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Speaker 2: And a very very good morning to you. Welcome along
Speaker 2: to the Resident Builder on Sunday. That's with me, Pet
Speaker 2: wolf Camp, the Resident Builder. And this is your opportunity
Speaker 2: the last time for twenty twenty four. Hey, this is it.
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Speaker 2: my condolences either way. So this is your chance now
Speaker 2: that we've had Christmas, and I trust that you had
Speaker 2: a hopefully a happy, maybe a reflective or a family
Speaker 2: focused sort of Christmas Day. And I know we had
Speaker 2: quite a bit of discussion around stocking stuff is basically
Speaker 2: what would come out of the or could go into
Speaker 2: the tool shed or into the toolbox. On my part
Speaker 2: that seemed to go quite well. I did end up
Speaker 2: working a little bit on Christmas Day here at New
Speaker 2: Suk seed B did eleven til one, and I was
Speaker 2: about to say, if you got something noisy in the
Speaker 2: tool department on Christmas Day, perhaps refrained from testing it
Speaker 2: out until at least Boxing Day. So I'm sure that
Speaker 2: the temptation was there if you've got something bright and
Speaker 2: shiny and possibly noisy for Christmas Day, that you wanted
Speaker 2: to have a crack at it. So maybe you're into projects.
Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty out there. I had still a
Speaker 2: little bit of driving around the city yesterday. It would
Speaker 2: seem that either people have disappeared on holiday, which is great,
Speaker 2: or you're all at home doing projects. So if you've
Speaker 2: got a project on that you would like some help
Speaker 2: with a little bit of advice around. Please call now,
Speaker 2: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number you
Speaker 2: can text through as well. That's nine to nine two
Speaker 2: from your mobile phone and if you'd like to send
Speaker 2: me an email then'd be lovely. It's Pete at newstalksb
Speaker 2: dot co dot nz. So around this time of year,
Speaker 2: I think, well where was I? I went to a
Speaker 2: tool shop during the week and a couple of trips
Speaker 2: to local hardware store, and it seems like there's still
Speaker 2: a little bit of activity out there. Even noticed actually
Speaker 2: driving around yesterday a bunch of trades people still working
Speaker 2: on a fairly large commercial site. So there's there's still
Speaker 2: activity that goes on. But if you've got a project
Speaker 2: and you'd like some help, by all means give us
Speaker 2: a call. If you've got something that you've got for
Speaker 2: Christmas and you're wondering how that goodness do I use it,
Speaker 2: then we can talk about tools and tool use and
Speaker 2: particularly tool safety. I have to say yesterday I spend
Speaker 2: a little bit of time in the workshop. I may
Speaker 2: well have been puttering as per our discussion last week
Speaker 2: around getting my sort of dust control and dust extraction
Speaker 2: set up. It seems if I look back. Over the year,
Speaker 2: it's kind of been not quite my obsession because that
Speaker 2: tends to make it something that we do without having
Speaker 2: a decent purpose. But it has become an increasing focus
Speaker 2: of mine is to go what am I doing to
Speaker 2: ensure that the environment that I'm working in is not
Speaker 2: quite dust free because that's the nature of construction, but
Speaker 2: at least that I'm putting in place mitigation, some way
Speaker 2: of removing that. So if I'm sanding, if I'm using
Speaker 2: a power tool, then typically I've got a bunch of
Speaker 2: different little adapters that hock up to the vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 2: So take the bad off the tool that I'm using,
Speaker 2: connect an extraction hose to that, and have that hopped
Speaker 2: up to the vacuum. I got a little track saw
Speaker 2: this year, and happily enough, a portable dust extractor, a
Speaker 2: little wet and dry eighteen vault Rhiobi dust extractor that
Speaker 2: I can carry around with me. It's actually incredibly useful
Speaker 2: and just gives you that opportunity to clean up as
Speaker 2: you go without having to drag out a vacuum a
Speaker 2: conventional one. Got a couple of those tucked away inside
Speaker 2: the workshop, have them hopped up to the drop saw,
Speaker 2: got them connected to there's a larger dust extractor that
Speaker 2: I connect up to the table saw when I use that.
Speaker 2: And then the other day I was looking for a
Speaker 2: particular type of clamp that allows you to have the
Speaker 2: hose fixed somewhere if you're using extraction sometimes having the
Speaker 2: hose sort of flapping around is a little bit difficult.
Speaker 2: And I did find them on an overseas website, and
Speaker 2: then I balked at the cost of the import the
Speaker 2: freight from the States, that being about one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty dollars, and I think I've pretty much ended up
Speaker 2: making one myself. Anyway, I've got to go and do
Speaker 2: one more little trip to the hardware store on my
Speaker 2: way home today and that'll be that project underway. So
Speaker 2: if you've got a project on or if you're considering
Speaker 2: maybe a project in the new year, eight hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty is the number to call, just in
Speaker 2: terms of where we're at at the end of the year,
Speaker 2: and i'd be interested in your opinions on that. There's
Speaker 2: a couple of it's been a remarkably complex and varied.
Speaker 2: It certainly varied in terms of business out there at
Speaker 2: the moment, it's pretty tough for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: and for those that have got through. I think this
Speaker 2: is when reputation and relationships will hold your business together.
Speaker 2: So it's pretty tough. I saw some figures the other
Speaker 2: day about eleven thousand jobs lost in the construction sector,
Speaker 2: typically construction employees. I think it's around two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty thousand people in New Zealand. And for eleven thousand
Speaker 2: jobs to disappear out of that sector, that's had a
Speaker 2: dramatic impact on obviously on people's lives, but in terms
Speaker 2: of you know, as we grow, we need those people.
Speaker 2: Of course, as we go into recession, those people disappear
Speaker 2: and then do they come back, So maybe you've been
Speaker 2: impacted by that. So that is part of where we're at.
Speaker 2: The other is that as the new government sort of
Speaker 2: hits its stride, suddenly there's a whole lot of talk
Speaker 2: about do we want to do remote inspections, do we
Speaker 2: want to wind back h one of the building Code?
Speaker 2: Do we want to look at a broader scope of
Speaker 2: building work that can be done without necessarily having a
Speaker 2: building consent. We want to be able to build sixty
Speaker 2: square meters. So it's been a fascinating political year. When
Speaker 2: it comes to construction as well, radio we can talk
Speaker 2: all things building and construction. Will do that right through
Speaker 2: till eight thirty. I don't have any guests with me today,
Speaker 2: so it's your opportunity. Need to talk all things building
Speaker 2: in construction right through eight thirty. Eight thirty. We will
Speaker 2: jump into the garden with the delightful hundred climb past
Speaker 2: at eight thirty, and then we will talk all things
Speaker 2: about the wonderful world of bugs and gardening as well.
Speaker 2: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call
Speaker 2: if you'd like to join me now is a good opportunity.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call.
Speaker 1: Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fans, I'm wondering
Speaker 1: how to fix that hole.
Speaker 4: In the wall.
Speaker 2: You give Peter Wulf Cabin call on.
Speaker 1: Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty, the resident builder with
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Speaker 5: News talks, evy.
Speaker 2: You welcome to text as well. Nine two ninety two.
Speaker 2: This one came in and I'll deal with it at
Speaker 2: the moment. Morning, Pete, I work in real estate. My
Speaker 2: question is around ducks Quest plumbing, So that's Dux ducks
Speaker 2: Quest plumbing. When this is located in a property, we
Speaker 2: advise potential buyers to have this replaced, even if it
Speaker 2: is currently functioning correctly and problem Would you agree with this?
Speaker 2: Do you have any other info I could pass on? Gosh,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a multi layered question in a sense,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate that the texts coming through. Look, I think,
Speaker 2: for a start, it's right to be cautious about it,
Speaker 2: like anyone that I know who's had it and their
Speaker 2: property has a high likelihood of failure. And when I
Speaker 2: talk about failure, it's a joint popping apart or bursting,
Speaker 2: often the middle of the night when the pressure is higher,
Speaker 2: or sometimes when you're away, and those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: So yes, it is problematic, without a doubt. I'm curious
Speaker 2: about how a real estate agent would know that it
Speaker 2: was in the wall, because it's not something you can see.
Speaker 2: So I guess it's one of those things. If a
Speaker 2: current seller a vendor has told you that that's the
Speaker 2: type of plumbing, it's an unusual question to ask. It's
Speaker 2: a little bit unusual. And then is it the role
Speaker 2: of the real estate agent to be advising a prospective
Speaker 2: purchaser about repairs and maintenance that they might have to do.
Speaker 2: I suppose it's all part of disclosure. Wouldn't mind talking
Speaker 2: to an agent on that actually. But look, in general,
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think that if it has
Speaker 2: been identified then and typically if you do repair, then
Speaker 2: somewhere else will burst later on. And I know plenty
Speaker 2: of people that have just taken the plunge, let's say,
Speaker 2: and they've stripped it out or they've simply bypassed it,
Speaker 2: deleted the lines, left them in the walls, just run
Speaker 2: new lines to all of the various outlets and so
Speaker 2: there's nothing running through the old duck square. So I
Speaker 2: agree you've got a concern.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: There was a funny story the other day. Someone I
Speaker 2: know was selling a house and they had a pre
Speaker 2: purchase or a prospective purchaser had a pre purchased inspection
Speaker 2: done identified that the cast iron pipe that connected to
Speaker 2: the toilet was rusty, and then in their pre purchase
Speaker 2: inspection said, we estimate that the cost of the repair
Speaker 2: is somewhere between one thousand and fifty thousand dollars, at
Speaker 2: which point the prospective purchaser then said to them, will
Speaker 2: look knowing this, We'll make you an offer, but will
Speaker 2: deduct forty thousand dollars for the potential cost of the repair.
Speaker 2: I just thought that was an absurd estimate to give
Speaker 2: and incredibly vague. From one thousand to fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: to repair. I mean, that's outrageous. Oh eight hundred eighty
Speaker 2: ten eighty is the number to call, and Hazel A
Speaker 2: very good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Hazel.
Speaker 6: I had a I lived in in the Bide Home,
Speaker 6: which was a two stories home, and several years ago
Speaker 6: the hype cam off my upere of cold water hips
Speaker 6: and flood of the whole house. I was out of
Speaker 6: the house for six days whilst the subcontractors were They
Speaker 6: bought in airs and dry et cetera, et cetera, and
Speaker 6: they told me it was faith for me to come back.
Speaker 6: I'm superate rejecting the n magic. And then this recent tree.
Speaker 6: I was doing my potatoes at night and being aged,
Speaker 6: I needed to go to the toilet with the water brain.
Speaker 6: I turned my test off of this thing, and as
Speaker 6: I went through pizza toilets. I saw about eight inch
Speaker 6: shet of water coming onto the carpet underneath the hot water,
Speaker 6: and so I forgot about going into the toilet. Rang
Speaker 6: the farbargate and they were absolutely amazing. But when they.
Speaker 7: Bought up the.
Speaker 6: Carpet, mold, mold and more mold. So I had to
Speaker 6: accept to tail pope due to my oath. Now, the
Speaker 6: first we wouldn't have had molds with the second run
Speaker 6: because it wouldn't have had time to happen. The mold
Speaker 6: would have happened from the first. And I'm wondering that's
Speaker 6: my insurance. They offered me two thousand on a ten
Speaker 6: thousand repay job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think sometimes with insurance, I mean it's very
Speaker 2: tempting at the moment, and particularly with weather related claims.
Speaker 2: Insurers sometimes will offer people, you know, a cash out, right,
Speaker 2: so you know, we estimate the cost of the repair
Speaker 2: is pick a figure, fifteen thousand dollars. Here's fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: You manage the job yourself. And interesting we had some
Speaker 2: friends who took a cash settlement for a much more
Speaker 2: considerable sum for extensive damage to a house and managed it,
Speaker 2: but then had a slightly more complex claim a little
Speaker 2: bit later on, and made sure that the insurer managed
Speaker 2: it because they could see that it was going to
Speaker 2: be really complicated. So I think you've got to be
Speaker 2: a bit careful about that. So do you currently, though,
Speaker 2: have mold still in your house?
Speaker 6: Apparently there is a mold still every tower, Pope, right,
Speaker 6: I've been here for over two weeks. The thing is
Speaker 6: do I leave legal advice or the thing is the
Speaker 6: first one I insisted on copper plumbing putting when the
Speaker 6: first one happens and read both toilets upstairs downstairs, trust
Speaker 6: the hand based in the upstairs. And the second one
Speaker 6: I insisted on topper plumbing, but they didn't mention it.
Speaker 6: But I had actually got copper plarly with the second one,
Speaker 6: and I'm through to a bits with the second.
Speaker 2: I wonder whether Hazel part of it might be that
Speaker 2: you get some independent advice from an experienced plumber who
Speaker 2: could come through and just assess either the repair and
Speaker 2: also just you know, talk to your insurer and say,
Speaker 2: you know, the two claims might not be related. So
Speaker 2: sometimes insurers are reluctant to, let's say, do a pay
Speaker 2: out if it's damage that's related to the first claim
Speaker 2: or a similar claim. Sometimes they'll say, well, look you've
Speaker 2: had and this loops back actually the ducks quest thing
Speaker 2: where in some cases I've heard where a claim has
Speaker 2: been made for water damage as a result of the
Speaker 2: pipe bursting, and then they might pay for that once
Speaker 2: or twice, but thereafter they'll say, well, look, if you
Speaker 2: don't go ahead and replace it now at your cost,
Speaker 2: we're not going to cover any further claims on that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. So that might be something, But I
Speaker 2: wonder whether it could be useful for you to get
Speaker 2: a plumber just to look at it both of the claims,
Speaker 2: look at the quality that repair, and if your insurer
Speaker 2: hasn't done a good job on the repair, then I
Speaker 2: would go back to the insurer, particularly if they're still mold,
Speaker 2: if they haven't dried it out properly, or if they
Speaker 2: haven't repaired an extensive enough area to get rid of
Speaker 2: that mold, I would suggest that they need to come
Speaker 2: back and figure that out. Thank you very much, Hazel,
Speaker 2: and a very good morning to you, Paul.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 8: Painful ringing about aluminium friction stay in particular interlock. I've
Speaker 8: got a we've got a fifty year old house and
Speaker 8: one of the stays has just broken. Doesn't look like
Speaker 8: you can get exactly the same, So it looks like
Speaker 8: the closest is now the black P fifteen sixty one
Speaker 8: B to what I had, And I noticed the drillhole
Speaker 8: aren't the same as the old one, so I got
Speaker 8: to redrill on both the sash and the window frame
Speaker 8: to food and I take it you've got to replace
Speaker 8: both hinges. They're slightly out.
Speaker 2: AKA, you're on the right track. And it's always a
Speaker 2: little bit scary, you know, drilling into your aluminium into
Speaker 2: the frame. They should supply you with a short, fine
Speaker 2: threaded screw and in some cases they have like a
Speaker 2: drill bit hit on them, so they are south drilling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to say, I've never found that they're particular. Okay,
Speaker 2: they're the ones that you need, though, and I tend
Speaker 2: to find that I don't rely on the actual little
Speaker 2: screw to do the drilling. I tend to pre drill
Speaker 2: because I think that's slightly more accurate.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 8: I'm just using the screws from the old hundreds and
Speaker 8: they seem to be working. But other than that, just
Speaker 8: a matter of doing it.
Speaker 2: It is, and the critical thing is to make sure
Speaker 2: that your hinges are both aligned in exactly the same
Speaker 2: position on both sides, Otherwise it'll tend to twist a
Speaker 2: little bit. So whatever measurement you use on one side,
Speaker 2: use exactly the same measurement on the other side, right,
Speaker 2: well do Yeah, but look, if you got fifty years
Speaker 2: out of the original friction stays, that's not too bad.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I say, the new one only comes with a
Speaker 8: tenure worthy.
Speaker 2: That's not to say that it won't work for more
Speaker 2: than ten years, but that's all that's required in terms
Speaker 2: of consumer guarantees and that sort of thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, right, And I take it you can't get just
Speaker 8: part of the stay and re rivet that one in,
Speaker 8: you know, because if only one part of the hinge
Speaker 8: yes in this case, the short part, you know, if
Speaker 8: you could, I would.
Speaker 2: Be knowing how they assemble those, I'd be I would
Speaker 2: think that the success rate of being able to re
Speaker 2: rivet it on site would be very, very small, and
Speaker 2: chances are you'll end up with that becoming loose or
Speaker 2: something like that. So I think replacing the hinges is
Speaker 2: a good idea. And have you been able to find
Speaker 2: replacement parts? Okay? Because it's sort of well alailable at
Speaker 2: a hardware store.
Speaker 8: Yeah, luckily the new version is pretty close to the
Speaker 8: old one, right, Okay, so'll I put one on and
Speaker 8: I'll put the second on today and hopefully that'll work. Okay,
Speaker 8: I'll find out, I guess soon enough.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And look, it's one of those things. And it's
Speaker 2: a little bit like I started. I went to use
Speaker 2: my I'm saying this because there's a story behind it, right,
Speaker 2: and it's a similar story to what you're doing is
Speaker 2: take your time with these sorts of repairs. So like
Speaker 2: the other day, I went to use my I've got
Speaker 2: an older petrol blower to pull start it, and notice
Speaker 2: that the cord was fraying to the point where it
Speaker 2: would barely come out of the you know, you pull
Speaker 2: it and it's the gems about halfway, and I thought, right,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to push it. I don't want to
Speaker 2: break the cord. And then I've da da da da,
Speaker 2: went and got some new cord the other day, and
Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon took it apart, and then I kind of went, actually,
Speaker 2: I've got like half an hour to do this, but
Speaker 2: I feel it might be a little bit longer of
Speaker 2: a job. So I'm going to give myself time, and
Speaker 2: I suggest you take the same approach in terms of
Speaker 2: doing the hinges. Give yourself time, don't rush it out,
Speaker 2: rush and you'll be fine.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I'll beat the Peter, spend the whole
Speaker 8: day on it, exactly.
Speaker 2: Start nice and early radio on the background, You're away,
Speaker 2: good luck, take care, see you. Then bobe all of
Speaker 2: this to you and I have to say, and it
Speaker 2: take me years to learn it, to be fair. One
Speaker 2: of the greatest frustrations, and I'm sure it's caused any
Speaker 2: number of sort of failures of operation, has been that
Speaker 2: we don't give ourselves enough time to do jobs. You
Speaker 2: know that we look at a job and we go, oh,
Speaker 2: it's half an hour or it's an hour, but you
Speaker 2: kind of know in the back of your head that
Speaker 2: that in fact, it's probably twice that, and so we
Speaker 2: launch into it and then we're under We put ourselves
Speaker 2: under pressure, and then the wheels fall off. Basically, so
Speaker 2: if you're going to do a task, particularly if it's
Speaker 2: one that you're unfamiliar with, take the time in the
Speaker 2: same way that when I pulled the cover off yesterday
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at how the pull start works. I've
Speaker 2: got my new bit of chord and I'm going actually
Speaker 2: this because it's not something I repair every day, right,
Speaker 2: but I'm pretty determined to have a crack at it,
Speaker 2: and it should be relatively simple. And I did actually
Speaker 2: go online to seek some guidance, and now I've got
Speaker 2: two different approaches to fixing it. So anyway, I might
Speaker 2: actually play with that later on this afternoon and see
Speaker 2: if I can get That's another job out of the way.
Speaker 2: See that's success on a Sunday, little job like that done.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. If you've got a
Speaker 2: job that you would like to get done, or you'd
Speaker 2: like to talk about or talk about various options, by
Speaker 2: all means, give us a call. Couple of texts have
Speaker 2: come in with regard to the Ducks quest and how
Speaker 2: it relates to sale and purchase agreements and real estate
Speaker 2: agents obligations and so on. Will come back and look
Speaker 2: at that in the moment, but we'll take your calls
Speaker 2: as well. On eight hundred and eighty ten eighty by
Speaker 2: all means, text nine two nine two, and if you'd
Speaker 2: like to email, it's Pete at Newstalks b It is
Speaker 2: six th eighty two. Just an aside as well for
Speaker 2: again into the texts about the plumbing and the real
Speaker 2: estate agents and so on, just off the cuff I
Speaker 2: happened to over the last two sundays on the show.
Speaker 2: We were talking about stocking stuffers, and I mentioned the
Speaker 2: fact that I'd wanted into my local, which happens to
Speaker 2: be dem Put Timber, to pick up a few bits
Speaker 2: and pieces. I needed some bolt fix and whatever I
Speaker 2: needed for that particular job, and saw that they had
Speaker 2: on the counter Good Rules, which is a New Zealand
Speaker 2: designed folding ruler. It's a little bit unusual and I've
Speaker 2: got a couple of them at home and I find
Speaker 2: them quite useful and they'd make a good sort of
Speaker 2: stocking stuff a type of gift. It seems like there
Speaker 2: was quite a bit of interest, and they're not actually
Speaker 2: that easy to in terms of retail stores. They're widely
Speaker 2: available online, but they're not in a lot of retail stores.
Speaker 2: But Jamie and his family that run Devenport Timber, they
Speaker 2: happened to stock them and they've supported the team at
Speaker 2: the Good Rule for quite some time. And Jamie texts
Speaker 2: me on the weekend and goes mate we've I think
Speaker 2: I've spent most of my time over the last week
Speaker 2: answering phone calls from people looking for these particular rulers
Speaker 2: and people coming into the store to get them. So
Speaker 2: if you did pop over, didn't put timber good on you.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the drive and the journey down
Speaker 2: Lake Road. And thanks for supporting the good rule in
Speaker 2: that way as well. So I wasn't my intention. I
Speaker 2: just happened to mention it. And yeah, I've used them
Speaker 2: the good stuff and it's great fun. Oh eight one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call
Speaker 2: if you would like to join us and if you
Speaker 2: want to chip in your thoughts around this. In terms
Speaker 2: of property and real estate, I guess so the original
Speaker 2: text was good morning Peak, I work in real estate.
Speaker 2: The question is around Duck's quest plumbing. When this is located,
Speaker 2: we and a property, we advise potential buyers to have
Speaker 2: this replaced, even if it is currently functioning correctly and
Speaker 2: problem free. Would you agree with this? Would you have
Speaker 2: any other info I could pass on? So there's a
Speaker 2: whole lot in that statement. One is I guess if
Speaker 2: you know it and you know that it's a problem. Yes,
Speaker 2: you have a duty to inform as a real estate agent,
Speaker 2: as my understanding, but do you necessarily have to recommend
Speaker 2: repair or do you just go hey? By the way,
Speaker 2: the vendor or a pre purchase inspection has identified that
Speaker 2: it is Duck's Quest, which was kind of a late
Speaker 2: eighties sort of plumbing product that has had extensive failures
Speaker 2: without a doubt. So a couple of other texts have
Speaker 2: come in. It's called fujuciary obligation. If you're a land
Speaker 2: agent and aware of a property or dwelling information, you
Speaker 2: must advise the interested party. So if you're aware of
Speaker 2: a particular fault, then you need to advise that. And
Speaker 2: there was a case actually the other day that went
Speaker 2: through to the real estate tribunal where someone was aware
Speaker 2: and deliberately withheld information of damage. And other text has
Speaker 2: come through. Dux Quest Plumbing is now a general disclosure
Speaker 2: on our purchaser acknowledgment form, much like monolithic clad properties. Also,
Speaker 2: a question about the forty K deduction requested, are you
Speaker 2: sure it wasn't a type? And the value associated with
Speaker 2: the works went five to one thousand to five thousand dollars, No,
Speaker 2: I spoke with the person who this is firsthand, this
Speaker 2: isn't a secondhand story. The pre purchase inspector, and you
Speaker 2: would have to question their ability to be blunt, made
Speaker 2: an estimate of between one thousand and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: and based on that pre purchase inspection and the figure
Speaker 2: set down, the potential purchase offered the vendor who I know,
Speaker 2: the asking price minus forty thousand dollars. So, and then
Speaker 2: eithery wanted to do a whole CCTV survey of the
Speaker 2: of the line as well, which is kind of unusual.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever heard of that where someone
Speaker 2: a potential purchaser wants to get a CCTV survey of
Speaker 2: the wastewater line like the pipes under the ground across
Speaker 2: the section to the boundary. It was decidedly odd anyway.
Speaker 2: In the end, as it happens in this particular situation,
Speaker 2: someone else was interested in the property and purchased it
Speaker 2: at the asking price, basically without all of that. Plava. Oh,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you'd like to add
Speaker 2: to that, I'd love to hear from you. Eight hundred
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty is the number to call, and then
Speaker 2: our first caller, Hazer, was talking about some water damage
Speaker 2: as a result of I think it might have been
Speaker 2: a burst pipe, and then the second one might have
Speaker 2: been a hot order cylinder. And of course someone has
Speaker 2: pointed out with insurance policies, some insurance policies, because they
Speaker 2: do very gradual damage, may have a policy limit of
Speaker 2: just two thousand dollars. In some cases gradual damage has
Speaker 2: basically no cover whatsoever. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
Speaker 2: is the number to call if you've got a building
Speaker 2: project that's underway that you'd like some help with, or
Speaker 2: you're looking to the future and thinking, actually, is now
Speaker 2: this is the discussion a number of people are having.
Speaker 2: Is now the time if you've held off doing a project,
Speaker 2: either a new build or renovation or significant alterations to
Speaker 2: the property, and you've held off, prices were very high,
Speaker 2: Materials were hard to get, material prices seem to be
Speaker 2: going up. No one was prepared to offer any fixed
Speaker 2: price contracts, etc.
Speaker 10: Etc.
Speaker 2: Trades people were really really busy a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Now all of that that landscape has shifted a little bit.
Speaker 2: Trades people often are not as busy as they have been.
Speaker 2: Prices while they haven't really gone down, the rate of
Speaker 2: increase is not going up. It's certainly more competitive, and
Speaker 2: either contractors or suppliers are more competitive with their pricing.
Speaker 2: At the moment, intrast rates have stopped their increase and
Speaker 2: are starting to decline, So there's a little bit of surety.
Speaker 2: Is now the time to press go before things inevitably
Speaker 2: take off? So I'm interested in your opinion on that
Speaker 2: as well. The lines are open. The number to call
Speaker 2: call us now. We've got plenty of spare lines right now,
Speaker 2: so now's a perfect time. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty
Speaker 2: is that number to call? Quack text before the break?
Speaker 2: Good morning Peak. Do you have any tips for removing
Speaker 2: stains from firewood and sawdust from concrete? So I presume
Speaker 2: that it's either a gum or a resin or something
Speaker 2: like that, or maybe you've had some hardwood. Typically, if
Speaker 2: you've got staining, it's out of Yeah, Kuiler is the
Speaker 2: classic one where you leave that out and it drops
Speaker 2: onto there. Almost impossible to get the quila stains out
Speaker 2: in my experience. But if it's others, then would you
Speaker 2: use Basically hydrochloric acid, which has spirit assaults. Is probably
Speaker 2: quite a good idea for cleaning concrete down, So try that.
Speaker 2: Agitate and then rinse off might help you out there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, stains on the concrete can be difficult to
Speaker 2: get out. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
Speaker 2: to call. It is coming up seventeen minutes away from seven.
Speaker 2: Join us now lines are free, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 2: Just thinking back over the year twenty twenty four which
Speaker 2: has been you know, it's memorable in the sense for
Speaker 2: people involved in construction, just probably because of how challenging
Speaker 2: it has been. I mentioned at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2: I saw some figures the other day about eleven thousand
Speaker 2: jobs in the construction sector have been lost or the
Speaker 2: numbers employed are down by about eleven thousand. That's a
Speaker 2: not insignificant amount out of an industry that employs. I
Speaker 2: think it's around two hundred and thirty thousand people roughly
Speaker 2: are involved in the construction sector. So it's a tough time.
Speaker 2: It's a tough time for apprentices, particularly in terms of construction.
Speaker 2: They're often the first ones who are let go, and
Speaker 2: then whether or not they try and stay in construction
Speaker 2: or do they come back. Typically they don't. I can
Speaker 2: recall back in what was two thousand and seven, you know,
Speaker 2: when there was a fairly significant downturn as well, almost
Speaker 2: a third of construction apprentices were let go. And then
Speaker 2: of course we go back into an upswing in the sector,
Speaker 2: and we're desperate for labor, and we're desperate for skilled people,
Speaker 2: and those people have gone. And then a little about
Speaker 2: a year ago, we had a great conversation with John
Speaker 2: Tukey from aut who's a fantastic commentator on all things
Speaker 2: can struction, but also sort of a big picture view
Speaker 2: of the industry, and I was saying to him, is
Speaker 2: there a way in which we can sort of even
Speaker 2: out these highs and lows in the sector that we
Speaker 2: tend to either be chasing our tail looking for labor,
Speaker 2: looking for materials when we're in a boom, or we're
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the trough and it's desperate and
Speaker 2: we lose a whole bunch of people and a whole
Speaker 2: lot of skills. And his simple answer is no, it's
Speaker 2: just that, I suppose it's the nature of capitalism, it's
Speaker 2: the nature of the economy, it's the nature of sort
Speaker 2: of these cyclical movements, and the industry kind of needs it,
Speaker 2: and so there's not really a way of getting of
Speaker 2: easing that out, which was I was kind of hoping
Speaker 2: that he'd have some sort of perfect answer to get
Speaker 2: that sorted, but no. A couple of texts on exactly that,
Speaker 2: you know, looking back over the year, because ultimately, if
Speaker 2: you're typically if you're involved in construction, you end up
Speaker 2: becoming a business owner, right. Plenty of small traders, lots
Speaker 2: of soul traders, lots of limited liability companies, plenty of
Speaker 2: liquidations and receiverships, and of course there's been if you
Speaker 2: look back over the year a couple of really high
Speaker 2: profile companies as well that have had receivers appointed to
Speaker 2: try and sort out. And I mean it would be
Speaker 2: would I be overstating it and saying that almost every week,
Speaker 2: certainly every two weeks, there'd be a story in the
Speaker 2: paper about a developer going under or people that have
Speaker 2: paid deposits. I saw that story a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: people who had paid deposits to a developer for home
Speaker 2: basically land and house packages, only to discover that the
Speaker 2: developer to whom they'd paid the deposits didn't even own
Speaker 2: the land. The actual buildings were a long way off,
Speaker 2: and the money didn't go into a trust account, so
Speaker 2: their deposits are gone. It's not uncommon either. Right now
Speaker 2: it has been fairly challenging. Maybe you'd like to add
Speaker 2: your comments to that. Virtually all businesses are downpeak, most
Speaker 2: between ten and thirty percent, some far worse. The whole
Speaker 2: economy has been up and down the last forty years,
Speaker 2: but slowly going down. We're not finished, and we need
Speaker 2: to make massive changes to our whole economic and social structure.
Speaker 2: And I'm hopeful that it and I'm not hopeful of
Speaker 2: them being implemented. That's from Bob, so that's a broader summary.
Speaker 2: A quick one. On the staining of the concrete. Someone
Speaker 2: has suggested using baking soda and water. Good idea. Someone
Speaker 2: else suggesting you should never use acid. I mean we
Speaker 2: use acid often to if you're doing literally, and acid
Speaker 2: wash if you want that exposed aggregate, so it works
Speaker 2: to clean away the cement. But baking soda and water
Speaker 2: is a good option. Someone here we go. I want
Speaker 2: to stain the deck. It was previously stained Kofi, which
Speaker 2: is like a warm yellow color, and I want to
Speaker 2: change it to gray after water blasting. Is there any
Speaker 2: other prep before I use the new color. What I
Speaker 2: would suggest that I'm always really reluctant around water blasting decks.
Speaker 2: You've got to know, we've got to do it gently. Basically,
Speaker 2: it should be regarded as a powerwash, not a water blast.
Speaker 2: So you want to use a proprietary product like a
Speaker 2: deck wash to attack all of the mold and mildew
Speaker 2: that's settled on the deck. That will also help open
Speaker 2: up the fibers. But then when you're water blasting or
Speaker 2: power washing, don't go too close to the timber. You
Speaker 2: will literally rip up the fibers and damage the decking itself.
Speaker 2: So if you've cleaned it thoroughly, agitated its apply a cleaner,
Speaker 2: agitate with a stiff broom. Rinse that off by all
Speaker 2: means with a water blaster, but don't go too close. Then,
Speaker 2: if you've got an existing color and you want to
Speaker 2: change it to a different one, I would just check
Speaker 2: in terms of compatibility that you don't end up with
Speaker 2: kind of splotchiness where you've got slightly more of the
Speaker 2: original stain remains on the timber and then you've applied
Speaker 2: a new stain over the top, but in other parts
Speaker 2: where you've got less of that original stain on the timber,
Speaker 2: it will it could give your different appearance. So once
Speaker 2: you've done your prep, maybe have a look at just
Speaker 2: doing a test in one small area just to make
Speaker 2: sure you don't get an incompatibility between the two. If
Speaker 2: that's okay, then go right ahead. So allow the timber
Speaker 2: to dry a reasonable amount, doesn't have to be bone dry,
Speaker 2: and then go ahead and do the new coat over
Speaker 2: the top and from yellow to gray. I could kind
Speaker 2: of see why you want to do it. Oh, eight
Speaker 2: hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. We
Speaker 2: got lines are plenty for you. We always get busy
Speaker 2: later in the show, so now it's a good time
Speaker 2: to call if you've got a project. All some thoughts
Speaker 2: on twenty twenty four in terms of the construction sector,
Speaker 2: give us a call. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Actually,
Speaker 2: what I was thinking about, sort of looking back over
Speaker 2: the year. One of the unexpected things something that if
Speaker 2: you talk to me at the beginning of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: would I have been involved with, or discussed or been
Speaker 2: in a sense so consumed by I've got to say,
Speaker 2: has been the l boxes. That's been my real surprise
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four. So I think quite early in
Speaker 2: the year I talked to rud about sort of the
Speaker 2: I suppose, the re emergence of owls around the country.
Speaker 2: I didn't realized that there were as many varieties or
Speaker 2: species of owl, and that they lived in such an
Speaker 2: extensive part of the country. And Sot being Root sent
Speaker 2: me a couple of plans for owl boxes, which during
Speaker 2: the middle of winter, when I happened to have sort
Speaker 2: of half a day spare, I went out into the workshop,
Speaker 2: used up all my off cut bits of plywood and
Speaker 2: all the rest of it, and made one based on
Speaker 2: one plan, then another based on another plan. It seems
Speaker 2: that there are different plans for these things. Then I
Speaker 2: realized that the two plans I had were really for
Speaker 2: small owls, and that the one that I had intended
Speaker 2: to build was for a barn owl, which is a
Speaker 2: slightly larger owl. So I've still got one more owl
Speaker 2: box to go. I've sent one to Waihiki Island, I've
Speaker 2: sent another one has gone off down country, and over
Speaker 2: the course of the year, I've probably sent out fifteen
Speaker 2: or twenty emails from people requesting copies of those particular plans.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I didn't expect to be building ol boxes
Speaker 2: during the year. But if one of those ends up
Speaker 2: becoming a home to an owl in their new location,
Speaker 2: I would be as happy as Larry, I've got to say.
Speaker 2: And then in my research I also discover that the
Speaker 2: good people at Wingspan have their own particular owl box design,
Speaker 2: and I'm off the under Wingspan. In a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks time, I feel that I might make my own
Speaker 2: olbox and take it down. They can give it away
Speaker 2: to someone, But you go, I've just given myself another job.
Speaker 2: If you've got a job and you need some help
Speaker 2: with it, give us a call. Oh, eight hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty is the number to call. We'd be
Speaker 2: back straight off. Well, a very good morning, and welcome
Speaker 2: back to the show. It is. Let's have a look.
Speaker 2: Six minutes almost seven minutes after seven on a Sunday,
Speaker 2: the twenty ninth of December, the last Sunday show for
Speaker 2: me for twenty twenty four. But we'll be back, of
Speaker 2: course bright nearly. Will it be the morning of the
Speaker 2: fourth or something like that, fifth of January twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: And I'm interesting in the news bulletin. They're talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, the year ahead economically, in terms of business
Speaker 2: and so on. It's still you know, I think at
Speaker 2: the beginning of twenty twenty four, the phrase that emerged
Speaker 2: was survived to twenty five, but increasingly people are now
Speaker 2: talking about not just surviving until twenty five, but you've
Speaker 2: got to kind of get through twenty twenty five as well.
Speaker 2: And you know, ultimately, I guess building the sort of
Speaker 2: building that we're talking about, the renovations, the alterations, the
Speaker 2: repair work and so on, it is. It's a business, right,
Speaker 2: so we're talking about business as well, and how businesses
Speaker 2: are going to survive whether there is every time you
Speaker 2: hear of green shoots, it seems like someone's following along
Speaker 2: with a bit of weed killer as well, So it's
Speaker 2: still going to be pretty grim out there. Oh, eight
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty ten eighty for your calls about all
Speaker 2: things building and construction related. I'd kind of forgotten about this.
Speaker 2: I got a call from a mate cautionary tale. Let's say,
Speaker 2: when was it. I was out doing lawns and gardening
Speaker 2: and bits and pieces, and we're up and out of
Speaker 2: town and the he rings and goes oh, have you
Speaker 2: got some ply and I'm like, why, ah had two
Speaker 2: panels of a four panel bifold window blowout. You know,
Speaker 2: we've had incredible winds, just persistent heavy or strong winds
Speaker 2: across the Auckland area, across most of the country, I know,
Speaker 2: but in this particular instance, it literally sucked out two
Speaker 2: of the four bifolds. Two point three two point two
Speaker 2: meter high doors, about seven hundred wide, single light, probably
Speaker 2: thirty forty years old, facing essentially south, so exposed to
Speaker 2: that so westerly that was coming through sucked the doors out.
Speaker 2: No one was in the property at the time, broke
Speaker 2: the glass that shattered all over the ground, broke one
Speaker 2: of the sashes completely and left a gaping hole in
Speaker 2: the property. So thankfully, I actually keep a few sheets
Speaker 2: of plywood at home underneath the house. Grab those went around,
Speaker 2: screwed them over the opening, and a little bit of
Speaker 2: a tidy up. That was I suppose a cautionary tale
Speaker 2: in terms of, you know, just being aware that we
Speaker 2: do get these strong winds and you need to have
Speaker 2: your house prepared for that as well. So if you've
Speaker 2: got you know, fasteners that maybe have started to come loose,
Speaker 2: so they don't really hold. That's the inevitable consequence. Oh,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number? To call
Speaker 2: STU A very good morning to you. How are you
Speaker 2: this morning? Hang on the mouse? There you go, gotcha, Happy.
Speaker 11: Christmas, peace, thank you and hopefully.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I've got a little job on in central Colo where
Speaker 11: I'm doing the angled shutters over the top of the
Speaker 11: bungalow windows where they put weatherboards across, and I'm replacing
Speaker 11: them with shingles. Yeah, twenty five mil structural ply. But
Speaker 11: I've got a timber called Seligna. It's just like the
Speaker 11: seedar ones three fifty by ninety. They're all the same
Speaker 11: size and all cut the same wed shape. Now it's
Speaker 11: six hundred wide by two two meters long, and I'm
Speaker 11: wanting to get six rows of these shingles across on
Speaker 11: each shutter so that I get If I put them normally,
Speaker 11: i'd probably only get about three rows. So I'm going
Speaker 11: to have to cut the wider portion of the Soligna
Speaker 11: single to lessen them down from the three to ninety,
Speaker 11: probably take one hundred mil off or something like that.
Speaker 11: Is that normally how you do it? Or am I
Speaker 11: doing it?
Speaker 2: The wrong way when you describe them as fixing the
Speaker 2: seed the shingles the saligna shingles to the shutter. Is
Speaker 2: the shutter movable? Is that opening closes.
Speaker 11: It's angled. It's psycho embraces at about forty five degrees
Speaker 11: above the window with side support. So the singles. So
Speaker 11: the fly goes on top of that, and I'll put
Speaker 11: a membrane just roofing, underlay something state good on and
Speaker 11: then attached the shingles to the angled It's like a
Speaker 11: dorm of protection. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I would call them an eyebrow, right, or sort
Speaker 2: of like an eyebrow. And I say that because it's
Speaker 2: exactly the sort of detail as it happens we've got
Speaker 2: at home. So by villa over the front windows. So
Speaker 2: got three windows in the bay to forty five and
Speaker 2: one in the middle, and that one has like a
Speaker 2: little decorative awning, right, so it's got a nice bracket
Speaker 2: and then it's got some tongue and groove, and then
Speaker 2: over the top of that we're in this case cedar shingles.
Speaker 2: But someone had taken the time to rip them down
Speaker 2: to exactly they probably would have done by hand, exactly
Speaker 2: the same width and then put an arrowhead on them,
Speaker 2: so a point right. So when I replaced them, I
Speaker 2: took off the old kardi ones that have been up there,
Speaker 2: I presumed since the house was built, and got some
Speaker 2: new cedar, cut them to match, and then relaid it
Speaker 2: in the same pattern. So in terms of the cligna,
Speaker 2: you want to have a certain number of rows, but
Speaker 2: your actual shingle is longer.
Speaker 11: It's so the width that I'm going on is six
Speaker 11: hundred yes, and the shingles three three fifty ninety yes.
Speaker 11: So I'm either going to end up very very thick
Speaker 11: going up because I'm probably going to have a visible
Speaker 11: area of about one hundred on each shingle.
Speaker 3: So to be.
Speaker 11: Is that three fifty third two fifty covered by the
Speaker 11: next shingle if you know what I mean.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Typically with shingles, you try and it's a third each time.
Speaker 2: So if your cedar shingle is it covered, yeah, so
Speaker 2: you end up with effectively three laps. Is how I've
Speaker 2: always done the shingles, and I quite like doing them
Speaker 2: to be fair, so I'm always the first one puts
Speaker 2: their hand up to do seedar shingles. So it's typically
Speaker 2: a third you want to have a so if it's
Speaker 2: normally they're about three fifty long, so it's just over
Speaker 2: one hundred mil one hundred and fifteen mil rough one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten hundred and fifteen mil. And that's your cover.
Speaker 2: And then as you get to the top, you end
Speaker 2: up cutting the shingle down off the tapered edge, so
Speaker 2: the thick edge stays there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, so I guess I'm being rather than giving
Speaker 11: a single shortage just to overlap it more. I mean,
Speaker 11: I've got.
Speaker 2: Can do that as well, but inevitably you'll have to
Speaker 2: cut some and then do you have a flashing at
Speaker 2: the top or.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeas an angle flesh and it comes down, yes,
Speaker 11: over it. So I just tuck up under that and
Speaker 11: then tacked the fleshing down.
Speaker 2: And because you've got the cover, like you mentioned, using
Speaker 2: like a buttanyl underlay or something like that. Typically just
Speaker 2: building papers, fine.
Speaker 11: That's what it's using.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, laid paper, that's.
Speaker 12: Fine, black black tar paper.
Speaker 2: Staple down and then how are you going to fix it?
Speaker 2: I have to say, I've never seen seligna shingles, so
Speaker 2: that'll be interesting.
Speaker 11: Well, I actually went out to chat at Rosenfield and Kitsen.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I think because I didn't. I picked them
Speaker 11: up from a mill out of from Vara, out of
Speaker 11: the associated with the Lanes mill up there, and this
Speaker 11: old guy was getting rid of them and I want
Speaker 11: three square meters. They end up with thirty out but
Speaker 11: an old guy at Roosevelt and Kitsen comes out and
Speaker 11: he identified I didn't know what they were, and he said,
Speaker 11: where did you get these? You can't get them anymore,
Speaker 11: And well they're about age ninety years old, but as
Speaker 11: old as the previous owner. And I wish I could
Speaker 11: still get them because I mean cedar has gone up
Speaker 11: through the roof, yeah and this stuff. He said, they're
Speaker 11: very very stable. The only trouble is they're all the
Speaker 11: same width, so I'm going to have to cut some.
Speaker 11: I can get plaps and all that.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's right. And again you know, on my
Speaker 2: experience where I was doing that particular job, I obviously
Speaker 2: see the shingles when you buy them, you buy them
Speaker 2: in a bundle and they're random width, right, So I
Speaker 2: just had to fossis through the pile. But then I
Speaker 2: ended up sending them through the table saw because I
Speaker 2: knew I had the original ones as a template and
Speaker 2: so I could just rip them all down and then
Speaker 2: do that little point on them and so on. To
Speaker 2: be fair, it's almost my favorite job as doing shingles.
Speaker 2: I just especially the decorative stuff, you know, like curved
Speaker 2: on a bay window and on a bungalow where it's
Speaker 2: curved and then flares out at the bottom. Or I
Speaker 2: did one on a gable end that actually had a
Speaker 2: round window in the middle of it. So you came
Speaker 2: down and then had a local plumber come and just
Speaker 2: hand beat a lead flashing so that it went around
Speaker 2: the window. And he made it in two parts, so
Speaker 2: he had the bottom one and then the top one
Speaker 2: coming over it, and then scribing all of the shingles
Speaker 2: around it. It's just it's lovely work.
Speaker 9: I think they'd am.
Speaker 11: I think I'd rather keep it the square. But in
Speaker 11: these ones, I can just put them through the tables. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: absolutely win half just to just to get the lapse.
Speaker 2: But it's the other I'm intrigued as well. Stew the
Speaker 2: Sligna shingles that you've got, are they original and quite old?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: They're about wow, eighty years old. There's the guy out there.
Speaker 11: They've been through. There's big milling operation. And yeah, and
Speaker 11: he had just stored all the stuff, just just molded
Speaker 11: and stored it, molded and stored it. There's about ten
Speaker 11: bundles because of course he has gone horrendously.
Speaker 9: Ye.
Speaker 11: The only thing is you've got to draw them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to say.
Speaker 11: Feed is quite soft. But I've got those stainless offset
Speaker 11: nails you can get with a very head and the
Speaker 11: stiruations down machinek. Yeah nice, quite nice to play and
Speaker 11: so kick the thing up. But yeah, the previously they
Speaker 11: had old weatherboard sort of just across and nailed on,
Speaker 11: which looked a bit scruffy from the streets. Yeah, it
Speaker 11: did look quite nice.
Speaker 2: But it'll be a lovely job right there. Enjoy be
Speaker 2: safe up there.
Speaker 11: If I get too hard, I enjoyed.
Speaker 2: I'd be a bit nice to talk to all of this.
Speaker 2: Take your head in the year all this eight hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty ten eighty third number to call Hamish a
Speaker 2: very good morning, Yeah, hid Hamish.
Speaker 13: Yes, I just got a notice from council about a
Speaker 13: septic tank maintenance record. Yes, yeah, so they are out
Speaker 13: there now checking and making sure all those rural septic
Speaker 13: tank systems are all maintained.
Speaker 12: Properly.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's come as a bit of a shock
Speaker 2: to homeowners that have had, you know, septic tank down
Speaker 2: the back of the section for thirty forty fifty years
Speaker 2: or so, and suddenly this request is coming through from councils.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's every single council across the country,
Speaker 2: but certainly a lot of them are now saying, actually,
Speaker 2: you know what, we need you to prove that it works,
Speaker 2: and the only way to do that is to get
Speaker 2: an approved inspector to come through. And when I had
Speaker 2: a look on the Auckland Council website, it brings up
Speaker 2: quite a long list of contractors that they I guess
Speaker 2: have pre qualified, right, so it stops people from just
Speaker 2: writing something out themselves and sending it in. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to have them inspected, and you have to
Speaker 2: prove and it has to be done by an improved contractor.
Speaker 2: And is there a fee? No this I presume that
Speaker 2: submitting the detail is free. But of course the inspection
Speaker 2: is going to cost you every year.
Speaker 13: Yes, of course it costs me twice a year. Yep,
Speaker 13: he went two hundred and fifty dollars each time.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so it's not not cheap, and my system's only
Speaker 13: three years old. Yes, so I unfortunately, just the last
Speaker 13: time I missed the guy and he didn't do it
Speaker 13: because a bit of a there was some grass and
Speaker 13: weeds around it or something, right, but anyhow he didn't
Speaker 13: do it.
Speaker 2: So sudden it hasn't affected homeownersh how I mean, how
Speaker 2: do you feel about it? Do you think it's it's
Speaker 2: fair and reasonable? Do you feel that it's unnecessary? What's
Speaker 2: your thoughts?
Speaker 13: Well, I don't know, but it's just just another extra
Speaker 13: added cost and that time we don't really really need,
Speaker 13: you know. So if I put a second house on
Speaker 13: my property, that's going to be one thousand dollars a
Speaker 13: year just to inspect each tank, you know, So that's
Speaker 13: another cost. And of course my rates have gone up
Speaker 13: over over one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: So are you on town supply water?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, right, yeah, no, I was thinking about I was
Speaker 2: looking at water bills the other day. I was doing
Speaker 2: some budgeting at home, and I was looking water bills
Speaker 2: and I was trying to calculate, you know, the cost
Speaker 2: of the fixed waste water charge, right, and then trying
Speaker 2: to figure out what that costs on various properties over
Speaker 2: the a year, right, And then I was thinking, gosh,
Speaker 2: if you were you know, obviously that is a contribution
Speaker 2: to maintaining the waste water system if you're connected to
Speaker 2: the council line and if you've got town supply water.
Speaker 2: But I was just thinking about a situation where you
Speaker 2: might have town supply water and a septic tank. Are
Speaker 2: you still having to pay the wastewater charge even if
Speaker 2: you don't connect to the wastewater.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean that they're making reasons to charge it
Speaker 13: because they're doing all these on site maintenance records. Yes,
Speaker 13: it's that safe septic at open opencouncil, dot gov, dot MZ.
Speaker 13: So that's where I have to send all the data
Speaker 13: to yep, yep, and if I don't comply, they're going
Speaker 13: to send out an officer to inspect.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, inevitably there'll be some sort of finding system
Speaker 2: in there as well, weren't there.
Speaker 13: Yes, Yes, there's findings and charges and anything else onto that.
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair, and I'm not impacted by this, Right,
Speaker 2: I live in the city and I connected to wastewater
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing. You can kind of understand.
Speaker 2: I guess the rationale for it is that we've got
Speaker 2: these systems which they go in. How do we know
Speaker 2: that people maintain them? And most systems need some sort
Speaker 2: of maintenance over time, and when they go wrong, the
Speaker 2: impact on the environment can be considerable, right, and the
Speaker 2: impact potentially on neighbors and that sort of thing. So
Speaker 2: is that what is driving council to introduce this legislation.
Speaker 13: Oh, I've got I'm in an ecologically sensitive vary so yeah,
Speaker 13: so that's probably the main driver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, Yes, it's something else that you've they're putting
Speaker 2: their hand into your pocket and you've got to find
Speaker 2: that new budget. You're right, of course, because.
Speaker 13: I mean it's going to be when they when they
Speaker 13: put the second house on site, it's going to be
Speaker 13: all the inspections are going to be over one thousand
Speaker 13: dollars a year, and then if anything goes wrong, there's
Speaker 13: a cost on top of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, good luck with the project. Nice of you
Speaker 2: to call it all the best. Take care. It's actually
Speaker 2: something I must have a bit of a look into
Speaker 2: in the new year as well, because it's obviously impacting
Speaker 2: a lot of people and has come as a bit
Speaker 2: of a surprise to most eight hundred and eighty ten
Speaker 2: eighty is the number to call if you'd like to
Speaker 2: join us. That'd be lovely to have your company and
Speaker 2: your conversations. Quick text before the break, Pete. We've got
Speaker 2: some stubborn growth starting on a two year old polycarbonate roof.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the pollen and the dirt settling on it
Speaker 2: is to blame. We've washed it with soapy warm water
Speaker 2: every season as per the instruction, being told under no
Speaker 2: circumstances to use benzil conium chloride or sodium hyperchloride. Any suggestions,
Speaker 2: I would have thought you'd need more than warm soapy
Speaker 2: water on that. I can understand why the manufacturer is
Speaker 2: careful about particular chemicals, but at the same time, oh,
Speaker 2: simple green might help out there just the thought instant
Speaker 2: in any text questions text responses to that too. Oh wait,
Speaker 2: one hundred eighty actually talking about roofs. Here's another quick
Speaker 2: text as well. Fill here from the North Shore six
Speaker 2: month old new black color steel long run roof, which
Speaker 2: looks great. However, we've had a huge pollen drop this
Speaker 2: year and a lot of the surface has pollen scum
Speaker 2: or residue on it that won't wash off. Any ideas
Speaker 2: how to remove it, such as water blasting or a
Speaker 2: chemical wash or a roof wash contractor. I think you'd
Speaker 2: probably want to get someone in who could do a
Speaker 2: treatment and then a wash, and you would have to
Speaker 2: do it, you know, like not something you could do
Speaker 2: from the ground. You'd have to have a contractor up there,
Speaker 2: in which case you need someone who's got all of
Speaker 2: their working at heights and the right safety gear to
Speaker 2: do that. But yeah, I guess black roof lots of pollen.
Speaker 2: That stuff sticks, That's what it's designed to do. You're
Speaker 2: going to have to get a contractor in chemical wash
Speaker 2: or a roof wash contractor. I would suggest you're on
Speaker 2: the right track there. Back after the break, if you'd
Speaker 2: like to join us, the lines are open. The number
Speaker 2: is eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Your new stooksb If
Speaker 2: you've got a little project on you'd like to talk
Speaker 2: about eight hundred eighty ten eighty on the show. Over
Speaker 2: the last couple of years we also focus but on
Speaker 2: legislation as well. The rules and regulations in this whole
Speaker 2: safe septic thing is kind of new again. It's not
Speaker 2: something I have first hand experience of. We're in a suburb,
Speaker 2: you know I'm connected to the waste water et cetera,
Speaker 2: et cetera, but if you are on a tank and
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's every single territorial authority. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's every single council, but certainly Auckland Council
Speaker 2: now is expecting you as the homeowner to undertake an
Speaker 2: inspection or have an inspection undertaken by a pre qualified
Speaker 2: contractor and then you need to admit that information I
Speaker 2: guess to a database at council that will keep track
Speaker 2: of it. How do you feel about that? Oh, eight
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to call Rose
Speaker 2: A very good morning to you.
Speaker 10: Oh hi, Hi, Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 14: Yes, I've actually met you at a seminar some time ago.
Speaker 14: It was a lovely, lovely moment. But fortunately, yeah, unfortunately,
Speaker 14: we've had a terrible episode happen and I thought you should.
Speaker 2: Listen to Yeah, sure what.
Speaker 14: We have to say for what the police have said,
Speaker 14: we had a burglary. We've been away, had a lovely
Speaker 14: time with assembly at North and I've still upset really
Speaker 14: and we come home and one hundred a bock trip
Speaker 14: city in the night and our home had been ransacked
Speaker 14: good and anyway, we've had the forensics out yesterday. We're
Speaker 14: really surprised they actually came out a day after we've
Speaker 14: reported it, so that was fantastic. Now my other half
Speaker 14: has lost a lot of tools they got under the
Speaker 14: tool shed. This is a second visit, so we've been
Speaker 14: to cash converters whatever. We wonder where all this stuff
Speaker 14: is going to. Somebody's buying it. But they did say
Speaker 14: if you could photograph it, get the serial numbers. You
Speaker 14: always said you're going to do this and you never
Speaker 14: get around to it. So he lost all his tools. Yeah,
Speaker 14: so that's the first part of the story, and the
Speaker 14: second part is it's the second time they've been and
Speaker 14: with the Book of Koe it was a really safe
Speaker 14: area at the time. We've been here five years. We're
Speaker 14: down a lane and it's unbelievable the guts of these people.
Speaker 14: There's four to five houses using this same lane, and
Speaker 14: we heard from some neighbors at the back who came
Speaker 14: home and this car was pulling down the lane as
Speaker 14: they were coming in. So we almost got these people.
Speaker 14: So they told them to move up to the other
Speaker 14: neighbors driveway so they could get and they were a
Speaker 14: young couple. So I don't know if I should have
Speaker 14: a description, because no, yeah, just.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, it must be you know, emotionally it's terrible,
Speaker 2: and then you know, dollar wise it's terrible as well.
Speaker 2: And I've had I've had some tools stolen, like out
Speaker 2: of a vehicle or from a work site. And I
Speaker 2: remember working when I first started and we our building
Speaker 2: site got broken into over the course of a weekend,
Speaker 2: and you know, they took a fair number of tools
Speaker 2: out of the site shed and so on. And I
Speaker 2: remember talking with Tom at the time and he said,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like a box of tools that I've
Speaker 2: had for years, and there's all sorts of different drill
Speaker 2: bits and you keep finding for months later, Oh I'm
Speaker 2: missing that. I'm missing that. And I have to say,
Speaker 2: I I can't express in language that I can use
Speaker 2: on the radio how enormously upset I get about. You know,
Speaker 2: the reason that people steal tools is because people buy them, right,
Speaker 2: so you know, they become currency. So you know, I'm
Speaker 2: equally annoyed at people that steal them and then people
Speaker 2: that buy them. So you know, if you're thinking, oh, great,
Speaker 2: I can get a Pazlo gun, for turner bucks from
Speaker 2: a mate around the corner. It's you know that it's
Speaker 2: been stolen, right, so don't bloody buy it. It's just
Speaker 2: enormously frustrating.
Speaker 14: I think cash Komurs worked very closely with the police. Yeah,
Speaker 14: but only the serial numbers. That could be very OK.
Speaker 2: Another little project, and hindsight's always twenty twenty, but something
Speaker 2: I've been involved in. I got introduced this couple of
Speaker 2: years ago and kind of a mate of mine actually
Speaker 2: he's in the police, asked me to come along and
Speaker 2: help out with us and what it is and community
Speaker 2: police are still doing. This is what you do is
Speaker 2: you engrave your driver's license on your power tools, right,
Speaker 2: And sometimes what police do is they'll actually be I've
Speaker 2: been at trade breakfasts and that sort of thing at
Speaker 2: different stands, and they'll be there with an engraving tool,
Speaker 2: and while you're grabbing a sausage and having a wand around,
Speaker 2: they'll just give them your driver's license and your tools,
Speaker 2: or they'll come out to the vehicle and they'll engrave
Speaker 2: your tools with the driver's license. Because for years and
Speaker 2: years and years, I might write p W on my tools,
Speaker 2: or I might paint my tools green or whatever. That
Speaker 2: makes no difference to the police, right, I mean, they
Speaker 2: don't know who PW is. They don't care that my
Speaker 2: favorite color might be green. Right, So we identify our
Speaker 2: tools that way, but it doesn't help with recovery. If, however,
Speaker 2: you engrave your driver's license on your tools, then even
Speaker 2: if you've ended up selling them, it gives them somewhere
Speaker 2: to go. And police will often in doing drug busts
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing, they'll find collections, large collections
Speaker 2: of stolen tools, and ideally they want to get them back.
Speaker 2: So I would say, if you've got your tools and
Speaker 2: you haven't done that, go out get a little engraver
Speaker 2: or get someone to do it. Engrave your driver's license
Speaker 2: on your tools.
Speaker 14: That's a really good idea. But for me, I've had
Speaker 14: personal items taken. It's heartbreaking, a beautiful item. It's horses
Speaker 14: like a chariot. It's about two feet long and about
Speaker 14: black and it's silvery and the chariot man is behind
Speaker 14: with the big ropes of the horses. Heartbroken about it
Speaker 14: because I've loved that piece. So that if anyone find
Speaker 14: something similar to that, just.
Speaker 2: In terms of the burglary, the sort of practical side
Speaker 2: of it, like, do you think that your property was
Speaker 2: particularly easy to access or did they have to break
Speaker 2: something in order to get in?
Speaker 14: What happened the first time? You'll be amazed at this.
Speaker 14: We've got great the gates. The previous owner never used
Speaker 14: to lock them, and I did my partner, we have
Speaker 14: to lock them. So we got a gay expert guy
Speaker 14: in and thought we were safe as lock all the windows,
Speaker 14: who locked the doors? Everything right? We come home the
Speaker 14: first is the first time. Three weeks ago we thought, oh,
Speaker 14: I said to John, well, I got notified by one
Speaker 14: of our neighbors. They're very, very good. And she says, oh.
Speaker 14: She says, one of your gates was open because they
Speaker 14: knew we were all away. And she said there was
Speaker 14: a like a blue maybe blue sort of gray. She
Speaker 14: thought it was a creative wish, and she didn't She
Speaker 14: didn't know what to sort of say to me because
Speaker 14: she felt guilty that she hadn't rung me earlier because
Speaker 14: it was I said, no, that car should not have
Speaker 14: been in our driveway. And the thing was, she said, oh,
Speaker 14: it's about six o'clock, so she thought you might have
Speaker 14: a visitor. Right. She knew my partner wasn't a home anyway.
Speaker 14: Another hour later, I get another call and it's our
Speaker 14: neighbors at the back her have been having a garage
Speaker 14: sell and coincidentally on seven sharp they had this item
Speaker 14: on garage shells. The very aware people are coming in
Speaker 14: just to hunt you placed out or whatever. We're just
Speaker 14: wondering if it's a link for that. But you know
Speaker 14: how they got in. They actually grilled what was it,
Speaker 14: grind ground the part of the operating gate, and there
Speaker 14: they were able to open the gate and put the car.
Speaker 14: And that's when I said before about.
Speaker 2: This, that's whole noisy sort of activity, isn't it. You know,
Speaker 2: grinders I was planning with.
Speaker 14: They came back, the one that sold the house. He said, no,
Speaker 14: it was caught to past five because we came back
Speaker 14: from the real estate, so they knew exactly the time.
Speaker 14: They knew the description of that car and the couple
Speaker 14: and they looked like he said, they were really weird.
Speaker 14: And I says, what do you mean by weird? He says,
Speaker 14: she was in the car and waving around as if
Speaker 14: they're on drugs. So we thought that would.
Speaker 4: Be the end of it.
Speaker 14: They would never come back again, right because we're in Elane.
Speaker 14: They got spotted. Who would want to come back? But
Speaker 14: oh no, we say that they've been back, and we
Speaker 14: know it was then because he described as a skinny
Speaker 14: blond rose.
Speaker 2: Look, I really hope that. I mean, I can say, look,
Speaker 2: I hope you get your items back, but we also
Speaker 2: kind of know that it's a bit of a rarity.
Speaker 2: It does happen. I wish you all the very best,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure you'd be looking at you know, inevitably
Speaker 2: cameras and those sorts of things to give you a
Speaker 2: bit of a warning. And again, you know, can I,
Speaker 2: like Ovi sely before, in language that I can't use
Speaker 2: on the radio, I can't express how frustrated and angry
Speaker 2: I get at the fact that tools are stolen and
Speaker 2: then people buy stolen tools. And I love this text, Pete.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to bet that none of the people who
Speaker 2: steal those tools are using them to earn a living.
Speaker 2: I wholeheartedly agree with you. But yeah, seriously, engraving and
Speaker 2: someone else's text through. I use a soldering iron to
Speaker 2: put my phone number on my tools. It's harder to
Speaker 2: erase than engraving. Good point. Look, whatever works for you,
Speaker 2: But the driver's license idea is great. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can use your telephone number, but I guess if you
Speaker 2: change your telephone number gets a little bit tricky. Anything
Speaker 2: like that, or just your well, it's all right if
Speaker 2: you put wolf Camp on because there's only one wolf
Speaker 2: Camp family, that's easy. But if you happen to put
Speaker 2: Smith on your power tools, that's not terribly helpful either. Oh,
Speaker 2: eight one hundred eighty ten eighty. We're talking building, we're
Speaker 2: also talking in it a little bit as well. I
Speaker 2: do feel sorry for you, Ruth Rose. I really hope
Speaker 2: that there are some resolution to that. Mark very good morning.
Speaker 9: It's good morning, and compliments this season you are, Yeah,
Speaker 9: just about their regulations around sewage. I'm in a rural
Speaker 9: propertyh Yeah, it's actually quite frustrating having received these notices
Speaker 9: considering my existing system. I check have a check yearly maintenance,
Speaker 9: but you do anyway. Yeah. But the thing that really
Speaker 9: has ground my key is is that we did an
Speaker 9: internal alteration to our house, and then the building consent said, oh,
Speaker 9: look you've made an extra room. Your systems a long
Speaker 9: and big enough for the possible capacity of your house. Yes,
Speaker 9: I could turn a lounge into a bedroom. And that's
Speaker 9: your argument. But anyhow, you're going to have to increase
Speaker 9: the capacity of your system, right, twenty thousand dollars to
Speaker 9: pull out an existing good system, you know, it was working,
Speaker 9: no problems it and put a bigger one in. Then
Speaker 9: to receive a notice that or you're going to go
Speaker 9: to six monthly checks and I'm going, well, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 9: It's a new system. Why six monthly when I've already
Speaker 9: you know, we've been operating on a yearly checking system
Speaker 9: and no one's complained and works. It's got an alarm
Speaker 9: system on it should should you have a phone?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 9: And so Yeah. But the gauling thing is that had
Speaker 9: the building content people knowing that this group of council
Speaker 9: we're going to bring in a six monthly check, I
Speaker 9: wouldn't needed to replace the existing system, wouldn't do you think? Logically?
Speaker 2: You'd think because if it was going to fail, you
Speaker 2: would know and it would.
Speaker 9: Cope for six months, surely, you know. And the other
Speaker 9: point being, if I'm not happy of the system you're
Speaker 9: putting in, why do they let you put them in?
Speaker 9: But they want you to make them check every six months?
Speaker 9: It's illogical.
Speaker 2: I don't know, if it's illogical, you would have thought
Speaker 2: though with newer systems, right, which we expect to perform
Speaker 2: well and they're designed to for a period of time.
Speaker 2: It be a little bit like War on a fitness
Speaker 2: you know, if you say, hey, look, I had a
Speaker 2: system that was installed in twenty twenty three, for example,
Speaker 2: you could reasonably expect, let's say, for the first ten
Speaker 2: years of its life, that it would perform as per
Speaker 2: the manufacturer's expectation, and that maybe a check once a year,
Speaker 2: and that after five years or ten years, then you
Speaker 2: need to swap six months. A little bit like War
Speaker 2: on Fitness, Right, if you've got a relatively new car,
Speaker 2: you need a warrant every year, and that would relieve
Speaker 2: some of the burden. Yeah, and of course you need
Speaker 2: to use a contractor that's pre qualified too.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 9: It's an interesting company. Who was my previous that came
Speaker 9: in when we bought the place. You know, we just
Speaker 9: got to leader say hey, we're coming to check your system.
Speaker 9: They did it every year, they charge one hundred and
Speaker 9: eighty bucks, and now now they want us to do
Speaker 9: it twice a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well, to be honest, I don't see any either ten
Speaker 9: or logical or scientific evidence to suggest why I should
Speaker 9: have to do it every six months. To me, you
Speaker 9: know who's going to live on a property of it
Speaker 9: starts leaving, you know, it starts splitting over the top.
Speaker 9: You know it's I have a drip system and you
Speaker 9: know that pumps the waste water up the hill and
Speaker 9: drips it across your property per se. And as I said, well,
Speaker 9: we've been complying yearly. So just to me, it's just
Speaker 9: bureaucracy poking its nose and creating more expense to you,
Speaker 9: your landowners.
Speaker 2: But that's my right. No, no, no, look, I know what
Speaker 2: you're saying. I appreciate you calling through Mark yep, all
Speaker 2: this to you. Take care. I w eight hundred eighty
Speaker 2: ten eighty is the number to call. We'll take a
Speaker 2: short break. We'll talk to Karen in just a moment.
Speaker 2: Always keen to get started again. I eight hundred eighty
Speaker 2: ten eighty the number to call. Actually, he's a good
Speaker 2: text from Pete or Peter. Congratulations on the show. Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's very kind of you to say. Let's not forget
Speaker 2: people that buy stolen tools are also criminals. Is they're
Speaker 2: a process I can follow to check if it's a
Speaker 2: secondhand tool, is not stolen, I don't know, you tell me.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I've bought secondhand tools. I have no
Speaker 2: objection to buying them from someone who's the actual owner,
Speaker 2: and I have bought not for a few years. I
Speaker 2: bought some gear, you know, through a basically a pawn broker,
Speaker 2: second hand dealer, And there's always that lingering doubt in
Speaker 2: the back of your mind where you go, you know,
Speaker 2: is this legit? Like is the story that they're telling me?
Speaker 2: Absolutely honest. I'm sure there's a process, but I'd love
Speaker 2: to know. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
Speaker 2: the number to call. Karen A very good morning to you.
Speaker 12: Good morning.
Speaker 15: I really enjoy your show. It's really informative, really good.
Speaker 15: Just felt some powered and I normally wouldn't ring up,
Speaker 15: but I just felt some powered this morning. To let
Speaker 15: your listeners know something that has happened to me. I
Speaker 15: am a victim of identity food and it's gone on
Speaker 15: and on and on, and what have they used my
Speaker 15: driver's license number? So I would not encourage number on
Speaker 15: their tools because this has gone on for four years now.
Speaker 15: You know, people have booked after pay HP's telecommunications and
Speaker 15: when I said, well, how did you know it was me?
Speaker 15: You know, how did your I d they have my
Speaker 15: driver's license number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I can't argue with that. I understand what
Speaker 2: you're saying. I wonder if the police, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: and and the reason I mentioned it is because I've
Speaker 2: actually been involved a couple of occasions where we've been
Speaker 2: at events, public events like you know, trade breakfast and
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, and the police have been there
Speaker 2: and it's been a police suggestion. Now possibly and I
Speaker 2: can give in contact with the guy that I used
Speaker 2: to work with on this around. You know, do they
Speaker 2: have a concern around having your driver's license there in
Speaker 2: terms of the identity theft? And perhaps there are better
Speaker 2: checks and balances now so for those.
Speaker 16: People to all to the police.
Speaker 15: And they've actually told me to go and get a
Speaker 15: new driver's license, right, because that's what that's what's been
Speaker 15: used to carry up these fraudulent transaction. Yeah, I just
Speaker 15: thought it right.
Speaker 2: Hey, Look, I really appreciate you phoning through. At first,
Speaker 2: I was trying to think what the context was, but
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. That would be look, would
Speaker 2: be enormously distressing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's and it takes your treated it guilty until
Speaker 15: you can prove their inn and having a perfect credit
Speaker 15: rating going down to really dead for debts that.
Speaker 12: Have even been impaired by me.
Speaker 15: It's yeah, it's been horrific, to be honest. But when
Speaker 15: I heard about the driver's license on the tour, Yeah,
Speaker 15: anyone else.
Speaker 11: To go through?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it. Karen, you look after yourself. Oh,
Speaker 2: thank you, take care all the best. My pleasure to
Speaker 2: bother them. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number
Speaker 2: to call. Let's actually we need to take another break.
Speaker 2: Then we'll talk to George. If you'd like to join us.
Speaker 2: The lines are open. The number is eight hundred eighty
Speaker 2: ten eighty. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
Speaker 2: to call George. Good morning to you. How are you, George?
Speaker 2: Hang on sick? There we go, got your hot.
Speaker 17: I just want to have a chat about the sewage system. Yeah,
Speaker 17: so you're hot on it today?
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 17: We front onto a river and our sewage We built
Speaker 17: this house about forty years ago and got a big
Speaker 17: sum pole is full of the metal and that's how
Speaker 17: it works. And we get it cleaned out every two years,
Speaker 17: which we have done right from day one. But now
Speaker 17: they're saying that the surface water is getting under the
Speaker 17: lid and affecting a bacteria. Right, So my argument is,
Speaker 17: as he's saying that our system hasn't been working for
Speaker 17: forty years, is that what he's trying to say or
Speaker 17: what No.
Speaker 2: I think what this is is it's a relatively new requirement.
Speaker 2: I guess for people that like yourself, who have septic
Speaker 2: systems on site, right, you're not connected to public wastewall lines,
Speaker 2: so you've got your own tank or whatever system you
Speaker 2: happen to have. In the past, I guess, Council, it
Speaker 2: was kind of like, you know, install and forget right.
Speaker 2: It was completely up to the homeowner for your own benefit.
Speaker 2: You would look after it, right, But I guess there
Speaker 2: have been failures, and when there are failures, it has
Speaker 2: an impact either on the environment, so where you are
Speaker 2: because it's close to a river, or if you're in
Speaker 2: an area where perhaps you do have neighbors and you
Speaker 2: worry about contamination into another person's property or even contamination
Speaker 2: on your own property as a result of a faulty system.
Speaker 2: So then suddenly it's like, okay, well, we know that
Speaker 2: people should check them, but how do we know that
Speaker 2: they're checking them? This is the way to do it,
Speaker 2: So every six months now you have to check it.
Speaker 2: I guess for people that have done it and been
Speaker 2: responsible for all that time, it's an unwelcome burden. It's
Speaker 2: an extra expense because I think the inspections seem to
Speaker 2: be somewhere around the sort one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 2: to two hundred and fifty dollars, and that's every six
Speaker 2: months forever.
Speaker 17: Yeah. My other concern is, which is still about sewage,
Speaker 17: is the the councils fissuring more building to desiense for
Speaker 17: the area, but their infrastructure can't handle the sewage system yep.
Speaker 17: So they're actually about every week or so they pump
Speaker 17: it into the river and our rivers full of oyster farms.
Speaker 17: They've got it closed down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be slightly unusual, wouldn't it f council
Speaker 2: as a regular way of dealing. Actually, I was reading
Speaker 2: an article. I know we've got to go for news.
Speaker 2: Let's pick this up straight after the break. We got
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Speaker 2: News Talk said your news Talks, there'd be welcome along
Speaker 2: to the show. We're talking all things building in construction
Speaker 2: and I guess all things related to having your own
Speaker 2: property as well. And one of the topics that's kind
Speaker 2: of bubbled along during the course of the year has
Speaker 2: been this introduction of a requirement to have your septic
Speaker 2: system inspected and then a report submitted to council every
Speaker 2: six months, which puts reasonable burden on homeowners. George, you
Speaker 2: were talking about your system, which has worked, Okay, obviously
Speaker 2: there's a few issues. You made the comment about council.
Speaker 2: I mean this is a genuine concern, particularly in Auckland
Speaker 2: where in the last month or so Water Care have
Speaker 2: announced areas where they will essentially not be providing services
Speaker 2: in terms of wastewater for a number of years. And
Speaker 2: these some of these areas are where developers have already
Speaker 2: bought land intending to buy houses, so that's going to
Speaker 2: be a huge issue in terms of development. And then
Speaker 2: there's a couple of other areas. I was genuinely kind
Speaker 2: of shocked, really and disappointed to see this article probably
Speaker 2: two months ago where a bunch of houses and new
Speaker 2: subdivision out sort of northwest of Auckland. They hadn't been
Speaker 2: connected to the public wastewater line. All of their sewerage
Speaker 2: goes into a tank in the subdivision and then water
Speaker 2: care comes and sucks the tank out every couple of days,
Speaker 2: which to me just seems like such an ad hoc solution. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a shocker. And then with the heavy rain Gisbon,
Speaker 2: they ended up having to open the sewer or the
Speaker 2: settling ponds into the river because they were worried about
Speaker 2: it backing up and coming back into people's houses, which
Speaker 2: again I guess is a sensible precaution to ensuring that
Speaker 2: individual houses aren't impacted by sewage overflows. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, releasing raw sewage into the river is not
Speaker 2: great either. So you're right, we've got to huge infrastructure issues.
Speaker 17: This is what we're faced with here. But it's having
Speaker 17: an added costs to these oyster farmers. It's cost a minieh.
Speaker 2: That's right. If they can't trade because can't get back together.
Speaker 17: We got the council came down to air for sure
Speaker 17: and inspect of what was being washed up there, and
Speaker 17: they really said you must not go swimming in here.
Speaker 17: And I said, what about the dead fish? He said, well,
Speaker 17: you don't eat them, do you not. I said to her,
Speaker 17: you should have signs on all the boat ramps around
Speaker 17: to tell people this. But they don't want the public
Speaker 17: to know about it, and they and they sort of camouflage.
Speaker 17: You might say, I'll have.
Speaker 2: A look at that story, George. I do have a
Speaker 2: bit of sympathy for old Mayor Brown and Auckland, who
Speaker 2: has been pretty enthusiastic about the new pool. Essentially, it's
Speaker 2: it's just an area in Auckland's Viaduct harbor. That's they've
Speaker 2: created some lanes and you can go and do bombs
Speaker 2: or mone who's off the wharf there and go and
Speaker 2: swim in the fresh in the open water as such.
Speaker 2: And then the other day there was a notification to say, oh, look,
Speaker 2: the bacteria levels might be high, but it's on a
Speaker 2: modeling basis. He's saying, well, it's not actually a survey,
Speaker 2: it's a model that thinks that after the rain it'll
Speaker 2: have higher levels of equal matter in it not safe
Speaker 2: to swim. You can make your own judgment on that.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting text from Ian Syria System's Pete.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 2: Increasingly, I have found defend bureaucracy. Counsels impose endless costs
Speaker 2: on the public because five percent of the population event
Speaker 2: really rules me. I think riles you, probably, but you
Speaker 2: seem to regularly make excuses for this. It's unbelievable. Ian.
Speaker 2: I'd like to think that I'm reasonably even handed about that.
Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan of bureaucracy, but I'm also
Speaker 2: aware that regulations require enforcement and they require record keeping,
Speaker 2: so bureaucracy is unfortunately essential in terms of running a
Speaker 2: civil society. That's why if I feel that I need
Speaker 2: to will defend it. Is it sensible to require homeowners
Speaker 2: to prove that their septic system works? I think it'd
Speaker 2: be hard to argue that it's not unreasonable. Is a
Speaker 2: six monthly inspection required, particularly on relatively new systems? Probably
Speaker 2: not your thoughts. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number
Speaker 2: to call. Jan A very good morning to you.
Speaker 10: Yes, Hello, I'm just wondering, Peter, if you can advise
Speaker 10: me about double glazing. My daughter's got a house that's
Speaker 10: twenty four years old, right, and it's just single glazed. Yep,
Speaker 10: it's brick with elemanum windows. Who do you think we
Speaker 10: could ask to come and here look at it too?
Speaker 2: Sure? Okay, let me declare an interest, right, So for
Speaker 2: Shivers it's got to be eight nine years now. I've
Speaker 2: acted as a brand ambassador for Metro Performance Glass, who
Speaker 2: have the retro DG brand of double glazing, right, yes,
Speaker 2: And so I've done that because I can see the
Speaker 2: usefulness in double glazing. I think that you know, there
Speaker 2: is so much evidence, So I know the statistics and
Speaker 2: the numbers and the dynamics of if you have a
Speaker 2: piece of single glazing, how much heat loss or heat
Speaker 2: gain you'll get versus what double glazing does in order
Speaker 2: to reduce that. So some way like christ Church and
Speaker 2: retrofitting is really important because often as we up skill
Speaker 2: or sorry not upskill, we increase the thermal efficiency of our
Speaker 2: buildings by adding insulation to the ceilings or to the
Speaker 2: underfloor or maybe even retrospectively fitting it into the walls.
Speaker 2: Then our glazing becomes the weak point, right, it's the
Speaker 2: one part of the thermal envelope of a building where
Speaker 2: heat loss will occur. Now, the beauty of a house
Speaker 2: it's about twenty four years old is that chances are
Speaker 2: when it was built it had insulation in the ceiling.
Speaker 2: If it's on a concrete slab, it may or may
Speaker 2: not be some sort of thermal break there, but it
Speaker 2: will have insulation into the walls as well. Possibly not
Speaker 2: as much is what we do today, but it will
Speaker 2: be there in which case, and it will have relatively
Speaker 2: new aluminium jewinery, I presume. Okay, So you look at
Speaker 2: that and you go where is the heat loss coming from?
Speaker 2: And you can just point to the glazing, the single
Speaker 2: glazing and go that's where your heat loss happens. Because
Speaker 2: it's relatively modern aluminum jewinery, it's not that difficult to
Speaker 2: retro fit into there. And the performance gains are great
Speaker 2: and so very basic level. If you take a piece
Speaker 2: of single glazed glass or single glazed jowinery and then
Speaker 2: you replace that with double glazing, the heat loss reduces.
Speaker 2: Double glazing is seven times more effective, right, keeping the
Speaker 2: heat in, And there's numbers and evidence to back all
Speaker 2: that up. So yeah, I've chosen to work with them
Speaker 2: and they've chosen to work with me, but for very
Speaker 2: good reason. It makes a significant difference to a house.
Speaker 10: Right, you wouldn't have a phone number for here in
Speaker 10: christ you just go.
Speaker 2: I know that we've got a team down there. So
Speaker 2: if you just go online register your interest, someone will
Speaker 2: come out and do a site measure for you. So
Speaker 2: just look up retrodg dot co dot nz and you'll
Speaker 2: find all of the information there retro dg yep dot
Speaker 2: co dot Let us know how you get on.
Speaker 10: He is very interested in the windows run water overnight,
Speaker 10: you know, and I don't think that's healthy for anyone.
Speaker 2: No, it's not. There might be some other issues around condensation,
Speaker 2: so it might also be heating and those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: But of course it's harder to heat a house if
Speaker 2: you've got single glazing and you're losing all of that
Speaker 2: energy out through the single glazing. So have a look
Speaker 2: at that. That by all means, mention my name and
Speaker 2: then go from there.
Speaker 10: That's lovely, lovely, very much for your home.
Speaker 2: My pleasure, take care all of us. Jan and John,
Speaker 2: A very good morning to you. Hello John, Why does
Speaker 2: that not want to hang on, here we go there,
Speaker 2: I got you now, John, how are you going?
Speaker 12: Okay? Good morning, Pete, Good morning.
Speaker 16: On Friday, my wife and I looked at a property, yes,
Speaker 16: which ticks a lot of the boxes that we're looking for.
Speaker 16: But the agent made a few disclosures, one of which
Speaker 16: was that a reasonably large deck was unconsented. What would
Speaker 16: we be lining ourselves up for there if we consider
Speaker 16: purchasing that property.
Speaker 2: Okay, without wanting to give sort of legal advice or
Speaker 2: anything like that, it is quite possible that the deck
Speaker 2: could be built under Schedule one of the Building Act,
Speaker 2: in which case it doesn't require a building consent. So if,
Speaker 2: for example, it's not particularly close to the boundary, or
Speaker 2: it's less than one point five meters high, typically doesn't
Speaker 2: require a building consent. However, if it's on a Crossley's
Speaker 2: property and the deck has not been added to the
Speaker 2: flats plan, that can become quite a costly process.
Speaker 12: Yes, okay, it's it's definitely over one point five meters high.
Speaker 2: Then it does require a building consent.
Speaker 16: Yes, it's extremely sturdy. Three of us were standing on
Speaker 16: it when we were looking at the property. But the
Speaker 16: agents sent through the property file and going back through
Speaker 16: all the information, it appears that the decks were deleted
Speaker 16: from the original application for a building consent, But without
Speaker 16: knowing the full story, it looks like perhaps sometimes after
Speaker 16: they received the code of Compliance certificates for building.
Speaker 2: They then added the decks later then added.
Speaker 12: The decks on.
Speaker 16: Yes, so is that a mine field that we should
Speaker 16: avoid or I mean, obviously if we consider making an offer,
Speaker 16: we could make an offer taking the unconsented deck into account.
Speaker 16: But of course, subsequently, if we look at selling, a
Speaker 16: potential purchase is going to do the same to us.
Speaker 2: You've got to where I was heading, which is, you know, yes,
Speaker 2: you could take the risk. But when you go to sell,
Speaker 2: as inevitably we all do, then a new purchaser is
Speaker 2: going to ask you the question, how come that decks
Speaker 2: there and it didn't have a bad incent when it
Speaker 2: obviously added one. What I can say is that the
Speaker 2: process of getting like retrospective building consents don't exist right,
Speaker 2: so you would need to go to council for a
Speaker 2: certificate of acceptance. The burden of proof for a certificate
Speaker 2: of acceptance is now much higher than it used to be,
Speaker 2: so typically in the past, inspector would come out to
Speaker 2: do a safe and sanitary report. They'd look at it
Speaker 2: and go, is it going to fall down? No, it's not.
Speaker 2: Here's you're safe and sanitary. I'm being a bit flippant,
Speaker 2: But today they would expect you to have someone draw
Speaker 2: up an as built plan so to ensure that it
Speaker 2: does the way that it's built does actually comply with
Speaker 2: the code in terms of the type of piles, the
Speaker 2: amount of bracing, the span of the bearers, the span
Speaker 2: of the joysts, the height of the handrail, the way
Speaker 2: in which the handrail has fixed, all of these sorts
Speaker 2: of things. And if what's built, even if it is sturdy,
Speaker 2: doesn't comply with the building code, then you'd need to
Speaker 2: upgrade it in order to get a certificate of acceptance.
Speaker 2: But you know, you could spend five ten thousand dollars
Speaker 2: trying to get compliance for it, and that one of
Speaker 2: the tricky things would be is how do you determine
Speaker 2: that the foundations are as per the spec You know,
Speaker 2: do you dig down next to one of them and
Speaker 2: find that it's four hundred deep and does that then
Speaker 2: imply that all of them are four hundred deep? So
Speaker 2: you can see that there's some fishshocks in it. I'm
Speaker 2: always reluctant to say, you know, don't do something, and
Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting that, but I am suggesting that it
Speaker 2: does get complicated, and typically with building, complicated means expensive.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: You've kind of go in with your eyes wide open,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 16: Yes, I suppose that's fair enough easement on a on
Speaker 16: a driveway. Can I ask you a quick question about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 16: There are two townhouses on this property, and we're looking
Speaker 16: at one. We seem to on the title we own
Speaker 16: the first two thirds of the driveway, and the townhouse
Speaker 16: behind owns the balance of the driveway, and they have
Speaker 16: an easement to use your our driveway. There doesn't seem
Speaker 16: to be anything in the title also suggests that they
Speaker 16: would contribute to any maintenance.
Speaker 12: Would that be normal?
Speaker 2: Would that be I don't know whether the maintenance thing
Speaker 2: is typically included in the title and in the way
Speaker 2: in which the driveway is divided up. I suppose could
Speaker 2: vary some that I've seen. You know, everyone's got a
Speaker 2: strip of the driveway, right, Yes, this is since you've
Speaker 2: got a segment of it. But I guess if the
Speaker 2: segment is beyond your property, then it kind of makes
Speaker 2: sense that that becomes their part of it. Your part
Speaker 2: is outside your house, and then the other part is
Speaker 2: the other property, the maintenance thing. I don't know that
Speaker 2: that's typically included in the title, but I think maybe
Speaker 2: under the Property Act you might find that you can
Speaker 2: do that. But again, there was an interesting story the
Speaker 2: other day in Takapuna, or on the North Shore, where
Speaker 2: ten properties that shared a driveway. They nine of the
Speaker 2: homeowners were able to be contacted and agreed to contribute
Speaker 2: to the cost of maintenance. One homeowner, who couldn't be
Speaker 2: contacted and therefore didn't give their agreement, was sent an
Speaker 2: invoice for their portion of the repairs. Said I didn't
Speaker 2: consent to it, therefore I'm not going to pay, and
Speaker 2: the courts upheld that. But that's a slightly different issue.
Speaker 2: That's around consent essentially, and you can't undertake repairs expecting
Speaker 2: someone's going to contribute if they haven't given their consent contributing.
Speaker 2: So I wonder whether in your case, with the title
Speaker 2: and the easement, if there was maintenance, you would you
Speaker 2: would need to get the agreement of all of the
Speaker 2: affected parties before you undertook any expense.
Speaker 12: Yes, no, Hey.
Speaker 16: Thanks very much yea for your thoughts, but e'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, Really nice talking to you and good luck
Speaker 2: with the process. The very best. Do you take care. John,
Speaker 2: you're with New Stork, said b. I'm with the inmate.
Speaker 2: You're consistently trying to justify bureaucracy and more and more
Speaker 2: regulation building, which is most annoying Tree from christ Church.
Speaker 2: If we want better buildings, we probably need better regulations.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm going to say. Oh, eight hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty the number to call. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk to at around eight point thirty. If you've got
Speaker 2: a comment to make in the very very briefest bit
Speaker 2: of time that we've got left, you're welcome to do so. Oh,
Speaker 2: this is interesting. We've talked quite a bit about septic systems.
Speaker 2: This is the new regulations. So this is just come
Speaker 2: in morning read the council and the septic systems orcan
Speaker 2: Council imposes different rules on comparable properties. We live in
Speaker 2: north west Auckland, with most houses less than three years old.
Speaker 2: Council have been unbelievable with their requirements, very inconsistent, requiring
Speaker 2: some owners to spend thousands of dollars, ranging from soil testing,
Speaker 2: river assessments, and extensive planting others. No special requirements in
Speaker 2: grass growing over the drip lines. I'm all for common
Speaker 2: sense rules, but inconsistency in rules and application the rules
Speaker 2: reinforces that our council are incompetent. I'm just reading the
Speaker 2: text out to be here. The inconsistency would be frustrating though.
Speaker 2: Soil testing, river assessments, extensive planting that would have to
Speaker 2: be part of the actual construction if you're proposing one,
Speaker 2: if there's one there, would you still need to do
Speaker 2: soil testing? Oh eight, one hundred and eighty, ten eighty,
Speaker 2: there's the number to call. Should we take a break? Now?
Speaker 2: Do we take a break?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 2: We wait for rid? Now, we'll wait for a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. It is typically my process at the end
Speaker 2: of the year to offer up a few thanks, and
Speaker 2: I'll do that right now. Actually, for you know, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four has been challenging, right, it's a fair way
Speaker 2: of saying it. In construction and so on, and generally
Speaker 2: in business, it is my great pleasure. As I mentioned
Speaker 2: to jan actually she asked about retro double glazing, and
Speaker 2: they've been a company that I've been associated with for
Speaker 2: a number of years. I continue to support what they
Speaker 2: do because I think double glazing works basically, so why
Speaker 2: wouldn't you have it? And so metro or retro DG
Speaker 2: metro performance glass that I've worked with them for a
Speaker 2: number of years and I really appreciate that. I also
Speaker 2: work with Bailey Tanks, so again rainwater harvesting, sustainability, but
Speaker 2: of resilience. These things are really important and they're also
Speaker 2: part of innovation. So whether it's you know, tanks for
Speaker 2: urban environments, tanks for using up underused space underneath your deka,
Speaker 2: under the house, or the brand new in ground tanks
Speaker 2: that they've just developed, it's all part of making our
Speaker 2: properties a little bit more sustainable, a little bit more
Speaker 2: environmentally friendly, and certainly a lot more resilient. And certainly
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the fact that over the summer,
Speaker 2: when it really stops raining and a water the garden
Speaker 2: that I can do so out of a water tank,
Speaker 2: that I've done my own little bit of rain water
Speaker 2: harvesting in an environment, in an urban environment. So my
Speaker 2: thanks to the team at Bailey's, the good people at
Speaker 2: J and L. Duken. So this is Jayframe and tryboard
Speaker 2: long association with them as well, and continuing to see
Speaker 2: sort of the innovation that they bring to the sector,
Speaker 2: particularly around in some cases some affordable housing solutions that
Speaker 2: Tryboarder is part of, and just better building with Jaframe
Speaker 2: Framing as well, and Mike Colds has been regular contributed
Speaker 2: to the show. So Razine Construction Systems again, my thanks
Speaker 2: to their team and to the fantastic work when it
Speaker 2: all get a but tricky, you know, with exterior clouding systems,
Speaker 2: they were one of the first hour of the blocks
Speaker 2: to go okay, well we can do better and here's
Speaker 2: what our systems are going to be like going forward.
Speaker 2: And I really appreciate again that innovation and that forward
Speaker 2: thinking that we see from a company like Razine Construction Systems,
Speaker 2: Jay and Bryce from Razine Paints in general, they've been
Speaker 2: fantastic on the show this year offering up their advice.
Speaker 2: I've had a number of really outstanding contributors have joined
Speaker 2: us kind of on an ad hoc basis, so from
Speaker 2: people from the dispute stribunal. We've had Hamish Firth, our
Speaker 2: planner talking about Auckland. Well we're talking about planning rules
Speaker 2: in general, but Hamish has been really good, very succinct
Speaker 2: around changes to the RMA. I know we've got some
Speaker 2: time booked in with him in the new year to
Speaker 2: talk about this latest water care announcement, saying this is
Speaker 2: where the development's going to happen and where it's not,
Speaker 2: or where our infrastructure is going to be and where
Speaker 2: it's not. So we'll talk to Hamish, Mike Thornton who's
Speaker 2: been on the show a couple of times offering up
Speaker 2: some legal advice. Ben Johnson as well talking about the
Speaker 2: Property Act. We'll get him back on the show this year.
Speaker 2: So and to Hailey from Doozy who helps manage my
Speaker 2: business affairs and so on, I really appreciate your support
Speaker 2: as well, and more importantly thank you for being part
Speaker 2: of the show in twenty twenty five as well. Ratings
Speaker 2: are reasonable, listenership is pretty good numbers across the country,
Speaker 2: and more importantly for me, it's the occasional sort of
Speaker 2: bumping into someone at a hardware store or at home
Speaker 2: and garden show. Actually, the good people at Jade Promotions
Speaker 2: who run the home and garden shows really enjoy working
Speaker 2: with them as well and will continue to do so.
Speaker 2: And an increasing range of home and garden shows around
Speaker 2: the country. I think first one will kick off and
Speaker 2: wrote au next year there'll be new shows in Queenstown,
Speaker 2: There'll be a new show in Needen. Hoping to get
Speaker 2: back to tim as well. So looking forward to being
Speaker 2: on the road with the Home and Garden Show and
Speaker 2: the home and Better Living shows around the country this year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but for you to my listeners and callers and texters,
Speaker 2: and I have to say at the end of the year,
Speaker 2: I mean, I've got fantastic texts, not all of them
Speaker 2: complementary to be fair, and possibly the most memorable amongst
Speaker 2: a number of memorable ones. I made an off the
Speaker 2: cuff remark about someone was looking at at how do
Speaker 2: I you know I've got a loose screw in a
Speaker 2: door hinge? Is there a particular type of product that
Speaker 2: I need to use? Looking for sort of I guess
Speaker 2: elaborate or complex solutions to that. And I just suggested that, hey,
Speaker 2: look what I do in those in some of those situations,
Speaker 2: take the screw out, get a match to jam it
Speaker 2: in there, snap the top off, put the screw back in.
Speaker 2: Job done, And a couple of weeks later I got
Speaker 2: a text from someone who described herself as a seventy
Speaker 2: three year old woman living on her own who doesn't
Speaker 2: do a lot of DIY. And she said, there was
Speaker 2: a loose hinge in my kitchen. And I remembered what
Speaker 2: you said, and I got a screwdriver, and I took
Speaker 2: the screw out, and I put a match sticken, I
Speaker 2: put the screw back in, and it's fixed. It's probably
Speaker 2: the first time I've done any DIY. So I figure
Speaker 2: as I get to the end of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: if I managed to encourage a in her own words,
Speaker 2: a seventy three year old woman who's never done any
Speaker 2: DIY to fix something for herself, that's mission accomplished for me.
Speaker 2: Righty oh, let's get into the garden. Thanks again for
Speaker 2: your company this year. It's been an absolute pleasure. Let's
Speaker 2: get into the garden for the last time in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. But don't worry, Rude'll be back and around
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five as well. Like the weeds that
Speaker 2: we often talk about, he is pretty much indestructible. Right,
Speaker 2: rud climb passed after the break, oh eight hundred eighty
Speaker 2: ten eighty. If you'd like to talk to.
Speaker 1: Rud doing up the house, sorting the garden, asked Pete
Speaker 1: for a hand. The resident builder with Peter Wolfcam and
Speaker 1: life Force solar solar power done right, col.
Speaker 12: News talks.
Speaker 2: They'd be climb past. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Hell are you sir?
Speaker 18: I'm very good, Peter, and I loved your little ramble
Speaker 18: about the the y owl boxes again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you what. It was a bit of
Speaker 2: a surprise. I was thinking back and I was thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, if there was one thing that I didn't
Speaker 2: expect to be building this year, it would have to
Speaker 2: be ol boxes. But it's been a huge pleasure, to
Speaker 2: be fair.
Speaker 5: It's good fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's been great.
Speaker 18: At about five six days ago before Christmas, we looked
Speaker 18: at a few boxes, the two young owls that we
Speaker 18: had last have left, yes, and we took the whole
Speaker 18: interior droppings inside the box out of that box and
Speaker 18: they are now going to be studied by somebody that
Speaker 18: can to be university.
Speaker 5: Aaron is going to look at.
Speaker 18: Exactly what these things eat when they're young, they're old,
Speaker 18: and all that sort of stuff. And it's absolutely wonderful
Speaker 18: what you can do with those boxes because you can
Speaker 18: actually learn so much from these creatures.
Speaker 2: Like fantastic citizen science.
Speaker 18: It's certainly well, no, this is real, proper, this is
Speaker 18: this is MSc or whatever it is you PD whatever you.
Speaker 2: Call it, fantastic, fantastic. Right, we've got a full boarder calls.
Speaker 2: Let's rip into it. Roger A very good morning to you,
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning.
Speaker 9: What time to play spy roses for what?
Speaker 5: Roger flex spot and stuff for for a fungal disease?
Speaker 11: Yeah, just ap roses. Yeah, and it is a time
Speaker 11: for you to do it.
Speaker 18: I would do it now if if I were you,
Speaker 18: because the moment you get a good number of droplets
Speaker 18: coming down from a rain shower, you'll find it is
Speaker 18: basically it's basically vulnerable to get more infection. So in
Speaker 18: this case, the fungicide you can use, for instance, Nature's
Speaker 18: Way spray or whatever is basically protecting your roses from
Speaker 18: being infected rather than having to cure cure it afterwards.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: Oh am, have a go now all.
Speaker 2: This and Ian A very good morning to you, good morning.
Speaker 7: Go for it.
Speaker 12: We've got Christmas bugs arrive every Christmas in the coramandel,
Speaker 12: and they're coming plague proportions come after dark or you
Speaker 12: know it's going dusk and just where they head for
Speaker 12: light apparently and drive your nuts. In the morning, they're
Speaker 12: piled up again the again your doors or the window
Speaker 12: sills and the sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: With them. Now, can you describe them? First of all?
Speaker 4: Ian?
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're little bugs maybe three quarters of an inch long.
Speaker 12: They fly, yeah, and they have got hard backs. When
Speaker 12: you stand on them, they crunch.
Speaker 5: That's right. Color.
Speaker 12: They are a brownie color.
Speaker 14: Okay.
Speaker 12: I've found my computer for them, and they do call
Speaker 12: them Christmas folks there too.
Speaker 5: In where in Australia.
Speaker 12: No, in New Zealand and the coramandle here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but yeah, okay.
Speaker 18: The problem is there are Christmas bugs in Australia and
Speaker 18: what you might have here is that doesn't matter. The
Speaker 18: ones that I hear, the smaller ones are the beatles
Speaker 18: that are actually flying indeed late late spring and early summer,
Speaker 18: and they actually eat the leaves of your plants, your
Speaker 18: trees quite often fruit trees, right right, Have you seen that?
Speaker 5: Have you seen holes in leaves?
Speaker 12: Now? Now, I've just seen holes in poker trees around here,
Speaker 12: But they're big. I think they're bigger than the beetle
Speaker 12: that eat.
Speaker 5: The thing with these these creatures is the brown ones.
Speaker 18: Is the fact that they basically eat foliage, which in
Speaker 18: itself is not a big deal, to be quite honest,
Speaker 18: because most plants will replace the eaten foliage by getting
Speaker 18: new leaves created, if you like. The second thing is
Speaker 18: that when they finally have eaten their foliage, they lay
Speaker 18: their eggs right down in the ground because it's.
Speaker 5: Their babies that eat the roots of the plants as well.
Speaker 18: And the problem is it is really hard to predict
Speaker 18: when they strike, where they strike, what night they come, where,
Speaker 18: et cetera.
Speaker 5: They are attracted to lights, I must say, but.
Speaker 18: It's really difficult to actually keep them under control in
Speaker 18: this case. The best thing is that I've noticed here
Speaker 18: is that I've got some magpies and I've got all
Speaker 18: sorts of other creatures that get them in the evening.
Speaker 18: Especially owls find them in the old droppings as well.
Speaker 18: They come and pick them up at night and they
Speaker 18: eat them basically as they can see them in the
Speaker 18: middle of the night, just like that.
Speaker 12: Thanks for that, we do have like millions of them
Speaker 12: that come and the vacuuming them up is about the
Speaker 12: only way to get rid of them. That's probably the
Speaker 12: right plastic bag because of the throm and the rubbish
Speaker 12: spin they'll get going again.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 18: Or in this case, put them in a container and
Speaker 18: chuck them in the freezer for a while. Uh huh, Yeah,
Speaker 18: that's the only way.
Speaker 9: To do it.
Speaker 12: Okay, Well they will go eventually, but they're a bit
Speaker 12: of a nuisance at the moment, and I think a
Speaker 12: lot of the people that live host the sea are
Speaker 12: afflicted by them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I don't think that their impact on your tree,
Speaker 18: shrubs and plants is that great. Yes, I know they
Speaker 18: create holes and people get really really upset about the holes.
Speaker 18: But the interesting thing is, as I said before, that
Speaker 18: holes are being replaced by new leaves by the plant. Basically,
Speaker 18: it's a it's a system of repairing the tree, and
Speaker 18: it's what they do, so it's not a big deal.
Speaker 12: We have a lot of bush around us and we're
Speaker 12: not concerned about what it does to the bush because
Speaker 12: you can't see any difference. But it's just that they
Speaker 12: pile up in heaps around your windows and pens and
Speaker 12: whatever around your house, and there are a hell of
Speaker 12: a thing to get rid of or to clean up
Speaker 12: every day. Every day you've got to do vacuuming outside
Speaker 12: on decks and areas like that that are exposed to
Speaker 12: the light at night. Open for God to help you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember, I remember.
Speaker 18: We had them a lot in Tity Rangy and in
Speaker 18: in meadow Bank where we used to live. And to
Speaker 18: be quite honest, the original common name is bronze beetle,
Speaker 18: the bronze beetle.
Speaker 5: Bron there you are, Thank you for that, welcome.
Speaker 2: Thank you very very much. Hey quick texture, someone's building
Speaker 2: a r box. Funnily enough, do we put ventilation holes
Speaker 2: in the base plus the bark I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: watching the owls from robin holes.
Speaker 18: No, no, no, you don't need ventilation holes because they
Speaker 18: go in to this. There's always movement of air there. Yeah,
Speaker 18: don't worry, no, don't worry about it at all.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, do I need to add
Speaker 2: like a little dormer or something like that.
Speaker 5: Now you've got it.
Speaker 18: No, no, because you need to get their checked by
Speaker 18: the council every six months.
Speaker 2: Robert A very good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, rude hippie Christmas, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sad to you.
Speaker 12: Roll.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Now I hear the major issue with rye grass.
Speaker 7: I believe that's what it does. It's like it looks
Speaker 7: like wheat and it's got all those little pistles and
Speaker 7: it's just like a light yellow color and it's all
Speaker 7: over my grass. So obviously when I'm o the lawns
Speaker 7: seen it just free plants all the seeds. Yeah, so
Speaker 7: how do I get rid of it?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 7: Literally got hardly grass list.
Speaker 18: And that's the point because if you had to see
Speaker 18: there are there are there are weed killers that only
Speaker 18: do grass or only doing non grass. But in this case,
Speaker 18: you've got a grass that is a weed inside your lawn.
Speaker 18: So you only get rid of the lot and spray
Speaker 18: a whole lot and start redoing it. But where does
Speaker 18: it come from? Where does the seed come from?
Speaker 5: Does this fly in? Does it go in the wind
Speaker 5: on your feet?
Speaker 7: You thought there was there was a fiction over the
Speaker 7: now building on it, but it was covered in it,
Speaker 7: and it's flying over from from the back neighbor.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's not that horrific badly grass?
Speaker 16: Is it?
Speaker 7: Quite possibly? They I just thought it might be rye grass.
Speaker 7: I don't know. It's just it's got like a Well,
Speaker 7: I think I've got both. I've got the ones with
Speaker 7: the quite big long seeds on it, and then I've
Speaker 7: got the little fine ones that grow up as well.
Speaker 7: And the thing is, I've got a fluffy pussy cat
Speaker 7: and she gets some stuck in a fair and I
Speaker 7: don't want them to get into a skin because they can't.
Speaker 7: You have become quite infected in things. So that's the yeah,
Speaker 7: But I just want to get rid of it anyway
Speaker 7: because it's just ugly.
Speaker 5: Is your is your lawn lade?
Speaker 7: It's I've got a front on the back side that
Speaker 7: goes around the house. I wouldn't say it's large large.
Speaker 7: I mean it's probably about five meters I ate at
Speaker 7: the front, and that the same at the side, and
Speaker 7: then the same at the back, so the nel shape.
Speaker 18: Would it be feasible to pull those things out individually
Speaker 18: and leave your lawn as it is?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Well, I had thought of that.
Speaker 18: Is might need to get a crew and grandkids. Grandkids
Speaker 18: are good at that, and especially this down the year
Speaker 18: when they need some money.
Speaker 7: Yeah, true, true. I have got a niece n here
Speaker 7: that I could employ.
Speaker 5: There you go, that's one. The other thing. And this
Speaker 5: is something I talked to Francisco about some time ago.
Speaker 18: Get rid of it, spray everything, and get yourself a
Speaker 18: wildflower lawn that you don't have to mow, and that
Speaker 18: will be totally different in terms of looks, and it
Speaker 18: will give you wildflower seeds, just wildflower seeds, so many
Speaker 18: different species of plant that grow in that become your lawn,
Speaker 18: and you can then, if you like, make a little
Speaker 18: you can mow a little trek through that if you
Speaker 18: want to go from A to B in your loan
Speaker 18: for instance.
Speaker 7: You know, yeah for the washing nine Yeah, okay, So
Speaker 7: what kind of thing to kill it? Do I use
Speaker 7: to kill it?
Speaker 18: Or wolf or anything and any anything things such as
Speaker 18: round up and a control and all the things that
Speaker 18: get rid of your of grass, of any grass, and
Speaker 18: any glass.
Speaker 7: Sort of get rid of the whole off.
Speaker 5: Again and.
Speaker 7: Plant the seeds like it won't because sometimes when I
Speaker 7: was told, when you use round up or something, you
Speaker 7: can't plant anything for a few months because it's still
Speaker 7: in the soil or something.
Speaker 5: No, it's not that long. You can do that within
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks, no problem.
Speaker 7: Okay, a couple of weeks all this yeap very quick
Speaker 7: a question. Yeah, ye, silver beate, broccoli and collie. So
Speaker 7: what would I use to fertilize those? Like, do I
Speaker 7: use salt space of poffish or no?
Speaker 18: Not necessarily, you can do a general fertilizer like a
Speaker 18: rose fertilizer or something like that.
Speaker 5: Very very similar with.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, lovely.
Speaker 2: Okay, all the good luck problem. We're gonna take short
Speaker 2: break the backs right after the news or straight after
Speaker 2: the break. Rather, it is basically eight forty five your
Speaker 2: news talks. We're talking to you about all things gardening
Speaker 2: and the wonderful world of bug scary. Good morning, Good.
Speaker 19: Morning, Marue, Good morning, Pete.
Speaker 7: Hey Rue.
Speaker 19: I just have a problem with the with chickweed, and
Speaker 19: I'm down my hands and knees, and of course you've
Speaker 19: got to keep pulling it out amongst all your flowers
Speaker 19: and around your bed your garden. Is any think that
Speaker 19: you can stop it from growing or just a thing
Speaker 19: that you've got to put up with and just keep
Speaker 19: pulling it out.
Speaker 5: The problem, this is the problem.
Speaker 18: If you start spraying and you've got some desirable plants
Speaker 18: in between, it's really hard not there the others, isn't it.
Speaker 19: That's right, Yeah, I know some when I'm pulling it
Speaker 19: out to be careful, I don't wraps around all the
Speaker 19: center of the flowers. And you've got to care if
Speaker 19: you don't wreck the flowers. And so is it just
Speaker 19: a job you've just got to put up with them
Speaker 19: and keep pulling it.
Speaker 18: Out, or is it Would you be able to do
Speaker 18: the weeding in between yours your good plants?
Speaker 19: Oh yes, yes, yes, but I know that I was
Speaker 19: doing it yesterday and it's come up sometime. It comes
Speaker 19: up through the center them as well. You know you see.
Speaker 14: Here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's too hard, isn't it.
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 18: Do it by hand, or get yourself a Clark cultivator
Speaker 18: there you go. Oh you know what if you mentioned
Speaker 18: the fact that you heard this on the radio, go
Speaker 18: to the Clark cultivator, you know, on the website, and
Speaker 18: they'll give you something like thirty three percent off.
Speaker 5: I've just thought, being Dutch, I might be able to.
Speaker 7: Tell you that.
Speaker 6: Much.
Speaker 19: You have a happy New Year to you made go well.
Speaker 2: I tell you what with some of the because I've
Speaker 2: had the same thing, right, these weeds coming up in
Speaker 2: the garden in between things that I don't want to kill.
Speaker 2: So in those cases. I've used those little bottle that
Speaker 2: you can literally brush it on individual plants. It's time consuming,
Speaker 2: but at least you get it down into the roots.
Speaker 18: And you know that you're not taking the ones you
Speaker 18: don't want. Phil, Yeah, you know, I totally agree. But
Speaker 18: that's a painting job. It's almost like a painting pretty much.
Speaker 2: Make sure.
Speaker 5: Shall we take a break and come we'll talk to
Speaker 5: back in the month.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 2: It be a couple of minutes to go, and it
Speaker 2: is with me, Gail, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 20: Good morning, Pete and Ruth. I'm very upset. My small
Speaker 20: flowering peach is covered on peaches, which we love. But
Speaker 20: the leaves on the end of a few of the
Speaker 20: branches are terrible. They're sort of brown and dying, and
Speaker 20: the peaches are affected. Can I spray it with something?
Speaker 5: You could try? If it's if?
Speaker 18: Do you think that it's leaf curl Can that be
Speaker 18: a description of those leaves that become yellowish.
Speaker 5: Inside the curler?
Speaker 20: No, No, it's leaf dying.
Speaker 18: It's leave dying. That's okay, that's not nice. Oh gosh,
Speaker 18: gollye and different color you said as well.
Speaker 20: Dark barn and they look just horrible.
Speaker 18: Oh, cheapest creepers look without really seeing it. I find
Speaker 18: it really hard to diagnose something without seeing.
Speaker 4: It, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: If it is if it is a fungal disease.
Speaker 18: If you think it's a fungal disease, get yourself, get
Speaker 18: yourself something like a material that yates nature's way fungus.
Speaker 18: Spray at least copper that contains copper and sulfur. Yeah,
Speaker 18: that's why I mentioned it. You can use just copper,
Speaker 18: but if you use copper and sulfur, you have a wider.
Speaker 5: Reach if you like, oh I see, thank you, And
Speaker 5: the reason is.
Speaker 18: Then you will stop the spread through this at this moment,
Speaker 18: still healthy leaves, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, it's it's really hard to do that.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I hope that's going to work for you. Girl. It's
Speaker 5: it's a pain in the bum sometimes these things. But
Speaker 5: there you go.
Speaker 20: Yeah, peaches after spraying with Nature's.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes you can.
Speaker 18: And that's why I mentioned it, because it's an edible plant.
Speaker 18: You wash your peaches and you'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, fantastic, Thank you, Gail, take care, all the best
Speaker 2: and all the very best to you for New Year,
Speaker 2: and again my thanks to you for your contribution. And
Speaker 2: I think that people I don't know underestimate the impact
Speaker 2: that you have in terms of sort of raising awareness
Speaker 2: and the education side of what you do. And I
Speaker 2: would imagine that it must be if you took a
Speaker 2: moment you probably don't do this, but if you took
Speaker 2: a moment, stood back and went hey, I was part
Speaker 2: of this rejuvenation of people restoring wetlands and looking after
Speaker 2: You know, you'd have to say, you'd have to put
Speaker 2: yourself on the back, and I bet you don't do it,
Speaker 2: So I'm going to do it.
Speaker 18: Oh thank you, that's lovely to say, but you do
Speaker 18: the same thing. I mean, this is exactly what the
Speaker 18: world should be about today.
Speaker 5: This is it. That's why I'm wearing mo wingspan head.
Speaker 2: See you later, looking forward to hitting down there. Take care,
Speaker 2: Happy new year to you and Rude will be back
Speaker 2: with us next year, which, of course next Sunday will
Speaker 2: be the fifth of January, so looking forward to you
Speaker 2: joining you again. Then take care for more from the
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