WEBVTT - The Resident Builder podcast: December 29, 2024 0:00:06.855 --> 0:00:10.695 You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp. 0:00:10.895 --> 0:00:15.375 From news talks at B Squeaky Door or Squeaky flour. 0:00:15.895 --> 0:00:19.335 Get the right advice from Peter Wolfcamp The Resident Builder 0:00:19.495 --> 0:00:22.895 with lightfoursolar dot co dot insiad find out more about 0:00:22.895 --> 0:00:24.855 switching to solar news talks at B. 0:00:32.295 --> 0:00:38.095 A house sizzor even when it's dark, even when the 0:00:38.175 --> 0:00:43.535 grass is overgrown in the yard, even when it does 0:00:43.775 --> 0:00:47.935 is too old to bar, and when you're sitting at 0:00:47.975 --> 0:00:56.535 the table trying to start caesor home even when an. 0:00:57.695 --> 0:01:07.775 Even when you're there, you. 0:01:11.335 --> 0:01:16.495 House is the hole, even when those ghost even when 0:01:16.495 --> 0:01:17.135 you got. 0:01:17.015 --> 0:01:19.495 Around from the ones you love your most. 0:01:21.095 --> 0:01:24.335 Screamed on, broken paints, peeling in front of the word. 0:01:26.215 --> 0:01:28.415 Locals visible when they're gone, leaving the. 0:01:30.375 --> 0:01:39.135 House, even when lba ben, even when you're now lone. 0:01:47.015 --> 0:01:49.735 And a very very good morning to you. Welcome along 0:01:49.775 --> 0:01:52.535 to the Resident Builder on Sunday. That's with me, Pet 0:01:52.575 --> 0:01:56.175 wolf Camp, the Resident Builder. And this is your opportunity 0:01:56.295 --> 0:02:00.215 the last time for twenty twenty four. Hey, this is it. 0:02:00.255 --> 0:02:02.975 This is the the end of the line for twenty 0:02:03.015 --> 0:02:06.135 twenty four. I'm back next to you. Don't worry or 0:02:06.695 --> 0:02:10.695 my condolences either way. So this is your chance now 0:02:10.735 --> 0:02:13.975 that we've had Christmas, and I trust that you had 0:02:14.495 --> 0:02:18.935 a hopefully a happy, maybe a reflective or a family 0:02:19.095 --> 0:02:23.335 focused sort of Christmas Day. And I know we had 0:02:23.415 --> 0:02:27.615 quite a bit of discussion around stocking stuff is basically 0:02:28.415 --> 0:02:31.375 what would come out of the or could go into 0:02:31.375 --> 0:02:34.535 the tool shed or into the toolbox. On my part 0:02:35.895 --> 0:02:38.375 that seemed to go quite well. I did end up 0:02:38.415 --> 0:02:41.215 working a little bit on Christmas Day here at New 0:02:41.255 --> 0:02:44.375 Suk seed B did eleven til one, and I was 0:02:44.415 --> 0:02:47.815 about to say, if you got something noisy in the 0:02:47.815 --> 0:02:51.895 tool department on Christmas Day, perhaps refrained from testing it 0:02:51.935 --> 0:02:56.095 out until at least Boxing Day. So I'm sure that 0:02:56.135 --> 0:02:58.695 the temptation was there if you've got something bright and 0:02:58.775 --> 0:03:02.055 shiny and possibly noisy for Christmas Day, that you wanted 0:03:02.055 --> 0:03:04.975 to have a crack at it. So maybe you're into projects. 0:03:04.975 --> 0:03:07.375 I mean it's pretty out there. I had still a 0:03:07.375 --> 0:03:10.175 little bit of driving around the city yesterday. It would 0:03:10.215 --> 0:03:13.095 seem that either people have disappeared on holiday, which is great, 0:03:13.255 --> 0:03:15.815 or you're all at home doing projects. So if you've 0:03:15.815 --> 0:03:19.055 got a project on that you would like some help 0:03:19.135 --> 0:03:23.135 with a little bit of advice around. Please call now, 0:03:23.295 --> 0:03:26.415 Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number you 0:03:26.455 --> 0:03:29.735 can text through as well. That's nine to nine two 0:03:29.775 --> 0:03:32.335 from your mobile phone and if you'd like to send 0:03:32.375 --> 0:03:35.575 me an email then'd be lovely. It's Pete at newstalksb 0:03:35.775 --> 0:03:39.535 dot co dot nz. So around this time of year, 0:03:39.615 --> 0:03:42.135 I think, well where was I? I went to a 0:03:42.175 --> 0:03:44.775 tool shop during the week and a couple of trips 0:03:44.815 --> 0:03:49.015 to local hardware store, and it seems like there's still 0:03:49.055 --> 0:03:53.055 a little bit of activity out there. Even noticed actually 0:03:53.095 --> 0:03:56.135 driving around yesterday a bunch of trades people still working 0:03:56.255 --> 0:03:59.975 on a fairly large commercial site. So there's there's still 0:04:00.015 --> 0:04:02.535 activity that goes on. But if you've got a project 0:04:02.575 --> 0:04:05.055 and you'd like some help, by all means give us 0:04:05.055 --> 0:04:07.135 a call. If you've got something that you've got for 0:04:07.215 --> 0:04:10.415 Christmas and you're wondering how that goodness do I use it, 0:04:11.215 --> 0:04:13.735 then we can talk about tools and tool use and 0:04:13.895 --> 0:04:16.855 particularly tool safety. I have to say yesterday I spend 0:04:16.855 --> 0:04:19.695 a little bit of time in the workshop. I may 0:04:19.775 --> 0:04:22.935 well have been puttering as per our discussion last week 0:04:24.135 --> 0:04:27.895 around getting my sort of dust control and dust extraction 0:04:28.535 --> 0:04:31.415 set up. It seems if I look back. Over the year, 0:04:31.455 --> 0:04:34.495 it's kind of been not quite my obsession because that 0:04:34.935 --> 0:04:38.975 tends to make it something that we do without having 0:04:38.975 --> 0:04:43.455 a decent purpose. But it has become an increasing focus 0:04:43.455 --> 0:04:45.535 of mine is to go what am I doing to 0:04:45.655 --> 0:04:48.695 ensure that the environment that I'm working in is not 0:04:48.815 --> 0:04:51.535 quite dust free because that's the nature of construction, but 0:04:51.655 --> 0:04:55.575 at least that I'm putting in place mitigation, some way 0:04:55.695 --> 0:04:58.815 of removing that. So if I'm sanding, if I'm using 0:04:58.815 --> 0:05:01.815 a power tool, then typically I've got a bunch of 0:05:01.895 --> 0:05:04.695 different little adapters that hock up to the vacuum cleaner. 0:05:05.015 --> 0:05:08.895 So take the bad off the tool that I'm using, 0:05:09.095 --> 0:05:12.735 connect an extraction hose to that, and have that hopped 0:05:12.815 --> 0:05:15.175 up to the vacuum. I got a little track saw 0:05:15.215 --> 0:05:20.655 this year, and happily enough, a portable dust extractor, a 0:05:20.695 --> 0:05:24.775 little wet and dry eighteen vault Rhiobi dust extractor that 0:05:24.855 --> 0:05:28.495 I can carry around with me. It's actually incredibly useful 0:05:29.415 --> 0:05:31.975 and just gives you that opportunity to clean up as 0:05:32.015 --> 0:05:34.575 you go without having to drag out a vacuum a 0:05:34.615 --> 0:05:37.375 conventional one. Got a couple of those tucked away inside 0:05:37.415 --> 0:05:39.895 the workshop, have them hopped up to the drop saw, 0:05:40.255 --> 0:05:44.415 got them connected to there's a larger dust extractor that 0:05:44.455 --> 0:05:46.895 I connect up to the table saw when I use that. 0:05:47.855 --> 0:05:50.815 And then the other day I was looking for a 0:05:50.855 --> 0:05:54.175 particular type of clamp that allows you to have the 0:05:54.215 --> 0:05:58.655 hose fixed somewhere if you're using extraction sometimes having the 0:05:58.695 --> 0:06:01.295 hose sort of flapping around is a little bit difficult. 0:06:02.055 --> 0:06:04.895 And I did find them on an overseas website, and 0:06:04.895 --> 0:06:08.655 then I balked at the cost of the import the 0:06:08.735 --> 0:06:11.055 freight from the States, that being about one hundred and 0:06:11.055 --> 0:06:14.815 twenty dollars, and I think I've pretty much ended up 0:06:14.895 --> 0:06:16.815 making one myself. Anyway, I've got to go and do 0:06:16.895 --> 0:06:18.695 one more little trip to the hardware store on my 0:06:18.735 --> 0:06:21.735 way home today and that'll be that project underway. So 0:06:21.975 --> 0:06:24.535 if you've got a project on or if you're considering 0:06:25.095 --> 0:06:27.775 maybe a project in the new year, eight hundred and 0:06:27.775 --> 0:06:30.615 eighty ten eighty is the number to call, just in 0:06:30.695 --> 0:06:33.215 terms of where we're at at the end of the year, 0:06:34.255 --> 0:06:36.815 and i'd be interested in your opinions on that. There's 0:06:36.855 --> 0:06:45.215 a couple of it's been a remarkably complex and varied. 0:06:45.735 --> 0:06:47.815 It certainly varied in terms of business out there at 0:06:47.815 --> 0:06:49.895 the moment, it's pretty tough for a lot of people, 0:06:50.495 --> 0:06:53.535 and for those that have got through. I think this 0:06:53.575 --> 0:06:58.015 is when reputation and relationships will hold your business together. 0:06:58.615 --> 0:07:00.495 So it's pretty tough. I saw some figures the other 0:07:00.575 --> 0:07:04.135 day about eleven thousand jobs lost in the construction sector, 0:07:04.455 --> 0:07:07.935 typically construction employees. I think it's around two hundred and 0:07:07.935 --> 0:07:12.935 thirty thousand people in New Zealand. And for eleven thousand 0:07:12.975 --> 0:07:15.815 jobs to disappear out of that sector, that's had a 0:07:15.935 --> 0:07:20.095 dramatic impact on obviously on people's lives, but in terms 0:07:20.135 --> 0:07:22.895 of you know, as we grow, we need those people. 0:07:22.895 --> 0:07:25.375 Of course, as we go into recession, those people disappear 0:07:25.775 --> 0:07:28.175 and then do they come back, So maybe you've been 0:07:28.215 --> 0:07:30.895 impacted by that. So that is part of where we're at. 0:07:31.215 --> 0:07:33.975 The other is that as the new government sort of 0:07:34.015 --> 0:07:36.535 hits its stride, suddenly there's a whole lot of talk 0:07:36.575 --> 0:07:39.135 about do we want to do remote inspections, do we 0:07:39.175 --> 0:07:41.975 want to wind back h one of the building Code? 0:07:42.775 --> 0:07:45.935 Do we want to look at a broader scope of 0:07:46.175 --> 0:07:49.015 building work that can be done without necessarily having a 0:07:49.015 --> 0:07:51.535 building consent. We want to be able to build sixty 0:07:51.535 --> 0:07:55.015 square meters. So it's been a fascinating political year. When 0:07:55.055 --> 0:07:58.175 it comes to construction as well, radio we can talk 0:07:58.255 --> 0:08:01.095 all things building and construction. Will do that right through 0:08:01.175 --> 0:08:04.295 till eight thirty. I don't have any guests with me today, 0:08:05.175 --> 0:08:07.895 so it's your opportunity. Need to talk all things building 0:08:07.935 --> 0:08:10.615 in construction right through eight thirty. Eight thirty. We will 0:08:10.695 --> 0:08:14.055 jump into the garden with the delightful hundred climb past 0:08:14.135 --> 0:08:16.495 at eight thirty, and then we will talk all things 0:08:16.575 --> 0:08:19.895 about the wonderful world of bugs and gardening as well. 0:08:20.175 --> 0:08:22.495 Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call 0:08:22.655 --> 0:08:24.775 if you'd like to join me now is a good opportunity. 0:08:24.975 --> 0:08:28.495 Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call. 0:08:29.575 --> 0:08:32.615 Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fans, I'm wondering 0:08:32.655 --> 0:08:33.695 how to fix that hole. 0:08:33.535 --> 0:08:33.975 In the wall. 0:08:34.175 --> 0:08:35.855 You give Peter Wulf Cabin call on. 0:08:35.895 --> 0:08:39.015 Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty, the resident builder with 0:08:39.175 --> 0:08:43.215 light four solar where your solar purchase berns you airpoids, dollars. 0:08:43.135 --> 0:08:44.055 News talks, evy. 0:08:44.655 --> 0:08:46.735 You welcome to text as well. Nine two ninety two. 0:08:46.815 --> 0:08:48.415 This one came in and I'll deal with it at 0:08:48.415 --> 0:08:51.175 the moment. Morning, Pete, I work in real estate. My 0:08:51.295 --> 0:08:56.775 question is around ducks Quest plumbing, So that's Dux ducks 0:08:56.895 --> 0:08:59.975 Quest plumbing. When this is located in a property, we 0:09:00.135 --> 0:09:03.415 advise potential buyers to have this replaced, even if it 0:09:03.455 --> 0:09:07.975 is currently functioning correctly and problem Would you agree with this? 0:09:08.095 --> 0:09:14.775 Do you have any other info I could pass on? Gosh, 0:09:14.855 --> 0:09:17.295 it's kind of a multi layered question in a sense, 0:09:17.335 --> 0:09:22.535 and I appreciate that the texts coming through. Look, I think, 0:09:22.855 --> 0:09:25.655 for a start, it's right to be cautious about it, 0:09:25.775 --> 0:09:27.615 like anyone that I know who's had it and their 0:09:27.615 --> 0:09:31.575 property has a high likelihood of failure. And when I 0:09:31.615 --> 0:09:36.175 talk about failure, it's a joint popping apart or bursting, 0:09:37.015 --> 0:09:39.375 often the middle of the night when the pressure is higher, 0:09:39.495 --> 0:09:41.815 or sometimes when you're away, and those sorts of things. 0:09:41.895 --> 0:09:46.935 So yes, it is problematic, without a doubt. I'm curious 0:09:46.935 --> 0:09:49.615 about how a real estate agent would know that it 0:09:49.695 --> 0:09:52.175 was in the wall, because it's not something you can see. 0:09:52.255 --> 0:09:55.335 So I guess it's one of those things. If a 0:09:55.415 --> 0:09:59.695 current seller a vendor has told you that that's the 0:09:59.775 --> 0:10:04.295 type of plumbing, it's an unusual question to ask. It's 0:10:04.335 --> 0:10:09.455 a little bit unusual. And then is it the role 0:10:09.495 --> 0:10:12.495 of the real estate agent to be advising a prospective 0:10:12.575 --> 0:10:16.735 purchaser about repairs and maintenance that they might have to do. 0:10:17.055 --> 0:10:19.655 I suppose it's all part of disclosure. Wouldn't mind talking 0:10:19.655 --> 0:10:22.655 to an agent on that actually. But look, in general, 0:10:22.695 --> 0:10:24.935 I agree with you. I think that if it has 0:10:24.975 --> 0:10:32.335 been identified then and typically if you do repair, then 0:10:32.535 --> 0:10:35.415 somewhere else will burst later on. And I know plenty 0:10:35.455 --> 0:10:38.295 of people that have just taken the plunge, let's say, 0:10:38.695 --> 0:10:41.655 and they've stripped it out or they've simply bypassed it, 0:10:41.855 --> 0:10:44.215 deleted the lines, left them in the walls, just run 0:10:44.295 --> 0:10:47.335 new lines to all of the various outlets and so 0:10:47.375 --> 0:10:49.735 there's nothing running through the old duck square. So I 0:10:49.775 --> 0:10:50.975 agree you've got a concern. 0:10:51.175 --> 0:10:51.655 I'll tell you what. 0:10:51.695 --> 0:10:54.295 There was a funny story the other day. Someone I 0:10:54.295 --> 0:10:56.255 know was selling a house and they had a pre 0:10:56.295 --> 0:11:00.255 purchase or a prospective purchaser had a pre purchased inspection 0:11:00.415 --> 0:11:05.615 done identified that the cast iron pipe that connected to 0:11:05.695 --> 0:11:09.415 the toilet was rusty, and then in their pre purchase 0:11:09.535 --> 0:11:12.575 inspection said, we estimate that the cost of the repair 0:11:12.735 --> 0:11:19.215 is somewhere between one thousand and fifty thousand dollars, at 0:11:19.255 --> 0:11:22.575 which point the prospective purchaser then said to them, will 0:11:22.575 --> 0:11:25.815 look knowing this, We'll make you an offer, but will 0:11:25.855 --> 0:11:29.175 deduct forty thousand dollars for the potential cost of the repair. 0:11:31.695 --> 0:11:34.655 I just thought that was an absurd estimate to give 0:11:34.855 --> 0:11:38.935 and incredibly vague. From one thousand to fifty thousand dollars 0:11:38.975 --> 0:11:42.215 to repair. I mean, that's outrageous. Oh eight hundred eighty 0:11:42.255 --> 0:11:44.575 ten eighty is the number to call, and Hazel A 0:11:44.695 --> 0:11:49.335 very good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Hazel. 0:11:52.415 --> 0:11:56.455 I had a I lived in in the Bide Home, 0:11:57.535 --> 0:12:01.895 which was a two stories home, and several years ago 0:12:02.655 --> 0:12:09.735 the hype cam off my upere of cold water hips 0:12:10.415 --> 0:12:13.055 and flood of the whole house. I was out of 0:12:13.135 --> 0:12:21.735 the house for six days whilst the subcontractors were They 0:12:21.855 --> 0:12:26.495 bought in airs and dry et cetera, et cetera, and 0:12:26.895 --> 0:12:30.935 they told me it was faith for me to come back. 0:12:31.455 --> 0:12:39.175 I'm superate rejecting the n magic. And then this recent tree. 0:12:40.015 --> 0:12:45.655 I was doing my potatoes at night and being aged, 0:12:46.375 --> 0:12:49.975 I needed to go to the toilet with the water brain. 0:12:50.375 --> 0:12:53.535 I turned my test off of this thing, and as 0:12:53.655 --> 0:12:58.775 I went through pizza toilets. I saw about eight inch 0:12:58.815 --> 0:13:03.695 shet of water coming onto the carpet underneath the hot water, 0:13:05.855 --> 0:13:10.935 and so I forgot about going into the toilet. Rang 0:13:11.055 --> 0:13:17.375 the farbargate and they were absolutely amazing. But when they. 0:13:18.895 --> 0:13:19.575 Bought up the. 0:13:19.575 --> 0:13:24.895 Carpet, mold, mold and more mold. So I had to 0:13:25.095 --> 0:13:32.615 accept to tail pope due to my oath. Now, the 0:13:32.735 --> 0:13:37.455 first we wouldn't have had molds with the second run 0:13:37.975 --> 0:13:41.415 because it wouldn't have had time to happen. The mold 0:13:41.535 --> 0:13:46.415 would have happened from the first. And I'm wondering that's 0:13:46.495 --> 0:13:52.495 my insurance. They offered me two thousand on a ten 0:13:52.615 --> 0:13:54.415 thousand repay job. 0:13:56.615 --> 0:13:59.215 Yeah, I think sometimes with insurance, I mean it's very 0:13:59.215 --> 0:14:03.215 tempting at the moment, and particularly with weather related claims. 0:14:03.295 --> 0:14:07.975 Insurers sometimes will offer people, you know, a cash out, right, 0:14:08.055 --> 0:14:10.295 so you know, we estimate the cost of the repair 0:14:10.495 --> 0:14:14.895 is pick a figure, fifteen thousand dollars. Here's fifteen thousand dollars. 0:14:14.935 --> 0:14:20.015 You manage the job yourself. And interesting we had some 0:14:20.095 --> 0:14:23.695 friends who took a cash settlement for a much more 0:14:23.695 --> 0:14:27.695 considerable sum for extensive damage to a house and managed it, 0:14:27.775 --> 0:14:32.495 but then had a slightly more complex claim a little 0:14:32.495 --> 0:14:36.415 bit later on, and made sure that the insurer managed 0:14:36.455 --> 0:14:38.175 it because they could see that it was going to 0:14:38.215 --> 0:14:39.815 be really complicated. So I think you've got to be 0:14:39.815 --> 0:14:43.615 a bit careful about that. So do you currently, though, 0:14:43.775 --> 0:14:45.855 have mold still in your house? 0:14:47.415 --> 0:14:51.495 Apparently there is a mold still every tower, Pope, right, 0:14:51.615 --> 0:14:56.015 I've been here for over two weeks. The thing is 0:14:56.615 --> 0:15:04.695 do I leave legal advice or the thing is the 0:15:04.775 --> 0:15:10.375 first one I insisted on copper plumbing putting when the 0:15:10.415 --> 0:15:18.615 first one happens and read both toilets upstairs downstairs, trust 0:15:18.775 --> 0:15:23.975 the hand based in the upstairs. And the second one 0:15:24.735 --> 0:15:31.455 I insisted on topper plumbing, but they didn't mention it. 0:15:31.575 --> 0:15:35.055 But I had actually got copper plarly with the second one, 0:15:35.455 --> 0:15:37.575 and I'm through to a bits with the second. 0:15:39.855 --> 0:15:42.735 I wonder whether Hazel part of it might be that 0:15:42.775 --> 0:15:47.455 you get some independent advice from an experienced plumber who 0:15:47.455 --> 0:15:50.615 could come through and just assess either the repair and 0:15:50.655 --> 0:15:53.935 also just you know, talk to your insurer and say, 0:15:54.415 --> 0:15:56.815 you know, the two claims might not be related. So 0:15:56.975 --> 0:16:02.535 sometimes insurers are reluctant to, let's say, do a pay 0:16:02.535 --> 0:16:06.655 out if it's damage that's related to the first claim 0:16:06.815 --> 0:16:09.695 or a similar claim. Sometimes they'll say, well, look you've 0:16:09.695 --> 0:16:12.895 had and this loops back actually the ducks quest thing 0:16:13.295 --> 0:16:17.295 where in some cases I've heard where a claim has 0:16:17.335 --> 0:16:19.455 been made for water damage as a result of the 0:16:19.495 --> 0:16:22.855 pipe bursting, and then they might pay for that once 0:16:22.975 --> 0:16:26.175 or twice, but thereafter they'll say, well, look, if you 0:16:26.175 --> 0:16:28.775 don't go ahead and replace it now at your cost, 0:16:29.175 --> 0:16:31.895 we're not going to cover any further claims on that 0:16:32.055 --> 0:16:34.375 sort of thing. So that might be something, But I 0:16:34.415 --> 0:16:36.415 wonder whether it could be useful for you to get 0:16:36.415 --> 0:16:39.415 a plumber just to look at it both of the claims, 0:16:39.575 --> 0:16:42.415 look at the quality that repair, and if your insurer 0:16:42.415 --> 0:16:44.215 hasn't done a good job on the repair, then I 0:16:44.255 --> 0:16:47.135 would go back to the insurer, particularly if they're still mold, 0:16:47.215 --> 0:16:49.655 if they haven't dried it out properly, or if they 0:16:50.055 --> 0:16:53.815 haven't repaired an extensive enough area to get rid of 0:16:53.815 --> 0:16:55.775 that mold, I would suggest that they need to come 0:16:55.815 --> 0:16:58.815 back and figure that out. Thank you very much, Hazel, 0:16:58.895 --> 0:17:00.815 and a very good morning to you, Paul. 0:17:02.015 --> 0:17:02.215 Hi. 0:17:02.415 --> 0:17:11.255 Painful ringing about aluminium friction stay in particular interlock. I've 0:17:11.295 --> 0:17:14.855 got a we've got a fifty year old house and 0:17:15.215 --> 0:17:20.255 one of the stays has just broken. Doesn't look like 0:17:20.615 --> 0:17:28.175 you can get exactly the same, So it looks like 0:17:28.335 --> 0:17:34.135 the closest is now the black P fifteen sixty one 0:17:34.255 --> 0:17:38.855 B to what I had, And I noticed the drillhole 0:17:40.455 --> 0:17:44.855 aren't the same as the old one, so I got 0:17:44.895 --> 0:17:49.975 to redrill on both the sash and the window frame 0:17:50.655 --> 0:17:55.255 to food and I take it you've got to replace 0:17:55.975 --> 0:17:58.775 both hinges. They're slightly out. 0:17:59.335 --> 0:18:02.855 AKA, you're on the right track. And it's always a 0:18:02.935 --> 0:18:06.895 little bit scary, you know, drilling into your aluminium into 0:18:06.895 --> 0:18:12.775 the frame. They should supply you with a short, fine 0:18:12.895 --> 0:18:16.095 threaded screw and in some cases they have like a 0:18:16.175 --> 0:18:20.015 drill bit hit on them, so they are south drilling. Yeah, 0:18:20.095 --> 0:18:24.975 I have to say, I've never found that they're particular. Okay, 0:18:25.335 --> 0:18:29.095 they're the ones that you need, though, and I tend 0:18:29.175 --> 0:18:32.295 to find that I don't rely on the actual little 0:18:32.855 --> 0:18:35.375 screw to do the drilling. I tend to pre drill 0:18:35.535 --> 0:18:37.295 because I think that's slightly more accurate. 0:18:38.135 --> 0:18:38.375 Yep. 0:18:39.375 --> 0:18:42.415 I'm just using the screws from the old hundreds and 0:18:42.575 --> 0:18:46.375 they seem to be working. But other than that, just 0:18:46.455 --> 0:18:47.615 a matter of doing it. 0:18:47.615 --> 0:18:49.895 It is, and the critical thing is to make sure 0:18:49.935 --> 0:18:52.815 that your hinges are both aligned in exactly the same 0:18:52.815 --> 0:18:55.455 position on both sides, Otherwise it'll tend to twist a 0:18:55.455 --> 0:18:58.375 little bit. So whatever measurement you use on one side, 0:18:58.495 --> 0:19:01.855 use exactly the same measurement on the other side, right, 0:19:02.015 --> 0:19:06.015 well do Yeah, but look, if you got fifty years 0:19:06.055 --> 0:19:09.135 out of the original friction stays, that's not too bad. 0:19:09.935 --> 0:19:11.935 Yeah, I say, the new one only comes with a 0:19:12.015 --> 0:19:12.855 tenure worthy. 0:19:15.055 --> 0:19:17.175 That's not to say that it won't work for more 0:19:17.215 --> 0:19:20.015 than ten years, but that's all that's required in terms 0:19:20.055 --> 0:19:22.295 of consumer guarantees and that sort of thing. 0:19:22.815 --> 0:19:26.295 Yeah, right, And I take it you can't get just 0:19:26.575 --> 0:19:32.815 part of the stay and re rivet that one in, 0:19:33.735 --> 0:19:36.535 you know, because if only one part of the hinge 0:19:37.055 --> 0:19:40.335 yes in this case, the short part, you know, if 0:19:40.375 --> 0:19:42.895 you could, I would. 0:19:42.735 --> 0:19:46.775 Be knowing how they assemble those, I'd be I would 0:19:46.815 --> 0:19:49.295 think that the success rate of being able to re 0:19:49.575 --> 0:19:52.815 rivet it on site would be very, very small, and 0:19:53.335 --> 0:19:55.575 chances are you'll end up with that becoming loose or 0:19:55.855 --> 0:19:58.855 something like that. So I think replacing the hinges is 0:19:58.895 --> 0:20:02.095 a good idea. And have you been able to find 0:20:02.175 --> 0:20:07.135 replacement parts? Okay? Because it's sort of well alailable at 0:20:07.135 --> 0:20:07.935 a hardware store. 0:20:08.695 --> 0:20:16.255 Yeah, luckily the new version is pretty close to the 0:20:16.295 --> 0:20:20.575 old one, right, Okay, so'll I put one on and 0:20:20.615 --> 0:20:24.175 I'll put the second on today and hopefully that'll work. Okay, 0:20:26.855 --> 0:20:28.495 I'll find out, I guess soon enough. 0:20:29.135 --> 0:20:32.695 Absolutely. And look, it's one of those things. And it's 0:20:32.735 --> 0:20:35.575 a little bit like I started. I went to use 0:20:35.695 --> 0:20:39.615 my I'm saying this because there's a story behind it, right, 0:20:39.615 --> 0:20:42.175 and it's a similar story to what you're doing is 0:20:42.655 --> 0:20:44.895 take your time with these sorts of repairs. So like 0:20:44.975 --> 0:20:46.815 the other day, I went to use my I've got 0:20:47.055 --> 0:20:51.015 an older petrol blower to pull start it, and notice 0:20:51.055 --> 0:20:53.135 that the cord was fraying to the point where it 0:20:53.135 --> 0:20:56.335 would barely come out of the you know, you pull 0:20:56.375 --> 0:20:58.415 it and it's the gems about halfway, and I thought, right, 0:20:58.455 --> 0:20:59.655 I'm not going to push it. I don't want to 0:20:59.695 --> 0:21:01.935 break the cord. And then I've da da da da, 0:21:02.135 --> 0:21:04.695 went and got some new cord the other day, and 0:21:04.815 --> 0:21:08.255 yesterday afternoon took it apart, and then I kind of went, actually, 0:21:08.495 --> 0:21:10.175 I've got like half an hour to do this, but 0:21:10.255 --> 0:21:12.295 I feel it might be a little bit longer of 0:21:12.335 --> 0:21:15.295 a job. So I'm going to give myself time, and 0:21:15.375 --> 0:21:17.535 I suggest you take the same approach in terms of 0:21:17.575 --> 0:21:20.375 doing the hinges. Give yourself time, don't rush it out, 0:21:20.455 --> 0:21:21.855 rush and you'll be fine. 0:21:22.615 --> 0:21:25.535 Yeah, I think I'll beat the Peter, spend the whole 0:21:25.575 --> 0:21:26.775 day on it, exactly. 0:21:26.855 --> 0:21:29.575 Start nice and early radio on the background, You're away, 0:21:29.855 --> 0:21:34.255 good luck, take care, see you. Then bobe all of 0:21:34.255 --> 0:21:36.575 this to you and I have to say, and it 0:21:36.695 --> 0:21:40.175 take me years to learn it, to be fair. One 0:21:40.215 --> 0:21:44.215 of the greatest frustrations, and I'm sure it's caused any 0:21:44.335 --> 0:21:48.495 number of sort of failures of operation, has been that 0:21:48.495 --> 0:21:52.375 we don't give ourselves enough time to do jobs. You 0:21:52.415 --> 0:21:54.495 know that we look at a job and we go, oh, 0:21:54.535 --> 0:21:56.815 it's half an hour or it's an hour, but you 0:21:57.015 --> 0:21:58.935 kind of know in the back of your head that 0:21:59.175 --> 0:22:02.455 that in fact, it's probably twice that, and so we 0:22:02.615 --> 0:22:06.295 launch into it and then we're under We put ourselves 0:22:06.575 --> 0:22:10.735 under pressure, and then the wheels fall off. Basically, so 0:22:10.935 --> 0:22:12.575 if you're going to do a task, particularly if it's 0:22:12.615 --> 0:22:16.095 one that you're unfamiliar with, take the time in the 0:22:16.135 --> 0:22:18.095 same way that when I pulled the cover off yesterday 0:22:18.135 --> 0:22:20.055 and I'm looking at how the pull start works. I've 0:22:20.055 --> 0:22:23.295 got my new bit of chord and I'm going actually 0:22:23.295 --> 0:22:26.455 this because it's not something I repair every day, right, 0:22:26.895 --> 0:22:29.015 but I'm pretty determined to have a crack at it, 0:22:29.055 --> 0:22:32.095 and it should be relatively simple. And I did actually 0:22:32.175 --> 0:22:35.055 go online to seek some guidance, and now I've got 0:22:35.095 --> 0:22:38.455 two different approaches to fixing it. So anyway, I might 0:22:38.615 --> 0:22:41.135 actually play with that later on this afternoon and see 0:22:41.135 --> 0:22:43.055 if I can get That's another job out of the way. 0:22:43.175 --> 0:22:46.895 See that's success on a Sunday, little job like that done. 0:22:47.295 --> 0:22:49.135 Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. If you've got a 0:22:49.215 --> 0:22:51.055 job that you would like to get done, or you'd 0:22:51.135 --> 0:22:54.215 like to talk about or talk about various options, by 0:22:54.215 --> 0:22:57.895 all means, give us a call. Couple of texts have 0:22:58.015 --> 0:23:00.775 come in with regard to the Ducks quest and how 0:23:00.815 --> 0:23:03.655 it relates to sale and purchase agreements and real estate 0:23:03.695 --> 0:23:06.295 agents obligations and so on. Will come back and look 0:23:06.335 --> 0:23:08.095 at that in the moment, but we'll take your calls 0:23:08.135 --> 0:23:10.975 as well. On eight hundred and eighty ten eighty by 0:23:11.015 --> 0:23:13.815 all means, text nine two nine two, and if you'd 0:23:13.855 --> 0:23:16.335 like to email, it's Pete at Newstalks b It is 0:23:17.055 --> 0:23:20.535 six th eighty two. Just an aside as well for 0:23:20.575 --> 0:23:24.135 again into the texts about the plumbing and the real 0:23:24.255 --> 0:23:29.175 estate agents and so on, just off the cuff I 0:23:29.255 --> 0:23:32.015 happened to over the last two sundays on the show. 0:23:32.095 --> 0:23:34.695 We were talking about stocking stuffers, and I mentioned the 0:23:34.695 --> 0:23:37.135 fact that I'd wanted into my local, which happens to 0:23:37.135 --> 0:23:40.175 be dem Put Timber, to pick up a few bits 0:23:40.215 --> 0:23:42.775 and pieces. I needed some bolt fix and whatever I 0:23:42.815 --> 0:23:46.135 needed for that particular job, and saw that they had 0:23:46.175 --> 0:23:49.095 on the counter Good Rules, which is a New Zealand 0:23:49.175 --> 0:23:54.255 designed folding ruler. It's a little bit unusual and I've 0:23:54.455 --> 0:23:56.335 got a couple of them at home and I find 0:23:56.335 --> 0:23:58.975 them quite useful and they'd make a good sort of 0:23:59.015 --> 0:24:03.095 stocking stuff a type of gift. It seems like there 0:24:03.095 --> 0:24:04.975 was quite a bit of interest, and they're not actually 0:24:05.535 --> 0:24:08.455 that easy to in terms of retail stores. They're widely 0:24:08.455 --> 0:24:11.495 available online, but they're not in a lot of retail stores. 0:24:11.495 --> 0:24:15.895 But Jamie and his family that run Devenport Timber, they 0:24:15.935 --> 0:24:19.535 happened to stock them and they've supported the team at 0:24:19.535 --> 0:24:24.295 the Good Rule for quite some time. And Jamie texts 0:24:24.335 --> 0:24:27.095 me on the weekend and goes mate we've I think 0:24:27.175 --> 0:24:29.335 I've spent most of my time over the last week 0:24:29.495 --> 0:24:32.695 answering phone calls from people looking for these particular rulers 0:24:33.255 --> 0:24:35.215 and people coming into the store to get them. So 0:24:35.535 --> 0:24:37.695 if you did pop over, didn't put timber good on you. 0:24:38.615 --> 0:24:40.895 I hope you enjoyed the drive and the journey down 0:24:40.975 --> 0:24:44.055 Lake Road. And thanks for supporting the good rule in 0:24:44.095 --> 0:24:46.695 that way as well. So I wasn't my intention. I 0:24:46.775 --> 0:24:49.735 just happened to mention it. And yeah, I've used them 0:24:49.775 --> 0:24:51.855 the good stuff and it's great fun. Oh eight one 0:24:51.895 --> 0:24:53.895 hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call 0:24:53.975 --> 0:24:56.695 if you would like to join us and if you 0:24:56.695 --> 0:24:59.095 want to chip in your thoughts around this. In terms 0:24:59.135 --> 0:25:01.575 of property and real estate, I guess so the original 0:25:01.575 --> 0:25:04.135 text was good morning Peak, I work in real estate. 0:25:04.135 --> 0:25:08.535 The question is around Duck's quest plumbing. When this is located, 0:25:09.175 --> 0:25:12.215 we and a property, we advise potential buyers to have 0:25:12.295 --> 0:25:15.255 this replaced, even if it is currently functioning correctly and 0:25:15.375 --> 0:25:18.295 problem free. Would you agree with this? Would you have 0:25:18.335 --> 0:25:21.415 any other info I could pass on? So there's a 0:25:21.495 --> 0:25:24.735 whole lot in that statement. One is I guess if 0:25:24.815 --> 0:25:28.135 you know it and you know that it's a problem. Yes, 0:25:28.215 --> 0:25:30.655 you have a duty to inform as a real estate agent, 0:25:30.655 --> 0:25:34.575 as my understanding, but do you necessarily have to recommend 0:25:34.655 --> 0:25:36.735 repair or do you just go hey? By the way, 0:25:38.175 --> 0:25:42.495 the vendor or a pre purchase inspection has identified that 0:25:42.575 --> 0:25:45.255 it is Duck's Quest, which was kind of a late 0:25:45.655 --> 0:25:51.735 eighties sort of plumbing product that has had extensive failures 0:25:52.655 --> 0:25:54.895 without a doubt. So a couple of other texts have 0:25:54.935 --> 0:25:57.695 come in. It's called fujuciary obligation. If you're a land 0:25:57.695 --> 0:26:00.735 agent and aware of a property or dwelling information, you 0:26:00.815 --> 0:26:04.415 must advise the interested party. So if you're aware of 0:26:04.455 --> 0:26:07.375 a particular fault, then you need to advise that. And 0:26:07.375 --> 0:26:09.695 there was a case actually the other day that went 0:26:09.815 --> 0:26:15.175 through to the real estate tribunal where someone was aware 0:26:15.615 --> 0:26:21.935 and deliberately withheld information of damage. And other text has 0:26:21.975 --> 0:26:25.735 come through. Dux Quest Plumbing is now a general disclosure 0:26:25.855 --> 0:26:30.895 on our purchaser acknowledgment form, much like monolithic clad properties. Also, 0:26:30.895 --> 0:26:33.295 a question about the forty K deduction requested, are you 0:26:33.335 --> 0:26:35.655 sure it wasn't a type? And the value associated with 0:26:35.695 --> 0:26:39.215 the works went five to one thousand to five thousand dollars, No, 0:26:39.815 --> 0:26:43.695 I spoke with the person who this is firsthand, this 0:26:43.735 --> 0:26:48.735 isn't a secondhand story. The pre purchase inspector, and you 0:26:48.735 --> 0:26:53.615 would have to question their ability to be blunt, made 0:26:53.655 --> 0:26:56.935 an estimate of between one thousand and fifty thousand dollars, 0:26:56.975 --> 0:27:01.255 and based on that pre purchase inspection and the figure 0:27:01.335 --> 0:27:08.895 set down, the potential purchase offered the vendor who I know, 0:27:10.615 --> 0:27:16.175 the asking price minus forty thousand dollars. So, and then 0:27:16.455 --> 0:27:22.495 eithery wanted to do a whole CCTV survey of the 0:27:22.575 --> 0:27:25.455 of the line as well, which is kind of unusual. 0:27:25.495 --> 0:27:28.135 I don't think I've ever heard of that where someone 0:27:28.255 --> 0:27:32.695 a potential purchaser wants to get a CCTV survey of 0:27:33.055 --> 0:27:35.895 the wastewater line like the pipes under the ground across 0:27:35.895 --> 0:27:42.415 the section to the boundary. It was decidedly odd anyway. 0:27:42.495 --> 0:27:46.175 In the end, as it happens in this particular situation, 0:27:46.375 --> 0:27:50.335 someone else was interested in the property and purchased it 0:27:50.455 --> 0:27:54.815 at the asking price, basically without all of that. Plava. Oh, 0:27:54.815 --> 0:27:56.975 eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you'd like to add 0:27:57.015 --> 0:27:58.735 to that, I'd love to hear from you. Eight hundred 0:27:58.815 --> 0:28:01.695 eighty ten eighty is the number to call, and then 0:28:01.935 --> 0:28:05.055 our first caller, Hazer, was talking about some water damage 0:28:05.095 --> 0:28:07.415 as a result of I think it might have been 0:28:07.415 --> 0:28:09.295 a burst pipe, and then the second one might have 0:28:09.375 --> 0:28:13.335 been a hot order cylinder. And of course someone has 0:28:13.375 --> 0:28:18.615 pointed out with insurance policies, some insurance policies, because they 0:28:18.615 --> 0:28:21.735 do very gradual damage, may have a policy limit of 0:28:21.855 --> 0:28:25.935 just two thousand dollars. In some cases gradual damage has 0:28:26.335 --> 0:28:30.415 basically no cover whatsoever. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty 0:28:30.575 --> 0:28:32.135 is the number to call if you've got a building 0:28:32.135 --> 0:28:35.095 project that's underway that you'd like some help with, or 0:28:35.535 --> 0:28:38.055 you're looking to the future and thinking, actually, is now 0:28:39.095 --> 0:28:41.095 this is the discussion a number of people are having. 0:28:41.575 --> 0:28:45.735 Is now the time if you've held off doing a project, 0:28:45.775 --> 0:28:49.415 either a new build or renovation or significant alterations to 0:28:49.455 --> 0:28:54.015 the property, and you've held off, prices were very high, 0:28:54.175 --> 0:28:57.215 Materials were hard to get, material prices seem to be 0:28:57.295 --> 0:28:59.935 going up. No one was prepared to offer any fixed 0:28:59.975 --> 0:29:01.015 price contracts, etc. 0:29:01.255 --> 0:29:01.415 Etc. 0:29:01.975 --> 0:29:04.735 Trades people were really really busy a couple of years ago. 0:29:05.055 --> 0:29:08.055 Now all of that that landscape has shifted a little bit. 0:29:08.855 --> 0:29:12.175 Trades people often are not as busy as they have been. 0:29:12.975 --> 0:29:16.695 Prices while they haven't really gone down, the rate of 0:29:16.775 --> 0:29:20.535 increase is not going up. It's certainly more competitive, and 0:29:20.895 --> 0:29:24.615 either contractors or suppliers are more competitive with their pricing. 0:29:24.655 --> 0:29:29.015 At the moment, intrast rates have stopped their increase and 0:29:29.135 --> 0:29:31.735 are starting to decline, So there's a little bit of surety. 0:29:32.175 --> 0:29:36.215 Is now the time to press go before things inevitably 0:29:36.295 --> 0:29:38.575 take off? So I'm interested in your opinion on that 0:29:38.655 --> 0:29:40.735 as well. The lines are open. The number to call 0:29:41.055 --> 0:29:43.495 call us now. We've got plenty of spare lines right now, 0:29:43.535 --> 0:29:47.095 so now's a perfect time. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty 0:29:47.255 --> 0:29:49.815 is that number to call? Quack text before the break? 0:29:49.815 --> 0:29:52.295 Good morning Peak. Do you have any tips for removing 0:29:52.415 --> 0:29:58.055 stains from firewood and sawdust from concrete? So I presume 0:29:58.095 --> 0:30:00.695 that it's either a gum or a resin or something 0:30:00.735 --> 0:30:03.535 like that, or maybe you've had some hardwood. Typically, if 0:30:03.535 --> 0:30:07.735 you've got staining, it's out of Yeah, Kuiler is the 0:30:07.775 --> 0:30:10.255 classic one where you leave that out and it drops 0:30:10.255 --> 0:30:13.295 onto there. Almost impossible to get the quila stains out 0:30:13.295 --> 0:30:19.615 in my experience. But if it's others, then would you 0:30:19.735 --> 0:30:24.415 use Basically hydrochloric acid, which has spirit assaults. Is probably 0:30:24.495 --> 0:30:29.735 quite a good idea for cleaning concrete down, So try that. 0:30:30.015 --> 0:30:33.695 Agitate and then rinse off might help you out there. 0:30:34.095 --> 0:30:36.775 But yeah, stains on the concrete can be difficult to 0:30:36.775 --> 0:30:39.415 get out. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number 0:30:39.455 --> 0:30:42.415 to call. It is coming up seventeen minutes away from seven. 0:30:42.695 --> 0:30:46.335 Join us now lines are free, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. 0:30:46.415 --> 0:30:49.175 Just thinking back over the year twenty twenty four which 0:30:49.175 --> 0:30:53.095 has been you know, it's memorable in the sense for 0:30:53.295 --> 0:30:57.055 people involved in construction, just probably because of how challenging 0:30:57.175 --> 0:31:00.375 it has been. I mentioned at the beginning of the show. 0:31:00.495 --> 0:31:03.455 I saw some figures the other day about eleven thousand 0:31:03.535 --> 0:31:07.015 jobs in the construction sector have been lost or the 0:31:07.175 --> 0:31:10.575 numbers employed are down by about eleven thousand. That's a 0:31:10.655 --> 0:31:13.975 not insignificant amount out of an industry that employs. I 0:31:14.015 --> 0:31:17.015 think it's around two hundred and thirty thousand people roughly 0:31:17.415 --> 0:31:20.255 are involved in the construction sector. So it's a tough time. 0:31:20.335 --> 0:31:24.455 It's a tough time for apprentices, particularly in terms of construction. 0:31:24.535 --> 0:31:28.015 They're often the first ones who are let go, and 0:31:28.055 --> 0:31:31.895 then whether or not they try and stay in construction 0:31:32.055 --> 0:31:34.935 or do they come back. Typically they don't. I can 0:31:35.015 --> 0:31:37.575 recall back in what was two thousand and seven, you know, 0:31:37.615 --> 0:31:42.135 when there was a fairly significant downturn as well, almost 0:31:42.135 --> 0:31:45.815 a third of construction apprentices were let go. And then 0:31:45.855 --> 0:31:49.375 of course we go back into an upswing in the sector, 0:31:49.455 --> 0:31:52.375 and we're desperate for labor, and we're desperate for skilled people, 0:31:52.695 --> 0:31:56.775 and those people have gone. And then a little about 0:31:56.775 --> 0:32:01.135 a year ago, we had a great conversation with John 0:32:01.175 --> 0:32:06.055 Tukey from aut who's a fantastic commentator on all things 0:32:06.055 --> 0:32:08.415 can struction, but also sort of a big picture view 0:32:08.415 --> 0:32:10.415 of the industry, and I was saying to him, is 0:32:10.455 --> 0:32:12.735 there a way in which we can sort of even 0:32:12.775 --> 0:32:15.535 out these highs and lows in the sector that we 0:32:16.055 --> 0:32:19.335 tend to either be chasing our tail looking for labor, 0:32:19.375 --> 0:32:21.935 looking for materials when we're in a boom, or we're 0:32:21.935 --> 0:32:24.055 at the bottom of the trough and it's desperate and 0:32:24.095 --> 0:32:25.735 we lose a whole bunch of people and a whole 0:32:25.735 --> 0:32:29.815 lot of skills. And his simple answer is no, it's 0:32:29.855 --> 0:32:32.255 just that, I suppose it's the nature of capitalism, it's 0:32:32.255 --> 0:32:35.015 the nature of the economy, it's the nature of sort 0:32:35.015 --> 0:32:39.135 of these cyclical movements, and the industry kind of needs it, 0:32:40.375 --> 0:32:43.055 and so there's not really a way of getting of 0:32:43.375 --> 0:32:45.815 easing that out, which was I was kind of hoping 0:32:45.855 --> 0:32:49.495 that he'd have some sort of perfect answer to get 0:32:49.495 --> 0:32:54.735 that sorted, but no. A couple of texts on exactly that, 0:32:54.815 --> 0:32:57.095 you know, looking back over the year, because ultimately, if 0:32:57.135 --> 0:33:00.215 you're typically if you're involved in construction, you end up 0:33:00.215 --> 0:33:03.775 becoming a business owner, right. Plenty of small traders, lots 0:33:03.775 --> 0:33:07.335 of soul traders, lots of limited liability companies, plenty of 0:33:07.375 --> 0:33:10.095 liquidations and receiverships, and of course there's been if you 0:33:10.095 --> 0:33:12.535 look back over the year a couple of really high 0:33:12.575 --> 0:33:19.215 profile companies as well that have had receivers appointed to 0:33:19.255 --> 0:33:22.735 try and sort out. And I mean it would be 0:33:23.495 --> 0:33:26.735 would I be overstating it and saying that almost every week, 0:33:27.375 --> 0:33:29.295 certainly every two weeks, there'd be a story in the 0:33:29.295 --> 0:33:33.695 paper about a developer going under or people that have 0:33:33.775 --> 0:33:36.455 paid deposits. I saw that story a couple of weeks ago, 0:33:36.775 --> 0:33:40.655 people who had paid deposits to a developer for home 0:33:41.055 --> 0:33:46.055 basically land and house packages, only to discover that the 0:33:46.095 --> 0:33:49.575 developer to whom they'd paid the deposits didn't even own 0:33:49.615 --> 0:33:53.375 the land. The actual buildings were a long way off, 0:33:53.495 --> 0:33:55.535 and the money didn't go into a trust account, so 0:33:55.575 --> 0:33:59.175 their deposits are gone. It's not uncommon either. Right now 0:34:00.215 --> 0:34:02.735 it has been fairly challenging. Maybe you'd like to add 0:34:02.775 --> 0:34:05.935 your comments to that. Virtually all businesses are downpeak, most 0:34:05.935 --> 0:34:08.535 between ten and thirty percent, some far worse. The whole 0:34:08.575 --> 0:34:10.575 economy has been up and down the last forty years, 0:34:10.575 --> 0:34:12.975 but slowly going down. We're not finished, and we need 0:34:13.015 --> 0:34:16.375 to make massive changes to our whole economic and social structure. 0:34:16.415 --> 0:34:19.095 And I'm hopeful that it and I'm not hopeful of 0:34:19.135 --> 0:34:22.455 them being implemented. That's from Bob, so that's a broader summary. 0:34:22.815 --> 0:34:26.015 A quick one. On the staining of the concrete. Someone 0:34:26.055 --> 0:34:31.015 has suggested using baking soda and water. Good idea. Someone 0:34:31.095 --> 0:34:33.215 else suggesting you should never use acid. I mean we 0:34:33.295 --> 0:34:36.615 use acid often to if you're doing literally, and acid 0:34:36.815 --> 0:34:40.415 wash if you want that exposed aggregate, so it works 0:34:40.455 --> 0:34:44.255 to clean away the cement. But baking soda and water 0:34:44.335 --> 0:34:48.615 is a good option. Someone here we go. I want 0:34:48.655 --> 0:34:51.855 to stain the deck. It was previously stained Kofi, which 0:34:51.895 --> 0:34:54.575 is like a warm yellow color, and I want to 0:34:54.655 --> 0:34:57.175 change it to gray after water blasting. Is there any 0:34:57.175 --> 0:35:00.015 other prep before I use the new color. What I 0:35:00.175 --> 0:35:04.655 would suggest that I'm always really reluctant around water blasting decks. 0:35:04.695 --> 0:35:07.615 You've got to know, we've got to do it gently. Basically, 0:35:07.615 --> 0:35:10.335 it should be regarded as a powerwash, not a water blast. 0:35:10.415 --> 0:35:13.495 So you want to use a proprietary product like a 0:35:13.535 --> 0:35:18.935 deck wash to attack all of the mold and mildew 0:35:18.975 --> 0:35:22.255 that's settled on the deck. That will also help open 0:35:22.295 --> 0:35:24.895 up the fibers. But then when you're water blasting or 0:35:24.935 --> 0:35:28.215 power washing, don't go too close to the timber. You 0:35:28.255 --> 0:35:32.895 will literally rip up the fibers and damage the decking itself. 0:35:33.255 --> 0:35:37.375 So if you've cleaned it thoroughly, agitated its apply a cleaner, 0:35:37.495 --> 0:35:40.535 agitate with a stiff broom. Rinse that off by all 0:35:40.535 --> 0:35:43.895 means with a water blaster, but don't go too close. Then, 0:35:43.975 --> 0:35:46.055 if you've got an existing color and you want to 0:35:46.135 --> 0:35:48.535 change it to a different one, I would just check 0:35:48.615 --> 0:35:51.015 in terms of compatibility that you don't end up with 0:35:51.175 --> 0:35:54.775 kind of splotchiness where you've got slightly more of the 0:35:54.855 --> 0:35:58.335 original stain remains on the timber and then you've applied 0:35:58.335 --> 0:36:00.855 a new stain over the top, but in other parts 0:36:00.895 --> 0:36:04.495 where you've got less of that original stain on the timber, 0:36:04.975 --> 0:36:07.535 it will it could give your different appearance. So once 0:36:07.535 --> 0:36:10.935 you've done your prep, maybe have a look at just 0:36:11.055 --> 0:36:13.975 doing a test in one small area just to make 0:36:14.015 --> 0:36:16.935 sure you don't get an incompatibility between the two. If 0:36:16.975 --> 0:36:20.095 that's okay, then go right ahead. So allow the timber 0:36:20.135 --> 0:36:22.775 to dry a reasonable amount, doesn't have to be bone dry, 0:36:22.895 --> 0:36:26.375 and then go ahead and do the new coat over 0:36:26.375 --> 0:36:29.415 the top and from yellow to gray. I could kind 0:36:29.415 --> 0:36:31.175 of see why you want to do it. Oh, eight 0:36:31.255 --> 0:36:33.335 hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. We 0:36:33.415 --> 0:36:36.015 got lines are plenty for you. We always get busy 0:36:36.095 --> 0:36:37.495 later in the show, so now it's a good time 0:36:37.535 --> 0:36:39.855 to call if you've got a project. All some thoughts 0:36:39.895 --> 0:36:42.695 on twenty twenty four in terms of the construction sector, 0:36:42.975 --> 0:36:47.135 give us a call. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Actually, 0:36:47.175 --> 0:36:48.895 what I was thinking about, sort of looking back over 0:36:48.895 --> 0:36:51.375 the year. One of the unexpected things something that if 0:36:51.415 --> 0:36:53.375 you talk to me at the beginning of twenty twenty four, 0:36:53.655 --> 0:36:57.495 would I have been involved with, or discussed or been 0:36:57.775 --> 0:37:00.455 in a sense so consumed by I've got to say, 0:37:00.495 --> 0:37:03.095 has been the l boxes. That's been my real surprise 0:37:03.175 --> 0:37:06.975 for twenty twenty four. So I think quite early in 0:37:07.015 --> 0:37:10.015 the year I talked to rud about sort of the 0:37:10.455 --> 0:37:14.055 I suppose, the re emergence of owls around the country. 0:37:14.055 --> 0:37:16.655 I didn't realized that there were as many varieties or 0:37:16.695 --> 0:37:19.455 species of owl, and that they lived in such an 0:37:19.455 --> 0:37:22.815 extensive part of the country. And Sot being Root sent 0:37:22.855 --> 0:37:27.455 me a couple of plans for owl boxes, which during 0:37:27.455 --> 0:37:29.015 the middle of winter, when I happened to have sort 0:37:29.015 --> 0:37:31.535 of half a day spare, I went out into the workshop, 0:37:31.935 --> 0:37:34.415 used up all my off cut bits of plywood and 0:37:34.415 --> 0:37:37.575 all the rest of it, and made one based on 0:37:37.575 --> 0:37:40.855 one plan, then another based on another plan. It seems 0:37:40.895 --> 0:37:44.175 that there are different plans for these things. Then I 0:37:44.255 --> 0:37:47.295 realized that the two plans I had were really for 0:37:47.415 --> 0:37:49.695 small owls, and that the one that I had intended 0:37:49.735 --> 0:37:52.415 to build was for a barn owl, which is a 0:37:52.455 --> 0:37:55.175 slightly larger owl. So I've still got one more owl 0:37:55.215 --> 0:37:59.055 box to go. I've sent one to Waihiki Island, I've 0:37:59.055 --> 0:38:02.495 sent another one has gone off down country, and over 0:38:02.535 --> 0:38:05.415 the course of the year, I've probably sent out fifteen 0:38:05.495 --> 0:38:10.215 or twenty emails from people requesting copies of those particular plans. 0:38:11.015 --> 0:38:13.295 So yeah, I didn't expect to be building ol boxes 0:38:13.335 --> 0:38:15.015 during the year. But if one of those ends up 0:38:15.015 --> 0:38:18.415 becoming a home to an owl in their new location, 0:38:18.655 --> 0:38:21.135 I would be as happy as Larry, I've got to say. 0:38:21.815 --> 0:38:25.215 And then in my research I also discover that the 0:38:25.255 --> 0:38:29.255 good people at Wingspan have their own particular owl box design, 0:38:29.375 --> 0:38:31.095 and I'm off the under Wingspan. In a couple of 0:38:31.095 --> 0:38:33.375 weeks time, I feel that I might make my own 0:38:33.455 --> 0:38:35.655 olbox and take it down. They can give it away 0:38:35.655 --> 0:38:38.255 to someone, But you go, I've just given myself another job. 0:38:38.295 --> 0:38:39.895 If you've got a job and you need some help 0:38:39.895 --> 0:38:41.495 with it, give us a call. Oh, eight hundred and 0:38:41.535 --> 0:38:43.575 eighty ten eighty is the number to call. We'd be 0:38:43.615 --> 0:38:45.455 back straight off. Well, a very good morning, and welcome 0:38:45.455 --> 0:38:48.295 back to the show. It is. Let's have a look. 0:38:48.335 --> 0:38:51.495 Six minutes almost seven minutes after seven on a Sunday, 0:38:51.535 --> 0:38:55.175 the twenty ninth of December, the last Sunday show for 0:38:55.255 --> 0:38:57.375 me for twenty twenty four. But we'll be back, of 0:38:57.375 --> 0:39:02.335 course bright nearly. Will it be the morning of the 0:39:02.495 --> 0:39:06.615 fourth or something like that, fifth of January twenty twenty five. 0:39:06.735 --> 0:39:10.575 And I'm interesting in the news bulletin. They're talking about, 0:39:10.695 --> 0:39:13.415 you know, the year ahead economically, in terms of business 0:39:13.455 --> 0:39:15.815 and so on. It's still you know, I think at 0:39:15.855 --> 0:39:20.015 the beginning of twenty twenty four, the phrase that emerged 0:39:20.175 --> 0:39:24.335 was survived to twenty five, but increasingly people are now 0:39:24.375 --> 0:39:27.375 talking about not just surviving until twenty five, but you've 0:39:27.415 --> 0:39:30.615 got to kind of get through twenty twenty five as well. 0:39:32.055 --> 0:39:35.015 And you know, ultimately, I guess building the sort of 0:39:35.015 --> 0:39:38.135 building that we're talking about, the renovations, the alterations, the 0:39:38.215 --> 0:39:42.655 repair work and so on, it is. It's a business, right, 0:39:42.695 --> 0:39:45.575 so we're talking about business as well, and how businesses 0:39:45.695 --> 0:39:48.895 are going to survive whether there is every time you 0:39:48.975 --> 0:39:51.935 hear of green shoots, it seems like someone's following along 0:39:51.935 --> 0:39:55.455 with a bit of weed killer as well, So it's 0:39:55.495 --> 0:39:57.855 still going to be pretty grim out there. Oh, eight 0:39:57.975 --> 0:40:01.255 hundred and eighty ten eighty for your calls about all 0:40:01.335 --> 0:40:05.495 things building and construction related. I'd kind of forgotten about this. 0:40:05.615 --> 0:40:11.175 I got a call from a mate cautionary tale. Let's say, 0:40:11.575 --> 0:40:14.735 when was it. I was out doing lawns and gardening 0:40:14.775 --> 0:40:18.135 and bits and pieces, and we're up and out of 0:40:18.175 --> 0:40:20.575 town and the he rings and goes oh, have you 0:40:20.615 --> 0:40:25.655 got some ply and I'm like, why, ah had two 0:40:25.855 --> 0:40:30.575 panels of a four panel bifold window blowout. You know, 0:40:30.575 --> 0:40:35.615 we've had incredible winds, just persistent heavy or strong winds 0:40:35.655 --> 0:40:38.095 across the Auckland area, across most of the country, I know, 0:40:39.015 --> 0:40:43.295 but in this particular instance, it literally sucked out two 0:40:43.335 --> 0:40:49.055 of the four bifolds. Two point three two point two 0:40:49.055 --> 0:40:54.255 meter high doors, about seven hundred wide, single light, probably 0:40:54.335 --> 0:40:59.935 thirty forty years old, facing essentially south, so exposed to 0:40:59.975 --> 0:41:04.015 that so westerly that was coming through sucked the doors out. 0:41:04.095 --> 0:41:06.695 No one was in the property at the time, broke 0:41:06.735 --> 0:41:09.415 the glass that shattered all over the ground, broke one 0:41:09.455 --> 0:41:13.855 of the sashes completely and left a gaping hole in 0:41:13.895 --> 0:41:17.295 the property. So thankfully, I actually keep a few sheets 0:41:17.295 --> 0:41:20.855 of plywood at home underneath the house. Grab those went around, 0:41:21.575 --> 0:41:24.935 screwed them over the opening, and a little bit of 0:41:24.935 --> 0:41:28.735 a tidy up. That was I suppose a cautionary tale 0:41:28.775 --> 0:41:31.415 in terms of, you know, just being aware that we 0:41:31.495 --> 0:41:34.015 do get these strong winds and you need to have 0:41:34.095 --> 0:41:37.135 your house prepared for that as well. So if you've 0:41:37.175 --> 0:41:40.055 got you know, fasteners that maybe have started to come loose, 0:41:40.095 --> 0:41:44.335 so they don't really hold. That's the inevitable consequence. Oh, 0:41:44.375 --> 0:41:47.255 eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that number? To call 0:41:47.335 --> 0:41:49.775 STU A very good morning to you. How are you 0:41:49.775 --> 0:41:54.015 this morning? Hang on the mouse? There you go, gotcha, Happy. 0:41:53.895 --> 0:41:58.215 Christmas, peace, thank you and hopefully. 0:41:58.495 --> 0:41:59.015 Yeah. 0:41:59.415 --> 0:42:02.335 I've got a little job on in central Colo where 0:42:02.375 --> 0:42:05.775 I'm doing the angled shutters over the top of the 0:42:05.815 --> 0:42:10.855 bungalow windows where they put weatherboards across, and I'm replacing 0:42:10.855 --> 0:42:16.335 them with shingles. Yeah, twenty five mil structural ply. But 0:42:16.375 --> 0:42:22.775 I've got a timber called Seligna. It's just like the 0:42:22.775 --> 0:42:26.295 seedar ones three fifty by ninety. They're all the same 0:42:26.335 --> 0:42:31.695 size and all cut the same wed shape. Now it's 0:42:31.735 --> 0:42:35.495 six hundred wide by two two meters long, and I'm 0:42:35.495 --> 0:42:42.415 wanting to get six rows of these shingles across on 0:42:42.535 --> 0:42:45.575 each shutter so that I get If I put them normally, 0:42:46.415 --> 0:42:48.415 i'd probably only get about three rows. So I'm going 0:42:48.495 --> 0:42:53.975 to have to cut the wider portion of the Soligna 0:42:55.095 --> 0:42:58.775 single to lessen them down from the three to ninety, 0:42:58.895 --> 0:43:01.735 probably take one hundred mil off or something like that. 0:43:02.415 --> 0:43:04.815 Is that normally how you do it? Or am I 0:43:04.855 --> 0:43:05.135 doing it? 0:43:05.135 --> 0:43:09.015 The wrong way when you describe them as fixing the 0:43:09.055 --> 0:43:14.655 seed the shingles the saligna shingles to the shutter. Is 0:43:14.695 --> 0:43:18.535 the shutter movable? Is that opening closes. 0:43:18.615 --> 0:43:23.455 It's angled. It's psycho embraces at about forty five degrees 0:43:23.455 --> 0:43:26.575 above the window with side support. So the singles. So 0:43:26.695 --> 0:43:29.295 the fly goes on top of that, and I'll put 0:43:29.455 --> 0:43:32.335 a membrane just roofing, underlay something state good on and 0:43:32.375 --> 0:43:37.735 then attached the shingles to the angled It's like a 0:43:37.775 --> 0:43:38.975 dorm of protection. Yeah. 0:43:39.015 --> 0:43:41.895 So I would call them an eyebrow, right, or sort 0:43:41.895 --> 0:43:44.535 of like an eyebrow. And I say that because it's 0:43:45.095 --> 0:43:47.615 exactly the sort of detail as it happens we've got 0:43:47.655 --> 0:43:53.975 at home. So by villa over the front windows. So 0:43:54.095 --> 0:43:56.815 got three windows in the bay to forty five and 0:43:56.815 --> 0:43:59.535 one in the middle, and that one has like a 0:43:59.575 --> 0:44:01.975 little decorative awning, right, so it's got a nice bracket 0:44:03.015 --> 0:44:04.775 and then it's got some tongue and groove, and then 0:44:04.935 --> 0:44:07.695 over the top of that we're in this case cedar shingles. 0:44:07.695 --> 0:44:10.655 But someone had taken the time to rip them down 0:44:10.695 --> 0:44:13.455 to exactly they probably would have done by hand, exactly 0:44:13.535 --> 0:44:15.855 the same width and then put an arrowhead on them, 0:44:15.855 --> 0:44:19.255 so a point right. So when I replaced them, I 0:44:19.295 --> 0:44:21.935 took off the old kardi ones that have been up there, 0:44:22.095 --> 0:44:25.655 I presumed since the house was built, and got some 0:44:25.775 --> 0:44:28.935 new cedar, cut them to match, and then relaid it 0:44:28.975 --> 0:44:35.335 in the same pattern. So in terms of the cligna, 0:44:35.455 --> 0:44:38.495 you want to have a certain number of rows, but 0:44:38.695 --> 0:44:42.775 your actual shingle is longer. 0:44:45.095 --> 0:44:48.775 It's so the width that I'm going on is six 0:44:48.855 --> 0:44:55.695 hundred yes, and the shingles three three fifty ninety yes. 0:44:56.055 --> 0:44:58.055 So I'm either going to end up very very thick 0:44:58.535 --> 0:45:02.735 going up because I'm probably going to have a visible 0:45:03.735 --> 0:45:06.215 area of about one hundred on each shingle. 0:45:06.415 --> 0:45:06.855 So to be. 0:45:09.455 --> 0:45:13.015 Is that three fifty third two fifty covered by the 0:45:13.055 --> 0:45:14.295 next shingle if you know what I mean. 0:45:14.535 --> 0:45:14.895 Yeah. 0:45:15.695 --> 0:45:19.015 Typically with shingles, you try and it's a third each time. 0:45:19.295 --> 0:45:23.695 So if your cedar shingle is it covered, yeah, so 0:45:23.735 --> 0:45:26.735 you end up with effectively three laps. Is how I've 0:45:26.735 --> 0:45:30.695 always done the shingles, and I quite like doing them 0:45:31.095 --> 0:45:33.055 to be fair, so I'm always the first one puts 0:45:33.055 --> 0:45:36.495 their hand up to do seedar shingles. So it's typically 0:45:36.495 --> 0:45:39.975 a third you want to have a so if it's 0:45:40.295 --> 0:45:43.575 normally they're about three fifty long, so it's just over 0:45:43.615 --> 0:45:46.335 one hundred mil one hundred and fifteen mil rough one 0:45:46.415 --> 0:45:49.135 hundred and ten hundred and fifteen mil. And that's your cover. 0:45:49.415 --> 0:45:51.575 And then as you get to the top, you end 0:45:51.655 --> 0:45:56.855 up cutting the shingle down off the tapered edge, so 0:45:56.895 --> 0:45:58.095 the thick edge stays there. 0:45:58.895 --> 0:46:03.535 Yeah, okay, so I guess I'm being rather than giving 0:46:03.535 --> 0:46:05.775 a single shortage just to overlap it more. I mean, 0:46:05.775 --> 0:46:06.175 I've got. 0:46:06.495 --> 0:46:08.415 Can do that as well, but inevitably you'll have to 0:46:08.415 --> 0:46:10.415 cut some and then do you have a flashing at 0:46:10.455 --> 0:46:11.695 the top or. 0:46:11.855 --> 0:46:15.095 Yeah, yeas an angle flesh and it comes down, yes, 0:46:15.175 --> 0:46:17.415 over it. So I just tuck up under that and 0:46:17.415 --> 0:46:19.335 then tacked the fleshing down. 0:46:19.815 --> 0:46:23.335 And because you've got the cover, like you mentioned, using 0:46:23.375 --> 0:46:25.895 like a buttanyl underlay or something like that. Typically just 0:46:25.935 --> 0:46:27.695 building papers, fine. 0:46:27.855 --> 0:46:28.655 That's what it's using. 0:46:29.015 --> 0:46:31.135 Oh okay, laid paper, that's. 0:46:30.975 --> 0:46:32.815 Fine, black black tar paper. 0:46:32.975 --> 0:46:35.895 Staple down and then how are you going to fix it? 0:46:36.135 --> 0:46:39.375 I have to say, I've never seen seligna shingles, so 0:46:39.415 --> 0:46:40.295 that'll be interesting. 0:46:41.375 --> 0:46:44.375 Well, I actually went out to chat at Rosenfield and Kitsen. 0:46:44.455 --> 0:46:47.015 Oh yeah, I think because I didn't. I picked them 0:46:47.095 --> 0:46:48.935 up from a mill out of from Vara, out of 0:46:49.055 --> 0:46:52.575 the associated with the Lanes mill up there, and this 0:46:52.655 --> 0:46:54.895 old guy was getting rid of them and I want 0:46:56.295 --> 0:47:00.695 three square meters. They end up with thirty out but 0:47:00.775 --> 0:47:04.015 an old guy at Roosevelt and Kitsen comes out and 0:47:04.055 --> 0:47:07.135 he identified I didn't know what they were, and he said, 0:47:07.375 --> 0:47:09.415 where did you get these? You can't get them anymore, 0:47:09.415 --> 0:47:13.335 And well they're about age ninety years old, but as 0:47:13.375 --> 0:47:18.255 old as the previous owner. And I wish I could 0:47:18.295 --> 0:47:21.255 still get them because I mean cedar has gone up 0:47:21.295 --> 0:47:26.015 through the roof, yeah and this stuff. He said, they're 0:47:26.055 --> 0:47:27.935 very very stable. The only trouble is they're all the 0:47:27.975 --> 0:47:29.855 same width, so I'm going to have to cut some. 0:47:31.615 --> 0:47:32.855 I can get plaps and all that. 0:47:32.935 --> 0:47:36.095 Right, Yeah, that's right. And again you know, on my 0:47:36.215 --> 0:47:39.775 experience where I was doing that particular job, I obviously 0:47:39.775 --> 0:47:41.535 see the shingles when you buy them, you buy them 0:47:41.535 --> 0:47:44.135 in a bundle and they're random width, right, So I 0:47:44.255 --> 0:47:46.135 just had to fossis through the pile. But then I 0:47:46.215 --> 0:47:48.455 ended up sending them through the table saw because I 0:47:48.535 --> 0:47:51.295 knew I had the original ones as a template and 0:47:51.335 --> 0:47:53.775 so I could just rip them all down and then 0:47:54.695 --> 0:47:57.735 do that little point on them and so on. To 0:47:57.775 --> 0:48:01.295 be fair, it's almost my favorite job as doing shingles. 0:48:01.335 --> 0:48:04.295 I just especially the decorative stuff, you know, like curved 0:48:04.415 --> 0:48:07.615 on a bay window and on a bungalow where it's 0:48:07.655 --> 0:48:10.775 curved and then flares out at the bottom. Or I 0:48:10.855 --> 0:48:13.175 did one on a gable end that actually had a 0:48:13.295 --> 0:48:16.815 round window in the middle of it. So you came 0:48:16.895 --> 0:48:20.335 down and then had a local plumber come and just 0:48:20.575 --> 0:48:23.775 hand beat a lead flashing so that it went around 0:48:23.855 --> 0:48:26.255 the window. And he made it in two parts, so 0:48:26.295 --> 0:48:27.855 he had the bottom one and then the top one 0:48:27.895 --> 0:48:30.815 coming over it, and then scribing all of the shingles 0:48:30.855 --> 0:48:33.015 around it. It's just it's lovely work. 0:48:34.175 --> 0:48:35.295 I think they'd am. 0:48:37.015 --> 0:48:39.535 I think I'd rather keep it the square. But in 0:48:39.535 --> 0:48:42.415 these ones, I can just put them through the tables. Yeah, yeah, 0:48:42.495 --> 0:48:45.775 absolutely win half just to just to get the lapse. 0:48:45.855 --> 0:48:49.935 But it's the other I'm intrigued as well. Stew the 0:48:50.055 --> 0:48:53.975 Sligna shingles that you've got, are they original and quite old? 0:48:54.975 --> 0:48:55.135 Yeah? 0:48:55.175 --> 0:48:59.215 They're about wow, eighty years old. There's the guy out there. 0:49:00.775 --> 0:49:05.015 They've been through. There's big milling operation. And yeah, and 0:49:05.335 --> 0:49:08.095 he had just stored all the stuff, just just molded 0:49:08.175 --> 0:49:11.055 and stored it, molded and stored it. There's about ten 0:49:11.135 --> 0:49:14.695 bundles because of course he has gone horrendously. 0:49:14.775 --> 0:49:14.855 Ye. 0:49:15.895 --> 0:49:17.575 The only thing is you've got to draw them. 0:49:17.815 --> 0:49:19.175 Yeah, it's going to say. 0:49:19.175 --> 0:49:23.495 Feed is quite soft. But I've got those stainless offset 0:49:23.975 --> 0:49:26.415 nails you can get with a very head and the 0:49:27.215 --> 0:49:32.935 stiruations down machinek. Yeah nice, quite nice to play and 0:49:33.495 --> 0:49:37.095 so kick the thing up. But yeah, the previously they 0:49:37.135 --> 0:49:40.455 had old weatherboard sort of just across and nailed on, 0:49:40.535 --> 0:49:43.735 which looked a bit scruffy from the streets. Yeah, it 0:49:43.775 --> 0:49:44.615 did look quite nice. 0:49:44.615 --> 0:49:47.295 But it'll be a lovely job right there. Enjoy be 0:49:47.375 --> 0:49:47.935 safe up there. 0:49:47.975 --> 0:49:50.615 If I get too hard, I enjoyed. 0:49:54.535 --> 0:49:57.015 I'd be a bit nice to talk to all of this. 0:49:57.775 --> 0:49:59.935 Take your head in the year all this eight hundred 0:49:59.935 --> 0:50:02.575 and eighty ten eighty third number to call Hamish a 0:50:02.695 --> 0:50:05.615 very good morning, Yeah, hid Hamish. 0:50:06.535 --> 0:50:09.295 Yes, I just got a notice from council about a 0:50:09.335 --> 0:50:15.535 septic tank maintenance record. Yes, yeah, so they are out 0:50:15.575 --> 0:50:20.495 there now checking and making sure all those rural septic 0:50:20.535 --> 0:50:22.375 tank systems are all maintained. 0:50:22.375 --> 0:50:22.815 Properly. 0:50:24.975 --> 0:50:26.935 I'm sure it's come as a bit of a shock 0:50:27.255 --> 0:50:30.415 to homeowners that have had, you know, septic tank down 0:50:30.455 --> 0:50:34.175 the back of the section for thirty forty fifty years 0:50:34.295 --> 0:50:38.735 or so, and suddenly this request is coming through from councils. 0:50:39.135 --> 0:50:42.135 I'm not sure if it's every single council across the country, 0:50:42.135 --> 0:50:44.615 but certainly a lot of them are now saying, actually, 0:50:45.095 --> 0:50:47.695 you know what, we need you to prove that it works, 0:50:47.815 --> 0:50:50.455 and the only way to do that is to get 0:50:50.495 --> 0:50:54.455 an approved inspector to come through. And when I had 0:50:54.495 --> 0:50:57.175 a look on the Auckland Council website, it brings up 0:50:57.255 --> 0:51:01.415 quite a long list of contractors that they I guess 0:51:01.455 --> 0:51:05.375 have pre qualified, right, so it stops people from just 0:51:05.455 --> 0:51:09.655 writing something out themselves and sending it in. But yeah, 0:51:09.695 --> 0:51:11.575 you have to have them inspected, and you have to 0:51:11.695 --> 0:51:14.415 prove and it has to be done by an improved contractor. 0:51:15.495 --> 0:51:19.055 And is there a fee? No this I presume that 0:51:19.135 --> 0:51:22.215 submitting the detail is free. But of course the inspection 0:51:22.295 --> 0:51:23.495 is going to cost you every year. 0:51:24.455 --> 0:51:27.695 Yes, of course it costs me twice a year. Yep, 0:51:28.215 --> 0:51:30.295 he went two hundred and fifty dollars each time. 0:51:30.855 --> 0:51:31.295 Wow. 0:51:32.295 --> 0:51:35.575 Yeah, so it's not not cheap, and my system's only 0:51:35.655 --> 0:51:41.575 three years old. Yes, so I unfortunately, just the last 0:51:41.575 --> 0:51:45.095 time I missed the guy and he didn't do it 0:51:45.135 --> 0:51:47.575 because a bit of a there was some grass and 0:51:47.655 --> 0:51:51.575 weeds around it or something, right, but anyhow he didn't 0:51:51.575 --> 0:51:52.655 do it. 0:51:51.975 --> 0:51:57.615 So sudden it hasn't affected homeownersh how I mean, how 0:51:57.615 --> 0:51:59.535 do you feel about it? Do you think it's it's 0:51:59.775 --> 0:52:03.695 fair and reasonable? Do you feel that it's unnecessary? What's 0:52:03.735 --> 0:52:04.255 your thoughts? 0:52:05.495 --> 0:52:09.135 Well, I don't know, but it's just just another extra 0:52:09.215 --> 0:52:13.055 added cost and that time we don't really really need, 0:52:13.775 --> 0:52:17.015 you know. So if I put a second house on 0:52:17.055 --> 0:52:20.055 my property, that's going to be one thousand dollars a 0:52:20.095 --> 0:52:24.575 year just to inspect each tank, you know, So that's 0:52:24.615 --> 0:52:28.495 another cost. And of course my rates have gone up 0:52:28.535 --> 0:52:30.215 over over one thousand dollars. 0:52:32.135 --> 0:52:35.095 So are you on town supply water? 0:52:36.095 --> 0:52:36.295 Oh? 0:52:37.055 --> 0:52:40.735 Okay, right, yeah, no, I was thinking about I was 0:52:41.615 --> 0:52:44.135 looking at water bills the other day. I was doing 0:52:44.135 --> 0:52:46.055 some budgeting at home, and I was looking water bills 0:52:46.055 --> 0:52:48.215 and I was trying to calculate, you know, the cost 0:52:48.255 --> 0:52:51.775 of the fixed waste water charge, right, and then trying 0:52:51.775 --> 0:52:55.815 to figure out what that costs on various properties over 0:52:56.175 --> 0:52:59.855 the a year, right, And then I was thinking, gosh, 0:52:59.895 --> 0:53:02.735 if you were you know, obviously that is a contribution 0:53:02.895 --> 0:53:06.455 to maintaining the waste water system if you're connected to 0:53:07.215 --> 0:53:10.295 the council line and if you've got town supply water. 0:53:10.775 --> 0:53:12.775 But I was just thinking about a situation where you 0:53:12.855 --> 0:53:15.695 might have town supply water and a septic tank. Are 0:53:15.735 --> 0:53:18.335 you still having to pay the wastewater charge even if 0:53:18.335 --> 0:53:20.295 you don't connect to the wastewater. 0:53:21.495 --> 0:53:25.735 Well, I mean that they're making reasons to charge it 0:53:26.895 --> 0:53:31.175 because they're doing all these on site maintenance records. Yes, 0:53:31.935 --> 0:53:38.575 it's that safe septic at open opencouncil, dot gov, dot MZ. 0:53:39.095 --> 0:53:41.095 So that's where I have to send all the data 0:53:41.135 --> 0:53:46.055 to yep, yep, and if I don't comply, they're going 0:53:46.095 --> 0:53:48.375 to send out an officer to inspect. 0:53:49.495 --> 0:53:53.055 Yes. Yeah, inevitably there'll be some sort of finding system 0:53:53.095 --> 0:53:54.095 in there as well, weren't there. 0:53:54.455 --> 0:53:57.895 Yes, Yes, there's findings and charges and anything else onto that. 0:53:58.575 --> 0:54:02.215 I mean to be fair, and I'm not impacted by this, Right, 0:54:02.255 --> 0:54:04.775 I live in the city and I connected to wastewater 0:54:04.815 --> 0:54:07.655 and that sort of thing. You can kind of understand. 0:54:08.215 --> 0:54:10.335 I guess the rationale for it is that we've got 0:54:10.335 --> 0:54:13.375 these systems which they go in. How do we know 0:54:13.415 --> 0:54:16.255 that people maintain them? And most systems need some sort 0:54:16.255 --> 0:54:20.855 of maintenance over time, and when they go wrong, the 0:54:20.935 --> 0:54:24.935 impact on the environment can be considerable, right, and the 0:54:24.935 --> 0:54:27.295 impact potentially on neighbors and that sort of thing. So 0:54:27.455 --> 0:54:32.175 is that what is driving council to introduce this legislation. 0:54:33.335 --> 0:54:38.815 Oh, I've got I'm in an ecologically sensitive vary so yeah, 0:54:38.855 --> 0:54:41.095 so that's probably the main driver. 0:54:41.655 --> 0:54:46.415 Yeah, interesting, Yes, it's something else that you've they're putting 0:54:46.655 --> 0:54:49.575 their hand into your pocket and you've got to find 0:54:49.575 --> 0:54:52.775 that new budget. You're right, of course, because. 0:54:52.575 --> 0:54:53.975 I mean it's going to be when they when they 0:54:53.975 --> 0:54:56.495 put the second house on site, it's going to be 0:54:57.615 --> 0:54:59.775 all the inspections are going to be over one thousand 0:54:59.815 --> 0:55:02.855 dollars a year, and then if anything goes wrong, there's 0:55:02.895 --> 0:55:03.815 a cost on top of that. 0:55:04.575 --> 0:55:08.735 Yeah. Yeah, good luck with the project. Nice of you 0:55:08.775 --> 0:55:11.775 to call it all the best. Take care. It's actually 0:55:11.815 --> 0:55:13.495 something I must have a bit of a look into 0:55:13.575 --> 0:55:17.135 in the new year as well, because it's obviously impacting 0:55:17.215 --> 0:55:19.775 a lot of people and has come as a bit 0:55:19.775 --> 0:55:22.575 of a surprise to most eight hundred and eighty ten 0:55:22.735 --> 0:55:24.335 eighty is the number to call if you'd like to 0:55:24.375 --> 0:55:26.415 join us. That'd be lovely to have your company and 0:55:26.495 --> 0:55:30.095 your conversations. Quick text before the break, Pete. We've got 0:55:30.135 --> 0:55:34.495 some stubborn growth starting on a two year old polycarbonate roof. 0:55:35.655 --> 0:55:37.855 I'm sure the pollen and the dirt settling on it 0:55:37.975 --> 0:55:40.135 is to blame. We've washed it with soapy warm water 0:55:40.175 --> 0:55:43.375 every season as per the instruction, being told under no 0:55:43.615 --> 0:55:54.975 circumstances to use benzil conium chloride or sodium hyperchloride. Any suggestions, 0:55:57.135 --> 0:55:59.695 I would have thought you'd need more than warm soapy 0:55:59.815 --> 0:56:03.535 water on that. I can understand why the manufacturer is 0:56:04.615 --> 0:56:10.015 careful about particular chemicals, but at the same time, oh, 0:56:10.135 --> 0:56:17.175 simple green might help out there just the thought instant 0:56:17.175 --> 0:56:20.535 in any text questions text responses to that too. Oh wait, 0:56:20.535 --> 0:56:23.175 one hundred eighty actually talking about roofs. Here's another quick 0:56:23.215 --> 0:56:26.415 text as well. Fill here from the North Shore six 0:56:26.455 --> 0:56:29.455 month old new black color steel long run roof, which 0:56:29.495 --> 0:56:32.095 looks great. However, we've had a huge pollen drop this 0:56:32.175 --> 0:56:34.735 year and a lot of the surface has pollen scum 0:56:34.855 --> 0:56:37.335 or residue on it that won't wash off. Any ideas 0:56:37.375 --> 0:56:39.415 how to remove it, such as water blasting or a 0:56:39.495 --> 0:56:42.975 chemical wash or a roof wash contractor. I think you'd 0:56:42.975 --> 0:56:45.295 probably want to get someone in who could do a 0:56:45.375 --> 0:56:49.855 treatment and then a wash, and you would have to 0:56:49.855 --> 0:56:53.335 do it, you know, like not something you could do 0:56:53.335 --> 0:56:55.375 from the ground. You'd have to have a contractor up there, 0:56:55.375 --> 0:56:57.335 in which case you need someone who's got all of 0:56:57.375 --> 0:57:01.335 their working at heights and the right safety gear to 0:57:01.415 --> 0:57:05.655 do that. But yeah, I guess black roof lots of pollen. 0:57:06.055 --> 0:57:09.695 That stuff sticks, That's what it's designed to do. You're 0:57:09.695 --> 0:57:12.335 going to have to get a contractor in chemical wash 0:57:12.535 --> 0:57:14.895 or a roof wash contractor. I would suggest you're on 0:57:14.935 --> 0:57:17.255 the right track there. Back after the break, if you'd 0:57:17.255 --> 0:57:18.855 like to join us, the lines are open. The number 0:57:19.015 --> 0:57:22.215 is eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Your new stooksb If 0:57:22.215 --> 0:57:23.935 you've got a little project on you'd like to talk 0:57:23.935 --> 0:57:27.655 about eight hundred eighty ten eighty on the show. Over 0:57:27.695 --> 0:57:29.815 the last couple of years we also focus but on 0:57:29.895 --> 0:57:34.095 legislation as well. The rules and regulations in this whole 0:57:34.255 --> 0:57:37.735 safe septic thing is kind of new again. It's not 0:57:37.815 --> 0:57:41.335 something I have first hand experience of. We're in a suburb, 0:57:42.455 --> 0:57:44.815 you know I'm connected to the waste water et cetera, 0:57:44.895 --> 0:57:47.895 et cetera, but if you are on a tank and 0:57:48.775 --> 0:57:51.495 I don't know if it's every single territorial authority. I 0:57:51.495 --> 0:57:55.135 don't think it's every single council, but certainly Auckland Council 0:57:55.215 --> 0:57:59.495 now is expecting you as the homeowner to undertake an 0:57:59.535 --> 0:58:03.855 inspection or have an inspection undertaken by a pre qualified 0:58:03.935 --> 0:58:07.775 contractor and then you need to admit that information I 0:58:07.815 --> 0:58:11.295 guess to a database at council that will keep track 0:58:11.335 --> 0:58:13.055 of it. How do you feel about that? Oh, eight 0:58:13.175 --> 0:58:15.655 hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to call Rose 0:58:15.775 --> 0:58:17.055 A very good morning to you. 0:58:18.255 --> 0:58:23.175 Oh hi, Hi, Merry Christmas to you. 0:58:24.335 --> 0:58:27.535 Yes, I've actually met you at a seminar some time ago. 0:58:27.655 --> 0:58:35.095 It was a lovely, lovely moment. But fortunately, yeah, unfortunately, 0:58:35.135 --> 0:58:38.455 we've had a terrible episode happen and I thought you should. 0:58:40.735 --> 0:58:42.655 Listen to Yeah, sure what. 0:58:42.615 --> 0:58:44.575 We have to say for what the police have said, 0:58:45.375 --> 0:58:47.935 we had a burglary. We've been away, had a lovely 0:58:48.015 --> 0:58:52.095 time with assembly at North and I've still upset really 0:58:52.775 --> 0:58:56.455 and we come home and one hundred a bock trip 0:58:56.495 --> 0:59:00.415 city in the night and our home had been ransacked 0:59:01.495 --> 0:59:06.775 good and anyway, we've had the forensics out yesterday. We're 0:59:06.815 --> 0:59:09.335 really surprised they actually came out a day after we've 0:59:09.415 --> 0:59:12.895 reported it, so that was fantastic. Now my other half 0:59:12.935 --> 0:59:14.575 has lost a lot of tools they got under the 0:59:14.655 --> 0:59:19.495 tool shed. This is a second visit, so we've been 0:59:19.535 --> 0:59:23.095 to cash converters whatever. We wonder where all this stuff 0:59:23.175 --> 0:59:26.255 is going to. Somebody's buying it. But they did say 0:59:26.455 --> 0:59:29.695 if you could photograph it, get the serial numbers. You 0:59:29.735 --> 0:59:31.815 always said you're going to do this and you never 0:59:31.855 --> 0:59:36.615 get around to it. So he lost all his tools. Yeah, 0:59:36.615 --> 0:59:38.695 so that's the first part of the story, and the 0:59:38.735 --> 0:59:41.335 second part is it's the second time they've been and 0:59:41.815 --> 0:59:44.695 with the Book of Koe it was a really safe 0:59:44.695 --> 0:59:47.535 area at the time. We've been here five years. We're 0:59:47.575 --> 0:59:51.735 down a lane and it's unbelievable the guts of these people. 0:59:52.975 --> 0:59:56.775 There's four to five houses using this same lane, and 0:59:59.215 --> 1:00:03.855 we heard from some neighbors at the back who came 1:00:03.935 --> 1:00:06.575 home and this car was pulling down the lane as 1:00:06.615 --> 1:00:09.535 they were coming in. So we almost got these people. 1:00:10.295 --> 1:00:12.935 So they told them to move up to the other 1:00:12.975 --> 1:00:15.255 neighbors driveway so they could get and they were a 1:00:15.295 --> 1:00:17.415 young couple. So I don't know if I should have 1:00:17.495 --> 1:00:22.495 a description, because no, yeah, just. 1:00:22.695 --> 1:00:26.375 I mean, look, it must be you know, emotionally it's terrible, 1:00:26.455 --> 1:00:29.295 and then you know, dollar wise it's terrible as well. 1:00:29.615 --> 1:00:34.775 And I've had I've had some tools stolen, like out 1:00:34.775 --> 1:00:37.015 of a vehicle or from a work site. And I 1:00:37.055 --> 1:00:41.455 remember working when I first started and we our building 1:00:41.495 --> 1:00:44.695 site got broken into over the course of a weekend, 1:00:44.855 --> 1:00:47.295 and you know, they took a fair number of tools 1:00:47.335 --> 1:00:49.895 out of the site shed and so on. And I 1:00:49.935 --> 1:00:51.895 remember talking with Tom at the time and he said, 1:00:51.895 --> 1:00:54.935 you know, it's like a box of tools that I've 1:00:54.975 --> 1:00:58.015 had for years, and there's all sorts of different drill 1:00:58.055 --> 1:01:02.255 bits and you keep finding for months later, Oh I'm 1:01:02.295 --> 1:01:05.335 missing that. I'm missing that. And I have to say, 1:01:05.415 --> 1:01:08.655 I I can't express in language that I can use 1:01:08.695 --> 1:01:13.415 on the radio how enormously upset I get about. You know, 1:01:13.455 --> 1:01:17.095 the reason that people steal tools is because people buy them, right, 1:01:17.335 --> 1:01:22.735 so you know, they become currency. So you know, I'm 1:01:22.815 --> 1:01:27.095 equally annoyed at people that steal them and then people 1:01:27.135 --> 1:01:31.735 that buy them. So you know, if you're thinking, oh, great, 1:01:31.815 --> 1:01:34.055 I can get a Pazlo gun, for turner bucks from 1:01:34.055 --> 1:01:37.735 a mate around the corner. It's you know that it's 1:01:37.775 --> 1:01:42.735 been stolen, right, so don't bloody buy it. It's just 1:01:42.895 --> 1:01:43.975 enormously frustrating. 1:01:45.015 --> 1:01:48.095 I think cash Komurs worked very closely with the police. Yeah, 1:01:48.135 --> 1:01:51.295 but only the serial numbers. That could be very OK. 1:01:52.095 --> 1:01:55.975 Another little project, and hindsight's always twenty twenty, but something 1:01:56.015 --> 1:01:59.575 I've been involved in. I got introduced this couple of 1:01:59.655 --> 1:02:02.135 years ago and kind of a mate of mine actually 1:02:02.095 --> 1:02:05.295 he's in the police, asked me to come along and 1:02:05.375 --> 1:02:08.095 help out with us and what it is and community 1:02:08.135 --> 1:02:12.215 police are still doing. This is what you do is 1:02:12.335 --> 1:02:16.295 you engrave your driver's license on your power tools, right, 1:02:17.295 --> 1:02:20.655 And sometimes what police do is they'll actually be I've 1:02:20.695 --> 1:02:23.375 been at trade breakfasts and that sort of thing at 1:02:23.375 --> 1:02:26.655 different stands, and they'll be there with an engraving tool, 1:02:26.855 --> 1:02:29.615 and while you're grabbing a sausage and having a wand around, 1:02:29.935 --> 1:02:34.175 they'll just give them your driver's license and your tools, 1:02:34.295 --> 1:02:36.295 or they'll come out to the vehicle and they'll engrave 1:02:36.335 --> 1:02:39.215 your tools with the driver's license. Because for years and 1:02:39.255 --> 1:02:42.375 years and years, I might write p W on my tools, 1:02:42.495 --> 1:02:45.375 or I might paint my tools green or whatever. That 1:02:45.535 --> 1:02:48.135 makes no difference to the police, right, I mean, they 1:02:48.175 --> 1:02:50.655 don't know who PW is. They don't care that my 1:02:50.775 --> 1:02:55.335 favorite color might be green. Right, So we identify our 1:02:55.375 --> 1:02:58.935 tools that way, but it doesn't help with recovery. If, however, 1:02:59.815 --> 1:03:03.815 you engrave your driver's license on your tools, then even 1:03:03.815 --> 1:03:06.135 if you've ended up selling them, it gives them somewhere 1:03:06.175 --> 1:03:09.775 to go. And police will often in doing drug busts 1:03:09.815 --> 1:03:14.135 and that sort of thing, they'll find collections, large collections 1:03:14.175 --> 1:03:17.775 of stolen tools, and ideally they want to get them back. 1:03:17.815 --> 1:03:20.455 So I would say, if you've got your tools and 1:03:20.495 --> 1:03:23.975 you haven't done that, go out get a little engraver 1:03:24.375 --> 1:03:28.535 or get someone to do it. Engrave your driver's license 1:03:28.615 --> 1:03:29.375 on your tools. 1:03:30.575 --> 1:03:34.415 That's a really good idea. But for me, I've had 1:03:34.455 --> 1:03:41.855 personal items taken. It's heartbreaking, a beautiful item. It's horses 1:03:42.255 --> 1:03:46.215 like a chariot. It's about two feet long and about 1:03:47.015 --> 1:03:52.135 black and it's silvery and the chariot man is behind 1:03:52.175 --> 1:03:57.095 with the big ropes of the horses. Heartbroken about it 1:03:57.095 --> 1:04:00.775 because I've loved that piece. So that if anyone find 1:04:00.855 --> 1:04:03.495 something similar to that, just. 1:04:03.415 --> 1:04:06.055 In terms of the burglary, the sort of practical side 1:04:06.055 --> 1:04:08.295 of it, like, do you think that your property was 1:04:08.335 --> 1:04:11.295 particularly easy to access or did they have to break 1:04:11.335 --> 1:04:12.535 something in order to get in? 1:04:14.215 --> 1:04:16.775 What happened the first time? You'll be amazed at this. 1:04:17.495 --> 1:04:20.415 We've got great the gates. The previous owner never used 1:04:20.455 --> 1:04:23.135 to lock them, and I did my partner, we have 1:04:23.255 --> 1:04:26.615 to lock them. So we got a gay expert guy 1:04:26.775 --> 1:04:30.735 in and thought we were safe as lock all the windows, 1:04:30.735 --> 1:04:33.935 who locked the doors? Everything right? We come home the 1:04:33.975 --> 1:04:38.895 first is the first time. Three weeks ago we thought, oh, 1:04:39.135 --> 1:04:42.695 I said to John, well, I got notified by one 1:04:42.735 --> 1:04:46.255 of our neighbors. They're very, very good. And she says, oh. 1:04:46.375 --> 1:04:48.895 She says, one of your gates was open because they 1:04:48.975 --> 1:04:52.215 knew we were all away. And she said there was 1:04:52.255 --> 1:04:58.455 a like a blue maybe blue sort of gray. She 1:04:58.575 --> 1:05:04.735 thought it was a creative wish, and she didn't She 1:05:04.815 --> 1:05:08.055 didn't know what to sort of say to me because 1:05:08.055 --> 1:05:11.975 she felt guilty that she hadn't rung me earlier because 1:05:12.255 --> 1:05:14.295 it was I said, no, that car should not have 1:05:14.335 --> 1:05:17.175 been in our driveway. And the thing was, she said, oh, 1:05:17.215 --> 1:05:20.095 it's about six o'clock, so she thought you might have 1:05:20.135 --> 1:05:23.895 a visitor. Right. She knew my partner wasn't a home anyway. 1:05:24.335 --> 1:05:27.055 Another hour later, I get another call and it's our 1:05:27.095 --> 1:05:30.095 neighbors at the back her have been having a garage 1:05:30.135 --> 1:05:34.895 sell and coincidentally on seven sharp they had this item 1:05:34.975 --> 1:05:37.615 on garage shells. The very aware people are coming in 1:05:37.855 --> 1:05:42.135 just to hunt you placed out or whatever. We're just 1:05:42.175 --> 1:05:44.455 wondering if it's a link for that. But you know 1:05:44.495 --> 1:05:48.295 how they got in. They actually grilled what was it, 1:05:49.855 --> 1:05:54.815 grind ground the part of the operating gate, and there 1:05:56.135 --> 1:05:58.255 they were able to open the gate and put the car. 1:05:58.295 --> 1:06:01.015 And that's when I said before about. 1:06:00.695 --> 1:06:04.695 This, that's whole noisy sort of activity, isn't it. You know, 1:06:05.295 --> 1:06:07.415 grinders I was planning with. 1:06:08.295 --> 1:06:12.295 They came back, the one that sold the house. He said, no, 1:06:12.535 --> 1:06:14.895 it was caught to past five because we came back 1:06:14.935 --> 1:06:17.535 from the real estate, so they knew exactly the time. 1:06:17.575 --> 1:06:20.775 They knew the description of that car and the couple 1:06:21.135 --> 1:06:23.415 and they looked like he said, they were really weird. 1:06:24.215 --> 1:06:26.735 And I says, what do you mean by weird? He says, 1:06:27.215 --> 1:06:30.575 she was in the car and waving around as if 1:06:30.575 --> 1:06:32.775 they're on drugs. So we thought that would. 1:06:32.615 --> 1:06:33.135 Be the end of it. 1:06:33.175 --> 1:06:36.735 They would never come back again, right because we're in Elane. 1:06:36.855 --> 1:06:39.255 They got spotted. Who would want to come back? But 1:06:39.335 --> 1:06:42.775 oh no, we say that they've been back, and we 1:06:42.855 --> 1:06:46.495 know it was then because he described as a skinny 1:06:47.135 --> 1:06:48.295 blond rose. 1:06:48.335 --> 1:06:53.135 Look, I really hope that. I mean, I can say, look, 1:06:53.175 --> 1:06:55.015 I hope you get your items back, but we also 1:06:55.215 --> 1:06:57.935 kind of know that it's a bit of a rarity. 1:06:57.975 --> 1:07:00.895 It does happen. I wish you all the very best, 1:07:00.935 --> 1:07:03.695 so I'm sure you'd be looking at you know, inevitably 1:07:03.775 --> 1:07:05.535 cameras and those sorts of things to give you a 1:07:05.535 --> 1:07:08.895 bit of a warning. And again, you know, can I, 1:07:08.935 --> 1:07:11.535 like Ovi sely before, in language that I can't use 1:07:11.535 --> 1:07:14.975 on the radio, I can't express how frustrated and angry 1:07:15.775 --> 1:07:18.935 I get at the fact that tools are stolen and 1:07:18.975 --> 1:07:24.015 then people buy stolen tools. And I love this text, Pete. 1:07:24.055 --> 1:07:25.615 I'm willing to bet that none of the people who 1:07:25.695 --> 1:07:28.215 steal those tools are using them to earn a living. 1:07:28.535 --> 1:07:32.415 I wholeheartedly agree with you. But yeah, seriously, engraving and 1:07:32.415 --> 1:07:35.695 someone else's text through. I use a soldering iron to 1:07:35.735 --> 1:07:38.295 put my phone number on my tools. It's harder to 1:07:38.335 --> 1:07:43.495 erase than engraving. Good point. Look, whatever works for you, 1:07:43.535 --> 1:07:46.895 But the driver's license idea is great. I mean, you 1:07:46.895 --> 1:07:48.855 can use your telephone number, but I guess if you 1:07:48.935 --> 1:07:52.175 change your telephone number gets a little bit tricky. Anything 1:07:52.295 --> 1:07:55.935 like that, or just your well, it's all right if 1:07:55.975 --> 1:07:57.975 you put wolf Camp on because there's only one wolf 1:07:57.975 --> 1:07:59.735 Camp family, that's easy. But if you happen to put 1:07:59.775 --> 1:08:02.935 Smith on your power tools, that's not terribly helpful either. Oh, 1:08:02.935 --> 1:08:05.295 eight one hundred eighty ten eighty. We're talking building, we're 1:08:05.335 --> 1:08:08.695 also talking in it a little bit as well. I 1:08:08.695 --> 1:08:11.775 do feel sorry for you, Ruth Rose. I really hope 1:08:11.775 --> 1:08:16.655 that there are some resolution to that. Mark very good morning. 1:08:16.735 --> 1:08:20.455 It's good morning, and compliments this season you are, Yeah, 1:08:20.495 --> 1:08:23.375 just about their regulations around sewage. I'm in a rural 1:08:23.375 --> 1:08:28.495 propertyh Yeah, it's actually quite frustrating having received these notices 1:08:28.535 --> 1:08:33.415 considering my existing system. I check have a check yearly maintenance, 1:08:33.455 --> 1:08:36.935 but you do anyway. Yeah. But the thing that really 1:08:36.975 --> 1:08:41.055 has ground my key is is that we did an 1:08:41.095 --> 1:08:46.015 internal alteration to our house, and then the building consent said, oh, 1:08:46.015 --> 1:08:49.415 look you've made an extra room. Your systems a long 1:08:49.455 --> 1:08:52.575 and big enough for the possible capacity of your house. Yes, 1:08:52.855 --> 1:08:55.295 I could turn a lounge into a bedroom. And that's 1:08:55.335 --> 1:08:58.135 your argument. But anyhow, you're going to have to increase 1:08:58.135 --> 1:09:02.375 the capacity of your system, right, twenty thousand dollars to 1:09:02.495 --> 1:09:05.335 pull out an existing good system, you know, it was working, 1:09:05.615 --> 1:09:08.815 no problems it and put a bigger one in. Then 1:09:08.855 --> 1:09:11.855 to receive a notice that or you're going to go 1:09:11.895 --> 1:09:15.895 to six monthly checks and I'm going, well, that's ridiculous. 1:09:16.575 --> 1:09:20.135 It's a new system. Why six monthly when I've already 1:09:20.175 --> 1:09:22.335 you know, we've been operating on a yearly checking system 1:09:22.815 --> 1:09:27.215 and no one's complained and works. It's got an alarm 1:09:27.295 --> 1:09:29.255 system on it should should you have a phone? 1:09:29.775 --> 1:09:30.095 Yes? 1:09:30.375 --> 1:09:34.815 And so Yeah. But the gauling thing is that had 1:09:35.135 --> 1:09:38.095 the building content people knowing that this group of council 1:09:38.375 --> 1:09:40.135 we're going to bring in a six monthly check, I 1:09:40.135 --> 1:09:43.415 wouldn't needed to replace the existing system, wouldn't do you think? Logically? 1:09:43.415 --> 1:09:46.255 You'd think because if it was going to fail, you 1:09:46.295 --> 1:09:48.415 would know and it would. 1:09:48.175 --> 1:09:51.295 Cope for six months, surely, you know. And the other 1:09:51.335 --> 1:09:53.495 point being, if I'm not happy of the system you're 1:09:53.495 --> 1:09:55.375 putting in, why do they let you put them in? 1:09:56.375 --> 1:09:58.735 But they want you to make them check every six months? 1:09:59.135 --> 1:10:00.335 It's illogical. 1:10:01.935 --> 1:10:06.135 I don't know, if it's illogical, you would have thought 1:10:06.135 --> 1:10:09.415 though with newer systems, right, which we expect to perform 1:10:09.495 --> 1:10:12.055 well and they're designed to for a period of time. 1:10:12.095 --> 1:10:13.775 It be a little bit like War on a fitness 1:10:13.975 --> 1:10:15.375 you know, if you say, hey, look, I had a 1:10:15.415 --> 1:10:17.895 system that was installed in twenty twenty three, for example, 1:10:18.335 --> 1:10:21.015 you could reasonably expect, let's say, for the first ten 1:10:21.095 --> 1:10:23.895 years of its life, that it would perform as per 1:10:23.895 --> 1:10:28.895 the manufacturer's expectation, and that maybe a check once a year, 1:10:29.295 --> 1:10:31.975 and that after five years or ten years, then you 1:10:32.055 --> 1:10:34.095 need to swap six months. A little bit like War 1:10:34.135 --> 1:10:36.975 on Fitness, Right, if you've got a relatively new car, 1:10:37.135 --> 1:10:39.215 you need a warrant every year, and that would relieve 1:10:39.295 --> 1:10:44.055 some of the burden. Yeah, and of course you need 1:10:44.095 --> 1:10:46.255 to use a contractor that's pre qualified too. 1:10:46.895 --> 1:10:47.055 Well. 1:10:47.055 --> 1:10:52.095 It's an interesting company. Who was my previous that came 1:10:52.135 --> 1:10:53.855 in when we bought the place. You know, we just 1:10:53.895 --> 1:10:55.695 got to leader say hey, we're coming to check your system. 1:10:56.135 --> 1:10:57.735 They did it every year, they charge one hundred and 1:10:57.775 --> 1:11:01.295 eighty bucks, and now now they want us to do 1:11:01.335 --> 1:11:02.135 it twice a year. 1:11:02.655 --> 1:11:02.855 Yeah. 1:11:03.295 --> 1:11:06.015 Well, to be honest, I don't see any either ten 1:11:06.215 --> 1:11:08.895 or logical or scientific evidence to suggest why I should 1:11:08.895 --> 1:11:11.975 have to do it every six months. To me, you 1:11:11.975 --> 1:11:13.295 know who's going to live on a property of it 1:11:13.295 --> 1:11:17.055 starts leaving, you know, it starts splitting over the top. 1:11:17.135 --> 1:11:19.855 You know it's I have a drip system and you 1:11:19.895 --> 1:11:22.535 know that pumps the waste water up the hill and 1:11:22.735 --> 1:11:27.255 drips it across your property per se. And as I said, well, 1:11:27.055 --> 1:11:30.015 we've been complying yearly. So just to me, it's just 1:11:30.215 --> 1:11:34.575 bureaucracy poking its nose and creating more expense to you, 1:11:34.735 --> 1:11:35.495 your landowners. 1:11:35.495 --> 1:11:37.775 But that's my right. No, no, no, look, I know what 1:11:37.815 --> 1:11:40.655 you're saying. I appreciate you calling through Mark yep, all 1:11:40.735 --> 1:11:43.015 this to you. Take care. I w eight hundred eighty 1:11:43.055 --> 1:11:45.095 ten eighty is the number to call. We'll take a 1:11:45.095 --> 1:11:47.295 short break. We'll talk to Karen in just a moment. 1:11:48.015 --> 1:11:50.495 Always keen to get started again. I eight hundred eighty 1:11:50.575 --> 1:11:54.975 ten eighty the number to call. Actually, he's a good 1:11:55.055 --> 1:11:58.415 text from Pete or Peter. Congratulations on the show. Thank you. 1:11:58.495 --> 1:12:00.655 That's very kind of you to say. Let's not forget 1:12:00.695 --> 1:12:04.375 people that buy stolen tools are also criminals. Is they're 1:12:04.375 --> 1:12:06.135 a process I can follow to check if it's a 1:12:06.335 --> 1:12:14.415 secondhand tool, is not stolen, I don't know, you tell me. 1:12:15.935 --> 1:12:18.255 I mean, look, I've bought secondhand tools. I have no 1:12:18.295 --> 1:12:23.175 objection to buying them from someone who's the actual owner, 1:12:23.255 --> 1:12:25.975 and I have bought not for a few years. I 1:12:26.055 --> 1:12:30.055 bought some gear, you know, through a basically a pawn broker, 1:12:30.135 --> 1:12:35.695 second hand dealer, And there's always that lingering doubt in 1:12:35.735 --> 1:12:37.295 the back of your mind where you go, you know, 1:12:37.935 --> 1:12:40.895 is this legit? Like is the story that they're telling me? 1:12:40.975 --> 1:12:48.495 Absolutely honest. I'm sure there's a process, but I'd love 1:12:48.535 --> 1:12:51.175 to know. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is 1:12:51.215 --> 1:12:53.495 the number to call. Karen A very good morning to you. 1:12:54.815 --> 1:12:55.295 Good morning. 1:12:55.575 --> 1:12:58.735 I really enjoy your show. It's really informative, really good. 1:12:59.055 --> 1:13:01.255 Just felt some powered and I normally wouldn't ring up, 1:13:01.255 --> 1:13:04.335 but I just felt some powered this morning. To let 1:13:04.415 --> 1:13:09.215 your listeners know something that has happened to me. I 1:13:09.255 --> 1:13:12.855 am a victim of identity food and it's gone on 1:13:12.895 --> 1:13:16.015 and on and on, and what have they used my 1:13:16.135 --> 1:13:22.775 driver's license number? So I would not encourage number on 1:13:22.855 --> 1:13:27.215 their tools because this has gone on for four years now. 1:13:28.735 --> 1:13:34.375 You know, people have booked after pay HP's telecommunications and 1:13:34.415 --> 1:13:37.335 when I said, well, how did you know it was me? 1:13:37.455 --> 1:13:39.335 You know, how did your I d they have my 1:13:39.415 --> 1:13:40.615 driver's license number. 1:13:41.935 --> 1:13:45.015 Yeah, look, I can't argue with that. I understand what 1:13:45.055 --> 1:13:49.895 you're saying. I wonder if the police, I mean, you know, 1:13:49.975 --> 1:13:51.815 and and the reason I mentioned it is because I've 1:13:51.815 --> 1:13:55.135 actually been involved a couple of occasions where we've been 1:13:55.175 --> 1:13:57.935 at events, public events like you know, trade breakfast and 1:13:57.975 --> 1:14:00.495 that sort of thing, and the police have been there 1:14:00.535 --> 1:14:04.055 and it's been a police suggestion. Now possibly and I 1:14:04.095 --> 1:14:05.775 can give in contact with the guy that I used 1:14:05.775 --> 1:14:08.415 to work with on this around. You know, do they 1:14:08.455 --> 1:14:12.375 have a concern around having your driver's license there in 1:14:12.455 --> 1:14:16.975 terms of the identity theft? And perhaps there are better 1:14:17.055 --> 1:14:20.055 checks and balances now so for those. 1:14:19.935 --> 1:14:22.575 People to all to the police. 1:14:22.615 --> 1:14:25.015 And they've actually told me to go and get a 1:14:25.055 --> 1:14:28.695 new driver's license, right, because that's what that's what's been 1:14:28.895 --> 1:14:35.135 used to carry up these fraudulent transaction. Yeah, I just 1:14:35.175 --> 1:14:35.695 thought it right. 1:14:35.775 --> 1:14:38.335 Hey, Look, I really appreciate you phoning through. At first, 1:14:38.415 --> 1:14:40.055 I was trying to think what the context was, but 1:14:40.095 --> 1:14:44.735 I get what you're saying. That would be look, would 1:14:44.735 --> 1:14:46.015 be enormously distressing. 1:14:47.495 --> 1:14:50.655 Yeah, it's and it takes your treated it guilty until 1:14:50.695 --> 1:14:55.215 you can prove their inn and having a perfect credit 1:14:55.295 --> 1:15:00.495 rating going down to really dead for debts that. 1:15:00.535 --> 1:15:01.935 Have even been impaired by me. 1:15:02.055 --> 1:15:06.575 It's yeah, it's been horrific, to be honest. But when 1:15:06.615 --> 1:15:08.815 I heard about the driver's license on the tour, Yeah, 1:15:09.535 --> 1:15:10.335 anyone else. 1:15:10.135 --> 1:15:10.575 To go through? 1:15:10.775 --> 1:15:14.615 Yeah, I appreciate it. Karen, you look after yourself. Oh, 1:15:14.695 --> 1:15:16.935 thank you, take care all the best. My pleasure to 1:15:16.975 --> 1:15:20.175 bother them. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number 1:15:20.215 --> 1:15:24.655 to call. Let's actually we need to take another break. 1:15:24.695 --> 1:15:26.415 Then we'll talk to George. If you'd like to join us. 1:15:26.415 --> 1:15:29.055 The lines are open. The number is eight hundred eighty 1:15:29.095 --> 1:15:33.695 ten eighty. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number 1:15:33.695 --> 1:15:36.575 to call George. Good morning to you. How are you, George? 1:15:37.295 --> 1:15:39.015 Hang on sick? There we go, got your hot. 1:15:39.775 --> 1:15:43.775 I just want to have a chat about the sewage system. Yeah, 1:15:44.135 --> 1:15:45.415 so you're hot on it today? 1:15:46.015 --> 1:15:46.215 Yeah. 1:15:46.255 --> 1:15:53.375 We front onto a river and our sewage We built 1:15:53.375 --> 1:15:56.295 this house about forty years ago and got a big 1:15:56.335 --> 1:16:01.615 sum pole is full of the metal and that's how 1:16:01.655 --> 1:16:05.215 it works. And we get it cleaned out every two years, 1:16:05.255 --> 1:16:09.135 which we have done right from day one. But now 1:16:09.215 --> 1:16:15.215 they're saying that the surface water is getting under the 1:16:15.255 --> 1:16:20.735 lid and affecting a bacteria. Right, So my argument is, 1:16:21.535 --> 1:16:25.495 as he's saying that our system hasn't been working for 1:16:25.495 --> 1:16:30.135 forty years, is that what he's trying to say or 1:16:30.175 --> 1:16:30.855 what No. 1:16:31.695 --> 1:16:35.975 I think what this is is it's a relatively new requirement. 1:16:36.055 --> 1:16:39.535 I guess for people that like yourself, who have septic 1:16:39.655 --> 1:16:44.855 systems on site, right, you're not connected to public wastewall lines, 1:16:45.335 --> 1:16:48.135 so you've got your own tank or whatever system you 1:16:48.255 --> 1:16:51.535 happen to have. In the past, I guess, Council, it 1:16:51.615 --> 1:16:55.535 was kind of like, you know, install and forget right. 1:16:55.695 --> 1:16:59.055 It was completely up to the homeowner for your own benefit. 1:16:59.175 --> 1:17:02.655 You would look after it, right, But I guess there 1:17:02.695 --> 1:17:05.295 have been failures, and when there are failures, it has 1:17:05.335 --> 1:17:08.255 an impact either on the environment, so where you are 1:17:08.335 --> 1:17:11.335 because it's close to a river, or if you're in 1:17:11.375 --> 1:17:14.055 an area where perhaps you do have neighbors and you 1:17:14.135 --> 1:17:18.775 worry about contamination into another person's property or even contamination 1:17:18.855 --> 1:17:22.095 on your own property as a result of a faulty system. 1:17:23.095 --> 1:17:26.335 So then suddenly it's like, okay, well, we know that 1:17:26.375 --> 1:17:28.295 people should check them, but how do we know that 1:17:28.335 --> 1:17:30.455 they're checking them? This is the way to do it, 1:17:30.655 --> 1:17:32.695 So every six months now you have to check it. 1:17:33.535 --> 1:17:35.535 I guess for people that have done it and been 1:17:35.615 --> 1:17:38.535 responsible for all that time, it's an unwelcome burden. It's 1:17:38.855 --> 1:17:42.655 an extra expense because I think the inspections seem to 1:17:42.655 --> 1:17:45.015 be somewhere around the sort one hundred and seventy five 1:17:45.135 --> 1:17:48.575 to two hundred and fifty dollars, and that's every six 1:17:48.615 --> 1:17:49.655 months forever. 1:17:50.735 --> 1:17:56.695 Yeah. My other concern is, which is still about sewage, 1:17:56.775 --> 1:18:09.895 is the the councils fissuring more building to desiense for 1:18:10.855 --> 1:18:17.815 the area, but their infrastructure can't handle the sewage system yep. 1:18:17.895 --> 1:18:22.855 So they're actually about every week or so they pump 1:18:22.895 --> 1:18:30.415 it into the river and our rivers full of oyster farms. 1:18:30.655 --> 1:18:31.935 They've got it closed down. 1:18:32.215 --> 1:18:39.255 Yeah, it would be slightly unusual, wouldn't it f council 1:18:39.335 --> 1:18:41.855 as a regular way of dealing. Actually, I was reading 1:18:42.055 --> 1:18:44.935 an article. I know we've got to go for news. 1:18:45.015 --> 1:18:47.215 Let's pick this up straight after the break. We got 1:18:47.295 --> 1:18:50.575 new Sport and weather. Top of the hour at eight o'clock. 1:18:52.015 --> 1:18:55.255 Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fence, wondering how 1:18:55.255 --> 1:18:55.775 to fix that. 1:18:55.735 --> 1:18:58.335 Hole in the wall, give me a wolf cabin call on. 1:19:00.295 --> 1:19:03.415 The resident builder with light Force Solar where your solar 1:19:03.455 --> 1:19:05.375 purchase earns you airports dollars. 1:19:05.575 --> 1:19:08.855 News Talk said your news Talks, there'd be welcome along 1:19:08.895 --> 1:19:12.095 to the show. We're talking all things building in construction 1:19:12.215 --> 1:19:15.575 and I guess all things related to having your own 1:19:15.615 --> 1:19:18.415 property as well. And one of the topics that's kind 1:19:18.415 --> 1:19:21.375 of bubbled along during the course of the year has 1:19:21.375 --> 1:19:25.455 been this introduction of a requirement to have your septic 1:19:25.815 --> 1:19:30.415 system inspected and then a report submitted to council every 1:19:30.495 --> 1:19:36.535 six months, which puts reasonable burden on homeowners. George, you 1:19:36.615 --> 1:19:41.095 were talking about your system, which has worked, Okay, obviously 1:19:41.095 --> 1:19:43.975 there's a few issues. You made the comment about council. 1:19:44.415 --> 1:19:47.015 I mean this is a genuine concern, particularly in Auckland 1:19:47.095 --> 1:19:50.695 where in the last month or so Water Care have 1:19:50.895 --> 1:19:54.735 announced areas where they will essentially not be providing services 1:19:54.735 --> 1:19:58.175 in terms of wastewater for a number of years. And 1:19:58.255 --> 1:20:01.495 these some of these areas are where developers have already 1:20:01.495 --> 1:20:05.735 bought land intending to buy houses, so that's going to 1:20:05.735 --> 1:20:09.455 be a huge issue in terms of development. And then 1:20:09.575 --> 1:20:13.455 there's a couple of other areas. I was genuinely kind 1:20:13.455 --> 1:20:16.935 of shocked, really and disappointed to see this article probably 1:20:17.015 --> 1:20:20.375 two months ago where a bunch of houses and new 1:20:20.415 --> 1:20:24.775 subdivision out sort of northwest of Auckland. They hadn't been 1:20:24.815 --> 1:20:29.415 connected to the public wastewater line. All of their sewerage 1:20:29.455 --> 1:20:32.615 goes into a tank in the subdivision and then water 1:20:32.655 --> 1:20:36.335 care comes and sucks the tank out every couple of days, 1:20:36.375 --> 1:20:42.575 which to me just seems like such an ad hoc solution. Yeah, 1:20:42.615 --> 1:20:46.335 that's a shocker. And then with the heavy rain Gisbon, 1:20:47.175 --> 1:20:52.975 they ended up having to open the sewer or the 1:20:53.015 --> 1:20:56.455 settling ponds into the river because they were worried about 1:20:56.455 --> 1:20:59.135 it backing up and coming back into people's houses, which 1:20:59.135 --> 1:21:02.295 again I guess is a sensible precaution to ensuring that 1:21:02.415 --> 1:21:06.175 individual houses aren't impacted by sewage overflows. But at the 1:21:06.175 --> 1:21:09.815 same time, releasing raw sewage into the river is not 1:21:09.935 --> 1:21:14.015 great either. So you're right, we've got to huge infrastructure issues. 1:21:14.815 --> 1:21:17.775 This is what we're faced with here. But it's having 1:21:17.855 --> 1:21:23.655 an added costs to these oyster farmers. It's cost a minieh. 1:21:23.655 --> 1:21:27.535 That's right. If they can't trade because can't get back together. 1:21:27.815 --> 1:21:32.535 We got the council came down to air for sure 1:21:32.975 --> 1:21:38.215 and inspect of what was being washed up there, and 1:21:39.935 --> 1:21:42.735 they really said you must not go swimming in here. 1:21:42.735 --> 1:21:46.495 And I said, what about the dead fish? He said, well, 1:21:47.335 --> 1:21:53.295 you don't eat them, do you not. I said to her, 1:21:53.375 --> 1:21:57.255 you should have signs on all the boat ramps around 1:21:58.095 --> 1:22:01.135 to tell people this. But they don't want the public 1:22:01.175 --> 1:22:05.175 to know about it, and they and they sort of camouflage. 1:22:05.415 --> 1:22:07.335 You might say, I'll have. 1:22:07.255 --> 1:22:09.975 A look at that story, George. I do have a 1:22:09.975 --> 1:22:12.775 bit of sympathy for old Mayor Brown and Auckland, who 1:22:13.135 --> 1:22:19.415 has been pretty enthusiastic about the new pool. Essentially, it's 1:22:19.575 --> 1:22:25.055 it's just an area in Auckland's Viaduct harbor. That's they've 1:22:25.055 --> 1:22:28.095 created some lanes and you can go and do bombs 1:22:28.135 --> 1:22:30.975 or mone who's off the wharf there and go and 1:22:31.055 --> 1:22:34.815 swim in the fresh in the open water as such. 1:22:35.655 --> 1:22:39.055 And then the other day there was a notification to say, oh, look, 1:22:39.095 --> 1:22:41.415 the bacteria levels might be high, but it's on a 1:22:41.455 --> 1:22:44.215 modeling basis. He's saying, well, it's not actually a survey, 1:22:44.255 --> 1:22:47.095 it's a model that thinks that after the rain it'll 1:22:47.135 --> 1:22:50.495 have higher levels of equal matter in it not safe 1:22:50.495 --> 1:22:54.175 to swim. You can make your own judgment on that. 1:22:54.535 --> 1:22:57.215 Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. 1:22:58.775 --> 1:23:02.495 Here's an interesting text from Ian Syria System's Pete. 1:23:03.175 --> 1:23:03.255 You. 1:23:03.655 --> 1:23:08.135 Increasingly, I have found defend bureaucracy. Counsels impose endless costs 1:23:08.135 --> 1:23:10.535 on the public because five percent of the population event 1:23:10.735 --> 1:23:13.775 really rules me. I think riles you, probably, but you 1:23:13.815 --> 1:23:16.895 seem to regularly make excuses for this. It's unbelievable. Ian. 1:23:18.455 --> 1:23:21.255 I'd like to think that I'm reasonably even handed about that. 1:23:22.055 --> 1:23:25.335 I'm not a huge fan of bureaucracy, but I'm also 1:23:25.495 --> 1:23:32.535 aware that regulations require enforcement and they require record keeping, 1:23:32.615 --> 1:23:38.615 so bureaucracy is unfortunately essential in terms of running a 1:23:38.655 --> 1:23:42.735 civil society. That's why if I feel that I need 1:23:42.775 --> 1:23:47.895 to will defend it. Is it sensible to require homeowners 1:23:47.895 --> 1:23:53.455 to prove that their septic system works? I think it'd 1:23:53.455 --> 1:23:58.495 be hard to argue that it's not unreasonable. Is a 1:23:58.535 --> 1:24:03.455 six monthly inspection required, particularly on relatively new systems? Probably 1:24:03.495 --> 1:24:09.495 not your thoughts. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number 1:24:09.535 --> 1:24:12.335 to call. Jan A very good morning to you. 1:24:13.535 --> 1:24:17.095 Yes, Hello, I'm just wondering, Peter, if you can advise 1:24:17.215 --> 1:24:22.655 me about double glazing. My daughter's got a house that's 1:24:22.735 --> 1:24:27.735 twenty four years old, right, and it's just single glazed. Yep, 1:24:28.415 --> 1:24:33.855 it's brick with elemanum windows. Who do you think we 1:24:33.935 --> 1:24:36.215 could ask to come and here look at it too? 1:24:36.775 --> 1:24:42.335 Sure? Okay, let me declare an interest, right, So for 1:24:42.895 --> 1:24:46.535 Shivers it's got to be eight nine years now. I've 1:24:46.535 --> 1:24:50.055 acted as a brand ambassador for Metro Performance Glass, who 1:24:50.135 --> 1:24:55.695 have the retro DG brand of double glazing, right, yes, 1:24:55.935 --> 1:25:00.975 And so I've done that because I can see the 1:25:01.055 --> 1:25:05.215 usefulness in double glazing. I think that you know, there 1:25:05.255 --> 1:25:08.695 is so much evidence, So I know the statistics and 1:25:08.735 --> 1:25:12.255 the numbers and the dynamics of if you have a 1:25:12.255 --> 1:25:14.855 piece of single glazing, how much heat loss or heat 1:25:14.895 --> 1:25:19.495 gain you'll get versus what double glazing does in order 1:25:19.535 --> 1:25:22.815 to reduce that. So some way like christ Church and 1:25:24.335 --> 1:25:28.695 retrofitting is really important because often as we up skill 1:25:28.975 --> 1:25:33.455 or sorry not upskill, we increase the thermal efficiency of our 1:25:33.495 --> 1:25:36.215 buildings by adding insulation to the ceilings or to the 1:25:36.295 --> 1:25:39.815 underfloor or maybe even retrospectively fitting it into the walls. 1:25:40.255 --> 1:25:43.335 Then our glazing becomes the weak point, right, it's the 1:25:43.495 --> 1:25:47.375 one part of the thermal envelope of a building where 1:25:47.615 --> 1:25:51.415 heat loss will occur. Now, the beauty of a house 1:25:51.455 --> 1:25:53.935 it's about twenty four years old is that chances are 1:25:54.015 --> 1:25:56.855 when it was built it had insulation in the ceiling. 1:25:57.255 --> 1:25:59.895 If it's on a concrete slab, it may or may 1:25:59.935 --> 1:26:02.815 not be some sort of thermal break there, but it 1:26:02.855 --> 1:26:05.895 will have insulation into the walls as well. Possibly not 1:26:05.975 --> 1:26:08.015 as much is what we do today, but it will 1:26:08.015 --> 1:26:11.335 be there in which case, and it will have relatively 1:26:11.415 --> 1:26:16.695 new aluminium jewinery, I presume. Okay, So you look at 1:26:16.695 --> 1:26:19.255 that and you go where is the heat loss coming from? 1:26:19.335 --> 1:26:21.895 And you can just point to the glazing, the single 1:26:21.895 --> 1:26:25.455 glazing and go that's where your heat loss happens. Because 1:26:25.495 --> 1:26:29.935 it's relatively modern aluminum jewinery, it's not that difficult to 1:26:30.015 --> 1:26:35.975 retro fit into there. And the performance gains are great 1:26:36.055 --> 1:26:39.335 and so very basic level. If you take a piece 1:26:39.375 --> 1:26:43.935 of single glazed glass or single glazed jowinery and then 1:26:43.975 --> 1:26:48.575 you replace that with double glazing, the heat loss reduces. 1:26:50.175 --> 1:26:53.815 Double glazing is seven times more effective, right, keeping the 1:26:53.855 --> 1:26:56.935 heat in, And there's numbers and evidence to back all 1:26:56.975 --> 1:27:00.695 that up. So yeah, I've chosen to work with them 1:27:00.695 --> 1:27:02.855 and they've chosen to work with me, but for very 1:27:02.855 --> 1:27:05.775 good reason. It makes a significant difference to a house. 1:27:06.895 --> 1:27:09.335 Right, you wouldn't have a phone number for here in 1:27:09.415 --> 1:27:10.375 christ you just go. 1:27:10.855 --> 1:27:13.295 I know that we've got a team down there. So 1:27:13.415 --> 1:27:16.335 if you just go online register your interest, someone will 1:27:16.375 --> 1:27:18.615 come out and do a site measure for you. So 1:27:18.775 --> 1:27:21.975 just look up retrodg dot co dot nz and you'll 1:27:21.975 --> 1:27:27.415 find all of the information there retro dg yep dot 1:27:27.455 --> 1:27:30.615 co dot Let us know how you get on. 1:27:31.535 --> 1:27:35.455 He is very interested in the windows run water overnight, 1:27:35.655 --> 1:27:37.975 you know, and I don't think that's healthy for anyone. 1:27:38.095 --> 1:27:42.335 No, it's not. There might be some other issues around condensation, 1:27:42.495 --> 1:27:45.095 so it might also be heating and those sorts of things. 1:27:45.095 --> 1:27:46.775 But of course it's harder to heat a house if 1:27:46.775 --> 1:27:49.095 you've got single glazing and you're losing all of that 1:27:49.255 --> 1:27:51.855 energy out through the single glazing. So have a look 1:27:51.855 --> 1:27:54.375 at that. That by all means, mention my name and 1:27:54.415 --> 1:27:55.175 then go from there. 1:27:56.095 --> 1:27:58.415 That's lovely, lovely, very much for your home. 1:27:58.375 --> 1:28:01.255 My pleasure, take care all of us. Jan and John, 1:28:01.295 --> 1:28:04.615 A very good morning to you. Hello John, Why does 1:28:04.735 --> 1:28:06.455 that not want to hang on, here we go there, 1:28:06.455 --> 1:28:08.015 I got you now, John, how are you going? 1:28:08.095 --> 1:28:10.175 Okay? Good morning, Pete, Good morning. 1:28:10.215 --> 1:28:13.175 On Friday, my wife and I looked at a property, yes, 1:28:13.295 --> 1:28:16.975 which ticks a lot of the boxes that we're looking for. 1:28:17.455 --> 1:28:20.455 But the agent made a few disclosures, one of which 1:28:20.695 --> 1:28:26.015 was that a reasonably large deck was unconsented. What would 1:28:26.055 --> 1:28:29.095 we be lining ourselves up for there if we consider 1:28:29.295 --> 1:28:30.535 purchasing that property. 1:28:31.295 --> 1:28:34.015 Okay, without wanting to give sort of legal advice or 1:28:34.015 --> 1:28:37.535 anything like that, it is quite possible that the deck 1:28:37.735 --> 1:28:40.295 could be built under Schedule one of the Building Act, 1:28:40.335 --> 1:28:43.935 in which case it doesn't require a building consent. So if, 1:28:43.975 --> 1:28:47.775 for example, it's not particularly close to the boundary, or 1:28:47.775 --> 1:28:51.975 it's less than one point five meters high, typically doesn't 1:28:52.015 --> 1:28:55.295 require a building consent. However, if it's on a Crossley's 1:28:55.335 --> 1:28:59.215 property and the deck has not been added to the 1:28:59.255 --> 1:29:04.335 flats plan, that can become quite a costly process. 1:29:04.775 --> 1:29:09.535 Yes, okay, it's it's definitely over one point five meters high. 1:29:09.775 --> 1:29:11.575 Then it does require a building consent. 1:29:12.415 --> 1:29:15.975 Yes, it's extremely sturdy. Three of us were standing on 1:29:16.015 --> 1:29:18.855 it when we were looking at the property. But the 1:29:18.935 --> 1:29:23.375 agents sent through the property file and going back through 1:29:23.535 --> 1:29:28.455 all the information, it appears that the decks were deleted 1:29:28.495 --> 1:29:34.535 from the original application for a building consent, But without 1:29:34.655 --> 1:29:38.735 knowing the full story, it looks like perhaps sometimes after 1:29:39.375 --> 1:29:42.855 they received the code of Compliance certificates for building. 1:29:42.535 --> 1:29:45.175 They then added the decks later then added. 1:29:44.895 --> 1:29:45.495 The decks on. 1:29:46.055 --> 1:29:49.575 Yes, so is that a mine field that we should 1:29:49.575 --> 1:29:55.015 avoid or I mean, obviously if we consider making an offer, 1:29:55.135 --> 1:29:59.575 we could make an offer taking the unconsented deck into account. 1:30:00.175 --> 1:30:03.335 But of course, subsequently, if we look at selling, a 1:30:03.455 --> 1:30:05.735 potential purchase is going to do the same to us. 1:30:06.375 --> 1:30:09.335 You've got to where I was heading, which is, you know, yes, 1:30:09.415 --> 1:30:11.375 you could take the risk. But when you go to sell, 1:30:11.535 --> 1:30:16.695 as inevitably we all do, then a new purchaser is 1:30:16.735 --> 1:30:19.015 going to ask you the question, how come that decks 1:30:19.015 --> 1:30:20.695 there and it didn't have a bad incent when it 1:30:20.695 --> 1:30:24.455 obviously added one. What I can say is that the 1:30:25.175 --> 1:30:28.935 process of getting like retrospective building consents don't exist right, 1:30:29.015 --> 1:30:31.335 so you would need to go to council for a 1:30:31.375 --> 1:30:35.455 certificate of acceptance. The burden of proof for a certificate 1:30:35.455 --> 1:30:38.255 of acceptance is now much higher than it used to be, 1:30:38.775 --> 1:30:41.295 so typically in the past, inspector would come out to 1:30:41.295 --> 1:30:43.415 do a safe and sanitary report. They'd look at it 1:30:43.415 --> 1:30:45.015 and go, is it going to fall down? No, it's not. 1:30:45.135 --> 1:30:48.055 Here's you're safe and sanitary. I'm being a bit flippant, 1:30:48.055 --> 1:30:51.335 But today they would expect you to have someone draw 1:30:51.455 --> 1:30:55.975 up an as built plan so to ensure that it 1:30:56.015 --> 1:30:58.495 does the way that it's built does actually comply with 1:30:58.535 --> 1:31:01.575 the code in terms of the type of piles, the 1:31:01.655 --> 1:31:04.055 amount of bracing, the span of the bearers, the span 1:31:04.095 --> 1:31:07.135 of the joysts, the height of the handrail, the way 1:31:07.175 --> 1:31:09.455 in which the handrail has fixed, all of these sorts 1:31:09.495 --> 1:31:13.215 of things. And if what's built, even if it is sturdy, 1:31:13.375 --> 1:31:15.615 doesn't comply with the building code, then you'd need to 1:31:15.695 --> 1:31:18.055 upgrade it in order to get a certificate of acceptance. 1:31:19.175 --> 1:31:23.815 But you know, you could spend five ten thousand dollars 1:31:23.895 --> 1:31:27.655 trying to get compliance for it, and that one of 1:31:27.695 --> 1:31:29.855 the tricky things would be is how do you determine 1:31:29.855 --> 1:31:33.615 that the foundations are as per the spec You know, 1:31:33.655 --> 1:31:35.615 do you dig down next to one of them and 1:31:35.655 --> 1:31:39.015 find that it's four hundred deep and does that then 1:31:39.095 --> 1:31:41.455 imply that all of them are four hundred deep? So 1:31:41.535 --> 1:31:44.455 you can see that there's some fishshocks in it. I'm 1:31:44.495 --> 1:31:48.055 always reluctant to say, you know, don't do something, and 1:31:48.375 --> 1:31:51.495 I'm not suggesting that, but I am suggesting that it 1:31:51.535 --> 1:31:57.455 does get complicated, and typically with building, complicated means expensive. 1:31:58.495 --> 1:32:00.295 Yes, yes, thank you. 1:31:59.735 --> 1:32:03.175 You've kind of go in with your eyes wide open, 1:32:03.855 --> 1:32:04.095 you know. 1:32:04.215 --> 1:32:09.495 Yes, I suppose that's fair enough easement on a on 1:32:09.575 --> 1:32:11.935 a driveway. Can I ask you a quick question about that? 1:32:12.175 --> 1:32:12.655 Yeah? Sure. 1:32:14.615 --> 1:32:17.735 There are two townhouses on this property, and we're looking 1:32:17.775 --> 1:32:22.055 at one. We seem to on the title we own 1:32:22.735 --> 1:32:26.255 the first two thirds of the driveway, and the townhouse 1:32:26.295 --> 1:32:29.495 behind owns the balance of the driveway, and they have 1:32:29.535 --> 1:32:35.415 an easement to use your our driveway. There doesn't seem 1:32:35.455 --> 1:32:39.415 to be anything in the title also suggests that they 1:32:39.415 --> 1:32:41.255 would contribute to any maintenance. 1:32:41.735 --> 1:32:43.175 Would that be normal? 1:32:43.295 --> 1:32:47.055 Would that be I don't know whether the maintenance thing 1:32:47.175 --> 1:32:51.055 is typically included in the title and in the way 1:32:51.095 --> 1:32:54.055 in which the driveway is divided up. I suppose could 1:32:54.135 --> 1:32:57.455 vary some that I've seen. You know, everyone's got a 1:32:57.535 --> 1:33:01.495 strip of the driveway, right, Yes, this is since you've 1:33:01.495 --> 1:33:04.055 got a segment of it. But I guess if the 1:33:04.295 --> 1:33:07.175 segment is beyond your property, then it kind of makes 1:33:07.215 --> 1:33:09.895 sense that that becomes their part of it. Your part 1:33:09.975 --> 1:33:11.855 is outside your house, and then the other part is 1:33:11.895 --> 1:33:17.135 the other property, the maintenance thing. I don't know that 1:33:17.135 --> 1:33:20.055 that's typically included in the title, but I think maybe 1:33:20.175 --> 1:33:22.495 under the Property Act you might find that you can 1:33:22.655 --> 1:33:25.855 do that. But again, there was an interesting story the 1:33:25.895 --> 1:33:28.335 other day in Takapuna, or on the North Shore, where 1:33:28.935 --> 1:33:34.535 ten properties that shared a driveway. They nine of the 1:33:34.575 --> 1:33:38.495 homeowners were able to be contacted and agreed to contribute 1:33:38.495 --> 1:33:41.415 to the cost of maintenance. One homeowner, who couldn't be 1:33:41.455 --> 1:33:45.335 contacted and therefore didn't give their agreement, was sent an 1:33:45.335 --> 1:33:48.735 invoice for their portion of the repairs. Said I didn't 1:33:48.815 --> 1:33:51.055 consent to it, therefore I'm not going to pay, and 1:33:51.135 --> 1:33:57.015 the courts upheld that. But that's a slightly different issue. 1:33:57.015 --> 1:34:03.575 That's around consent essentially, and you can't undertake repairs expecting 1:34:03.615 --> 1:34:06.975 someone's going to contribute if they haven't given their consent contributing. 1:34:07.295 --> 1:34:10.335 So I wonder whether in your case, with the title 1:34:10.375 --> 1:34:13.135 and the easement, if there was maintenance, you would you 1:34:13.175 --> 1:34:15.215 would need to get the agreement of all of the 1:34:15.255 --> 1:34:17.895 affected parties before you undertook any expense. 1:34:19.095 --> 1:34:21.175 Yes, no, Hey. 1:34:20.935 --> 1:34:24.695 Thanks very much yea for your thoughts, but e'd appreciate it. 1:34:24.655 --> 1:34:26.255 All right, Really nice talking to you and good luck 1:34:26.255 --> 1:34:29.935 with the process. The very best. Do you take care. John, 1:34:30.255 --> 1:34:34.255 you're with New Stork, said b. I'm with the inmate. 1:34:34.415 --> 1:34:37.655 You're consistently trying to justify bureaucracy and more and more 1:34:37.655 --> 1:34:40.535 regulation building, which is most annoying Tree from christ Church. 1:34:42.175 --> 1:34:44.975 If we want better buildings, we probably need better regulations. 1:34:46.735 --> 1:34:48.415 That's all I'm going to say. Oh, eight hundred and 1:34:48.455 --> 1:34:50.335 eighty ten eighty the number to call. We're going to 1:34:50.335 --> 1:34:52.935 talk to at around eight point thirty. If you've got 1:34:52.935 --> 1:34:55.695 a comment to make in the very very briefest bit 1:34:55.735 --> 1:35:00.855 of time that we've got left, you're welcome to do so. Oh, 1:35:00.895 --> 1:35:04.055 this is interesting. We've talked quite a bit about septic systems. 1:35:04.095 --> 1:35:06.575 This is the new regulations. So this is just come 1:35:06.615 --> 1:35:10.095 in morning read the council and the septic systems orcan 1:35:10.135 --> 1:35:13.615 Council imposes different rules on comparable properties. We live in 1:35:13.655 --> 1:35:16.935 north west Auckland, with most houses less than three years old. 1:35:17.055 --> 1:35:20.775 Council have been unbelievable with their requirements, very inconsistent, requiring 1:35:20.815 --> 1:35:24.575 some owners to spend thousands of dollars, ranging from soil testing, 1:35:24.695 --> 1:35:29.175 river assessments, and extensive planting others. No special requirements in 1:35:29.215 --> 1:35:32.215 grass growing over the drip lines. I'm all for common 1:35:32.255 --> 1:35:35.975 sense rules, but inconsistency in rules and application the rules 1:35:36.055 --> 1:35:39.895 reinforces that our council are incompetent. I'm just reading the 1:35:39.895 --> 1:35:44.295 text out to be here. The inconsistency would be frustrating though. 1:35:45.375 --> 1:35:48.495 Soil testing, river assessments, extensive planting that would have to 1:35:48.495 --> 1:35:51.695 be part of the actual construction if you're proposing one, 1:35:51.895 --> 1:35:55.015 if there's one there, would you still need to do 1:35:55.095 --> 1:35:58.975 soil testing? Oh eight, one hundred and eighty, ten eighty, 1:35:59.095 --> 1:36:03.935 there's the number to call. Should we take a break? Now? 1:36:04.095 --> 1:36:04.775 Do we take a break? 1:36:04.775 --> 1:36:04.935 Now? 1:36:05.055 --> 1:36:08.255 We wait for rid? Now, we'll wait for a couple 1:36:08.295 --> 1:36:12.735 of minutes. It is typically my process at the end 1:36:12.735 --> 1:36:14.815 of the year to offer up a few thanks, and 1:36:14.855 --> 1:36:18.935 I'll do that right now. Actually, for you know, twenty 1:36:18.975 --> 1:36:21.735 twenty four has been challenging, right, it's a fair way 1:36:21.775 --> 1:36:24.655 of saying it. In construction and so on, and generally 1:36:24.735 --> 1:36:27.775 in business, it is my great pleasure. As I mentioned 1:36:27.775 --> 1:36:32.415 to jan actually she asked about retro double glazing, and 1:36:32.495 --> 1:36:34.855 they've been a company that I've been associated with for 1:36:34.935 --> 1:36:38.455 a number of years. I continue to support what they 1:36:38.575 --> 1:36:41.375 do because I think double glazing works basically, so why 1:36:41.415 --> 1:36:45.375 wouldn't you have it? And so metro or retro DG 1:36:45.575 --> 1:36:47.855 metro performance glass that I've worked with them for a 1:36:47.895 --> 1:36:50.175 number of years and I really appreciate that. I also 1:36:50.255 --> 1:36:56.615 work with Bailey Tanks, so again rainwater harvesting, sustainability, but 1:36:56.735 --> 1:36:59.535 of resilience. These things are really important and they're also 1:36:59.655 --> 1:37:02.415 part of innovation. So whether it's you know, tanks for 1:37:02.535 --> 1:37:07.815 urban environments, tanks for using up underused space underneath your deka, 1:37:07.895 --> 1:37:10.455 under the house, or the brand new in ground tanks 1:37:10.455 --> 1:37:14.095 that they've just developed, it's all part of making our 1:37:14.335 --> 1:37:16.695 properties a little bit more sustainable, a little bit more 1:37:16.775 --> 1:37:20.455 environmentally friendly, and certainly a lot more resilient. And certainly 1:37:20.455 --> 1:37:23.415 I'm looking forward to the fact that over the summer, 1:37:23.495 --> 1:37:26.295 when it really stops raining and a water the garden 1:37:26.735 --> 1:37:28.415 that I can do so out of a water tank, 1:37:28.455 --> 1:37:30.855 that I've done my own little bit of rain water 1:37:30.895 --> 1:37:34.575 harvesting in an environment, in an urban environment. So my 1:37:34.655 --> 1:37:37.535 thanks to the team at Bailey's, the good people at 1:37:37.615 --> 1:37:40.895 J and L. Duken. So this is Jayframe and tryboard 1:37:41.575 --> 1:37:44.895 long association with them as well, and continuing to see 1:37:44.895 --> 1:37:47.695 sort of the innovation that they bring to the sector, 1:37:47.735 --> 1:37:51.335 particularly around in some cases some affordable housing solutions that 1:37:51.415 --> 1:37:55.855 Tryboarder is part of, and just better building with Jaframe 1:37:56.455 --> 1:38:00.895 Framing as well, and Mike Colds has been regular contributed 1:38:00.935 --> 1:38:04.735 to the show. So Razine Construction Systems again, my thanks 1:38:04.735 --> 1:38:08.455 to their team and to the fantastic work when it 1:38:08.535 --> 1:38:11.855 all get a but tricky, you know, with exterior clouding systems, 1:38:11.935 --> 1:38:13.535 they were one of the first hour of the blocks 1:38:13.575 --> 1:38:15.695 to go okay, well we can do better and here's 1:38:15.735 --> 1:38:17.855 what our systems are going to be like going forward. 1:38:17.895 --> 1:38:22.695 And I really appreciate again that innovation and that forward 1:38:22.815 --> 1:38:26.495 thinking that we see from a company like Razine Construction Systems, 1:38:26.575 --> 1:38:30.575 Jay and Bryce from Razine Paints in general, they've been 1:38:30.615 --> 1:38:33.975 fantastic on the show this year offering up their advice. 1:38:34.335 --> 1:38:37.655 I've had a number of really outstanding contributors have joined 1:38:37.695 --> 1:38:40.375 us kind of on an ad hoc basis, so from 1:38:40.415 --> 1:38:43.495 people from the dispute stribunal. We've had Hamish Firth, our 1:38:43.615 --> 1:38:48.335 planner talking about Auckland. Well we're talking about planning rules 1:38:48.335 --> 1:38:51.295 in general, but Hamish has been really good, very succinct 1:38:51.295 --> 1:38:54.615 around changes to the RMA. I know we've got some 1:38:54.735 --> 1:38:56.455 time booked in with him in the new year to 1:38:56.455 --> 1:38:59.615 talk about this latest water care announcement, saying this is 1:38:59.655 --> 1:39:01.655 where the development's going to happen and where it's not, 1:39:01.855 --> 1:39:03.855 or where our infrastructure is going to be and where 1:39:03.855 --> 1:39:07.255 it's not. So we'll talk to Hamish, Mike Thornton who's 1:39:07.255 --> 1:39:09.015 been on the show a couple of times offering up 1:39:09.015 --> 1:39:12.615 some legal advice. Ben Johnson as well talking about the 1:39:12.655 --> 1:39:15.055 Property Act. We'll get him back on the show this year. 1:39:15.455 --> 1:39:19.775 So and to Hailey from Doozy who helps manage my 1:39:20.575 --> 1:39:23.855 business affairs and so on, I really appreciate your support 1:39:23.895 --> 1:39:27.375 as well, and more importantly thank you for being part 1:39:27.375 --> 1:39:32.335 of the show in twenty twenty five as well. Ratings 1:39:32.335 --> 1:39:37.455 are reasonable, listenership is pretty good numbers across the country, 1:39:37.895 --> 1:39:41.175 and more importantly for me, it's the occasional sort of 1:39:41.575 --> 1:39:44.615 bumping into someone at a hardware store or at home 1:39:44.655 --> 1:39:47.495 and garden show. Actually, the good people at Jade Promotions 1:39:47.495 --> 1:39:49.975 who run the home and garden shows really enjoy working 1:39:50.015 --> 1:39:53.295 with them as well and will continue to do so. 1:39:53.535 --> 1:39:56.815 And an increasing range of home and garden shows around 1:39:56.815 --> 1:39:58.575 the country. I think first one will kick off and 1:39:59.055 --> 1:40:02.975 wrote au next year there'll be new shows in Queenstown, 1:40:03.015 --> 1:40:05.575 There'll be a new show in Needen. Hoping to get 1:40:05.575 --> 1:40:09.135 back to tim as well. So looking forward to being 1:40:09.175 --> 1:40:11.655 on the road with the Home and Garden Show and 1:40:11.695 --> 1:40:16.015 the home and Better Living shows around the country this year. Yeah, 1:40:16.015 --> 1:40:20.895 but for you to my listeners and callers and texters, 1:40:20.935 --> 1:40:22.695 and I have to say at the end of the year, 1:40:22.735 --> 1:40:24.975 I mean, I've got fantastic texts, not all of them 1:40:25.015 --> 1:40:33.895 complementary to be fair, and possibly the most memorable amongst 1:40:33.895 --> 1:40:37.375 a number of memorable ones. I made an off the 1:40:37.495 --> 1:40:40.975 cuff remark about someone was looking at at how do 1:40:41.055 --> 1:40:42.975 I you know I've got a loose screw in a 1:40:43.015 --> 1:40:45.495 door hinge? Is there a particular type of product that 1:40:45.575 --> 1:40:49.695 I need to use? Looking for sort of I guess 1:40:49.775 --> 1:40:53.895 elaborate or complex solutions to that. And I just suggested that, hey, 1:40:53.895 --> 1:40:56.495 look what I do in those in some of those situations, 1:40:56.535 --> 1:40:58.695 take the screw out, get a match to jam it 1:40:58.735 --> 1:41:00.935 in there, snap the top off, put the screw back in. 1:41:01.295 --> 1:41:03.735 Job done, And a couple of weeks later I got 1:41:03.735 --> 1:41:07.095 a text from someone who described herself as a seventy 1:41:07.135 --> 1:41:09.975 three year old woman living on her own who doesn't 1:41:09.975 --> 1:41:11.935 do a lot of DIY. And she said, there was 1:41:11.975 --> 1:41:15.895 a loose hinge in my kitchen. And I remembered what 1:41:15.935 --> 1:41:18.495 you said, and I got a screwdriver, and I took 1:41:18.535 --> 1:41:20.135 the screw out, and I put a match sticken, I 1:41:20.175 --> 1:41:22.975 put the screw back in, and it's fixed. It's probably 1:41:22.975 --> 1:41:26.975 the first time I've done any DIY. So I figure 1:41:26.975 --> 1:41:28.615 as I get to the end of twenty twenty four, 1:41:28.975 --> 1:41:32.415 if I managed to encourage a in her own words, 1:41:32.455 --> 1:41:36.415 a seventy three year old woman who's never done any 1:41:36.455 --> 1:41:40.895 DIY to fix something for herself, that's mission accomplished for me. 1:41:43.855 --> 1:41:46.015 Righty oh, let's get into the garden. Thanks again for 1:41:46.055 --> 1:41:48.335 your company this year. It's been an absolute pleasure. Let's 1:41:48.375 --> 1:41:50.135 get into the garden for the last time in twenty 1:41:50.215 --> 1:41:53.175 twenty four. But don't worry, Rude'll be back and around 1:41:53.175 --> 1:41:57.815 in twenty twenty five as well. Like the weeds that 1:41:57.855 --> 1:42:00.695 we often talk about, he is pretty much indestructible. Right, 1:42:00.895 --> 1:42:03.535 rud climb passed after the break, oh eight hundred eighty 1:42:03.615 --> 1:42:04.935 ten eighty. If you'd like to talk to. 1:42:04.975 --> 1:42:08.575 Rud doing up the house, sorting the garden, asked Pete 1:42:08.615 --> 1:42:11.615 for a hand. The resident builder with Peter Wolfcam and 1:42:11.855 --> 1:42:15.295 life Force solar solar power done right, col. 1:42:16.975 --> 1:42:17.535 News talks. 1:42:17.535 --> 1:42:21.495 They'd be climb past. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Hell are you sir? 1:42:21.975 --> 1:42:25.335 I'm very good, Peter, and I loved your little ramble 1:42:25.375 --> 1:42:27.535 about the the y owl boxes again. 1:42:29.775 --> 1:42:31.095 Yeah, I'll tell you what. It was a bit of 1:42:31.135 --> 1:42:32.975 a surprise. I was thinking back and I was thinking, 1:42:33.335 --> 1:42:35.495 you know, if there was one thing that I didn't 1:42:35.495 --> 1:42:37.175 expect to be building this year, it would have to 1:42:37.175 --> 1:42:41.015 be ol boxes. But it's been a huge pleasure, to 1:42:41.095 --> 1:42:41.495 be fair. 1:42:41.935 --> 1:42:42.895 It's good fun, isn't it. 1:42:43.015 --> 1:42:44.575 I love it. It's been great. 1:42:45.055 --> 1:42:49.735 At about five six days ago before Christmas, we looked 1:42:49.735 --> 1:42:52.855 at a few boxes, the two young owls that we 1:42:52.935 --> 1:42:57.015 had last have left, yes, and we took the whole 1:42:57.375 --> 1:43:02.015 interior droppings inside the box out of that box and 1:43:02.015 --> 1:43:03.935 they are now going to be studied by somebody that 1:43:04.415 --> 1:43:05.575 can to be university. 1:43:06.335 --> 1:43:07.615 Aaron is going to look at. 1:43:07.575 --> 1:43:10.735 Exactly what these things eat when they're young, they're old, 1:43:10.815 --> 1:43:13.975 and all that sort of stuff. And it's absolutely wonderful 1:43:13.975 --> 1:43:15.815 what you can do with those boxes because you can 1:43:15.855 --> 1:43:18.495 actually learn so much from these creatures. 1:43:18.055 --> 1:43:20.735 Like fantastic citizen science. 1:43:21.495 --> 1:43:25.215 It's certainly well, no, this is real, proper, this is 1:43:25.375 --> 1:43:30.535 this is MSc or whatever it is you PD whatever you. 1:43:30.535 --> 1:43:34.575 Call it, fantastic, fantastic. Right, we've got a full boarder calls. 1:43:34.855 --> 1:43:37.735 Let's rip into it. Roger A very good morning to you, 1:43:38.415 --> 1:43:39.855 good morning, good morning. 1:43:40.495 --> 1:43:44.655 What time to play spy roses for what? 1:43:45.055 --> 1:43:50.495 Roger flex spot and stuff for for a fungal disease? 1:43:51.375 --> 1:43:56.375 Yeah, just ap roses. Yeah, and it is a time 1:43:56.415 --> 1:43:57.135 for you to do it. 1:43:57.535 --> 1:43:59.095 I would do it now if if I were you, 1:43:59.255 --> 1:44:02.135 because the moment you get a good number of droplets 1:44:02.135 --> 1:44:04.735 coming down from a rain shower, you'll find it is 1:44:04.895 --> 1:44:10.175 basically it's basically vulnerable to get more infection. So in 1:44:10.215 --> 1:44:13.335 this case, the fungicide you can use, for instance, Nature's 1:44:13.375 --> 1:44:17.855 Way spray or whatever is basically protecting your roses from 1:44:17.855 --> 1:44:21.615 being infected rather than having to cure cure it afterwards. 1:44:21.655 --> 1:44:21.895 You know. 1:44:22.655 --> 1:44:27.335 Oh am, have a go now all. 1:44:26.655 --> 1:44:31.735 This and Ian A very good morning to you, good morning. 1:44:33.375 --> 1:44:37.135 Go for it. 1:44:37.415 --> 1:44:41.735 We've got Christmas bugs arrive every Christmas in the coramandel, 1:44:42.735 --> 1:44:46.815 and they're coming plague proportions come after dark or you 1:44:46.855 --> 1:44:50.095 know it's going dusk and just where they head for 1:44:50.255 --> 1:44:53.775 light apparently and drive your nuts. In the morning, they're 1:44:53.775 --> 1:44:58.055 piled up again the again your doors or the window 1:44:58.175 --> 1:44:59.895 sills and the sort of stuff. 1:45:02.095 --> 1:45:04.735 With them. Now, can you describe them? First of all? 1:45:04.815 --> 1:45:05.055 Ian? 1:45:06.375 --> 1:45:09.735 Yeah, they're little bugs maybe three quarters of an inch long. 1:45:10.135 --> 1:45:15.415 They fly, yeah, and they have got hard backs. When 1:45:15.455 --> 1:45:16.975 you stand on them, they crunch. 1:45:17.535 --> 1:45:18.695 That's right. Color. 1:45:19.935 --> 1:45:21.135 They are a brownie color. 1:45:21.775 --> 1:45:24.775 Okay. 1:45:24.895 --> 1:45:27.735 I've found my computer for them, and they do call 1:45:27.815 --> 1:45:29.295 them Christmas folks there too. 1:45:30.615 --> 1:45:33.135 In where in Australia. 1:45:33.695 --> 1:45:36.375 No, in New Zealand and the coramandle here. 1:45:36.495 --> 1:45:38.295 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but yeah, okay. 1:45:39.415 --> 1:45:42.095 The problem is there are Christmas bugs in Australia and 1:45:42.095 --> 1:45:45.615 what you might have here is that doesn't matter. The 1:45:45.695 --> 1:45:49.175 ones that I hear, the smaller ones are the beatles 1:45:49.175 --> 1:45:53.815 that are actually flying indeed late late spring and early summer, 1:45:54.215 --> 1:45:56.895 and they actually eat the leaves of your plants, your 1:45:56.935 --> 1:46:01.375 trees quite often fruit trees, right right, Have you seen that? 1:46:01.415 --> 1:46:02.655 Have you seen holes in leaves? 1:46:02.695 --> 1:46:07.135 Now? Now, I've just seen holes in poker trees around here, 1:46:07.175 --> 1:46:09.735 But they're big. I think they're bigger than the beetle 1:46:09.735 --> 1:46:10.935 that eat. 1:46:13.535 --> 1:46:16.495 The thing with these these creatures is the brown ones. 1:46:17.975 --> 1:46:21.335 Is the fact that they basically eat foliage, which in 1:46:21.375 --> 1:46:23.935 itself is not a big deal, to be quite honest, 1:46:23.935 --> 1:46:28.735 because most plants will replace the eaten foliage by getting 1:46:28.775 --> 1:46:32.735 new leaves created, if you like. The second thing is 1:46:32.775 --> 1:46:36.175 that when they finally have eaten their foliage, they lay 1:46:36.215 --> 1:46:39.295 their eggs right down in the ground because it's. 1:46:39.135 --> 1:46:43.735 Their babies that eat the roots of the plants as well. 1:46:44.655 --> 1:46:48.615 And the problem is it is really hard to predict 1:46:48.695 --> 1:46:52.775 when they strike, where they strike, what night they come, where, 1:46:52.895 --> 1:46:53.575 et cetera. 1:46:53.695 --> 1:46:56.295 They are attracted to lights, I must say, but. 1:46:56.375 --> 1:46:59.615 It's really difficult to actually keep them under control in 1:46:59.655 --> 1:47:02.695 this case. The best thing is that I've noticed here 1:47:02.775 --> 1:47:04.975 is that I've got some magpies and I've got all 1:47:05.015 --> 1:47:07.535 sorts of other creatures that get them in the evening. 1:47:07.655 --> 1:47:10.455 Especially owls find them in the old droppings as well. 1:47:11.055 --> 1:47:13.335 They come and pick them up at night and they 1:47:13.335 --> 1:47:15.855 eat them basically as they can see them in the 1:47:15.855 --> 1:47:17.575 middle of the night, just like that. 1:47:18.775 --> 1:47:22.175 Thanks for that, we do have like millions of them 1:47:22.215 --> 1:47:24.975 that come and the vacuuming them up is about the 1:47:25.015 --> 1:47:27.295 only way to get rid of them. That's probably the 1:47:27.375 --> 1:47:29.895 right plastic bag because of the throm and the rubbish 1:47:29.895 --> 1:47:31.295 spin they'll get going again. 1:47:31.935 --> 1:47:32.615 Yeah that's right. 1:47:33.175 --> 1:47:35.335 Or in this case, put them in a container and 1:47:35.415 --> 1:47:39.015 chuck them in the freezer for a while. Uh huh, Yeah, 1:47:39.095 --> 1:47:39.975 that's the only way. 1:47:39.855 --> 1:47:40.095 To do it. 1:47:41.415 --> 1:47:45.375 Okay, Well they will go eventually, but they're a bit 1:47:45.415 --> 1:47:47.255 of a nuisance at the moment, and I think a 1:47:47.335 --> 1:47:49.335 lot of the people that live host the sea are 1:47:49.375 --> 1:47:50.255 afflicted by them. 1:47:50.935 --> 1:47:51.175 Yeah. 1:47:51.455 --> 1:47:55.175 Yeah, I don't think that their impact on your tree, 1:47:55.295 --> 1:47:58.495 shrubs and plants is that great. Yes, I know they 1:47:58.655 --> 1:48:02.335 create holes and people get really really upset about the holes. 1:48:02.615 --> 1:48:05.335 But the interesting thing is, as I said before, that 1:48:05.575 --> 1:48:09.775 holes are being replaced by new leaves by the plant. Basically, 1:48:09.895 --> 1:48:13.775 it's a it's a system of repairing the tree, and 1:48:13.895 --> 1:48:15.575 it's what they do, so it's not a big deal. 1:48:16.695 --> 1:48:19.575 We have a lot of bush around us and we're 1:48:19.615 --> 1:48:23.415 not concerned about what it does to the bush because 1:48:23.495 --> 1:48:25.815 you can't see any difference. But it's just that they 1:48:25.975 --> 1:48:31.055 pile up in heaps around your windows and pens and 1:48:31.135 --> 1:48:33.895 whatever around your house, and there are a hell of 1:48:33.975 --> 1:48:36.135 a thing to get rid of or to clean up 1:48:36.255 --> 1:48:39.215 every day. Every day you've got to do vacuuming outside 1:48:39.295 --> 1:48:42.535 on decks and areas like that that are exposed to 1:48:42.655 --> 1:48:47.055 the light at night. Open for God to help you. 1:48:47.655 --> 1:48:48.815 Yeah, I remember, I remember. 1:48:50.375 --> 1:48:52.215 We had them a lot in Tity Rangy and in 1:48:52.415 --> 1:48:54.495 in meadow Bank where we used to live. And to 1:48:54.575 --> 1:48:58.055 be quite honest, the original common name is bronze beetle, 1:48:58.335 --> 1:48:59.575 the bronze beetle. 1:49:00.575 --> 1:49:05.895 Bron there you are, Thank you for that, welcome. 1:49:05.815 --> 1:49:10.015 Thank you very very much. Hey quick texture, someone's building 1:49:10.015 --> 1:49:13.575 a r box. Funnily enough, do we put ventilation holes 1:49:13.615 --> 1:49:15.695 in the base plus the bark I'm looking forward to 1:49:15.735 --> 1:49:18.415 watching the owls from robin holes. 1:49:18.735 --> 1:49:21.095 No, no, no, you don't need ventilation holes because they 1:49:21.215 --> 1:49:24.095 go in to this. There's always movement of air there. Yeah, 1:49:24.135 --> 1:49:26.095 don't worry, no, don't worry about it at all. 1:49:26.535 --> 1:49:27.855 I was going to say, do I need to add 1:49:27.935 --> 1:49:29.335 like a little dormer or something like that. 1:49:30.695 --> 1:49:31.375 Now you've got it. 1:49:31.455 --> 1:49:33.455 No, no, because you need to get their checked by 1:49:33.535 --> 1:49:34.975 the council every six months. 1:49:39.095 --> 1:49:40.615 Robert A very good morning to you. 1:49:41.895 --> 1:49:44.295 Oh, good morning, rude hippie Christmas, and. 1:49:45.975 --> 1:49:48.775 Yeah, sad to you. 1:49:48.935 --> 1:49:49.095 Roll. 1:49:50.335 --> 1:49:54.095 Thank you. Now I hear the major issue with rye grass. 1:49:54.135 --> 1:49:56.095 I believe that's what it does. It's like it looks 1:49:56.135 --> 1:49:58.015 like wheat and it's got all those little pistles and 1:49:58.055 --> 1:50:01.015 it's just like a light yellow color and it's all 1:50:01.095 --> 1:50:05.775 over my grass. So obviously when I'm o the lawns 1:50:05.775 --> 1:50:10.615 seen it just free plants all the seeds. Yeah, so 1:50:11.215 --> 1:50:12.095 how do I get rid of it? 1:50:13.215 --> 1:50:13.415 Well? 1:50:13.535 --> 1:50:15.695 Literally got hardly grass list. 1:50:16.015 --> 1:50:20.975 And that's the point because if you had to see 1:50:21.015 --> 1:50:24.535 there are there are there are weed killers that only 1:50:24.695 --> 1:50:29.815 do grass or only doing non grass. But in this case, 1:50:29.855 --> 1:50:33.215 you've got a grass that is a weed inside your lawn. 1:50:33.695 --> 1:50:36.015 So you only get rid of the lot and spray 1:50:36.055 --> 1:50:38.775 a whole lot and start redoing it. But where does 1:50:38.895 --> 1:50:40.935 it come from? Where does the seed come from? 1:50:41.015 --> 1:50:43.375 Does this fly in? Does it go in the wind 1:50:44.055 --> 1:50:44.615 on your feet? 1:50:45.895 --> 1:50:48.975 You thought there was there was a fiction over the 1:50:49.375 --> 1:50:51.535 now building on it, but it was covered in it, 1:50:51.735 --> 1:50:54.975 and it's flying over from from the back neighbor. 1:50:55.655 --> 1:50:58.935 It's it's it's not that horrific badly grass? 1:50:59.055 --> 1:50:59.215 Is it? 1:51:01.375 --> 1:51:04.495 Quite possibly? They I just thought it might be rye grass. 1:51:04.575 --> 1:51:06.455 I don't know. It's just it's got like a Well, 1:51:06.535 --> 1:51:08.455 I think I've got both. I've got the ones with 1:51:08.575 --> 1:51:11.375 the quite big long seeds on it, and then I've 1:51:11.415 --> 1:51:13.615 got the little fine ones that grow up as well. 1:51:14.615 --> 1:51:16.735 And the thing is, I've got a fluffy pussy cat 1:51:16.855 --> 1:51:19.695 and she gets some stuck in a fair and I 1:51:19.735 --> 1:51:22.735 don't want them to get into a skin because they can't. 1:51:23.175 --> 1:51:27.895 You have become quite infected in things. So that's the yeah, 1:51:27.935 --> 1:51:29.455 But I just want to get rid of it anyway 1:51:29.455 --> 1:51:30.735 because it's just ugly. 1:51:31.695 --> 1:51:33.095 Is your is your lawn lade? 1:51:35.495 --> 1:51:40.695 It's I've got a front on the back side that 1:51:42.175 --> 1:51:44.855 goes around the house. I wouldn't say it's large large. 1:51:45.095 --> 1:51:50.695 I mean it's probably about five meters I ate at 1:51:50.735 --> 1:51:53.415 the front, and that the same at the side, and 1:51:53.535 --> 1:51:56.735 then the same at the back, so the nel shape. 1:51:57.095 --> 1:52:00.935 Would it be feasible to pull those things out individually 1:52:01.055 --> 1:52:02.215 and leave your lawn as it is? 1:52:04.015 --> 1:52:04.615 You know what I mean? 1:52:04.815 --> 1:52:06.135 Yeah? Well, I had thought of that. 1:52:06.495 --> 1:52:11.375 Is might need to get a crew and grandkids. Grandkids 1:52:11.415 --> 1:52:13.855 are good at that, and especially this down the year 1:52:13.855 --> 1:52:14.735 when they need some money. 1:52:16.215 --> 1:52:18.655 Yeah, true, true. I have got a niece n here 1:52:18.695 --> 1:52:19.695 that I could employ. 1:52:19.855 --> 1:52:23.055 There you go, that's one. The other thing. And this 1:52:23.215 --> 1:52:25.935 is something I talked to Francisco about some time ago. 1:52:26.415 --> 1:52:29.375 Get rid of it, spray everything, and get yourself a 1:52:29.775 --> 1:52:34.655 wildflower lawn that you don't have to mow, and that 1:52:34.815 --> 1:52:37.575 will be totally different in terms of looks, and it 1:52:37.615 --> 1:52:42.695 will give you wildflower seeds, just wildflower seeds, so many 1:52:42.735 --> 1:52:46.375 different species of plant that grow in that become your lawn, 1:52:46.695 --> 1:52:48.495 and you can then, if you like, make a little 1:52:49.335 --> 1:52:51.935 you can mow a little trek through that if you 1:52:52.015 --> 1:52:53.895 want to go from A to B in your loan 1:52:54.055 --> 1:52:54.975 for instance. 1:52:54.655 --> 1:52:58.495 You know, yeah for the washing nine Yeah, okay, So 1:52:58.655 --> 1:53:01.695 what kind of thing to kill it? Do I use 1:53:02.255 --> 1:53:02.695 to kill it? 1:53:02.815 --> 1:53:07.055 Or wolf or anything and any anything things such as 1:53:07.335 --> 1:53:09.735 round up and a control and all the things that 1:53:09.895 --> 1:53:12.815 get rid of your of grass, of any grass, and 1:53:13.735 --> 1:53:14.335 any glass. 1:53:14.335 --> 1:53:15.615 Sort of get rid of the whole off. 1:53:17.015 --> 1:53:17.975 Again and. 1:53:19.895 --> 1:53:23.855 Plant the seeds like it won't because sometimes when I 1:53:24.015 --> 1:53:25.895 was told, when you use round up or something, you 1:53:26.415 --> 1:53:30.495 can't plant anything for a few months because it's still 1:53:30.535 --> 1:53:31.575 in the soil or something. 1:53:31.975 --> 1:53:34.015 No, it's not that long. You can do that within 1:53:34.055 --> 1:53:35.975 a couple of weeks, no problem. 1:53:36.135 --> 1:53:40.015 Okay, a couple of weeks all this yeap very quick 1:53:40.175 --> 1:53:45.575 a question. Yeah, ye, silver beate, broccoli and collie. So 1:53:45.815 --> 1:53:48.655 what would I use to fertilize those? Like, do I 1:53:48.775 --> 1:53:51.615 use salt space of poffish or no? 1:53:51.855 --> 1:53:54.455 Not necessarily, you can do a general fertilizer like a 1:53:54.575 --> 1:53:56.655 rose fertilizer or something like that. 1:53:57.055 --> 1:53:57.975 Very very similar with. 1:53:58.775 --> 1:54:01.815 Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, lovely. 1:54:01.655 --> 1:54:05.495 Okay, all the good luck problem. We're gonna take short 1:54:05.535 --> 1:54:08.095 break the backs right after the news or straight after 1:54:08.135 --> 1:54:11.575 the break. Rather, it is basically eight forty five your 1:54:11.655 --> 1:54:14.815 news talks. We're talking to you about all things gardening 1:54:14.855 --> 1:54:18.255 and the wonderful world of bug scary. Good morning, Good. 1:54:18.135 --> 1:54:19.495 Morning, Marue, Good morning, Pete. 1:54:19.975 --> 1:54:20.375 Hey Rue. 1:54:20.815 --> 1:54:24.615 I just have a problem with the with chickweed, and 1:54:24.855 --> 1:54:26.935 I'm down my hands and knees, and of course you've 1:54:26.935 --> 1:54:29.255 got to keep pulling it out amongst all your flowers 1:54:29.295 --> 1:54:33.255 and around your bed your garden. Is any think that 1:54:33.375 --> 1:54:35.415 you can stop it from growing or just a thing 1:54:35.455 --> 1:54:37.655 that you've got to put up with and just keep 1:54:37.695 --> 1:54:38.295 pulling it out. 1:54:38.855 --> 1:54:40.175 The problem, this is the problem. 1:54:40.295 --> 1:54:43.135 If you start spraying and you've got some desirable plants 1:54:43.175 --> 1:54:45.935 in between, it's really hard not there the others, isn't it. 1:54:46.815 --> 1:54:48.975 That's right, Yeah, I know some when I'm pulling it 1:54:49.015 --> 1:54:52.055 out to be careful, I don't wraps around all the 1:54:52.455 --> 1:54:54.215 center of the flowers. And you've got to care if 1:54:54.255 --> 1:54:56.415 you don't wreck the flowers. And so is it just 1:54:56.495 --> 1:54:57.975 a job you've just got to put up with them 1:54:58.615 --> 1:54:59.935 and keep pulling it. 1:54:59.975 --> 1:55:02.975 Out, or is it Would you be able to do 1:55:03.135 --> 1:55:06.215 the weeding in between yours your good plants? 1:55:07.135 --> 1:55:09.615 Oh yes, yes, yes, but I know that I was 1:55:09.655 --> 1:55:12.535 doing it yesterday and it's come up sometime. It comes 1:55:12.615 --> 1:55:14.615 up through the center them as well. You know you see. 1:55:15.975 --> 1:55:16.175 Here. 1:55:16.335 --> 1:55:18.295 Yeah, that's too hard, isn't it. 1:55:18.415 --> 1:55:18.455 No? 1:55:18.655 --> 1:55:21.495 Do it by hand, or get yourself a Clark cultivator 1:55:22.015 --> 1:55:24.975 there you go. Oh you know what if you mentioned 1:55:24.975 --> 1:55:27.095 the fact that you heard this on the radio, go 1:55:27.255 --> 1:55:30.615 to the Clark cultivator, you know, on the website, and 1:55:30.735 --> 1:55:32.855 they'll give you something like thirty three percent off. 1:55:33.015 --> 1:55:35.455 I've just thought, being Dutch, I might be able to. 1:55:35.495 --> 1:55:35.895 Tell you that. 1:55:38.335 --> 1:55:38.495 Much. 1:55:40.855 --> 1:55:44.215 You have a happy New Year to you made go well. 1:55:45.895 --> 1:55:47.695 I tell you what with some of the because I've 1:55:47.735 --> 1:55:49.455 had the same thing, right, these weeds coming up in 1:55:49.495 --> 1:55:51.535 the garden in between things that I don't want to kill. 1:55:52.575 --> 1:55:56.015 So in those cases. I've used those little bottle that 1:55:56.135 --> 1:56:01.575 you can literally brush it on individual plants. It's time consuming, 1:56:01.655 --> 1:56:03.695 but at least you get it down into the roots. 1:56:03.455 --> 1:56:06.175 And you know that you're not taking the ones you 1:56:06.335 --> 1:56:08.615 don't want. Phil, Yeah, you know, I totally agree. But 1:56:08.735 --> 1:56:11.455 that's a painting job. It's almost like a painting pretty much. 1:56:11.615 --> 1:56:12.055 Make sure. 1:56:13.375 --> 1:56:15.855 Shall we take a break and come we'll talk to 1:56:16.215 --> 1:56:16.735 back in the month. 1:56:17.095 --> 1:56:17.215 Here. 1:56:17.775 --> 1:56:20.575 It be a couple of minutes to go, and it 1:56:20.695 --> 1:56:22.775 is with me, Gail, A very good morning to you. 1:56:24.015 --> 1:56:28.015 Good morning, Pete and Ruth. I'm very upset. My small 1:56:28.135 --> 1:56:32.895 flowering peach is covered on peaches, which we love. But 1:56:33.695 --> 1:56:36.855 the leaves on the end of a few of the 1:56:36.935 --> 1:56:40.655 branches are terrible. They're sort of brown and dying, and 1:56:40.775 --> 1:56:44.015 the peaches are affected. Can I spray it with something? 1:56:45.575 --> 1:56:47.175 You could try? If it's if? 1:56:47.655 --> 1:56:49.935 Do you think that it's leaf curl Can that be 1:56:50.135 --> 1:56:53.455 a description of those leaves that become yellowish. 1:56:52.975 --> 1:56:53.775 Inside the curler? 1:56:53.975 --> 1:56:55.935 No, No, it's leaf dying. 1:56:57.015 --> 1:57:01.535 It's leave dying. That's okay, that's not nice. Oh gosh, 1:57:01.735 --> 1:57:03.855 gollye and different color you said as well. 1:57:04.575 --> 1:57:07.455 Dark barn and they look just horrible. 1:57:08.055 --> 1:57:12.935 Oh, cheapest creepers look without really seeing it. I find 1:57:12.935 --> 1:57:15.695 it really hard to diagnose something without seeing. 1:57:15.455 --> 1:57:16.175 It, you know what I mean. 1:57:16.895 --> 1:57:18.975 If it is if it is a fungal disease. 1:57:19.015 --> 1:57:22.215 If you think it's a fungal disease, get yourself, get 1:57:22.255 --> 1:57:27.855 yourself something like a material that yates nature's way fungus. 1:57:28.175 --> 1:57:36.055 Spray at least copper that contains copper and sulfur. Yeah, 1:57:36.535 --> 1:57:41.015 that's why I mentioned it. You can use just copper, 1:57:41.095 --> 1:57:44.535 but if you use copper and sulfur, you have a wider. 1:57:44.295 --> 1:57:47.295 Reach if you like, oh I see, thank you, And 1:57:47.415 --> 1:57:48.095 the reason is. 1:57:48.135 --> 1:57:51.095 Then you will stop the spread through this at this moment, 1:57:51.255 --> 1:57:53.255 still healthy leaves, you know what I mean. 1:57:55.335 --> 1:57:58.735 Yeah, Yeah, it's it's really hard to do that. 1:57:59.135 --> 1:57:59.335 Yeah. 1:57:59.375 --> 1:58:01.615 I hope that's going to work for you. Girl. It's 1:58:01.775 --> 1:58:03.895 it's a pain in the bum sometimes these things. But 1:58:04.015 --> 1:58:04.415 there you go. 1:58:05.255 --> 1:58:08.735 Yeah, peaches after spraying with Nature's. 1:58:08.495 --> 1:58:09.855 Right, Yes you can. 1:58:10.095 --> 1:58:12.735 And that's why I mentioned it, because it's an edible plant. 1:58:12.775 --> 1:58:14.455 You wash your peaches and you'll be fine. 1:58:15.335 --> 1:58:20.295 Okay, fantastic, Thank you, Gail, take care, all the best 1:58:20.815 --> 1:58:24.415 and all the very best to you for New Year, 1:58:24.935 --> 1:58:27.935 and again my thanks to you for your contribution. And 1:58:28.015 --> 1:58:32.335 I think that people I don't know underestimate the impact 1:58:32.415 --> 1:58:36.375 that you have in terms of sort of raising awareness 1:58:36.655 --> 1:58:41.255 and the education side of what you do. And I 1:58:41.335 --> 1:58:43.695 would imagine that it must be if you took a 1:58:43.775 --> 1:58:45.935 moment you probably don't do this, but if you took 1:58:45.975 --> 1:58:48.615 a moment, stood back and went hey, I was part 1:58:48.655 --> 1:58:53.415 of this rejuvenation of people restoring wetlands and looking after 1:58:53.495 --> 1:58:55.735 You know, you'd have to say, you'd have to put 1:58:55.775 --> 1:58:57.335 yourself on the back, and I bet you don't do it, 1:58:57.455 --> 1:58:58.095 So I'm going to do it. 1:58:58.615 --> 1:59:00.455 Oh thank you, that's lovely to say, but you do 1:59:00.615 --> 1:59:02.655 the same thing. I mean, this is exactly what the 1:59:02.695 --> 1:59:03.855 world should be about today. 1:59:05.215 --> 1:59:07.855 This is it. That's why I'm wearing mo wingspan head. 1:59:08.495 --> 1:59:11.215 See you later, looking forward to hitting down there. Take care, 1:59:11.295 --> 1:59:15.935 Happy new year to you and Rude will be back 1:59:15.975 --> 1:59:18.735 with us next year, which, of course next Sunday will 1:59:18.815 --> 1:59:22.135 be the fifth of January, so looking forward to you 1:59:22.455 --> 1:59:25.175 joining you again. Then take care for more from the 1:59:25.215 --> 1:59:26.975 Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. 1:59:27.175 --> 1:59:29.775 Listen live to news talks that'd be on Sunday Mornings 1:59:29.815 --> 1:59:32.655 from Sex or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.