 Speaker 4: just the lead has gone. 433 00:26:37,215 --> 00:26:40,095 Speaker 9: Yeah, the nails basically rusted and the head, the lead 434 00:26:40,095 --> 00:26:43,255 Speaker 9: head has gone. You know, can call them normal ones out, 435 00:26:43,295 --> 00:26:46,735 Speaker 9: no problem, but the ones without lead head and they're 436 00:26:46,775 --> 00:26:47,375 Speaker 9: rusted up a. 437 00:26:47,295 --> 00:26:54,055 Speaker 4: Bit, yes, yeah, yeah. Realistically, the only thing you can 438 00:26:54,095 --> 00:26:57,775 Speaker 4: try and do is if there's just enough to get 439 00:26:57,815 --> 00:27:00,815 Speaker 4: purchased with a vice script, so you can get the 440 00:27:00,895 --> 00:27:03,895 Speaker 4: vice script to grab the top of the essentially the 441 00:27:03,975 --> 00:27:07,575 Speaker 4: shaft of the nail, right, and then try and get 442 00:27:07,575 --> 00:27:14,295 Speaker 4: a pry bar underneath the nips of the the teeth 443 00:27:14,335 --> 00:27:15,935 Speaker 4: of that. You might be able to get it out 444 00:27:15,935 --> 00:27:19,135 Speaker 4: that way. Is it corrugated? Is it a standard corrugate profile? 445 00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:20,255 Speaker 10: Yeah? 446 00:27:20,335 --> 00:27:22,295 Speaker 11: Yeah, sixty Okay. 447 00:27:22,575 --> 00:27:26,215 Speaker 4: So I was doing some reroofing a little while ago 448 00:27:26,295 --> 00:27:28,775 Speaker 4: and I needed to take out a lot of actually 449 00:27:28,775 --> 00:27:32,615 Speaker 4: I think they were old leadheads as well. And what 450 00:27:32,695 --> 00:27:34,775 Speaker 4: I did is I got a I happen to have 451 00:27:34,975 --> 00:27:38,935 Speaker 4: a piece of fifty mili dow right, so big, heavy 452 00:27:39,055 --> 00:27:42,855 Speaker 4: down okay. So I got a piece of that and 453 00:27:42,895 --> 00:27:47,335 Speaker 4: I took about ten fifteen millimeters off one side, right, 454 00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:49,415 Speaker 4: So I just ran it through the saw took that 455 00:27:49,495 --> 00:27:51,855 Speaker 4: off so that when I put that in the trough 456 00:27:51,975 --> 00:27:54,575 Speaker 4: of the corrugate iron on top of the perlin. I've 457 00:27:54,615 --> 00:27:58,175 Speaker 4: got something to leave her on, yep. Right, So it 458 00:27:58,255 --> 00:28:00,335 Speaker 4: just stops you damaging the sheet. Because one of the 459 00:28:00,375 --> 00:28:03,375 Speaker 4: things that people inadvertently will do when they're taking out 460 00:28:03,375 --> 00:28:06,775 Speaker 4: old nails from roofing iron is if you don't get 461 00:28:06,815 --> 00:28:10,055 Speaker 4: it coming straight out, you end up making the hole bigger, 462 00:28:10,575 --> 00:28:13,415 Speaker 4: so that when you go to refix with and I'd 463 00:28:13,455 --> 00:28:15,855 Speaker 4: suggest you use a roofing screw, which is you know, 464 00:28:16,255 --> 00:28:18,975 Speaker 4: like a sixty five milli long tech screw, which will 465 00:28:18,975 --> 00:28:22,015 Speaker 4: have a little near prene washer on it. What you 466 00:28:22,055 --> 00:28:23,895 Speaker 4: don't want to do is have a hole in the 467 00:28:23,935 --> 00:28:29,415 Speaker 4: sheet that's bigger than what's covered by the head of 468 00:28:29,455 --> 00:28:30,375 Speaker 4: your roofing screw. 469 00:28:31,375 --> 00:28:32,055 Speaker 5: Yep, yep. 470 00:28:33,575 --> 00:28:33,815 Speaker 12: Look. 471 00:28:33,895 --> 00:28:36,575 Speaker 4: The other thing is because one of the ways of 472 00:28:36,615 --> 00:28:39,735 Speaker 4: getting an old nail out is to give it a 473 00:28:39,855 --> 00:28:43,935 Speaker 4: tap down in order to loosen that bond between the 474 00:28:44,015 --> 00:28:46,135 Speaker 4: nail and the timber. Right, you want to loosen up 475 00:28:46,175 --> 00:28:49,895 Speaker 4: that friction or you want to break that bond over 476 00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:53,015 Speaker 4: that's created over time. But the risk is if I 477 00:28:53,055 --> 00:28:58,655 Speaker 4: tap it down, then I've got less to work with, right, Yeah, yeah, okay, 478 00:28:59,335 --> 00:29:02,935 Speaker 4: But in those instances I would actually just tap the 479 00:29:03,055 --> 00:29:05,535 Speaker 4: nail down and maybe use a nail punch to drive 480 00:29:05,575 --> 00:29:08,575 Speaker 4: it to the side and put your new fixing alongside it. 481 00:29:08,615 --> 00:29:10,495 Speaker 4: Don't even try and get it out, just knock it 482 00:29:10,535 --> 00:29:14,975 Speaker 4: down below the ridge of the roofing one and then 483 00:29:15,335 --> 00:29:17,175 Speaker 4: knock it to the side slightly so you can get 484 00:29:17,215 --> 00:29:19,615 Speaker 4: a screw into the existing hole and just put a 485 00:29:19,655 --> 00:29:20,935 Speaker 4: roofing screw in next to it. 486 00:29:22,295 --> 00:29:25,175 Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty trying to avoid having 487 00:29:25,175 --> 00:29:26,855 Speaker 9: to grip up the whole sheet just for the take 488 00:29:26,895 --> 00:29:27,935 Speaker 9: of one or two nails. 489 00:29:28,295 --> 00:29:32,855 Speaker 4: Look understand that absolutely, and look if it's the occasional one, 490 00:29:32,975 --> 00:29:37,455 Speaker 4: then putting a dob of roofing silicon on the in 491 00:29:37,495 --> 00:29:40,135 Speaker 4: the hole first and then fixing you screw through it, 492 00:29:40,495 --> 00:29:44,095 Speaker 4: and just making sure that you've got like a bit 493 00:29:44,135 --> 00:29:46,575 Speaker 4: of silicon that runs around the head. You know, that 494 00:29:47,135 --> 00:29:50,775 Speaker 4: will stop it as well stop it leaking in the future. Cool, 495 00:29:51,095 --> 00:29:54,855 Speaker 4: all right, be safe up there. I have seen a 496 00:29:55,095 --> 00:29:58,215 Speaker 4: very nifty tool made. I don't think you can buy them, 497 00:29:58,255 --> 00:30:00,855 Speaker 4: but I've seen them online where a guy has made 498 00:30:01,135 --> 00:30:04,415 Speaker 4: effectively a vice script and then he's welded a slide 499 00:30:04,455 --> 00:30:08,255 Speaker 4: hammer to the handle of the vice script. So vice 500 00:30:08,255 --> 00:30:10,055 Speaker 4: script goes on the head of the nail and then 501 00:30:10,095 --> 00:30:13,895 Speaker 4: you use the slide hammer to pull it straight out. 502 00:30:14,735 --> 00:30:15,175 Speaker 4: Very clear. 503 00:30:16,375 --> 00:30:17,535 Speaker 5: I give that a crack here. 504 00:30:17,615 --> 00:30:19,655 Speaker 4: Yeah, if you've got I mean, whether you've got an 505 00:30:19,655 --> 00:30:23,215 Speaker 4: old slide hammer that you're prepared to sacrifice or you 506 00:30:23,335 --> 00:30:25,575 Speaker 4: just have got a heavy bit of pipe and a 507 00:30:25,655 --> 00:30:28,495 Speaker 4: lighter bit of pipe and make your own. Either way 508 00:30:28,695 --> 00:30:31,975 Speaker 4: it was. I've seen guys use them and it's pretty 509 00:30:32,015 --> 00:30:33,295 Speaker 4: damn nifty. I have to say. 510 00:30:34,575 --> 00:30:36,615 Speaker 9: Now, the old man was a mechanic and he's been 511 00:30:36,655 --> 00:30:43,575 Speaker 9: all sorts of right, little slide hammer about eight inches long, 512 00:30:43,855 --> 00:30:44,695 Speaker 9: quite handy. 513 00:30:44,615 --> 00:30:47,375 Speaker 4: Yep, Yeah, Okay, if you want to sacrifice that, make 514 00:30:47,375 --> 00:30:48,895 Speaker 4: it into a new tool the way you go. 515 00:30:50,175 --> 00:30:50,535 Speaker 13: Awesome. 516 00:30:51,055 --> 00:30:53,255 Speaker 4: Nice to talk to you all the best, see then, 517 00:30:54,535 --> 00:30:59,775 Speaker 4: and more importantly, be safe up there as well. We're 518 00:30:59,775 --> 00:31:05,295 Speaker 4: talking about safety, I think last week on the program. Ah, 519 00:31:05,335 --> 00:31:10,655 Speaker 4: that's right with and again just ahead of summer, in 520 00:31:10,695 --> 00:31:14,055 Speaker 4: the possibility that people will be working off ladders and 521 00:31:14,415 --> 00:31:17,655 Speaker 4: maybe getting onto roofs and that sort of thing. I 522 00:31:17,695 --> 00:31:22,055 Speaker 4: have to say, one of those memories that I can't shake, 523 00:31:22,375 --> 00:31:27,415 Speaker 4: let's say, is and this would be Shivers. Sometime in 524 00:31:27,415 --> 00:31:30,895 Speaker 4: the late nineteen nineties, I was working on a property. 525 00:31:30,895 --> 00:31:33,895 Speaker 4: We were doing a new build on a Crossley's property 526 00:31:34,095 --> 00:31:39,055 Speaker 4: in central Auckland, and there was a contractor working for 527 00:31:39,135 --> 00:31:41,135 Speaker 4: what turned out to be an older couple who had 528 00:31:41,295 --> 00:31:44,055 Speaker 4: an old house next door to where we were working. 529 00:31:44,615 --> 00:31:47,575 Speaker 4: And I was working away on the side of the 530 00:31:47,615 --> 00:31:50,615 Speaker 4: building doing some cladding or something like that, and I 531 00:31:50,655 --> 00:31:53,695 Speaker 4: had noticed that a contractor had come to do some 532 00:31:53,815 --> 00:31:57,535 Speaker 4: work on the roof of the adjoining property and I 533 00:31:57,575 --> 00:32:00,695 Speaker 4: didn't see it, but I heard suddenly a bit of 534 00:32:00,735 --> 00:32:04,615 Speaker 4: a clatter and a kerfuffle as he slipped from the roof, 535 00:32:05,135 --> 00:32:11,775 Speaker 4: landed on the porch clear light roofing, bounced basically off that, 536 00:32:12,215 --> 00:32:16,695 Speaker 4: landed on the handrail below, and then from there landed 537 00:32:16,895 --> 00:32:22,135 Speaker 4: on the ground, and it was it's the sound of 538 00:32:22,175 --> 00:32:26,615 Speaker 4: someone falling off a roof, so I went over to 539 00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:32,375 Speaker 4: offer some assistance. Thankfully, in the end his injuries, while 540 00:32:32,415 --> 00:32:37,415 Speaker 4: actually reasonably severe and didn't lead to he'd broken his 541 00:32:37,495 --> 00:32:42,415 Speaker 4: back basically falling off the roof, and because we didn't 542 00:32:42,455 --> 00:32:47,215 Speaker 4: move him, he was able to be taken to the hospital, 543 00:32:47,255 --> 00:32:50,855 Speaker 4: and obviously the doctors did what the doctors do. But 544 00:32:50,935 --> 00:32:52,775 Speaker 4: I think it was one of those things that if 545 00:32:52,815 --> 00:32:54,495 Speaker 4: he had have tried to get up, or if people 546 00:32:54,495 --> 00:32:57,215 Speaker 4: had have assisted him up, potentially it would have done 547 00:32:57,655 --> 00:33:01,095 Speaker 4: life changing injuries. But you know, every time you think 548 00:33:01,695 --> 00:33:04,055 Speaker 4: it's that classic, you know the acc ads at the 549 00:33:04,055 --> 00:33:07,055 Speaker 4: moment just have a hmm. It's that moment of going, 550 00:33:07,975 --> 00:33:11,175 Speaker 4: I wonder if I should just think about doing that 551 00:33:11,255 --> 00:33:15,415 Speaker 4: in a better way. There's always a better way. Oh, 552 00:33:15,495 --> 00:33:17,655 Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. 553 00:33:17,775 --> 00:33:20,135 Speaker 4: We'll talk tools as well. We can talk Christmas gift 554 00:33:20,255 --> 00:33:22,935 Speaker 4: go buying. I know we've got how many Sundays before Christmas? 555 00:33:22,975 --> 00:33:24,815 Speaker 5: Two? Three? 556 00:33:25,015 --> 00:33:27,575 Speaker 4: No, I think it's only two. Hey, I'll get my 557 00:33:27,695 --> 00:33:29,655 Speaker 4: diary out and figure it out. Eh, then we'll get 558 00:33:29,735 --> 00:33:32,015 Speaker 4: rid of the confusion. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty, 559 00:33:32,095 --> 00:33:35,655 Speaker 4: let's talk all things building Noel after the break interesting 560 00:33:36,215 --> 00:33:42,775 Speaker 4: just as a by the by, Just a fascinating number 561 00:33:42,815 --> 00:33:45,895 Speaker 4: of texts on this comment that I made with regard 562 00:33:45,935 --> 00:33:48,695 Speaker 4: to sort of essentially having a maintenance fund. Right, So 563 00:33:48,815 --> 00:33:51,015 Speaker 4: all houses need work, So how much do you need 564 00:33:51,055 --> 00:33:53,935 Speaker 4: to set aside? And I guess it depends a little 565 00:33:53,935 --> 00:33:56,535 Speaker 4: bit too on you know, have you bought a new 566 00:33:56,575 --> 00:34:00,055 Speaker 4: house and you could reasonably expect that your maintenance costs 567 00:34:00,055 --> 00:34:03,215 Speaker 4: on a new house will be considerably less in the 568 00:34:03,255 --> 00:34:06,735 Speaker 4: first ten to fifteen years of ownership, but there will 569 00:34:06,775 --> 00:34:09,975 Speaker 4: still be maintenance costs. So on sets through morning, Pete, 570 00:34:09,975 --> 00:34:12,455 Speaker 4: one percent of one million is ten grant, which means 571 00:34:12,495 --> 00:34:14,815 Speaker 4: one hundred and ninety two dollars a week on top 572 00:34:14,855 --> 00:34:17,575 Speaker 4: of everything else. Who can save one hundred and ninety 573 00:34:17,615 --> 00:34:22,375 Speaker 4: two dollars a week, No, wonder, maintenance doesn't get done. 574 00:34:22,655 --> 00:34:25,415 Speaker 4: Very good point, quite interested in your thoughts on this, 575 00:34:25,535 --> 00:34:28,295 Speaker 4: to be fair, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is 576 00:34:28,375 --> 00:34:30,975 Speaker 4: the number to call another quick text. I'll just stare 577 00:34:31,015 --> 00:34:33,735 Speaker 4: with this and then we'll grab nol in just a second, Pete. 578 00:34:33,735 --> 00:34:35,935 Speaker 4: We're moving into a new apartment. We have a distinct 579 00:34:36,055 --> 00:34:38,815 Speaker 4: lack of power points in our pantry. The back splash 580 00:34:38,855 --> 00:34:41,455 Speaker 4: is toughened glass. Are you able to cut holes in 581 00:34:41,535 --> 00:34:45,255 Speaker 4: that into that to have more power points installed? 582 00:34:47,815 --> 00:34:50,095 Speaker 10: No? 583 00:34:50,095 --> 00:34:53,655 Speaker 4: No, certainly not on site anyway. And to be fair, 584 00:34:53,695 --> 00:34:55,495 Speaker 4: if you do tough and glass and you want, you know, 585 00:34:55,575 --> 00:34:59,375 Speaker 4: like as a splash back, any holes that are drilled 586 00:34:59,415 --> 00:35:01,055 Speaker 4: in it or squares that are cut out of it 587 00:35:01,095 --> 00:35:04,575 Speaker 4: are done in the factory prior to the toughening. So 588 00:35:04,615 --> 00:35:08,335 Speaker 4: I think doing it after the toughening is a no no, 589 00:35:08,495 --> 00:35:11,775 Speaker 4: please don't try that with a tile saw or whatever. 590 00:35:12,615 --> 00:35:15,455 Speaker 4: Eight hundred eight the number to call Noel A very 591 00:35:15,455 --> 00:35:19,935 Speaker 4: good morning. In morning Pep, you make good buddy yourself. 592 00:35:20,655 --> 00:35:23,615 Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, I was just listening to your last 593 00:35:23,615 --> 00:35:28,055 Speaker 14: caller having the hard trouble getting nails out of his roof. Yes, yeah, 594 00:35:28,455 --> 00:35:29,975 Speaker 14: I had a bit of trouble like that, and I 595 00:35:30,015 --> 00:35:31,975 Speaker 14: was getting soakers off the corner of my house. And 596 00:35:32,175 --> 00:35:36,935 Speaker 14: nails are real right, yes, yes, yeah, yeah. But what 597 00:35:37,055 --> 00:35:39,615 Speaker 14: I found that really rode for me was the electrician 598 00:35:40,095 --> 00:35:40,815 Speaker 14: Riah cuts. 599 00:35:41,695 --> 00:35:42,775 Speaker 4: Yeah. 600 00:35:43,015 --> 00:35:46,055 Speaker 14: Yeah. They just got a nice good frame edge on you. Yes, 601 00:35:46,775 --> 00:35:48,735 Speaker 14: and you gets right there and you can get you 602 00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:51,055 Speaker 14: got a nice they just got a nice handle on 603 00:35:51,095 --> 00:35:54,655 Speaker 14: it and just pop it out. Okay, it's a really 604 00:35:54,655 --> 00:35:59,375 Speaker 14: good and but what a let's say, with a bigger nail, 605 00:35:59,495 --> 00:36:03,935 Speaker 14: like a roofing nail. Yes, you need something like I 606 00:36:03,975 --> 00:36:06,815 Speaker 14: don't know, like you were saying something to you delivered 607 00:36:06,855 --> 00:36:09,455 Speaker 14: with like I use I'll use my bloody in my 608 00:36:09,575 --> 00:36:13,015 Speaker 14: nudge bar. Probably yep, you know, just get on top 609 00:36:13,055 --> 00:36:14,775 Speaker 14: of it and just deliverage down on it. Then you 610 00:36:15,015 --> 00:36:16,655 Speaker 14: just grab it like comes straight up. 611 00:36:16,895 --> 00:36:19,295 Speaker 4: The hard thing with leveraging down when you're taking roofing 612 00:36:19,375 --> 00:36:21,935 Speaker 4: nails out is you don't want to damage the roofing 613 00:36:22,175 --> 00:36:25,375 Speaker 4: around it. Right, So if you, for example, go in 614 00:36:25,455 --> 00:36:28,095 Speaker 4: the direction of the sheets and you put your claw 615 00:36:28,135 --> 00:36:30,655 Speaker 4: hammer underneath it or a pry bar or something like 616 00:36:30,695 --> 00:36:33,335 Speaker 4: that and pull down, you'll crush the top of the sheet. 617 00:36:33,415 --> 00:36:38,215 Speaker 4: So that's where when you're talking of yeah, I know, 618 00:36:38,335 --> 00:36:40,375 Speaker 4: but you know it's the reality is that you don't 619 00:36:40,375 --> 00:36:42,735 Speaker 4: want to damage the roofing. More so, I to lay 620 00:36:42,735 --> 00:36:44,815 Speaker 4: a piece of timber, you can use the hammer, the 621 00:36:44,815 --> 00:36:48,255 Speaker 4: handle of your hammer into the trough and then lever 622 00:36:48,295 --> 00:36:49,975 Speaker 4: it onto that idea. 623 00:36:50,815 --> 00:36:55,135 Speaker 14: But I'm an electrician. Electric pryors made wire covers. Get 624 00:36:55,175 --> 00:36:56,815 Speaker 14: a good grip on it. You can get a good 625 00:36:56,815 --> 00:37:00,215 Speaker 14: grip with those liver slightly sharp and open old pier. 626 00:37:00,615 --> 00:37:00,815 Speaker 5: You know. 627 00:37:05,815 --> 00:37:08,095 Speaker 14: I just trut that because I was cleaning my my dad's, 628 00:37:08,895 --> 00:37:11,335 Speaker 14: my my my name's and them hitch things right, and 629 00:37:11,415 --> 00:37:13,655 Speaker 14: they've got a lot of moss on the old So 630 00:37:13,895 --> 00:37:15,975 Speaker 14: I was thinking, now, what do I use. I've heard 631 00:37:16,015 --> 00:37:20,215 Speaker 14: a tricky in use pummus, I am see, but then 632 00:37:20,495 --> 00:37:22,935 Speaker 14: they might be ruining it. So I ranged undertake us 633 00:37:22,935 --> 00:37:28,335 Speaker 14: of the right thing where they forget yep, yay beautiful. 634 00:37:28,775 --> 00:37:30,655 Speaker 14: Yeah's left it four months went back? 635 00:37:30,695 --> 00:37:32,335 Speaker 15: What off job. 636 00:37:33,775 --> 00:37:35,495 Speaker 14: Sons, the sundays bounded. 637 00:37:35,735 --> 00:37:38,575 Speaker 4: Beautiful, good on. You know you have a great day 638 00:37:38,655 --> 00:37:40,615 Speaker 4: and all the best day take care of. Eight hundred 639 00:37:40,655 --> 00:37:47,455 Speaker 4: and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Uh sorry, 640 00:37:47,495 --> 00:37:49,695 Speaker 4: I'm just there's a great to expeat. I'm an accountant 641 00:37:49,735 --> 00:37:52,055 Speaker 4: by trade, live in Divnport where I do UH and 642 00:37:52,135 --> 00:37:53,855 Speaker 4: seen a bit of your work and advice to mates. 643 00:37:53,895 --> 00:37:56,055 Speaker 4: I think the maintenance funds an excellent idea. Even if 644 00:37:56,055 --> 00:37:58,175 Speaker 4: it's only halfway to the full cost of the maintenance, 645 00:37:58,255 --> 00:38:00,935 Speaker 4: it means that you have to find less time. Means 646 00:38:00,975 --> 00:38:03,455 Speaker 4: you have to find less time. Perhaps, if they had 647 00:38:03,455 --> 00:38:05,775 Speaker 4: a mortgage, it's better to pay that off. But fundamentally 648 00:38:05,855 --> 00:38:08,975 Speaker 4: it's a concept oh endorsed by an accountant. I'm happy 649 00:38:09,055 --> 00:38:11,815 Speaker 4: now I agree. I mean, would you set aside money 650 00:38:11,855 --> 00:38:14,295 Speaker 4: for maintenance if you still had a mortgage? No, But 651 00:38:15,095 --> 00:38:17,575 Speaker 4: I guess if you're paying down your mortgage, then you 652 00:38:17,775 --> 00:38:20,775 Speaker 4: have the potential to extend your mortgage in the event 653 00:38:20,815 --> 00:38:23,015 Speaker 4: that you need to spend a significant amount of money 654 00:38:23,175 --> 00:38:28,215 Speaker 4: on a on major repairs to the house which still 655 00:38:28,255 --> 00:38:31,535 Speaker 4: sticks with my original principle that it's it's access to funds, 656 00:38:32,055 --> 00:38:35,255 Speaker 4: whether that's in terms of savings or in terms of 657 00:38:35,375 --> 00:38:37,935 Speaker 4: being able to extend a mortgage if you've paid that 658 00:38:38,095 --> 00:38:40,855 Speaker 4: down and have increased equity in the property. But I 659 00:38:40,975 --> 00:38:43,655 Speaker 4: think I reckon you could squeak in with zero point 660 00:38:43,735 --> 00:38:50,015 Speaker 4: five percent per year, but one percent would be better. 661 00:38:50,215 --> 00:38:52,095 Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to 662 00:38:52,175 --> 00:38:57,215 Speaker 4: call Tony. A very good morning to you, Tony. 663 00:38:57,615 --> 00:38:59,815 Speaker 16: Hey, Hi, how are you kidding? 664 00:39:00,295 --> 00:39:01,575 Speaker 5: I can go go for it. 665 00:39:03,535 --> 00:39:03,695 Speaker 9: Right. 666 00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:07,015 Speaker 10: I'm talking about this picking off the nails of this 667 00:39:07,655 --> 00:39:10,935 Speaker 10: iron rope. Yes, there is a tool which is which 668 00:39:11,015 --> 00:39:13,175 Speaker 10: is about one of the one and a half faits long, 669 00:39:13,735 --> 00:39:16,415 Speaker 10: and they got a sliding hammer on the bag and 670 00:39:16,735 --> 00:39:19,935 Speaker 10: the front the people on the front's actually like a 671 00:39:20,535 --> 00:39:25,015 Speaker 10: parrot pick. The like the clow and age of it. 672 00:39:25,455 --> 00:39:27,855 Speaker 10: That's a little kind of handle. So what you do 673 00:39:27,975 --> 00:39:31,135 Speaker 10: is just grip the top of the nails, you hammer 674 00:39:31,215 --> 00:39:33,775 Speaker 10: it down and then you just peel pull it and 675 00:39:33,815 --> 00:39:36,655 Speaker 10: then the open it will come straight out. I bought 676 00:39:36,655 --> 00:39:37,735 Speaker 10: it from Bunis years. 677 00:39:37,575 --> 00:39:38,295 Speaker 4: Ago, yep. 678 00:39:39,215 --> 00:39:41,455 Speaker 10: And you do if you want to stop it from 679 00:39:41,655 --> 00:39:44,935 Speaker 10: imaging the side of the roof. The liverage. Are you 680 00:39:45,095 --> 00:39:47,415 Speaker 10: I just put a to buy boar this side and 681 00:39:47,535 --> 00:39:50,215 Speaker 10: then just pull the thing out. I've thinking about twenty 682 00:39:50,255 --> 00:39:54,735 Speaker 10: two days twey meters of iron groovings. Yeah, when I 683 00:39:54,815 --> 00:39:55,895 Speaker 10: was three years ago. 684 00:39:56,975 --> 00:40:01,335 Speaker 4: It's a tool I think typically they painted red, aren't 685 00:40:01,335 --> 00:40:04,535 Speaker 4: they They're always painted? Read those tools nail pullers. Uh 686 00:40:05,455 --> 00:40:09,175 Speaker 4: where I showing where they were most useful. And I 687 00:40:09,295 --> 00:40:11,735 Speaker 4: had a job years ago pulling apart palettes, you know, 688 00:40:11,775 --> 00:40:14,815 Speaker 4: wooden palets, getting the nails out of wood wooden palets. 689 00:40:15,495 --> 00:40:17,735 Speaker 4: And they were quite good there because you could put 690 00:40:17,775 --> 00:40:20,735 Speaker 4: them on you know, the nips, let's say, or the 691 00:40:20,815 --> 00:40:24,055 Speaker 4: pincer either side of the nail head, bash it down, 692 00:40:24,215 --> 00:40:27,095 Speaker 4: which bashed down into the timber. Then it would grab 693 00:40:27,175 --> 00:40:28,815 Speaker 4: the head of the nail and then you could yank 694 00:40:28,855 --> 00:40:32,375 Speaker 4: it out. But I've never really wanted to use one 695 00:40:33,175 --> 00:40:35,895 Speaker 4: on roofing iron because of the you know, the potential 696 00:40:35,935 --> 00:40:38,375 Speaker 4: for damage. But if you did it delicately, it's probably 697 00:40:38,415 --> 00:42:14,535 Speaker 4: not a bad tool to use. Your news books, they'd 698 00:42:14,575 --> 00:42:16,735 Speaker 4: be good morning, Welcome along to the program. My name's 699 00:42:16,735 --> 00:42:18,935 Speaker 4: Pete wolf Camp, the resident builder, and this is the 700 00:42:19,015 --> 00:42:22,135 Speaker 4: resident builder. On Sunday we can talk about all things building, 701 00:42:22,215 --> 00:42:26,175 Speaker 4: all things maintenance, all things construction, all things and you know, 702 00:42:26,495 --> 00:42:30,735 Speaker 4: I kind of just an aside, I guess a comment 703 00:42:31,135 --> 00:42:33,655 Speaker 4: and off the cuff comment for me has prompted a 704 00:42:33,735 --> 00:42:37,655 Speaker 4: number of text messages which have been fascinating around Basically, 705 00:42:37,735 --> 00:42:41,935 Speaker 4: if you're a homeowner, then you've got to somewhere have 706 00:42:42,535 --> 00:42:45,535 Speaker 4: access to funds to look after the house and what 707 00:42:45,695 --> 00:42:49,735 Speaker 4: should that be? And I posited that maybe having access 708 00:42:49,775 --> 00:42:53,615 Speaker 4: to or setting aside one point five percent of the 709 00:42:53,735 --> 00:42:57,735 Speaker 4: value of your house would give you a pool. And 710 00:42:57,775 --> 00:42:59,375 Speaker 4: maybe you don't spend it every year, but when you 711 00:42:59,455 --> 00:43:02,415 Speaker 4: come to those big items, maybe the reroof or the 712 00:43:02,535 --> 00:43:07,255 Speaker 4: repaint or going through you know, repaying inside of the house, 713 00:43:07,335 --> 00:43:11,375 Speaker 4: replacing a kitchen for example, these sorts of things you 714 00:43:11,535 --> 00:43:14,295 Speaker 4: will probably need that fun for I guess where the 715 00:43:14,535 --> 00:43:17,255 Speaker 4: theory falls down, if I'm critical of my own thinking, 716 00:43:17,495 --> 00:43:21,975 Speaker 4: is that typically New Zealanders move about every five years, 717 00:43:23,095 --> 00:43:26,335 Speaker 4: and I wonder whether part of moving is Oh, then 718 00:43:26,375 --> 00:43:27,975 Speaker 4: I'm not going to have to replace the roof or 719 00:43:28,055 --> 00:43:30,335 Speaker 4: replace the kitchen. I'm just going to buy another house. 720 00:43:31,935 --> 00:43:34,255 Speaker 4: Interested in new thoughts, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty 721 00:43:34,375 --> 00:43:36,095 Speaker 4: is the number to call love This text as well. 722 00:43:36,375 --> 00:43:38,775 Speaker 4: With regard to house maintenance, the cheapest fund we have 723 00:43:38,935 --> 00:43:44,135 Speaker 4: is sweat equity. Applying it regularly well then hopefully reduce 724 00:43:44,215 --> 00:43:46,215 Speaker 4: the need for a larger cost at a later date. 725 00:43:46,295 --> 00:43:48,575 Speaker 4: I'm a seventy three year old female living on my own. 726 00:43:48,655 --> 00:43:51,495 Speaker 4: It's amazing what you can do for yourself. When I 727 00:43:51,615 --> 00:43:53,775 Speaker 4: think about a safe way of doing it, I always 728 00:43:53,815 --> 00:43:55,575 Speaker 4: start Sundays by listening to your program. 729 00:43:56,015 --> 00:43:56,295 Speaker 5: Love it. 730 00:43:56,375 --> 00:43:58,615 Speaker 4: Thank you very much. That's very kind of you. All 731 00:43:58,655 --> 00:44:01,255 Speaker 4: the very best Christmas for you and your family. Oh, 732 00:44:01,295 --> 00:44:03,375 Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call, 733 00:44:03,655 --> 00:44:06,295 Speaker 4: taking your calls right through till eight thirty this monk 734 00:44:06,655 --> 00:44:09,615 Speaker 4: if and then will join us at around eight point 735 00:44:09,615 --> 00:44:12,455 Speaker 4: thirty this morning. I eight hundred eighty ten eighty is 736 00:44:12,495 --> 00:44:14,535 Speaker 4: the number to call, and I mentioned this at the 737 00:44:14,575 --> 00:44:17,855 Speaker 4: start of the program. Just after six I've got obviously 738 00:44:17,895 --> 00:44:21,575 Speaker 4: we've got TV on in here. Dignitaries a arriving in 739 00:44:22,015 --> 00:44:25,895 Speaker 4: Paris for the opening of the reopening of Notre Dame 740 00:44:26,535 --> 00:44:29,055 Speaker 4: after what's been five years, and you can't really call 741 00:44:29,095 --> 00:44:32,495 Speaker 4: it restoration. It's been essentially a rebuild of the cathedral, 742 00:44:33,215 --> 00:44:36,455 Speaker 4: and I have to say I've been absolutely captivated by 743 00:44:37,575 --> 00:44:40,175 Speaker 4: the videos that I've found online, particularly of you know, 744 00:44:40,655 --> 00:44:44,775 Speaker 4: the carpenters and the stone masons and the people who 745 00:44:44,815 --> 00:44:46,975 Speaker 4: do the lead work and that sort of thing, as 746 00:44:47,055 --> 00:44:52,895 Speaker 4: they've reused old skills and old methodologies to reconstruct the building. 747 00:44:52,935 --> 00:44:56,255 Speaker 4: Obviously there's some modern stuff in there as well, but 748 00:44:56,455 --> 00:45:00,535 Speaker 4: you know, the massive oak beams and the bell. Ah, 749 00:45:00,655 --> 00:45:03,375 Speaker 4: it's just been fantastic. I w eight hundred eighty ten 750 00:45:03,415 --> 00:45:05,535 Speaker 4: eighty is the number to call Trina A very good morning. 751 00:45:06,695 --> 00:45:12,615 Speaker 17: Good morning, Peter. I'm just inquiring. I needed to sell 752 00:45:12,615 --> 00:45:16,015 Speaker 17: my house. I want someemer house. It does have a 753 00:45:16,255 --> 00:45:18,615 Speaker 17: granny flat on the side of it that was built 754 00:45:18,655 --> 00:45:22,295 Speaker 17: in nineteen ninety one. I do have a limb report 755 00:45:22,415 --> 00:45:24,175 Speaker 17: for it. It was put in as a game's room 756 00:45:24,735 --> 00:45:27,855 Speaker 17: to start with. My grandmother lived in there. It was 757 00:45:28,055 --> 00:45:31,175 Speaker 17: just had a little kitchen net, never had a stove 758 00:45:31,335 --> 00:45:35,255 Speaker 17: or anything like that. I've got the limb saying that 759 00:45:35,415 --> 00:45:39,495 Speaker 17: the it's all been approved and that type thing, the 760 00:45:39,615 --> 00:45:44,535 Speaker 17: drainage approved. But then in the actual report it's got 761 00:45:44,655 --> 00:45:50,935 Speaker 17: no documents attached for the code of compliance. What's how 762 00:45:50,975 --> 00:45:53,855 Speaker 17: do I find out more information or I think about that. 763 00:45:54,215 --> 00:45:58,615 Speaker 4: You're in an interesting time as in nineteen ninety one, 764 00:46:00,735 --> 00:46:07,575 Speaker 4: is essentially was the building completed with a building consent 765 00:46:07,855 --> 00:46:13,615 Speaker 4: or a building permit? I'm unsure, Okay, That's what it 766 00:46:13,695 --> 00:46:18,535 Speaker 4: comes down to because essentially when the Building Act changed 767 00:46:18,655 --> 00:46:22,095 Speaker 4: at around that time, that's when the requirement for a 768 00:46:22,815 --> 00:46:26,735 Speaker 4: code compliance certificate came in for building consent. So typically 769 00:46:26,815 --> 00:46:30,135 Speaker 4: before then we talked about building permits. After that we 770 00:46:30,215 --> 00:46:32,935 Speaker 4: talked about building consents. If a building had a building consent, 771 00:46:33,175 --> 00:46:36,775 Speaker 4: then along with that came the requirement to get a 772 00:46:37,055 --> 00:46:40,735 Speaker 4: CCC or a code compliance certificate when the building work 773 00:46:40,895 --> 00:46:44,015 Speaker 4: was finished and the final inspection being done. So often 774 00:46:44,055 --> 00:46:46,935 Speaker 4: if you're reading through LIMB reports, for example, from for 775 00:46:47,135 --> 00:46:50,775 Speaker 4: Council or for Properties, it will say consent issue for 776 00:46:50,975 --> 00:46:56,695 Speaker 4: example nineteen eighty one, no CCC issue, but also not required, 777 00:46:57,215 --> 00:47:00,335 Speaker 4: so you would only need to chase a CCC if 778 00:47:00,415 --> 00:47:03,255 Speaker 4: you actually required one. Now it sounds like if the 779 00:47:03,375 --> 00:47:07,335 Speaker 4: building was once like a games and then became a 780 00:47:07,375 --> 00:47:12,255 Speaker 4: habitable space, chances are someone didn't get a building consent 781 00:47:12,575 --> 00:47:17,135 Speaker 4: for that change of use, in which case, you know, 782 00:47:17,295 --> 00:47:21,455 Speaker 4: is it deemed to be a non compliant building, okay, 783 00:47:24,535 --> 00:47:27,535 Speaker 4: and trying to get you know, trying to get it 784 00:47:27,815 --> 00:47:32,375 Speaker 4: compliant could actually be quite challenging, so you'd need to 785 00:47:32,415 --> 00:47:35,375 Speaker 4: make an application for a certificate of acceptance to the 786 00:47:35,455 --> 00:47:42,215 Speaker 4: local council, and the bar for that is quite high now, 787 00:47:42,495 --> 00:47:45,895 Speaker 4: so it's not terribly dissimilar to actually applying for a 788 00:47:45,935 --> 00:47:48,495 Speaker 4: building consent. You're going to have to prove that the 789 00:47:48,535 --> 00:47:51,455 Speaker 4: building is compliant if you want to continue to use 790 00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:57,495 Speaker 4: it for a habitable space, you might it may well 791 00:47:57,535 --> 00:48:00,375 Speaker 4: be worthwhile getting you some advice from like a building 792 00:48:00,495 --> 00:48:05,935 Speaker 4: surveyor for example, or a building official, not necessarily just 793 00:48:06,055 --> 00:48:10,055 Speaker 4: a builder, because you need the information about the legislation 794 00:48:10,215 --> 00:48:13,095 Speaker 4: around going. Actually, maybe the best thing to do to 795 00:48:13,535 --> 00:48:15,895 Speaker 4: just make it tidy in terms of sale is to 796 00:48:15,975 --> 00:48:21,535 Speaker 4: remove the kitchen and to sell the property with a 797 00:48:21,615 --> 00:48:24,375 Speaker 4: free standing building on it, which is not a habitable 798 00:48:24,455 --> 00:48:27,975 Speaker 4: space and therefore might not require a consent. 799 00:48:29,335 --> 00:48:31,735 Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it was actually put in as games 800 00:48:31,815 --> 00:48:35,695 Speaker 17: room to start with, just on paper, but it was 801 00:48:35,735 --> 00:48:40,015 Speaker 17: always going to be a livable space, and it's kind 802 00:48:40,055 --> 00:48:46,375 Speaker 17: of backfired on my father, I suppose, back in those days. 803 00:48:47,975 --> 00:48:53,695 Speaker 17: So now I'm yes, just all thus just inquiring about 804 00:48:54,135 --> 00:48:57,415 Speaker 17: the actual toilet if it was legal, things like that, 805 00:48:57,575 --> 00:49:01,095 Speaker 17: But it was all put in as a games room 806 00:49:01,135 --> 00:49:06,415 Speaker 17: with toilet, shower and that we think and tub for 807 00:49:06,495 --> 00:49:07,815 Speaker 17: a washing machine everything. 808 00:49:08,095 --> 00:49:12,775 Speaker 4: Yeah, and at the time, did that work get a 809 00:49:12,815 --> 00:49:13,895 Speaker 4: building consent. 810 00:49:15,815 --> 00:49:18,535 Speaker 17: As far as I know everything, I mean, yeah, my 811 00:49:18,615 --> 00:49:21,295 Speaker 17: dad didn't do anything by hard you know, he wasn't. 812 00:49:22,095 --> 00:49:26,055 Speaker 17: But obviously one thing he did was just popping into 813 00:49:26,135 --> 00:49:29,095 Speaker 17: the game's room thinking he'd probably save a little bit on. 814 00:49:30,975 --> 00:49:31,455 Speaker 18: Rightful. 815 00:49:33,775 --> 00:49:36,895 Speaker 17: Yeah, but I've got all the planning for the drains 816 00:49:36,975 --> 00:49:40,655 Speaker 17: and things like that on my LIMB report, but it's 817 00:49:40,775 --> 00:49:43,855 Speaker 17: just got the code of compliance, which I haven't got 818 00:49:43,935 --> 00:49:45,375 Speaker 17: any documents attached for. 819 00:49:45,975 --> 00:49:51,695 Speaker 4: Yes, I was just wanting to know it is very 820 00:49:51,815 --> 00:49:55,495 Speaker 4: much around the date that the consent was issued, so 821 00:49:57,255 --> 00:50:03,375 Speaker 4: your homework is basically was under Yeah, if the building 822 00:50:03,855 --> 00:50:07,895 Speaker 4: permit was issued prior to a certain date, not have 823 00:50:07,975 --> 00:50:12,575 Speaker 4: to I think it's ninety ninety one. You might find 824 00:50:12,655 --> 00:50:14,975 Speaker 4: and it might be that the consent was actually, you know, 825 00:50:15,055 --> 00:50:16,695 Speaker 4: the building might have been built in ninety one, but 826 00:50:16,775 --> 00:50:19,215 Speaker 4: the concent might have been issued in nineteen ninety for example, 827 00:50:19,335 --> 00:50:22,255 Speaker 4: in which case you're falling outside of the Act and 828 00:50:22,375 --> 00:50:27,215 Speaker 4: you don't actually need to provide a CCC for that. Yes, 829 00:50:28,095 --> 00:50:32,015 Speaker 4: certainly I noticed that, you know the response that I've 830 00:50:33,255 --> 00:50:35,775 Speaker 4: well a number of people that I've been engaged by 831 00:50:35,935 --> 00:50:39,255 Speaker 4: or that I've spent some time with recently looking at 832 00:50:39,295 --> 00:50:42,575 Speaker 4: properties where you know, the lack of a CCC has 833 00:50:42,695 --> 00:50:45,055 Speaker 4: become a real issue, either with the insurer or with 834 00:50:45,215 --> 00:50:48,775 Speaker 4: the lender, you know, that sort of thing. And it's 835 00:50:49,695 --> 00:50:53,055 Speaker 4: I think I think in the past we've probably had 836 00:50:53,055 --> 00:50:55,455 Speaker 4: an attitude that I will look the building consents the 837 00:50:55,495 --> 00:50:58,735 Speaker 4: important thing, and I'll you know, I'll get the CCC 838 00:50:58,935 --> 00:51:01,415 Speaker 4: sometime and then it goes into the top draw and 839 00:51:01,535 --> 00:51:04,055 Speaker 4: it stays there, and then suddenly people need to get one. 840 00:51:04,135 --> 00:51:06,495 Speaker 4: And when you do need to get one, it's incredibly 841 00:51:06,575 --> 00:51:13,375 Speaker 4: difficult nowadays, Okay, which is not helpful to you. You 842 00:51:13,415 --> 00:51:17,175 Speaker 4: could possibly go back to council phone, through to your 843 00:51:17,215 --> 00:51:20,735 Speaker 4: local council phone, through the local building help desk if 844 00:51:20,775 --> 00:51:24,295 Speaker 4: you've got the original consent number on file, just ask 845 00:51:24,375 --> 00:51:27,255 Speaker 4: them what the issue date was and whether or not 846 00:51:27,615 --> 00:51:31,015 Speaker 4: that is under the Building Act and would require a 847 00:51:31,095 --> 00:51:35,575 Speaker 4: code of compliance. All right, ok have a go with that, Okay, 848 00:51:35,695 --> 00:51:38,655 Speaker 4: good luck with it all, thank you, thank you, my pleasure, 849 00:51:38,775 --> 00:51:41,135 Speaker 4: all the best. Then, by way, oh, eight hundred and 850 00:51:41,175 --> 00:51:44,615 Speaker 4: eighty ten eighty is that number to call let's talk 851 00:51:44,735 --> 00:51:47,495 Speaker 4: to let's carry on aiden greetings. 852 00:51:47,615 --> 00:51:49,775 Speaker 19: Hello, yay, how are you fake? 853 00:51:49,895 --> 00:51:50,095 Speaker 17: Good? 854 00:51:50,135 --> 00:51:51,095 Speaker 4: Thank you aiding yourself? 855 00:51:52,095 --> 00:51:55,135 Speaker 20: No not he I'm of the show, always listening and 856 00:51:55,295 --> 00:51:57,695 Speaker 20: hoping one day at our own property and done it. 857 00:51:57,895 --> 00:52:01,735 Speaker 20: So good Friday, I'm moving into my first so true 858 00:52:01,775 --> 00:52:03,935 Speaker 20: topics is just want to add on to what you're 859 00:52:03,935 --> 00:52:06,655 Speaker 20: saying about pretty money away. So we've got to twenty 860 00:52:06,695 --> 00:52:08,575 Speaker 20: percent deposit and the bank said, I it's an all 861 00:52:08,975 --> 00:52:11,055 Speaker 20: up to six hundred thousand. But once we country numbers, 862 00:52:11,255 --> 00:52:13,415 Speaker 20: I said to my partner, we're going to be left 863 00:52:13,455 --> 00:52:16,175 Speaker 20: with nothing. You know, we'll pay the bills, pay the mortgage, 864 00:52:16,215 --> 00:52:17,815 Speaker 20: and we have nothing left. We can't we can't just 865 00:52:17,855 --> 00:52:21,455 Speaker 20: bring the landlord and say hey, fixless anymore. So I 866 00:52:21,535 --> 00:52:23,855 Speaker 20: said to her, look, if we can find something around 867 00:52:23,935 --> 00:52:26,775 Speaker 20: a half million marks, yep, that we'll bring our mortgage 868 00:52:26,815 --> 00:52:28,735 Speaker 20: down in eighty one hundred dollars a week. Yet what 869 00:52:28,855 --> 00:52:31,095 Speaker 20: we can put away, good, thank you. That's what we've done. 870 00:52:31,335 --> 00:52:33,615 Speaker 20: And we found one maybe we found a one that 871 00:52:33,775 --> 00:52:36,695 Speaker 20: being relocated in twenty eleven. They put an HRV system 872 00:52:36,775 --> 00:52:40,215 Speaker 20: and rewired it. My brother's a Clori, brought us by 873 00:52:40,295 --> 00:52:43,015 Speaker 20: dragon round about thirty homes and you know that house 874 00:52:43,055 --> 00:52:46,455 Speaker 20: for me present mate, but he was really impressive this one. 875 00:52:48,015 --> 00:52:50,735 Speaker 20: So that's just to add one today. I mean it's 876 00:52:50,975 --> 00:52:53,175 Speaker 20: something that we you know, we knew we needed to do. 877 00:52:53,815 --> 00:52:57,615 Speaker 20: We don't want to remortgage. Yeah, yeah, so so that 878 00:52:57,735 --> 00:52:59,775 Speaker 20: was a good plan. But the Christian about building that 879 00:52:59,815 --> 00:53:01,815 Speaker 20: I have for you, the shorting is arm So it's 880 00:53:01,815 --> 00:53:04,295 Speaker 20: got a concrete toll ruth and and everyone tells me, oh, 881 00:53:04,375 --> 00:53:06,975 Speaker 20: they last forever and that, but I was wondering if 882 00:53:07,335 --> 00:53:10,215 Speaker 20: I should maybe coat it or something just to kick 883 00:53:10,255 --> 00:53:13,175 Speaker 20: the make it last a bit longer. 884 00:53:14,135 --> 00:53:16,615 Speaker 4: Your thoughts on that, yeah, Look, in general, I would 885 00:53:16,655 --> 00:53:20,255 Speaker 4: agree with you. So for example, if you're talking about 886 00:53:20,455 --> 00:53:23,695 Speaker 4: older concrete tile roof, so let's say it went on. 887 00:53:24,215 --> 00:53:26,175 Speaker 4: I'm thinking about a property that I look after, Right, 888 00:53:26,295 --> 00:53:29,455 Speaker 4: it's a nineteen sixties brick and tile, so it's got 889 00:53:29,535 --> 00:53:32,735 Speaker 4: a tile roof. Now, the glaze that's on that tile 890 00:53:32,975 --> 00:53:38,535 Speaker 4: roof would have deteriorated, right, So we know that masonry 891 00:53:38,735 --> 00:53:41,895 Speaker 4: is kind of porous, as in, water will soak into it, 892 00:53:42,375 --> 00:53:45,615 Speaker 4: and so without the glaze or the coating on the top, 893 00:53:46,135 --> 00:53:48,695 Speaker 4: water when it falls, some of it will run off, 894 00:53:48,775 --> 00:53:50,415 Speaker 4: most of it will run off, but a certain amount 895 00:53:50,455 --> 00:53:54,535 Speaker 4: will get absorbed into the concrete tile roof tile, So 896 00:53:54,695 --> 00:53:57,695 Speaker 4: ideally you want to stop that from happening, whether that's 897 00:53:57,775 --> 00:54:00,975 Speaker 4: a clear seiler that just allows the water to beaed 898 00:54:01,215 --> 00:54:04,175 Speaker 4: and run off, or whether you apply a paint surface 899 00:54:04,415 --> 00:54:08,055 Speaker 4: over the top of it. Yeah. I think if you'd 900 00:54:08,095 --> 00:54:10,215 Speaker 4: look at the you know, get up there, look really 901 00:54:10,335 --> 00:54:13,495 Speaker 4: closely at the surface, and if it seems porous, like 902 00:54:13,615 --> 00:54:18,015 Speaker 4: there's no coating left, I think it's probably a good 903 00:54:18,215 --> 00:54:18,935 Speaker 4: long term thing. 904 00:54:20,015 --> 00:54:20,215 Speaker 5: Yeah. 905 00:54:20,335 --> 00:54:23,495 Speaker 4: I suppose. The other thing if you were thinking, gosh, 906 00:54:23,535 --> 00:54:25,495 Speaker 4: we're going to be here for a while, is if 907 00:54:25,535 --> 00:54:28,415 Speaker 4: it got to the point where the roof has you know, 908 00:54:28,935 --> 00:54:31,895 Speaker 4: worn away, let's say some of that coating is would 909 00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:33,455 Speaker 4: you look at swapping out for long run. 910 00:54:34,255 --> 00:54:36,215 Speaker 20: Yeah, I've got my long run ticket. So I did 911 00:54:36,655 --> 00:54:38,575 Speaker 20: work it up with my doing my own labor because 912 00:54:38,615 --> 00:54:40,415 Speaker 20: because of the slope, it's like the old pizza hut, 913 00:54:40,455 --> 00:54:42,975 Speaker 20: but bit higher. Oh yeah, so I needed a lot 914 00:54:43,015 --> 00:54:45,975 Speaker 20: of scaff out each protection and scaff and maybe even 915 00:54:45,975 --> 00:54:49,775 Speaker 20: a harness. So you know, it's affected that and I 916 00:54:49,855 --> 00:54:51,575 Speaker 20: worked out to be about ten grand. It's not a 917 00:54:51,615 --> 00:54:55,535 Speaker 20: big house. It's a ninety sixty relocated Statehouse, but the 918 00:54:55,575 --> 00:54:59,215 Speaker 20: whole inside has just been redone, so it's painted and 919 00:54:59,615 --> 00:55:02,775 Speaker 20: carpeted and a new kitchen and you know, showered dome 920 00:55:02,815 --> 00:55:07,415 Speaker 20: and all that. Yeah, I mean the so would would 921 00:55:07,455 --> 00:55:07,855 Speaker 20: I treat that? 922 00:55:07,975 --> 00:55:08,215 Speaker 7: First? 923 00:55:08,535 --> 00:55:12,455 Speaker 4: Well, look, I think you know, typically i'd say you'd 924 00:55:12,495 --> 00:55:14,415 Speaker 4: go to some of the professionals to do it. But 925 00:55:14,495 --> 00:55:17,255 Speaker 4: if you've got so no, no. But I'm thinking about 926 00:55:17,295 --> 00:55:19,495 Speaker 4: you thinking, you know, if you were to go up 927 00:55:19,615 --> 00:55:22,895 Speaker 4: and do a roof treatment, and obviously if you've used 928 00:55:22,895 --> 00:55:24,655 Speaker 4: to wearing harness and you used to being on roofs 929 00:55:24,655 --> 00:55:27,735 Speaker 4: and that sort of thing, I'd say to you, why 930 00:55:27,815 --> 00:55:30,455 Speaker 4: not investigate what type of treatment you need to apply 931 00:55:30,535 --> 00:55:33,175 Speaker 4: in terms of a moss and mold killer. You'd be 932 00:55:33,375 --> 00:55:37,175 Speaker 4: probably reasonably you've got the right attitude to be safe 933 00:55:37,215 --> 00:55:39,415 Speaker 4: on the roof and maybe do some washing down and 934 00:55:39,535 --> 00:55:41,695 Speaker 4: then you know, if you've used a spray gun, I'm 935 00:55:41,775 --> 00:55:43,495 Speaker 4: just you know, why not here. 936 00:55:43,975 --> 00:55:47,135 Speaker 20: I'm going to be spraying the house. It's like a 937 00:55:47,175 --> 00:55:49,295 Speaker 20: really good waver boarding with no groove, so it's quite 938 00:55:49,295 --> 00:55:51,815 Speaker 20: easy to spray. It's infinitely going to be doing the bottom. 939 00:55:52,015 --> 00:55:55,295 Speaker 4: And it wouldn't be advice that I would give to everyone, 940 00:55:55,375 --> 00:55:58,015 Speaker 4: but listening to what you know, some of your background 941 00:55:58,055 --> 00:55:59,575 Speaker 4: and that sort of thing, I think if you were 942 00:55:59,775 --> 00:56:03,175 Speaker 4: a bit cautious and did some research, I reckon you 943 00:56:03,215 --> 00:56:03,975 Speaker 4: could do it yourself. 944 00:56:04,815 --> 00:56:07,855 Speaker 20: Yeah, I got my long red ticket as I when 945 00:56:07,895 --> 00:56:10,175 Speaker 20: they first brought out this protection and the scaffolding and this. 946 00:56:11,455 --> 00:56:13,135 Speaker 20: I've worked for a reefing company. And the first thing 947 00:56:13,175 --> 00:56:14,415 Speaker 20: you said to me, he goes, if I'm going to 948 00:56:14,455 --> 00:56:15,975 Speaker 20: see you to tell these builders the roof is what 949 00:56:16,055 --> 00:56:19,095 Speaker 20: to do or you need to get your ticket. You 950 00:56:19,135 --> 00:56:21,775 Speaker 20: sent me away up to the tot on her and 951 00:56:21,855 --> 00:56:23,615 Speaker 20: I went up there, and you know, I said a 952 00:56:23,655 --> 00:56:27,975 Speaker 20: pat my top to holler as his expense for her then, 953 00:56:28,575 --> 00:56:30,455 Speaker 20: you know, and then I ran my own little crew 954 00:56:30,575 --> 00:56:33,135 Speaker 20: with the roof is protection and scaffolding, et cetera. For 955 00:56:33,255 --> 00:56:34,575 Speaker 20: all the big companies come out. 956 00:56:34,575 --> 00:56:36,775 Speaker 4: So fantastic, and I just threw it on from there. 957 00:56:37,735 --> 00:56:40,655 Speaker 4: And congratulations on the on the first home. It's a 958 00:56:40,895 --> 00:56:45,175 Speaker 4: it's a it's a memorable event in your life and 959 00:56:45,335 --> 00:56:47,935 Speaker 4: you won't forget it. And congratulations. That's awesome. 960 00:56:49,095 --> 00:56:50,775 Speaker 20: Chs p A all good advice. 961 00:56:50,775 --> 00:56:52,455 Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Cheers, thank you, take. 962 00:56:52,375 --> 00:56:57,695 Speaker 4: Care of by then it is exciting without a doubt 963 00:56:58,135 --> 00:57:02,295 Speaker 4: getting your own house after years of saving and working hard. 964 00:57:02,735 --> 00:57:05,575 Speaker 4: And also, you know, and I don't mean to be 965 00:57:05,615 --> 00:57:08,255 Speaker 4: sanctimonious or anything like that, but isn't it smart when 966 00:57:08,295 --> 00:57:11,695 Speaker 4: he goes, Yeah, we could borrow more, but our payments 967 00:57:11,735 --> 00:57:14,695 Speaker 4: will be higher. So we've set ourselves a reasonable limit 968 00:57:15,135 --> 00:57:17,175 Speaker 4: as to how much we want to spend on a 969 00:57:17,255 --> 00:57:22,095 Speaker 4: house in it to allow us some flexibility or some 970 00:57:22,535 --> 00:57:25,335 Speaker 4: breathing space, keep our heads above order in terms of 971 00:57:25,375 --> 00:57:29,335 Speaker 4: the mortgage and that sort of thing. And that's smart too. Oh, 972 00:57:29,415 --> 00:57:31,375 Speaker 4: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to call 973 00:57:31,415 --> 00:57:33,455 Speaker 4: will come back and talk to Michael in just a moment. 974 00:57:33,815 --> 00:57:36,015 Speaker 4: I wonder if it's too early to tell. Well, no, 975 00:57:36,095 --> 00:57:40,175 Speaker 4: there is some evidence that first home buyers are a 976 00:57:40,335 --> 00:57:43,655 Speaker 4: larger share of the market at the moment as opposed 977 00:57:43,695 --> 00:57:48,015 Speaker 4: to say, investors and so on, which is a good thing. 978 00:57:48,095 --> 00:57:50,055 Speaker 4: I mean, I know a number of people who are 979 00:57:50,255 --> 00:57:53,055 Speaker 4: in the same situation as aiden. You know they're with 980 00:57:53,895 --> 00:57:57,255 Speaker 4: I guess the current decline in house prices, we're starting 981 00:57:57,335 --> 00:58:00,735 Speaker 4: to see stabilization, reduction of interest rates. People are in 982 00:58:00,815 --> 00:58:03,375 Speaker 4: a position where they can get back into the housing 983 00:58:03,455 --> 00:58:06,855 Speaker 4: market that lockdown affordable two or three years ago ook 984 00:58:07,055 --> 00:58:11,735 Speaker 4: Utree Plan increasing supply of houses. That's also helped affordability. 985 00:58:12,335 --> 00:58:15,455 Speaker 4: I mean, if you're a homeowner or an investor, maybe 986 00:58:15,495 --> 00:58:17,215 Speaker 4: you don't feel too happy about the value of your 987 00:58:17,255 --> 00:58:21,455 Speaker 4: house going down. But for first time buyers it's been awesome. 988 00:58:21,575 --> 00:58:24,095 Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. 989 00:58:24,215 --> 00:58:28,255 Speaker 4: Michael A very good warning to you. Oh, Michae, how 990 00:58:28,295 --> 00:58:29,095 Speaker 4: are you good? Thank you? 991 00:58:29,615 --> 00:58:30,535 Speaker 7: Morning morning. 992 00:58:32,215 --> 00:58:36,015 Speaker 15: I just had a quick question regarding timber frame single 993 00:58:36,055 --> 00:58:36,775 Speaker 15: glazed windows. 994 00:58:36,855 --> 00:58:37,055 Speaker 9: Yep. 995 00:58:37,295 --> 00:58:41,175 Speaker 15: I've got a nineteen sixty house that I've just been 996 00:58:41,215 --> 00:58:44,815 Speaker 15: doing a little bit too, but the windows have been 997 00:58:45,015 --> 00:58:49,375 Speaker 15: repainted poorly over top of other paint. 998 00:58:49,775 --> 00:58:52,975 Speaker 11: What's the best way to remove that old paint? 999 00:58:55,935 --> 00:59:01,855 Speaker 4: I would probably use a paint stripper, right because you 1000 00:59:01,935 --> 00:59:03,815 Speaker 4: know you, I suppose you want to let the stripper 1001 00:59:03,895 --> 00:59:09,535 Speaker 4: do the work, right, so and yeah, rather than like 1002 00:59:09,695 --> 00:59:12,295 Speaker 4: you can tungsten it, you could use a heat gun. 1003 00:59:12,695 --> 00:59:15,295 Speaker 4: Heat gun around glass can be a little bit tricky, 1004 00:59:16,255 --> 00:59:18,415 Speaker 4: so if you get too close to the edge, you 1005 00:59:18,535 --> 00:59:21,855 Speaker 4: might end up shattering the glass or cracking the glass. 1006 00:59:22,215 --> 00:59:25,255 Speaker 4: So I think and you might have to sort of 1007 00:59:25,295 --> 00:59:27,695 Speaker 4: hunt around to find a paint stripper that you like. 1008 00:59:29,055 --> 00:59:31,575 Speaker 4: There's a couple of one seat to sky is when 1009 00:59:31,615 --> 00:59:33,935 Speaker 4: I used a few years ago, which was really good 1010 00:59:34,895 --> 00:59:37,415 Speaker 4: and not like you could put your hand in the 1011 00:59:37,455 --> 00:59:39,815 Speaker 4: bucket of it and not have your skin peel off, 1012 00:59:39,815 --> 00:59:43,815 Speaker 4: which is quite handy. So put that on. It'll take 1013 00:59:43,815 --> 00:59:45,615 Speaker 4: a couple of layers of paint off. You may have 1014 00:59:45,695 --> 00:59:47,975 Speaker 4: to do it once or twice. Once you've got down 1015 00:59:48,055 --> 00:59:49,935 Speaker 4: to the point where you don't have to get every 1016 00:59:50,015 --> 00:59:53,015 Speaker 4: single spot of paint off the joinery, but you get 1017 00:59:53,055 --> 00:59:55,055 Speaker 4: it down to a point where you can tell that 1018 00:59:55,255 --> 00:59:57,335 Speaker 4: you know it's only the original primer that's left on, 1019 00:59:57,855 --> 01:00:02,335 Speaker 4: let that dry out, send it back just lightly. I 1020 01:00:02,455 --> 01:00:06,975 Speaker 4: would probably on old joinery, go for an oil bay primer. 1021 01:00:07,175 --> 01:00:10,695 Speaker 4: I always start with an oil based primer, oil based primer, 1022 01:00:10,895 --> 01:00:14,415 Speaker 4: possibly even an oil based undercoat, and then a top 1023 01:00:14,535 --> 01:00:19,495 Speaker 4: coat of you can use now water born enamels for that. 1024 01:00:20,895 --> 01:00:23,175 Speaker 4: They're a little bit harder to lay off, so that's 1025 01:00:23,335 --> 01:00:25,735 Speaker 4: it requires a bit of skill in terms of applying it. 1026 01:00:26,375 --> 01:00:29,055 Speaker 4: Or you could just stick with enamels oil based enamels 1027 01:00:29,055 --> 01:00:31,695 Speaker 4: all the way through, but it'll always be that process. 1028 01:00:32,135 --> 01:00:39,375 Speaker 4: Strip it, sand it, prime it in top coats. There 1029 01:00:39,415 --> 01:00:45,815 Speaker 4: you go. That's your job. Hello, thank you all right, mate, 1030 01:00:45,815 --> 01:00:47,895 Speaker 4: all the very best of you. Take care, Michael all 1031 01:00:47,935 --> 01:00:50,055 Speaker 4: the best, and Stuart a very good morning. 1032 01:00:51,255 --> 01:00:52,375 Speaker 7: Oh good morning, fete. 1033 01:00:52,415 --> 01:00:53,855 Speaker 4: Hell are you yeah, very well in yourself. 1034 01:00:54,575 --> 01:00:58,175 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll do that, not to that. My question was 1035 01:00:58,255 --> 01:01:01,015 Speaker 7: that you and christ Church and we had had a 1036 01:01:01,095 --> 01:01:04,815 Speaker 7: rebuild after the earthquake, so your euse is ten years 1037 01:01:04,815 --> 01:01:08,335 Speaker 7: old yep, and that sort of when we built there 1038 01:01:09,135 --> 01:01:10,855 Speaker 7: sort of todld Oh you don't have to worry about 1039 01:01:10,895 --> 01:01:11,495 Speaker 7: maintenance ever. 1040 01:01:11,575 --> 01:01:17,815 Speaker 4: Again, who would say that? Who in the would ever 1041 01:01:17,895 --> 01:01:20,255 Speaker 4: say to someone who's a homeowner, even of a low 1042 01:01:20,335 --> 01:01:23,375 Speaker 4: maintenance property, You've got no more maintenance to do. That's 1043 01:01:23,495 --> 01:01:24,135 Speaker 4: just nonsense. 1044 01:01:25,135 --> 01:01:27,695 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I think it's an urban myth. 1045 01:01:27,855 --> 01:01:30,255 Speaker 7: So I mean, anyway, I was so I was sort 1046 01:01:30,255 --> 01:01:32,815 Speaker 7: of thinking, well, like, well ten years sort of yeah. 1047 01:01:32,855 --> 01:01:35,215 Speaker 7: The house is yeah, still still perfect, I think from 1048 01:01:35,255 --> 01:01:37,135 Speaker 7: what I can see. But what sort of things. 1049 01:01:36,935 --> 01:01:42,095 Speaker 4: Should we be Oh look, yeah, I mean look if 1050 01:01:42,695 --> 01:01:46,055 Speaker 4: depending on the extent of the rebuild at the time, 1051 01:01:46,615 --> 01:01:50,215 Speaker 4: you know, after the earthquake, I presume that the roof 1052 01:01:50,255 --> 01:01:52,975 Speaker 4: would have been replaced. It was an older concrete tile roof. 1053 01:01:53,015 --> 01:01:55,335 Speaker 4: They've probably replaced that put long run iron on it. 1054 01:01:56,535 --> 01:01:57,935 Speaker 7: It's a brand new, brand new house. 1055 01:01:58,135 --> 01:02:01,855 Speaker 4: It's a brand new house. Okay. Look, I think for 1056 01:02:02,015 --> 01:02:03,855 Speaker 4: brand new houses what you want to be doing is 1057 01:02:03,975 --> 01:02:09,215 Speaker 4: you want to wash them every year. That really really helps. Particularly, 1058 01:02:09,255 --> 01:02:12,055 Speaker 4: you know, if it's painted surfaces, then washing it every 1059 01:02:12,135 --> 01:02:14,375 Speaker 4: year makes a massive difference, and it will extend the 1060 01:02:14,455 --> 01:02:17,335 Speaker 4: life of the paint work by I think as much 1061 01:02:17,415 --> 01:02:20,695 Speaker 4: as three to four years. If it is painted and 1062 01:02:20,815 --> 01:02:23,255 Speaker 4: it's a ten year old paint job, chances are it 1063 01:02:23,295 --> 01:02:27,175 Speaker 4: will be getting to that stage where it could do 1064 01:02:27,335 --> 01:02:30,655 Speaker 4: with a repaint. But the beauty of a repaint if 1065 01:02:30,735 --> 01:02:34,295 Speaker 4: the paint works in reasonable condition is your prep time 1066 01:02:34,455 --> 01:02:38,135 Speaker 4: is limited. Right, It's a wash, sand, address some of 1067 01:02:38,175 --> 01:02:41,375 Speaker 4: those little areas, and then simply apply your top coat 1068 01:02:41,415 --> 01:02:45,615 Speaker 4: straight over the top of your existing paint surfaces. If 1069 01:02:45,655 --> 01:02:48,095 Speaker 4: it's brick, for example, on the exterior, then it's just 1070 01:02:48,415 --> 01:02:50,335 Speaker 4: a washdown. That's all you really need to do. 1071 01:02:51,775 --> 01:02:51,975 Speaker 7: Washing. 1072 01:02:52,135 --> 01:02:54,855 Speaker 4: I mean it'll be aluminium joinery. That should be again 1073 01:02:55,255 --> 01:02:58,335 Speaker 4: washing your aluminium jowinery, stopping all of those salts and 1074 01:02:58,495 --> 01:03:01,335 Speaker 4: things building up on the surface. That's about all you 1075 01:03:01,415 --> 01:03:07,335 Speaker 4: need to do. So a regular house wash You're fine, Yeah, great, 1076 01:03:07,615 --> 01:03:10,775 Speaker 4: And again this is where I guess because I've lived 1077 01:03:10,775 --> 01:03:13,775 Speaker 4: in an old house for so long and there is 1078 01:03:13,935 --> 01:03:19,695 Speaker 4: constant maintenance to do. That This idea of setting aside 1079 01:03:19,775 --> 01:03:22,935 Speaker 4: maybe one percent of the zero point five percent of 1080 01:03:22,975 --> 01:03:26,015 Speaker 4: the value of the house for these maintenance projects may 1081 01:03:26,095 --> 01:03:29,015 Speaker 4: not apply to a new build. But you know, after 1082 01:03:29,815 --> 01:03:32,215 Speaker 4: what you might find is that in another five or 1083 01:03:33,175 --> 01:03:36,415 Speaker 4: seven eight years, the kitchen starts to look a bit 1084 01:03:37,015 --> 01:03:39,855 Speaker 4: you know, worn, right, So do you do you put 1085 01:03:39,895 --> 01:03:42,415 Speaker 4: aside some money to go? Actually, you know what, I'm 1086 01:03:42,455 --> 01:03:46,415 Speaker 4: happy dropping thirty k on a new kitchen because the 1087 01:03:46,495 --> 01:03:48,655 Speaker 4: old one the surfaces are gone, or the doors of 1088 01:03:48,735 --> 01:03:51,535 Speaker 4: getting some scratches in them or something like that. But 1089 01:03:51,895 --> 01:03:54,455 Speaker 4: then at least you've got money for it. You know, 1090 01:03:54,575 --> 01:03:57,535 Speaker 4: bathrooms will last. If bathroom's well done, you might get 1091 01:03:57,695 --> 01:04:01,895 Speaker 4: twenty years out of a bathroom. Yeah, maybe even longer, 1092 01:04:02,095 --> 01:04:05,535 Speaker 4: but you'll get a reasonable amount. Yeah, good on you. 1093 01:04:06,335 --> 01:04:07,055 Speaker 7: I think it's going to. 1094 01:04:08,775 --> 01:04:11,535 Speaker 4: Keep it. Yeah, keep it in good condition, you'll be fine. 1095 01:04:11,615 --> 01:04:13,895 Speaker 4: Check the gutters, you know, make sure that that all works. 1096 01:04:14,655 --> 01:04:16,815 Speaker 4: You know, garden beds. Don't let them build up too 1097 01:04:16,895 --> 01:04:20,135 Speaker 4: much against the clouding of the house. Those sorts of things. 1098 01:04:20,175 --> 01:04:23,055 Speaker 4: It's just a walk around and a check and a 1099 01:04:23,135 --> 01:04:25,855 Speaker 4: bit of time on a Saturday afternoon. You'll be fine. 1100 01:04:26,895 --> 01:04:29,455 Speaker 4: All the very best, Take care, Stuart, thank you very 1101 01:04:29,535 --> 01:04:32,415 Speaker 4: much for your call. It is seven thirty two here 1102 01:04:32,455 --> 01:04:34,375 Speaker 4: at News talksp we'll come back and talk to Jason 1103 01:04:34,455 --> 01:04:36,295 Speaker 4: in a moment. If you want to make a comment 1104 01:04:36,415 --> 01:04:40,655 Speaker 4: about house maintenance and sort of what sorts of funds 1105 01:04:40,735 --> 01:04:42,255 Speaker 4: you need to set aside of be interested in that 1106 01:04:42,415 --> 01:04:46,935 Speaker 4: on the text nine two nine two, and if i'll 1107 01:04:46,975 --> 01:04:49,415 Speaker 4: do my confession after the break as well back in 1108 01:04:49,495 --> 01:04:51,295 Speaker 4: a moment. I'm not really sure why I feel that 1109 01:04:51,375 --> 01:04:52,935 Speaker 4: I need to get this off my chest, but I 1110 01:04:53,055 --> 01:04:56,815 Speaker 4: feel that I need to be honest and open and go. 1111 01:04:57,655 --> 01:05:00,975 Speaker 4: For many many years, I've been quite dismissive of a 1112 01:05:01,095 --> 01:05:07,335 Speaker 4: tradees that I've seen who use track saws right, And 1113 01:05:07,495 --> 01:05:09,255 Speaker 4: I guess I'm a little bit old school and I've 1114 01:05:09,335 --> 01:05:11,135 Speaker 4: just gone, you know, look, if you need to make 1115 01:05:11,215 --> 01:05:14,735 Speaker 4: a long ripping cut with a circulus or why wouldn't 1116 01:05:14,735 --> 01:05:16,775 Speaker 4: you just grab like we've always done, a level or 1117 01:05:16,815 --> 01:05:19,815 Speaker 4: a straight edge, clamp it down, run the guide along, bingo, 1118 01:05:20,055 --> 01:05:21,535 Speaker 4: these are tracks, or I don't need to go and 1119 01:05:21,695 --> 01:05:26,295 Speaker 4: get you know, two bits of aluminium and screw them 1120 01:05:26,335 --> 01:05:29,135 Speaker 4: together and go and get a track saw, which seemed 1121 01:05:29,655 --> 01:05:31,855 Speaker 4: very expensive and all the rest of it. For this anyway, 1122 01:05:32,855 --> 01:05:36,855 Speaker 4: my attitude has changed a little bit because the guys 1123 01:05:36,895 --> 01:05:39,655 Speaker 4: at rob dropped one off to me earlier in the year, 1124 01:05:40,775 --> 01:05:44,535 Speaker 4: and like I say, I've been dismissive of trades people. 1125 01:05:44,535 --> 01:05:47,335 Speaker 4: I've sort of been, oh, come on, you know, like 1126 01:05:47,455 --> 01:05:49,495 Speaker 4: it's not that hard to cut a straight line. Why 1127 01:05:49,575 --> 01:05:53,495 Speaker 4: would you bother the tracks or and I have to 1128 01:05:54,255 --> 01:05:56,975 Speaker 4: hang my head and go. Actually they have. It has 1129 01:05:57,135 --> 01:06:01,935 Speaker 4: proven to be a remarkably useful tool. So I'm using 1130 01:06:02,015 --> 01:06:04,575 Speaker 4: this little it's a cordless one as well, which is 1131 01:06:04,935 --> 01:06:09,615 Speaker 4: huge advantage obviously. And what did I make? Oh, last 1132 01:06:09,655 --> 01:06:14,215 Speaker 4: week I made this giant hat, for example, for the 1133 01:06:14,295 --> 01:06:18,295 Speaker 4: stage production of Allison, a Wonderland Musical, which was on 1134 01:06:18,375 --> 01:06:21,895 Speaker 4: at the Arte. And so you know, I had a 1135 01:06:21,975 --> 01:06:25,615 Speaker 4: whole lot of cutting of plywood. And typically I would 1136 01:06:25,695 --> 01:06:29,495 Speaker 4: either get a straight edge out with a skill saw 1137 01:06:29,535 --> 01:06:31,855 Speaker 4: and run along the edge, which means figuring out the 1138 01:06:31,935 --> 01:06:34,255 Speaker 4: offset and then having to clamp it down, et cetera, 1139 01:06:34,295 --> 01:06:36,255 Speaker 4: et cetera. Or I would set up the table saw 1140 01:06:36,415 --> 01:06:38,535 Speaker 4: and I would run stuff through the table saw, which 1141 01:06:38,695 --> 01:06:43,055 Speaker 4: in a small workshop means that I'd added much space. Anyway, 1142 01:06:43,175 --> 01:06:47,775 Speaker 4: the track saw has been incredibly useful, So I take 1143 01:06:47,855 --> 01:06:49,935 Speaker 4: back all of those unkind things that I thought of 1144 01:06:49,975 --> 01:06:52,295 Speaker 4: trades people who used to use track saws back in 1145 01:06:52,375 --> 01:06:57,695 Speaker 4: the day, who were early adopters and go actually proven 1146 01:06:57,735 --> 01:07:01,535 Speaker 4: to be an incredibly useful tool. Oh eight hundred eighty 1147 01:07:01,615 --> 01:07:04,735 Speaker 4: ten eighty. And hey, look Christmas is coming up. If 1148 01:07:04,735 --> 01:07:10,095 Speaker 4: you're thinking gift, give tools. Hard to go wrong with tools. 1149 01:07:10,135 --> 01:07:12,415 Speaker 4: I think oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number 1150 01:07:12,455 --> 01:07:15,775 Speaker 4: to call Jason A very good morning to you. 1151 01:07:17,935 --> 01:07:18,335 Speaker 7: Hey, you just. 1152 01:07:18,495 --> 01:07:19,095 Speaker 6: Morning to you. 1153 01:07:23,055 --> 01:07:28,415 Speaker 19: I've just got a little question. I've been going through 1154 01:07:30,215 --> 01:07:38,815 Speaker 19: some issues and I have accidentally put my hand through. 1155 01:07:40,575 --> 01:07:40,975 Speaker 9: The wall. 1156 01:07:43,415 --> 01:07:51,255 Speaker 19: And I've heard about people that that can put a 1157 01:07:51,375 --> 01:07:57,055 Speaker 19: piece of cardboard into the hole and pull it through 1158 01:07:58,015 --> 01:08:02,095 Speaker 19: and get some h what do you call it, some 1159 01:08:03,415 --> 01:08:09,255 Speaker 19: classter that can cover the whole? Is that true or door? 1160 01:08:09,615 --> 01:08:10,295 Speaker 20: Is that? 1161 01:08:12,415 --> 01:08:16,135 Speaker 19: I need to look into that a bit more deeper. 1162 01:08:16,575 --> 01:08:19,095 Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think what you'll end up with is 1163 01:08:19,135 --> 01:08:22,015 Speaker 4: one of those repairs that stands out from a million 1164 01:08:22,095 --> 01:08:25,415 Speaker 4: miles away, right, So you know, it's a it's a 1165 01:08:25,495 --> 01:08:28,695 Speaker 4: time consuming way of doing it. It'll look as rough 1166 01:08:28,735 --> 01:08:29,495 Speaker 4: as all get out. 1167 01:08:30,415 --> 01:08:30,455 Speaker 3: No. 1168 01:08:30,735 --> 01:08:33,375 Speaker 4: I mean, if you've got a hole in plasterboard, typically 1169 01:08:33,495 --> 01:08:37,735 Speaker 4: you you square up the hole, get another piece of 1170 01:08:37,775 --> 01:08:40,135 Speaker 4: plaster board or a block of timber and back block 1171 01:08:40,215 --> 01:08:42,535 Speaker 4: it so you fix that in behind it. Then find 1172 01:08:42,575 --> 01:08:46,375 Speaker 4: a piece of plasterboard, put that in tape the joins, 1173 01:08:46,615 --> 01:08:50,135 Speaker 4: stop the joins, and so on. So there's a right 1174 01:08:50,215 --> 01:08:52,855 Speaker 4: way of doing repairs. And plasterboard using a bit of 1175 01:08:53,335 --> 01:08:55,855 Speaker 4: plaster and a bit of cardboard is not one of them. 1176 01:08:56,335 --> 01:08:58,855 Speaker 4: With respect. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty 1177 01:08:58,975 --> 01:09:02,255 Speaker 4: the number to call and Mary, Hello, how are you? 1178 01:09:03,255 --> 01:09:04,015 Speaker 21: I'm good, thank you? 1179 01:09:04,135 --> 01:09:06,295 Speaker 4: And JP, I'm very well, thank you. How can I. 1180 01:09:08,655 --> 01:09:12,455 Speaker 21: Just in touch with an insurance company? There's several flats 1181 01:09:12,495 --> 01:09:16,855 Speaker 21: of us together, all in a group, and they suggested 1182 01:09:16,895 --> 01:09:23,175 Speaker 21: that we might need to up our insurance cover because 1183 01:09:23,215 --> 01:09:26,135 Speaker 21: I know building costs, rebuild costs, and that have increased 1184 01:09:26,455 --> 01:09:31,975 Speaker 21: tremendously over the years. They do an online calculator, but 1185 01:09:32,095 --> 01:09:35,495 Speaker 21: they've also suggested that I might approach somebody to get 1186 01:09:36,535 --> 01:09:37,255 Speaker 21: someone to come. 1187 01:09:37,175 --> 01:09:39,495 Speaker 4: Around and do an actual valuation. 1188 01:09:39,535 --> 01:09:42,215 Speaker 21: Actually valuation. But I haven't got a clue who I 1189 01:09:42,335 --> 01:09:47,175 Speaker 21: would approach or anything at all. Sure what it's likely 1190 01:09:47,295 --> 01:09:47,815 Speaker 21: the cost. 1191 01:09:48,375 --> 01:09:53,895 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there is a fee for that type 1192 01:09:53,895 --> 01:09:56,415 Speaker 4: of thing. Actually, there's a guy that we've had on 1193 01:09:56,695 --> 01:10:00,615 Speaker 4: this program, Andy Thompson, who I think it's principle of 1194 01:10:00,655 --> 01:10:06,095 Speaker 4: a firm called Construction Cost Consultants, and this is essentially 1195 01:10:06,495 --> 01:10:12,935 Speaker 4: their area of expertise. So and in fact, there and 1196 01:10:13,015 --> 01:10:16,095 Speaker 4: I'm not miss one of the things they say is 1197 01:10:16,175 --> 01:10:19,695 Speaker 4: that if we give you a price to rebuild your 1198 01:10:19,735 --> 01:10:24,415 Speaker 4: building for insurance purposes, we will actually guarantee that you 1199 01:10:24,495 --> 01:10:27,575 Speaker 4: can build it for that price, or they used to 1200 01:10:27,575 --> 01:10:32,215 Speaker 4: say that anyway. But so I think because the online calculators. 1201 01:10:33,615 --> 01:10:37,615 Speaker 4: It's interesting because I've used the online calculators sometimes and 1202 01:10:37,735 --> 01:10:42,135 Speaker 4: then I've had people that I know use the same 1203 01:10:42,255 --> 01:10:45,175 Speaker 4: calculator for the same property and we've come up with 1204 01:10:45,335 --> 01:10:51,055 Speaker 4: quite different numbers, right, because the online calculator that all 1205 01:10:51,135 --> 01:10:55,775 Speaker 4: of the insurance companies typically tend to use, it depends. 1206 01:10:55,815 --> 01:10:59,615 Speaker 4: It's that classic sort of you know, information and information 1207 01:10:59,775 --> 01:11:02,855 Speaker 4: out right, if the quality of the information you're putting 1208 01:11:02,895 --> 01:11:07,815 Speaker 4: in your level of knowledge about the property. Yeah, that's right. 1209 01:11:09,415 --> 01:11:14,055 Speaker 4: So they're a useful guide because I think insurance companies 1210 01:11:14,095 --> 01:11:17,015 Speaker 4: are quite correct and saying most of us would be 1211 01:11:17,495 --> 01:11:21,455 Speaker 4: woefully underinsured when it comes to our properties, where we 1212 01:11:21,975 --> 01:11:25,215 Speaker 4: think it's always going to be cheaper than it is, 1213 01:11:25,575 --> 01:11:30,695 Speaker 4: and I think sometimes we overestimate the additional cost of 1214 01:11:30,815 --> 01:11:34,735 Speaker 4: having more cover, you know what I mean that adding 1215 01:11:34,815 --> 01:11:37,735 Speaker 4: an extra and I'm not saying this on behalf of 1216 01:11:37,775 --> 01:11:40,695 Speaker 4: the insurance companies. I'm just saying that from my own 1217 01:11:40,735 --> 01:11:43,215 Speaker 4: experience and from people that I've talked to in this area, 1218 01:11:43,415 --> 01:11:45,855 Speaker 4: that you know, adding let's say a hundred even one 1219 01:11:45,895 --> 01:11:49,015 Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars worth of extra cover to your house 1220 01:11:49,095 --> 01:11:53,415 Speaker 4: insurance might increase your premiums by a small amount, but 1221 01:11:53,575 --> 01:11:59,615 Speaker 4: it's relatively small by comparison to being under insured. So yeah, 1222 01:12:00,135 --> 01:12:02,335 Speaker 4: there will be I mean, you could get a valuer 1223 01:12:02,415 --> 01:12:04,095 Speaker 4: to do the sort of work, or you could go, 1224 01:12:04,415 --> 01:12:08,935 Speaker 4: like I say, to someone like construction cost consultants, so 1225 01:12:09,055 --> 01:12:10,295 Speaker 4: you'll find them online. 1226 01:12:11,415 --> 01:12:14,495 Speaker 21: Okay, Yeah, Because I remember when the first book Tip 1227 01:12:14,575 --> 01:12:18,135 Speaker 21: brought out the calculators and that everybody goes off and 1228 01:12:18,175 --> 01:12:20,975 Speaker 21: does this and I think, well, I can't ford to 1229 01:12:21,095 --> 01:12:24,055 Speaker 21: ensure it anyway because it's such a ridiculous figure. 1230 01:12:26,375 --> 01:12:26,575 Speaker 7: Yeah. 1231 01:12:26,815 --> 01:12:31,015 Speaker 4: I guess the challenge too is, you know, in these 1232 01:12:31,055 --> 01:12:34,055 Speaker 4: situations and it's more common nowadays, let's say where we're 1233 01:12:34,135 --> 01:12:38,095 Speaker 4: in you know, multi unit developments. So if you know, 1234 01:12:38,175 --> 01:12:41,095 Speaker 4: it's quite simple sometimes if we're ensuring you know, my 1235 01:12:41,295 --> 01:12:43,135 Speaker 4: house sits in the middle of my piece of land, 1236 01:12:43,735 --> 01:12:46,455 Speaker 4: all right, if something happens, it's only going to most 1237 01:12:46,615 --> 01:12:49,455 Speaker 4: likely affect me. But if you happen to be in 1238 01:12:49,575 --> 01:12:55,295 Speaker 4: a row of four townhouses, for example, and your number two, Yeah, 1239 01:12:56,215 --> 01:12:58,655 Speaker 4: you want to be confident that if something happened to 1240 01:12:59,335 --> 01:13:02,655 Speaker 4: started in your house, god forbid, like a fire, and 1241 01:13:02,815 --> 01:13:06,495 Speaker 4: it spread, would your neighbors then be covered? If if 1242 01:13:06,575 --> 01:13:10,095 Speaker 4: the damage spread, or if something happened in your neighbors 1243 01:13:10,175 --> 01:13:13,655 Speaker 4: started there, would you be confident that your insurance will 1244 01:13:13,935 --> 01:13:16,935 Speaker 4: cover damage that didn't originate in your property. 1245 01:13:18,295 --> 01:13:23,615 Speaker 21: Yeah? Yeah, I don't suppose you done an idea of wise, 1246 01:13:25,295 --> 01:13:27,055 Speaker 21: I don't know. 1247 01:13:27,695 --> 01:13:29,935 Speaker 4: I mean a phone call or an email will give 1248 01:13:29,975 --> 01:13:32,295 Speaker 4: you an idea. And I'm sure there are others out 1249 01:13:32,375 --> 01:13:37,775 Speaker 4: there who would you be able to offer a similar service. Again, 1250 01:13:39,775 --> 01:13:41,695 Speaker 4: the reason I'm being a little bit cautious about this 1251 01:13:41,895 --> 01:13:44,775 Speaker 4: is I had a phone call from someone the other 1252 01:13:44,855 --> 01:13:47,255 Speaker 4: day who said, look, we're about to sell our house. 1253 01:13:47,335 --> 01:13:51,335 Speaker 4: We've had a pre purchase or a pre purchase inspection 1254 01:13:51,455 --> 01:13:54,975 Speaker 4: has been done by one of the interested parties, and 1255 01:13:55,495 --> 01:13:58,495 Speaker 4: it's picked up an issue with the drainage, saying that 1256 01:13:58,655 --> 01:14:04,375 Speaker 4: the stack is rusty and that the pre purchase inspector 1257 01:14:04,535 --> 01:14:07,935 Speaker 4: felt that it was, you know, that the needed repair, 1258 01:14:08,455 --> 01:14:11,015 Speaker 4: and that he estimated that the cost of the repair 1259 01:14:11,055 --> 01:14:15,415 Speaker 4: would be anywhere from one thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars. 1260 01:14:16,455 --> 01:14:18,135 Speaker 21: Okay, like gold plated. 1261 01:14:18,415 --> 01:14:21,815 Speaker 4: Well not just that, but that's an awfully wide range, 1262 01:14:21,895 --> 01:14:26,255 Speaker 4: isn't it. You know, so that's that's not terribly helpful 1263 01:14:26,415 --> 01:14:29,615 Speaker 4: for a purchaser, and it's certainly you know, for the 1264 01:14:29,655 --> 01:14:32,655 Speaker 4: person selling the house who rang me and just went crikey, 1265 01:14:32,735 --> 01:14:36,815 Speaker 4: I've just been told that, you know, these people think 1266 01:14:36,855 --> 01:14:39,135 Speaker 4: that it's going to cost fifty thousand dollars to repair 1267 01:14:39,255 --> 01:14:43,935 Speaker 4: my cast iron toilet stack. I'm like, anyway, it turned 1268 01:14:43,975 --> 01:14:46,255 Speaker 4: out not to be that at all. The reason I 1269 01:14:46,335 --> 01:14:49,055 Speaker 4: mentioned that story is that, you know, when we're talking 1270 01:14:49,095 --> 01:14:57,375 Speaker 4: about building repairs, these things are rather flexible and fluid. Unfortunately, yes, 1271 01:14:57,695 --> 01:14:59,015 Speaker 4: it's hard to feel, and. 1272 01:14:59,135 --> 01:15:04,735 Speaker 21: You've got a factor in if it's rebuilding everything, getting 1273 01:15:04,735 --> 01:15:07,935 Speaker 21: all the materials taken away, that's the thing, and that's 1274 01:15:08,655 --> 01:15:09,815 Speaker 21: if it's an older place. 1275 01:15:10,255 --> 01:15:14,055 Speaker 4: That's where the online that's where the online calculators can 1276 01:15:14,135 --> 01:15:16,735 Speaker 4: be quite useful because it prompts you to think about 1277 01:15:16,815 --> 01:15:20,975 Speaker 4: things like, what's the demolition cost, what's the you know, 1278 01:15:21,095 --> 01:15:24,055 Speaker 4: are there retaining walls, what's the consent costs, what's it 1279 01:15:24,095 --> 01:15:26,655 Speaker 4: going to cost to get an architect or an architectural 1280 01:15:26,735 --> 01:15:29,415 Speaker 4: designer to do, you know, because all of those things 1281 01:15:29,535 --> 01:15:33,095 Speaker 4: if in the unlikely event that it's a complete rebuild, 1282 01:15:33,495 --> 01:15:38,015 Speaker 4: these are major costs, right, yeah, yeah, good luck with that, 1283 01:15:38,495 --> 01:15:40,335 Speaker 4: you know, have a look online. There will be people 1284 01:15:40,655 --> 01:15:43,375 Speaker 4: just just when when you're engaging someone like that, just 1285 01:15:43,495 --> 01:15:46,095 Speaker 4: have a look at their experience and qualifications. 1286 01:15:46,855 --> 01:15:48,335 Speaker 21: Yeah, thank you very much. 1287 01:15:48,855 --> 01:15:50,575 Speaker 4: Nice of you to call all the very best to you. 1288 01:15:50,975 --> 01:15:54,855 Speaker 4: Take care, Marriy. Your news talk b coming up to 1289 01:15:55,575 --> 01:15:59,135 Speaker 4: seven forty seven. I love those planes, the old seven 1290 01:15:59,215 --> 01:16:02,255 Speaker 4: forty sevens. Anyway, it is almost seven forty seven. Will 1291 01:16:02,295 --> 01:16:03,735 Speaker 4: come back. We have a quick chat with Mike Colds 1292 01:16:03,735 --> 01:16:06,055 Speaker 4: from Razine Construction after the break, if you'd like to 1293 01:16:06,135 --> 01:16:07,495 Speaker 4: join us as well. We'll still got time for a 1294 01:16:07,535 --> 01:16:09,415 Speaker 4: couple of calls before we head to the news at 1295 01:16:09,495 --> 01:16:12,175 Speaker 4: eight o'clock, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is 1296 01:16:12,255 --> 01:16:14,535 Speaker 4: the number to call write your own news talks, but 1297 01:16:14,615 --> 01:16:20,495 Speaker 4: it is seven fifty and regular regular contributor, contributor expert 1298 01:16:20,615 --> 01:16:22,815 Speaker 4: on the show, Mike Holds, good morning to you, sir. 1299 01:16:23,455 --> 01:16:24,455 Speaker 5: Your morning plate. How are we? 1300 01:16:24,655 --> 01:16:28,135 Speaker 4: Yeah, not bad, not bad? And I had some time 1301 01:16:28,215 --> 01:16:29,615 Speaker 4: to kill the other day I went for a wander 1302 01:16:29,655 --> 01:16:33,215 Speaker 4: and saw some new builds going up with well ac 1303 01:16:33,375 --> 01:16:37,735 Speaker 4: panel so Integra panel on the outside. It was great. 1304 01:16:37,895 --> 01:16:40,175 Speaker 4: They'd done a good job. Actually I would have rung 1305 01:16:40,255 --> 01:16:41,335 Speaker 4: you if I didn't think they. 1306 01:16:41,295 --> 01:16:46,255 Speaker 5: Did, but they did. Yeah, it's a yeah interesting that 1307 01:16:46,375 --> 01:16:51,695 Speaker 5: their Integra Lightweight concrete is has gone and leads some 1308 01:16:51,815 --> 01:16:56,415 Speaker 5: pounds over the years. And I think the versatility of 1309 01:16:56,455 --> 01:16:58,815 Speaker 5: the products in terms of the benefits you're going to 1310 01:16:58,855 --> 01:17:02,135 Speaker 5: achieve out of it, got got some some something or 1311 01:17:02,175 --> 01:17:08,095 Speaker 5: performance also, but the big ones around impact, yes, acoustic 1312 01:17:08,255 --> 01:17:13,135 Speaker 5: performance and really important. What we discussed a few months 1313 01:17:13,175 --> 01:17:17,855 Speaker 5: back was around the intertendency for fire performance. But it 1314 01:17:18,135 --> 01:17:24,415 Speaker 5: basically looking it's noncombustible and then it's versatiley in terms 1315 01:17:24,455 --> 01:17:28,095 Speaker 5: of the troning systems and the finishers. It's just really 1316 01:17:28,135 --> 01:17:29,735 Speaker 5: second to none at the moment out of the market. 1317 01:17:31,175 --> 01:17:32,695 Speaker 5: People already starting to appreciate it. 1318 01:17:33,295 --> 01:17:35,655 Speaker 4: Yeah, because the building that I was looking at it 1319 01:17:35,735 --> 01:17:37,815 Speaker 4: it was sort of, you know, a ninety percent complete, 1320 01:17:37,855 --> 01:17:40,975 Speaker 4: so I could see that they viewed Integra on the exterior. 1321 01:17:41,095 --> 01:17:43,855 Speaker 4: But it was also one of those classic multi unit developments, 1322 01:17:43,935 --> 01:17:47,975 Speaker 4: so I assume that they probably used Integra as their 1323 01:17:48,055 --> 01:17:52,015 Speaker 4: intertenancy system. And intertendancy we're talking about protection from sound 1324 01:17:52,175 --> 01:17:55,255 Speaker 4: and more importantly from fire between units. 1325 01:17:55,975 --> 01:18:00,375 Speaker 5: Correct, Yeah, and that particularly, like I said, with many density, 1326 01:18:01,895 --> 01:18:04,615 Speaker 5: it's really really important. I mean some of the stuff 1327 01:18:04,655 --> 01:18:07,615 Speaker 5: that you hear and globally just terms of concerns with 1328 01:18:08,175 --> 01:18:12,375 Speaker 5: a battery issues and stuff like that, vehicles and whatnot. 1329 01:18:12,575 --> 01:18:16,455 Speaker 5: Then this is another another surely method that you can 1330 01:18:16,535 --> 01:18:19,495 Speaker 5: have and it's a very very high performance system and 1331 01:18:19,615 --> 01:18:22,935 Speaker 5: that the minimum standard that we meet is to our 1332 01:18:23,015 --> 01:18:27,695 Speaker 5: fire rating, right, So and that's something that you're catching 1333 01:18:27,775 --> 01:18:30,695 Speaker 5: the achieved without doing something okay using. 1334 01:18:32,455 --> 01:18:35,535 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fantastic stuff, all right, Hey, wishing you and 1335 01:18:35,815 --> 01:18:38,775 Speaker 4: all of the team it RESIM construction systems all the 1336 01:18:38,935 --> 01:18:42,015 Speaker 4: very best. It's been a tough old year for most 1337 01:18:42,055 --> 01:18:44,615 Speaker 4: people in the building sector, so I think a Christmas 1338 01:18:44,695 --> 01:18:47,535 Speaker 4: break is well deserved, So to you and all of 1339 01:18:47,575 --> 01:18:50,735 Speaker 4: the team. All the very best for Christmas and New Year, 1340 01:18:50,815 --> 01:18:53,375 Speaker 4: hopefully a little bit bigger and brighter for all of us. 1341 01:18:54,495 --> 01:18:56,775 Speaker 5: Likewise, the upte and thank you all this is out 1342 01:18:56,855 --> 01:19:04,655 Speaker 5: there for the show and some questions that not. So 1343 01:19:05,295 --> 01:19:07,775 Speaker 5: thank you very much, mate, it's been a pleasure. 1344 01:19:07,895 --> 01:19:09,975 Speaker 4: I hope to catch up with you soon. Thank you. 1345 01:19:10,535 --> 01:19:10,935 Speaker 4: Take care. 1346 01:19:11,015 --> 01:19:11,175 Speaker 7: Mike. 1347 01:19:11,415 --> 01:19:13,975 Speaker 4: So, Mike Old's from Razine Construction Systems. He'll be back 1348 01:19:14,015 --> 01:19:16,495 Speaker 4: as an experting end next year on the program as well, 1349 01:19:16,535 --> 01:19:18,815 Speaker 4: because we, I mean, you're fast approaching that time, isn't it. 1350 01:19:19,135 --> 01:19:21,775 Speaker 4: Two more shows before Christmas, one show between Christmas and 1351 01:19:21,895 --> 01:19:24,895 Speaker 4: New Year, and then we're into it. I'll continue to 1352 01:19:25,015 --> 01:19:27,815 Speaker 4: do the show over the Christmas break. I figured that 1353 01:19:28,255 --> 01:19:30,535 Speaker 4: Christmas break is when a lot of us will be, 1354 01:19:31,495 --> 01:19:33,255 Speaker 4: you know, working on the house, whether it's a bit 1355 01:19:33,295 --> 01:19:35,655 Speaker 4: of touch up painting, whether it's some work in the garden, 1356 01:19:35,735 --> 01:19:38,455 Speaker 4: whether it's some planter beds or some retaining walls or 1357 01:19:38,495 --> 01:19:42,535 Speaker 4: extending the deck or made of mine who's undertaking a 1358 01:19:42,575 --> 01:19:46,455 Speaker 4: big renovation. While the builders are taking a break, he's 1359 01:19:46,535 --> 01:19:49,375 Speaker 4: going to carry on doing some work that's within sort 1360 01:19:49,415 --> 01:19:53,815 Speaker 4: of his scope, let's say, within the building project as well. 1361 01:19:53,935 --> 01:19:57,255 Speaker 4: So undoubtedly over the Christmas break, the happy sound of 1362 01:19:57,295 --> 01:20:01,495 Speaker 4: hammers and skill saws will continue around the countryside, sort 1363 01:20:01,495 --> 01:20:04,295 Speaker 4: of like the Dawn Chorus, but of a mechchanical variety. 1364 01:20:05,015 --> 01:20:06,975 Speaker 4: I wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the 1365 01:20:07,335 --> 01:20:10,295 Speaker 4: number to call A very quick call from you, Derek. 1366 01:20:10,335 --> 01:20:12,335 Speaker 4: I think we should be able to knock this out 1367 01:20:12,375 --> 01:20:12,975 Speaker 4: before the news. 1368 01:20:13,095 --> 01:20:15,655 Speaker 7: Hello Derek, Hello, how are you today? 1369 01:20:15,735 --> 01:20:15,895 Speaker 5: Good? 1370 01:20:15,935 --> 01:20:17,415 Speaker 7: Thank you good. 1371 01:20:18,855 --> 01:20:23,415 Speaker 13: I've got about forty square meters of five or cement 1372 01:20:23,575 --> 01:20:27,935 Speaker 13: board on a single story building to repaint, and I 1373 01:20:28,055 --> 01:20:32,175 Speaker 13: was wondering what's the best method or product to wash 1374 01:20:32,255 --> 01:20:33,455 Speaker 13: it down prior to painting. 1375 01:20:33,815 --> 01:20:33,975 Speaker 15: Oh? 1376 01:20:34,175 --> 01:20:38,535 Speaker 4: Sure, well, for example, razine to a proprietary house wash 1377 01:20:38,815 --> 01:20:42,375 Speaker 4: or house prep solution. So put that on, you know, 1378 01:20:42,535 --> 01:20:47,975 Speaker 4: apply it, agitate lightly, rinse off. That's enough on the 1379 01:20:48,535 --> 01:20:51,855 Speaker 4: existing fiber cement board. Is the paint system that's already 1380 01:20:51,935 --> 01:20:53,655 Speaker 4: on their reasonably good condition. 1381 01:20:54,655 --> 01:20:57,495 Speaker 13: Yes, it's just the screw holes really that have got 1382 01:20:57,615 --> 01:20:59,935 Speaker 13: to be sanded back a little bit. They've gone a 1383 01:20:59,975 --> 01:21:01,655 Speaker 13: bit proud in places, yep. 1384 01:21:02,015 --> 01:21:04,975 Speaker 4: So I'd probably use a pigmented sealer on that. Pigmented 1385 01:21:05,015 --> 01:21:09,295 Speaker 4: seala is really good on fiber cement. And then once 1386 01:21:09,375 --> 01:21:12,375 Speaker 4: you've dealt with those little maintenance things. Then it's just 1387 01:21:12,495 --> 01:21:15,695 Speaker 4: a top coat with what you know, you could go 1388 01:21:15,855 --> 01:21:19,135 Speaker 4: to X two hundred on something like that. That's typically 1389 01:21:19,215 --> 01:21:23,135 Speaker 4: a razine coating designed for renders and for masonry products, 1390 01:21:23,495 --> 01:21:26,615 Speaker 4: and fiber cement board is essentially a masonry product. Or 1391 01:21:27,095 --> 01:21:30,575 Speaker 4: because it's already been coated, you know, any exterior paint, 1392 01:21:30,815 --> 01:21:33,255 Speaker 4: sonics or lumbersider will be absolutely fine. 1393 01:21:34,095 --> 01:21:34,335 Speaker 8: Yeah. 1394 01:21:34,535 --> 01:21:38,335 Speaker 13: Sure, there's one or two cracks which are previously done 1395 01:21:38,415 --> 01:21:45,415 Speaker 13: with an AC tube sealing. Yep, I think that's stable. 1396 01:21:46,215 --> 01:21:46,975 Speaker 13: Any advice on. 1397 01:21:47,055 --> 01:21:49,655 Speaker 4: Those, I think again, if there let's say, you know, 1398 01:21:49,855 --> 01:21:52,895 Speaker 4: one to two millimeters something like X two hundred, then 1399 01:21:53,455 --> 01:21:56,535 Speaker 4: would actually just fill those and bond over the surface 1400 01:21:56,615 --> 01:21:59,535 Speaker 4: and give you some flexibility. Otherwise, do exactly what you 1401 01:21:59,655 --> 01:22:02,615 Speaker 4: have been doing, which is apply you know, neat bead 1402 01:22:02,695 --> 01:22:05,975 Speaker 4: of sealant, try and remove all of the excess just 1403 01:22:06,295 --> 01:22:08,975 Speaker 4: doesn't stand out too much on the surface, and then 1404 01:22:09,215 --> 01:22:11,895 Speaker 4: apply a top coat over there. I'm sure it'll be fine. 1405 01:22:12,215 --> 01:22:15,495 Speaker 4: All the very best you, Derek. Thanks for the call back. 1406 01:22:15,695 --> 01:22:18,095 Speaker 4: After News, Sport and Weather Top of the Hour at 1407 01:22:18,135 --> 01:22:26,535 Speaker 4: eight o'clock. I'm just looking at some texts that came 1408 01:22:26,575 --> 01:22:29,735 Speaker 4: in during the break. This is great. Actually, we've got 1409 01:22:29,735 --> 01:22:32,135 Speaker 4: a couple of fantastic ones. A lot of texts have 1410 01:22:32,255 --> 01:22:34,775 Speaker 4: come in. Just good morning, by the way, Pete wolf 1411 01:22:34,855 --> 01:22:38,255 Speaker 4: Camp here. This is new Stalk ceedb's resident builder. On Sunday, 1412 01:22:38,615 --> 01:22:40,855 Speaker 4: we'll talk building through to late thirty. Then we'll jump 1413 01:22:40,935 --> 01:22:45,135 Speaker 4: into the garden with add kline pasted. I might take 1414 01:22:45,175 --> 01:22:49,535 Speaker 4: a brief moment. I am conscious of taking time to 1415 01:22:49,695 --> 01:22:52,175 Speaker 4: chat with Rod on air about things that I might 1416 01:22:52,295 --> 01:22:55,135 Speaker 4: be doing. But him and I have had a long 1417 01:22:55,375 --> 01:23:02,335 Speaker 4: running discussion debate in a touch of disagreement around my 1418 01:23:02,495 --> 01:23:07,455 Speaker 4: composting methodology. So I have I'm in an urban environment. 1419 01:23:07,615 --> 01:23:10,895 Speaker 4: I don't want a great big compost stack and all 1420 01:23:10,935 --> 01:23:12,615 Speaker 4: the rest of it. So I have opted for the 1421 01:23:12,695 --> 01:23:18,255 Speaker 4: tumbler system. Which there's two things that I'm incredibly proud about. 1422 01:23:18,255 --> 01:23:20,135 Speaker 4: One is that it's still got the label on it 1423 01:23:20,295 --> 01:23:23,255 Speaker 4: from the person who bought it. I got it second hand, 1424 01:23:23,455 --> 01:23:26,495 Speaker 4: right off trade me and I bought just the tumbler 1425 01:23:28,175 --> 01:23:30,775 Speaker 4: because it was cheap. It was about ten bucks. Because 1426 01:23:30,855 --> 01:23:33,775 Speaker 4: on the label when you buy these things complete and 1427 01:23:33,895 --> 01:23:35,655 Speaker 4: as a kit with the legs and all the rest 1428 01:23:35,695 --> 01:23:38,215 Speaker 4: of it, they're two hundred and ninety nine dollars. So 1429 01:23:38,375 --> 01:23:40,415 Speaker 4: every time I tumble it and I see that label 1430 01:23:40,455 --> 01:23:42,575 Speaker 4: on it that says two hundred and ninety nine dollars, 1431 01:23:43,175 --> 01:23:46,095 Speaker 4: and I pay ten bucks for it, I think I 1432 01:23:46,255 --> 01:23:49,455 Speaker 4: feel just that brings me such delight, almost as much 1433 01:23:49,535 --> 01:23:52,415 Speaker 4: delight as the beautiful compost that came out of it yesterday. 1434 01:23:53,535 --> 01:23:57,175 Speaker 4: Fantastic tipped it out yesterday fossk through pulled out a 1435 01:23:57,215 --> 01:24:01,055 Speaker 4: few bigger bits of branch that hadn't quite composted down, 1436 01:24:01,895 --> 01:24:04,855 Speaker 4: added a couple of buckets of leaves from the garden 1437 01:24:04,895 --> 01:24:07,775 Speaker 4: that I'd collected a month or to ago, ready from 1438 01:24:07,775 --> 01:24:09,975 Speaker 4: the next cycle of compost. I also spent a happy 1439 01:24:10,255 --> 01:24:14,175 Speaker 4: hour or so rebuilding the frame that had started to rot, 1440 01:24:15,335 --> 01:24:18,735 Speaker 4: and added some sleds and some bracing and that sort 1441 01:24:18,775 --> 01:24:21,975 Speaker 4: of thing. Anyway, I'm very happy with my compostpen. A 1442 01:24:22,135 --> 01:24:24,895 Speaker 4: ten dollar compostpen. That's the best. But oh, eight hundred 1443 01:24:24,975 --> 01:24:28,095 Speaker 4: eighty ten eighty, we'll talk about that with rud. He 1444 01:24:28,255 --> 01:24:34,055 Speaker 4: has to be fair being dismissive of my composting efforts 1445 01:24:34,175 --> 01:24:38,655 Speaker 4: in the past. Well, that's all right, Well we get along, okay, 1446 01:24:39,055 --> 01:24:40,855 Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you've got some 1447 01:24:40,935 --> 01:24:46,735 Speaker 4: building questions, quick text as well what to remove spilt 1448 01:24:46,855 --> 01:24:49,655 Speaker 4: a crylic paint off a concrete path? Thank you from Stephen, 1449 01:24:50,255 --> 01:24:52,775 Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. Last week on the show, Bryce McDermott, 1450 01:24:52,815 --> 01:24:58,695 Speaker 4: our Rasine Painting Expert talked about a product called what 1451 01:24:58,775 --> 01:25:01,975 Speaker 4: do they call it? Liquid paint Remover. So it's designed 1452 01:25:02,135 --> 01:25:07,575 Speaker 4: specifically for removing crylics, in particular from surfaces. It helps 1453 01:25:07,655 --> 01:25:10,455 Speaker 4: just dissolve it or loosen it up so that you 1454 01:25:10,535 --> 01:25:13,215 Speaker 4: can peel it off. So that'd be the go I'd 1455 01:25:13,415 --> 01:25:16,095 Speaker 4: head down to Razine Color Shop and ask for some 1456 01:25:16,215 --> 01:25:19,735 Speaker 4: of that. It's like a little spray bottle of product 1457 01:25:19,815 --> 01:25:24,855 Speaker 4: that will allow you to remove hopefully that which would 1458 01:25:24,855 --> 01:25:25,175 Speaker 4: be great. 1459 01:25:25,655 --> 01:25:25,815 Speaker 1: Um. 1460 01:25:27,015 --> 01:25:29,895 Speaker 4: Someone will also pointed out we were talking about painting 1461 01:25:29,975 --> 01:25:34,975 Speaker 4: windows old windows for example, Pete, your advice rey, painting 1462 01:25:35,015 --> 01:25:38,695 Speaker 4: old windows with today's oil primers are not compatible with 1463 01:25:38,815 --> 01:25:43,775 Speaker 4: some old or with the old native timbers. Ross I 1464 01:25:43,935 --> 01:25:48,215 Speaker 4: agree only in part with you. So oil based primers 1465 01:25:48,375 --> 01:25:53,095 Speaker 4: on Matti for example, and sometimes on Totra won't it 1466 01:25:53,175 --> 01:25:55,775 Speaker 4: here or they won't it here well, and which case 1467 01:25:56,855 --> 01:26:00,935 Speaker 4: water born primers are better for those. But the reason 1468 01:26:01,015 --> 01:26:03,495 Speaker 4: I mentioned oil based primers to the caller is that 1469 01:26:04,535 --> 01:26:06,735 Speaker 4: it was a nineteen sixties house, so it'll either be 1470 01:26:06,935 --> 01:26:10,255 Speaker 4: cedar or pine and oil based on either of those 1471 01:26:10,295 --> 01:26:12,735 Speaker 4: two will be absolutely fine. But I do appreciate your 1472 01:26:12,815 --> 01:26:20,575 Speaker 4: text on that one. Other people saying, Yep, if you're 1473 01:26:20,575 --> 01:26:22,495 Speaker 4: a bit old fashioned when it comes to painting, you 1474 01:26:22,735 --> 01:26:26,255 Speaker 4: kind of go back to your oil based primers. I think, 1475 01:26:26,335 --> 01:26:30,615 Speaker 4: particularly on joinery saying that, I mean I used waterborne 1476 01:26:30,655 --> 01:26:34,055 Speaker 4: primers today or last week on another project. Absolutely fine, 1477 01:26:34,095 --> 01:26:36,615 Speaker 4: but on old joinery, I kind of still like it 1478 01:26:36,775 --> 01:26:37,215 Speaker 4: to be fair. 1479 01:26:37,735 --> 01:26:37,895 Speaker 7: Right. 1480 01:26:37,975 --> 01:26:40,655 Speaker 4: Oh, we're into it. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty 1481 01:26:40,895 --> 01:26:43,575 Speaker 4: is the number to call if you've got a building question. John, 1482 01:26:43,615 --> 01:26:47,375 Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, teak you. John. 1483 01:26:48,615 --> 01:26:54,575 Speaker 15: I live in Northland in a steel framed brick house 1484 01:26:55,095 --> 01:26:59,655 Speaker 15: built about twenty seventeen. I'm having trouble with radio reception. 1485 01:26:59,895 --> 01:27:03,175 Speaker 15: I've tried various enter and I the normal sort of 1486 01:27:03,255 --> 01:27:07,215 Speaker 15: things that you plug into your receiver, and but even 1487 01:27:07,295 --> 01:27:11,895 Speaker 15: with portable radios around the house, getting clear radio reception 1488 01:27:12,175 --> 01:27:14,135 Speaker 15: is a problem. And I just wondered if you'd ever 1489 01:27:14,615 --> 01:27:19,735 Speaker 15: come across anything similar in steel frame houses. I thought 1490 01:27:19,815 --> 01:27:26,255 Speaker 15: it maybe some sort of field but blocks radio reception. 1491 01:27:27,215 --> 01:27:29,175 Speaker 15: I don't know if I'm barking up the wrong tree. 1492 01:27:29,295 --> 01:27:33,015 Speaker 15: But I just wanted to do in your experience if 1493 01:27:33,055 --> 01:27:34,415 Speaker 15: you'd had any in. 1494 01:27:34,495 --> 01:27:38,615 Speaker 4: Terms of steel frame and radio reception. No, I mean, look, 1495 01:27:39,335 --> 01:27:43,735 Speaker 4: while it's not uncommon, there's also not a vast number 1496 01:27:43,775 --> 01:27:46,655 Speaker 4: of houses that are actually still framed. It's out there 1497 01:27:46,735 --> 01:27:51,415 Speaker 4: and it's becoming more common. So you know, there are 1498 01:27:51,735 --> 01:27:53,015 Speaker 4: I know there can be. 1499 01:27:53,335 --> 01:27:53,655 Speaker 7: There are. 1500 01:27:53,975 --> 01:27:56,135 Speaker 4: You have to be able to address other issues around 1501 01:27:56,175 --> 01:27:58,935 Speaker 4: moisture and those sorts of things were still framing. But 1502 01:28:00,095 --> 01:28:02,935 Speaker 4: in terms of radio reception, it's not something that I've 1503 01:28:03,375 --> 01:28:08,295 Speaker 4: ever encountered or thought about. So no, it's outside of 1504 01:28:08,335 --> 01:28:10,455 Speaker 4: my experience, despite the fact that here I am on 1505 01:28:10,575 --> 01:28:13,295 Speaker 4: the radio hoping to communicate with you, and on behalf 1506 01:28:13,335 --> 01:28:15,935 Speaker 4: of all of my radio colleagues, hoping that steel frame 1507 01:28:16,015 --> 01:28:18,295 Speaker 4: houses don't prevent radio waves from entering. 1508 01:28:19,895 --> 01:28:24,535 Speaker 15: Yeah, I listened to you on iHeart Radio because we can. 1509 01:28:24,615 --> 01:28:28,535 Speaker 15: Then we can only get you on AM, which is. 1510 01:28:32,175 --> 01:28:34,135 Speaker 4: No, I don't think we're on FM yet. I know 1511 01:28:34,215 --> 01:28:37,375 Speaker 4: that elsewhere in the country we've recently swapped or or 1512 01:28:37,495 --> 01:28:41,375 Speaker 4: added FM to coverage for a particular area, So maybe 1513 01:28:41,455 --> 01:28:45,095 Speaker 4: that'll happen and maybe that'll help it. Certainly AM, Yeah, 1514 01:28:45,175 --> 01:28:46,735 Speaker 4: I mean it's always been. 1515 01:28:46,615 --> 01:28:47,375 Speaker 15: A bit of a struggle. 1516 01:28:49,055 --> 01:28:52,135 Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, not something that I've heard of. Thanks 1517 01:28:52,175 --> 01:28:54,015 Speaker 4: a lot, Oka, you have a great day. All the 1518 01:28:54,095 --> 01:28:54,535 Speaker 4: very best to you. 1519 01:28:54,615 --> 01:28:54,815 Speaker 13: John. 1520 01:28:54,895 --> 01:28:57,295 Speaker 4: We'll talk to Tyson straight after the break. If you've 1521 01:28:57,295 --> 01:28:59,495 Speaker 4: got a building question, now's the time to call eight 1522 01:28:59,575 --> 01:29:02,015 Speaker 4: hundred eighty ten eighty. You and your still said be 1523 01:29:02,095 --> 01:29:04,535 Speaker 4: we're taking your calls. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is 1524 01:29:04,575 --> 01:29:06,135 Speaker 4: the number to call. Hello, Tyson? 1525 01:29:06,375 --> 01:29:07,535 Speaker 5: Are you yeah? 1526 01:29:07,575 --> 01:29:07,695 Speaker 19: Good? 1527 01:29:07,735 --> 01:29:07,935 Speaker 13: Thanks? 1528 01:29:07,975 --> 01:29:08,175 Speaker 20: Pete. 1529 01:29:08,175 --> 01:29:08,775 Speaker 18: How are you doing mate? 1530 01:29:08,775 --> 01:29:09,735 Speaker 4: You're not dead? Not dead? 1531 01:29:10,015 --> 01:29:10,615 Speaker 7: How can I help? 1532 01:29:11,375 --> 01:29:11,895 Speaker 20: Quick question? 1533 01:29:12,095 --> 01:29:16,095 Speaker 18: So my son about a year ago got candle wax 1534 01:29:16,135 --> 01:29:18,095 Speaker 18: on the wall and I've been looking at it for 1535 01:29:18,175 --> 01:29:21,575 Speaker 18: a year. Yep, you haven't found anything online and you 1536 01:29:21,735 --> 01:29:24,095 Speaker 18: know first hand, and my building sales are not too. 1537 01:29:24,015 --> 01:29:27,695 Speaker 7: Well, so I don't really want to rip the jib off. 1538 01:29:27,775 --> 01:29:32,215 Speaker 20: So they cuts some kind of old secret to that one, peepe. 1539 01:29:33,455 --> 01:29:37,415 Speaker 4: How about some brown paper and an iron. So what 1540 01:29:37,535 --> 01:29:39,615 Speaker 4: you do is you put the brown paper over the 1541 01:29:39,735 --> 01:29:43,055 Speaker 4: top of the wax and then use an iron like 1542 01:29:43,135 --> 01:29:45,775 Speaker 4: a clothes iron to heat it up, and it draws 1543 01:29:45,855 --> 01:29:49,375 Speaker 4: the wax into the paper, and then keep shifting the 1544 01:29:49,495 --> 01:29:52,295 Speaker 4: paper every time it saturates. Just move it over and 1545 01:29:52,455 --> 01:29:55,375 Speaker 4: that should draw out most of the wax from the surface. 1546 01:29:56,655 --> 01:29:58,415 Speaker 5: That is just like Butcher's paper. 1547 01:29:58,735 --> 01:30:02,575 Speaker 11: Yeah, that is brilliant because I know it probably won't 1548 01:30:02,615 --> 01:30:04,415 Speaker 11: be perfect, but at least it looks like I've made 1549 01:30:04,415 --> 01:30:04,815 Speaker 11: an effort. 1550 01:30:06,455 --> 01:30:12,135 Speaker 18: One past one and then elevator, leaving. 1551 01:30:11,935 --> 01:30:13,175 Speaker 5: Somebody the problem. 1552 01:30:13,295 --> 01:30:16,615 Speaker 4: Yes, I understand. Give that a go, give there to go. 1553 01:30:17,455 --> 01:30:19,495 Speaker 4: Thank you so very much, my pleasure, all the very 1554 01:30:19,535 --> 01:30:23,495 Speaker 4: besty Tyson, you take care see them, and Martha, A 1555 01:30:23,655 --> 01:30:24,495 Speaker 4: very good morning to you. 1556 01:30:25,695 --> 01:30:28,495 Speaker 12: Good morning to you, Peter am. I hope min is 1557 01:30:28,815 --> 01:30:30,215 Speaker 12: just as easy as the last. 1558 01:30:30,695 --> 01:30:33,335 Speaker 4: I only get one easy one a week and that's 1559 01:30:33,495 --> 01:30:34,375 Speaker 4: now been used up. 1560 01:30:34,455 --> 01:30:41,375 Speaker 12: So Peter, I've had an old vanity replaced in my house. Yes, 1561 01:30:42,055 --> 01:30:46,175 Speaker 12: and that was back in ninety and twenty twenty two yep. 1562 01:30:47,095 --> 01:30:51,175 Speaker 12: And and I had family living there at the time. 1563 01:30:51,335 --> 01:30:56,775 Speaker 12: And when it was replaced, the plumbing company that replaced 1564 01:30:56,815 --> 01:31:02,055 Speaker 12: it had left some holes underneath. You know, the vanity 1565 01:31:02,175 --> 01:31:03,495 Speaker 12: sets up off the floor. 1566 01:31:03,775 --> 01:31:05,375 Speaker 5: Yes, and the holes was. 1567 01:31:05,375 --> 01:31:08,415 Speaker 12: Into the back and into the side where it goes 1568 01:31:08,495 --> 01:31:11,215 Speaker 12: into where the bars is yep, if you get what 1569 01:31:11,335 --> 01:31:16,535 Speaker 12: I mean. And and I thought that's a lot of 1570 01:31:17,375 --> 01:31:20,655 Speaker 12: that's a lot of steam all, you know. 1571 01:31:23,055 --> 01:31:25,895 Speaker 4: The moisture getting into the into the wall itself. 1572 01:31:27,095 --> 01:31:31,735 Speaker 12: Yeah, So I when the when I got some new 1573 01:31:31,855 --> 01:31:34,815 Speaker 12: people into the house, they pointed it out to me 1574 01:31:35,455 --> 01:31:37,815 Speaker 12: and I wasn't aware of it. So I ranged the 1575 01:31:37,935 --> 01:31:45,095 Speaker 12: company and spoke with the boss man and he said, oh, 1576 01:31:46,335 --> 01:31:50,535 Speaker 12: because I emailed him some some images of what I 1577 01:31:51,135 --> 01:31:54,855 Speaker 12: what I was ringing about, and he said he hadn't 1578 01:31:54,895 --> 01:31:57,295 Speaker 12: had a chance to look at it yet. So what 1579 01:31:57,415 --> 01:32:01,135 Speaker 12: I'm really asking you is, would I have it was 1580 01:32:01,215 --> 01:32:05,575 Speaker 12: installed back in nineteen in twenty twenty two, so would 1581 01:32:05,615 --> 01:32:11,535 Speaker 12: I have a chance of getting them to remedy the problem? 1582 01:32:13,095 --> 01:32:16,055 Speaker 4: Probably not to be blunt, and I think what it'll 1583 01:32:16,135 --> 01:32:19,575 Speaker 4: be is that, you know, if the request was to 1584 01:32:19,655 --> 01:32:22,135 Speaker 4: get a plumber to come and take a vanity out 1585 01:32:22,255 --> 01:32:26,495 Speaker 4: and replace it, that's what they've done because their job 1586 01:32:26,615 --> 01:32:31,535 Speaker 4: description wasn't to remediate any penetrations or old pipework and 1587 01:32:31,615 --> 01:32:33,615 Speaker 4: that sort of thing. And that's often that you know, 1588 01:32:33,935 --> 01:32:36,895 Speaker 4: this is where sometimes we have to have overlapping trades. 1589 01:32:37,415 --> 01:32:40,175 Speaker 4: So for example, if you had have asked a builder 1590 01:32:40,375 --> 01:32:43,215 Speaker 4: to do the job, and I'm this isn't isn't a criticism, 1591 01:32:43,295 --> 01:32:46,295 Speaker 4: but you know, then the builder might come in, remove 1592 01:32:46,375 --> 01:32:49,775 Speaker 4: the old vanity, get the plumber in to redo the pipework. 1593 01:32:50,055 --> 01:32:52,655 Speaker 4: Either the plumber will fit the vanity or the builder 1594 01:32:52,735 --> 01:32:54,575 Speaker 4: will fit it, and then the plumber will come and 1595 01:32:54,695 --> 01:32:56,975 Speaker 4: pipe it out or fit you know, fit it off. 1596 01:32:57,495 --> 01:33:00,535 Speaker 4: And then while the builders there, you know, taking the 1597 01:33:00,575 --> 01:33:03,095 Speaker 4: old one out, they'll cut out a section of plasterboard, 1598 01:33:03,615 --> 01:33:07,895 Speaker 4: patch it and have that stopped and painted for example. 1599 01:33:07,975 --> 01:33:11,815 Speaker 4: So I think this situation is more that the plumber 1600 01:33:11,855 --> 01:33:13,935 Speaker 4: has done what you've asked them to do, which is 1601 01:33:14,015 --> 01:33:17,375 Speaker 4: to replace the vanity. It's not their job necessarily to 1602 01:33:17,655 --> 01:33:21,295 Speaker 4: patch up you know, holes and plaster board. And that's 1603 01:33:21,455 --> 01:33:27,255 Speaker 4: that's what I think the issue is. Yeah, So I 1604 01:33:27,335 --> 01:33:30,815 Speaker 4: think now you either get a builder. You might find 1605 01:33:31,535 --> 01:33:35,295 Speaker 4: like a stopper, a fixer stopper who will come do 1606 01:33:35,455 --> 01:33:37,815 Speaker 4: the plaster board repair, you know, put in a patch, 1607 01:33:38,495 --> 01:33:40,775 Speaker 4: give it a coat of stopping, and then it's ready 1608 01:33:40,815 --> 01:33:41,295 Speaker 4: for painting. 1609 01:33:43,575 --> 01:33:47,135 Speaker 15: But it's right underneath, you know, I know, it's much. 1610 01:33:47,055 --> 01:33:49,335 Speaker 4: Easier to do it without the vanity on top of you, 1611 01:33:50,815 --> 01:33:53,295 Speaker 4: you know it. Look, the other thing might be is 1612 01:33:53,495 --> 01:33:56,695 Speaker 4: just to have a panel cut that's the width of 1613 01:33:56,735 --> 01:33:59,215 Speaker 4: the vanity that goes from the underside of the vanity, 1614 01:33:59,535 --> 01:34:01,375 Speaker 4: maybe to the top of the skirting board or to 1615 01:34:01,455 --> 01:34:04,055 Speaker 4: the floor, and just fix that in place and then 1616 01:34:04,095 --> 01:34:06,735 Speaker 4: it's all gone. And you know I I did it 1617 01:34:06,815 --> 01:34:10,855 Speaker 4: the other day in a project where a toilet roll 1618 01:34:10,935 --> 01:34:13,935 Speaker 4: holder next to the toilet, obviously in a small bathroom, 1619 01:34:14,415 --> 01:34:17,575 Speaker 4: had pulled out of the wall because they'd used anchors 1620 01:34:17,735 --> 01:34:20,695 Speaker 4: into the wall rather than fixing through the wall into it, 1621 01:34:20,975 --> 01:34:24,375 Speaker 4: through the plass board into a noog right classic with 1622 01:34:24,535 --> 01:34:27,135 Speaker 4: toilet rolls, And I thought, what do I do? Do 1623 01:34:27,295 --> 01:34:29,815 Speaker 4: I try and repair the hole and all the rest 1624 01:34:29,855 --> 01:34:31,975 Speaker 4: of it. It's quite a lot of work. It's multiple 1625 01:34:32,135 --> 01:34:34,855 Speaker 4: visits to the job, etc. So in the end, what 1626 01:34:34,975 --> 01:34:36,935 Speaker 4: I ended up doing is I figured out where the 1627 01:34:37,015 --> 01:34:40,775 Speaker 4: studs were nearby. I cut a panel. It made a 1628 01:34:40,855 --> 01:34:44,095 Speaker 4: panel out of timber, painted it, screwed that to the wall, 1629 01:34:44,255 --> 01:34:47,055 Speaker 4: and then screwed the hand the toilet roll holder back 1630 01:34:47,135 --> 01:34:49,415 Speaker 4: into it. You know, I'm thinking along a similar line, 1631 01:34:49,455 --> 01:34:51,255 Speaker 4: you just make a panel that covers all of that 1632 01:34:51,455 --> 01:34:56,375 Speaker 4: underneath might be a best option. Okay, but no, I 1633 01:34:56,495 --> 01:34:58,455 Speaker 4: don't think going back to the plumber is going to 1634 01:34:58,615 --> 01:35:01,815 Speaker 4: give you any redress at this stage. Good luck with 1635 01:35:01,895 --> 01:35:06,255 Speaker 4: that Martha. Now someone has text through as well. Removed 1636 01:35:06,455 --> 01:35:10,655 Speaker 4: candle wax. T Tree oil stuff is magic, apparently, according 1637 01:35:10,695 --> 01:35:14,095 Speaker 4: to Dehlia Ta Tree Oil. I've heard that before as well, 1638 01:35:14,135 --> 01:35:17,135 Speaker 4: actually for all sorts of cleaning solutions. T Tree Oil. 1639 01:35:18,375 --> 01:35:20,215 Speaker 4: Thank you very much for that. Oh eight hundred and 1640 01:35:20,255 --> 01:35:22,215 Speaker 4: eighty ten eighty the number to call. Oh another quick 1641 01:35:22,255 --> 01:35:25,695 Speaker 4: text Andrew, you've text through. I have had a metallic 1642 01:35:25,775 --> 01:35:27,935 Speaker 4: object fall onto a form like a bench, leaving a 1643 01:35:27,975 --> 01:35:30,815 Speaker 4: small bent dent. How do you fill or repair the bench? 1644 01:35:31,975 --> 01:35:35,895 Speaker 4: I wouldn't do it myself. I would probably get someone 1645 01:35:36,095 --> 01:35:39,855 Speaker 4: like bench doctors to come through and do it. If 1646 01:35:39,895 --> 01:35:42,815 Speaker 4: it was a crylic there's a guy who does fixes 1647 01:35:42,935 --> 01:35:48,695 Speaker 4: on a crylic fix but bench doctors are around the country. 1648 01:35:48,895 --> 01:35:51,935 Speaker 4: They'll come and repair it. Had a similar thing I'd 1649 01:35:51,975 --> 01:35:55,215 Speaker 4: put in a new kitchen for a client. I was, 1650 01:35:55,455 --> 01:35:57,175 Speaker 4: I don't know, working on the range or or something 1651 01:35:57,215 --> 01:36:01,695 Speaker 4: like that. Chisel dropped out of my apron thump, straight 1652 01:36:01,815 --> 01:36:05,815 Speaker 4: down onto the format bench. And this was a number 1653 01:36:05,815 --> 01:36:07,655 Speaker 4: of years ago. The people came and they repaired it. 1654 01:36:08,055 --> 01:36:11,935 Speaker 4: You can't tell, thankfully where i'd been a muppet and 1655 01:36:12,055 --> 01:36:14,935 Speaker 4: Admture's well, why would you wear your apron while you're 1656 01:36:14,975 --> 01:36:17,015 Speaker 4: working above a bench. That is a question I asked 1657 01:36:17,055 --> 01:36:20,415 Speaker 4: myself often in the years that have passed. Oh, eight 1658 01:36:20,535 --> 01:36:22,295 Speaker 4: hundred and eighty, ten eighty the number to call Wayne. 1659 01:36:22,375 --> 01:36:24,975 Speaker 4: Good morning, Pete, and I have. 1660 01:36:25,055 --> 01:36:26,775 Speaker 11: To say, O, brilliant, enjoy your show. 1661 01:36:26,975 --> 01:36:27,775 Speaker 9: It's Sunday morning. 1662 01:36:28,015 --> 01:36:28,295 Speaker 5: Thank you. 1663 01:36:28,375 --> 01:36:29,335 Speaker 4: Going to question. 1664 01:36:30,735 --> 01:36:34,335 Speaker 11: I think pretty simple, and the first is removing oil 1665 01:36:34,495 --> 01:36:38,615 Speaker 11: from a concrete garage floor. Yep, our son very kindly 1666 01:36:38,655 --> 01:36:41,615 Speaker 11: put his old car in our garage went off to Australia. 1667 01:36:41,695 --> 01:36:44,135 Speaker 11: Now that I've moved, it's oil all over floor. 1668 01:36:44,775 --> 01:36:46,175 Speaker 4: Did you move it or did you sell it? 1669 01:36:47,815 --> 01:36:49,295 Speaker 19: Garrets fair enough? 1670 01:36:49,495 --> 01:36:51,415 Speaker 11: And then I told it and renovation. 1671 01:36:51,575 --> 01:36:57,455 Speaker 4: Good oil eater CRC. Oil eater comes from an aerosol 1672 01:36:57,575 --> 01:37:01,895 Speaker 4: can and we had some visitors a little while ago 1673 01:37:02,095 --> 01:37:04,775 Speaker 4: who also had an older car that leaked oil on 1674 01:37:04,855 --> 01:37:08,135 Speaker 4: the driveway and I that got rid of it. Oil eater, 1675 01:37:09,095 --> 01:37:09,335 Speaker 4: thank you. 1676 01:37:09,535 --> 01:37:12,375 Speaker 11: Second quick question, which is a bit more challenging. We 1677 01:37:12,535 --> 01:37:17,335 Speaker 11: have two outdoor concrete fiberglass tables. There's sort of cream toilet. Yep, 1678 01:37:17,415 --> 01:37:20,175 Speaker 11: you're about fifteen years old and it become patient. What 1679 01:37:20,255 --> 01:37:22,295 Speaker 11: we didn't do from the outset was to steal them 1680 01:37:22,575 --> 01:37:25,735 Speaker 11: and that was stupid in hindsight. But what I need 1681 01:37:25,815 --> 01:37:28,975 Speaker 11: to do and it back because there is the color 1682 01:37:29,055 --> 01:37:30,215 Speaker 11: through the concrete. 1683 01:37:30,335 --> 01:37:32,735 Speaker 4: Ah yeah, but what do I steal it with? 1684 01:37:33,095 --> 01:37:35,695 Speaker 11: And I'm really struggling to find products and when I 1685 01:37:35,855 --> 01:37:39,815 Speaker 11: ask at Bunnings and my really, I'm really struggling to 1686 01:37:39,895 --> 01:37:41,775 Speaker 11: find helpful advice. 1687 01:37:42,015 --> 01:37:46,335 Speaker 4: Yeah. When you say concrete, is it that lightweight concrete 1688 01:37:46,455 --> 01:37:47,655 Speaker 4: or is it ye ah? 1689 01:37:47,815 --> 01:37:51,735 Speaker 11: Okay, it's a fiberglass concrete mass and lighten up that 1690 01:37:52,095 --> 01:37:54,335 Speaker 11: two people could pick up the tabletop. 1691 01:37:53,895 --> 01:37:57,335 Speaker 4: And move as opposed to my concrete table that weighs 1692 01:37:57,335 --> 01:38:08,735 Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty kilos exactly. Yeah. Okay, Oh, because 1693 01:38:08,775 --> 01:38:10,655 Speaker 4: you don't really want to paint it, do you, because 1694 01:38:10,695 --> 01:38:11,135 Speaker 4: then you'll. 1695 01:38:11,055 --> 01:38:13,895 Speaker 11: End up with no, No, I don't don't want to 1696 01:38:13,935 --> 01:38:15,975 Speaker 11: paint it. I really just want to steal it because 1697 01:38:15,975 --> 01:38:21,055 Speaker 11: I'm pretty certain that the concrete fiberglass pinting, the tinting 1698 01:38:21,135 --> 01:38:23,495 Speaker 11: that's been added is through the concrete fiberglass. 1699 01:38:23,655 --> 01:38:27,015 Speaker 4: Yes, I'm with you. So essentially a clean and then 1700 01:38:27,095 --> 01:38:29,175 Speaker 4: a clear sealer to go over the top. 1701 01:38:29,975 --> 01:38:30,175 Speaker 19: Yes. 1702 01:38:31,575 --> 01:38:35,175 Speaker 4: If you have a look on the website for Premiere Group, 1703 01:38:35,815 --> 01:38:41,415 Speaker 4: they supply a lot of products for masonry sealers right right, 1704 01:38:41,695 --> 01:38:44,215 Speaker 4: so you can find them if you can go to 1705 01:38:44,375 --> 01:38:47,495 Speaker 4: get new Look dot co dot com. So get new 1706 01:38:47,575 --> 01:38:50,415 Speaker 4: Look dot com which will link you through to them. 1707 01:38:51,535 --> 01:38:53,975 Speaker 4: Jason's got a whole lot of other sealers and concrete 1708 01:38:54,295 --> 01:38:57,375 Speaker 4: type products on his website. But Premier Group also have 1709 01:38:57,535 --> 01:39:00,695 Speaker 4: sealers that you can buy. And I wonder whether getting 1710 01:39:00,855 --> 01:39:02,055 Speaker 4: you know, if you can get a test pot or 1711 01:39:02,095 --> 01:39:05,415 Speaker 4: something like that, try it in a in a or 1712 01:39:05,495 --> 01:39:08,575 Speaker 4: in a discreet area of the table, have a little go, 1713 01:39:08,815 --> 01:39:11,815 Speaker 4: make sure it doesn't discolor, and then a thorough wash 1714 01:39:11,895 --> 01:39:13,215 Speaker 4: and a concrete ceiler might be. 1715 01:39:13,255 --> 01:39:13,615 Speaker 5: The way to go. 1716 01:39:14,335 --> 01:39:17,455 Speaker 4: Yeah, all the very best, have a good day, take 1717 01:39:17,495 --> 01:39:20,335 Speaker 4: care away. Bye bye, and last building caller before we 1718 01:39:20,455 --> 01:39:22,535 Speaker 4: jump into the garden with the red climb past mark. 1719 01:39:22,575 --> 01:39:26,815 Speaker 4: Good morning to you, Good morning, how it's good, thank you. 1720 01:39:29,535 --> 01:39:33,255 Speaker 16: So I recently moved into a new built townhouse. I'm 1721 01:39:33,295 --> 01:39:37,495 Speaker 16: the first owner, and I've been trying to warm on 1722 01:39:37,615 --> 01:39:42,375 Speaker 16: a few beans and then between the walls and the garage. 1723 01:39:42,415 --> 01:39:45,255 Speaker 16: If I tried to and swore a bike ranking yep. 1724 01:39:45,415 --> 01:39:48,495 Speaker 16: Now the at the screws that the bike rack came 1725 01:39:48,575 --> 01:39:50,575 Speaker 16: with were a little bit too long, so I ended 1726 01:39:50,655 --> 01:39:54,415 Speaker 16: up going off the butt into getting in the wall 1727 01:39:54,455 --> 01:39:56,615 Speaker 16: because I couldn't go in more than I think it 1728 01:39:56,695 --> 01:40:02,615 Speaker 16: was only about twitting milk birdie belts basically, and so 1729 01:40:02,695 --> 01:40:05,335 Speaker 16: I thought, okay, because it's a shed wall of maybe 1730 01:40:05,375 --> 01:40:08,575 Speaker 16: that was what on it comes sort of fire protection 1731 01:40:08,775 --> 01:40:12,735 Speaker 16: in between the walls in the living room. There's a 1732 01:40:12,855 --> 01:40:16,415 Speaker 16: wall internal wall between the living room and the bathroom, 1733 01:40:16,655 --> 01:40:21,495 Speaker 16: and I'm trying to warmount the TV there. Unfortunately, I'm 1734 01:40:21,535 --> 01:40:25,135 Speaker 16: coming across the same fissure, what a similar issue, and 1735 01:40:25,215 --> 01:40:28,295 Speaker 16: that I'm struggling to get my drill at them more 1736 01:40:28,375 --> 01:40:32,855 Speaker 16: than about thirty warty mills and this throws The anchors 1737 01:40:32,895 --> 01:40:36,375 Speaker 16: that I have with the wall mount are probably fifty 1738 01:40:36,375 --> 01:40:40,455 Speaker 16: to sixty meals long. I've done a measurement between the 1739 01:40:40,575 --> 01:40:44,015 Speaker 16: corner of the wall and internally we live in the 1740 01:40:44,135 --> 01:40:49,175 Speaker 16: bathroom from the door engine then too the collar on 1741 01:40:49,255 --> 01:40:53,455 Speaker 16: the door. They and I know that there's three hundred 1742 01:40:53,495 --> 01:40:57,735 Speaker 16: mills like a wall. There's two hundred and three hundreds 1743 01:40:57,735 --> 01:41:01,775 Speaker 16: of wall there. So I don't know why I found 1744 01:41:01,815 --> 01:41:04,655 Speaker 16: the stud using a snokepiner, and I don't know why 1745 01:41:04,695 --> 01:41:07,495 Speaker 16: I'm not going in with the drill, and I'm wondering 1746 01:41:07,495 --> 01:41:12,055 Speaker 16: if it's me with my drilling technique, right, or if 1747 01:41:12,055 --> 01:41:15,495 Speaker 16: it's something more, something more than that. Now I've drilled 1748 01:41:15,575 --> 01:41:17,495 Speaker 16: six holes and three different locations. 1749 01:41:17,535 --> 01:41:22,535 Speaker 15: It's a two different studs and had the same results. 1750 01:41:23,895 --> 01:41:24,255 Speaker 3: Results. 1751 01:41:24,335 --> 01:41:26,015 Speaker 16: I'm wondering if something with the wall. 1752 01:41:26,015 --> 01:41:28,735 Speaker 4: Do you know, I'm just trying to think, so, you know, 1753 01:41:28,815 --> 01:41:31,255 Speaker 4: I presume that the building is sort of conventional in 1754 01:41:31,335 --> 01:41:34,175 Speaker 4: the sense that it's timber frame, plaster board lining on it, 1755 01:41:34,775 --> 01:41:36,015 Speaker 4: that sort of thing. It's it's not. 1756 01:41:37,775 --> 01:41:44,375 Speaker 16: I don't know if it is. If it is timber framing, 1757 01:41:44,735 --> 01:41:46,575 Speaker 16: I'm wondering if it isn't, and I don't know how 1758 01:41:46,655 --> 01:41:47,135 Speaker 16: to tell that. 1759 01:41:47,855 --> 01:41:51,215 Speaker 4: And if if you identify with the stutters and you 1760 01:41:51,415 --> 01:41:56,095 Speaker 4: drew drilled through the plaster board, you'll either have metal 1761 01:41:56,335 --> 01:42:00,655 Speaker 4: swarf coming out or basically dust right or you know, timber, 1762 01:42:01,615 --> 01:42:04,575 Speaker 4: so that that should give you an indication there. I mean, 1763 01:42:04,655 --> 01:42:06,295 Speaker 4: if it's timber framing. 1764 01:42:06,415 --> 01:42:06,495 Speaker 5: I. 1765 01:42:08,655 --> 01:42:11,175 Speaker 4: You should be able to drill well. Most timber framing 1766 01:42:11,215 --> 01:42:15,775 Speaker 4: is ninety millimeters right, so there's plenty of purchase. You 1767 01:42:15,895 --> 01:42:18,375 Speaker 4: do have to because you don't know what's in the walls. 1768 01:42:18,455 --> 01:42:18,615 Speaker 13: You do. 1769 01:42:18,935 --> 01:42:22,495 Speaker 4: I always advise a little bit of caution in terms 1770 01:42:22,535 --> 01:42:24,975 Speaker 4: of how big a screw you fit through. So if 1771 01:42:25,055 --> 01:42:28,055 Speaker 4: for example, the living room backs onto the bathroom, there 1772 01:42:28,095 --> 01:42:31,255 Speaker 4: could be pipework there. Ideally that pipework should be in 1773 01:42:31,375 --> 01:42:33,895 Speaker 4: the center of the studs. So if you've got a 1774 01:42:34,015 --> 01:42:36,295 Speaker 4: twenty five mile hole in the center of the stud 1775 01:42:37,735 --> 01:42:40,375 Speaker 4: you've got about sixty five millimeters of timber either side. 1776 01:42:40,455 --> 01:42:42,775 Speaker 4: So don't put a screw in that goes more than 1777 01:42:42,815 --> 01:42:46,295 Speaker 4: about twenty five thirty millimeters in And for a TV 1778 01:42:46,495 --> 01:42:51,295 Speaker 4: mounting that'll be absolutely fine. But yeah, I know if 1779 01:42:51,335 --> 01:42:55,575 Speaker 4: it's timber and where you try it, like when you 1780 01:42:55,695 --> 01:42:57,775 Speaker 4: try and screw into it, do you find that the 1781 01:42:57,855 --> 01:43:00,215 Speaker 4: screw is getting purchase in the framing? 1782 01:43:00,575 --> 01:43:04,135 Speaker 16: Oh, you know, it's definitely got purchase in a couple 1783 01:43:04,135 --> 01:43:05,855 Speaker 16: of others in the holes that I have put the 1784 01:43:05,855 --> 01:43:06,215 Speaker 16: screw in. 1785 01:43:06,375 --> 01:43:11,735 Speaker 15: So yeah, it just it just wash. 1786 01:43:12,335 --> 01:43:14,895 Speaker 16: How it got to a point where it would you 1787 01:43:15,055 --> 01:43:17,175 Speaker 16: ever stopped and I couldn't go any further like you 1788 01:43:17,575 --> 01:43:19,615 Speaker 16: using Yeah, and. 1789 01:43:20,615 --> 01:43:23,815 Speaker 4: You know I took it out obviously, and I use 1790 01:43:23,855 --> 01:43:26,935 Speaker 4: a shorter screw. Yeah, I'm going to have to, I 1791 01:43:27,015 --> 01:43:29,495 Speaker 4: think you Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think that's 1792 01:43:29,535 --> 01:43:31,935 Speaker 4: what it might come down to. And depending on whether 1793 01:43:32,015 --> 01:43:34,175 Speaker 4: or not you're using an impact driver to put the 1794 01:43:34,215 --> 01:43:36,535 Speaker 4: screw in, whether you're doing it by hand and running 1795 01:43:36,535 --> 01:43:38,335 Speaker 4: out of puff, that could be part of it as well. 1796 01:43:38,415 --> 01:43:41,615 Speaker 4: But always be a little bit cautious about fixing big 1797 01:43:41,695 --> 01:43:44,255 Speaker 4: screws through to timber framing on a wall that you 1798 01:43:44,375 --> 01:43:48,415 Speaker 4: don't know what's on the inside, because yeah, been there, 1799 01:43:48,495 --> 01:43:50,455 Speaker 4: done that. Good luck to you, Mark all the very 1800 01:43:50,495 --> 01:43:54,495 Speaker 4: best on that actually helpful tip, use a strong magnet 1801 01:43:54,575 --> 01:43:56,935 Speaker 4: to see if it's still framing. Thanks to you, much appreciated. 1802 01:43:57,535 --> 01:44:00,095 Speaker 4: And just the last one on the oil on the concrete, 1803 01:44:00,455 --> 01:44:04,095 Speaker 4: nappy sand. Someone suggesting nappy sand let the elements do 1804 01:44:04,175 --> 01:44:07,575 Speaker 4: their work. Not a bad idea. If it's a party 1805 01:44:07,615 --> 01:44:12,095 Speaker 4: wallet could be one ninety block with forty mili termber strapping. Yes, 1806 01:44:12,255 --> 01:44:16,575 Speaker 4: that's possible to be fair as an intertendancy solution. That's 1807 01:44:17,655 --> 01:44:22,215 Speaker 4: less common these days. But yeah, if it had strapping 1808 01:44:22,295 --> 01:44:26,295 Speaker 4: onto it. But then if you drilled through, you'd find 1809 01:44:26,535 --> 01:44:30,055 Speaker 4: you'd hit the masonry right, if you drilled in, you'd 1810 01:44:30,255 --> 01:44:32,655 Speaker 4: tell the end of your drill bit was being blunted 1811 01:44:32,735 --> 01:44:36,095 Speaker 4: by the masonry. Eventually, Well, if you knew what you're 1812 01:44:36,095 --> 01:44:38,175 Speaker 4: looking for, Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. If 1813 01:44:38,175 --> 01:44:39,975 Speaker 4: you'd like to talk to rut, he's going to join 1814 01:44:40,055 --> 01:44:42,015 Speaker 4: us after the break for more. 1815 01:44:41,935 --> 01:44:44,935 Speaker 1: From the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen live to 1816 01:44:45,015 --> 01:44:47,655 Speaker 1: news talks that'd be on Sunday Mornings from Sex, or 1817 01:44:47,775 --> 01:44:49,655 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.