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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The rewraph. Good I there, and welcome to the rewrap
for Wednesday. All the best, But it's from the Mike
Hosking Breakfast on news doorgs it'd be in a sillier package.
I am Glen Hart today, a bit of a weird one.
I've got to have met and it's it's only one
topic because it's the topic that took the show by
storm this morning, and you never know when it's going
to happen. Yes, that's right, garage carpet.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
What else morning, Mike? Ninety three percent? This goes back
to carpeting the garage. I'm going to spend the morning
on this. Ninety three percent. They obviously don't serve our street,
my house, the two on the lift, the three on
the right, and the two on the other side of
the street a non carpet. I think it's nine point
three percent. Ninety three percent, Michael, Very good of you
to know.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, it must be pointed out that it was only Auckland,
Wellington and christ homes that were served. Well, yeah, those
flash harries and those big cities.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's only the people they went to, obviously, but it
seemed to me like a stunning number as a painting
contract to Mike and Christ which I'm calling BS on
the ninety three percent of garages have capital them Sorry, Mike,
that statistics. Ninety three percent of garages capital in this
country is total BS. Ninety three percent of garages capital
is fake news, boy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean the other thing, the interesting thing about that
status that they were saying they weren't actually being used
as garages as well.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh but we know that I was.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I found disappointing because my whole goal when I moved
to a house, I don't feel like I'm moved in
until I can pack both cars in their garage.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, but you and I are similar like that. I
like a garage as a garage, but most people aren't
like that. Boy, this is a whole program because we
will go to ten.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm constantly amazed and dismayed. Actually when I see people's
garage doors open and inside there's just boxes in various
bits of sporting equipment splayed all over the place, and
no room for their cars at all, and both of
their cars sitting out on the well. You hate to
see rewrap, so I like I say, I think not
(02:15):
only did this capture our imagination, but also the imagination
of the audience.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Mike, time to get off the glass barbecue and just
think about what you're saying. Mate, don't shoot the messenger.
I didn't make this up. This is a survey. There
is no way it is even close to fifteen to
twenty percent. We build are involved with twenty five houses
a year currently struggling in the market, and only one
of these houses last year had carpet. The gesu Well,
(02:39):
you're building poor people's houses, mate, or.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It might not be in Wellington. Christ it's your auck one. Yeah,
I mean, it wasn't the only thing that they surveyed.
Of course. The other statistic that I found interesting was
that thirty six percent of us sometimes dance or sing
when no one's around.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I would have thought it was higher than that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, that's actually higher than the global average of thirty percent.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And I would have had it at sixty or seventy percent.
I think there's a lot of people just pretending they
don't sing and dance, or don't realize they're singing.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In the first thing I did when we first got
our first garage carpet in our previous rich.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Person will you.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But it was the thing. It was quite reasonable. It
didn't cost that. That's why we were so happy about it.
We went down there and just danced and saying on it,
Oh man, have.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You been have you just come back from the Melfy
coast as well on your yacht? Goodness sake, Glenn.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's my whole point. There's nothing elitist about garage carpet.
It's not that expensive. Believe me, look into it, rewrap
and talk about dancing and singing. Oh the parties we've
had in their garage on their carpet.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I've got garage carpet, Mike, and my garages and workshops
in my last four houses. It's as essential as a
nice beer and a good wine. If I had to,
I'd drop the house carpet and stay with it in
my man's areas.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't know that went weird at the end there,
I see, Ike. I also surveyed people about growing their
own fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Mike. That's an astonishing number, wasn't it. Did you not
find that number astonishing?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did you find it astonishingly low?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Or large? I thought it was way higher than I
would have guessed.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But what a number. Let me know, listeners, as listeners,
do you love it or hate it? When we do
that and say we're going to tell you this when
we come back, you hate it, don't you? But can
we get told we're supposed to do it? So we
do it still? Rewrap I know sometimes he's even a
break in a podcast and you have to wait and
hear what we were going to say. I'm glad you
stayed with me here it is.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, this ikea survey that we've hooked into this morning
with the ninety three percent of garage carpets around the country. So,
just to be fair to them, don't shoot me the messager.
I'm just report This is just a piece of reportage.
They've gone around the country. This sample size isn't I
wouldn't have thought particularly high. They've got five or six
hundred people, but they have gone round to the people.
As Lin's pointed out, it's an Arkland, Wellington and christ judge.
(04:48):
Broadly speaking, it's designed to inform them as to where
we're at with our houses, what we think of our houses,
what's in our houses, how they should stock the new Zealand,
Ikea shops all that sort of stuff. Anyway, A couple
of critical things I haven't come to yet, and I
will in a moment. But his reference to vegetables, I've
just done it on the Boss, and I like doing
it on the Boss. No one's more out of touch
(05:09):
with the real world than Jason. So I said, how much.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's weird because you know, you think it's you, and
then and then you talk to him always and you go, oh, man,
so normal.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Exactly, So I said to jas, I said, Jason, I said,
how many people you can grow their own vegetables? And
he said twenty, which is not a bad guess. I would.
I guess it would be the guess of most people.
Most people are going twenty to thirty. And then I
said wrong, and he went ten, and I went wrong.
He goes the other way. I said yes, and it
is thirty five percent. So, in other words, in excess
(05:39):
of a third of us grow vegetable.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, that doesn't mean that you're growing all your vegetables.
You're not, you know, the good lifing it out there? No, no, no,
But I've got a chili plant, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You're not counted. One pot with a chili p Yeah,
are you saying so? If I asked you, do you
grow your own vegetables, you'd say yes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But it has a massive effect on our meals when
I put those slice those fresh chilies in there.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, I'm now starting to call bes on the server.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know what I mean? Like, if all my meals
are kind of like fresh chili based, then that's a
significant part of my own vegetables I'm growing, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Three rap? Did we spend too much time on this today?
I'm looking at I've still got another three bits of
it to play. Have you got time? You've got time? Okay,
let's play them.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We're going to have to get ikere on. I think
I even I don't see the ninety three percent as
a real number. I see the thirty five percent is
a bit of a surprise on the fruit vitual. He's
a better hit a sting here, Glenn, just to just
to keep the program there we go. Renovations we see
are lengthy and expensive. I'd agree with that, So let's
(06:45):
work through this this thing they've done. Forty three percent
of us want to be able to use our home
to bring an extra income. So what we're talking about
is rental apartment subdividing our land, converting spare rooms downstairs,
conversions granny flats, and to Airbnb's that sort of stuff.
So forty three percent of us want to do that. Now,
that doesn't indicate we are just as we want to.
(07:05):
So that doesn't sort of mean anything as far as
I can work out. Fifty nine percent of us say
our home is our favorite place. That's nice, isn't It's
a good sign. Eighty eight percent have crowded entrance ways.
That was my other figure that I found most fascinating.
Eighty eight percent of our entrance ways are crowded.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Why we've got a fish that lives in area.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, see that's your fault, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So that's definitely I feel like it's too crowded. Every
time I go down there, no fish looking at me.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's a poor decision on your part.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Basically, I don't know that I necessarily made that decision.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Forty eight percent have challenges in kitchen storage. Half half
of us have challenges in kitchen storage. That just means
we have too much crap, doesn't it? Bags, coats, hats, prams, keys,
That's why your entrance way because that's what you dump
in the entrance way and fish, so bags, coats, fish hats, prams, keys,
no obvious place to go dream renovations, a kitchen. Storage
(08:00):
is the big frustration, not only in the kitchen but
also the bathroom. Thirty one percent of people struggle with
storage in the kid's bedroom. It's because your kids got
too much crap. Three percent of garages are carpeted. That's
what's it's thirty five percent grow vegetables.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Of course, this and this is where my privilege really
does start to show, not with the garage carpet, but
with the fact that I've got a Batler's pantry. They did.
I wonder if you dig down into the survey and
they've got battler's pantry statistics, because yeah, we don't have
those storage issues thanks to the battle's pantry and light.
The garage company cut the garage carpet. Once you've had
a battle's pantry, you can't go back from that either.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We're massive exhausted. Everything there is to say about this now,
but apparently.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Not here we go. Mike, I own Skyline garages in
our nearly seventy years of business and over one hundred
thousand buildings constructed. I've never heard of a customer saying, now,
let's talk about a garage carpet that's skylight. You can't
argue with skyline.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But just because you don't have it
when the garage is built doesn't mean my carriage true,
Yeah I did.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I did my last more exactly, Mike. Most likely ninety
three percent of new bills with garages are choosing carpet
for the garage. Ninety three percent of all is not
since well, look you take on, Ike, don't don't blame me.
It's like it's like I've started something here. It's not
my fault, Mike. I've been a real estate for over
thirty years in Wellington. No way, even fifty percent of
garages are carpeted now Wellington. I wouldn't be surprised because
(09:21):
a lot of garages are a bit weird and Wellington
with the steps up a house in Garory, had a
house down there, had a garage down the bottom. Certainly
wasn't carpet it because I ate eight hundred stars to
get up to the house, Mike, bull crap I'm a
real estate agent. No way, even forty percent have carpet
in the garage. And that's even generous. Wags in your wags, right.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think it's a blur. It's a blurp. Isn't it
like any survey, especially of that size. It's five hundred
and six hundred people.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Would you're going it's a statistical eraror yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm not questioning the fact that of those people, ninety
three percent of them hair garage carpet. I'm sure that's
that it was true.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
They just have an unusual sample. Yeah, yeah, Or maybe
in the typo and the press release it's actually thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Nine nine point three Yeah, could be.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Here's the number that really blew me away. Fifty six
percent prefer to air dry over half the country. It's
a clothes line, Sam, Sam's looking at me, game. What's that?
It's a closed line, Sam, Look up.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Here, Sam? Just Jack reaches it. He just checks the
clothes out and puts a new new set on.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Rips a T shirt off, unpacks another one and Mum
minds them still too, doesn't she? Which is nice of
a fifty nine fifty six seat prefer to air dry.
But for that and this is why I'm calling BS
on this as well. For this you need a dryer, No,
you don't. You need a washing line. And how many
people actually have a washing line? Have the ability of
(10:43):
a washing line? Or have we all gone out and
bought a clothes horse?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, no, most people have clothes horses, don't they would
they have a clothes horse. But also, just because you
prefer to do it, doesn't mean that you are.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
That's it, And that's the other point. I think that
that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We'd all prefer to have a lovely air dried towel
or shit.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But we prefer Adrian or to cut the interest rate today,
Yes we would. Is it going to happen? Not necessarily?
I think that's the Ike way of looking things, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Which would be a perfect opportunity for me to segue
from all this talk of garage carpets to the you know,
an actual legitimate story of the day, you know what
is happening with the ocrrap. Instead, I think we're just
going to keep talking about this.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Maybe the entrances are cluttered with clothes horses, Mike. It's
a good point, Mike. Most new builds in Auckland have
garage carpet. I'm a builder. See, I would have argued
that myself. One hundred percent of houses in Flatbush Auckland
have carpet garages. Mike Morning, Mike, we live in Dunedon
where we have a six car garage, only five cars.
It's fully carpeted, which costs three thy three hundred and
sixty dollars. See, that's what you get by moving to duned.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Well, there's this one. We got garage carpet for health
and safety reasons. Polish concrete was so slippery when on
crutches or walking sticks, especially when from cars on wet days.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Couldn't agree more. You get you get water on a
painted surface, painted surface beautiful, but you get water on that.
You back your car in there and you get a
high heel on or in Glenn's case of walking stick.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
In your case of high heel in my case of
walking stick.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Then boom, you're gone, Mike. I'm anti carpet. I've installed
a two car hoist in my six car garage. Gee,
all you're doing it's a flick. It's just it's just man,
come on, don't I've installed a two car hoist in
my six car garage Good on your Brian. Cleaning MAGS
(12:26):
is very easy and actually fun, and I epoxy painted
the entire floor. But I live in Graytown, not one
of the affluent cities. Greytown's very gentrified. Don't don't you
start talking down Greytown.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So I think what we've learned about that is that
the garage carpet is an aspirational thing, but there's actually
there's not that much of a of a budgetory barrier
between you not having it and having it, so go
out and have it. Really, I don't even think Ikia
sells garage carpet, so I'm not quite sure how much
(13:01):
good the survey has done them, but there you go.
Who knows what we'll be talking about on the rewrap tomorrow.
I'm thinking it probably won't be garage carpet, but I
can't
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The rewraph. Good I there, and welcome to the rewrap
for Wednesday. All the best, But it's from the Mike
Hosking Breakfast on news doorgs it'd be in a sillier package.
I am Glen Hart today, a bit of a weird one.
I've got to have met and it's it's only one
topic because it's the topic that took the show by
storm this morning, and you never know when it's going
to happen. Yes, that's right, garage carpet.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
What else morning, Mike? Ninety three percent? This goes back
to carpeting the garage. I'm going to spend the morning
on this. Ninety three percent. They obviously don't serve our street,
my house, the two on the lift, the three on
the right, and the two on the other side of
the street a non carpet. I think it's nine point
three percent. Ninety three percent, Michael, Very good of you
to know.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, it must be pointed out that it was only Auckland,
Wellington and christ homes that were served. Well, yeah, those
flash harries and those big cities.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's only the people they went to, obviously, but it
seemed to me like a stunning number as a painting
contract to Mike and Christ which I'm calling BS on
the ninety three percent of garages have capital them Sorry, Mike,
that statistics. Ninety three percent of garages capital in this
country is total BS. Ninety three percent of garages capital
is fake news, boy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean the other thing, the interesting thing about that
status that they were saying they weren't actually being used
as garages as well.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh but we know that I was.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I found disappointing because my whole goal when I moved
to a house, I don't feel like I'm moved in
until I can pack both cars in their garage.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, but you and I are similar like that. I
like a garage as a garage, but most people aren't
like that. Boy, this is a whole program because we
will go to ten.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm constantly amazed and dismayed. Actually when I see people's
garage doors open and inside there's just boxes in various
bits of sporting equipment splayed all over the place, and
no room for their cars at all, and both of
their cars sitting out on the well. You hate to
see rewrap, so I like I say, I think not
(02:15):
only did this capture our imagination, but also the imagination
of the audience.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Mike, time to get off the glass barbecue and just
think about what you're saying. Mate, don't shoot the messenger.
I didn't make this up. This is a survey. There
is no way it is even close to fifteen to
twenty percent. We build are involved with twenty five houses
a year currently struggling in the market, and only one
of these houses last year had carpet. The gesu Well,
(02:39):
you're building poor people's houses, mate, or.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It might not be in Wellington. Christ it's your auck one. Yeah,
I mean, it wasn't the only thing that they surveyed.
Of course. The other statistic that I found interesting was
that thirty six percent of us sometimes dance or sing
when no one's around.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I would have thought it was higher than that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, that's actually higher than the global average of thirty percent.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And I would have had it at sixty or seventy percent.
I think there's a lot of people just pretending they
don't sing and dance, or don't realize they're singing.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In the first thing I did when we first got
our first garage carpet in our previous rich.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Person will you.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But it was the thing. It was quite reasonable. It
didn't cost that. That's why we were so happy about it.
We went down there and just danced and saying on it,
Oh man, have.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You been have you just come back from the Melfy
coast as well on your yacht? Goodness sake, Glenn.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's my whole point. There's nothing elitist about garage carpet.
It's not that expensive. Believe me, look into it, rewrap
and talk about dancing and singing. Oh the parties we've
had in their garage on their carpet.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I've got garage carpet, Mike, and my garages and workshops
in my last four houses. It's as essential as a
nice beer and a good wine. If I had to,
I'd drop the house carpet and stay with it in
my man's areas.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't know that went weird at the end there,
I see, Ike. I also surveyed people about growing their
own fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Mike. That's an astonishing number, wasn't it. Did you not
find that number astonishing?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did you find it astonishingly low?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Or large? I thought it was way higher than I
would have guessed.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But what a number. Let me know, listeners, as listeners,
do you love it or hate it? When we do
that and say we're going to tell you this when
we come back, you hate it, don't you? But can
we get told we're supposed to do it? So we
do it still? Rewrap I know sometimes he's even a
break in a podcast and you have to wait and
hear what we were going to say. I'm glad you
stayed with me here it is.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, this ikea survey that we've hooked into this morning
with the ninety three percent of garage carpets around the country. So,
just to be fair to them, don't shoot me the messager.
I'm just report This is just a piece of reportage.
They've gone around the country. This sample size isn't I
wouldn't have thought particularly high. They've got five or six
hundred people, but they have gone round to the people.
As Lin's pointed out, it's an Arkland, Wellington and christ judge.
(04:48):
Broadly speaking, it's designed to inform them as to where
we're at with our houses, what we think of our houses,
what's in our houses, how they should stock the new Zealand,
Ikea shops all that sort of stuff. Anyway, A couple
of critical things I haven't come to yet, and I
will in a moment. But his reference to vegetables, I've
just done it on the Boss, and I like doing
it on the Boss. No one's more out of touch
(05:09):
with the real world than Jason. So I said, how much.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's weird because you know, you think it's you, and
then and then you talk to him always and you go, oh, man,
so normal.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Exactly, So I said to jas, I said, Jason, I said,
how many people you can grow their own vegetables? And
he said twenty, which is not a bad guess. I would.
I guess it would be the guess of most people.
Most people are going twenty to thirty. And then I
said wrong, and he went ten, and I went wrong.
He goes the other way. I said yes, and it
is thirty five percent. So, in other words, in excess
(05:39):
of a third of us grow vegetable.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, that doesn't mean that you're growing all your vegetables.
You're not, you know, the good lifing it out there? No, no, no,
But I've got a chili plant, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You're not counted. One pot with a chili p Yeah,
are you saying so? If I asked you, do you
grow your own vegetables, you'd say yes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But it has a massive effect on our meals when
I put those slice those fresh chilies in there.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, I'm now starting to call bes on the server.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know what I mean? Like, if all my meals
are kind of like fresh chili based, then that's a
significant part of my own vegetables I'm growing, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Three rap? Did we spend too much time on this today?
I'm looking at I've still got another three bits of
it to play. Have you got time? You've got time? Okay,
let's play them.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We're going to have to get ikere on. I think
I even I don't see the ninety three percent as
a real number. I see the thirty five percent is
a bit of a surprise on the fruit vitual. He's
a better hit a sting here, Glenn, just to just
to keep the program there we go. Renovations we see
are lengthy and expensive. I'd agree with that, So let's
(06:45):
work through this this thing they've done. Forty three percent
of us want to be able to use our home
to bring an extra income. So what we're talking about
is rental apartment subdividing our land, converting spare rooms downstairs,
conversions granny flats, and to Airbnb's that sort of stuff.
So forty three percent of us want to do that. Now,
that doesn't indicate we are just as we want to.
(07:05):
So that doesn't sort of mean anything as far as
I can work out. Fifty nine percent of us say
our home is our favorite place. That's nice, isn't It's
a good sign. Eighty eight percent have crowded entrance ways.
That was my other figure that I found most fascinating.
Eighty eight percent of our entrance ways are crowded.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Why we've got a fish that lives in area.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, see that's your fault, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So that's definitely I feel like it's too crowded. Every
time I go down there, no fish looking at me.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's a poor decision on your part.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Basically, I don't know that I necessarily made that decision.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Forty eight percent have challenges in kitchen storage. Half half
of us have challenges in kitchen storage. That just means
we have too much crap, doesn't it? Bags, coats, hats, prams, keys,
That's why your entrance way because that's what you dump
in the entrance way and fish, so bags, coats, fish hats, prams, keys,
no obvious place to go dream renovations, a kitchen. Storage
(08:00):
is the big frustration, not only in the kitchen but
also the bathroom. Thirty one percent of people struggle with
storage in the kid's bedroom. It's because your kids got
too much crap. Three percent of garages are carpeted. That's
what's it's thirty five percent grow vegetables.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Of course, this and this is where my privilege really
does start to show, not with the garage carpet, but
with the fact that I've got a Batler's pantry. They did.
I wonder if you dig down into the survey and
they've got battler's pantry statistics, because yeah, we don't have
those storage issues thanks to the battle's pantry and light.
The garage company cut the garage carpet. Once you've had
a battle's pantry, you can't go back from that either.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We're massive exhausted. Everything there is to say about this now,
but apparently.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Not here we go. Mike, I own Skyline garages in
our nearly seventy years of business and over one hundred
thousand buildings constructed. I've never heard of a customer saying, now,
let's talk about a garage carpet that's skylight. You can't
argue with skyline.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But just because you don't have it
when the garage is built doesn't mean my carriage true,
Yeah I did.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I did my last more exactly, Mike. Most likely ninety
three percent of new bills with garages are choosing carpet
for the garage. Ninety three percent of all is not
since well, look you take on, Ike, don't don't blame me.
It's like it's like I've started something here. It's not
my fault, Mike. I've been a real estate for over
thirty years in Wellington. No way, even fifty percent of
garages are carpeted now Wellington. I wouldn't be surprised because
(09:21):
a lot of garages are a bit weird and Wellington
with the steps up a house in Garory, had a
house down there, had a garage down the bottom. Certainly
wasn't carpet it because I ate eight hundred stars to
get up to the house, Mike, bull crap I'm a
real estate agent. No way, even forty percent have carpet
in the garage. And that's even generous. Wags in your wags, right.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think it's a blur. It's a blurp. Isn't it
like any survey, especially of that size. It's five hundred
and six hundred people.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Would you're going it's a statistical eraror yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm not questioning the fact that of those people, ninety
three percent of them hair garage carpet. I'm sure that's
that it was true.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
They just have an unusual sample. Yeah, yeah, Or maybe
in the typo and the press release it's actually thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Nine nine point three Yeah, could be.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Here's the number that really blew me away. Fifty six
percent prefer to air dry over half the country. It's
a clothes line, Sam, Sam's looking at me, game. What's that?
It's a closed line, Sam, Look up.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Here, Sam? Just Jack reaches it. He just checks the
clothes out and puts a new new set on.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Rips a T shirt off, unpacks another one and Mum
minds them still too, doesn't she? Which is nice of
a fifty nine fifty six seat prefer to air dry.
But for that and this is why I'm calling BS
on this as well. For this you need a dryer, No,
you don't. You need a washing line. And how many
people actually have a washing line? Have the ability of
(10:43):
a washing line? Or have we all gone out and
bought a clothes horse?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, no, most people have clothes horses, don't they would
they have a clothes horse. But also, just because you
prefer to do it, doesn't mean that you are.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
That's it, And that's the other point. I think that
that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We'd all prefer to have a lovely air dried towel
or shit.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But we prefer Adrian or to cut the interest rate today,
Yes we would. Is it going to happen? Not necessarily?
I think that's the Ike way of looking things, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Which would be a perfect opportunity for me to segue
from all this talk of garage carpets to the you know,
an actual legitimate story of the day, you know what
is happening with the ocrrap. Instead, I think we're just
going to keep talking about this.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Maybe the entrances are cluttered with clothes horses, Mike. It's
a good point, Mike. Most new builds in Auckland have
garage carpet. I'm a builder. See, I would have argued
that myself. One hundred percent of houses in Flatbush Auckland
have carpet garages. Mike Morning, Mike, we live in Dunedon
where we have a six car garage, only five cars.
It's fully carpeted, which costs three thy three hundred and
sixty dollars. See, that's what you get by moving to duned.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Well, there's this one. We got garage carpet for health
and safety reasons. Polish concrete was so slippery when on
crutches or walking sticks, especially when from cars on wet days.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Couldn't agree more. You get you get water on a
painted surface, painted surface beautiful, but you get water on that.
You back your car in there and you get a
high heel on or in Glenn's case of walking stick.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
In your case of high heel in my case of
walking stick.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Then boom, you're gone, Mike. I'm anti carpet. I've installed
a two car hoist in my six car garage. Gee,
all you're doing it's a flick. It's just it's just man,
come on, don't I've installed a two car hoist in
my six car garage Good on your Brian. Cleaning MAGS
(12:26):
is very easy and actually fun, and I epoxy painted
the entire floor. But I live in Graytown, not one
of the affluent cities. Greytown's very gentrified. Don't don't you
start talking down Greytown.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So I think what we've learned about that is that
the garage carpet is an aspirational thing, but there's actually
there's not that much of a of a budgetory barrier
between you not having it and having it, so go
out and have it. Really, I don't even think Ikia
sells garage carpet, so I'm not quite sure how much
(13:01):
good the survey has done them, but there you go.
Who knows what we'll be talking about on the rewrap tomorrow.
I'm thinking it probably won't be garage carpet, but I
can't
Speaker 1 (13:14):
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