WEBVTT - The Resident Builder podcast: January 5, 2025 0:00:06.855 --> 0:00:11.095 You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peterwolfcamp from 0:00:11.135 --> 0:00:16.135 News Talks at b Squeaky Door or Squeaky Floor. 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Se'd 0:01:50.135 --> 0:01:53.815 be for twenty twenty five, so it is a great 0:01:53.855 --> 0:01:57.415 pleasure to return. Well, we haven't really taken a break 0:01:57.455 --> 0:01:59.655 to be fair, But it's great to be back, and 0:01:59.695 --> 0:02:02.975 it's it is twenty twenty five, and that brings with it, 0:02:03.055 --> 0:02:09.495 I suppose optimism, hope, opportunity, potential for a year ahead. Certainly, 0:02:09.535 --> 0:02:12.495 there's plenty of challenges out there for the construction sector, 0:02:12.535 --> 0:02:15.575 for the economy in general, to be fair, so we'll 0:02:15.575 --> 0:02:18.215 see how that pans out over the course of the year. 0:02:18.855 --> 0:02:21.015 But it is delightful to be back. I trust that 0:02:21.055 --> 0:02:25.895 you had a good New Year's celebration. Hopefully if it 0:02:26.015 --> 0:02:28.535 was festive, it was not festive with some sort of 0:02:28.535 --> 0:02:33.055 long lingering hangover or some yeah something you've got of 0:02:33.095 --> 0:02:36.215 it later on. But anyway, if you've had a hopefully 0:02:36.255 --> 0:02:39.135 you've had a good New Year's and you are preparing 0:02:39.175 --> 0:02:42.055 yourself for the year ahead. If you've been out in 0:02:42.095 --> 0:02:44.535 the garden, or you've been working around the house, or 0:02:44.535 --> 0:02:47.295 you've been doing some jobs inside, I hope they've been 0:02:47.375 --> 0:02:50.655 going well or as well as they possibly can. I 0:02:50.735 --> 0:02:53.855 did actually notice in my neighborhood someone was out with 0:02:54.055 --> 0:02:58.015 power tools on New Year's Day. They were cracking into it. 0:02:58.055 --> 0:02:59.495 I don't know what it was. It might have been 0:02:59.495 --> 0:03:02.615 a water blaster. I'm pretty sure I heard a grinder 0:03:02.695 --> 0:03:05.255 out there somewhere. Not sure that I heard a skill 0:03:05.335 --> 0:03:08.615 saw or a chains but certainly some people were out 0:03:08.615 --> 0:03:11.855 and about with power tools on New Year's Day, possibly 0:03:12.055 --> 0:03:14.655 having a sort of a very sober night and then 0:03:14.695 --> 0:03:18.615 wanting to rub in their vigor and their determination to 0:03:18.655 --> 0:03:21.855 greet the new year with activity. For those who maybe 0:03:21.935 --> 0:03:24.215 were lingering a little bit in bed a bit longer 0:03:24.295 --> 0:03:27.135 on New Year's Day radio, we're into it. So the 0:03:27.215 --> 0:03:31.695 year ahead will be fascinating. I think from a political 0:03:31.735 --> 0:03:33.735 point of view, it's going to be interesting to see 0:03:33.735 --> 0:03:36.375 whether so much of what was talked about last year 0:03:36.375 --> 0:03:40.935 in terms of lessening bureaucracy, trying to speed up the 0:03:41.015 --> 0:03:44.255 construction or the consenting process, any of those sorts of 0:03:44.295 --> 0:03:47.855 things come to fruition, whether or not after a lot 0:03:47.935 --> 0:03:51.815 of consultation around standards, and whether or not the increased 0:03:51.815 --> 0:03:55.895 standards for H one, which is the insulation requirements, will 0:03:55.935 --> 0:03:58.415 be wound back in order to try and find some 0:03:58.495 --> 0:04:02.375 savings for the cost of building houses. Whether that actually 0:04:02.415 --> 0:04:06.695 comes to something I personally hope not in this that 0:04:06.895 --> 0:04:08.815 I don't think that we need to wind back H 0:04:08.855 --> 0:04:11.375 one standards, but we do need to get rid of 0:04:11.415 --> 0:04:13.615 the schedule methods so well, we can talk about that. 0:04:15.095 --> 0:04:17.015 It's going to be a fascinating year ahead. So if 0:04:17.055 --> 0:04:20.935 you've got a project that is underway and maybe you'd 0:04:20.935 --> 0:04:24.095 like some help with it, or you've started something, perhaps 0:04:24.135 --> 0:04:27.495 you've got some new tools. Like me, I don't actually 0:04:27.535 --> 0:04:30.255 get any tools for Christmas. Buying tools for me for 0:04:30.335 --> 0:04:33.455 Christmas could be a little bit tricky. However, I have 0:04:33.615 --> 0:04:36.775 been out shopping over the Christmas break and I picked 0:04:36.815 --> 0:04:38.975 up a couple of little things that I felt that 0:04:39.055 --> 0:04:42.975 I needed that were a gap in the arsenal, a 0:04:43.015 --> 0:04:45.615 gap in the repertoire of tools that I might have 0:04:45.655 --> 0:04:47.215 in the tool shed. So we can talk a little 0:04:47.215 --> 0:04:50.655 bit about those. But later on this morning, and I 0:04:50.695 --> 0:04:52.735 did actually spend a little bit of happy time in 0:04:52.775 --> 0:04:58.015 the workshop, just kind of organizing, sort of puttering. Puttering, 0:04:58.055 --> 0:05:01.215 I think was my word for twenty twenty four. At 0:05:01.295 --> 0:05:03.495 some stage during twenty twenty five, I'll think of another 0:05:03.535 --> 0:05:05.975 word or find another word that I like. I'm not 0:05:05.975 --> 0:05:08.295 making them up, I just find them and I like them. 0:05:08.295 --> 0:05:11.455 Puttering was a great word. Actually, I've got a delightful 0:05:11.495 --> 0:05:15.935 card from Dennis, who lives around where I did, and 0:05:16.735 --> 0:05:19.255 he swung by to drop off a card and a 0:05:19.295 --> 0:05:22.535 gift actually, which was very kind of a just to say, hey, look, 0:05:22.695 --> 0:05:25.255 have a good year and all the best for Christmas 0:05:25.335 --> 0:05:28.775 and so on. And he mentioned in his card that 0:05:28.855 --> 0:05:33.455 he had been out puttering during the day and found 0:05:33.495 --> 0:05:36.215 that enormously satisfying as well. If you don't know what 0:05:36.255 --> 0:05:38.975 puttering means, I'll explain a bit later on. But hey, look, 0:05:39.055 --> 0:05:41.615 we're into it for a new year. So this is 0:05:41.615 --> 0:05:47.015 a show all about essentially building literacy. So what I 0:05:47.055 --> 0:05:49.535 want to talk about is stuff that I read about, 0:05:49.535 --> 0:05:52.655 all that I'm involved with and do. And you know, 0:05:52.735 --> 0:05:54.695 during the course of the year, I'm in a privileged 0:05:54.735 --> 0:05:56.575 position in a sense where I get to attend a 0:05:56.575 --> 0:05:59.575 lot of seminars. I have an opportunity of sort of 0:05:59.575 --> 0:06:04.175 getting an insight into the construction sector and into construction 0:06:04.375 --> 0:06:09.775 practice as well. We build better houses, and it's complex. 0:06:10.095 --> 0:06:12.775 There's lots and lots of well, initially moving but in 0:06:12.815 --> 0:06:15.295 the end not many moving parts in a house. They 0:06:15.295 --> 0:06:18.335 tend to remain stable. So, you know, how do we 0:06:19.095 --> 0:06:21.375 how do we figure out how to do things better 0:06:21.735 --> 0:06:24.015 in order to get better houses? And there was a 0:06:24.055 --> 0:06:25.935 text at the end of last week's show. I obviously 0:06:25.975 --> 0:06:28.855 struck a nerve by talking a little bit about bureaucracy. 0:06:29.895 --> 0:06:33.175 I wasn't actually talking about bureaucracy, but people there are 0:06:33.295 --> 0:06:37.455 several texts actually quite critical of me in their eyes, 0:06:37.575 --> 0:06:42.495 defending bureaucracy, defending regulations. I don't mind talking about that, 0:06:42.535 --> 0:06:44.855 but later on the show as well, right now in 0:06:44.895 --> 0:06:47.215 the show. Actually, let's not do it later. Let's do 0:06:47.255 --> 0:06:49.215 it right now, because the lines are open. Oh, eight 0:06:49.295 --> 0:06:52.495 hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call? You 0:06:52.575 --> 0:06:55.695 can text which is nine two nine two or ZBZB 0:06:55.815 --> 0:06:57.895 from your mobile phone, and if you'd like to send 0:06:57.895 --> 0:06:59.855 me an email, you would be more than welcome it 0:06:59.895 --> 0:07:03.455 as Pete at newstoo zb dot co dot nz. So 0:07:03.575 --> 0:07:05.775 let's get into it. The lines are open. The number 0:07:05.775 --> 0:07:08.895 to call eight hundred and eighty ten eighty any building 0:07:08.975 --> 0:07:13.255 related questions, and it might be legislation, it might be tools. 0:07:14.375 --> 0:07:17.215 I'm more than happy to talk about tools. Actually I 0:07:17.295 --> 0:07:19.815 might give you my tool of the year. I was 0:07:19.815 --> 0:07:22.495 thinking about this after the show last week, and I 0:07:22.535 --> 0:07:24.255 was sort of, you know, at the end of the year, 0:07:24.295 --> 0:07:26.255 you kind of I don't know. My habit is to 0:07:26.295 --> 0:07:30.335 be a little bit reflective, let's say a little contemplative, 0:07:30.735 --> 0:07:32.295 thinking back on the year, and I was trying to 0:07:32.335 --> 0:07:34.655 think in amongst a whole lot of other thoughts that 0:07:34.975 --> 0:07:39.015 were rumbling around and my head around things like what 0:07:39.095 --> 0:07:41.295 was the most useful thing that I might have purchased 0:07:41.375 --> 0:07:44.015 or encountered in terms of tools over the course of 0:07:44.055 --> 0:07:48.215 the year. And so I've landed on something, possibly two, 0:07:48.415 --> 0:07:52.255 but certainly one. Anyway, So we can talk tools, we 0:07:52.295 --> 0:07:54.455 can talk about projects. We can talk about projects that 0:07:54.535 --> 0:07:57.375 you might have ahead of you this year. If you've 0:07:57.415 --> 0:08:00.575 got something on the drawing board back in the old 0:08:00.615 --> 0:08:02.175 days that you'd like to bring to life, how are 0:08:02.175 --> 0:08:04.095 you going to do it? What choices do you make, 0:08:05.295 --> 0:08:08.415 where do you put your resources? And in fact I've 0:08:09.215 --> 0:08:12.575 just at the end of last year I was introduced 0:08:12.575 --> 0:08:16.695 to via a builder that I know, an outstanding builder 0:08:16.695 --> 0:08:19.855 to be fair, a project that he started right in 0:08:19.895 --> 0:08:21.695 the middle of December, so almost at the end of 0:08:21.735 --> 0:08:26.375 the year. A renovation and addition to an existing nineteen 0:08:26.415 --> 0:08:29.855 fifties house, where the clients are particularly informed and they 0:08:29.935 --> 0:08:33.015 want to go high performance. They want to create a 0:08:33.135 --> 0:08:38.695 really energy efficient house out of what is an older house, 0:08:38.695 --> 0:08:41.935 so a deep retrofit with a view to making it 0:08:42.135 --> 0:08:47.295 incredibly energy efficient, a very sustainable home. So we'll keep 0:08:47.335 --> 0:08:48.935 you up to date with that project. If that's what 0:08:48.975 --> 0:08:51.455 you've got on your plate that you'd like to do, well, 0:08:51.495 --> 0:08:53.415 we can talk about that as well. Or if it's 0:08:53.495 --> 0:08:56.135 just a more and a sense more modest thing. I 0:08:56.175 --> 0:08:58.455 just want to make my house a little bit warmer, 0:08:58.655 --> 0:09:03.175 drier and more comfortable, then let's talk about that too. Oh, 0:09:03.255 --> 0:09:05.455 eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. 0:09:05.655 --> 0:09:07.815 Great to be with you really looking forward to the 0:09:07.895 --> 0:09:11.175 year ahead. It is six fifteen here on the fifth 0:09:11.255 --> 0:09:14.295 of January twenty twenty five. We're into it, paul A, 0:09:14.495 --> 0:09:17.775 very good morning to you. How are you this morning, Paul, Yeah, 0:09:17.775 --> 0:09:20.815 good morning, into you, into you. 0:09:21.215 --> 0:09:23.815 I've got a little chip on my kitchen bench. I've 0:09:23.815 --> 0:09:26.055 got like an undermount think and it's right on the 0:09:26.135 --> 0:09:28.335 rim of that app. I've heard you in the past 0:09:28.455 --> 0:09:30.815 recommend a couple of companies that can come around, and 0:09:31.295 --> 0:09:33.775 already that up. So I'm on Central Auklands. 0:09:34.255 --> 0:09:37.615 Depends what's the material good. 0:09:37.495 --> 0:09:40.375 Question, not sure at some fall of lumine. I've asked 0:09:40.415 --> 0:09:42.655 some people that have come around. It's like a it's 0:09:42.655 --> 0:09:46.415 Scott Constantino's Spain brand underneath it. I'm not quite sure. 0:09:46.535 --> 0:09:49.495 It looks like some sort of resin sort of it's 0:09:49.535 --> 0:09:51.335 kind of stone sort of effect was in the house 0:09:51.335 --> 0:09:53.135 when we brought it, so we're just really tiding it 0:09:53.215 --> 0:09:56.855 up for the new owner really, So yeah, sure, I'm certain, 0:09:56.935 --> 0:09:58.415 but i'd say some sort of reason. 0:09:59.335 --> 0:10:05.015 Yeah, Okay, now that Costantino was a fairly new brand 0:10:05.055 --> 0:10:08.015 that's out, So yeah. 0:10:07.855 --> 0:10:11.895 I think just to this house for over fifteen years ago, 0:10:13.295 --> 0:10:15.775 you might. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't think it's 0:10:15.815 --> 0:10:18.095 a better look online at that brand. I can't see 0:10:18.095 --> 0:10:19.855 any relevant to what I've got for you. 0:10:19.975 --> 0:10:22.975 No, Okay, Look, composites have been around for a while 0:10:23.175 --> 0:10:27.295 and they are quite repairable, so well, in most cases 0:10:27.335 --> 0:10:33.015 they can be I would start with bench doctors online, 0:10:33.055 --> 0:10:35.815 so they effectively they're kind of like a franchise. I 0:10:35.815 --> 0:10:39.135 think they're around the country and certainly they'll be in Auckland, 0:10:40.535 --> 0:10:43.575 and if they don't know, they'll probably be able to 0:10:43.615 --> 0:10:46.455 put you onto someone like there's another guy that I 0:10:46.575 --> 0:10:49.455 used a little while ago, a crylic fix, but that 0:10:49.695 --> 0:10:52.735 was specifically for a crylic bench top. So things like 0:10:52.895 --> 0:10:55.055 vanity tops and that sort of thing where we had 0:10:55.055 --> 0:10:59.855 the classic you know, finished the project and someone, possibly me, 0:11:00.055 --> 0:11:03.655 possibly another trade you know, dropped a hammer or a 0:11:03.735 --> 0:11:06.935 chisel onto the edge of the bench and we ended 0:11:07.015 --> 0:11:12.215 up with a chip in it. Right, Yeah, there was 0:11:12.255 --> 0:11:15.815 another one of those a little while ago. So yeah, look, 0:11:15.815 --> 0:11:19.135 they can be repaired. I'd start with bench doctors go 0:11:19.215 --> 0:11:22.775 from there. Yeah, okay, yeah, And are you staying in 0:11:22.815 --> 0:11:24.215 the house or are you looking to sell? 0:11:25.175 --> 0:11:27.295 No, we're looking to sell, So just tining it up 0:11:27.295 --> 0:11:29.175 for you. Aren't like it's the bench stoll. I say, 0:11:29.175 --> 0:11:31.655 it's fairly whold, but it's obviously quite good quality it 0:11:31.935 --> 0:11:34.815 seeing your life in it, and I'd say, yeah that 0:11:34.815 --> 0:11:36.935 that chips and sinks had won too many bands with 0:11:38.655 --> 0:11:42.095 under the Yeah, just that's a tiny chap. It's only 0:11:42.135 --> 0:11:44.175 about maybe eight meals via a couple of meals, but 0:11:44.295 --> 0:11:46.695 it's just right and the worst possible place. You see 0:11:46.695 --> 0:11:47.615 it every time you go to this. 0:11:47.655 --> 0:11:50.415 Thing, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's one of those 0:11:50.455 --> 0:11:53.615 things that perhaps you know, someone coming in to look 0:11:53.615 --> 0:11:55.775 at the house prior to purchase, and then they see 0:11:55.815 --> 0:11:58.095 that and they think, oh, then I've got to find 0:11:58.095 --> 0:12:00.895 someone to fix it, you know what I mean, And 0:12:00.935 --> 0:12:03.415 then suddenly it becomes it kind of in their head. 0:12:03.535 --> 0:12:05.495 It goes on that side of the ledger that goes 0:12:05.735 --> 0:12:07.815 stuff that I have to do once I bought that house. 0:12:07.815 --> 0:12:11.855 And I've always thought, actually, you know, people have often said, oh, 0:12:11.855 --> 0:12:13.975 what should I do prior to selling the house? And 0:12:14.015 --> 0:12:16.775 I've always thought, you try and tack off those things 0:12:16.815 --> 0:12:21.895 that leave that sort of oh impression in a prospective buyer. 0:12:22.215 --> 0:12:24.575 You don't want them to you know, like open. I 0:12:24.615 --> 0:12:26.655 went to one open home a little while ago, opened 0:12:26.655 --> 0:12:29.975 the door. The front door was open, and down the 0:12:30.135 --> 0:12:34.335 corner on the hinge side they done some really terrible painting. Right. 0:12:34.415 --> 0:12:37.575 The painted bled around and you could see the outside 0:12:37.655 --> 0:12:39.655 was dark and the inside was light, and on that 0:12:39.895 --> 0:12:42.615 edge it was just really ragged, and it kind of 0:12:42.655 --> 0:12:46.375 just went, ah, it just feels like a lack of attention. 0:12:46.495 --> 0:12:48.695 And I would have thought, if that's the first thing 0:12:48.735 --> 0:12:50.535 that a buyer sees when they walk through the door, 0:12:50.575 --> 0:12:53.735 why wouldn't you deal with that? You know, it's that 0:12:53.775 --> 0:12:58.535 sort of thing. So wow, oh mate, Hey, good luck 0:12:58.575 --> 0:13:01.935 with that. And yeah, the bench doctor people I've used 0:13:02.175 --> 0:13:05.655 and I'm sure they'll sort you out all the very 0:13:05.695 --> 0:13:08.415 best take care all of is Paul oh eight hundred 0:13:08.415 --> 0:13:11.935 and eighty ten eighty is that number to call? Quick text? 0:13:11.975 --> 0:13:14.855 Has come through my house has not been signed off yet? 0:13:14.895 --> 0:13:17.735 Does it have to have things like painting on inside 0:13:17.775 --> 0:13:22.095 walls in carpet or vinyl down? I probably need a 0:13:22.135 --> 0:13:24.175 little bit more detail on that. I presume that when 0:13:24.175 --> 0:13:28.375 you say not signed off yet is I mean? Look, 0:13:28.615 --> 0:13:31.775 it's unlikely that it would even qualify for a final 0:13:31.855 --> 0:13:36.895 inspection without floor coverings, particularly if floor coverings are necessary 0:13:37.135 --> 0:13:42.375 in you know, wet areas, and that includes now kitchens. 0:13:42.975 --> 0:13:46.375 So you know, if it was let's say, explodes plywood, 0:13:47.895 --> 0:13:50.215 then I don't think you'd even get a final inspection. 0:13:50.655 --> 0:13:54.295 And certainly without a final inspection you won't get a 0:13:54.335 --> 0:13:58.295 certificate or code compliance Certificate a CCC. So I think 0:13:58.295 --> 0:14:02.935 you probably need to get that done. Another quick text 0:14:02.935 --> 0:14:04.735 as well, Morning Peat. We're about to put in the 0:14:04.735 --> 0:14:07.415 secondhand kitchen. It has a gas hob. Can we put 0:14:07.455 --> 0:14:11.455 a nine kg bottle inside the cupboards instead of outside? 0:14:11.855 --> 0:14:14.975 I don't believe. So again, I'm not a gas fitter, 0:14:15.495 --> 0:14:19.655 which is licensed trade. I know it's possible to have 0:14:19.775 --> 0:14:24.095 a nine kg bottle exterior, but I'm pretty sure that 0:14:24.175 --> 0:14:27.975 having them inside, which I know was common working on 0:14:27.975 --> 0:14:30.975 a kitchen probably twenty years ago where that was the case, 0:14:31.015 --> 0:14:33.735 but I don't think that that would be done that 0:14:33.775 --> 0:14:37.415 would be suitable anymore. And also any gasworks should be 0:14:37.455 --> 0:14:40.815 done by a registered gas fitter as well. That's really 0:14:40.895 --> 0:14:43.575 really important to say. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty, 0:14:43.615 --> 0:14:45.855 the lines are open. The number to call eight hundred 0:14:45.935 --> 0:14:47.815 eighty ten eighty. If you'd like to text like these 0:14:47.855 --> 0:14:50.175 other people have done, which would be great, It is 0:14:50.335 --> 0:14:53.135 nine two nine two is ZBZB from your mobile phone 0:14:53.135 --> 0:14:56.615 if you'd like ze me and email It's Pete ATNEWSTALKZB 0:14:56.735 --> 0:15:00.215 dot co dot Nz. Just gone twenty one minutes after six. 0:15:00.295 --> 0:15:02.735 The lines are open. We always get busy a little 0:15:02.735 --> 0:15:05.455 bit later in the show, and now is a great 0:15:05.495 --> 0:15:07.695 time to call eight hundred eighty ten. 0:15:07.575 --> 0:15:11.575 Eighty doing other house sorting the guard and ask Pete 0:15:11.615 --> 0:15:14.655 for a hand the resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp and 0:15:14.855 --> 0:15:18.055 light Ford Solar do your solar journey in twenty twenty five, 0:15:18.295 --> 0:15:20.975 call oh, eight hundred eighty eight news talk. 0:15:20.895 --> 0:15:23.255 They'd be right, yeh, let's get amongst that. Oh, eight 0:15:23.295 --> 0:15:25.815 hundred eighty ten eighty the number call Kate A very 0:15:25.815 --> 0:15:26.575 good morning to you. 0:15:27.695 --> 0:15:29.975 Good morning, Pete, happy to you, to you, and to 0:15:30.095 --> 0:15:30.935 you into you. 0:15:31.815 --> 0:15:32.255 Thank you. 0:15:32.655 --> 0:15:36.015 I'm kind of coming to the end stage of my project, 0:15:36.175 --> 0:15:41.135 which you have given me okays of advice, thank you, 0:15:41.535 --> 0:15:45.455 since it started in July and even before. But now 0:15:46.695 --> 0:15:51.415 I'm at the point where I need to install a 0:15:51.575 --> 0:15:59.015 fence tank. It's a thin tank for stormwaterer retention, and 0:15:59.055 --> 0:16:03.055 it's going up against the sense. It's three thousand liters yep. 0:16:03.215 --> 0:16:07.335 And beneath the sense there is a hut that they 0:16:07.455 --> 0:16:09.655 made in the ground. So I've sort of exposed some 0:16:09.775 --> 0:16:14.815 concrete of the concrete post, and I'm worried about putting 0:16:14.855 --> 0:16:19.615 some retaining in there. But i can't dig deeply into 0:16:19.695 --> 0:16:23.255 the ground because there's a storm public stormwater line nearby 0:16:23.295 --> 0:16:25.575 and I'm not allowed to do that. So I've been 0:16:25.575 --> 0:16:27.735 looking at options. I don't want to take up a 0:16:27.775 --> 0:16:31.055 lot of depth front to back because there isn't much 0:16:31.135 --> 0:16:35.175 room between this fence in the back of the house sure, 0:16:36.335 --> 0:16:41.255 So I've looked at keystone, which will be quite deep. 0:16:41.535 --> 0:16:43.975 I think it's about three hundred it's going to take 0:16:44.055 --> 0:16:50.415 up with the scoria and overcoil. I've seen online concrete 0:16:51.015 --> 0:16:54.295 slabs that you can put in place, or Gabian, but 0:16:54.375 --> 0:16:57.695 they have to be quite deep as well. I need 0:16:57.735 --> 0:16:59.575 to take it five hundred in hype. 0:16:59.695 --> 0:17:01.815 Oh, that was going to be my next question. That's 0:17:01.855 --> 0:17:06.455 actually quite a lot, isn't it. So it's a I 0:17:06.455 --> 0:17:09.335 mean three thousand tank. It's probably about two and a 0:17:09.375 --> 0:17:11.055 half meters long, three meters. 0:17:10.735 --> 0:17:15.175 Long, twenty nine fifty. 0:17:14.495 --> 0:17:25.015 Three meters long. That yeah, right, do you have it? 0:17:25.815 --> 0:17:28.455 You know, tanks that are designed to sit on the 0:17:28.495 --> 0:17:32.255 ground are not designed to sit in the ground, right, 0:17:32.735 --> 0:17:37.495 that's obvious, But they can take a little bit of bearing. 0:17:37.535 --> 0:17:41.735 I'm just wondering whether it would be helpful if depending 0:17:41.735 --> 0:17:45.215 on which the outletters and you could some tanks have 0:17:45.255 --> 0:17:48.895 outlets at both ends or one end, and they the 0:17:49.015 --> 0:17:50.815 sides are both the same, so it doesn't matter which 0:17:50.855 --> 0:17:54.295 way around you put them. I'm just one just obviously 0:17:54.295 --> 0:17:57.255 it's a sloping site. And does it slope sort of 0:17:57.335 --> 0:18:00.015 along the length of the tank along that three meter 0:18:00.175 --> 0:18:03.975 length or does it slope back to front of the tank? No, 0:18:04.055 --> 0:18:05.375 along the length along the length? 0:18:05.455 --> 0:18:07.335 Okay, build it. So the builder says he's going to 0:18:07.335 --> 0:18:10.535 put a concrete plint, right, and I've got some sort 0:18:10.575 --> 0:18:13.775 of framing that will hold it. 0:18:14.615 --> 0:18:19.375 Yes, yes, some tanks require restraint, right, so you need 0:18:19.415 --> 0:18:22.295 to cast in like a timber post, which you can 0:18:22.335 --> 0:18:24.775 then secure. Particularly the tanks that have a quite narrow 0:18:24.815 --> 0:18:32.495 footprint will often require seismic restraint. Look, if you can 0:18:32.575 --> 0:18:34.695 do a concrete pad, that's good. You don't actually have 0:18:34.735 --> 0:18:38.775 to have concrete under them. You could. The last one 0:18:38.775 --> 0:18:42.375 that I installed, which was a Bailey slim gym tank, 0:18:42.895 --> 0:18:45.935 we again it was on a sloping site, probably a 0:18:45.975 --> 0:18:48.855 similar slope to yours. I ended up excavating down at 0:18:48.895 --> 0:18:50.695 one end a little bit like one hundred mill below 0:18:50.735 --> 0:18:53.975 the ground, and I could just batter that away. I 0:18:54.095 --> 0:18:58.255 made up a hoop essentially out of some might have 0:18:58.295 --> 0:19:01.815 been two hundred or two fifty by fifty retaining timber 0:19:02.375 --> 0:19:05.415 set that on the ground, got some compacted base course, 0:19:05.815 --> 0:19:08.335 and so one end it was slightly in the ground 0:19:08.375 --> 0:19:10.095 and at the other end it was slightly out of 0:19:10.135 --> 0:19:14.135 the ground, and kind of we balanced that up and 0:19:14.495 --> 0:19:17.095 I just put in compacted hard film and that's been 0:19:17.135 --> 0:19:20.975 absolutely fine. Saying that that was a slightly wider tank, 0:19:21.135 --> 0:19:29.055 and it also didn't require seismic restraint in that particular instance. Look, 0:19:29.295 --> 0:19:33.335 I mean, if I would be really tempted to bury 0:19:33.375 --> 0:19:36.615 one end slightly right to excavate down. So you know, 0:19:36.655 --> 0:19:39.495 if you lose two hundred mil there, then suddenly you're 0:19:39.535 --> 0:19:41.535 only three hundred mils out of the ground at the 0:19:41.575 --> 0:19:44.455 other end. If it's five hundred mili slope, you can 0:19:44.535 --> 0:19:45.855 kind of lose it at either end. 0:19:46.015 --> 0:19:49.335 Oh, sorry, Pete, I didn't explain it very much. The 0:19:49.495 --> 0:19:52.495 retaining wall has to be five hundred it's not that 0:19:52.655 --> 0:19:54.095 much of a slope. 0:19:53.975 --> 0:19:55.815 Oh okay, But then. 0:19:55.735 --> 0:19:59.135 Why the drop down is five hundred and within that 0:19:59.535 --> 0:20:01.935 there are some massive. 0:20:02.055 --> 0:20:04.295 Tree roots, right, okay, then. 0:20:04.495 --> 0:20:09.575 Ground away we're looking at the side of a tree route. 0:20:09.695 --> 0:20:17.415 Yes, okay, Well it's a little tricky without actually seeing it. 0:20:17.415 --> 0:20:20.495 But in terms of actually providing a stable base for 0:20:20.535 --> 0:20:22.695 a water tank like this, right, the ones that just 0:20:22.695 --> 0:20:26.815 sit on the ground, you can do concrete if you want, 0:20:26.855 --> 0:20:32.295 but it's not really necessary. Compacted hardfill is fine. A 0:20:32.455 --> 0:20:35.495 small retaining around it is fine, certainly if you're settling 0:20:35.575 --> 0:20:37.935 it on areas that you think is loose material. I 0:20:38.055 --> 0:20:40.215 try and remove as much of that as you possibly 0:20:40.255 --> 0:20:44.655 can and replace it with compacted hardfill. And you know, 0:20:44.775 --> 0:20:47.815 even the compacting it's really just if you've got a temper. 0:20:47.855 --> 0:20:49.495 That's fine. You don't even have to go out and 0:20:49.575 --> 0:20:51.775 hire a plate compact or anything like that. 0:20:53.535 --> 0:20:58.095 I'm more worried about the wall behind the five hundred retaining. 0:20:57.775 --> 0:20:59.735 Wall right and is it sitting? 0:21:00.135 --> 0:21:01.135 Is that going to collapse in? 0:21:02.495 --> 0:21:06.135 Well? No, I don't think so. And that retaining wall 0:21:06.135 --> 0:21:08.815 behind it. Does that rise above the bottom of the 0:21:08.855 --> 0:21:10.975 tank or does the tank sit on it and then 0:21:11.015 --> 0:21:12.655 the retaining wall is supporting it. 0:21:14.455 --> 0:21:17.095 No, it rises above the bottom of the tank. And 0:21:17.135 --> 0:21:18.695 I'm worried that it's going to cave in on the 0:21:18.735 --> 0:21:21.295 tank and push the tank towards the house. So it's 0:21:21.335 --> 0:21:26.015 five hundred in height at the left, stand at the 0:21:26.095 --> 0:21:28.775 right hand and it might be four hundred in height. 0:21:28.815 --> 0:21:30.415 It's just dropping a little bit. 0:21:30.575 --> 0:21:31.215 Yeah, okay. 0:21:31.815 --> 0:21:32.015 Look. 0:21:32.055 --> 0:21:34.095 The other thing that you could do just to offer 0:21:34.175 --> 0:21:36.175 up some support to the retaining wall is given that 0:21:36.215 --> 0:21:38.175 you if you do have to put in some posts, 0:21:38.655 --> 0:21:40.975 you could then dig those in in front of the 0:21:41.015 --> 0:21:44.095 retaining wall and just make sure you go down a 0:21:44.135 --> 0:21:47.855 little bit deeper and perhaps a slightly bigger hole that 0:21:47.935 --> 0:21:50.255 you can fill with concrete. Put that in. That will 0:21:50.255 --> 0:21:52.455 offer up some support to the retaining wall. It will 0:21:52.495 --> 0:21:55.855 also give you the support you need for that particular 0:21:55.895 --> 0:21:59.015 type of tank for the seismic restraint. 0:21:59.935 --> 0:22:02.935 Well, I need to put an overcoil and scoria behind that. 0:22:03.335 --> 0:22:06.295 Look for something that's five hundred high. No, I mean 0:22:06.775 --> 0:22:09.655 you know, generally, yes, you need an overcoil and some 0:22:09.775 --> 0:22:14.735 squory would be good. Putting in some drainage coil. Unless 0:22:14.735 --> 0:22:18.055 it's actually directed somewhere and connected to assessment and connected 0:22:18.095 --> 0:22:20.815 to the storm water, it's probably not a lot of 0:22:20.855 --> 0:22:22.695