Best Tradie - And the winner is...

Congrats to Southern Traverse Homes who have been voted the Best Tradies in Mid Canterbury! Luke took a road trip to Methven to catch Jason, Sheldon and Simon. Thanks to our friends at EA Networks - The BEST local lines company enabling our region

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thank you so much for all the votes for Mid
Canterbury's Best Trading on the Hawknowy Ashburton facebook page. I've
been running this search thanks to eat A Networks around
to two hundred and I think this is a first
for our best of campaign. Over forty individual nominations for
different AsSalt traders and companies that are helping to build

(00:23):
and fix and craft the face of this wonderful region
we call home. So have put all that through our
accountants and stoke to announce that our winner is voted
by YO Southern Traverse Homes who. And I will admit

(00:45):
that we did do the number crunching yesterday so close
it off about midday and found out yesterday and then
I also found out that Jason and Sheldon and the
team busy with a new build out in Methin, so
alongside Jess from EA and teammates Sarah, took a road
trip out there to catch them and present them with

(01:07):
the certificates.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's awesome, Thank you very much, much appreciated everybody that's
voted for us.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
How long you bloke's been building houses for.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I've been doing it around about twenty years. What do
you share? It must be about thirteen now to have
a thirteen now.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So getting the hang of things.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, getting the hang of things. And we've been working
together for about ten years now.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Where's the name Southern Traverse come from?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Doing the hard yard?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
As she come from the race that went from the
north of the South Island to the south of South
Islands down through the mountains.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Is it a fun past time driving around the District's going?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I built that? Yeah, that's always good. It's always good.
But the wife gets sick of.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
It every time I go out to Mayfield with the
old boy's window farthing. So it's window building. What do
you love about it?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Being outside, working outside, great team constructing something and you
can stay back at the end of the day and wow,
look at that and somebody's going to get the benefit
of living their life. Yeah that's the same really, Like
it's this nice being able to use your hands and
create something for a family to move into and live in.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Whenever I attempt to use my hands and create something,
it just cause a stress and a world of trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of treats in mold, but
you get used to that.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, right, I've got some fast fire questions. I
thought I could throw your way as a bit of fun.
So Jason will stet up yourself to Walt or maqita
makita Sheldon. Do you rather work in the heat or
the freezing cold?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Neither and between's better.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
But so we get about two weeks of that in
mckendrey a year.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, probably the heat more than the color.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Jason, Which other trade is most likely to hold up
the build?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Plumber, sparky, rufer, scaffolder, drainlier?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Is the truth to the fact that builders don't run
the most wholesome diet. What's in your lunch box? Sheldon?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I run a reasonable diark. I've had some fruit today.
I got a chicken and rice for lunch, and yes,
and music.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I was just all pies and these.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, not not nowadays. I don't think that's old. That's
old fashions.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
There's old Sheldon.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, young Sheldon yet or.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Is that you Jason?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's definitely not me.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
What's the one thing you always make sure you take on.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Side radio five, like in the morning, the afternoon.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Keep it coming, keep it hey, well, congratulations again. Obviously
you're doing a pretty stand up job, and people really
appreciate it, so congratulations

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Brilliant, Thank you very much, Loke, thank you, Howking, Thank
you everybody up there who's voted for us,