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Speaker 4: Well, very very good morning to you. Welcome along to
Speaker 4: the Resident Builder on Sunday morning's people off camp the
Speaker 4: Resident Builder. And this is an opportunity for the next
Speaker 4: two and a half, well kind of three hours to
Speaker 4: talk all things building and construction. And it's a big,
Speaker 4: wide open playing field really that we can sort of
Speaker 4: romp around on taking our pack of topics around. It
Speaker 4: might be around compliance, it might be around trades people,
Speaker 4: it might be around renovations, alterations, contracts, move and dates,
Speaker 4: these sorts of things. And there's a few things that
Speaker 4: sort of come through my week where I go, oh,
Speaker 4: actually that's not something we could talk about on the show,
Speaker 4: and I'm prompted. Actually I saw a couple of stories
Speaker 4: this week. It's still pretty tough times. In fact, it's
Speaker 4: extremely tough times out there in the construction sector, and
Speaker 4: it's tough for trades people often. But what obviously comes
Speaker 4: along with these tough times as well is the impact
Speaker 4: on people who have perhaps purchased off the plans they've
Speaker 4: got to move and date that move and date keep shifting,
Speaker 4: or really distressing story that I picked up online during
Speaker 4: the course of this week where people have actually put
Speaker 4: down deposits on a house and land package where in
Speaker 4: the end the developer, the person to whom they've paid
Speaker 4: the deposit for their new home sometime in the future,
Speaker 4: has ended up going into liquidation. In fact, there's no land,
Speaker 4: no house, and the deposit money has gone as well.
Speaker 4: So there's some tough still some tough times out there
Speaker 4: in the sector. If you've been caught in that somehow,
Speaker 4: certainly hope it all works out okay for you, but
Speaker 4: we may want to talk about that certainly as the
Speaker 4: days get a little bit longer. Beautiful, beautiful sunrise this morning,
Speaker 4: as I was turtning my way over the Harbor Bridge.
Speaker 4: If you're thinking about, as we all are, projects that
Speaker 4: we might want to do. G I was thinking get
Speaker 4: done before Christmas, but there's not that many days left
Speaker 4: before Christmas realistically to get a decent sized project done.
Speaker 4: Or perhaps you're thinking, well, actually, I'm going to take
Speaker 4: advantage of some time off over the Christmas break and
Speaker 4: I want to add a pergola. I'm going to extend
Speaker 4: the deck, maybe do some alterations the interior of the property.
Speaker 4: Those sorts of things we can talk about. Those, we
Speaker 4: can talk about what regulations might be around. Do I
Speaker 4: need a building consent for this? Do I not need
Speaker 4: a building consent for this? Certainly if you did need one,
Speaker 4: I think the chances of getting one before Christmas probably
Speaker 4: a bit unlikely right now. So we can talk about
Speaker 4: your place, about legislation, about products, about new ideas. A
Speaker 4: little bit of a revelation for me, not revelation, yes,
Speaker 4: sort of a revelation for me, just in terms of
Speaker 4: tools that I have been dismissive of. So a confession
Speaker 4: from me a little bit later on this morning, where
Speaker 4: I may have been dismissive of a particular type of tool,
Speaker 4: it has now fast become one of my favorite and
Speaker 4: most well used tools in the workshop. Anyway, we'll talk
Speaker 4: about that a little bit later on, but today is
Speaker 4: all about you. So if you've got a question about
Speaker 4: building and about the wide variety of topics that come
Speaker 4: under a heading that says, let's talk about building, we
Speaker 4: can do that this morning on the program. We will
Speaker 4: do that right through till about nine eight thirty this morning.
Speaker 4: Then the Red Climb Past will join us. We'll talk
Speaker 4: all things gardening and the wonderful world of entomology, the
Speaker 4: wonderful world of bugs as well from about eight thirty
Speaker 4: this morning. And to be fair, I'm going to keep
Speaker 4: one eye on the television screens is live pictures coming
Speaker 4: out from Paris. Dignitaries are starting to arrive in Paris
Speaker 4: for the opening of Notre Dame, the official sort of
Speaker 4: high faluting opening of Notre Dame. I have been following
Speaker 4: this ever since the fire. I thought, when the fire
Speaker 4: happened and you saw those images of the flames licking
Speaker 4: through the roof and then the spire crashing down through
Speaker 4: the top of the roof and the scaffolding melting and
Speaker 4: falling into the inferno, and then the typical frenchness. I
Speaker 4: guess of Macron just standing and saying we are going
Speaker 4: to fix it, and we're going to fix it by
Speaker 4: the Olympics. Didn't quite make it by the Olympics, but
Speaker 4: not far off. So a remarkable room. I have been
Speaker 4: absolutely captivated over the last couple of years by especially,
Speaker 4: you know, the little video clips you see online of carpenters,
Speaker 4: stone masons, lead work people, people who do gilding, people
Speaker 4: who do restoration of stained glass, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera working
Speaker 4: on this building, and then to see it all come together,
Speaker 4: it's gosh, it's about far out. It will be almost
Speaker 4: twenty years since I've been to Paris and had a
Speaker 4: wand around the Notre Dame, and to see it today
Speaker 4: it looks absolutely absolutely stunning. We could go political, say
Speaker 4: contrast that to christ Church. Anyway, we won't go there
Speaker 4: this morning. I think we just celebrate the crafts people,
Speaker 4: the craftsmen who have worked, the stone masons, the carpenters,
Speaker 4: the people doing the shingles, the people you know, restoring
Speaker 4: the stone masons, remaking the gargoyles. It's just been absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is that number
Speaker 4: to call. Let's talk all things, building a few projects
Speaker 4: a little bit smaller than Notre Dame. That's okay as well. Oh,
Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty eighty is the number to call. Mike,
Speaker 4: A very good morning to you. I don't know what
Speaker 4: it is with the screen, but it's given up being
Speaker 4: a touch screen. I can tell you that for a fact,
Speaker 4: right Mike, good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 6: I was very fifty house with five us past siy yes, beautiful,
Speaker 6: and the seiling in places, the surfaces breaking down a
Speaker 6: little bit. It's a cracker and crazy and lift a
Speaker 6: little bit. I was talking to a guy some time
Speaker 6: ago who used to make them, and he said, well,
Speaker 6: he said, when we made them, we knew they're going
Speaker 6: to know who last about fifty years. But ever he
Speaker 6: told me that when I bought the house. Yeah, my
Speaker 6: mother in law next door she had the same problem.
Speaker 6: She put battens and jim because it's a very big
Speaker 6: caller sid it, yes and jib and you know, I'm
Speaker 6: plaster that. Somebody said you can you can coat over
Speaker 6: it with a plaster skin coated and that would work.
Speaker 6: But I'm not too sure or do you need to
Speaker 6: put beatons on. Can you just secure a small sort
Speaker 6: of jibs directly to the ceiling.
Speaker 4: Would you say the surface is cracking? Is that actually
Speaker 4: the plaster board or the fibrous plaster, or is it
Speaker 4: just the layers of paint that might have been applied
Speaker 4: to it over the years.
Speaker 6: Well, it could well be. It's it's sort of cracking
Speaker 6: in places and and sort of lifting a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not too sure. I haven't gone up
Speaker 6: there and satis scraping.
Speaker 4: Because yeah, okay, look, I think one of the great
Speaker 4: benefits of fibrous plaster is it is remarkably robust, right,
Speaker 4: So it's it's literally plaster all the ways through, with
Speaker 4: obviously some reinforcing, which is like the old Hessian on.
Speaker 4: One of the issues sometimes can be that the way
Speaker 4: in which they were fixed to the ceiling joists in
Speaker 4: most houses is they fix the sheet up and they
Speaker 4: put a clout through it. But they'd also climb up
Speaker 4: into the roof space, sometimes with a bucket of plaster
Speaker 4: and some wadding, some of this reinforcing, this fibrous reinforcing,
Speaker 4: and make like a little saddle that glued down to
Speaker 4: the surface of the sheet and then went up and
Speaker 4: over the ceiling joist. Now, if they've started to deteriorate,
Speaker 4: which can happen I guess over time, and you've got
Speaker 4: some movement, then you might want to fix that. But
Speaker 4: I suspect yeah.
Speaker 6: And I don't see anything right up there. I don't
Speaker 6: see this sadly, as you talk about the.
Speaker 4: Roof, right, look, are there any issues with moisture like
Speaker 4: you get there's no leaks in the roof or anything
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, nothing like that.
Speaker 4: I would have thought that scraping back the loose flaking
Speaker 4: areas because what would it be two three percent of
Speaker 4: the entire surface of the ceiling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess, so, yeah, right.
Speaker 4: I reckon scraping those back, maybe getting someone into skim
Speaker 4: the surface in those areas to bring them up flat
Speaker 4: standing it using I would go for a pigmented seala,
Speaker 4: so an oil based pigmented seala like sure seal from razine,
Speaker 4: and then go over the top of that with your
Speaker 4: top coats. Because I mean, like the other day, I
Speaker 4: went to look at a house that was unfortunately she
Speaker 4: was a deceased estate. Someone that I knew was thinking
Speaker 4: about making an offer on it, and it was nineteen fifties.
Speaker 4: It had fibrous plaster ceilings all the way through with
Speaker 4: quite a heavy detailed cornice around it as well. And yeah,
Speaker 4: while it needed repair, it certainly didn't need replacement, so
Speaker 4: I would have thought replacement or relining would be unnecessary.
Speaker 4: I think you can.
Speaker 6: See in the wall is the same as the wall
Speaker 6: fibers past, and you could see some places where there's
Speaker 6: lottery bold with it looks like the nails are popped.
Speaker 4: But again you can. You could either take the take
Speaker 4: the nails, take the old nail out, or drive it
Speaker 4: back in, fix a brand new you know, some new
Speaker 4: fixings either side and then go from there. The other
Speaker 4: option for you is to get in touch. I know
Speaker 4: in Auckland there's surprisingly there's still actually a couple of
Speaker 4: people that make fibrous plaster sheets and plaster Craft is
Speaker 4: one company that are still doing it. They used to
Speaker 4: be out and only Hunger. They're out Mount Wellington Way now,
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure where you are in the country,
Speaker 4: but okay, look, you know a phone call to someone
Speaker 4: who's still involved in it, or if I remember the
Speaker 4: guys that I used to use for my jibs stopping
Speaker 4: years and years ago, and they were old boys. Then
Speaker 4: they when they started out in their trades, they were
Speaker 4: doing fibrous plaster all the time. I don't know that
Speaker 4: you find many older tradesmen basically these days who would
Speaker 4: still be familiar with it. But my sense is that
Speaker 4: you can repair it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be looking
Speaker 4: at replacing it. No, look at replace here you or
Speaker 4: relining it.
Speaker 5: Or molded mold. Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 7: I'd stick with it.
Speaker 4: I think it'll be It'll need some work, but I
Speaker 4: think you'll be rewarded for your efforts some money. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know, I know. And yeah, all right, nice to
Speaker 4: talk to you. All the best, Mike, you take care
Speaker 4: see them. Yeah, isn't there. It's not the work, it's
Speaker 4: the money. You're absolutely right, of course. Oh, eight hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty ten eighty. We'll take your calls. We'll talk
Speaker 4: five rous plaster, we'll talk jobs around the house. Maybe
Speaker 4: we talk money and budgets and how do you I've
Speaker 4: always maintained I haven't said this for a while now.
Speaker 4: As if you're a home owner, right, I think you
Speaker 4: need to either have money set aside or have the
Speaker 4: ability to access that money either by drawing down on
Speaker 4: the mortgage or something like that. And I've always thought
Speaker 4: you should put aside. And I don't know where I
Speaker 4: got this figure from, so it might be a bit random.
Speaker 4: Around zero point five percent of the value of the
Speaker 4: house into a maintenance pool about point five percent, So
Speaker 4: do the calculations about point five percent, and that will
Speaker 4: if it's a fund that builds up over time. You
Speaker 4: know you'll have money there when you need to replace
Speaker 4: the roof, or if you need to do a complete
Speaker 4: exterior repaint including you know, potentially scaffolding and a few
Speaker 4: maintenance but some pieces to weather boards or cladding and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, you'll have it there. Because the
Speaker 4: one thing that's absolutely certain is maintenance delayed is just
Speaker 4: ends up resulting in a much bigger job. And I've
Speaker 4: seen that a thousand times eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Speaker 4: is the number to call if you've got a question
Speaker 4: about building, around construction, around materials to use, products to use,
Speaker 4: tools to use. I mean we're coming up to Christmas.
Speaker 4: We could talk Christmas gift buying as well. The person
Speaker 4: who has everything, what do you get the person who's
Speaker 4: got everything? I might even have a tip on that
Speaker 4: one as well. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 4: number to call. The lines are open ready for your calls.
Speaker 4: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call.
Speaker 4: You can text as well. We've got a couple of
Speaker 4: texts come through this morning. Text nine to nine two
Speaker 4: is ABCB from mobile phone. And if you would like
Speaker 4: to email me, you more than welcome. It is Pete
Speaker 4: at Newstalk SB dot code. So Pete, p E t
Speaker 4: E at Newstalk ZB dot co dot NZI. Okay, a
Speaker 4: couple of quick texts, Hey, Pete, I live in a
Speaker 4: nineteen forties house with a brick A nineteen forties house
Speaker 4: with a brick exterior that has been plastered. The plaster
Speaker 4: has some hairline cracks that seem to have been created
Speaker 4: by normal house movement. What solutions are available to repair
Speaker 4: these cracks? Thanks from Sam, Let's assume that the cracks
Speaker 4: are relatively minor, so they're the sort of movement cracks that,
Speaker 4: as you quite rightly say, you'd expect from normal house movement.
Speaker 4: And if it's been painted, if you're going to use
Speaker 4: a good quality paint designed for rendered surfaces, then you'll
Speaker 4: probably find that anything up to about two millimeters, the
Speaker 4: paint will actually span that and cover that. Anything more
Speaker 4: than that, given that you're going to paint it use
Speaker 4: you could use flexible sealant. The hard thing is trying
Speaker 4: to not make that look really obvious. You know, we've
Speaker 4: probably all seen lots of repairs and masonry work where
Speaker 4: someone's just taken a tube of silicon and squirted out
Speaker 4: a bead of silicon and then smeared it off with
Speaker 4: their finger, and you get this great, big wide swadge
Speaker 4: of silicon on the outside of the building and then
Speaker 4: paint over it, and it just draws attention to it
Speaker 4: rather than hide the defect. It just draws attention to
Speaker 4: the defect. But if you were very neat with that,
Speaker 4: you could use it. There are also some semonititious based
Speaker 4: repair products, So if the crack's a little bit bigger,
Speaker 4: and if it's got a slightly textured surface, you could
Speaker 4: make up a slurry with this, apply it into the
Speaker 4: crack and then use a sponge or even a brush
Speaker 4: and then brush it off so that it matches the
Speaker 4: exterior texture of the building, and then prime and recope.
Speaker 4: That so a couple of options there, But I think
Speaker 4: if they're relatively minor. New coat of paint will actually
Speaker 4: be able to span most of those. And this is
Speaker 4: delightful text from Helen this morning, Morning Peak. I listen
Speaker 4: to you each week. I'm a hopeless I'm sure that's
Speaker 4: not true. Seventy three year old female not able to
Speaker 4: fix anything regards building. Friday, the bottom screws fell out
Speaker 4: of a kitchen door. What do I do? I remembered
Speaker 4: you said to put a broken match into the hole
Speaker 4: so the screw has some grip. So I had some
Speaker 4: screws that matched with the old Phillips screwdriver. Thank you.
Speaker 4: It's fixed. How satisfying. And I think Helen and you
Speaker 4: have encapsulated expressed the satisfaction of DIY right there, and
Speaker 4: then there is a tremendous, tremendous satisfaction in going I
Speaker 4: fixed it, And you know, in this case it's a
Speaker 4: that's actually quite a tricky job to do, to be fair,
Speaker 4: So well done to you. I think that's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 4: Thank you very very much for your call, Helen. I
Speaker 4: wish you all the very best for Christmas and the
Speaker 4: new Year. We're going to take a short break. If
Speaker 4: you've got a text or a question you should call. Now, oh,
Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number. Getting a
Speaker 4: number of texts and on that comment that I made
Speaker 4: around sort of a maintenance savings plan. Now, look, I
Speaker 4: absolutely acknowledge the fact that that's in today's times, that's
Speaker 4: possibly not durable or not easily durable. But someone's responded
Speaker 4: by saying, hey, Pete, regards your comment about the home maintenance. Recently,
Speaker 4: I heard a comment that you should look at spending
Speaker 4: one percent of the value of your house purchase per year. Now,
Speaker 4: I guess this would mean that, as you said, you
Speaker 4: regularly put this amount of money aside each year, some
Speaker 4: of which may be spent in the year or more
Speaker 4: importantly saved for the big job. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: zero point five might be a little bit light better
Speaker 4: than nothing. One percent would be great. And even if
Speaker 4: it wasn't money that you had, you know, term deposit
Speaker 4: or something like that, but you were able to access,
Speaker 4: get the sense that it's probably not far off the
Speaker 4: mark one percent. Maybe I don't know, do the numbs numbers,
Speaker 4: let me know what you think, and you know, if
Speaker 4: you've done let's say you've been in the house for
Speaker 4: a number of years and you've done a reroof. For example,
Speaker 4: I suspect for most houses the cost of a reroof
Speaker 4: would be more than one percent of the value of
Speaker 4: the house. It's probably a good example. Or an exterior
Speaker 4: paint job would be worth more than one percent of
Speaker 4: the value of the house. And again these are not
Speaker 4: things that you do. You know, reroof you might do
Speaker 4: every twenty years or so, but a repaint seven eight
Speaker 4: years probably certainly. I mean we did a big paint
Speaker 4: job on our place about that time and it needs maintenance.
Speaker 4: Now that's one of well, it goes on a very
Speaker 4: long list of jobs that I've got for the summer. Oh,
Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call Johnny,
Speaker 4: good morning to you. How are you doing.
Speaker 8: Understring? From christ six on that I thoroughly enjoy your program.
Speaker 8: And you have in an oler house like I do.
Speaker 8: Ye Now our a a section you probably know this
Speaker 8: section twenty six of the Housing Corporation Act fifty five
Speaker 8: on drainage, Property and Pipelines. Now this is an each
Speaker 8: state house and as you probably know, they used to
Speaker 8: reroute them to join up two or three properties. And
Speaker 8: you know for drainage. Now when you've been told by
Speaker 8: a neighbor that get your own dan and things like that,
Speaker 8: and she's used two contractors. They had taken no notice
Speaker 8: from me, and that they just plowed through things, broke
Speaker 8: the pipe first one that had to be paid for
Speaker 8: by cost, costing me money all the time in the
Speaker 8: bottom of the section C. I think of that Act
Speaker 8: twenty six, the Housing Corporation Act since sixte and four
Speaker 8: c says that provided that when relaying or appears that
Speaker 8: rendered necessary by the Act of the default, if any
Speaker 8: get one of the people that owned the pipe sort
Speaker 8: of thing here, or they should be the whole cost
Speaker 8: of the exact exact cost. So what happens there is
Speaker 8: that still a prie or has it been superseded?
Speaker 4: Wow, given that there is no housing Corporation anymore, potentially
Speaker 4: the Act will will have changed. But I think responsibility
Speaker 4: for drainage and services and utilities on your section typically
Speaker 4: are pretty straightforward. So if for example, it's a wastewater
Speaker 4: pipe that's connected to your house, you're responsible at for
Speaker 4: it until such time as it reaches the public line.
Speaker 8: Right that through the neighbors. The first thing they did
Speaker 8: is put a new driveway in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well again and then.
Speaker 8: They get that contract. I had to get the council
Speaker 8: approved guy out here to put a camera through there,
Speaker 8: and they backed up truction smashed the pipe so that
Speaker 8: the contractor had to come back out. Then I told him, well,
Speaker 8: you can run my line straight out the street, but
Speaker 8: they say, oh no, So they ripped up her bit
Speaker 8: of concrete there and put a piece of plastic in there.
Speaker 8: The second contract to the contractor to doing know anything
Speaker 8: about it from these jobs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think in those instances where like if
Speaker 4: if your pipe it must have an easement, Well, I
Speaker 4: guess so this is still a it's no longer housing
Speaker 4: Corporates kind of order property and the adjacent properties are
Speaker 4: also owned by KO.
Speaker 8: No no, no, they're both brokenly.
Speaker 4: Ain't right? Then I presume that they are the other one.
Speaker 4: You have an easement that allows your drainage drainage to
Speaker 4: run through the neighboring property. But you know, as a contractor,
Speaker 4: if I damaged that, I would be responsible for it. Right,
Speaker 4: So if I've done work on adjoining property and it's
Speaker 4: damaged your drainage that has a legal right to be there,
Speaker 4: it's not your responsibility to fix it. It's the person
Speaker 4: who damaged its responsibility.
Speaker 8: I know that's still as well, is it I.
Speaker 4: Would have thought so, yes, I can't see that having.
Speaker 8: Changed at the time. At first. The first contrary, does
Speaker 8: it run the line straight out to the street.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't just make changes to where drainage
Speaker 4: runs to suit you. That would have required a consent,
Speaker 4: would have required permission from the council as to making
Speaker 4: a new connection. Except is it stormwater or wastewater that
Speaker 4: we're talking about. Primarily it's just stormwater stormwater. Yeah, councils
Speaker 4: very reluctant to have more curb discharges these days. They
Speaker 4: want most stormwater to be piped. If christ Church is
Speaker 4: anything like Auckland, you'll also have to introduce some mitigation
Speaker 4: around what you do with your storm water, so controlling
Speaker 4: flow and during heavy rain events which were more frequent
Speaker 4: these days. So yeah, just p hoping it straight out
Speaker 4: into the street wouldn't have been acceptable, right, In other words,
Speaker 4: the problem and I got to pay for it. Well, Look,
Speaker 4: if someone has damaged your pipes, it is their problem, right,
Speaker 4: It's as simple as that, and you just got to
Speaker 4: stay on.
Speaker 8: Them, right, And that's mainly the second contract at this time.
Speaker 8: M being punch holes through, holding up a new fence down.
Speaker 4: There, right yeah.
Speaker 8: And then just the best big heavy pigs in there
Speaker 8: right down the drain line.
Speaker 4: I've done it myself, so I understand what it's like.
Speaker 4: So anyway, very long story, very long time ago. But yes,
Speaker 4: enormously it's amazing what you can do with the waratah
Speaker 4: through the top of one hundred and fifty mili line.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, just went straight through perfect.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: To be fair, it wasn't me driving the war retar in,
Speaker 4: but I did find the end result and had to
Speaker 4: get guys in to fix it. So that was a
Speaker 4: while ago. But look, I think if someone damages your drainage,
Speaker 4: then I think you've got to go. Hey, that's your problem.
Speaker 4: All the very best of you, Johnny, you take take
Speaker 4: care of that. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 4: the number to called Mike a very good morning.
Speaker 9: To you morning.
Speaker 5: Pete.
Speaker 9: Hey, up on the roof the other day and I
Speaker 9: noticed that a few of the old lead head nails.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: So I thought, well, I'll get around to replacing them all. Yes,
Speaker 9: what's a little trick to getting the ones out without no.
Speaker 4: Heads h without it like the head has gone or
Speaker 4: just the lead has gone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the nails basically rusted and the head, the lead
Speaker 9: head has gone. You know, can call them normal ones out,
Speaker 9: no problem, but the ones without lead head and they're
Speaker 9: rusted up a.
Speaker 4: Bit, yes, yeah, yeah. Realistically, the only thing you can
Speaker 4: try and do is if there's just enough to get
Speaker 4: purchased with a vice script, so you can get the
Speaker 4: vice script to grab the top of the essentially the
Speaker 4: shaft of the nail, right, and then try and get
Speaker 4: a pry bar underneath the nips of the the teeth
Speaker 4: of that. You might be able to get it out
Speaker 4: that way. Is it corrugated? Is it a standard corrugate profile?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, sixty Okay.
Speaker 4: So I was doing some reroofing a little while ago
Speaker 4: and I needed to take out a lot of actually
Speaker 4: I think they were old leadheads as well. And what
Speaker 4: I did is I got a I happen to have
Speaker 4: a piece of fifty mili dow right, so big, heavy
Speaker 4: down okay. So I got a piece of that and
Speaker 4: I took about ten fifteen millimeters off one side, right,
Speaker 4: So I just ran it through the saw took that
Speaker 4: off so that when I put that in the trough
Speaker 4: of the corrugate iron on top of the perlin. I've
Speaker 4: got something to leave her on, yep. Right, So it
Speaker 4: just stops you damaging the sheet. Because one of the
Speaker 4: things that people inadvertently will do when they're taking out
Speaker 4: old nails from roofing iron is if you don't get
Speaker 4: it coming straight out, you end up making the hole bigger,
Speaker 4: so that when you go to refix with and I'd
Speaker 4: suggest you use a roofing screw, which is you know,
Speaker 4: like a sixty five milli long tech screw, which will
Speaker 4: have a little near prene washer on it. What you
Speaker 4: don't want to do is have a hole in the
Speaker 4: sheet that's bigger than what's covered by the head of
Speaker 4: your roofing screw.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep.
Speaker 12: Look.
Speaker 4: The other thing is because one of the ways of
Speaker 4: getting an old nail out is to give it a
Speaker 4: tap down in order to loosen that bond between the
Speaker 4: nail and the timber. Right, you want to loosen up
Speaker 4: that friction or you want to break that bond over
Speaker 4: that's created over time. But the risk is if I
Speaker 4: tap it down, then I've got less to work with, right, Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: But in those instances I would actually just tap the
Speaker 4: nail down and maybe use a nail punch to drive
Speaker 4: it to the side and put your new fixing alongside it.
Speaker 4: Don't even try and get it out, just knock it
Speaker 4: down below the ridge of the roofing one and then
Speaker 4: knock it to the side slightly so you can get
Speaker 4: a screw into the existing hole and just put a
Speaker 4: roofing screw in next to it.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty trying to avoid having
Speaker 9: to grip up the whole sheet just for the take
Speaker 9: of one or two nails.
Speaker 4: Look understand that absolutely, and look if it's the occasional one,
Speaker 4: then putting a dob of roofing silicon on the in
Speaker 4: the hole first and then fixing you screw through it,
Speaker 4: and just making sure that you've got like a bit
Speaker 4: of silicon that runs around the head. You know, that
Speaker 4: will stop it as well stop it leaking in the future. Cool,
Speaker 4: all right, be safe up there. I have seen a
Speaker 4: very nifty tool made. I don't think you can buy them,
Speaker 4: but I've seen them online where a guy has made
Speaker 4: effectively a vice script and then he's welded a slide
Speaker 4: hammer to the handle of the vice script. So vice
Speaker 4: script goes on the head of the nail and then
Speaker 4: you use the slide hammer to pull it straight out.
Speaker 4: Very clear.
Speaker 5: I give that a crack here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you've got I mean, whether you've got an
Speaker 4: old slide hammer that you're prepared to sacrifice or you
Speaker 4: just have got a heavy bit of pipe and a
Speaker 4: lighter bit of pipe and make your own. Either way
Speaker 4: it was. I've seen guys use them and it's pretty
Speaker 4: damn nifty. I have to say.
Speaker 9: Now, the old man was a mechanic and he's been
Speaker 9: all sorts of right, little slide hammer about eight inches long,
Speaker 9: quite handy.
Speaker 4: Yep, Yeah, Okay, if you want to sacrifice that, make
Speaker 4: it into a new tool the way you go.
Speaker 13: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Nice to talk to you all the best, see then,
Speaker 4: and more importantly, be safe up there as well. We're
Speaker 4: talking about safety, I think last week on the program. Ah,
Speaker 4: that's right with and again just ahead of summer, in
Speaker 4: the possibility that people will be working off ladders and
Speaker 4: maybe getting onto roofs and that sort of thing. I
Speaker 4: have to say, one of those memories that I can't shake,
Speaker 4: let's say, is and this would be Shivers. Sometime in
Speaker 4: the late nineteen nineties, I was working on a property.
Speaker 4: We were doing a new build on a Crossley's property
Speaker 4: in central Auckland, and there was a contractor working for
Speaker 4: what turned out to be an older couple who had
Speaker 4: an old house next door to where we were working.
Speaker 4: And I was working away on the side of the
Speaker 4: building doing some cladding or something like that, and I
Speaker 4: had noticed that a contractor had come to do some
Speaker 4: work on the roof of the adjoining property and I
Speaker 4: didn't see it, but I heard suddenly a bit of
Speaker 4: a clatter and a kerfuffle as he slipped from the roof,
Speaker 4: landed on the porch clear light roofing, bounced basically off that,
Speaker 4: landed on the handrail below, and then from there landed
Speaker 4: on the ground, and it was it's the sound of
Speaker 4: someone falling off a roof, so I went over to
Speaker 4: offer some assistance. Thankfully, in the end his injuries, while
Speaker 4: actually reasonably severe and didn't lead to he'd broken his
Speaker 4: back basically falling off the roof, and because we didn't
Speaker 4: move him, he was able to be taken to the hospital,
Speaker 4: and obviously the doctors did what the doctors do. But
Speaker 4: I think it was one of those things that if
Speaker 4: he had have tried to get up, or if people
Speaker 4: had have assisted him up, potentially it would have done
Speaker 4: life changing injuries. But you know, every time you think
Speaker 4: it's that classic, you know the acc ads at the
Speaker 4: moment just have a hmm. It's that moment of going,
Speaker 4: I wonder if I should just think about doing that
Speaker 4: in a better way. There's always a better way. Oh,
Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 4: We'll talk tools as well. We can talk Christmas gift
Speaker 4: go buying. I know we've got how many Sundays before Christmas?
Speaker 5: Two? Three?
Speaker 4: No, I think it's only two. Hey, I'll get my
Speaker 4: diary out and figure it out. Eh, then we'll get
Speaker 4: rid of the confusion. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty,
Speaker 4: let's talk all things building Noel after the break interesting
Speaker 4: just as a by the by, Just a fascinating number
Speaker 4: of texts on this comment that I made with regard
Speaker 4: to sort of essentially having a maintenance fund. Right, So
Speaker 4: all houses need work, So how much do you need
Speaker 4: to set aside? And I guess it depends a little
Speaker 4: bit too on you know, have you bought a new
Speaker 4: house and you could reasonably expect that your maintenance costs
Speaker 4: on a new house will be considerably less in the
Speaker 4: first ten to fifteen years of ownership, but there will
Speaker 4: still be maintenance costs. So on sets through morning, Pete,
Speaker 4: one percent of one million is ten grant, which means
Speaker 4: one hundred and ninety two dollars a week on top
Speaker 4: of everything else. Who can save one hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: two dollars a week, No, wonder, maintenance doesn't get done.
Speaker 4: Very good point, quite interested in your thoughts on this,
Speaker 4: to be fair, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 4: the number to call another quick text. I'll just stare
Speaker 4: with this and then we'll grab nol in just a second, Pete.
Speaker 4: We're moving into a new apartment. We have a distinct
Speaker 4: lack of power points in our pantry. The back splash
Speaker 4: is toughened glass. Are you able to cut holes in
Speaker 4: that into that to have more power points installed?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 4: No, certainly not on site anyway. And to be fair,
Speaker 4: if you do tough and glass and you want, you know,
Speaker 4: like as a splash back, any holes that are drilled
Speaker 4: in it or squares that are cut out of it
Speaker 4: are done in the factory prior to the toughening. So
Speaker 4: I think doing it after the toughening is a no no,
Speaker 4: please don't try that with a tile saw or whatever.
Speaker 4: Eight hundred eight the number to call Noel A very
Speaker 4: good morning. In morning Pep, you make good buddy yourself.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, I was just listening to your last
Speaker 14: caller having the hard trouble getting nails out of his roof. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 14: I had a bit of trouble like that, and I
Speaker 14: was getting soakers off the corner of my house. And
Speaker 14: nails are real right, yes, yes, yeah, yeah. But what
Speaker 14: I found that really rode for me was the electrician
Speaker 14: Riah cuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah. They just got a nice good frame edge on you. Yes,
Speaker 14: and you gets right there and you can get you
Speaker 14: got a nice they just got a nice handle on
Speaker 14: it and just pop it out. Okay, it's a really
Speaker 14: good and but what a let's say, with a bigger nail,
Speaker 14: like a roofing nail. Yes, you need something like I
Speaker 14: don't know, like you were saying something to you delivered
Speaker 14: with like I use I'll use my bloody in my
Speaker 14: nudge bar. Probably yep, you know, just get on top
Speaker 14: of it and just deliverage down on it. Then you
Speaker 14: just grab it like comes straight up.
Speaker 4: The hard thing with leveraging down when you're taking roofing
Speaker 4: nails out is you don't want to damage the roofing
Speaker 4: around it. Right, So if you, for example, go in
Speaker 4: the direction of the sheets and you put your claw
Speaker 4: hammer underneath it or a pry bar or something like
Speaker 4: that and pull down, you'll crush the top of the sheet.
Speaker 4: So that's where when you're talking of yeah, I know,
Speaker 4: but you know it's the reality is that you don't
Speaker 4: want to damage the roofing. More so, I to lay
Speaker 4: a piece of timber, you can use the hammer, the
Speaker 4: handle of your hammer into the trough and then lever
Speaker 4: it onto that idea.
Speaker 14: But I'm an electrician. Electric pryors made wire covers. Get
Speaker 14: a good grip on it. You can get a good
Speaker 14: grip with those liver slightly sharp and open old pier.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 14: I just trut that because I was cleaning my my dad's,
Speaker 14: my my my name's and them hitch things right, and
Speaker 14: they've got a lot of moss on the old So
Speaker 14: I was thinking, now, what do I use. I've heard
Speaker 14: a tricky in use pummus, I am see, but then
Speaker 14: they might be ruining it. So I ranged undertake us
Speaker 14: of the right thing where they forget yep, yay beautiful.
Speaker 14: Yeah's left it four months went back?
Speaker 15: What off job.
Speaker 14: Sons, the sundays bounded.
Speaker 4: Beautiful, good on. You know you have a great day
Speaker 4: and all the best day take care of. Eight hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Uh sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm just there's a great to expeat. I'm an accountant
Speaker 4: by trade, live in Divnport where I do UH and
Speaker 4: seen a bit of your work and advice to mates.
Speaker 4: I think the maintenance funds an excellent idea. Even if
Speaker 4: it's only halfway to the full cost of the maintenance,
Speaker 4: it means that you have to find less time. Means
Speaker 4: you have to find less time. Perhaps, if they had
Speaker 4: a mortgage, it's better to pay that off. But fundamentally
Speaker 4: it's a concept oh endorsed by an accountant. I'm happy
Speaker 4: now I agree. I mean, would you set aside money
Speaker 4: for maintenance if you still had a mortgage? No, But
Speaker 4: I guess if you're paying down your mortgage, then you
Speaker 4: have the potential to extend your mortgage in the event
Speaker 4: that you need to spend a significant amount of money
Speaker 4: on a on major repairs to the house which still
Speaker 4: sticks with my original principle that it's it's access to funds,
Speaker 4: whether that's in terms of savings or in terms of
Speaker 4: being able to extend a mortgage if you've paid that
Speaker 4: down and have increased equity in the property. But I
Speaker 4: think I reckon you could squeak in with zero point
Speaker 4: five percent per year, but one percent would be better.
Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to
Speaker 4: call Tony. A very good morning to you, Tony.
Speaker 16: Hey, Hi, how are you kidding?
Speaker 5: I can go go for it.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 10: I'm talking about this picking off the nails of this
Speaker 10: iron rope. Yes, there is a tool which is which
Speaker 10: is about one of the one and a half faits long,
Speaker 10: and they got a sliding hammer on the bag and
Speaker 10: the front the people on the front's actually like a
Speaker 10: parrot pick. The like the clow and age of it.
Speaker 10: That's a little kind of handle. So what you do
Speaker 10: is just grip the top of the nails, you hammer
Speaker 10: it down and then you just peel pull it and
Speaker 10: then the open it will come straight out. I bought
Speaker 10: it from Bunis years.
Speaker 4: Ago, yep.
Speaker 10: And you do if you want to stop it from
Speaker 10: imaging the side of the roof. The liverage. Are you
Speaker 10: I just put a to buy boar this side and
Speaker 10: then just pull the thing out. I've thinking about twenty
Speaker 10: two days twey meters of iron groovings. Yeah, when I
Speaker 10: was three years ago.
Speaker 4: It's a tool I think typically they painted red, aren't
Speaker 4: they They're always painted? Read those tools nail pullers. Uh
Speaker 4: where I showing where they were most useful. And I
Speaker 4: had a job years ago pulling apart palettes, you know,
Speaker 4: wooden palets, getting the nails out of wood wooden palets.
Speaker 4: And they were quite good there because you could put
Speaker 4: them on you know, the nips, let's say, or the
Speaker 4: pincer either side of the nail head, bash it down,
Speaker 4: which bashed down into the timber. Then it would grab
Speaker 4: the head of the nail and then you could yank
Speaker 4: it out. But I've never really wanted to use one
Speaker 4: on roofing iron because of the you know, the potential
Speaker 4: for damage. But if you did it delicately, it's probably
Speaker 4: not a bad tool to use. Your news books, they'd
Speaker 4: be good morning, Welcome along to the program. My name's
Speaker 4: Pete wolf Camp, the resident builder, and this is the
Speaker 4: resident builder. On Sunday we can talk about all things building,
Speaker 4: all things maintenance, all things construction, all things and you know,
Speaker 4: I kind of just an aside, I guess a comment
Speaker 4: and off the cuff comment for me has prompted a
Speaker 4: number of text messages which have been fascinating around Basically,
Speaker 4: if you're a homeowner, then you've got to somewhere have
Speaker 4: access to funds to look after the house and what
Speaker 4: should that be? And I posited that maybe having access
Speaker 4: to or setting aside one point five percent of the
Speaker 4: value of your house would give you a pool. And
Speaker 4: maybe you don't spend it every year, but when you
Speaker 4: come to those big items, maybe the reroof or the
Speaker 4: repaint or going through you know, repaying inside of the house,
Speaker 4: replacing a kitchen for example, these sorts of things you
Speaker 4: will probably need that fun for I guess where the
Speaker 4: theory falls down, if I'm critical of my own thinking,
Speaker 4: is that typically New Zealanders move about every five years,
Speaker 4: and I wonder whether part of moving is Oh, then
Speaker 4: I'm not going to have to replace the roof or
Speaker 4: replace the kitchen. I'm just going to buy another house.
Speaker 4: Interested in new thoughts, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Speaker 4: is the number to call love This text as well.
Speaker 4: With regard to house maintenance, the cheapest fund we have
Speaker 4: is sweat equity. Applying it regularly well then hopefully reduce
Speaker 4: the need for a larger cost at a later date.
Speaker 4: I'm a seventy three year old female living on my own.
Speaker 4: It's amazing what you can do for yourself. When I
Speaker 4: think about a safe way of doing it, I always
Speaker 4: start Sundays by listening to your program.
Speaker 5: Love it.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. That's very kind of you. All
Speaker 4: the very best Christmas for you and your family. Oh,
Speaker 4: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call,
Speaker 4: taking your calls right through till eight thirty this monk
Speaker 4: if and then will join us at around eight point
Speaker 4: thirty this morning. I eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 4: the number to call, and I mentioned this at the
Speaker 4: start of the program. Just after six I've got obviously
Speaker 4: we've got TV on in here. Dignitaries a arriving in
Speaker 4: Paris for the opening of the reopening of Notre Dame
Speaker 4: after what's been five years, and you can't really call
Speaker 4: it restoration. It's been essentially a rebuild of the cathedral,
Speaker 4: and I have to say I've been absolutely captivated by
Speaker 4: the videos that I've found online, particularly of you know,
Speaker 4: the carpenters and the stone masons and the people who
Speaker 4: do the lead work and that sort of thing, as
Speaker 4: they've reused old skills and old methodologies to reconstruct the building.
Speaker 4: Obviously there's some modern stuff in there as well, but
Speaker 4: you know, the massive oak beams and the bell. Ah,
Speaker 4: it's just been fantastic. I w eight hundred eighty ten
Speaker 4: eighty is the number to call Trina A very good morning.
Speaker 17: Good morning, Peter. I'm just inquiring. I needed to sell
Speaker 17: my house. I want someemer house. It does have a
Speaker 17: granny flat on the side of it that was built
Speaker 17: in nineteen ninety one. I do have a limb report
Speaker 17: for it. It was put in as a game's room
Speaker 17: to start with. My grandmother lived in there. It was
Speaker 17: just had a little kitchen net, never had a stove
Speaker 17: or anything like that. I've got the limb saying that
Speaker 17: the it's all been approved and that type thing, the
Speaker 17: drainage approved. But then in the actual report it's got
Speaker 17: no documents attached for the code of compliance. What's how
Speaker 17: do I find out more information or I think about that.
Speaker 4: You're in an interesting time as in nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 4: is essentially was the building completed with a building consent
Speaker 4: or a building permit? I'm unsure, Okay, That's what it
Speaker 4: comes down to because essentially when the Building Act changed
Speaker 4: at around that time, that's when the requirement for a
Speaker 4: code compliance certificate came in for building consent. So typically
Speaker 4: before then we talked about building permits. After that we
Speaker 4: talked about building consents. If a building had a building consent,
Speaker 4: then along with that came the requirement to get a
Speaker 4: CCC or a code compliance certificate when the building work
Speaker 4: was finished and the final inspection being done. So often
Speaker 4: if you're reading through LIMB reports, for example, from for
Speaker 4: Council or for Properties, it will say consent issue for
Speaker 4: example nineteen eighty one, no CCC issue, but also not required,
Speaker 4: so you would only need to chase a CCC if
Speaker 4: you actually required one. Now it sounds like if the
Speaker 4: building was once like a games and then became a
Speaker 4: habitable space, chances are someone didn't get a building consent
Speaker 4: for that change of use, in which case, you know,
Speaker 4: is it deemed to be a non compliant building, okay,
Speaker 4: and trying to get you know, trying to get it
Speaker 4: compliant could actually be quite challenging, so you'd need to
Speaker 4: make an application for a certificate of acceptance to the
Speaker 4: local council, and the bar for that is quite high now,
Speaker 4: so it's not terribly dissimilar to actually applying for a
Speaker 4: building consent. You're going to have to prove that the
Speaker 4: building is compliant if you want to continue to use
Speaker 4: it for a habitable space, you might it may well
Speaker 4: be worthwhile getting you some advice from like a building
Speaker 4: surveyor for example, or a building official, not necessarily just
Speaker 4: a builder, because you need the information about the legislation
Speaker 4: around going. Actually, maybe the best thing to do to
Speaker 4: just make it tidy in terms of sale is to
Speaker 4: remove the kitchen and to sell the property with a
Speaker 4: free standing building on it, which is not a habitable
Speaker 4: space and therefore might not require a consent.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it was actually put in as games
Speaker 17: room to start with, just on paper, but it was
Speaker 17: always going to be a livable space, and it's kind
Speaker 17: of backfired on my father, I suppose, back in those days.
Speaker 17: So now I'm yes, just all thus just inquiring about
Speaker 17: the actual toilet if it was legal, things like that,
Speaker 17: But it was all put in as a games room
Speaker 17: with toilet, shower and that we think and tub for
Speaker 17: a washing machine everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and at the time, did that work get a
Speaker 4: building consent.
Speaker 17: As far as I know everything, I mean, yeah, my
Speaker 17: dad didn't do anything by hard you know, he wasn't.
Speaker 17: But obviously one thing he did was just popping into
Speaker 17: the game's room thinking he'd probably save a little bit on.
Speaker 18: Rightful.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but I've got all the planning for the drains
Speaker 17: and things like that on my LIMB report, but it's
Speaker 17: just got the code of compliance, which I haven't got
Speaker 17: any documents attached for.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was just wanting to know it is very
Speaker 4: much around the date that the consent was issued, so
Speaker 4: your homework is basically was under Yeah, if the building
Speaker 4: permit was issued prior to a certain date, not have
Speaker 4: to I think it's ninety ninety one. You might find
Speaker 4: and it might be that the consent was actually, you know,
Speaker 4: the building might have been built in ninety one, but
Speaker 4: the concent might have been issued in nineteen ninety for example,
Speaker 4: in which case you're falling outside of the Act and
Speaker 4: you don't actually need to provide a CCC for that. Yes,
Speaker 4: certainly I noticed that, you know the response that I've
Speaker 4: well a number of people that I've been engaged by
Speaker 4: or that I've spent some time with recently looking at
Speaker 4: properties where you know, the lack of a CCC has
Speaker 4: become a real issue, either with the insurer or with
Speaker 4: the lender, you know, that sort of thing. And it's
Speaker 4: I think I think in the past we've probably had
Speaker 4: an attitude that I will look the building consents the
Speaker 4: important thing, and I'll you know, I'll get the CCC
Speaker 4: sometime and then it goes into the top draw and
Speaker 4: it stays there, and then suddenly people need to get one.
Speaker 4: And when you do need to get one, it's incredibly
Speaker 4: difficult nowadays, Okay, which is not helpful to you. You
Speaker 4: could possibly go back to council phone, through to your
Speaker 4: local council phone, through the local building help desk if
Speaker 4: you've got the original consent number on file, just ask
Speaker 4: them what the issue date was and whether or not
Speaker 4: that is under the Building Act and would require a
Speaker 4: code of compliance. All right, ok have a go with that, Okay,
Speaker 4: good luck with it all, thank you, thank you, my pleasure,
Speaker 4: all the best. Then, by way, oh, eight hundred and
Speaker 4: eighty ten eighty is that number to call let's talk
Speaker 4: to let's carry on aiden greetings.
Speaker 19: Hello, yay, how are you fake?
Speaker 17: Good?
Speaker 4: Thank you aiding yourself?
Speaker 20: No not he I'm of the show, always listening and
Speaker 20: hoping one day at our own property and done it.
Speaker 20: So good Friday, I'm moving into my first so true
Speaker 20: topics is just want to add on to what you're
Speaker 20: saying about pretty money away. So we've got to twenty
Speaker 20: percent deposit and the bank said, I it's an all
Speaker 20: up to six hundred thousand. But once we country numbers,
Speaker 20: I said to my partner, we're going to be left
Speaker 20: with nothing. You know, we'll pay the bills, pay the mortgage,
Speaker 20: and we have nothing left. We can't we can't just
Speaker 20: bring the landlord and say hey, fixless anymore. So I
Speaker 20: said to her, look, if we can find something around
Speaker 20: a half million marks, yep, that we'll bring our mortgage
Speaker 20: down in eighty one hundred dollars a week. Yet what
Speaker 20: we can put away, good, thank you. That's what we've done.
Speaker 20: And we found one maybe we found a one that
Speaker 20: being relocated in twenty eleven. They put an HRV system
Speaker 20: and rewired it. My brother's a Clori, brought us by
Speaker 20: dragon round about thirty homes and you know that house
Speaker 20: for me present mate, but he was really impressive this one.
Speaker 20: So that's just to add one today. I mean it's
Speaker 20: something that we you know, we knew we needed to do.
Speaker 20: We don't want to remortgage. Yeah, yeah, so so that
Speaker 20: was a good plan. But the Christian about building that
Speaker 20: I have for you, the shorting is arm So it's
Speaker 20: got a concrete toll ruth and and everyone tells me, oh,
Speaker 20: they last forever and that, but I was wondering if
Speaker 20: I should maybe coat it or something just to kick
Speaker 20: the make it last a bit longer.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on that, yeah, Look, in general, I would
Speaker 4: agree with you. So for example, if you're talking about
Speaker 4: older concrete tile roof, so let's say it went on.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about a property that I look after, Right,
Speaker 4: it's a nineteen sixties brick and tile, so it's got
Speaker 4: a tile roof. Now, the glaze that's on that tile
Speaker 4: roof would have deteriorated, right, So we know that masonry
Speaker 4: is kind of porous, as in, water will soak into it,
Speaker 4: and so without the glaze or the coating on the top,
Speaker 4: water when it falls, some of it will run off,
Speaker 4: most of it will run off, but a certain amount
Speaker 4: will get absorbed into the concrete tile roof tile, So
Speaker 4: ideally you want to stop that from happening, whether that's
Speaker 4: a clear seiler that just allows the water to beaed
Speaker 4: and run off, or whether you apply a paint surface
Speaker 4: over the top of it. Yeah. I think if you'd
Speaker 4: look at the you know, get up there, look really
Speaker 4: closely at the surface, and if it seems porous, like
Speaker 4: there's no coating left, I think it's probably a good
Speaker 4: long term thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I suppose. The other thing if you were thinking, gosh,
Speaker 4: we're going to be here for a while, is if
Speaker 4: it got to the point where the roof has you know,
Speaker 4: worn away, let's say some of that coating is would
Speaker 4: you look at swapping out for long run.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I've got my long run ticket. So I did
Speaker 20: work it up with my doing my own labor because
Speaker 20: because of the slope, it's like the old pizza hut,
Speaker 20: but bit higher. Oh yeah, so I needed a lot
Speaker 20: of scaff out each protection and scaff and maybe even
Speaker 20: a harness. So you know, it's affected that and I
Speaker 20: worked out to be about ten grand. It's not a
Speaker 20: big house. It's a ninety sixty relocated Statehouse, but the
Speaker 20: whole inside has just been redone, so it's painted and
Speaker 20: carpeted and a new kitchen and you know, showered dome
Speaker 20: and all that. Yeah, I mean the so would would
Speaker 20: I treat that?
Speaker 7: First?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I think you know, typically i'd say you'd
Speaker 4: go to some of the professionals to do it. But
Speaker 4: if you've got so no, no. But I'm thinking about
Speaker 4: you thinking, you know, if you were to go up
Speaker 4: and do a roof treatment, and obviously if you've used
Speaker 4: to wearing harness and you used to being on roofs
Speaker 4: and that sort of thing, I'd say to you, why
Speaker 4: not investigate what type of treatment you need to apply
Speaker 4: in terms of a moss and mold killer. You'd be
Speaker 4: probably reasonably you've got the right attitude to be safe
Speaker 4: on the roof and maybe do some washing down and
Speaker 4: then you know, if you've used a spray gun, I'm
Speaker 4: just you know, why not here.
Speaker 20: I'm going to be spraying the house. It's like a
Speaker 20: really good waver boarding with no groove, so it's quite
Speaker 20: easy to spray. It's infinitely going to be doing the bottom.
Speaker 4: And it wouldn't be advice that I would give to everyone,
Speaker 4: but listening to what you know, some of your background
Speaker 4: and that sort of thing, I think if you were
Speaker 4: a bit cautious and did some research, I reckon you
Speaker 4: could do it yourself.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I got my long red ticket as I when
Speaker 20: they first brought out this protection and the scaffolding and this.
Speaker 20: I've worked for a reefing company. And the first thing
Speaker 20: you said to me, he goes, if I'm going to
Speaker 20: see you to tell these builders the roof is what
Speaker 20: to do or you need to get your ticket. You
Speaker 20: sent me away up to the tot on her and
Speaker 20: I went up there, and you know, I said a
Speaker 20: pat my top to holler as his expense for her then,
Speaker 20: you know, and then I ran my own little crew
Speaker 20: with the roof is protection and scaffolding, et cetera. For
Speaker 20: all the big companies come out.
Speaker 4: So fantastic, and I just threw it on from there.
Speaker 4: And congratulations on the on the first home. It's a
Speaker 4: it's a it's a memorable event in your life and
Speaker 4: you won't forget it. And congratulations. That's awesome.
Speaker 20: Chs p A all good advice.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Cheers, thank you, take.
Speaker 4: Care of by then it is exciting without a doubt
Speaker 4: getting your own house after years of saving and working hard.
Speaker 4: And also, you know, and I don't mean to be
Speaker 4: sanctimonious or anything like that, but isn't it smart when
Speaker 4: he goes, Yeah, we could borrow more, but our payments
Speaker 4: will be higher. So we've set ourselves a reasonable limit
Speaker 4: as to how much we want to spend on a
Speaker 4: house in it to allow us some flexibility or some
Speaker 4: breathing space, keep our heads above order in terms of
Speaker 4: the mortgage and that sort of thing. And that's smart too. Oh,
Speaker 4: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to call
Speaker 4: will come back and talk to Michael in just a moment.
Speaker 4: I wonder if it's too early to tell. Well, no,
Speaker 4: there is some evidence that first home buyers are a
Speaker 4: larger share of the market at the moment as opposed
Speaker 4: to say, investors and so on, which is a good thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know a number of people who are
Speaker 4: in the same situation as aiden. You know they're with
Speaker 4: I guess the current decline in house prices, we're starting
Speaker 4: to see stabilization, reduction of interest rates. People are in
Speaker 4: a position where they can get back into the housing
Speaker 4: market that lockdown affordable two or three years ago ook
Speaker 4: Utree Plan increasing supply of houses. That's also helped affordability.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're a homeowner or an investor, maybe
Speaker 4: you don't feel too happy about the value of your
Speaker 4: house going down. But for first time buyers it's been awesome.
Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 4: Michael A very good warning to you. Oh, Michae, how
Speaker 4: are you good? Thank you?
Speaker 7: Morning morning.
Speaker 15: I just had a quick question regarding timber frame single
Speaker 15: glazed windows.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 15: I've got a nineteen sixty house that I've just been
Speaker 15: doing a little bit too, but the windows have been
Speaker 15: repainted poorly over top of other paint.
Speaker 11: What's the best way to remove that old paint?
Speaker 4: I would probably use a paint stripper, right because you
Speaker 4: know you, I suppose you want to let the stripper
Speaker 4: do the work, right, so and yeah, rather than like
Speaker 4: you can tungsten it, you could use a heat gun.
Speaker 4: Heat gun around glass can be a little bit tricky,
Speaker 4: so if you get too close to the edge, you
Speaker 4: might end up shattering the glass or cracking the glass.
Speaker 4: So I think and you might have to sort of
Speaker 4: hunt around to find a paint stripper that you like.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of one seat to sky is when
Speaker 4: I used a few years ago, which was really good
Speaker 4: and not like you could put your hand in the
Speaker 4: bucket of it and not have your skin peel off,
Speaker 4: which is quite handy. So put that on. It'll take
Speaker 4: a couple of layers of paint off. You may have
Speaker 4: to do it once or twice. Once you've got down
Speaker 4: to the point where you don't have to get every
Speaker 4: single spot of paint off the joinery, but you get
Speaker 4: it down to a point where you can tell that
Speaker 4: you know it's only the original primer that's left on,
Speaker 4: let that dry out, send it back just lightly. I
Speaker 4: would probably on old joinery, go for an oil bay primer.
Speaker 4: I always start with an oil based primer, oil based primer,
Speaker 4: possibly even an oil based undercoat, and then a top
Speaker 4: coat of you can use now water born enamels for that.
Speaker 4: They're a little bit harder to lay off, so that's
Speaker 4: it requires a bit of skill in terms of applying it.
Speaker 4: Or you could just stick with enamels oil based enamels
Speaker 4: all the way through, but it'll always be that process.
Speaker 4: Strip it, sand it, prime it in top coats. There
Speaker 4: you go. That's your job. Hello, thank you all right, mate,
Speaker 4: all the very best of you. Take care, Michael all
Speaker 4: the best, and Stuart a very good morning.
Speaker 7: Oh good morning, fete.
Speaker 4: Hell are you yeah, very well in yourself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll do that, not to that. My question was
Speaker 7: that you and christ Church and we had had a
Speaker 7: rebuild after the earthquake, so your euse is ten years
Speaker 7: old yep, and that sort of when we built there
Speaker 7: sort of todld Oh you don't have to worry about
Speaker 7: maintenance ever.
Speaker 4: Again, who would say that? Who in the would ever
Speaker 4: say to someone who's a homeowner, even of a low
Speaker 4: maintenance property, You've got no more maintenance to do. That's
Speaker 4: just nonsense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I think it's an urban myth.
Speaker 7: So I mean, anyway, I was so I was sort
Speaker 7: of thinking, well, like, well ten years sort of yeah.
Speaker 7: The house is yeah, still still perfect, I think from
Speaker 7: what I can see. But what sort of things.
Speaker 4: Should we be Oh look, yeah, I mean look if
Speaker 4: depending on the extent of the rebuild at the time,
Speaker 4: you know, after the earthquake, I presume that the roof
Speaker 4: would have been replaced. It was an older concrete tile roof.
Speaker 4: They've probably replaced that put long run iron on it.
Speaker 7: It's a brand new, brand new house.
Speaker 4: It's a brand new house. Okay. Look, I think for
Speaker 4: brand new houses what you want to be doing is
Speaker 4: you want to wash them every year. That really really helps. Particularly,
Speaker 4: you know, if it's painted surfaces, then washing it every
Speaker 4: year makes a massive difference, and it will extend the
Speaker 4: life of the paint work by I think as much
Speaker 4: as three to four years. If it is painted and
Speaker 4: it's a ten year old paint job, chances are it
Speaker 4: will be getting to that stage where it could do
Speaker 4: with a repaint. But the beauty of a repaint if
Speaker 4: the paint works in reasonable condition is your prep time
Speaker 4: is limited. Right, It's a wash, sand, address some of
Speaker 4: those little areas, and then simply apply your top coat
Speaker 4: straight over the top of your existing paint surfaces. If
Speaker 4: it's brick, for example, on the exterior, then it's just
Speaker 4: a washdown. That's all you really need to do.
Speaker 7: Washing.
Speaker 4: I mean it'll be aluminium joinery. That should be again
Speaker 4: washing your aluminium jowinery, stopping all of those salts and
Speaker 4: things building up on the surface. That's about all you
Speaker 4: need to do. So a regular house wash You're fine, Yeah, great,
Speaker 4: And again this is where I guess because I've lived
Speaker 4: in an old house for so long and there is
Speaker 4: constant maintenance to do. That This idea of setting aside
Speaker 4: maybe one percent of the zero point five percent of
Speaker 4: the value of the house for these maintenance projects may
Speaker 4: not apply to a new build. But you know, after
Speaker 4: what you might find is that in another five or
Speaker 4: seven eight years, the kitchen starts to look a bit
Speaker 4: you know, worn, right, So do you do you put
Speaker 4: aside some money to go? Actually, you know what, I'm
Speaker 4: happy dropping thirty k on a new kitchen because the
Speaker 4: old one the surfaces are gone, or the doors of
Speaker 4: getting some scratches in them or something like that. But
Speaker 4: then at least you've got money for it. You know,
Speaker 4: bathrooms will last. If bathroom's well done, you might get
Speaker 4: twenty years out of a bathroom. Yeah, maybe even longer,
Speaker 4: but you'll get a reasonable amount. Yeah, good on you.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to.
Speaker 4: Keep it. Yeah, keep it in good condition, you'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Check the gutters, you know, make sure that that all works.
Speaker 4: You know, garden beds. Don't let them build up too
Speaker 4: much against the clouding of the house. Those sorts of things.
Speaker 4: It's just a walk around and a check and a
Speaker 4: bit of time on a Saturday afternoon. You'll be fine.
Speaker 4: All the very best, Take care, Stuart, thank you very
Speaker 4: much for your call. It is seven thirty two here
Speaker 4: at News talksp we'll come back and talk to Jason
Speaker 4: in a moment. If you want to make a comment
Speaker 4: about house maintenance and sort of what sorts of funds
Speaker 4: you need to set aside of be interested in that
Speaker 4: on the text nine two nine two, and if i'll
Speaker 4: do my confession after the break as well back in
Speaker 4: a moment. I'm not really sure why I feel that
Speaker 4: I need to get this off my chest, but I
Speaker 4: feel that I need to be honest and open and go.
Speaker 4: For many many years, I've been quite dismissive of a
Speaker 4: tradees that I've seen who use track saws right, And
Speaker 4: I guess I'm a little bit old school and I've
Speaker 4: just gone, you know, look, if you need to make
Speaker 4: a long ripping cut with a circulus or why wouldn't
Speaker 4: you just grab like we've always done, a level or
Speaker 4: a straight edge, clamp it down, run the guide along, bingo,
Speaker 4: these are tracks, or I don't need to go and
Speaker 4: get you know, two bits of aluminium and screw them
Speaker 4: together and go and get a track saw, which seemed
Speaker 4: very expensive and all the rest of it. For this anyway,
Speaker 4: my attitude has changed a little bit because the guys
Speaker 4: at rob dropped one off to me earlier in the year,
Speaker 4: and like I say, I've been dismissive of trades people.
Speaker 4: I've sort of been, oh, come on, you know, like
Speaker 4: it's not that hard to cut a straight line. Why
Speaker 4: would you bother the tracks or and I have to
Speaker 4: hang my head and go. Actually they have. It has
Speaker 4: proven to be a remarkably useful tool. So I'm using
Speaker 4: this little it's a cordless one as well, which is
Speaker 4: huge advantage obviously. And what did I make? Oh, last
Speaker 4: week I made this giant hat, for example, for the
Speaker 4: stage production of Allison, a Wonderland Musical, which was on
Speaker 4: at the Arte. And so you know, I had a
Speaker 4: whole lot of cutting of plywood. And typically I would
Speaker 4: either get a straight edge out with a skill saw
Speaker 4: and run along the edge, which means figuring out the
Speaker 4: offset and then having to clamp it down, et cetera,
Speaker 4: et cetera. Or I would set up the table saw
Speaker 4: and I would run stuff through the table saw, which
Speaker 4: in a small workshop means that I'd added much space. Anyway,
Speaker 4: the track saw has been incredibly useful, So I take
Speaker 4: back all of those unkind things that I thought of
Speaker 4: trades people who used to use track saws back in
Speaker 4: the day, who were early adopters and go actually proven
Speaker 4: to be an incredibly useful tool. Oh eight hundred eighty
Speaker 4: ten eighty. And hey, look Christmas is coming up. If
Speaker 4: you're thinking gift, give tools. Hard to go wrong with tools.
Speaker 4: I think oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number
Speaker 4: to call Jason A very good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Hey, you just.
Speaker 6: Morning to you.
Speaker 19: I've just got a little question. I've been going through
Speaker 19: some issues and I have accidentally put my hand through.
Speaker 9: The wall.
Speaker 19: And I've heard about people that that can put a
Speaker 19: piece of cardboard into the hole and pull it through
Speaker 19: and get some h what do you call it, some
Speaker 19: classter that can cover the whole? Is that true or door?
Speaker 20: Is that?
Speaker 19: I need to look into that a bit more deeper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think what you'll end up with is
Speaker 4: one of those repairs that stands out from a million
Speaker 4: miles away, right, So you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 4: time consuming way of doing it. It'll look as rough
Speaker 4: as all get out.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you've got a hole in plasterboard, typically
Speaker 4: you you square up the hole, get another piece of
Speaker 4: plaster board or a block of timber and back block
Speaker 4: it so you fix that in behind it. Then find
Speaker 4: a piece of plasterboard, put that in tape the joins,
Speaker 4: stop the joins, and so on. So there's a right
Speaker 4: way of doing repairs. And plasterboard using a bit of
Speaker 4: plaster and a bit of cardboard is not one of them.
Speaker 4: With respect. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 4: the number to call and Mary, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 21: I'm good, thank you?
Speaker 4: And JP, I'm very well, thank you. How can I.
Speaker 21: Just in touch with an insurance company? There's several flats
Speaker 21: of us together, all in a group, and they suggested
Speaker 21: that we might need to up our insurance cover because
Speaker 21: I know building costs, rebuild costs, and that have increased
Speaker 21: tremendously over the years. They do an online calculator, but
Speaker 21: they've also suggested that I might approach somebody to get
Speaker 21: someone to come.
Speaker 4: Around and do an actual valuation.
Speaker 21: Actually valuation. But I haven't got a clue who I
Speaker 21: would approach or anything at all. Sure what it's likely
Speaker 21: the cost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there is a fee for that type
Speaker 4: of thing. Actually, there's a guy that we've had on
Speaker 4: this program, Andy Thompson, who I think it's principle of
Speaker 4: a firm called Construction Cost Consultants, and this is essentially
Speaker 4: their area of expertise. So and in fact, there and
Speaker 4: I'm not miss one of the things they say is
Speaker 4: that if we give you a price to rebuild your
Speaker 4: building for insurance purposes, we will actually guarantee that you
Speaker 4: can build it for that price, or they used to
Speaker 4: say that anyway. But so I think because the online calculators.
Speaker 4: It's interesting because I've used the online calculators sometimes and
Speaker 4: then I've had people that I know use the same
Speaker 4: calculator for the same property and we've come up with
Speaker 4: quite different numbers, right, because the online calculator that all
Speaker 4: of the insurance companies typically tend to use, it depends.
Speaker 4: It's that classic sort of you know, information and information
Speaker 4: out right, if the quality of the information you're putting
Speaker 4: in your level of knowledge about the property. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: So they're a useful guide because I think insurance companies
Speaker 4: are quite correct and saying most of us would be
Speaker 4: woefully underinsured when it comes to our properties, where we
Speaker 4: think it's always going to be cheaper than it is,
Speaker 4: and I think sometimes we overestimate the additional cost of
Speaker 4: having more cover, you know what I mean that adding
Speaker 4: an extra and I'm not saying this on behalf of
Speaker 4: the insurance companies. I'm just saying that from my own
Speaker 4: experience and from people that I've talked to in this area,
Speaker 4: that you know, adding let's say a hundred even one
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars worth of extra cover to your house
Speaker 4: insurance might increase your premiums by a small amount, but
Speaker 4: it's relatively small by comparison to being under insured. So yeah,
Speaker 4: there will be I mean, you could get a valuer
Speaker 4: to do the sort of work, or you could go,
Speaker 4: like I say, to someone like construction cost consultants, so
Speaker 4: you'll find them online.
Speaker 21: Okay, Yeah, Because I remember when the first book Tip
Speaker 21: brought out the calculators and that everybody goes off and
Speaker 21: does this and I think, well, I can't ford to
Speaker 21: ensure it anyway because it's such a ridiculous figure.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I guess the challenge too is, you know, in these
Speaker 4: situations and it's more common nowadays, let's say where we're
Speaker 4: in you know, multi unit developments. So if you know,
Speaker 4: it's quite simple sometimes if we're ensuring you know, my
Speaker 4: house sits in the middle of my piece of land,
Speaker 4: all right, if something happens, it's only going to most
Speaker 4: likely affect me. But if you happen to be in
Speaker 4: a row of four townhouses, for example, and your number two, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you want to be confident that if something happened to
Speaker 4: started in your house, god forbid, like a fire, and
Speaker 4: it spread, would your neighbors then be covered? If if
Speaker 4: the damage spread, or if something happened in your neighbors
Speaker 4: started there, would you be confident that your insurance will
Speaker 4: cover damage that didn't originate in your property.
Speaker 21: Yeah? Yeah, I don't suppose you done an idea of wise,
Speaker 21: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean a phone call or an email will give
Speaker 4: you an idea. And I'm sure there are others out
Speaker 4: there who would you be able to offer a similar service. Again,
Speaker 4: the reason I'm being a little bit cautious about this
Speaker 4: is I had a phone call from someone the other
Speaker 4: day who said, look, we're about to sell our house.
Speaker 4: We've had a pre purchase or a pre purchase inspection
Speaker 4: has been done by one of the interested parties, and
Speaker 4: it's picked up an issue with the drainage, saying that
Speaker 4: the stack is rusty and that the pre purchase inspector
Speaker 4: felt that it was, you know, that the needed repair,
Speaker 4: and that he estimated that the cost of the repair
Speaker 4: would be anywhere from one thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 21: Okay, like gold plated.
Speaker 4: Well not just that, but that's an awfully wide range,
Speaker 4: isn't it. You know, so that's that's not terribly helpful
Speaker 4: for a purchaser, and it's certainly you know, for the
Speaker 4: person selling the house who rang me and just went crikey,
Speaker 4: I've just been told that, you know, these people think
Speaker 4: that it's going to cost fifty thousand dollars to repair
Speaker 4: my cast iron toilet stack. I'm like, anyway, it turned
Speaker 4: out not to be that at all. The reason I
Speaker 4: mentioned that story is that, you know, when we're talking
Speaker 4: about building repairs, these things are rather flexible and fluid. Unfortunately, yes,
Speaker 4: it's hard to feel, and.
Speaker 21: You've got a factor in if it's rebuilding everything, getting
Speaker 21: all the materials taken away, that's the thing, and that's
Speaker 21: if it's an older place.
Speaker 4: That's where the online that's where the online calculators can
Speaker 4: be quite useful because it prompts you to think about
Speaker 4: things like, what's the demolition cost, what's the you know,
Speaker 4: are there retaining walls, what's the consent costs, what's it
Speaker 4: going to cost to get an architect or an architectural
Speaker 4: designer to do, you know, because all of those things
Speaker 4: if in the unlikely event that it's a complete rebuild,
Speaker 4: these are major costs, right, yeah, yeah, good luck with that,
Speaker 4: you know, have a look online. There will be people
Speaker 4: just just when when you're engaging someone like that, just
Speaker 4: have a look at their experience and qualifications.
Speaker 21: Yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Nice of you to call all the very best to you.
Speaker 4: Take care, Marriy. Your news talk b coming up to
Speaker 4: seven forty seven. I love those planes, the old seven
Speaker 4: forty sevens. Anyway, it is almost seven forty seven. Will
Speaker 4: come back. We have a quick chat with Mike Colds
Speaker 4: from Razine Construction after the break, if you'd like to
Speaker 4: join us as well. We'll still got time for a
Speaker 4: couple of calls before we head to the news at
Speaker 4: eight o'clock, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 4: the number to call write your own news talks, but
Speaker 4: it is seven fifty and regular regular contributor, contributor expert
Speaker 4: on the show, Mike Holds, good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 5: Your morning plate. How are we?
Speaker 4: Yeah, not bad, not bad? And I had some time
Speaker 4: to kill the other day I went for a wander
Speaker 4: and saw some new builds going up with well ac
Speaker 4: panel so Integra panel on the outside. It was great.
Speaker 4: They'd done a good job. Actually I would have rung
Speaker 4: you if I didn't think they.
Speaker 5: Did, but they did. Yeah, it's a yeah interesting that
Speaker 5: their Integra Lightweight concrete is has gone and leads some
Speaker 5: pounds over the years. And I think the versatility of
Speaker 5: the products in terms of the benefits you're going to
Speaker 5: achieve out of it, got got some some something or
Speaker 5: performance also, but the big ones around impact, yes, acoustic
Speaker 5: performance and really important. What we discussed a few months
Speaker 5: back was around the intertendency for fire performance. But it
Speaker 5: basically looking it's noncombustible and then it's versatiley in terms
Speaker 5: of the troning systems and the finishers. It's just really
Speaker 5: second to none at the moment out of the market.
Speaker 5: People already starting to appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because the building that I was looking at it
Speaker 4: it was sort of, you know, a ninety percent complete,
Speaker 4: so I could see that they viewed Integra on the exterior.
Speaker 4: But it was also one of those classic multi unit developments,
Speaker 4: so I assume that they probably used Integra as their
Speaker 4: intertenancy system. And intertendancy we're talking about protection from sound
Speaker 4: and more importantly from fire between units.
Speaker 5: Correct, Yeah, and that particularly, like I said, with many density,
Speaker 5: it's really really important. I mean some of the stuff
Speaker 5: that you hear and globally just terms of concerns with
Speaker 5: a battery issues and stuff like that, vehicles and whatnot.
Speaker 5: Then this is another another surely method that you can
Speaker 5: have and it's a very very high performance system and
Speaker 5: that the minimum standard that we meet is to our
Speaker 5: fire rating, right, So and that's something that you're catching
Speaker 5: the achieved without doing something okay using.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fantastic stuff, all right, Hey, wishing you and
Speaker 4: all of the team it RESIM construction systems all the
Speaker 4: very best. It's been a tough old year for most
Speaker 4: people in the building sector, so I think a Christmas
Speaker 4: break is well deserved, So to you and all of
Speaker 4: the team. All the very best for Christmas and New Year,
Speaker 4: hopefully a little bit bigger and brighter for all of us.
Speaker 5: Likewise, the upte and thank you all this is out
Speaker 5: there for the show and some questions that not. So
Speaker 5: thank you very much, mate, it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4: I hope to catch up with you soon. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Take care.
Speaker 7: Mike.
Speaker 4: So, Mike Old's from Razine Construction Systems. He'll be back
Speaker 4: as an experting end next year on the program as well,
Speaker 4: because we, I mean, you're fast approaching that time, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Two more shows before Christmas, one show between Christmas and
Speaker 4: New Year, and then we're into it. I'll continue to
Speaker 4: do the show over the Christmas break. I figured that
Speaker 4: Christmas break is when a lot of us will be,
Speaker 4: you know, working on the house, whether it's a bit
Speaker 4: of touch up painting, whether it's some work in the garden,
Speaker 4: whether it's some planter beds or some retaining walls or
Speaker 4: extending the deck or made of mine who's undertaking a
Speaker 4: big renovation. While the builders are taking a break, he's
Speaker 4: going to carry on doing some work that's within sort
Speaker 4: of his scope, let's say, within the building project as well.
Speaker 4: So undoubtedly over the Christmas break, the happy sound of
Speaker 4: hammers and skill saws will continue around the countryside, sort
Speaker 4: of like the Dawn Chorus, but of a mechchanical variety.
Speaker 4: I wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
Speaker 4: number to call A very quick call from you, Derek.
Speaker 4: I think we should be able to knock this out
Speaker 4: before the news.
Speaker 7: Hello Derek, Hello, how are you today?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 7: Thank you good.
Speaker 13: I've got about forty square meters of five or cement
Speaker 13: board on a single story building to repaint, and I
Speaker 13: was wondering what's the best method or product to wash
Speaker 13: it down prior to painting.
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 4: Sure, well, for example, razine to a proprietary house wash
Speaker 4: or house prep solution. So put that on, you know,
Speaker 4: apply it, agitate lightly, rinse off. That's enough on the
Speaker 4: existing fiber cement board. Is the paint system that's already
Speaker 4: on their reasonably good condition.
Speaker 13: Yes, it's just the screw holes really that have got
Speaker 13: to be sanded back a little bit. They've gone a
Speaker 13: bit proud in places, yep.
Speaker 4: So I'd probably use a pigmented sealer on that. Pigmented
Speaker 4: seala is really good on fiber cement. And then once
Speaker 4: you've dealt with those little maintenance things. Then it's just
Speaker 4: a top coat with what you know, you could go
Speaker 4: to X two hundred on something like that. That's typically
Speaker 4: a razine coating designed for renders and for masonry products,
Speaker 4: and fiber cement board is essentially a masonry product. Or
Speaker 4: because it's already been coated, you know, any exterior paint,
Speaker 4: sonics or lumbersider will be absolutely fine.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Sure, there's one or two cracks which are previously done
Speaker 13: with an AC tube sealing. Yep, I think that's stable.
Speaker 13: Any advice on.
Speaker 4: Those, I think again, if there let's say, you know,
Speaker 4: one to two millimeters something like X two hundred, then
Speaker 4: would actually just fill those and bond over the surface
Speaker 4: and give you some flexibility. Otherwise, do exactly what you
Speaker 4: have been doing, which is apply you know, neat bead
Speaker 4: of sealant, try and remove all of the excess just
Speaker 4: doesn't stand out too much on the surface, and then
Speaker 4: apply a top coat over there. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Speaker 4: All the very best you, Derek. Thanks for the call back.
Speaker 4: After News, Sport and Weather Top of the Hour at
Speaker 4: eight o'clock. I'm just looking at some texts that came
Speaker 4: in during the break. This is great. Actually, we've got
Speaker 4: a couple of fantastic ones. A lot of texts have
Speaker 4: come in. Just good morning, by the way, Pete wolf
Speaker 4: Camp here. This is new Stalk ceedb's resident builder. On Sunday,
Speaker 4: we'll talk building through to late thirty. Then we'll jump
Speaker 4: into the garden with add kline pasted. I might take
Speaker 4: a brief moment. I am conscious of taking time to
Speaker 4: chat with Rod on air about things that I might
Speaker 4: be doing. But him and I have had a long
Speaker 4: running discussion debate in a touch of disagreement around my
Speaker 4: composting methodology. So I have I'm in an urban environment.
Speaker 4: I don't want a great big compost stack and all
Speaker 4: the rest of it. So I have opted for the
Speaker 4: tumbler system. Which there's two things that I'm incredibly proud about.
Speaker 4: One is that it's still got the label on it
Speaker 4: from the person who bought it. I got it second hand,
Speaker 4: right off trade me and I bought just the tumbler
Speaker 4: because it was cheap. It was about ten bucks. Because
Speaker 4: on the label when you buy these things complete and
Speaker 4: as a kit with the legs and all the rest
Speaker 4: of it, they're two hundred and ninety nine dollars. So
Speaker 4: every time I tumble it and I see that label
Speaker 4: on it that says two hundred and ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 4: and I pay ten bucks for it, I think I
Speaker 4: feel just that brings me such delight, almost as much
Speaker 4: delight as the beautiful compost that came out of it yesterday.
Speaker 4: Fantastic tipped it out yesterday fossk through pulled out a
Speaker 4: few bigger bits of branch that hadn't quite composted down,
Speaker 4: added a couple of buckets of leaves from the garden
Speaker 4: that I'd collected a month or to ago, ready from
Speaker 4: the next cycle of compost. I also spent a happy
Speaker 4: hour or so rebuilding the frame that had started to rot,
Speaker 4: and added some sleds and some bracing and that sort
Speaker 4: of thing. Anyway, I'm very happy with my compostpen. A
Speaker 4: ten dollar compostpen. That's the best. But oh, eight hundred
Speaker 4: eighty ten eighty, we'll talk about that with rud. He
Speaker 4: has to be fair being dismissive of my composting efforts
Speaker 4: in the past. Well, that's all right, Well we get along, okay,
Speaker 4: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you've got some
Speaker 4: building questions, quick text as well what to remove spilt
Speaker 4: a crylic paint off a concrete path? Thank you from Stephen,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. Last week on the show, Bryce McDermott,
Speaker 4: our Rasine Painting Expert talked about a product called what
Speaker 4: do they call it? Liquid paint Remover. So it's designed
Speaker 4: specifically for removing crylics, in particular from surfaces. It helps
Speaker 4: just dissolve it or loosen it up so that you
Speaker 4: can peel it off. So that'd be the go I'd
Speaker 4: head down to Razine Color Shop and ask for some
Speaker 4: of that. It's like a little spray bottle of product
Speaker 4: that will allow you to remove hopefully that which would
Speaker 4: be great.
Speaker 1: Um.
Speaker 4: Someone will also pointed out we were talking about painting
Speaker 4: windows old windows for example, Pete, your advice rey, painting
Speaker 4: old windows with today's oil primers are not compatible with
Speaker 4: some old or with the old native timbers. Ross I
Speaker 4: agree only in part with you. So oil based primers
Speaker 4: on Matti for example, and sometimes on Totra won't it
Speaker 4: here or they won't it here well, and which case
Speaker 4: water born primers are better for those. But the reason
Speaker 4: I mentioned oil based primers to the caller is that
Speaker 4: it was a nineteen sixties house, so it'll either be
Speaker 4: cedar or pine and oil based on either of those
Speaker 4: two will be absolutely fine. But I do appreciate your
Speaker 4: text on that one. Other people saying, Yep, if you're
Speaker 4: a bit old fashioned when it comes to painting, you
Speaker 4: kind of go back to your oil based primers. I think,
Speaker 4: particularly on joinery saying that, I mean I used waterborne
Speaker 4: primers today or last week on another project. Absolutely fine,
Speaker 4: but on old joinery, I kind of still like it
Speaker 4: to be fair.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: Oh, we're into it. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 4: is the number to call if you've got a building question. John,
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, teak you. John.
Speaker 15: I live in Northland in a steel framed brick house
Speaker 15: built about twenty seventeen. I'm having trouble with radio reception.
Speaker 15: I've tried various enter and I the normal sort of
Speaker 15: things that you plug into your receiver, and but even
Speaker 15: with portable radios around the house, getting clear radio reception
Speaker 15: is a problem. And I just wondered if you'd ever
Speaker 15: come across anything similar in steel frame houses. I thought
Speaker 15: it maybe some sort of field but blocks radio reception.
Speaker 15: I don't know if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Speaker 15: But I just wanted to do in your experience if
Speaker 15: you'd had any in.
Speaker 4: Terms of steel frame and radio reception. No, I mean, look,
Speaker 4: while it's not uncommon, there's also not a vast number
Speaker 4: of houses that are actually still framed. It's out there
Speaker 4: and it's becoming more common. So you know, there are
Speaker 4: I know there can be.
Speaker 7: There are.
Speaker 4: You have to be able to address other issues around
Speaker 4: moisture and those sorts of things were still framing. But
Speaker 4: in terms of radio reception, it's not something that I've
Speaker 4: ever encountered or thought about. So no, it's outside of
Speaker 4: my experience, despite the fact that here I am on
Speaker 4: the radio hoping to communicate with you, and on behalf
Speaker 4: of all of my radio colleagues, hoping that steel frame
Speaker 4: houses don't prevent radio waves from entering.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I listened to you on iHeart Radio because we can.
Speaker 15: Then we can only get you on AM, which is.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think we're on FM yet. I know
Speaker 4: that elsewhere in the country we've recently swapped or or
Speaker 4: added FM to coverage for a particular area, So maybe
Speaker 4: that'll happen and maybe that'll help it. Certainly AM, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean it's always been.
Speaker 15: A bit of a struggle.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, not something that I've heard of. Thanks
Speaker 4: a lot, Oka, you have a great day. All the
Speaker 4: very best to you.
Speaker 13: John.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to Tyson straight after the break. If you've
Speaker 4: got a building question, now's the time to call eight
Speaker 4: hundred eighty ten eighty. You and your still said be
Speaker 4: we're taking your calls. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 4: the number to call. Hello, Tyson?
Speaker 5: Are you yeah?
Speaker 19: Good?
Speaker 13: Thanks?
Speaker 20: Pete.
Speaker 18: How are you doing mate?
Speaker 4: You're not dead? Not dead?
Speaker 7: How can I help?
Speaker 20: Quick question?
Speaker 18: So my son about a year ago got candle wax
Speaker 18: on the wall and I've been looking at it for
Speaker 18: a year. Yep, you haven't found anything online and you
Speaker 18: know first hand, and my building sales are not too.
Speaker 7: Well, so I don't really want to rip the jib off.
Speaker 20: So they cuts some kind of old secret to that one, peepe.
Speaker 4: How about some brown paper and an iron. So what
Speaker 4: you do is you put the brown paper over the
Speaker 4: top of the wax and then use an iron like
Speaker 4: a clothes iron to heat it up, and it draws
Speaker 4: the wax into the paper, and then keep shifting the
Speaker 4: paper every time it saturates. Just move it over and
Speaker 4: that should draw out most of the wax from the surface.
Speaker 5: That is just like Butcher's paper.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that is brilliant because I know it probably won't
Speaker 11: be perfect, but at least it looks like I've made
Speaker 11: an effort.
Speaker 18: One past one and then elevator, leaving.
Speaker 5: Somebody the problem.
Speaker 4: Yes, I understand. Give that a go, give there to go.
Speaker 4: Thank you so very much, my pleasure, all the very
Speaker 4: besty Tyson, you take care see them, and Martha, A
Speaker 4: very good morning to you.
Speaker 12: Good morning to you, Peter am. I hope min is
Speaker 12: just as easy as the last.
Speaker 4: I only get one easy one a week and that's
Speaker 4: now been used up.
Speaker 12: So Peter, I've had an old vanity replaced in my house. Yes,
Speaker 12: and that was back in ninety and twenty twenty two yep.
Speaker 12: And and I had family living there at the time.
Speaker 12: And when it was replaced, the plumbing company that replaced
Speaker 12: it had left some holes underneath. You know, the vanity
Speaker 12: sets up off the floor.
Speaker 5: Yes, and the holes was.
Speaker 12: Into the back and into the side where it goes
Speaker 12: into where the bars is yep, if you get what
Speaker 12: I mean. And and I thought that's a lot of
Speaker 12: that's a lot of steam all, you know.
Speaker 4: The moisture getting into the into the wall itself.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So I when the when I got some new
Speaker 12: people into the house, they pointed it out to me
Speaker 12: and I wasn't aware of it. So I ranged the
Speaker 12: company and spoke with the boss man and he said, oh,
Speaker 12: because I emailed him some some images of what I
Speaker 12: what I was ringing about, and he said he hadn't
Speaker 12: had a chance to look at it yet. So what
Speaker 12: I'm really asking you is, would I have it was
Speaker 12: installed back in nineteen in twenty twenty two, so would
Speaker 12: I have a chance of getting them to remedy the problem?
Speaker 4: Probably not to be blunt, and I think what it'll
Speaker 4: be is that, you know, if the request was to
Speaker 4: get a plumber to come and take a vanity out
Speaker 4: and replace it, that's what they've done because their job
Speaker 4: description wasn't to remediate any penetrations or old pipework and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. And that's often that you know,
Speaker 4: this is where sometimes we have to have overlapping trades.
Speaker 4: So for example, if you had have asked a builder
Speaker 4: to do the job, and I'm this isn't isn't a criticism,
Speaker 4: but you know, then the builder might come in, remove
Speaker 4: the old vanity, get the plumber in to redo the pipework.
Speaker 4: Either the plumber will fit the vanity or the builder
Speaker 4: will fit it, and then the plumber will come and
Speaker 4: pipe it out or fit you know, fit it off.
Speaker 4: And then while the builders there, you know, taking the
Speaker 4: old one out, they'll cut out a section of plasterboard,
Speaker 4: patch it and have that stopped and painted for example.
Speaker 4: So I think this situation is more that the plumber
Speaker 4: has done what you've asked them to do, which is
Speaker 4: to replace the vanity. It's not their job necessarily to
Speaker 4: patch up you know, holes and plaster board. And that's
Speaker 4: that's what I think the issue is. Yeah, So I
Speaker 4: think now you either get a builder. You might find
Speaker 4: like a stopper, a fixer stopper who will come do
Speaker 4: the plaster board repair, you know, put in a patch,
Speaker 4: give it a coat of stopping, and then it's ready
Speaker 4: for painting.
Speaker 15: But it's right underneath, you know, I know, it's much.
Speaker 4: Easier to do it without the vanity on top of you,
Speaker 4: you know it. Look, the other thing might be is
Speaker 4: just to have a panel cut that's the width of
Speaker 4: the vanity that goes from the underside of the vanity,
Speaker 4: maybe to the top of the skirting board or to
Speaker 4: the floor, and just fix that in place and then
Speaker 4: it's all gone. And you know I I did it
Speaker 4: the other day in a project where a toilet roll
Speaker 4: holder next to the toilet, obviously in a small bathroom,
Speaker 4: had pulled out of the wall because they'd used anchors
Speaker 4: into the wall rather than fixing through the wall into it,
Speaker 4: through the plass board into a noog right classic with
Speaker 4: toilet rolls, And I thought, what do I do? Do
Speaker 4: I try and repair the hole and all the rest
Speaker 4: of it. It's quite a lot of work. It's multiple
Speaker 4: visits to the job, etc. So in the end, what
Speaker 4: I ended up doing is I figured out where the
Speaker 4: studs were nearby. I cut a panel. It made a
Speaker 4: panel out of timber, painted it, screwed that to the wall,
Speaker 4: and then screwed the hand the toilet roll holder back
Speaker 4: into it. You know, I'm thinking along a similar line,
Speaker 4: you just make a panel that covers all of that
Speaker 4: underneath might be a best option. Okay, but no, I
Speaker 4: don't think going back to the plumber is going to
Speaker 4: give you any redress at this stage. Good luck with
Speaker 4: that Martha. Now someone has text through as well. Removed
Speaker 4: candle wax. T Tree oil stuff is magic, apparently, according
Speaker 4: to Dehlia Ta Tree Oil. I've heard that before as well,
Speaker 4: actually for all sorts of cleaning solutions. T Tree Oil.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much for that. Oh eight hundred and
Speaker 4: eighty ten eighty the number to call. Oh another quick
Speaker 4: text Andrew, you've text through. I have had a metallic
Speaker 4: object fall onto a form like a bench, leaving a
Speaker 4: small bent dent. How do you fill or repair the bench?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't do it myself. I would probably get someone
Speaker 4: like bench doctors to come through and do it. If
Speaker 4: it was a crylic there's a guy who does fixes
Speaker 4: on a crylic fix but bench doctors are around the country.
Speaker 4: They'll come and repair it. Had a similar thing I'd
Speaker 4: put in a new kitchen for a client. I was,
Speaker 4: I don't know, working on the range or or something
Speaker 4: like that. Chisel dropped out of my apron thump, straight
Speaker 4: down onto the format bench. And this was a number
Speaker 4: of years ago. The people came and they repaired it.
Speaker 4: You can't tell, thankfully where i'd been a muppet and
Speaker 4: Admture's well, why would you wear your apron while you're
Speaker 4: working above a bench. That is a question I asked
Speaker 4: myself often in the years that have passed. Oh, eight
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty, ten eighty the number to call Wayne.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Pete, and I have.
Speaker 11: To say, O, brilliant, enjoy your show.
Speaker 9: It's Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Going to question.
Speaker 11: I think pretty simple, and the first is removing oil
Speaker 11: from a concrete garage floor. Yep, our son very kindly
Speaker 11: put his old car in our garage went off to Australia.
Speaker 11: Now that I've moved, it's oil all over floor.
Speaker 4: Did you move it or did you sell it?
Speaker 19: Garrets fair enough?
Speaker 11: And then I told it and renovation.
Speaker 4: Good oil eater CRC. Oil eater comes from an aerosol
Speaker 4: can and we had some visitors a little while ago
Speaker 4: who also had an older car that leaked oil on
Speaker 4: the driveway and I that got rid of it. Oil eater,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 11: Second quick question, which is a bit more challenging. We
Speaker 11: have two outdoor concrete fiberglass tables. There's sort of cream toilet. Yep,
Speaker 11: you're about fifteen years old and it become patient. What
Speaker 11: we didn't do from the outset was to steal them
Speaker 11: and that was stupid in hindsight. But what I need
Speaker 11: to do and it back because there is the color
Speaker 11: through the concrete.
Speaker 4: Ah yeah, but what do I steal it with?
Speaker 11: And I'm really struggling to find products and when I
Speaker 11: ask at Bunnings and my really, I'm really struggling to
Speaker 11: find helpful advice.
Speaker 4: Yeah. When you say concrete, is it that lightweight concrete
Speaker 4: or is it ye ah?
Speaker 11: Okay, it's a fiberglass concrete mass and lighten up that
Speaker 11: two people could pick up the tabletop.
Speaker 4: And move as opposed to my concrete table that weighs
Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty kilos exactly. Yeah. Okay, Oh, because
Speaker 4: you don't really want to paint it, do you, because
Speaker 4: then you'll.
Speaker 11: End up with no, No, I don't don't want to
Speaker 11: paint it. I really just want to steal it because
Speaker 11: I'm pretty certain that the concrete fiberglass pinting, the tinting
Speaker 11: that's been added is through the concrete fiberglass.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm with you. So essentially a clean and then
Speaker 4: a clear sealer to go over the top.
Speaker 19: Yes.
Speaker 4: If you have a look on the website for Premiere Group,
Speaker 4: they supply a lot of products for masonry sealers right right,
Speaker 4: so you can find them if you can go to
Speaker 4: get new Look dot co dot com. So get new
Speaker 4: Look dot com which will link you through to them.
Speaker 4: Jason's got a whole lot of other sealers and concrete
Speaker 4: type products on his website. But Premier Group also have
Speaker 4: sealers that you can buy. And I wonder whether getting
Speaker 4: you know, if you can get a test pot or
Speaker 4: something like that, try it in a in a or
Speaker 4: in a discreet area of the table, have a little go,
Speaker 4: make sure it doesn't discolor, and then a thorough wash
Speaker 4: and a concrete ceiler might be.
Speaker 5: The way to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the very best, have a good day, take
Speaker 4: care away. Bye bye, and last building caller before we
Speaker 4: jump into the garden with the red climb past mark.
Speaker 4: Good morning to you, Good morning, how it's good, thank you.
Speaker 16: So I recently moved into a new built townhouse. I'm
Speaker 16: the first owner, and I've been trying to warm on
Speaker 16: a few beans and then between the walls and the garage.
Speaker 16: If I tried to and swore a bike ranking yep.
Speaker 16: Now the at the screws that the bike rack came
Speaker 16: with were a little bit too long, so I ended
Speaker 16: up going off the butt into getting in the wall
Speaker 16: because I couldn't go in more than I think it
Speaker 16: was only about twitting milk birdie belts basically, and so
Speaker 16: I thought, okay, because it's a shed wall of maybe
Speaker 16: that was what on it comes sort of fire protection
Speaker 16: in between the walls in the living room. There's a
Speaker 16: wall internal wall between the living room and the bathroom,
Speaker 16: and I'm trying to warmount the TV there. Unfortunately, I'm
Speaker 16: coming across the same fissure, what a similar issue, and
Speaker 16: that I'm struggling to get my drill at them more
Speaker 16: than about thirty warty mills and this throws The anchors
Speaker 16: that I have with the wall mount are probably fifty
Speaker 16: to sixty meals long. I've done a measurement between the
Speaker 16: corner of the wall and internally we live in the
Speaker 16: bathroom from the door engine then too the collar on
Speaker 16: the door. They and I know that there's three hundred
Speaker 16: mills like a wall. There's two hundred and three hundreds
Speaker 16: of wall there. So I don't know why I found
Speaker 16: the stud using a snokepiner, and I don't know why
Speaker 16: I'm not going in with the drill, and I'm wondering
Speaker 16: if it's me with my drilling technique, right, or if
Speaker 16: it's something more, something more than that. Now I've drilled
Speaker 16: six holes and three different locations.
Speaker 15: It's a two different studs and had the same results.
Speaker 3: Results.
Speaker 16: I'm wondering if something with the wall.
Speaker 4: Do you know, I'm just trying to think, so, you know,
Speaker 4: I presume that the building is sort of conventional in
Speaker 4: the sense that it's timber frame, plaster board lining on it,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. It's it's not.
Speaker 16: I don't know if it is. If it is timber framing,
Speaker 16: I'm wondering if it isn't, and I don't know how
Speaker 16: to tell that.
Speaker 4: And if if you identify with the stutters and you
Speaker 4: drew drilled through the plaster board, you'll either have metal
Speaker 4: swarf coming out or basically dust right or you know, timber,
Speaker 4: so that that should give you an indication there. I mean,
Speaker 4: if it's timber framing.
Speaker 5: I.
Speaker 4: You should be able to drill well. Most timber framing
Speaker 4: is ninety millimeters right, so there's plenty of purchase. You
Speaker 4: do have to because you don't know what's in the walls.
Speaker 13: You do.
Speaker 4: I always advise a little bit of caution in terms
Speaker 4: of how big a screw you fit through. So if
Speaker 4: for example, the living room backs onto the bathroom, there
Speaker 4: could be pipework there. Ideally that pipework should be in
Speaker 4: the center of the studs. So if you've got a
Speaker 4: twenty five mile hole in the center of the stud
Speaker 4: you've got about sixty five millimeters of timber either side.
Speaker 4: So don't put a screw in that goes more than
Speaker 4: about twenty five thirty millimeters in And for a TV
Speaker 4: mounting that'll be absolutely fine. But yeah, I know if
Speaker 4: it's timber and where you try it, like when you
Speaker 4: try and screw into it, do you find that the
Speaker 4: screw is getting purchase in the framing?
Speaker 16: Oh, you know, it's definitely got purchase in a couple
Speaker 16: of others in the holes that I have put the
Speaker 16: screw in.
Speaker 15: So yeah, it just it just wash.
Speaker 16: How it got to a point where it would you
Speaker 16: ever stopped and I couldn't go any further like you
Speaker 16: using Yeah, and.
Speaker 4: You know I took it out obviously, and I use
Speaker 4: a shorter screw. Yeah, I'm going to have to, I
Speaker 4: think you Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think that's
Speaker 4: what it might come down to. And depending on whether
Speaker 4: or not you're using an impact driver to put the
Speaker 4: screw in, whether you're doing it by hand and running
Speaker 4: out of puff, that could be part of it as well.
Speaker 4: But always be a little bit cautious about fixing big
Speaker 4: screws through to timber framing on a wall that you
Speaker 4: don't know what's on the inside, because yeah, been there,
Speaker 4: done that. Good luck to you, Mark all the very
Speaker 4: best on that actually helpful tip, use a strong magnet
Speaker 4: to see if it's still framing. Thanks to you, much appreciated.
Speaker 4: And just the last one on the oil on the concrete,
Speaker 4: nappy sand. Someone suggesting nappy sand let the elements do
Speaker 4: their work. Not a bad idea. If it's a party
Speaker 4: wallet could be one ninety block with forty mili termber strapping. Yes,
Speaker 4: that's possible to be fair as an intertendancy solution. That's
Speaker 4: less common these days. But yeah, if it had strapping
Speaker 4: onto it. But then if you drilled through, you'd find
Speaker 4: you'd hit the masonry right, if you drilled in, you'd
Speaker 4: tell the end of your drill bit was being blunted
Speaker 4: by the masonry. Eventually, Well, if you knew what you're
Speaker 4: looking for, Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. If
Speaker 4: you'd like to talk to rut, he's going to join
Speaker 4: us after the break for more.
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