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Speaker 5: A well, A very very good morning and a warm
Speaker 5: welcome to you on this the first show, the first
Speaker 5: Resident Builder on Sunday show here at news Talk. Se'd
Speaker 5: be for twenty twenty five, so it is a great
Speaker 5: pleasure to return. Well, we haven't really taken a break
Speaker 5: to be fair, But it's great to be back, and
Speaker 5: it's it is twenty twenty five, and that brings with it,
Speaker 5: I suppose optimism, hope, opportunity, potential for a year ahead. Certainly,
Speaker 5: there's plenty of challenges out there for the construction sector,
Speaker 5: for the economy in general, to be fair, so we'll
Speaker 5: see how that pans out over the course of the year.
Speaker 5: But it is delightful to be back. I trust that
Speaker 5: you had a good New Year's celebration. Hopefully if it
Speaker 5: was festive, it was not festive with some sort of
Speaker 5: long lingering hangover or some yeah something you've got of
Speaker 5: it later on. But anyway, if you've had a hopefully
Speaker 5: you've had a good New Year's and you are preparing
Speaker 5: yourself for the year ahead. If you've been out in
Speaker 5: the garden, or you've been working around the house, or
Speaker 5: you've been doing some jobs inside, I hope they've been
Speaker 5: going well or as well as they possibly can. I
Speaker 5: did actually notice in my neighborhood someone was out with
Speaker 5: power tools on New Year's Day. They were cracking into it.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it was. It might have been
Speaker 5: a water blaster. I'm pretty sure I heard a grinder
Speaker 5: out there somewhere. Not sure that I heard a skill
Speaker 5: saw or a chains but certainly some people were out
Speaker 5: and about with power tools on New Year's Day, possibly
Speaker 5: having a sort of a very sober night and then
Speaker 5: wanting to rub in their vigor and their determination to
Speaker 5: greet the new year with activity. For those who maybe
Speaker 5: were lingering a little bit in bed a bit longer
Speaker 5: on New Year's Day radio, we're into it. So the
Speaker 5: year ahead will be fascinating. I think from a political
Speaker 5: point of view, it's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 5: whether so much of what was talked about last year
Speaker 5: in terms of lessening bureaucracy, trying to speed up the
Speaker 5: construction or the consenting process, any of those sorts of
Speaker 5: things come to fruition, whether or not after a lot
Speaker 5: of consultation around standards, and whether or not the increased
Speaker 5: standards for H one, which is the insulation requirements, will
Speaker 5: be wound back in order to try and find some
Speaker 5: savings for the cost of building houses. Whether that actually
Speaker 5: comes to something I personally hope not in this that
Speaker 5: I don't think that we need to wind back H
Speaker 5: one standards, but we do need to get rid of
Speaker 5: the schedule methods so well, we can talk about that.
Speaker 5: It's going to be a fascinating year ahead. So if
Speaker 5: you've got a project that is underway and maybe you'd
Speaker 5: like some help with it, or you've started something, perhaps
Speaker 5: you've got some new tools. Like me, I don't actually
Speaker 5: get any tools for Christmas. Buying tools for me for
Speaker 5: Christmas could be a little bit tricky. However, I have
Speaker 5: been out shopping over the Christmas break and I picked
Speaker 5: up a couple of little things that I felt that
Speaker 5: I needed that were a gap in the arsenal, a
Speaker 5: gap in the repertoire of tools that I might have
Speaker 5: in the tool shed. So we can talk a little
Speaker 5: bit about those. But later on this morning, and I
Speaker 5: did actually spend a little bit of happy time in
Speaker 5: the workshop, just kind of organizing, sort of puttering. Puttering,
Speaker 5: I think was my word for twenty twenty four. At
Speaker 5: some stage during twenty twenty five, I'll think of another
Speaker 5: word or find another word that I like. I'm not
Speaker 5: making them up, I just find them and I like them.
Speaker 5: Puttering was a great word. Actually, I've got a delightful
Speaker 5: card from Dennis, who lives around where I did, and
Speaker 5: he swung by to drop off a card and a
Speaker 5: gift actually, which was very kind of a just to say, hey, look,
Speaker 5: have a good year and all the best for Christmas
Speaker 5: and so on. And he mentioned in his card that
Speaker 5: he had been out puttering during the day and found
Speaker 5: that enormously satisfying as well. If you don't know what
Speaker 5: puttering means, I'll explain a bit later on. But hey, look,
Speaker 5: we're into it for a new year. So this is
Speaker 5: a show all about essentially building literacy. So what I
Speaker 5: want to talk about is stuff that I read about,
Speaker 5: all that I'm involved with and do. And you know,
Speaker 5: during the course of the year, I'm in a privileged
Speaker 5: position in a sense where I get to attend a
Speaker 5: lot of seminars. I have an opportunity of sort of
Speaker 5: getting an insight into the construction sector and into construction
Speaker 5: practice as well. We build better houses, and it's complex.
Speaker 5: There's lots and lots of well, initially moving but in
Speaker 5: the end not many moving parts in a house. They
Speaker 5: tend to remain stable. So, you know, how do we
Speaker 5: how do we figure out how to do things better
Speaker 5: in order to get better houses? And there was a
Speaker 5: text at the end of last week's show. I obviously
Speaker 5: struck a nerve by talking a little bit about bureaucracy.
Speaker 5: I wasn't actually talking about bureaucracy, but people there are
Speaker 5: several texts actually quite critical of me in their eyes,
Speaker 5: defending bureaucracy, defending regulations. I don't mind talking about that,
Speaker 5: but later on the show as well, right now in
Speaker 5: the show. Actually, let's not do it later. Let's do
Speaker 5: it right now, because the lines are open. Oh, eight
Speaker 5: hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call? You
Speaker 5: can text which is nine two nine two or ZBZB
Speaker 5: from your mobile phone, and if you'd like to send
Speaker 5: me an email, you would be more than welcome it
Speaker 5: as Pete at newstoo zb dot co dot nz. So
Speaker 5: let's get into it. The lines are open. The number
Speaker 5: to call eight hundred and eighty ten eighty any building
Speaker 5: related questions, and it might be legislation, it might be tools.
Speaker 5: I'm more than happy to talk about tools. Actually I
Speaker 5: might give you my tool of the year. I was
Speaker 5: thinking about this after the show last week, and I
Speaker 5: was sort of, you know, at the end of the year,
Speaker 5: you kind of I don't know. My habit is to
Speaker 5: be a little bit reflective, let's say a little contemplative,
Speaker 5: thinking back on the year, and I was trying to
Speaker 5: think in amongst a whole lot of other thoughts that
Speaker 5: were rumbling around and my head around things like what
Speaker 5: was the most useful thing that I might have purchased
Speaker 5: or encountered in terms of tools over the course of
Speaker 5: the year. And so I've landed on something, possibly two,
Speaker 5: but certainly one. Anyway, So we can talk tools, we
Speaker 5: can talk about projects. We can talk about projects that
Speaker 5: you might have ahead of you this year. If you've
Speaker 5: got something on the drawing board back in the old
Speaker 5: days that you'd like to bring to life, how are
Speaker 5: you going to do it? What choices do you make,
Speaker 5: where do you put your resources? And in fact I've
Speaker 5: just at the end of last year I was introduced
Speaker 5: to via a builder that I know, an outstanding builder
Speaker 5: to be fair, a project that he started right in
Speaker 5: the middle of December, so almost at the end of
Speaker 5: the year. A renovation and addition to an existing nineteen
Speaker 5: fifties house, where the clients are particularly informed and they
Speaker 5: want to go high performance. They want to create a
Speaker 5: really energy efficient house out of what is an older house,
Speaker 5: so a deep retrofit with a view to making it
Speaker 5: incredibly energy efficient, a very sustainable home. So we'll keep
Speaker 5: you up to date with that project. If that's what
Speaker 5: you've got on your plate that you'd like to do, well,
Speaker 5: we can talk about that as well. Or if it's
Speaker 5: just a more and a sense more modest thing. I
Speaker 5: just want to make my house a little bit warmer,
Speaker 5: drier and more comfortable, then let's talk about that too. Oh,
Speaker 5: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 5: Great to be with you really looking forward to the
Speaker 5: year ahead. It is six fifteen here on the fifth
Speaker 5: of January twenty twenty five. We're into it, paul A,
Speaker 5: very good morning to you. How are you this morning, Paul, Yeah,
Speaker 5: good morning, into you, into you.
Speaker 6: I've got a little chip on my kitchen bench. I've
Speaker 6: got like an undermount think and it's right on the
Speaker 6: rim of that app. I've heard you in the past
Speaker 6: recommend a couple of companies that can come around, and
Speaker 6: already that up. So I'm on Central Auklands.
Speaker 5: Depends what's the material good.
Speaker 6: Question, not sure at some fall of lumine. I've asked
Speaker 6: some people that have come around. It's like a it's
Speaker 6: Scott Constantino's Spain brand underneath it. I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 6: It looks like some sort of resin sort of it's
Speaker 6: kind of stone sort of effect was in the house
Speaker 6: when we brought it, so we're just really tiding it
Speaker 6: up for the new owner really, So yeah, sure, I'm certain,
Speaker 6: but i'd say some sort of reason.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, now that Costantino was a fairly new brand
Speaker 5: that's out, So yeah.
Speaker 6: I think just to this house for over fifteen years ago,
Speaker 6: you might. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't think it's
Speaker 6: a better look online at that brand. I can't see
Speaker 6: any relevant to what I've got for you.
Speaker 5: No, Okay, Look, composites have been around for a while
Speaker 5: and they are quite repairable, so well, in most cases
Speaker 5: they can be I would start with bench doctors online,
Speaker 5: so they effectively they're kind of like a franchise. I
Speaker 5: think they're around the country and certainly they'll be in Auckland,
Speaker 5: and if they don't know, they'll probably be able to
Speaker 5: put you onto someone like there's another guy that I
Speaker 5: used a little while ago, a crylic fix, but that
Speaker 5: was specifically for a crylic bench top. So things like
Speaker 5: vanity tops and that sort of thing where we had
Speaker 5: the classic you know, finished the project and someone, possibly me,
Speaker 5: possibly another trade you know, dropped a hammer or a
Speaker 5: chisel onto the edge of the bench and we ended
Speaker 5: up with a chip in it. Right, Yeah, there was
Speaker 5: another one of those a little while ago. So yeah, look,
Speaker 5: they can be repaired. I'd start with bench doctors go
Speaker 5: from there. Yeah, okay, yeah, And are you staying in
Speaker 5: the house or are you looking to sell?
Speaker 6: No, we're looking to sell, So just tining it up
Speaker 6: for you. Aren't like it's the bench stoll. I say,
Speaker 6: it's fairly whold, but it's obviously quite good quality it
Speaker 6: seeing your life in it, and I'd say, yeah that
Speaker 6: that chips and sinks had won too many bands with
Speaker 6: under the Yeah, just that's a tiny chap. It's only
Speaker 6: about maybe eight meals via a couple of meals, but
Speaker 6: it's just right and the worst possible place. You see
Speaker 6: it every time you go to this.
Speaker 5: Thing, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's one of those
Speaker 5: things that perhaps you know, someone coming in to look
Speaker 5: at the house prior to purchase, and then they see
Speaker 5: that and they think, oh, then I've got to find
Speaker 5: someone to fix it, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 5: then suddenly it becomes it kind of in their head.
Speaker 5: It goes on that side of the ledger that goes
Speaker 5: stuff that I have to do once I bought that house.
Speaker 5: And I've always thought, actually, you know, people have often said, oh,
Speaker 5: what should I do prior to selling the house? And
Speaker 5: I've always thought, you try and tack off those things
Speaker 5: that leave that sort of oh impression in a prospective buyer.
Speaker 5: You don't want them to you know, like open. I
Speaker 5: went to one open home a little while ago, opened
Speaker 5: the door. The front door was open, and down the
Speaker 5: corner on the hinge side they done some really terrible painting. Right.
Speaker 5: The painted bled around and you could see the outside
Speaker 5: was dark and the inside was light, and on that
Speaker 5: edge it was just really ragged, and it kind of
Speaker 5: just went, ah, it just feels like a lack of attention.
Speaker 5: And I would have thought, if that's the first thing
Speaker 5: that a buyer sees when they walk through the door,
Speaker 5: why wouldn't you deal with that? You know, it's that
Speaker 5: sort of thing. So wow, oh mate, Hey, good luck
Speaker 5: with that. And yeah, the bench doctor people I've used
Speaker 5: and I'm sure they'll sort you out all the very
Speaker 5: best take care all of is Paul oh eight hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty ten eighty is that number to call? Quick text?
Speaker 5: Has come through my house has not been signed off yet?
Speaker 5: Does it have to have things like painting on inside
Speaker 5: walls in carpet or vinyl down? I probably need a
Speaker 5: little bit more detail on that. I presume that when
Speaker 5: you say not signed off yet is I mean? Look,
Speaker 5: it's unlikely that it would even qualify for a final
Speaker 5: inspection without floor coverings, particularly if floor coverings are necessary
Speaker 5: in you know, wet areas, and that includes now kitchens.
Speaker 5: So you know, if it was let's say, explodes plywood,
Speaker 5: then I don't think you'd even get a final inspection.
Speaker 5: And certainly without a final inspection you won't get a
Speaker 5: certificate or code compliance Certificate a CCC. So I think
Speaker 5: you probably need to get that done. Another quick text
Speaker 5: as well, Morning Peat. We're about to put in the
Speaker 5: secondhand kitchen. It has a gas hob. Can we put
Speaker 5: a nine kg bottle inside the cupboards instead of outside?
Speaker 5: I don't believe. So again, I'm not a gas fitter,
Speaker 5: which is licensed trade. I know it's possible to have
Speaker 5: a nine kg bottle exterior, but I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 5: having them inside, which I know was common working on
Speaker 5: a kitchen probably twenty years ago where that was the case,
Speaker 5: but I don't think that that would be done that
Speaker 5: would be suitable anymore. And also any gasworks should be
Speaker 5: done by a registered gas fitter as well. That's really
Speaker 5: really important to say. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty,
Speaker 5: the lines are open. The number to call eight hundred
Speaker 5: eighty ten eighty. If you'd like to text like these
Speaker 5: other people have done, which would be great, It is
Speaker 5: nine two nine two is ZBZB from your mobile phone
Speaker 5: if you'd like ze me and email It's Pete ATNEWSTALKZB
Speaker 5: dot co dot Nz. Just gone twenty one minutes after six.
Speaker 5: The lines are open. We always get busy a little
Speaker 5: bit later in the show, and now is a great
Speaker 5: time to call eight hundred eighty ten.
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Speaker 5: They'd be right, yeh, let's get amongst that. Oh, eight
Speaker 5: hundred eighty ten eighty the number call Kate A very
Speaker 5: good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Pete, happy to you, to you, and to
Speaker 7: you into you.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 7: I'm kind of coming to the end stage of my project,
Speaker 7: which you have given me okays of advice, thank you,
Speaker 7: since it started in July and even before. But now
Speaker 7: I'm at the point where I need to install a
Speaker 7: fence tank. It's a thin tank for stormwaterer retention, and
Speaker 7: it's going up against the sense. It's three thousand liters yep.
Speaker 7: And beneath the sense there is a hut that they
Speaker 7: made in the ground. So I've sort of exposed some
Speaker 7: concrete of the concrete post, and I'm worried about putting
Speaker 7: some retaining in there. But i can't dig deeply into
Speaker 7: the ground because there's a storm public stormwater line nearby
Speaker 7: and I'm not allowed to do that. So I've been
Speaker 7: looking at options. I don't want to take up a
Speaker 7: lot of depth front to back because there isn't much
Speaker 7: room between this fence in the back of the house sure,
Speaker 7: So I've looked at keystone, which will be quite deep.
Speaker 7: I think it's about three hundred it's going to take
Speaker 7: up with the scoria and overcoil. I've seen online concrete
Speaker 7: slabs that you can put in place, or Gabian, but
Speaker 7: they have to be quite deep as well. I need
Speaker 7: to take it five hundred in hype.
Speaker 5: Oh, that was going to be my next question. That's
Speaker 5: actually quite a lot, isn't it. So it's a I
Speaker 5: mean three thousand tank. It's probably about two and a
Speaker 5: half meters long, three meters.
Speaker 7: Long, twenty nine fifty.
Speaker 5: Three meters long. That yeah, right, do you have it?
Speaker 5: You know, tanks that are designed to sit on the
Speaker 5: ground are not designed to sit in the ground, right,
Speaker 5: that's obvious, But they can take a little bit of bearing.
Speaker 5: I'm just wondering whether it would be helpful if depending
Speaker 5: on which the outletters and you could some tanks have
Speaker 5: outlets at both ends or one end, and they the
Speaker 5: sides are both the same, so it doesn't matter which
Speaker 5: way around you put them. I'm just one just obviously
Speaker 5: it's a sloping site. And does it slope sort of
Speaker 5: along the length of the tank along that three meter
Speaker 5: length or does it slope back to front of the tank? No,
Speaker 5: along the length along the length?
Speaker 7: Okay, build it. So the builder says he's going to
Speaker 7: put a concrete plint, right, and I've got some sort
Speaker 7: of framing that will hold it.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, some tanks require restraint, right, so you need
Speaker 5: to cast in like a timber post, which you can
Speaker 5: then secure. Particularly the tanks that have a quite narrow
Speaker 5: footprint will often require seismic restraint. Look, if you can
Speaker 5: do a concrete pad, that's good. You don't actually have
Speaker 5: to have concrete under them. You could. The last one
Speaker 5: that I installed, which was a Bailey slim gym tank,
Speaker 5: we again it was on a sloping site, probably a
Speaker 5: similar slope to yours. I ended up excavating down at
Speaker 5: one end a little bit like one hundred mill below
Speaker 5: the ground, and I could just batter that away. I
Speaker 5: made up a hoop essentially out of some might have
Speaker 5: been two hundred or two fifty by fifty retaining timber
Speaker 5: set that on the ground, got some compacted base course,
Speaker 5: and so one end it was slightly in the ground
Speaker 5: and at the other end it was slightly out of
Speaker 5: the ground, and kind of we balanced that up and
Speaker 5: I just put in compacted hard film and that's been
Speaker 5: absolutely fine. Saying that that was a slightly wider tank,
Speaker 5: and it also didn't require seismic restraint in that particular instance. Look,
Speaker 5: I mean, if I would be really tempted to bury
Speaker 5: one end slightly right to excavate down. So you know,
Speaker 5: if you lose two hundred mil there, then suddenly you're
Speaker 5: only three hundred mils out of the ground at the
Speaker 5: other end. If it's five hundred mili slope, you can
Speaker 5: kind of lose it at either end.
Speaker 7: Oh, sorry, Pete, I didn't explain it very much. The
Speaker 7: retaining wall has to be five hundred it's not that
Speaker 7: much of a slope.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, But then.
Speaker 7: Why the drop down is five hundred and within that
Speaker 7: there are some massive.
Speaker 5: Tree roots, right, okay, then.
Speaker 7: Ground away we're looking at the side of a tree route.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, Well it's a little tricky without actually seeing it.
Speaker 5: But in terms of actually providing a stable base for
Speaker 5: a water tank like this, right, the ones that just
Speaker 5: sit on the ground, you can do concrete if you want,
Speaker 5: but it's not really necessary. Compacted hardfill is fine. A
Speaker 5: small retaining around it is fine, certainly if you're settling
Speaker 5: it on areas that you think is loose material. I
Speaker 5: try and remove as much of that as you possibly
Speaker 5: can and replace it with compacted hardfill. And you know,
Speaker 5: even the compacting it's really just if you've got a temper.
Speaker 5: That's fine. You don't even have to go out and
Speaker 5: hire a plate compact or anything like that.
Speaker 7: I'm more worried about the wall behind the five hundred retaining.
Speaker 5: Wall right and is it sitting?
Speaker 7: Is that going to collapse in?
Speaker 5: Well? No, I don't think so. And that retaining wall
Speaker 5: behind it. Does that rise above the bottom of the
Speaker 5: tank or does the tank sit on it and then
Speaker 5: the retaining wall is supporting it.
Speaker 7: No, it rises above the bottom of the tank. And
Speaker 7: I'm worried that it's going to cave in on the
Speaker 7: tank and push the tank towards the house. So it's
Speaker 7: five hundred in height at the left, stand at the
Speaker 7: right hand and it might be four hundred in height.
Speaker 9: It's just dropping a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 10: Look.
Speaker 5: The other thing that you could do just to offer
Speaker 5: up some support to the retaining wall is given that
Speaker 5: you if you do have to put in some posts,
Speaker 5: you could then dig those in in front of the
Speaker 5: retaining wall and just make sure you go down a
Speaker 5: little bit deeper and perhaps a slightly bigger hole that
Speaker 5: you can fill with concrete. Put that in. That will
Speaker 5: offer up some support to the retaining wall. It will
Speaker 5: also give you the support you need for that particular
Speaker 5: type of tank for the seismic restraint.
Speaker 7: Well, I need to put an overcoil and scoria behind that.
Speaker 5: Look for something that's five hundred high. No, I mean
Speaker 5: you know, generally, yes, you need an overcoil and some
Speaker 5: squory would be good. Putting in some drainage coil. Unless
Speaker 5: it's actually directed somewhere and connected to assessment and connected
Speaker 5: to the storm water, it's probably not a lot of
Speaker 5: point in doing it. I would just put in some
Speaker 5: free drainage material at five hundred high.
Speaker 9: I think on the plans it shows connecting to a
Speaker 9: catch pet.
Speaker 5: Great. Okay, Well again, if it's on the plans, then
Speaker 5: please do what's on the plan, because just in case
Speaker 5: someone wants to check it. And yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 5: drainage coil behind a wall makes a massive difference to
Speaker 5: how that wall performs over time. And if there is
Speaker 5: the ability to drop it into a catch pit, which
Speaker 5: is the right thing to do to control the sediment,
Speaker 5: then that's great. And if it's on the plants.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, But I'm not allowed to dig down because of
Speaker 7: the storm water. I'm close to a water care stormwater line.
Speaker 5: Right, and that's obviously allow me to go public line
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 7: They won't allow me to dig within a meter of bit,
Speaker 7: I think, so I just got to stay above the ground.
Speaker 9: In I was thinking for.
Speaker 7: Creative ideas of what products could be used that won't
Speaker 7: take up the whole depth of the space.
Speaker 5: Have got Again, the picture I have in my mind
Speaker 5: is I'm coming back to what I did on a
Speaker 5: project about a year ago, probably a bit longer now,
Speaker 5: where I just made up like a hoop, excavated the
Speaker 5: ground a bit, removed the loose material, put that down.
Speaker 5: So that was my form work for my base for
Speaker 5: the water tank, like the slim Gin one, and then
Speaker 5: filled it with I probably used half a meter or
Speaker 5: so of base course and put the tank on top
Speaker 5: of there, and that was absolutely fine. Then I'm not
Speaker 5: digging anything down and as long as the base is
Speaker 5: sound and in your case, you do have I keep
Speaker 5: emphasizing the seizemic restraint because again, if it's part of
Speaker 5: the manufacturer spaceification, then it pays to do it, you know,
Speaker 5: if you need to do it. But then if you
Speaker 5: need to dig in some posts and you're not allowed
Speaker 5: to dig because of the proximity to the water care line,
Speaker 5: I guess this is the only option in terms of
Speaker 5: location for the tank.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, yes, you know what has become quite tricky
Speaker 7: about it is it's a longer fence line which was
Speaker 7: in the wrong place, right. The neighbor built it too
Speaker 7: far on my boundary. So I took a not ot
Speaker 7: and I took a notchot that was large enough for
Speaker 7: the tank to sit in so that it would be
Speaker 7: one straight line and on the existing fence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you, okay.
Speaker 7: So it's going to be all right, But but it's
Speaker 7: just beneath the base of the fence where the posts
Speaker 7: go into the ground. They had to dig down five
Speaker 7: hundred Yes, that's the thing, so that the sense all
Speaker 7: offense sort of above the ground. It's not high level
Speaker 7: or anything.
Speaker 5: It's I'm with you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I've got this cut in the ground and
Speaker 7: I'm worried the fence is going to ca then something
Speaker 7: needs to be filling in some of the gaps that
Speaker 7: either not Yes, this fence there, Look, it has to.
Speaker 8: Be at each end.
Speaker 7: It's going to take up some of the length of
Speaker 7: the tank, and I'm going to have to make that
Speaker 7: much bigger. I didn't realize I didn't realize that to retain.
Speaker 5: It a little bit, I would try and even out
Speaker 5: the retaining by excavating pushing down in one area, and
Speaker 5: then the height of the retaining in the other area
Speaker 5: is diminished. And also I think, you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: I know, in terms of protecting the public asset, what
Speaker 5: water care are concerned about when you build over is
Speaker 5: that you have nothing that bears on the pipe, right,
Speaker 5: But that typically is more of a focus in terms
Speaker 5: of actual buildings. Right, So in the unlikely event that
Speaker 5: someone needs to come and repair that public line in
Speaker 5: the future, they could drain the tank and lift it
Speaker 5: off and do the excavation and get down to it. So,
Speaker 5: you know, it's not quite the same I'm thinking about
Speaker 5: the principle of it. It's not quite the same as
Speaker 5: if you had a house sitting over a public either
Speaker 5: wastewater or storm water line.
Speaker 6: So I think, well that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's not quite the same duty
Speaker 5: of care. Let's say, given that it's a structure that
Speaker 5: could be in the event of it needing to be moved,
Speaker 5: could be moved. So again i'd sort of dial back
Speaker 5: the caution on that a.
Speaker 7: Little bit, right, okay, but they still say in the
Speaker 7: plans as they specify keystone. So I'm just looking for products.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, I've used keystones, and remember there's two.
Speaker 5: There's kind of two different types of keystones as well.
Speaker 5: There's the big heavy one for doing much higher wall,
Speaker 5: and then there's kind of a garden edging one which
Speaker 5: is much smaller, still effective, but a lot smaller. Take
Speaker 5: a look how big they are. I think they're probably
Speaker 5: about three hundred long and maybe one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 7: De Okay, look I find those in high restores.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Ok you take care all this wrapping up the project.
Speaker 5: Take care. You're the new stalks. B and Michelle, A
Speaker 5: very good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh did you pink? Happy New Year?
Speaker 5: And to you, my dear, how are you no complaint?
Speaker 5: Box of fluffies in my corner.
Speaker 3: Of the world. But I've got plenty to say about
Speaker 3: the Regional.
Speaker 6: Council in the walk space, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: I am visually impaired ten years living lockdown, all these
Speaker 3: problems that came kept propector uh, COVID, you name it, Gabriel.
Speaker 3: I've survived a lot, but I can't do the Regional Council.
Speaker 3: I live in headlock. We're a village. We have a
Speaker 3: district council who looks after footplants, stormwater. This is this
Speaker 3: lovely lady, the last corner, and it just brought it
Speaker 3: all back. My beautiful home wreck and ruined. No stormwater runoff.
Speaker 3: My whole place is sinking. It's the blitter. I'm not
Speaker 3: covered by insurance because it's neglect and it's the whole
Speaker 3: wil thing. It just breaks my heart. It's legislation. There's
Speaker 3: my issue. I'm old, I'm blind, I live alone, independent,
Speaker 3: with gorgeous help for mate concern, but adding flex there's
Speaker 3: no vehicle crossing. There is no way for this water
Speaker 3: from maybe road to go to a storm water there
Speaker 3: is none. I live in a sinkhole. Now the house
Speaker 3: is splitting. It's all coming apart, and I have nothing
Speaker 3: to pict. My dad passed away. It was my everythink,
Speaker 3: my brains in the world. And it gives me sanity.
Speaker 3: And there do you go? Where do you go with
Speaker 3: the vesicle crossing content to stop? I have a shared
Speaker 3: driveway with three others. I'm the only occupy owner and
Speaker 3: it only affects my fletre.
Speaker 5: Any answers, they're probably well to be fair. Sometimes there
Speaker 5: are answers, but you won't like them, right.
Speaker 3: Give it to me.
Speaker 5: Well, no, no, no, because because I can't you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know all of the details, and and these
Speaker 5: things do get incredibly complex. But you know, I think
Speaker 5: one of the things that as a country we're probably
Speaker 5: going to have to face is that some areas that
Speaker 5: we thought we could live in, we can't write that
Speaker 5: that was the.
Speaker 6: Change the subdivision, you're right, you know, and.
Speaker 5: Possibly areas that we've lived in for a you know,
Speaker 5: a longer period of time now a subject of flooding
Speaker 5: and inundation in ways that the only answer is pretty
Speaker 5: much retreat.
Speaker 3: Listen to me completely, because there's no runs, no still,
Speaker 3: no drainage at that point.
Speaker 5: You would hope that the state, whether that's regional or national,
Speaker 5: would would be able to say to people, hey, look,
Speaker 5: you know, we gave you a consent to build there
Speaker 5: thirty forty fifty years ago.
Speaker 3: But it's it's not nineteen sixty, it's.
Speaker 5: No good anymore, and we're going to help you to
Speaker 5: move on.
Speaker 3: You know that it's just a repair job that should
Speaker 3: have been.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think some councils are facing the fact
Speaker 5: that they what they're trying to repair. The repair is
Speaker 5: not going to work right that you know, I'm aware of.
Speaker 5: I went to a house that was flooded a while ago,
Speaker 5: and I'm now aware that that area they've simply bought
Speaker 5: all of the owners out and they've said it's in practice,
Speaker 5: nothing we can do is going to stop the flooding
Speaker 5: in the future, So we're just going to have to
Speaker 5: buy you out now. Obviously counsels don't really want to
Speaker 5: be in that position because that's a really expensive activity
Speaker 5: and so on, but it is going to be a
Speaker 5: reality that we're going to have to accept, I think,
Speaker 5: and maybe you fall into that category.
Speaker 6: I just wonder if not really neglect any right.
Speaker 3: This is why there's no insurance because when I actually
Speaker 3: got a lawyer onto the case because she said this
Speaker 3: is wrong, they've just not finished the job because they're
Speaker 3: not on the same page. Why are they a regional
Speaker 3: look after the roading and the district look after the footpaths.
Speaker 3: They did a new footpath used half of my property
Speaker 3: as except to the vehicle crossing on the main road,
Speaker 3: but they didn't put a storm water. So I am
Speaker 3: the one who wears all the runoff from Napier Road.
Speaker 3: It's poisoned my land, It's poisoned.
Speaker 5: That sort of thing there. You know, there is provision
Speaker 5: within I think it's the Property Act in particular that
Speaker 5: talks about right about Okay, So I'm just wondering whether
Speaker 5: for you, Michelle, given your circumstances, is that maybe maybe
Speaker 5: through age concern, or through great power or through advice
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 6: Okay, you're the next step, darling.
Speaker 3: I'm not giving up, Squeaky. Where will get the results?
Speaker 5: And sometimes I had this conversation with him with your knowledge,
Speaker 5: who had an idea and he's like, tell me if
Speaker 5: it's a good idea or not. Look, I My sense
Speaker 5: is for in your circumstances, you kind of want an advocate,
Speaker 5: right which might be a retired lawyer. It might be
Speaker 5: someone who's involved in community work who can sort of
Speaker 5: assess all of the documentation, all of the.
Speaker 3: From the district council. He tried to advocate on my behalf.
Speaker 5: He didn't get any want to see the exit.
Speaker 3: He did as much as he was in his power.
Speaker 3: It's legislation on the regional council and a lot of.
Speaker 5: It either local councilor or member of parliament.
Speaker 3: Oh, then there they're beautiful, so.
Speaker 5: But still don't get anywhere.
Speaker 3: Feeling for the situation, but can't fix it themselves. It's
Speaker 3: up to legislation. And I couldn't get a constant to
Speaker 3: get another person to do a vehicle exit because it's
Speaker 3: encagious on regional and they wouldn't pay. And then we
Speaker 3: had Cabrielle and now and then my son died and
Speaker 3: he was my advocate, and now.
Speaker 9: I'm just lost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with we age concern. They are my best friends,
Speaker 3: the beautiful people and what they do, so they provide
Speaker 3: that I don't have to leave home. There's no transport,
Speaker 3: there's no buzzes in my side of the road to
Speaker 3: accommodate transport. I won't use the free taxi. It's a
Speaker 3: burden on some tax player, but I don't need it
Speaker 3: because it's all Are.
Speaker 5: You in a position where you could sell and move on.
Speaker 3: I'm still paying a mortgage. It's not because it's just
Speaker 3: losing value and I'm on a bench and only night
Speaker 3: and day all my life to get my home. That's
Speaker 3: the same thing she said, get ready, a village is
Speaker 3: more understanding because in township you just come the next
Speaker 3: door neighbor. The village is amazing. I live independent alone,
Speaker 3: and I I'm so blessed with the kindness of others.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't fix legislation and can't fix it.
Speaker 5: No, And that's where I wonder whether, in some sense, Michelle,
Speaker 5: that the problem is. I mean, we like to think
Speaker 5: of all problems are being solvable, but possibly they're not.
Speaker 5: And I don't mean that in a dismissive sense. I
Speaker 5: just know sometimes it feels I do feel that an advocate.
Speaker 5: You mentioned you lost your son. My condolences for that.
Speaker 5: I'm just I tell you, could you just s down
Speaker 5: the line, keep you and Mark will get your number
Speaker 5: and I'll put my thinking cap on and we'll see
Speaker 5: what we can do. Maybe the one with the runoff
Speaker 5: needs to go to the Minister of Building. Probably not
Speaker 5: really their thing. I think it's that local advocate thing,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe a retired lawyer looking for a bit
Speaker 5: of a push. We'll be back in a moment.
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Speaker 11: Hello Janet, Yes hi, My question is rather trivial compared
Speaker 11: to the last rule. I have a shore enclosure which
Speaker 11: I want to revamp. It's very old. It's been in
Speaker 11: the in the downstairs here of our property, so it's
Speaker 11: got a concrete floor and the shower there has and
Speaker 11: I don't know what you call it, but it's an
Speaker 11: old fashioned trap. It's not an easy waste one so
Speaker 11: you have to step step up into it. Yes, I
Speaker 11: want to do a complete revamp of a whole lot.
Speaker 11: I was wondering, can I lower that down and do
Speaker 11: an easy trap installation, but it would have to drain
Speaker 11: from it has got about one point five meters to
Speaker 11: the outside wall to where the trap is, So I
Speaker 11: don't know what sort of height I'm going to get
Speaker 11: in the advantage of changing to an easy trap or
Speaker 11: better to stay with the old one.
Speaker 5: So when you say the old one, so what you
Speaker 5: think is underneath the shower tray is a sort of
Speaker 5: conventional P or an S trap, right, so it.
Speaker 11: Comes down like you have under a hand basin.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So I mean typically that's what I was
Speaker 5: looking at one the other day. Maybe a two hundred
Speaker 5: mil turn twenty and thirty mil from let's say the
Speaker 5: outlet to the bottom of the bend and then back
Speaker 5: up again, and an easy waste are often about eighty
Speaker 5: to ninety. So I think there's an easy one hundred,
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty mil that you might get out
Speaker 5: of it by changing that. Obviously, it will require removing
Speaker 5: the lining, pulling out the shower tray, reframing that area,
Speaker 5: dropping it down lower. But yeah, I mean, yes, there
Speaker 5: are obvious savings by using an easy trap, which is
Speaker 5: a lot sharper.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no, Now, so that brings me to my next question.
Speaker 11: All of the sort of custom built shower trays now,
Speaker 11: because this has got an old stone stare, Yeah, all
Speaker 11: of the custom built ones now there's sort of for
Speaker 11: sort of more level thraw a level plumbing underneath. Of course,
Speaker 11: it's a concrete saw, so we can't do that. It's
Speaker 11: got to go out the wall. Do you know how
Speaker 11: do you need to build a frame for those?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know what you're saying. Yes you would, So
Speaker 5: it's essentially, you know, you know where your pipe work's
Speaker 5: got to go, so you can't frame up there, but
Speaker 5: you can frame around it, lay in, you know, use
Speaker 5: tannelized timber and put some tannalized ply down, create a
Speaker 5: platform for your now lower shower tray to sit on.
Speaker 5: And as long as the shower tray is fully supported
Speaker 5: just as if it was sitting on the ground, then
Speaker 5: that'll be fine.
Speaker 11: Right, fine, Okay, then how do you finish off sort
Speaker 11: of the front face of it, because you're still going
Speaker 11: to have to step up there.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's right, you will look. The most simple way
Speaker 5: would probably be tiles or something similar. If you were
Speaker 5: using a vinyl on the floor, you could bring the
Speaker 5: vinyl up. But what's what's on the concrete floor of
Speaker 5: the bathroom anyway?
Speaker 11: It's one four in which is all getting ripped up.
Speaker 11: So we're to be doing a complete revamp of that downstairs.
Speaker 5: Would you put vinyl as in sheet vinyl down again?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay? Then I would just form an upstand and have
Speaker 5: the vinyl come up. And ideally, if when you're framing
Speaker 5: the platform for the shower tray, you set it back
Speaker 5: a couple of millimeters so that the vinyl can actually
Speaker 5: tuck up underneath the lip of the shower tray.
Speaker 11: Right okay.
Speaker 5: Or you could have a little step flashing in there
Speaker 5: as another option. But you just want to make sure
Speaker 5: that if you're going to bring the vinyl up that upstand,
Speaker 5: that you don't provide access for water to penetrate, you know,
Speaker 5: from the top right, so just condensation and overflow.
Speaker 6: From the shower.
Speaker 5: So as long as it tucks either tucks underneath the
Speaker 5: shower tray or you have a little step flashing there,
Speaker 5: that will make it waterproof.
Speaker 11: Well, okay, yep, no, no, that's fine. And you don't
Speaker 11: like what the old fashion trips you needed to have
Speaker 11: access to these.
Speaker 5: You can clean from the top, you can clean from
Speaker 5: the trot a bitter word to go. Yep, it'll make
Speaker 5: a big difference to that that step up, because that's
Speaker 5: always a bit nervous, isn't it nerve wracking? I think
Speaker 5: it's more nerve wracking stepping out of the shower and
Speaker 5: when you're slightly unbalanced. Yeah, we'll be back straight after
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Speaker 5: It is Pete atnewstalk zb dot co dot NZ. I
Speaker 5: was struck by the passing this week of Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 5: former President of the United States of America. I have
Speaker 5: to say, in my head or my heart, basically, he's
Speaker 5: always been one of my heroes. I've huge admiration for him,
Speaker 5: and you can criticize the politics and for those of
Speaker 5: us have a certain vintage we remember, you know, the
Speaker 5: attempt to free the hostages and those sorts of things
Speaker 5: way back in the day. But his commitment to public
Speaker 5: life and service I think has been outstanding, and images
Speaker 5: of him as a sort of ninety year old still
Speaker 5: going out and working building houses with habitat for humanity
Speaker 5: is just an image that I think is exceptional and
Speaker 5: exemplary for those people in public life. So sad to
Speaker 5: I mean, look at a hunt. There's not really a
Speaker 5: lot of sadness at the passing, but there is a
Speaker 5: certain fondness and for me, a gratitude of a life
Speaker 5: well lived. So yeah, I just thought i'd mentioned that oh,
Speaker 5: eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call. Karen.
Speaker 5: Very good morning to you. How are you this morning, Karen.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Peter, Well, thank you. I'm wondering if you
Speaker 8: could tell me anything about main Mark.
Speaker 5: Main Mark as in the injected like it's an Essentially,
Speaker 5: it's an expanding polyurethane that they inject underneath buildings to
Speaker 5: level them up. Yes, yes, yeah, they've been around for
Speaker 5: a while. There was a slightly different name a few
Speaker 5: years ago. I have never personally contracted them to do
Speaker 5: work for me on behalf of a client, but I
Speaker 5: do have first hand reports, so two people that I
Speaker 5: know who have had them come in for very particular
Speaker 5: circumstances right, and in both cases it's been quite successful.
Speaker 5: So one was a corner of a building that was
Speaker 5: actually two storied. It was a block basement, brack above
Speaker 5: and in one corner of the garage. It had dropped
Speaker 5: away to the extent where the garage door was jamming,
Speaker 5: that sort of thing, and they were able to go
Speaker 5: underground there inject this expanding foam and it's way more
Speaker 5: technical than that, but essentially that's what it is, and
Speaker 5: then lift the building up in a similar circumstance. So, look,
Speaker 5: it is effective. I also know that it's not cheap,
Speaker 5: but then again, your alternatives are often as expensive or
Speaker 5: more expensive. So you know, if you've got a building
Speaker 5: that's sunk, I was looking at a place probably a
Speaker 5: year ago exactly the same thing, built onto a bit
Speaker 5: of an edge where they hadn't done a great job
Speaker 5: with the retaining and the building had subsided in one corner,
Speaker 5: and they looked at getting that product in to do
Speaker 5: the work. Yeah, it is effective.
Speaker 6: In a word.
Speaker 8: I've got a twenty meter concrete path and it's about
Speaker 8: a meter wide and it's come away from the dwelling
Speaker 8: about two centimeters right along, and to replace it and
Speaker 8: get in bobcats and goodness knows what would just be horrific.
Speaker 8: So I thought that this might be a good thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean most look I can't speak for them,
Speaker 5: but I you know where it's What it's designed to
Speaker 5: do is to lift vertically. So if there's a sideways displacement,
Speaker 5: so the let's say the ground is moving and your
Speaker 5: path is moved away from the wall, is essentially a
Speaker 5: horizontal separation. I don't know that it would be that
Speaker 5: useful to try and sort that out. I mean, is
Speaker 5: the path still reasonably even or has it become a
Speaker 5: trip hazard for you?
Speaker 8: No? No, it's in great condition and it's all in
Speaker 8: one big piece, so it's obviously got reinforcing in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look up from what you're describing. If your only
Speaker 5: issue is the fact that it's come away from the
Speaker 5: edge of the foundations of the building and left a gap,
Speaker 5: why not just deal with the gap?
Speaker 8: Right? What would just itest?
Speaker 5: I mean at twenty milt's a little bit challenging to fill,
Speaker 5: you'd probably use a semenititious material. Again, so rather than
Speaker 5: try and use a seilant, which is we'll look a
Speaker 5: little bit odd. I mean, we do it until panel
Speaker 5: walls and that sort of thing, beads of up to
Speaker 5: twenty mil, but a bead at twenty mili on the ground,
Speaker 5: I'd be inclined just to use a sementitious repair. So
Speaker 5: there's powders that you can buy that you can mix up.
Speaker 5: They've got an additive in them that helps them to adhere,
Speaker 5: and simply trowl that into that area there. It'll stop
Speaker 5: water getting in, which is a good thing, and it
Speaker 5: will just take your eye away from the fact that
Speaker 5: the gap running along between the path and the house.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I'm just tying it'll keep moving.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but how long has it taken to move twenty mil.
Speaker 8: Oh quite some time. But the spouting holding it and
Speaker 8: the gas line's holding it in place.
Speaker 5: Right, I really hope that that's not the case, but yeah,
Speaker 5: I take your word for it.
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really hope that that's not the case. But look,
Speaker 5: I think in that situation, I know that the cost
Speaker 5: of replacing the pathway would be fairly expensive. I would
Speaker 5: say that the cost of trying to do something to
Speaker 5: remediate it, in terms of push it back, would probably
Speaker 5: be a similar cost, to be fair.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 5: One of the challenges to it is where the pricing
Speaker 5: gets a little bit difficult. Is they don't know how
Speaker 5: much material they'll need to use to lift the building, right,
Speaker 5: so you know, depending on the firmness of the ground,
Speaker 5: whether there are any unexpected voids, those sorts of things.
Speaker 5: Funnily enough, and I say this not out of any
Speaker 5: disrespect to the company or anything like that, but the
Speaker 5: nature of it is that it seeks out any fissures
Speaker 5: and openings and soft spots, right, So the foam is indiscriminate.
Speaker 5: It will go wherever there's a gap. That's the whole
Speaker 5: point of it. And in one instance, I know that
Speaker 5: there was a I think it might have been a
Speaker 5: stormwater pipe thankfully that was nearby that was not in
Speaker 5: good condition, so there was some gaps and cracks in
Speaker 5: an old storm water line, and of course the foam
Speaker 5: found its way into that as well. But you can
Speaker 5: do a video survey and have that cleaned out later on.
Speaker 5: But that's how it works. It fills up all of
Speaker 5: the voids and then once they're full, then the pressure
Speaker 5: of it starts to then lift the building. It's quite remarkable.
Speaker 5: But look in your situation, I'd do a beat of
Speaker 5: I'd do some filler alongside there, and it'll be enough
Speaker 5: to take your eye off it. Okay, thank you, nice
Speaker 5: to talk to you all the very best. Yeah, good bye. Then,
Speaker 5: oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call?
Speaker 5: Suggestions on how to apply reason or similar products to
Speaker 5: coat an existing polished concrete bench shop? Is it possible
Speaker 5: for the DIY or should I seek professionals to carry
Speaker 5: that out? There was a product around a while ago
Speaker 5: dash I think it was dac H or something similar
Speaker 5: to that which was designed specifically for that or for
Speaker 5: like old laminate bench tops that needed a refresh. Perhaps
Speaker 5: you had a beautiful lime green benchtop that was all
Speaker 5: the rage back in the day and you wanted to
Speaker 5: just recoat it, so have looked for that or similar
Speaker 5: there would be There would be options there. Oh w
Speaker 5: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Hello, Brian,
Speaker 5: your family, thank you, into you and yours.
Speaker 4: And your team. Okay, Tom, the stain on concrete. You
Speaker 4: covered that issue just for crystals last.
Speaker 5: Year, as in like kiler and those sorts of things,
Speaker 5: or from firewood, you know, gum and mason from fire
Speaker 5: Do you know what what caused the stain?
Speaker 4: It was just timber splitting the timber on the and
Speaker 4: then leaving it stacked with I mess, A poor rain,
Speaker 4: A normal.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes, as happens, lots of I got a bunch
Speaker 5: of texts afterwards, a lot of them saying don't use
Speaker 5: acid now. The only the reason I mentioned the acid
Speaker 5: is we often use acid or spirit assaults or hydrochloric
Speaker 5: acid to wash down cement, like brick layers use it
Speaker 5: to clean down brickwork. Afterwards. But it is specifically there too,
Speaker 5: because it eats away at the cement and we use
Speaker 5: it on exposed aggregates to clean off the surface. The
Speaker 5: text that came through a lot of people advocating for
Speaker 5: baking soda. So whether you make the surface slightly damp,
Speaker 5: apply the baking soda and then leave it for a while,
Speaker 5: and it agitates in the same way that to be
Speaker 5: fair at home, if I've been a little bit negligent
Speaker 5: with my cooking, and I often am, and I've burnt
Speaker 5: the bottom of the pan, then I will often just
Speaker 5: let it soak with baking soda overnight and then you know,
Speaker 5: the next day it's way easier to clean. So the
Speaker 5: baking soda seems to be the.
Speaker 4: Go good solution, thank you.
Speaker 5: And I think we've all been there. When you've finished cooking,
Speaker 5: you look at the bottom of the pan and go
Speaker 5: ohh as I should have stirred it a bit more,
Speaker 5: But anyway, it happens, but the baking soda seems to
Speaker 5: sort it okay.
Speaker 4: No. The other thing, I really applaud your efforts to
Speaker 4: educate people on house mooddling and also the energy.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Also you mentioned for Christmas there is a person that
Speaker 4: has got a program out that will model energy input
Speaker 4: over a house over a year over that it's lifestyle.
Speaker 5: Yep. This is so to provide some context. Right. So
Speaker 5: at the moment in terms of complying with H one
Speaker 5: of the Building Code, which is all around energy energy efficiency,
Speaker 5: and so it often focuses on insulation. There is three
Speaker 5: methods for compliance. One is the schedule method, which is
Speaker 5: you go to the building code and the building code
Speaker 5: says you need to put R six point six in
Speaker 5: the ceiling and you need I think it's two point
Speaker 5: seven or two point eight in the walls, et cetera,
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. Now that's I don't want to
Speaker 5: go into it, but it's nonsense right as far as
Speaker 5: I'm concerned. So then then we have calculation method, and
Speaker 5: then we have a modeling method. And the calculation method
Speaker 5: seemed like a dark art only practiced by, you know,
Speaker 5: the those who'd been some secret training camp deep in
Speaker 5: the areas or something like that for a long time.
Speaker 5: But now as it's become more common, there are lots
Speaker 5: and lots of practices, whether the architectural practices or specialists
Speaker 5: who are doing this sort of modeling and calculation who
Speaker 5: are able to do it? And I was at the
Speaker 5: New Zealand Institute of Building survey As conference late last
Speaker 5: year and one of the people who was there is
Speaker 5: a building server. His practice, for example, was doing it,
Speaker 5: and at a rough estimate for an average house, it
Speaker 5: was about a six hundred to seven hundred dollar fee
Speaker 5: to do calculation method for a building consent. Now, I
Speaker 5: thought that was quite reasonable, and by being a little
Speaker 5: bit more finessed around how we approach the assembly of
Speaker 5: our houses and how we do our insulation. You know,
Speaker 5: in fact, you don't need our six point six in
Speaker 5: the ceiling. You could achieve the required number by using
Speaker 5: better insulation somewhere, maybe some slightly smaller windows, better quality
Speaker 5: double glazing, lowy, more energy efficient glazing. Da da da
Speaker 5: da da da da da da. And then suddenly you
Speaker 5: find that actually the requirement the ceiling might be four
Speaker 5: point two or you know, I'm just picking some numbers out.
Speaker 5: But what it does do is say that we need
Speaker 5: to be a bit more nuanced about how we do
Speaker 5: the assessment of our buildings, and that something as blunt
Speaker 5: as the schedule method is probably not that useful anymore,
Speaker 5: and now that more and more people are working in
Speaker 5: the space, the cost has come down, which is great.
Speaker 4: Well, theoretically a house could be modeled on the scheduling
Speaker 4: type method and then also done the other way is
Speaker 4: what you've mentioned here, the modeling. So over the lifetime
Speaker 4: of a house or building, you could actually work out
Speaker 4: how much energy has saved.
Speaker 5: Yes, you could do some extrapolation from the figures and
Speaker 5: go okay, So if we know, for example, that there
Speaker 5: is this much heat in a building because we've constructed
Speaker 5: in this manner, and then we constructed in a slightly
Speaker 5: different manner, which means that we have lower heat loss,
Speaker 5: and then we can calculate I couldn't, but other people could,
Speaker 5: I'm sure calculate that. Well, if that heat loss equates
Speaker 5: to this many kilowatts of energy used to achieve the
Speaker 5: desired temperature, and then we can calculate the cost of that,
Speaker 5: and then we can, like I say, extrapolate that over time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you could make some estimates about what amount you might
Speaker 5: save over time, but certainly now and you know, if
Speaker 5: you start, if you do a bit of a search
Speaker 5: around sort of energy efficient homes or people who are
Speaker 5: doing passive home or low energy homes and that sort
Speaker 5: of thing. You know, there's plenty of evidence now where
Speaker 5: people are saying, look, my power bills are less than
Speaker 5: half of what they used to be in a more
Speaker 5: conventional home. And a project that I went and visited
Speaker 5: just at the end of last year where a family
Speaker 5: have committed themselves to a sort of a deep retrofit
Speaker 5: of an existing house where they're going to take a
Speaker 5: nineteen fifties house which is probably you know, has no
Speaker 5: building rap, has no insulation in exterior walls, has single glazing,
Speaker 5: there's lots of gaps around the joinery and all that
Speaker 5: sort of thing, and they're going to do a deep
Speaker 5: retrofit to that in order to bring it up to
Speaker 5: beyond the building code. So that's going to be a
Speaker 5: fascinating one to watch.
Speaker 4: It will be.
Speaker 5: So it is possible.
Speaker 4: All of the quiry is to the fact that if
Speaker 4: we can have energy products along that line that are
Speaker 4: certified to save the country's energy over the sext period
Speaker 4: of time of the building, if why can't that be
Speaker 4: GST three.
Speaker 5: Ye, And look, that would be a great thing in
Speaker 5: the same way as reading some and I mean look
Speaker 5: that broadly speaking fits into the category of you know,
Speaker 5: if there is a public good, should there be essentially
Speaker 5: a government discount on it? Right? And what you're saying
Speaker 5: is that if you're buying products in order to make
Speaker 5: a building better, and that's a good for the community,
Speaker 5: should you then receive a discount or some sort of rebate.
Speaker 5: And I agree, But imagine the bureaucracy involved in trying
Speaker 5: to figure out that if I buy a roll of
Speaker 5: tape and I'm using it in my house and it's
Speaker 5: not energy efficient. You buy a roll of tape and
Speaker 5: you're building an energy efficient house that somehow you don't
Speaker 5: pay the GST and I do. And you know, in
Speaker 5: the same way, I think that savings for our superannuation
Speaker 5: should be tax free, but they're not in New Zealand.
Speaker 4: Very well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: You know, that's the argument, that's the big political financial
Speaker 5: argument that you're talking about there. Let's just do it
Speaker 5: because it's the right thing to do, and let's encourage
Speaker 5: other people to build better in the hope that we
Speaker 5: end up with buildings that are warm, dry, comfortable, in
Speaker 5: which case the first thing they should do is look
Speaker 5: after the inhabitants of it, and then we don't have
Speaker 5: generations of kids with bloody glue air and getting sick
Speaker 5: and taking time off school and all the rest of it.
Speaker 5: So if we increase the quality of our housing, will
Speaker 5: achieve that. And then also looking forward to a sort
Speaker 5: of using less energy in the future. If our houses
Speaker 5: are more efficient energy wise, then we will use less energy. Great,
Speaker 5: and then maybe if we can work on the waste
Speaker 5: we've got at sust radio nice look to be fair,
Speaker 5: I'm going to have a rant because I saw this
Speaker 5: story before it was online about Rhythm and Vines, right,
Speaker 5: this music festival that's been on, and then they've got
Speaker 5: this enormous crowd of volunteers and they think it'll take
Speaker 5: two weeks to clean up two weeks of waste that
Speaker 5: people have to go and clean up. Now they're doing
Speaker 5: it for charity and all the rest. That's great, But
Speaker 5: that twenty thousand people leave behind so much rubbish that
Speaker 5: it takes other people two weeks, that's appalling.
Speaker 4: I totally agree on that one too.
Speaker 5: Probably the same young people walking down the streets wanting
Speaker 5: to get us all driving electric cars or something. Anyway, Yeah, right,
Speaker 5: someone was criticizing me the other day for having too
Speaker 5: many political rants, but it all ties together. Lovely to
Speaker 5: talk to you, Brian, You have a fantastic day, all
Speaker 5: the best mate to take care. Oh eight hundred and
Speaker 5: eighty ten eighty is that number to call? How do I?
Speaker 5: How do I glue tiles on top of tiles with
Speaker 5: tile adhesive? Basically you may need to sort of deglaze
Speaker 5: the surface of the tile, so with an embrace of
Speaker 5: disk or something like it, just so you can get
Speaker 5: some king in. But it's not uncommon to tile over tiles.
Speaker 5: As long as the ones that are on are in
Speaker 5: really good condition and they're well bonded, then yes, you
Speaker 5: can tile over the top of tiles. Would I do
Speaker 5: it in a shower, I'm not sure that I would.
Speaker 5: Would I do it in a splashback, for example, in
Speaker 5: a kitchen where it's a bit less critical, Yeah? Probably.
Speaker 5: You just have to be really confident in a wet
Speaker 5: area like a shower that the waterproofing's in really good
Speaker 5: condition as well. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 5: eighty the number back in a moment to talk to Tony.
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Speaker 5: Just a quick text on stormwater that came through a
Speaker 5: moment ago Hollo pete talking stormwater. Can I put my
Speaker 5: own roof runoff pipe down onto a driveway to put
Speaker 5: it into the council street footpath channel that's going to
Speaker 5: be put in. Can it be partially run above ground
Speaker 5: to affect the appropriate fall? It must or must it
Speaker 5: be buried which would require a bubble sump somewhere from David,
Speaker 5: thanks for your text. Look, I think that you need
Speaker 5: to control the stormwater on your property, within your property.
Speaker 5: So allowing the storm water to drop down onto the
Speaker 5: driveway and then flood out into the council storm water
Speaker 5: the curb, whether that's on the pavement and there's sort
Speaker 5: of a channel grate running along the pavement, or whether
Speaker 5: it's into the curb, I don't think would be acceptable.
Speaker 5: So yeah, if you don't have storm water on your
Speaker 5: own property, then obviously that's quite a big undertaking to
Speaker 5: put that in and to make a connection to the
Speaker 5: public storm water line if there is one nearby, and
Speaker 5: in some cases there aren't, but in general, the idea
Speaker 5: of just having your downpipe flooding onto the ground and
Speaker 5: then running outside of the property. I mean, if you've
Speaker 5: got a decent long driveway. In some cases we've had
Speaker 5: to do it where we're actually installing a channel grate
Speaker 5: inside the boundary so on the private property to catch
Speaker 5: any runoff from the driveway, so that's not allowed to
Speaker 5: go out onto the curb discharge as well. So if
Speaker 5: we're doing that just for groundwater or for surface water,
Speaker 5: effectively that forms falls on an impermeable surface because of
Speaker 5: the volume, then you're having the volume that collects on
Speaker 5: your roof going out onto the road in an uncontrolled
Speaker 5: way like that. No, I don't think that's per missile.
Speaker 5: And talk there in the text as well of a
Speaker 5: bubble sump. This is kind of a new thing. If
Speaker 5: anyone's got any questions, feel free to call through. It's
Speaker 5: quite an interesting little idea that's starting to come around.
Speaker 5: This is all about sort of dealing with sudden overflows
Speaker 5: of where the stormwater system, your own private one is inundated.
Speaker 5: What happens to the excess, and that's where this bubble
Speaker 5: sumps are becoming quite quite common. I've never put one
Speaker 5: in yet, but undoubtedly it will come along in some state.
Speaker 5: Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty the number
Speaker 5: to call. Join us if you wish. The lines are open. Tony,
Speaker 5: good morning, Good morning, Pete morning.
Speaker 13: An installation one?
Speaker 9: Were you.
Speaker 13: Nineteen sixties?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 13: No building rap, single blazing. I've got the glazing who
Speaker 13: has just been finished? Of insulated ceilings and under floor yep.
Speaker 13: Now I would like to put a building wrap plus
Speaker 13: wall insulation. I've removed the lining jib yep. What would
Speaker 13: be a good or I'm not fasted on putting jib back. Oh,
Speaker 13: it would be a good alternative to jib with a
Speaker 13: good A rating.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, I don't know that I want to rely
Speaker 5: on my lining to give me my insulation or my
Speaker 5: R value. Right And I can see the text coming
Speaker 5: in in a second. But I've got to say this.
Speaker 5: Have you got a building consent for the retrofitting of
Speaker 5: insulation into existing exterior walls?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Right, Currently it is a requirement to have a building
Speaker 5: consent for retrofiting insulation into exterior walls. I'm just telling
Speaker 5: you that what you do with that information is completely
Speaker 5: up to you. So, and what's the cladding on the
Speaker 5: exterior of the building with.
Speaker 13: The balls split block, oh, split block.
Speaker 5: Okay, so when if you as you have done, you've
Speaker 5: taken the interior lining off, so what you see is
Speaker 5: some timber framing, no building rap on the outside, and
Speaker 5: then you've got a cavity and then you've got your
Speaker 5: brick work right. So, yeah, you do want to do something,
Speaker 5: You've got a couple of options. One is to use
Speaker 5: a product similar like Autex green stuff, right, which is
Speaker 5: self supporting. So if you were to do use that insulation,
Speaker 5: you wouldn't really have to worry too much about putting
Speaker 5: a building rap at the back of it. So I mean, look,
Speaker 5: the building wrap would help a little bit in terms
Speaker 5: of stopping drafts. So if you were to be really
Speaker 5: fastidious about cutting pieces of building paper and stapling it
Speaker 5: to the inside of each of the little cavities that
Speaker 5: created by studs and nogs, right, so all of those rectangles,
Speaker 5: and that will help with reducing draft and then you
Speaker 5: could push the insulation against that. It's worth doing, but
Speaker 5: it is quite time consuming. If you didn't want to
Speaker 5: do that, but you did want to put insulation in,
Speaker 5: then I would use something like autech screen stuff possibly
Speaker 5: mammoth as well. Both of those are quite dense and
Speaker 5: self supporting. And then redo the lining and look, you
Speaker 5: could use plasterboard if you want, you could use plywood,
Speaker 5: you could use triboard. There's any number of products that
Speaker 5: you could use. But I wouldn't rely on the lining
Speaker 5: unless you were using something like kingspan, which is polystyrene
Speaker 5: bonded to plasterboard. But the benefit of that product is
Speaker 5: that you could apply it straight over your existing lining.
Speaker 5: Therefore you're not removing the lining. Therefore you don't require
Speaker 5: a building consent for that. But that's that ship has sailed.
Speaker 13: Right, I get you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yep, and look what you know the benefit
Speaker 5: of So you've done? Have you done retrofit double glazing
Speaker 5: for your joinery?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay, So if you are taking the lining off, it's
Speaker 5: also a great opportunity to do an air seal around
Speaker 5: your existing joinery. So typically, you know, older houses, we've
Speaker 5: got timber framing and framing for an opening. Then we've
Speaker 5: got our joinery sitting there and is often you know,
Speaker 5: ten fifteen twenty milimeter gap and that's that's where a
Speaker 5: lot of air leakage occurs as well. So if you've
Speaker 5: taken the lining off as we do in a modern house,
Speaker 5: go around and do an air seal around there as well.
Speaker 13: Oh here, yeah, yeah, good one, all.
Speaker 5: Right, all the very best your tony. Yep, good luck,
Speaker 5: thank you very take care about it.
Speaker 14: He hollo.
Speaker 5: Oh eight eighty the number to call.
Speaker 15: Hello Katie, Oh hello there morning, good morning.
Speaker 7: Now, I just.
Speaker 15: Wondered, we've we've got a little bit of a problem
Speaker 15: with the property that we own, and we've got a
Speaker 15: neighbor who four years has been draining his stormwater into
Speaker 15: our property. Right, so we've asked him a couple of
Speaker 15: times to fix it three or four years past, nothing
Speaker 15: had done about it. Then we rung the council to
Speaker 15: do something about it. They told us it was a
Speaker 15: neighbor's bitch.
Speaker 5: They shouldn't that's that they shouldn't. True.
Speaker 14: Yeah wow.
Speaker 15: And then so the council went out to have a look.
Speaker 15: Then the council people changed and there was a whole
Speaker 15: lot of change in the in the hierarchies. So those
Speaker 15: people who told us that were no longer there. And
Speaker 15: then this truth and who's a local in the area
Speaker 15: has you know, continue to just like ignore us, and
Speaker 15: so then he goes. We arrive at the property and
Speaker 15: he's connected up a big wide white pipe which is
Speaker 15: like leading to a black hose that comes out from
Speaker 15: his property into this big white pipe and then he
Speaker 15: drains it into the council's river race.
Speaker 5: And he got consent for that work. I presume, no, no, no, no, nothing,
Speaker 5: He's got nothing.
Speaker 15: He just turns a blind eye. And then we found
Speaker 15: after all the rain that the pipe had popped out,
Speaker 15: and so it was just pouring straight into our yard
Speaker 15: behind our garage. And so now there's about five inches
Speaker 15: of wet cray right next to our garage. And he
Speaker 15: just continues to ignore us, and we just feel that
Speaker 15: the council was ignoring us as well, you know, and
Speaker 15: we just think we go to our insurance company because
Speaker 15: our garage, even though it's been there for absolute years
Speaker 15: before we bought the property, the whole roof of the
Speaker 15: garage is rusted. It doesn't mean that won't be with stormwater, right,
Speaker 15: I just thought maybe the condensation, the wetness or no,
Speaker 15: I don't think anythink may have had some of linking.
Speaker 5: Even if it did contribute, it would be very difficult
Speaker 5: to prove look, I get the frustration. I think that,
Speaker 5: you know, councils probably should be a little bit stronger
Speaker 5: in their enforcement of the sort of thing, particularly in
Speaker 5: urban areas.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: And it's it's quite clear in the legislation that it
Speaker 5: is a requirement of a homeowner to control storm water
Speaker 5: from their own property and that in yeah, so, and
Speaker 5: when you get an intransient neighbor like this who just
Speaker 5: refuses to cooperate or refuses to comply as much as
Speaker 5: you know, on betwixt and between in terms of you know,
Speaker 5: legislation and bureaucracy and council and enforcement and all the
Speaker 5: rest of it, but you do wish that they would
Speaker 5: take us strong because you know, it has a real
Speaker 5: impact on you, right, you know, every time you get
Speaker 5: a lot of rain, you end up copying something that
Speaker 5: should be controlled by your neighbor. It's not that hard,
Speaker 5: and it's a pity that these things aren't enforced. But
Speaker 5: of course enforcement is really difficult as well, because.
Speaker 15: How enforcement you know, how far can we go? And
Speaker 15: we don't want to well say that, you.
Speaker 5: Know, there have been situations. Again, I'm aware of a
Speaker 5: situation where council did a survey of drainage on a property,
Speaker 5: found that it was defective and issued a notice to fix, right,
Speaker 5: and then they said in that notice to fix, you
Speaker 5: have fourteen days to prove that you have done something
Speaker 5: about this, after which we will send a contractor to
Speaker 5: do the work and you will have to pay it
Speaker 5: and will charge you an extra ten percent on top
Speaker 5: of that bill. We don't know what the bill's going
Speaker 5: to be, but whatever it costs, we're going to get
Speaker 5: it fixed and you're going to pay for it. Now
Speaker 5: that sounds quite stern again, Council being council. Some years later,
Speaker 5: no one had turned up to do the repair, and
Speaker 5: the repair hadn't been done. So that's really frustrating saying that.
Speaker 5: There does seem to be certainly an Auckland a bit
Speaker 5: of a change, and I'm aware of so with an
Speaker 5: Auckland Council. Now there is Healthy Waters, which is kind
Speaker 5: of a division within council that deals specifically with stormwater right,
Speaker 5: and one of the things one of the initiatives they've
Speaker 5: had is to actually send people out to do like
Speaker 5: a walking survey of a neighborhood and look at a
Speaker 5: property and go, oh, hey, look, I've noticed that those
Speaker 5: downpipes actually just drop onto the ground, knock on the door. Hey,
Speaker 5: are you aware that your downpipes don't connect to the
Speaker 5: stormwater system at all? And maybe you'd like some help
Speaker 5: to fix that, or maybe you'd like some ideas and
Speaker 5: that sort of thing. So they're actually being proactive. Now.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you're in Auckland, but are you.
Speaker 15: No on the South Island?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 5: South Island? Yeah. Look, I find it incredibly frustrating because
Speaker 5: you know, it is a real issue for you. It's
Speaker 5: not just you being grumpy or being pedantic or anything
Speaker 5: like that. This is real, right. Every time you have
Speaker 5: heavy rain, you're copying it and it.
Speaker 15: Actually looks ugly. And I did think that if we
Speaker 15: had a problem with them, and we went to the
Speaker 15: council and we started engaging with the council for our
Speaker 15: neighbors to do something, would that be something that would
Speaker 15: appear on our limb report or anything like that if
Speaker 15: we were to sell the property.
Speaker 5: I would like to think that any correspondence that you
Speaker 5: send regarding your neighbor's property would stay on the neighbor's
Speaker 5: property file, but it shouldn't be on yours, but it
Speaker 5: would be on the neighbor's property file. So if you
Speaker 5: request like a property bag or a property file from council,
Speaker 5: it will have all correspondence relating to that property. Okay,
Speaker 5: that's quite.
Speaker 15: Useful, right, Okay, yeah, I might look into that, have
Speaker 15: a look at it next week.
Speaker 8: Good luck.
Speaker 5: I know it's frustrated, brilliant. Yeah, alrighty all this Bob
Speaker 5: I eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call
Speaker 5: if you've got a building question, and you know, I
Speaker 5: mean we do kind of that's stray. Actually, I think
Speaker 5: it's really important that we understand the legislation sometimes and
Speaker 5: we we get into these discussions around I guess policy
Speaker 5: and legislation and regulations and requirements because they do impact
Speaker 5: on us. We'll talk to Doug and just a moment
Speaker 5: if you'd like to join us. We do have a
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Speaker 5: It'd be you and just talk. It'd be critiques Pete.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about building a sleepout. I want to use
Speaker 5: a cavity batten on the exterior, which will have a
Speaker 5: vermin strip at the bottom of the wall. If I
Speaker 5: line the walls, the exterior walls with corrugated iron, how
Speaker 5: do I block off the corrugation so that bugs can't
Speaker 5: crawl up into the wall? Is there a product that
Speaker 5: blocks off the bottom of the iron, Yes, there is,
Speaker 5: so it's called basically, it's a foam infill strip. There'll
Speaker 5: be a number of different supplies. You can get them
Speaker 5: at all sorts of different hardware stores. That come in
Speaker 5: strips of about a meter long, and so they are
Speaker 5: a foam strip which is compressible. So you can either
Speaker 5: leave the bottom of the sheet loose for a moment,
Speaker 5: poke the strip up and then fix your fastener through,
Speaker 5: or you can try and staple it on and get
Speaker 5: the angles right. But I've done it myself, not hard
Speaker 5: to do, not terribly expensive, and that will stop bugs
Speaker 5: and not getting in at the bottom as well. So
Speaker 5: good luck with that corrugate a din as a cladding.
Speaker 5: I do kind of like it, I have to say.
Speaker 5: In the right situation. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Speaker 5: the number to call Doug. Good morning to you morning
Speaker 5: feet here you go, want good things about yourself?
Speaker 4: Good good good.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you're just just another question on it's not actually stormwater,
Speaker 14: but it's a neighbour's driveway yep. So when a neighbor's
Speaker 14: driveways put down, it's not supposed to create blowpath onto
Speaker 14: your onto the neighbor's property, right, So do they they
Speaker 14: have to control that with a cesspit or or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So typically, you know, because we're driveway's big flat area, right,
Speaker 5: water's got to go somewhere, So it should either have
Speaker 5: a curb or like a little dish, like a swale
Speaker 5: that's cast into the driveway. And then yes, that water
Speaker 5: typically should be contained before it exits the property. So
Speaker 5: either you shape the driveway and go into a catch
Speaker 5: pit or in some cases you put in channel great
Speaker 5: which also drops into a catch pit that's near the boundary.
Speaker 5: So yes, but certainly you know, a big flat driveway
Speaker 5: that just pitches towards your property and discharges all of
Speaker 5: that storm order onto your property, that shouldn't be acceptable.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and then that's what's diverted into the storm water
Speaker 14: out the front on the road.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, there are probably requirements in terms
Speaker 5: of you know what area, what surface area that potentially
Speaker 5: a small surface area may not require that catchment, but
Speaker 5: a larger area because I mean it's you know, if
Speaker 5: you think about rainfall, right, and you know, ten millimeters
Speaker 5: per hour of rain and you've got one hundred square
Speaker 5: meters of concrete driveway, let's say it ends up being
Speaker 5: a significant amount of catchment. So yeah, it is a
Speaker 5: requirement as far as I'm aware.
Speaker 14: Yeah, because we've got we've just dealing with this one
Speaker 14: hundred year suppose of the flood. Yeah, so our property
Speaker 14: has they're looking at it as a flow path, yes,
Speaker 14: so yeah, and that and that equation is like neighbors
Speaker 14: properties the rainwater flowing from their driver onto ours which
Speaker 14: they need to control.
Speaker 5: Also, is this based on the older modeling or some
Speaker 5: of the more up to date modeling.
Speaker 14: Well, the flow path is up to the newer modeling,
Speaker 14: so that's within also not at this stage, but when
Speaker 14: they do a seventy percent coverage on all the properties
Speaker 14: with buildings, yep, then this is how the flow path
Speaker 14: is going to happen. So yeah, a little bit pie
Speaker 14: in the sky. But why do they want to create
Speaker 14: seventy percent coverage on all the properties when it's going
Speaker 14: to create float pass through a lot of properties in
Speaker 14: that area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And therein is the dilemma, isn't it that you
Speaker 5: know we all well maybe we don't, but you know,
Speaker 5: I do think that in terms of urban development, we
Speaker 5: need to have intensification. So broadly speaking, I'm a supporter
Speaker 5: of it. But at the same time, we can't ignore
Speaker 5: the consequences of that. So you know, a large you know,
Speaker 5: and we've all seen it, right, You've got an eight
Speaker 5: hundred square meter section with one hundred and twenty square
Speaker 5: meter nineteen fifties house in the middle of it, lots
Speaker 5: of grass, da da, da, da da. And then that
Speaker 5: goes and suddenly there's four townhouses there and there's sixty
Speaker 5: seventy percent site coverage. Now, the impact of that is
Speaker 5: we're collecting a lot more stormwater that's got to go
Speaker 5: somewhere in the event that the storm water that's been
Speaker 5: provided doesn't cope with the downfall. And that's why we're
Speaker 5: talking one in one hundred year flood events, which is
Speaker 5: just a statistical thing, right, Because while I'm getting a
Speaker 5: bit older and I've got a few gray hairs. I'm
Speaker 5: not that old that I have been through I think
Speaker 5: at least four or five one in one hundred year
Speaker 5: flood events, right, So there is lots of modeling around
Speaker 5: what happens when we do get these more common intense
Speaker 5: downpause and the stormwater system doesn't cope. Where does that
Speaker 5: water go? Well, it becomes an overland flow path. So
Speaker 5: as part of the development, we need to think about
Speaker 5: the impact of those events. And the reason I asked
Speaker 5: about the whether or not it's the recent modeling, there's
Speaker 5: quite an extraordinary thing. Again, I'm sorry for referencing Auckland,
Speaker 5: but it's the council that I happen to live in
Speaker 5: and it's the tools that I get to use. So
Speaker 5: there's now i think it's called flood Viewer or something similar,
Speaker 5: which is using some of the data from the January
Speaker 5: twenty three flooding to see where flooding occurred. And so
Speaker 5: when you look at this flood viewer, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: it's called shows you the extent of where flooding occurred
Speaker 5: in a couple of areas that I'm quite familiar with.
Speaker 5: It's quite interesting to see that the real experience of
Speaker 5: that flood is showing on this flood view and you
Speaker 5: can see the extent of these overland flow path areas
Speaker 5: and that's probably what we're picking up on as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Funny enough, funny enough. No, we've never seen any any
Speaker 14: signs of flooding happening at all.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, and I've got to move on. But you know,
Speaker 5: I mean it's interesting. I saw one the other day
Speaker 5: which was a house that was reasonably on top of
Speaker 5: a hill and they were worried about an overland flood
Speaker 5: path and I'm going, yeah, mate, I think that needs
Speaker 5: revising so exactly.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I can't understand why ours is and then the
Speaker 14: neighbors isn't. It's pretty much on the same level.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, good luck with the process, all the best,
Speaker 5: nice talking with your fascinating area. Oh eight hundred eighty
Speaker 5: seven fifty two at news Talk ZB.
Speaker 1: Doing of the house sorting the garden, asked Pete for
Speaker 1: a hand the resident builder with Peter Wolfcam and light
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Speaker 5: Call oh eight hundred eighty eight News Talk s'b coming
Speaker 5: up to New Sport and where the top of the
Speaker 5: are at eight o'clock in just a moment. We'll talked
Speaker 5: to Heather after the news as well. If you'd like
Speaker 5: to join us while the lines are open, then the
Speaker 5: number is eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Also at around
Speaker 5: eight thirty this morning, we'll jump into the garden with
Speaker 5: a red kline past as always and for the first
Speaker 5: time this year, So looking forward to catching up with rut.
Speaker 5: If you've got any gardening or entomological questions, you can
Speaker 5: fire them through on the text or give us a
Speaker 5: call after eight point thirty here at Newstalk se B
Speaker 5: Can I also just quickly say I there's my own
Speaker 5: foolish mistake with a trailer. I bought a trailer a
Speaker 5: couple of years ago and one of the handles was
Speaker 5: a bit loose, and I was like, oh, I must
Speaker 5: repair that, must do that, da da da. Anyway, I didn't,
Speaker 5: and it fell off stupid right of me. So anyway,
Speaker 5: I emailed the company and said, can you see me
Speaker 5: out of handle? This was Luca trailer. Within a couple
Speaker 5: of days they'd sent out a handle. In fact, they'd
Speaker 5: sent out some spare handles, they sent out some bolts,
Speaker 5: they sent out She said wheel pairings and a little
Speaker 5: clamp and a whole lot of stuff. I was just
Speaker 5: super impressed that just before Christmas they got onto it
Speaker 5: and got it on the courier and got it to me.
Speaker 5: And I've got that fact, so again, my thanks to them.
Speaker 5: That was outstanding on the heart of Luca Trailer's it
Speaker 5: was a great job. Right, we're back straight after news.
Speaker 1: Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fence, or wondering
Speaker 1: how to fix that hole in the wall, you give
Speaker 1: Peter wolf Cabin call on, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty,
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Speaker 5: Me must be my turn O. Eight hundred eighty ten
Speaker 5: eighty is the number to call. We'll talk building through
Speaker 5: to about eight thirty this morning. Excuse me if you've
Speaker 5: got a question of a gardening nature though. Oh, eight
Speaker 5: hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. But
Speaker 5: after eight point thirty my mind, we talked a bit
Speaker 5: about storm water and tanks and so on, and in
Speaker 5: my mind, I'm sort of playing this game where I'm
Speaker 5: going when do I need to start, like, I've got
Speaker 5: tanks and I want to irrigate the garden, and not
Speaker 5: a lot of need at this stage in Auckland to
Speaker 5: irrigate the garden. But I'm sort of trying to predict
Speaker 5: when it is that I could that I should start
Speaker 5: using the water and the tanks, but in the hope
Speaker 5: that there will still be rain to come. So I
Speaker 5: started using water out of the slim gym tank that
Speaker 5: sits behind my shed the other day to irrigate the
Speaker 5: hedge because it looked a little bit dry, and then
Speaker 5: of course we had rain overnight. Such chances are that's
Speaker 5: topped up again. But it's that sort of mind game
Speaker 5: of going when can I start using it? And if
Speaker 5: I do use it up, will I get some more rain?
Speaker 5: There's been plenty of that around at the moment. I wait,
Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty ten eighty. We're talking all things
Speaker 5: building construction, and you know the sort of the legislation,
Speaker 5: the big stuff that surrounds it as well, including that
Speaker 5: discussion just prior to the news about storm water and
Speaker 5: overland flow paths, and sometimes you know what happens when
Speaker 5: a neighbor doesn't comply. How do you deal with that.
Speaker 5: If you'd like to chat about that, we can talk
Speaker 5: about that as well. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 5: eighty the number to call. Hello Heather, Thanks waiting, How
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Peter. My question relates to double blazing
Speaker 9: and flashing. Yes, So, at the end of December twenty
Speaker 9: two I made a final payment for a whole apartment
Speaker 9: in Wellington to be double glazed, and it is about
Speaker 9: sixteen meters across the front floor to ceiling windows. Well,
Speaker 9: it's quite a lot, yeah, quite a lot. So in
Speaker 9: April twenty four I noticed that the flashings on the
Speaker 9: balcony deck, on the ground, on the sitting on the
Speaker 9: debt level had little bubbles in them. So I sent
Speaker 9: a picture to the installer and he did come and
Speaker 9: have a lock and he said they'd never seen anything
Speaker 9: like that before. So he got in touch with the
Speaker 9: powder Cota and he said he couldn't say exactly why
Speaker 9: that had happened. Possibly your solvent had come into contact
Speaker 9: with the paint right and they think they might have
Speaker 9: to scrape the affected area's back time and then the
Speaker 9: spray an appropriate product. My question is is this going
Speaker 9: to work? He hasn't done it yet contact.
Speaker 5: Rhythm, just just for clarity. The fleshing that you're talking
Speaker 5: about was installed as part of the double glazing installation.
Speaker 9: Oh yes, absolutely, okay. So the first fleshing that goes
Speaker 9: on at the bottom of the window, then the windows
Speaker 9: go in, and then the fleshing at the top locked
Speaker 9: it all together, doesn't it.
Speaker 5: And again just for the purposes of clarity, that flashing
Speaker 5: went into the opening. And then was it new jewinery
Speaker 5: that was installed as well as new glazing. So new
Speaker 5: window frame, all.
Speaker 9: New window frames, a whole lot eighty dollars.
Speaker 5: Okay. No, it's just sometimes when we typically when we
Speaker 5: talk about retrofit double glazing, we're talking about adding double
Speaker 5: glazing where there was single glazing, but leaving the frames
Speaker 5: the original frame reusing. So in this instance, they took
Speaker 5: the whole they took a whole lot out and they've
Speaker 5: replaced it. Okay, So it's lord, yeah, redoing the joinery okay.
Speaker 5: And then yeah, typically we install a sill flashing and
Speaker 5: then the jowinery gets installed over the top of that,
Speaker 5: and then it's the sill flashing that is now bubbling.
Speaker 9: Yep, yeap, the one on the outside.
Speaker 5: I have to say it is not cross.
Speaker 9: The front that I can see is about seven to
Speaker 9: eight meters long. The other parts of the windows, like
Speaker 9: I can't inspect because I'm up upper level. Yeah sure,
Speaker 9: and I can't get there to have a look. Yeah,
Speaker 9: but that's seven or eight meters long. And the fleshing
Speaker 9: are not in one big long strup their infections yeap,
Speaker 9: but they've all got bubbling in them.
Speaker 6: It looks like.
Speaker 5: Blisters and the fleshings. I mean most likely they were
Speaker 5: powder coated, right, Yes.
Speaker 9: They are powder coterd definitely, because he said I've been
Speaker 9: in touch with the powder coat yep. And he can't
Speaker 9: say exactly why it's happened. Possibly as solvent has come
Speaker 9: into contact with the pain.
Speaker 5: And that's caused it to bubble.
Speaker 9: So it definitely happened.
Speaker 5: I think they doing a repair as they've indicated, which
Speaker 5: is to scrape back the affected area, do a primer
Speaker 5: in each primer and then overcoat. But then how are
Speaker 5: they going to apply the top coat? Are they going
Speaker 5: to brush it on? Are they going to mask it
Speaker 5: and spray?
Speaker 9: Don't know, and I'm a bit concerned if they what
Speaker 9: he said at one stage, they would grind it back.
Speaker 9: So if they do that, stars will then go on
Speaker 9: to the water proof membrane which is on the contract.
Speaker 5: No, I think if they're talking about grinding it back,
Speaker 5: I think they're more likely to use like an abrasive
Speaker 5: flat disc in a grinder, and so there'll be a
Speaker 5: lot of dust, but there won't be that much heat,
Speaker 5: So I wouldn't I don't know that I'd be too concerned.
Speaker 5: I think what I would ask them is how they
Speaker 5: intend to apply the top coat, because you know, if
Speaker 5: what they're going to do is brush it well, brushing,
Speaker 5: even if you're really good, it's not going to look
Speaker 5: as good as the spray painting, right, So exactly, I
Speaker 5: don't think brushing is a good solution. There are you know,
Speaker 5: they can mask and spray it. And I wonder whether
Speaker 5: it's a job that perhaps the contractor should you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, in the end, it would seem like it's
Speaker 5: the contractor's fault, right. It's a defect either with the
Speaker 5: product or with the installation of it. And it's got
Speaker 5: nothing to do with you. It's not something you have
Speaker 5: course now.
Speaker 9: It's got nothing to do with me. And I think
Speaker 9: that the defect has happened at the powder coated, yeah,
Speaker 9: and that so.
Speaker 5: In that case, like I'm just thinking, we had a
Speaker 5: situation where we had some new joinery installed and it
Speaker 5: was a front door that was a solid panel door,
Speaker 5: so it was a powder coated sheet and there was
Speaker 5: a scratching it and so a specialist team came out
Speaker 5: to repair the scratch and then respray the door in situ.
Speaker 5: And I think it's that sort of application that would
Speaker 5: be most suitable for your repair. So that yep. Ye, Again,
Speaker 5: arguably it's not you know, painting is not the same
Speaker 5: as powder coating. Powder coting happens in the factory. There's
Speaker 5: an electrical reaction that bonds the particles to the material
Speaker 5: and so you can't replicate that outside of the factory.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, this here will be suitable
Speaker 5: and durable, I think.
Speaker 6: But again I want to come with a warranty.
Speaker 5: You'd have to ask the person doing the repair. So
Speaker 5: I mean the powder coder will have contacts the joiner.
Speaker 5: I mean it's scratches to joinery is not uncommon, right,
Speaker 5: So there are lots of people out there doing really
Speaker 5: good jobs of repairing it because we make lots of
Speaker 5: mistakes on site. But you'd need to talk to them
Speaker 5: about the repair. Interesting text that's just come through, Pete.
Speaker 5: Sounds like it's an already coated flashing that have been
Speaker 5: recoated to save money. Now, that would be an interesting Okay.
Speaker 9: No, I would doubt that very much, because this guy
Speaker 9: has done nine apartments in this building and he's not
Speaker 9: going to be doing it well.
Speaker 6: I'll be surprised.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and the old stuff was definitely well beyond No.
Speaker 5: I think what this texture is saying is that is
Speaker 5: it possible that in the lead up to getting the
Speaker 5: job done, the joinery supplier had supply of a particular
Speaker 5: color of flashing, but it wasn't the right one, and
Speaker 5: in the factory or perhaps beforehand, they've done a quick
Speaker 5: spray in order to change the color to the color
Speaker 5: that matches the joinery, and that has delaminated, and again
Speaker 5: you would be able to see that. So if you
Speaker 5: scraped very delicately the surface off and found there was
Speaker 5: another color underneath it, then you'd say, actually, you tried
Speaker 5: to paint this in the factory to match the joinery
Speaker 5: because you didn't have the right product. And therefore, again
Speaker 5: that emphasizes the fact that it's not your problem, it's
Speaker 5: their problem, so appreciate that text that's coming through.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, I can see what it means there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I would emphasize the fact that the contractor
Speaker 5: needs to bring in a specialist to do this work.
Speaker 5: You know, it shouldn't be the boy from the factory
Speaker 5: with a paintbrush.
Speaker 9: Well that's concern.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's just a cautious approach on your part.
Speaker 5: Will be worthwhile.
Speaker 9: Because the guy who put the windows on was the
Speaker 9: one who you said that he will come and fix up.
Speaker 5: Okay. Then the quick answer, the quick question is are
Speaker 5: you going to warranty your work? And if you're not,
Speaker 5: then can you provide me with a contractor who will
Speaker 5: warranty their work?
Speaker 9: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, good luck with that, Heather, thank you very much,
Speaker 5: all the very best, take care, my pleasure, all the best, Bob.
Speaker 5: By then your news talk c B will take a
Speaker 5: short break. We'll talk to Lorraine in the moment. Remember
Speaker 5: we've got rd climb pass for the first time in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five at around eight thirty this morning.
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Speaker 5: It b coming up bang on twenty minutes after eight
Speaker 5: here at NEWSTALKSB at eight thirty. I mentioned at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the show sort of you know how we
Speaker 5: get a bit reflective at the end of the year,
Speaker 5: and that sort of thing. And I was thinking, what
Speaker 5: have been my most useful tools all most.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Something I didn't think I needed, but now I do
Speaker 5: realize that I did. And I mentioned that at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the show, and then I'm thinking, I must
Speaker 5: tell you what that is. So I think two things
Speaker 5: for me. One is and I've mentioned this couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago on the program. I have been dismissive for
Speaker 5: a long time about track saws, and it's just an
Speaker 5: old fashioned thing where you go, well, you just take
Speaker 5: a straight edge, clamp it down, run skill saw along it.
Speaker 5: That's easy. Why would you bother with these fandangle track saws?
Speaker 5: Until I got one? So the good people at Ryobi
Speaker 5: dropped one off for me to use, and I've used
Speaker 5: it and I made a whole bunch of ourl boxes
Speaker 5: using the track saw, which is actually in that situation,
Speaker 5: it's fantastic different angles, raking bits and that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: You just make the mark run the track saw along it.
Speaker 5: So for me, I think the tsaw has been the
Speaker 5: transformational tool. And I'm probably five years late to the party,
Speaker 5: but hey, I'm there now and I'm loving it. So
Speaker 5: that Ryobi tracksaw turned out to be incredibly useful, I
Speaker 5: have to say. And the other thing is a new
Speaker 5: set of ear muffs, proper air muffs from a company
Speaker 5: that designs them here in New Zealand, so muff Tech
Speaker 5: air muffs with really good sound, really good hearing protection,
Speaker 5: but really good sound. Because my typical habit is while
Speaker 5: I'm like I was the other day using a hedge
Speaker 5: trimmer or using the mower and using the blower and
Speaker 5: using the line trimmer and that sort of thing working
Speaker 5: in the garden, I will have I always wear hearing protection,
Speaker 5: but typically I wander along quite happily listening to podcasts
Speaker 5: or listening to the radio, and it's great to do
Speaker 5: that with a proper, decent pair of ear muffs with
Speaker 5: good sound in them. So there you go. That's my
Speaker 5: two top transformational tools for twenty twenty four. Can't wait
Speaker 5: to see what twenty twenty five brings. I can tell you, oh,
Speaker 5: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to call Lorraine.
Speaker 5: A very good morning to you.
Speaker 12: Hello road.
Speaker 5: No, not yet, but close. Because I was talking about gardening.
Speaker 5: I understand why you you leaped to that conclusion. How
Speaker 5: can I help Lorraine?
Speaker 12: The council have dug up our driveway and taken out
Speaker 12: our leader box to do Draine work. Yes, and since
Speaker 12: July last year and it hasn't been They still haven't
Speaker 12: come and fixed it up.
Speaker 5: Really have they done the driveway?
Speaker 12: No, they haven't done anything. They've done the drainage, but
Speaker 12: they haven't have got stones on the driveway and the
Speaker 12: leader boxes up against the saints.
Speaker 5: Right did they say they were going to reinstate the driveway.
Speaker 12: We presume they were, and we run. I've been ringing
Speaker 12: the council and they're putting in reviews that it's all
Speaker 12: we've heard. I've rung the council several times.
Speaker 5: About it, because chances are council will issue the work
Speaker 5: order and then a contractor will do the job right.
Speaker 5: So I wonder whether the approach to take is to
Speaker 5: ring counsel and go. Can you give me the work
Speaker 5: order for that job? Can you tell me whether it's
Speaker 5: been paid for?
Speaker 9: I e.
Speaker 5: Have you paid the contractor for the work and did
Speaker 5: that work conclude the reinstatement of the driveway, Because if
Speaker 5: it did and they haven't done it, then I've got
Speaker 5: news for you, counsel. You've paid for work that hasn't
Speaker 5: been done. That will have a completely different impact on
Speaker 5: council than you ring and just complaining about work that
Speaker 5: hasn't been done, because it's it's their money that they've spent.
Speaker 5: So I would I would take that approach.
Speaker 12: Okay, we'll try that.
Speaker 10: Try that.
Speaker 5: Let me know how you get on. Yes, thank you, alrighty,
Speaker 5: take care well by then. I'm sure that it would
Speaker 5: come as no shock to anyone that I'm sure that
Speaker 5: counsel end up paying for work that never actually gets
Speaker 5: done by contractors. I'm absolutely convinced that that happens. Oh
Speaker 5: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. The number called Jeff,
Speaker 5: good morning.
Speaker 10: Good morning, How do you.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good? Actually, thank you?
Speaker 10: Yeah. I sent you an email about a stead.
Speaker 5: Tower that I have, sorry about a witch a stair
Speaker 5: tower that I have.
Speaker 10: That was built in heart Greamor many years ago as thrived.
Speaker 5: Thank you, my crazy. That's quite impressive for those years
Speaker 5: who don't have access to my email, which is most
Speaker 5: of you external to mystera for it. That's a very
Speaker 5: funky design.
Speaker 10: Yes, yes they're try and but it's not looking too
Speaker 10: well at the.
Speaker 5: Moment I was going to say, does it look like.
Speaker 10: No, not really, but it's just there's there's the odd
Speaker 10: Japan and we want to replace it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 10: The original was heart GM. It was built on site,
Speaker 10: so it was a structural es and this time around
Speaker 10: I'm thinking of getting it done in a joinery factory,
Speaker 10: so the talents and that would be a lot better.
Speaker 10: But the suggestion is to use PARTN and you know,
Speaker 10: knowing the sort of personality of Pine, it tends to
Speaker 10: be a little bit unstable or move around and just
Speaker 10: wondering what you thought. The other suggestion I had been
Speaker 10: given was Cedar, but that tends to be a little
Speaker 10: bit too soft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to say, for sort of structural stuff,
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if you like, I've done a
Speaker 5: couple of pergolas and those sorts of things in Cedar,
Speaker 5: but in terms of actually walking on it, I would agree,
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that it's that great. It would be
Speaker 5: quite interesting to go to someone like Rosenfalt and Kitson,
Speaker 5: for example, who are in Auckland, who import timbers from
Speaker 5: around the world, and they may well have some hardwoods
Speaker 5: of suitable dimension that you could then provide to the
Speaker 5: joiner to use. So it might be killer. It might
Speaker 5: be I'd have to put my thinking cap on for
Speaker 5: a bit and think about suitable timbers for outside. But
Speaker 5: I'd be inclined to take that photograph, which is fantastic,
Speaker 5: and go along to, you know, some of these specialist
Speaker 5: timber and porters and say, look, do you have something.
Speaker 5: It might be an African hardwood that's come in, It
Speaker 5: might be something out of the South Pacific that they
Speaker 5: could they'd have sufficient stock of suitably sized timber that
Speaker 5: you could machine down and do the posts, the rails
Speaker 5: and the decking and everything. The other option and I'm
Speaker 5: thinking about a choir, but it's I don't know that
Speaker 5: it's structural as such. Which is a modified pine. This
Speaker 5: is heat treated pine that ends up going essentially from
Speaker 5: a soft wood to a hardwood and again and we
Speaker 5: you like a bodo cladding is another one whether or
Speaker 5: not they might have something suitable. But I think for
Speaker 5: what you've shown me there, I'd be tempted to go
Speaker 5: after Rosenvelt kits and see what they've got. Yeah, Rosenfelt
Speaker 5: and kitsen k I d Son. I think, yeah, you'll
Speaker 5: find them a mate. Enjoy it's a fabulous looking house.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much for the photo. Yes, sure, yeah,
Speaker 5: all of this and I realized for people listening to
Speaker 5: the photograph means no. I mean it's it's a very
Speaker 5: interesting architectural design with a lot of it's a sort
Speaker 5: of glazing you just wouldn't be able to build today.
Speaker 5: I think it's exceptional, very beautiful. Thank you very much
Speaker 5: for that. Jeff, that's great. Oh eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 5: ten eighty. If you have a gardening question or a
Speaker 5: question about the wonderful world of bugs and now and
Speaker 5: oh so get it now, give us a call, Give
Speaker 5: us a call before we get rouded up on the line. Pete,
Speaker 5: you say you've got a brand of sound equipped ear muffs,
Speaker 5: and there's there's a bunch of them around right that
Speaker 5: have either Bluetooth or I've got an older set that
Speaker 5: have a little tuna in it. So I can listen
Speaker 5: to the radio. The ones that I picked up, I
Speaker 5: bought them actually at the home shown Wellington last year.
Speaker 5: The brand is muff Tech so m u FFT c
Speaker 5: H developed by a bunch of a couple of young
Speaker 5: blokes down in Wellington. So good on them. I think
Speaker 5: they've I've really enjoyed wearing them and they work particularly
Speaker 5: well just bluetooth. They're great. It is twenty nine minutes
Speaker 5: after eight. We're going to take a break. Then we're
Speaker 5: going to jump into the garden for the first time
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five with red Climb passed after the break,
Speaker 5: helping you.
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