WEBVTT - The Resident Builder podcast: December 8, 2024 0:00:06.855 --> 0:00:10.055 You're listening to the Resident build Up podcast with Peter 0:00:10.135 --> 0:00:12.055 Wolfcamp from News Talks at Bay. 0:00:18.975 --> 0:00:24.455 The house is a hole, even when it's darns, even 0:00:24.495 --> 0:00:29.415 when the grass is overgrown in the yard, and even 0:00:29.455 --> 0:00:33.775 when the dog is too old to borrow, and when 0:00:33.775 --> 0:00:39.335 you're sitting at the table trying to start. 0:00:38.895 --> 0:00:45.375 Scissor home, even when we are band even when you're 0:00:45.615 --> 0:01:01.335 there alone, the house is a hole, even when those goes, 0:01:02.615 --> 0:01:03.295 Even when you. 0:01:03.415 --> 0:01:06.175 Got around from the world you love your most. 0:01:07.775 --> 0:01:10.015 Scream does pins being in. 0:01:10.055 --> 0:01:20.735 Fund locals when these. 0:01:20.015 --> 0:01:25.415 Even when we ben, even when you're there alone. 0:01:40.575 --> 0:01:43.415 Well, very very good morning to you. Welcome along to 0:01:43.575 --> 0:01:46.215 the Resident Builder on Sunday morning's people off camp the 0:01:46.255 --> 0:01:49.775 Resident Builder. And this is an opportunity for the next 0:01:49.815 --> 0:01:52.215 two and a half, well kind of three hours to 0:01:52.415 --> 0:01:55.615 talk all things building and construction. And it's a big, 0:01:55.695 --> 0:01:58.695 wide open playing field really that we can sort of 0:01:58.775 --> 0:02:03.815 romp around on taking our pack of topics around. It 0:02:03.895 --> 0:02:06.575 might be around compliance, it might be around trades people, 0:02:06.615 --> 0:02:12.535 it might be around renovations, alterations, contracts, move and dates, 0:02:12.575 --> 0:02:14.855 these sorts of things. And there's a few things that 0:02:14.975 --> 0:02:18.415 sort of come through my week where I go, oh, 0:02:18.535 --> 0:02:21.295 actually that's not something we could talk about on the show, 0:02:22.295 --> 0:02:24.895 and I'm prompted. Actually I saw a couple of stories 0:02:24.935 --> 0:02:27.735 this week. It's still pretty tough times. In fact, it's 0:02:28.175 --> 0:02:32.615 extremely tough times out there in the construction sector, and 0:02:32.655 --> 0:02:37.735 it's tough for trades people often. But what obviously comes 0:02:37.775 --> 0:02:41.175 along with these tough times as well is the impact 0:02:41.175 --> 0:02:44.135 on people who have perhaps purchased off the plans they've 0:02:44.135 --> 0:02:46.895 got to move and date that move and date keep shifting, 0:02:47.175 --> 0:02:51.095 or really distressing story that I picked up online during 0:02:51.135 --> 0:02:53.695 the course of this week where people have actually put 0:02:53.735 --> 0:02:58.455 down deposits on a house and land package where in 0:02:58.495 --> 0:03:01.655 the end the developer, the person to whom they've paid 0:03:01.655 --> 0:03:05.215 the deposit for their new home sometime in the future, 0:03:05.455 --> 0:03:09.695 has ended up going into liquidation. In fact, there's no land, 0:03:10.055 --> 0:03:13.575 no house, and the deposit money has gone as well. 0:03:14.015 --> 0:03:17.015 So there's some tough still some tough times out there 0:03:17.015 --> 0:03:19.095 in the sector. If you've been caught in that somehow, 0:03:20.015 --> 0:03:22.575 certainly hope it all works out okay for you, but 0:03:22.615 --> 0:03:27.055 we may want to talk about that certainly as the 0:03:27.695 --> 0:03:31.495 days get a little bit longer. Beautiful, beautiful sunrise this morning, 0:03:32.055 --> 0:03:34.375 as I was turtning my way over the Harbor Bridge. 0:03:34.655 --> 0:03:40.215 If you're thinking about, as we all are, projects that 0:03:40.255 --> 0:03:43.015 we might want to do. G I was thinking get 0:03:43.055 --> 0:03:46.255 done before Christmas, but there's not that many days left 0:03:46.335 --> 0:03:49.775 before Christmas realistically to get a decent sized project done. 0:03:50.175 --> 0:03:52.095 Or perhaps you're thinking, well, actually, I'm going to take 0:03:52.135 --> 0:03:55.175 advantage of some time off over the Christmas break and 0:03:55.215 --> 0:03:58.215 I want to add a pergola. I'm going to extend 0:03:58.215 --> 0:04:01.695 the deck, maybe do some alterations the interior of the property. 0:04:01.895 --> 0:04:03.895 Those sorts of things we can talk about. Those, we 0:04:03.935 --> 0:04:09.055 can talk about what regulations might be around. Do I 0:04:09.055 --> 0:04:11.055 need a building consent for this? Do I not need 0:04:11.055 --> 0:04:13.815 a building consent for this? Certainly if you did need one, 0:04:13.855 --> 0:04:16.375 I think the chances of getting one before Christmas probably 0:04:16.415 --> 0:04:19.855 a bit unlikely right now. So we can talk about 0:04:19.895 --> 0:04:25.095 your place, about legislation, about products, about new ideas. A 0:04:25.135 --> 0:04:28.855 little bit of a revelation for me, not revelation, yes, 0:04:28.895 --> 0:04:30.895 sort of a revelation for me, just in terms of 0:04:32.455 --> 0:04:35.535 tools that I have been dismissive of. So a confession 0:04:35.855 --> 0:04:38.375 from me a little bit later on this morning, where 0:04:38.415 --> 0:04:41.615 I may have been dismissive of a particular type of tool, 0:04:42.455 --> 0:04:45.855 it has now fast become one of my favorite and 0:04:45.975 --> 0:04:49.015 most well used tools in the workshop. Anyway, we'll talk 0:04:49.015 --> 0:04:51.775 about that a little bit later on, but today is 0:04:51.895 --> 0:04:54.695 all about you. So if you've got a question about 0:04:54.735 --> 0:04:58.455 building and about the wide variety of topics that come 0:04:58.535 --> 0:05:01.415 under a heading that says, let's talk about building, we 0:05:01.495 --> 0:05:03.735 can do that this morning on the program. We will 0:05:03.735 --> 0:05:06.815 do that right through till about nine eight thirty this morning. 0:05:07.175 --> 0:05:09.415 Then the Red Climb Past will join us. We'll talk 0:05:09.455 --> 0:05:12.135 all things gardening and the wonderful world of entomology, the 0:05:12.135 --> 0:05:14.815 wonderful world of bugs as well from about eight thirty 0:05:15.015 --> 0:05:17.775 this morning. And to be fair, I'm going to keep 0:05:17.815 --> 0:05:20.855 one eye on the television screens is live pictures coming 0:05:20.895 --> 0:05:26.215 out from Paris. Dignitaries are starting to arrive in Paris 0:05:26.695 --> 0:05:30.775 for the opening of Notre Dame, the official sort of 0:05:31.055 --> 0:05:35.215 high faluting opening of Notre Dame. I have been following 0:05:35.255 --> 0:05:39.135 this ever since the fire. I thought, when the fire 0:05:39.255 --> 0:05:42.255 happened and you saw those images of the flames licking 0:05:42.295 --> 0:05:45.535 through the roof and then the spire crashing down through 0:05:45.575 --> 0:05:47.855 the top of the roof and the scaffolding melting and 0:05:48.535 --> 0:05:55.455 falling into the inferno, and then the typical frenchness. I 0:05:55.455 --> 0:05:58.135 guess of Macron just standing and saying we are going 0:05:58.175 --> 0:06:00.015 to fix it, and we're going to fix it by 0:06:00.055 --> 0:06:02.735 the Olympics. Didn't quite make it by the Olympics, but 0:06:02.935 --> 0:06:07.575 not far off. So a remarkable room. I have been 0:06:07.655 --> 0:06:11.095 absolutely captivated over the last couple of years by especially, 0:06:11.215 --> 0:06:15.775 you know, the little video clips you see online of carpenters, 0:06:15.855 --> 0:06:19.975 stone masons, lead work people, people who do gilding, people 0:06:19.975 --> 0:06:24.615 who do restoration of stained glass, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera working 0:06:24.695 --> 0:06:27.735 on this building, and then to see it all come together, 0:06:27.975 --> 0:06:32.135 it's gosh, it's about far out. It will be almost 0:06:32.175 --> 0:06:36.575 twenty years since I've been to Paris and had a 0:06:36.615 --> 0:06:39.775 wand around the Notre Dame, and to see it today 0:06:39.855 --> 0:06:45.135 it looks absolutely absolutely stunning. We could go political, say 0:06:45.175 --> 0:06:47.935 contrast that to christ Church. Anyway, we won't go there 0:06:47.975 --> 0:06:51.495 this morning. I think we just celebrate the crafts people, 0:06:51.615 --> 0:06:55.175 the craftsmen who have worked, the stone masons, the carpenters, 0:06:55.295 --> 0:06:58.695 the people doing the shingles, the people you know, restoring 0:06:58.735 --> 0:07:04.215 the stone masons, remaking the gargoyles. It's just been absolutely phenomenal. 0:07:04.495 --> 0:07:07.095 Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is that number 0:07:07.095 --> 0:07:09.415 to call. Let's talk all things, building a few projects 0:07:09.455 --> 0:07:12.615 a little bit smaller than Notre Dame. That's okay as well. Oh, 0:07:12.615 --> 0:07:15.295 eight hundred eighty eighty is the number to call. Mike, 0:07:15.415 --> 0:07:18.495 A very good morning to you. I don't know what 0:07:18.535 --> 0:07:20.575 it is with the screen, but it's given up being 0:07:20.575 --> 0:07:22.535 a touch screen. I can tell you that for a fact, 0:07:22.895 --> 0:07:25.095 right Mike, good morning. 0:07:25.655 --> 0:07:26.255 Good morning. 0:07:27.255 --> 0:07:32.335 I was very fifty house with five us past siy yes, beautiful, 0:07:33.055 --> 0:07:38.375 and the seiling in places, the surfaces breaking down a 0:07:38.415 --> 0:07:41.575 little bit. It's a cracker and crazy and lift a 0:07:41.575 --> 0:07:44.975 little bit. I was talking to a guy some time 0:07:45.015 --> 0:07:46.935 ago who used to make them, and he said, well, 0:07:47.615 --> 0:07:49.335 he said, when we made them, we knew they're going 0:07:49.335 --> 0:07:51.255 to know who last about fifty years. But ever he 0:07:51.335 --> 0:07:55.575 told me that when I bought the house. Yeah, my 0:07:55.655 --> 0:07:58.375 mother in law next door she had the same problem. 0:07:58.495 --> 0:08:03.535 She put battens and jim because it's a very big 0:08:03.615 --> 0:08:07.855 caller sid it, yes and jib and you know, I'm 0:08:07.935 --> 0:08:14.095 plaster that. Somebody said you can you can coat over 0:08:14.135 --> 0:08:18.495 it with a plaster skin coated and that would work. 0:08:18.815 --> 0:08:21.295 But I'm not too sure or do you need to 0:08:21.295 --> 0:08:27.175 put beatons on. Can you just secure a small sort 0:08:27.175 --> 0:08:28.815 of jibs directly to the ceiling. 0:08:29.935 --> 0:08:33.135 Would you say the surface is cracking? Is that actually 0:08:33.175 --> 0:08:36.375 the plaster board or the fibrous plaster, or is it 0:08:36.575 --> 0:08:39.615 just the layers of paint that might have been applied 0:08:39.655 --> 0:08:40.535 to it over the years. 0:08:41.095 --> 0:08:44.895 Well, it could well be. It's it's sort of cracking 0:08:44.935 --> 0:08:50.535 in places and and sort of lifting a bit. Yeah, 0:08:51.055 --> 0:08:53.415 I mean, I'm not too sure. I haven't gone up 0:08:53.455 --> 0:08:54.895 there and satis scraping. 0:08:54.575 --> 0:08:58.895 Because yeah, okay, look, I think one of the great 0:08:59.015 --> 0:09:03.215 benefits of fibrous plaster is it is remarkably robust, right, 0:09:03.455 --> 0:09:07.335 So it's it's literally plaster all the ways through, with 0:09:07.615 --> 0:09:11.895 obviously some reinforcing, which is like the old Hessian on. 0:09:12.215 --> 0:09:14.255 One of the issues sometimes can be that the way 0:09:14.295 --> 0:09:18.335 in which they were fixed to the ceiling joists in 0:09:18.775 --> 0:09:22.415 most houses is they fix the sheet up and they 0:09:22.455 --> 0:09:24.615 put a clout through it. But they'd also climb up 0:09:24.655 --> 0:09:27.775 into the roof space, sometimes with a bucket of plaster 0:09:27.935 --> 0:09:31.695 and some wadding, some of this reinforcing, this fibrous reinforcing, 0:09:32.135 --> 0:09:35.295 and make like a little saddle that glued down to 0:09:35.375 --> 0:09:37.775 the surface of the sheet and then went up and 0:09:37.895 --> 0:09:42.695 over the ceiling joist. Now, if they've started to deteriorate, 0:09:43.735 --> 0:09:46.455 which can happen I guess over time, and you've got 0:09:46.495 --> 0:09:49.015 some movement, then you might want to fix that. But 0:09:49.455 --> 0:09:51.655 I suspect yeah. 0:09:52.535 --> 0:09:55.415 And I don't see anything right up there. I don't 0:09:55.455 --> 0:09:57.375 see this sadly, as you talk about the. 0:09:58.335 --> 0:10:03.455 Roof, right, look, are there any issues with moisture like 0:10:03.575 --> 0:10:05.655 you get there's no leaks in the roof or anything 0:10:05.695 --> 0:10:06.055 like that. 0:10:06.375 --> 0:10:07.815 No, no, no, no, nothing like that. 0:10:08.575 --> 0:10:12.215 I would have thought that scraping back the loose flaking 0:10:12.255 --> 0:10:15.135 areas because what would it be two three percent of 0:10:15.175 --> 0:10:18.175 the entire surface of the ceiling. 0:10:18.735 --> 0:10:21.615 Yeah, I guess, so, yeah, right. 0:10:22.215 --> 0:10:26.295 I reckon scraping those back, maybe getting someone into skim 0:10:26.535 --> 0:10:29.335 the surface in those areas to bring them up flat 0:10:29.855 --> 0:10:32.975 standing it using I would go for a pigmented seala, 0:10:33.495 --> 0:10:37.255 so an oil based pigmented seala like sure seal from razine, 0:10:37.415 --> 0:10:39.775 and then go over the top of that with your 0:10:39.815 --> 0:10:42.575 top coats. Because I mean, like the other day, I 0:10:42.615 --> 0:10:45.455 went to look at a house that was unfortunately she 0:10:45.575 --> 0:10:48.935 was a deceased estate. Someone that I knew was thinking 0:10:48.935 --> 0:10:52.815 about making an offer on it, and it was nineteen fifties. 0:10:52.975 --> 0:10:56.095 It had fibrous plaster ceilings all the way through with 0:10:56.295 --> 0:11:00.455 quite a heavy detailed cornice around it as well. And yeah, 0:11:00.495 --> 0:11:03.615 while it needed repair, it certainly didn't need replacement, so 0:11:04.015 --> 0:11:08.215 I would have thought replacement or relining would be unnecessary. 0:11:08.655 --> 0:11:09.375 I think you can. 0:11:09.735 --> 0:11:13.095 See in the wall is the same as the wall 0:11:13.135 --> 0:11:18.135 fibers past, and you could see some places where there's 0:11:18.175 --> 0:11:21.575 lottery bold with it looks like the nails are popped. 0:11:23.175 --> 0:11:27.695 But again you can. You could either take the take 0:11:27.695 --> 0:11:30.495 the nails, take the old nail out, or drive it 0:11:30.575 --> 0:11:36.575 back in, fix a brand new you know, some new 0:11:36.775 --> 0:11:41.215 fixings either side and then go from there. The other 0:11:41.255 --> 0:11:43.295 option for you is to get in touch. I know 0:11:43.495 --> 0:11:46.935 in Auckland there's surprisingly there's still actually a couple of 0:11:46.975 --> 0:11:53.015 people that make fibrous plaster sheets and plaster Craft is 0:11:53.175 --> 0:11:55.575 one company that are still doing it. They used to 0:11:55.575 --> 0:11:57.775 be out and only Hunger. They're out Mount Wellington Way now, 0:11:58.015 --> 0:11:59.735 so I'm not sure where you are in the country, 0:11:59.775 --> 0:12:04.775 but okay, look, you know a phone call to someone 0:12:04.815 --> 0:12:08.335 who's still involved in it, or if I remember the 0:12:08.415 --> 0:12:11.015 guys that I used to use for my jibs stopping 0:12:11.375 --> 0:12:14.095 years and years ago, and they were old boys. Then 0:12:15.655 --> 0:12:17.775 they when they started out in their trades, they were 0:12:17.775 --> 0:12:20.775 doing fibrous plaster all the time. I don't know that 0:12:20.815 --> 0:12:25.775 you find many older tradesmen basically these days who would 0:12:25.775 --> 0:12:28.175 still be familiar with it. But my sense is that 0:12:28.295 --> 0:12:32.295 you can repair it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be looking 0:12:32.335 --> 0:12:38.495 at replacing it. No, look at replace here you or 0:12:38.535 --> 0:12:39.255 relining it. 0:12:39.295 --> 0:12:43.815 Or molded mold. Yeah, beautiful. 0:12:45.695 --> 0:12:46.415 I'd stick with it. 0:12:46.895 --> 0:12:50.095 I think it'll be It'll need some work, but I 0:12:50.175 --> 0:12:56.775 think you'll be rewarded for your efforts some money. Yeah, 0:12:56.895 --> 0:13:02.055 I know, I know. And yeah, all right, nice to 0:13:02.055 --> 0:13:03.975 talk to you. All the best, Mike, you take care 0:13:04.095 --> 0:13:08.495 see them. Yeah, isn't there. It's not the work, it's 0:13:08.535 --> 0:13:11.215 the money. You're absolutely right, of course. Oh, eight hundred 0:13:11.255 --> 0:13:13.255 and eighty ten eighty. We'll take your calls. We'll talk 0:13:13.255 --> 0:13:16.215 five rous plaster, we'll talk jobs around the house. Maybe 0:13:16.215 --> 0:13:20.135 we talk money and budgets and how do you I've 0:13:20.175 --> 0:13:22.575 always maintained I haven't said this for a while now. 0:13:24.055 --> 0:13:28.295 As if you're a home owner, right, I think you 0:13:28.455 --> 0:13:34.375 need to either have money set aside or have the 0:13:34.415 --> 0:13:37.415 ability to access that money either by drawing down on 0:13:37.415 --> 0:13:39.575 the mortgage or something like that. And I've always thought 0:13:39.615 --> 0:13:41.255 you should put aside. And I don't know where I 0:13:41.255 --> 0:13:43.095 got this figure from, so it might be a bit random. 0:13:43.495 --> 0:13:47.255 Around zero point five percent of the value of the 0:13:47.335 --> 0:13:52.415 house into a maintenance pool about point five percent, So 0:13:52.495 --> 0:13:55.895 do the calculations about point five percent, and that will 0:13:56.175 --> 0:13:59.575 if it's a fund that builds up over time. You 0:13:59.615 --> 0:14:01.535 know you'll have money there when you need to replace 0:14:01.575 --> 0:14:04.095 the roof, or if you need to do a complete 0:14:04.175 --> 0:14:08.895 exterior repaint including you know, potentially scaffolding and a few 0:14:08.975 --> 0:14:11.975 maintenance but some pieces to weather boards or cladding and 0:14:12.015 --> 0:14:14.455 that sort of thing, you'll have it there. Because the 0:14:14.535 --> 0:14:20.255 one thing that's absolutely certain is maintenance delayed is just 0:14:20.375 --> 0:14:24.215 ends up resulting in a much bigger job. And I've 0:14:24.295 --> 0:14:27.255 seen that a thousand times eight hundred eighty ten eighty 0:14:27.295 --> 0:14:28.815 is the number to call if you've got a question 0:14:28.855 --> 0:14:34.775 about building, around construction, around materials to use, products to use, 0:14:34.895 --> 0:14:37.535 tools to use. I mean we're coming up to Christmas. 0:14:37.615 --> 0:14:41.375 We could talk Christmas gift buying as well. The person 0:14:41.375 --> 0:14:43.415 who has everything, what do you get the person who's 0:14:43.415 --> 0:14:45.935 got everything? I might even have a tip on that 0:14:45.975 --> 0:14:48.455 one as well. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the 0:14:48.535 --> 0:14:51.415 number to call. The lines are open ready for your calls. 0:14:51.655 --> 0:14:54.295 Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call. 0:14:54.335 --> 0:14:55.855 You can text as well. We've got a couple of 0:14:55.855 --> 0:14:58.775 texts come through this morning. Text nine to nine two 0:14:58.935 --> 0:15:01.695 is ABCB from mobile phone. And if you would like 0:15:01.735 --> 0:15:04.535 to email me, you more than welcome. It is Pete 0:15:04.655 --> 0:15:08.375 at Newstalk SB dot code. So Pete, p E t 0:15:08.575 --> 0:15:13.535 E at Newstalk ZB dot co dot NZI. Okay, a 0:15:13.535 --> 0:15:15.295 couple of quick texts, Hey, Pete, I live in a 0:15:15.375 --> 0:15:19.455 nineteen forties house with a brick A nineteen forties house 0:15:19.455 --> 0:15:22.975 with a brick exterior that has been plastered. The plaster 0:15:23.095 --> 0:15:25.935 has some hairline cracks that seem to have been created 0:15:26.375 --> 0:15:30.575 by normal house movement. What solutions are available to repair 0:15:30.655 --> 0:15:35.215 these cracks? Thanks from Sam, Let's assume that the cracks 0:15:35.255 --> 0:15:38.815 are relatively minor, so they're the sort of movement cracks that, 0:15:39.055 --> 0:15:42.375 as you quite rightly say, you'd expect from normal house movement. 0:15:43.215 --> 0:15:45.695 And if it's been painted, if you're going to use 0:15:46.015 --> 0:15:51.415 a good quality paint designed for rendered surfaces, then you'll 0:15:51.415 --> 0:15:55.815 probably find that anything up to about two millimeters, the 0:15:55.895 --> 0:16:00.495 paint will actually span that and cover that. Anything more 0:16:00.535 --> 0:16:06.775 than that, given that you're going to paint it use 0:16:07.335 --> 0:16:10.695 you could use flexible sealant. The hard thing is trying 0:16:10.735 --> 0:16:14.975 to not make that look really obvious. You know, we've 0:16:15.015 --> 0:16:17.615 probably all seen lots of repairs and masonry work where 0:16:17.655 --> 0:16:21.255 someone's just taken a tube of silicon and squirted out 0:16:21.255 --> 0:16:23.855 a bead of silicon and then smeared it off with 0:16:23.855 --> 0:16:26.575 their finger, and you get this great, big wide swadge 0:16:26.895 --> 0:16:30.135 of silicon on the outside of the building and then 0:16:30.175 --> 0:16:33.095 paint over it, and it just draws attention to it 0:16:33.215 --> 0:16:37.175 rather than hide the defect. It just draws attention to 0:16:37.215 --> 0:16:40.295 the defect. But if you were very neat with that, 0:16:40.335 --> 0:16:44.335 you could use it. There are also some semonititious based 0:16:44.375 --> 0:16:47.135 repair products, So if the crack's a little bit bigger, 0:16:47.175 --> 0:16:49.695 and if it's got a slightly textured surface, you could 0:16:49.735 --> 0:16:53.295 make up a slurry with this, apply it into the 0:16:53.375 --> 0:16:56.855 crack and then use a sponge or even a brush 0:16:57.095 --> 0:16:59.695 and then brush it off so that it matches the 0:16:59.735 --> 0:17:04.335 exterior texture of the building, and then prime and recope. 0:17:04.335 --> 0:17:06.535 That so a couple of options there, But I think 0:17:06.575 --> 0:17:09.775 if they're relatively minor. New coat of paint will actually 0:17:10.175 --> 0:17:13.135 be able to span most of those. And this is 0:17:13.215 --> 0:17:16.175 delightful text from Helen this morning, Morning Peak. I listen 0:17:16.255 --> 0:17:18.695 to you each week. I'm a hopeless I'm sure that's 0:17:18.695 --> 0:17:21.335 not true. Seventy three year old female not able to 0:17:21.335 --> 0:17:25.095 fix anything regards building. Friday, the bottom screws fell out 0:17:25.135 --> 0:17:27.535 of a kitchen door. What do I do? I remembered 0:17:27.615 --> 0:17:30.135 you said to put a broken match into the hole 0:17:30.575 --> 0:17:33.095 so the screw has some grip. So I had some 0:17:33.175 --> 0:17:36.655 screws that matched with the old Phillips screwdriver. Thank you. 0:17:36.735 --> 0:17:42.495 It's fixed. How satisfying. And I think Helen and you 0:17:42.615 --> 0:17:52.375 have encapsulated expressed the satisfaction of DIY right there, and 0:17:52.415 --> 0:17:57.295 then there is a tremendous, tremendous satisfaction in going I 0:17:57.335 --> 0:18:01.975 fixed it, And you know, in this case it's a 0:18:02.455 --> 0:18:04.695 that's actually quite a tricky job to do, to be fair, 0:18:06.455 --> 0:18:09.815 So well done to you. I think that's absolutely brilliant. 0:18:10.815 --> 0:18:13.175 Thank you very very much for your call, Helen. I 0:18:13.215 --> 0:18:15.255 wish you all the very best for Christmas and the 0:18:15.295 --> 0:18:17.175 new Year. We're going to take a short break. If 0:18:17.215 --> 0:18:19.615 you've got a text or a question you should call. Now, oh, 0:18:19.695 --> 0:18:21.855 eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number. Getting a 0:18:21.895 --> 0:18:25.895 number of texts and on that comment that I made 0:18:25.895 --> 0:18:30.015 around sort of a maintenance savings plan. Now, look, I 0:18:30.055 --> 0:18:34.855 absolutely acknowledge the fact that that's in today's times, that's 0:18:35.455 --> 0:18:41.655 possibly not durable or not easily durable. But someone's responded 0:18:41.695 --> 0:18:48.855 by saying, hey, Pete, regards your comment about the home maintenance. Recently, 0:18:48.935 --> 0:18:51.095 I heard a comment that you should look at spending 0:18:51.175 --> 0:18:55.335 one percent of the value of your house purchase per year. Now, 0:18:55.375 --> 0:18:57.935 I guess this would mean that, as you said, you 0:18:58.015 --> 0:19:00.735 regularly put this amount of money aside each year, some 0:19:00.815 --> 0:19:03.135 of which may be spent in the year or more 0:19:03.175 --> 0:19:08.135 importantly saved for the big job. So yeah, I mean 0:19:08.975 --> 0:19:11.735 zero point five might be a little bit light better 0:19:11.815 --> 0:19:16.415 than nothing. One percent would be great. And even if 0:19:16.455 --> 0:19:19.775 it wasn't money that you had, you know, term deposit 0:19:19.895 --> 0:19:23.295 or something like that, but you were able to access, 0:19:25.895 --> 0:19:28.335 get the sense that it's probably not far off the 0:19:28.375 --> 0:19:33.375 mark one percent. Maybe I don't know, do the numbs numbers, 0:19:33.495 --> 0:19:36.575 let me know what you think, and you know, if 0:19:36.615 --> 0:19:39.215 you've done let's say you've been in the house for 0:19:39.215 --> 0:19:42.375 a number of years and you've done a reroof. For example, 0:19:43.055 --> 0:19:46.655 I suspect for most houses the cost of a reroof 0:19:46.775 --> 0:19:50.655 would be more than one percent of the value of 0:19:50.695 --> 0:19:55.935 the house. It's probably a good example. Or an exterior 0:19:55.975 --> 0:19:59.935 paint job would be worth more than one percent of 0:19:59.975 --> 0:20:04.415 the value of the house. And again these are not 0:20:04.455 --> 0:20:06.415 things that you do. You know, reroof you might do 0:20:06.455 --> 0:20:11.055 every twenty years or so, but a repaint seven eight 0:20:11.135 --> 0:20:14.455 years probably certainly. I mean we did a big paint 0:20:14.495 --> 0:20:17.975 job on our place about that time and it needs maintenance. 0:20:18.015 --> 0:20:21.495 Now that's one of well, it goes on a very 0:20:21.535 --> 0:20:23.695 long list of jobs that I've got for the summer. Oh, 0:20:23.695 --> 0:20:25.935 eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call Johnny, 0:20:25.975 --> 0:20:27.855 good morning to you. How are you doing. 0:20:29.255 --> 0:20:33.695 Understring? From christ six on that I thoroughly enjoy your program. 0:20:33.775 --> 0:20:36.735 And you have in an oler house like I do. 0:20:37.095 --> 0:20:41.295 Ye Now our a a section you probably know this 0:20:41.455 --> 0:20:44.575 section twenty six of the Housing Corporation Act fifty five 0:20:45.375 --> 0:20:52.255 on drainage, Property and Pipelines. Now this is an each 0:20:52.295 --> 0:20:55.015 state house and as you probably know, they used to 0:20:55.255 --> 0:20:58.135 reroute them to join up two or three properties. And 0:21:01.455 --> 0:21:04.655 you know for drainage. Now when you've been told by 0:21:04.655 --> 0:21:08.535 a neighbor that get your own dan and things like that, 0:21:08.615 --> 0:21:13.935 and she's used two contractors. They had taken no notice 0:21:13.935 --> 0:21:16.495 from me, and that they just plowed through things, broke 0:21:16.535 --> 0:21:19.655 the pipe first one that had to be paid for 0:21:20.015 --> 0:21:23.815 by cost, costing me money all the time in the 0:21:23.855 --> 0:21:28.415 bottom of the section C. I think of that Act 0:21:29.295 --> 0:21:33.455 twenty six, the Housing Corporation Act since sixte and four 0:21:33.615 --> 0:21:39.535 c says that provided that when relaying or appears that 0:21:39.975 --> 0:21:42.735 rendered necessary by the Act of the default, if any 0:21:42.735 --> 0:21:45.575 get one of the people that owned the pipe sort 0:21:45.575 --> 0:21:48.895 of thing here, or they should be the whole cost 0:21:48.935 --> 0:21:54.295 of the exact exact cost. So what happens there is 0:21:54.295 --> 0:21:56.335 that still a prie or has it been superseded? 0:21:57.135 --> 0:22:01.255 Wow, given that there is no housing Corporation anymore, potentially 0:22:01.295 --> 0:22:06.295 the Act will will have changed. But I think responsibility 0:22:06.655 --> 0:22:11.455 for drainage and services and utilities on your section typically 0:22:11.575 --> 0:22:16.415 are pretty straightforward. So if for example, it's a wastewater 0:22:16.495 --> 0:22:20.735 pipe that's connected to your house, you're responsible at for 0:22:20.895 --> 0:22:24.375 it until such time as it reaches the public line. 0:22:26.215 --> 0:22:29.855 Right that through the neighbors. The first thing they did 0:22:29.975 --> 0:22:31.135 is put a new driveway in. 0:22:32.775 --> 0:22:35.095 Yeah, well again and then. 0:22:34.935 --> 0:22:38.495 They get that contract. I had to get the council 0:22:38.535 --> 0:22:41.895 approved guy out here to put a camera through there, 0:22:41.975 --> 0:22:48.095 and they backed up truction smashed the pipe so that 0:22:48.135 --> 0:22:51.615 the contractor had to come back out. Then I told him, well, 0:22:51.615 --> 0:22:54.135 you can run my line straight out the street, but 0:22:54.255 --> 0:22:57.575 they say, oh no, So they ripped up her bit 0:22:57.615 --> 0:23:00.415 of concrete there and put a piece of plastic in there. 0:23:03.495 --> 0:23:05.855 The second contract to the contractor to doing know anything 0:23:05.895 --> 0:23:07.655 about it from these jobs. 0:23:07.975 --> 0:23:12.255 Yeah, Look, I think in those instances where like if 0:23:12.455 --> 0:23:16.695 if your pipe it must have an easement, Well, I 0:23:16.735 --> 0:23:20.415 guess so this is still a it's no longer housing 0:23:20.415 --> 0:23:24.855 Corporates kind of order property and the adjacent properties are 0:23:24.895 --> 0:23:26.335 also owned by KO. 0:23:27.015 --> 0:23:29.135 No no, no, they're both brokenly. 0:23:28.855 --> 0:23:34.335 Ain't right? Then I presume that they are the other one. 0:23:34.735 --> 0:23:39.895 You have an easement that allows your drainage drainage to 0:23:40.375 --> 0:23:44.815 run through the neighboring property. But you know, as a contractor, 0:23:44.895 --> 0:23:48.935 if I damaged that, I would be responsible for it. Right, 0:23:49.015 --> 0:23:51.295 So if I've done work on adjoining property and it's 0:23:51.375 --> 0:23:56.055 damaged your drainage that has a legal right to be there, 0:23:58.335 --> 0:24:00.735 it's not your responsibility to fix it. It's the person 0:24:00.775 --> 0:24:02.495 who damaged its responsibility. 0:24:03.055 --> 0:24:05.735 I know that's still as well, is it I. 0:24:05.735 --> 0:24:08.015 Would have thought so, yes, I can't see that having. 0:24:07.895 --> 0:24:13.855 Changed at the time. At first. The first contrary, does 0:24:13.895 --> 0:24:16.135 it run the line straight out to the street. 0:24:17.415 --> 0:24:20.935 Yeah, but you can't just make changes to where drainage 0:24:20.975 --> 0:24:24.255 runs to suit you. That would have required a consent, 0:24:24.335 --> 0:24:28.535 would have required permission from the council as to making 0:24:28.575 --> 0:24:31.135 a new connection. Except is it stormwater or wastewater that 0:24:31.175 --> 0:24:37.695 we're talking about. Primarily it's just stormwater stormwater. Yeah, councils 0:24:37.775 --> 0:24:41.895 very reluctant to have more curb discharges these days. They 0:24:42.015 --> 0:24:47.255 want most stormwater to be piped. If christ Church is 0:24:47.295 --> 0:24:50.335 anything like Auckland, you'll also have to introduce some mitigation 0:24:50.935 --> 0:24:54.095 around what you do with your storm water, so controlling 0:24:54.255 --> 0:24:57.575 flow and during heavy rain events which were more frequent 0:24:57.615 --> 0:25:00.335 these days. So yeah, just p hoping it straight out 0:25:00.335 --> 0:25:05.655 into the street wouldn't have been acceptable, right, In other words, 0:25:05.735 --> 0:25:07.615