Full Show Podcast: 06 July 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from US. Talks edby viewing up the house, sorting
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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grass is overgrown in the yard, and even when a
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Too old to barn.

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And when you're sitting at the table trying not to
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when you're therellone houses a home, even when these ghost

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even when you got.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Around from the world you love your most screamed those
broken paints, feeling from the wood locals bastball when they're
going to leave in the neighbor.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
The house is a home, even when wilband home, even
when you're in there alone, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
A home.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
A hang on, no, no, no, heaven. How about that? Sorry, folks,
let me start again. My mistake radio. Actually, yeah, there
we go, rightio. Sorry about that technical mistake on my part.
The fader was down there you go. Hey, good morning,
welcome along to the show. My name's Pete wolf Camp.
This is the resident builder on Sunday, and we are

(02:49):
into a couple of hours of open line conversation about
all things building and construction. So if you've got some
questions of a building nature, you should call me right now. Inevitably,
as I mentioned a few times, we do get a
little bit busy later on the show and don't always
get to all of the callers. So if you've got

(03:09):
a question and you're up and about, maybe you've you've
already had the toast and the tea and that sort
of thing, or perhaps you just tucked up still in bed.
It is kind of the middle of winter, doesn't It
feels reasonably sort of settled in this part of the
country at the moment. But if you're up at about
and you're listening to the show and you think, yee,
I wish I knew kind of what to do about.

(03:29):
You know, someone who's text me before when it rains
a little area just by the back door that gets
wet right the back door's undercover, so I suspect that
the moisture is coming up through the slab. What do
I do about that? Or another email that I got
during the course of the week, it was someone who's going, hey, look,
I was told that I didn't need a building consent

(03:51):
for this particular type of work. Turns out I did.
What can I do about it?

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Now?

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I have to say on that matter, it's been sort
of a project of mine for the last little while
to try and get a building consent that was issued
in two thousand and two. The work was completed, the
person lived in the house. They went for a final
inspection in two thousand and twelve found that there was

(04:21):
some work that was not properly done, that required more work,
which required a new building consent that got done, That
consent got signed off. Excuse me, my client got me
to do some work on that house almost ten years ago,
which got a building consent. Well, had a building consent

(04:41):
and got signed off and a CCC was issued. But
then a couple of years ago it was found that, hey,
actually that other earlier consent never got signed off. We've
got to get that signed off. I can assure you
that has been quite the process, and it wasn't just
a sort of desktop review type thing. Oh well, that
should have got signed off. There was inspections, there's been meetings,

(05:02):
there's been the engagement of building surveys to do a
essentially a performance review of the exterior cladding, to satisfy
council that it's going to it's going to perform, and
that they can feel comfortable about issuing a CCC for
that very early consent, which means that when someone looks

(05:22):
at the limb the land Information Memorandum of the property,
they'll see that every consent that was issued, every building
consent that was issued, has in fact been resolved signed
off with a CCC. These things take a bit of time,
so that that text that came through with that email
that came through about oh gosh, we've done the shower

(05:42):
and now realize that we should have had a building
consent might actually be quite a process sway. We'll get
into that a little bit later on radio. What's going
on at your place? Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call if you've got a
building question. It could be about, you know, the actual
practicalities of getting something constructed. It might be around the

(06:03):
rules and regulations that govern what we build, how we build,
and how we get it to be compliant. And there's
some pretty well pretty significant changes. Something that's been talked
about We've talked about it on the show a number
of times over the last couple of months. Probably actually
would go back almost a year. Cast your mind back

(06:27):
to the arrival I guess of a new government and
a new Minister for Construction and Building. That is the
honorable Chris Pink, who's been a guest on this show
a couple of times, came into the studio a few
months ago. One of the things that was floated very
early on is, hey, look I've been told or feedback
from the industry, is that the recent changes to H

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one of the Building Code, which is what sets the
sort of energy performance or the insulation standards for the
Building Code, which had just only recently been taken up
a couple of notches right to make our buildings more
energy efficient, to make them war Alma basically, or to
upgrade the amount of insulation that came into effect in

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November twenty twenty three, and then, of course about less
than a year later that the incoming government goes, oh, well, look,
the feedback from the sector has been that the insulation
standards are too high. They've added significant costs to buildings.
We should look at winding that. And that was kind
of the first one of the first announcements. Look, we're

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going to look at this. We've being told it adds
fifty thousand dollars to the cost of a new build.
We're going to save you fifty thousand dollars by winding
back h one fascinating debate. We've talked about it a
couple of times on the show over a fairly long
period of time, consultation, and finally, as in this week,

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decision has been made and the decision and I have
to say my frustration with the way that this has
been reported in the media has been enormous. There has
been much shouting at televisions, radios, stomping of feet, banging
of hands on the desk or reading the newspaper at
the way in which it's been presented. And so often

(08:17):
the reporting will be along lines of insulation standards are
going to be reduced, right, which is not actually true.
Insallation standards, the actual performance criteria for the house are
not changing. The way in which you get to the
best of my knowl which the way in which you

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get there is going to change. So there used to
be a thing called the schedule method. It's still out
there it means that you can go to the code
and you go right every If I use the schedule
method to determine the amount of insulation I need in
my house, I'm going to end up with six point
six in the ceiling, because that's what's required everywhere in
the country, in the Cargol to Kaitaire, everywhere in the country.

(09:02):
If you use the schedule method six point six. To
be fair, that I think an ill conceived idea when
it came out. So anyway, the schedule method at this stage, anyway,
it seems like the decision is we're going to discard
that in favor of two other pathways to compliance, one

(09:22):
of which is calculation method. The other is the modeling method.
Happy to talk about this, I think it's really important,
but I do want to state that this is not
a reduction in the insulation standards. It's just a better,
more nuanced way of actually figuring out what's going on
in our houses. Last week on the show as well,

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I mentioned another little project that I've been involved in,
which is looking at the heating requirements for Healthy Home
standards for in this case an apartment, so an inner
city apartment relatively new built late about nineteen ninety seven,
so not a terribly old building, still had stand dolominium joinery,

(10:07):
single glazing, it's concrete construction, et cetera. But the people
who are the landlords, are the owners of the property.
Had had a healthy homes assessment done by someone, and
in fact, I was reading the report last night, so
I've got the original report that was done, and the
heating calculation that that person determined was four kilowatts of

(10:30):
heating in that particular space. This is forty five forty
six square meters, which isn't massive, right, and it's in
the apartment, and there are apartments above and below and
next to it, and okay, so they went out, they
got heating that complied to that amount, in fact exceeded it.
Then they found out that the heating that they'd put

(10:51):
in was not going to be compliant with healthy home
standards because it was more than two point four kilowats
and it wasn't a heat pump. They had fixed in
panel heaters, very very good quality panel heaters, but they
don't comply because if you have a heating requirement over
two point four, it must be a heat pump. So
then someone else did a heating assessment on it their results,

(11:15):
and again I read that report last night as well.
I wasn't very good company last night said that the
heating requirement for that space was three killer what I
looked at it and kind of used the calculator and
adjusted the figures. Let's say, so, I haven't submitted this.

(11:38):
I just used the online tool that everyone can use
if you go to tendency Services, and I figured out
that it would be I thought, in terms of actual
practical use, given that there's an apartment above and one
below and some on each side, that the heating requirement
might be around one point two. We went out and
had it probably properly modeled by a basically building scientist

(12:04):
who determined that the actual heating requirement was zero point
five to seven killer watts of energy. Now that's a
long way from four. Still a long way or four
point two, I think it was. It's a long way
from three. It's even quite a long way from one
point two. So just dwell on that for a moment.

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Think about the potential implications that if you use the
online tool you're going to end up with a number. Well,
it just raises so many questions. One is how do
two people assessing exactly the same building come up with
two numbers that are completely different? And then how do

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I come up with a number that's even less than
that looking at a real world example, how does this
building actually perform? And then having it independently scientifically showing
that in fact, the heating requirement is considerably less. Again,
we can talk about that as well. And oh, I
got to tell you about this phone call? Random phone call.

(13:09):
Chappy rings up and goes, what do you know about
this rock Coat stuff? Because I'm about to buy a house.
I said, what do you mean? I don't know him?
You just I don't know. To be fair, I don't
even know who he got my number. He listens to
the show and somehow you got my number, Good on you,
and he goes the auctions later on today. Can you
tell me anything about it as it happens? I could,

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And the only reason I could is because I know
the guy who is the general manager for Razine Construction
and rock Coat, and so I was able to ring
him and go, here's the address. What do you know
about the house? He knows a lot about it. I'll
tell you about that a bit later on as well.
Radio folks, thank you very much for listening. Let's get
into it. Sorry about the the heck up at the start.
We got that sorted. I've got some technical ability. It

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is twenty minutes after six. We're going to take short break.
We're going to talk to Steve in a moment. We've
got some lines free. Eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty.
There is lots to talk about.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing with feds, or wondering
how to fix that hole in the wall. Give Peter
wolf Gamble on eight the resident builder on News Dogs.

Speaker 5 (14:10):
That'd be I'm slightly baffled by this text. To be fair,
we'll come to Stephen just a second. Your example describes
exactly why there's a schedule method, Peter, I'm not sure
what you're trying to say there. Yeah, anyway, if you'd

(14:31):
like to give me some more details, or better still,
give me a call, that'd be great. Other texts from Owen,
good to hear the minister listened. If not keeping everyone happy.
What I want to know is why any government thinks
it's okay for the situation to continue where developers can
build or modify buildings into apartments walk away with the
profits and leave apartment purchases with huge remediation costs that

(14:52):
in many cases ruin them. I want to see the
responsibility follow the money and the man not to a
dissolve company. Look, that has historically been an issue, and
there's any number of bits of litigation. In fact, I
know a guy who's a lawyer who's kind of a
mate as well, who's been involved in one case. I
think for some like twelve years. In terms of remediation,

(15:14):
there was a I think there was a couple of
sort of forced sales the other day where people had
refused to pay their body corporate contribution to a remedial building,
and then the body corporate is basically going to either
bankrupt them or get them out of the property and
sell it on their behalf. And so yeah, I look,
I don't disagree with you. I think that's some either

(15:38):
unscrupulous builders or developers have built buildings that have been
terribly poorly performed, and the devastation that's wrought on people's
lives is immense. I don't disagree with you. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty, let's get amongst the call. Steve,
good morning.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
Good morning, Pepe. Thanks to you and enjoy your program.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Thank you, thanks for calling.

Speaker 7 (15:59):
Yeah, I've moved a house. It's sort of been consented
by the council into a property and as well underway,
we want to just change the plumbing plan around a
little bit. Had another toilet and just moves a tub
and stuff like that. There's a layout of the plumbing

(16:19):
and drainage obviously, and the registered plumber drain layer. He
didn't think it's too much of a problem with it,
and he will draw up a plan at the end
of it and it goes into council. What I want
to avoid is I'm having a big delay with going
to apply for it now and then you know, and

(16:40):
then all that sort of carry on. I'd sort of
rather do it respectfully.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
I wouldn't suggest so the changes that you're proposing to
make will add to the number of sanitary fitting fittings
that are shown on the existing building consent. Yes, okay,
that triggers the requirement for building consent in itself. So
given that you've already got one and it's active, my
advice to you would be to I would put it

(17:08):
in as a minor variation. Right, So have your plumber
won't be able to draw the plans. The plans have
to be drawn by someone who has a LBP or
is an LBP so has their design license, which I
doubt your plumber is. So go back to the original
drafts personal architect who did the drawings, ask them to

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amend the existing drawings showing the location and the pipework
for the new sanitary fittings, and then submit that as
a minor variation. Now, the council might not accept it
as a minor variation, in which case it then becomes
an amendment to the consent. That might take some time

(17:51):
to process. But typically, depending on which council, or maybe
even which inspector you know, a minor variation can often
be just processed on site so they, you know, next inspection,
or you book a special inspection meeting, get the inspector
out and go, hey, look, just now that we're here
and we've seen how it all works, we'd like to

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make this change. Here's some documentation for it. So if
you've got the plan there straight away, here's the updated plan.
They'll look at it, they can stamp it, sign it,
and you can carry on. But doing it doing it
later is to be blunt recipe for disaster.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
Okay, yeah, good advice.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Do it now. I know it's a bit of a
fair but do it now.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah, no, good advice. I've got the drafts from its
registered and everything. Yeah, I'll draw it up. We'll get
him to modify it and in a minor variation.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
And look, it's not too different to you know people going, oh, well, look,
now that i've got the framing up, I've noticed that
if I move that window over a little bit, I'll
get a better view. And you know, it's relatively that's
what happens right all the time, or gosh, you know,
I've realized that, you know, I if I move that
wall slightly, it'll increase the flow through the building, or

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you know all of those reasons. And you guys have obviously,
now that you've got the house on site, you're probably
walking through it going, oh gosh, if we made this
little change, it'll be so much better.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
But do it now.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah. The only thing is that I want to put
the extra toilet into a laundry that it joins the kitchen.
There's a door between them. Is there any other problems
of that?

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Do you think you might have to just check. For
a while, there was rules that said you needed two
doors between a toilet and a kitchen. Now I don't
know if that's still the case, but often that was
the case. So you needed two doors between a toilet

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and a kitchen.

Speaker 7 (19:52):
Yeah, okay, although I'm just.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Thinking about like a downstairs powder room that might be
like tucked in underneath the stairs of an open plan living.
It'll only be one door. That might be the only
thing that might trip you up. But your your architecture,
your drafts person or your arciticct will will know how
that should work. Okay, but yeah, do it now. Thanks,
do it now, buddy, all the best, Okay, take care

(20:17):
of Thank you, sir, Steve your news talks. He'd be
people of camp with you, the resident builder here at Newstalks.
He'd be coming up six thirty Colin, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (20:27):
Good morning tea.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
How are you on?

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Very well? Thank you Colin yourself.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
Well, I'll run out of doubt one day. Next seat,
I've got someone to come and and check my root
before they painted. It's got the point upon that teter.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yes, So it's now just just for listeners, is it
a So it's one of those like pressed metal tile
with the chips embedded on it, you should yeah, okay, yep.

Speaker 8 (20:55):
In the kitchen, Tita, I have got some crack in
the ceiling through the taint. The taint is actually peeled,
and that it's my way. I don't know why it's
like it's since I've been in the place, but I've
got it at half a dozen little spot and there's

(21:17):
little cracks through the paint. Isn't because the way it's
being prepared.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
It could be a combination of things. So one most
likely it's the preparation. Right, So when the ceiling was painted,
if let's say it was, if it's an older house
and it's been painted a number of times, you put
a new coat of paint over an old coat of paint,
but the old code of paint fails and so starts
to peel away, So that might be part of it.
The other thing might be is if you've got not

(21:45):
great insulation in the roof, then you'll be collecting a
bit of moisture up there as well. So it's not
necessarily a leak as in coming from the roof, but
you're you're getting moisture collecting on the ceiling and that
might affect the paint. And then, of course, the third
possibility is that it actually is leaking if it's an
older roof, in which case you'd want to try and

(22:06):
identify that and fix the roof before you had the
roof painted. Now's the time to fix it.

Speaker 8 (22:14):
I'll take the guy out once and he set the
ceilings fine. I mean, the roof is fine, but yeah,
it just puzzles me why it's got so many little
cracks in it. I've got to get something to come
in and do it. But I'm going to get the
job done too. Yeah, so that's what I thought.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
In terms of the ceiling, I'd have a quick look
inside the roof space and see what the insallation's like
because that might have an impact on it. But then
in terms of prepping that ceiling, you'd want to give
it a really thorough clean, like with a proper paint
preparation cleaner, so something that's going to be quite powerful.
Clean the ceiling down, give it a light sand to

(22:58):
knock black back the gloss level, and then I would recommend,
especially if it's in a kitchen sort of an area
with a bit of humid, put a coat of pigmented
sealer on it first. That binds everything together, and then
go ahead and put your top coats on. So you know,
I think often what happens is people go, oh, I'm
going to repaint the ceiling and they just get out

(23:19):
the roller in a bucket of paint, tip it and
roll the ceiling and then six months later they go,
I wonder why that's peeling off. Well, because you haven't
done the preparation. So good prep, I'll give you a
good paint job.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yeah I was.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
Actually I'm going to get a a twadem and tun
them and actually do the same.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah. Perfect, okay, but again make sure you say to
them how are you going to do it? And I
think that the best way to do it is to
you know, clean it, send it pigmented sealer top coats
and if they go, oh no, I'm just going to
paint it, then you kind of go, well, I might
look for another painter.

Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
Yeah, all the best, Thank you mate, take care by bye.

Speaker 7 (24:03):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
One hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Just referring to Steve's comments about the building consent wanting
to make some small changes, particularly about adding for example,
a toilet into I think a laundry area. Someone's text Pete.
If it's already in for consent, get the consent and
get underway, or your builder is going to be held up. No,

(24:26):
I disagree with you there. If you're going to make
a change like that that you know requires a building
consent or an amendment to the building consent or a
minor variation, get that sorted out. My impression is that
the project's already underway right. The house has been moved on,
they're doing the work on it. It's got a building
consent for the relocation of the building. So if you're

(24:49):
going to make a change, get that into counsel as
soon as possible. Don't expect to counsel to look kindly
on you making changes and then kind of asking for
permission later on. Just doesn't work that way, right. Six
thirty four Here at news Talk set Big Take, short break,
come back with Xavier in just a moment. Squeaky door

(25:10):
or squeaky floor.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Get the right advice from Feta Wolfcare, the resident builder
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Speaker 5 (25:17):
News Talk's HEDB. We're talking all things building in construction.
Off with a Hisstener Raw this morning. If you've got
a question of a building nature. You should call me
right now. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
that number to call. Owen's text through as well. Just
with regard to Colin talking about you know what could
cause cracking in the paint work of the ceiling, has
suggested that painting an enamel over and acrylic may result

(25:39):
in cracking too because of generally the inflexibility of the
enamel on the expanding and contracting a crilic Thank you
very much for that one. Yeah, it is quite And
I made the comment about a legislation or rules building
code rules around whether or not you needed more than

(25:59):
one door between a toilet and the kitchen. It's just
it's one of those old rules that sort of floated around. Anyway,
Someone's text, hey where can I send you a pack? Well,
if you want to send a pick, you have to
email it to me. That's Pete at newstalksb dot co
dot nz. And one we have one bathroom in our house.
It's literally seven steps away from the kitchen bench and

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there is only one door. Just trying thing about my
own house. And we got some doors into the hallway
which are typically always open, and then one door to
the bathroom which is off the hallway, typical old villa.
So if the doors are open, which they are most
of the time, and it's only one one door between
the kitchen, maybe it's a distance thing as well. It

(26:42):
just it stuck with me. I remember discussing it. To
be fair, it could have been twenty or thirty years ago,
but anyway, right, and someone takes through. I get this
all the time. It's hilarious song, so depressing it really
gets a bad start to the show. I'll tell you
what in kindness, I'll say this. I did last year
on the anniversary of the show. Decided to change the

(27:03):
song and I came up with something else, and then
everyone went, we liked the song, We like the song
back please So oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number to call New Texas. Just come in morning, Pete.
What happens if the council has no limb or any
other records of our house? Is there anywhere else to
find information for consents? Et cetera. We recently bought a

(27:26):
house in the Rangutiki district and council and they say
that they had a fire sometime ago and all of
the records were lost. Apparently it's a common thing. I
tell you, what's a common thing. And I'm amazed that
there are any records left. But I have heard we
had a fire and all the records were lost. I

(27:48):
was going to say hundreds of times. No, not hundreds
of times, but I've heard it from almost every single
council in the country over the last umpteen years. We
had a fire and all the records were lost. I've
heard that over and over and over again. I don't
think that council buildings are that likely to burn down

(28:11):
and destroy all of the council records for building consents
and building permits and all the rest of it. I
think that councils just lose stuff. So look, in the
event that council don't have anything on the limb, you
could ask for the property file, which is slightly different
to the limb, and that literally is anything that they've

(28:32):
got on file about the building. But it is also
not uncommon for older buildings that there are simply no.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Records.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
And I've had exactly the same I requested the property
file for a property and I did it online, paid
my money. It was like seventy six dollars or something
like that paid for it, and about two or three
days later I got a phone call from someone working
at that particular council saying, hey, look, we know that

(29:02):
you've made this request, but to be fair, we've got nothing.
We got nothing, so you know, send us an email
and we'll refund your money. There you go. Oh eight
one hundred and eighty eighty is the number. Call Call
seems to have dropped off. That's a right if you've

(29:24):
got a question about building or about building consents and
rules regulations. And I am quite keen to discuss the
whole heating assessment tool thing, just based on my own
experience of using it recently and then looking at and
I've got them up on my laptop A. This is

(29:47):
all part of the Healthy Home Standards right, So as
a landlord, now there's no more time to get yourself
sorted in terms of complying with Healthy Home standards. As
of the first of July, so six days ago, all
New Zealand residential rental properties must have a must be

(30:07):
Healthy Homes compliant right. There are no more exceptions, there's
no more delays, there's no more I'll get round to
it tomorrow. It's all just got to happen. And so
everyone who has a residential rental property will need to
do a heating assessment to prove that the building can
get to twenty degrees on the coldest day of the year,

(30:29):
and that varies across the country depending on what climatic
zone you're in. And then obviously what it takes to
get to twenty degrees in terms of this calculation depends
on what the building is made of. Is there a
lots of insulation, not much insulation, et cetera, et cetera.
And so you use the tool, it's the government's tool.
It's on the Tendency Services website. You use the tool,

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you enter in the data and it spits out a number.
So one report, this is bearing in mind, this is
exactly the same building right that we're looking at here.
One report and I'm reading it right now, ends up
with a heating recommendation of So the building you require

(31:12):
four point five kilowats of heating capacity to heat the
living room. Heating needs to provide this heating capacity with
an outdoor temperature of one degree. So that's the assumption
in Auckland that it might be one degree outside when
it's one degree outside. You've got to be able to
get that room to twenty degrees and in order to
do that, you've got to have four point five kilowatts

(31:35):
of heating. Then exactly the same building, another report done
by another assessor generates a number that says you need
three kilowatts of heating, just quite a bit different. Then
I did calculations based on how I think the building
actually performs using the tool, and I got one point two.

(31:56):
Then we went out and got a professional to do
a model of the building, a theoretical model of the
building to see what heating requirement there was actually going
to be. Came back at zero point five to seven killowatts.
Think about what's required to heat to four point five
versus zero point five to seven. It is significant difference, right,

(32:22):
and what you need to do. I e. In one case,
you must install a heat pump, which means penetrating the
exterior cladding, doing lots of electrical work, making sure that
you've got a drainage pathway from the indoor unit to
the outside. For the comments eight, you've got to have
somewhere to sit that outdoor unit, which in an apartment
could be a little bit challenging, and you know all

(32:45):
of the cost involved to do something that in the end,
in my opinion, you don't actually need. So give us
a call on that if you'd like. Oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty is the number to call. James. Good
morning to.

Speaker 9 (32:56):
You, Jane.

Speaker 11 (32:58):
That's good things, just kind of all. My mother's on
her own. She's got a naked aker land and he's
beside her. Baker Land has been subdivided, and they've got
the neighbor has built a big his house is slightly raised,

(33:21):
and he's built a long cronky drive from the road
up to his house in the in the fall of
the of the driveways going towards my mother's house, and
it's flooding. She's never had that film before and so
I had to talk to him and then I said,

(33:42):
you need to such that drive. The fool is wrong
and he said that costs me quite a bit. And
I said, well, well, He said, how vert if I
put a sum the so caol and your parents just
through the fence into the appearance place. And I said, no,

(34:03):
you can't do that, I thought the council. He said, oh,
you get them, get her to agree. She's in her eighties.
And I said no, I said, you can't do that.
So I don't think you can, kiddy, Hell no, yeah,
oh sort of, because that would come under lund too.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
I mean.

Speaker 11 (34:25):
You have told the house, wouldn't you.

Speaker 10 (34:27):
No, you don't.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
You don't allow the neighbor who's basically lazy and maybe
a little bit of a bully to do that, right,
So that that and also that type of drainage would
require a consent. You never get consent for it, right,
So this this development that's going on next door obviously

(34:51):
is consented.

Speaker 11 (34:54):
He felt, well, yeah, that's quite long. She's her the
back of her sections panic and and his house is
right the end of the pedic in a very long driveway.
So the water comes raw and down, Yeah, raised coming

(35:14):
down because the foolall is going to my mother's place.
She's well in.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
And what is flooding in ord?

Speaker 11 (35:24):
And I said, yeah, you're going to have to change
four of it?

Speaker 5 (35:26):
So yeah, so he could you know, in terms of
actually fixing it, what he could do is add a curb, right,
so it might fall to one side, but then he
catches it in with a curb and then directs that down.
But then he's got to collect that somewhere as well,
right and dispose of it, and all of that is

(35:47):
required by law. So that's why I asked if he's
got a building consent, I would say that on the
building consent, it will show us a particular design for
the driveway. And I wonder whether what he's done is
not complied with the design for the drive way. He's
just gone ahead whack something in in the hope that

(36:11):
no one's going to complain, but obviously it is causing flooding.
So one option would be to go to him and say,
can you show me the design for the driveway please,
and then have a look at it, and if it
doesn't match up, you know that like if he's saying,
it's not my problem, I've just put the driveway, and
then you could say, well, look we do have a

(36:31):
problem because we're flooding or my mum's flooding, and so
I'm not convinced that the driveway is built as per
the consent. Yeah, So and then you know, if he's
reluctant to play ball again, I'd probably get in touch
with counsel. If he's doing a subdivision, there'll be both

(36:54):
a resource consent and a building consent.

Speaker 11 (36:58):
The house is already established. But yeah, and already is stablished.
It's don't come a year and year and her maybe
two years done, but with an increasing rain with it.
But just notice got worse and then it's just a
fund of the bed that's all coming.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
So on the adjoining property. On the adjoining property, James is,
there's still just one dwelling.

Speaker 11 (37:27):
These three in the driveway. That in the driveway feeds
two houses on the So the the driveway runs right
along the Yeah, it's coming under the fence and flooding
into the water.

Speaker 5 (37:43):
And I'd be happy to bet dollars to donuts that
the driveway design probably shows either a swale or a
curb as catchment and then that should be directed to
some controlled storm water. If he hasn't done that, it's
it's absolutely his problem, right you just it's a requirement

(38:05):
under the property law that you have to control stormwater
discharge from your property. He's not doing that, and he's
in a breach. So the other person to talk to
James would be go to counsel and ask to speak
to the resource Consents compliance monitoring officer and ask them
to go out.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
And have a look, yes.

Speaker 11 (38:26):
Next week, so very much that no trouble.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
Back, all the best, take care see then frustrating A.
I mean, because it's to be blunt. It's not that
hard to do a driveway where you are catching the
water that falls onto the driveway. It's a hard surface,
it's impermeable, it's going to sheet off somewhere. So most
driveways will have either a bit of a dish running
down one side which will catch the water directed into

(38:52):
a catch pit or to a channel grate and then
discharge it into stormwater. But just sloping the driveway so
it falls to your neighbors is simply not acceptable.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Take short break back in a moth helping you get
those diway projects done to the resident builder with Peter
Wolfcat call.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
Talk news sport and with the top of the air
coming up shortly but Gerald, good morning.

Speaker 12 (39:17):
Good morning, Yeah, listen to to program and a lot.
I've got a problem an older cottage with a corrugated
iron roof. The organized now the leadhead nails are going
ted leadheads in it, which I wanted to get rid of.

(39:37):
They've gone getting rush marks around them, so we pulled
them out and there's a little bit of rusty. He
needs treating, and I was advised to put the screws
in the proper screws with brother to get some big
get some big washes that you buy that go around
them to increase the area. Ye, what do we how

(40:00):
do we treat that? Okay, I can divert the water
off the roof for a while enough.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Yeah sure, yeah, that's what shape.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Okay, Look, I think the idea would be I agree
with you pulling the old lead heads out. And there's
a bit of a trick to doing that without damaging
the corrigo die. So if you can take the lead
heads out, and ideally you want to try and pull
those out as straight up as possible, right so that
stops it making a bigger hole through the top of
the corrugate. So get the lead heads out. In most

(40:33):
cases you'll find that if you get them out neatly,
the screw that you use with a neoprene washer on
it will be enough to cover the hole. And in
the occasional one where it doesn't, I would you could
add a larger washer if you want to, or just
put a dob of silicon in there. When you've pulled
the nail out I would be inclined to treat the
area with a bit of rust converter and then some

(40:55):
russ killed primer, and then eventually you'll put a new
acrylic coat over the top. It's job done, So that's
how I would approach it. But the key is getting
the nail out straight up and not making that whole
much bigger radio. Thanks for that, Gerald, all the very best.
We are back straight after news, sport and weather measure
twice God was but maybe called Pete first video WOLFCAF

(41:19):
the resident builder news talk, sa'd be radio. That must
be my turn. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number to call. I don't know why someone's
texting me about the All Blacks, but.

Speaker 10 (41:32):
Hey, um.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Can Oh here's sorry, just a completely random text. This's fascinating.
Can you recommend a silicon spray to squirt on galvanized
chicken wire prevent to that is, preventing the starlings from
nesting in the corners of the spouting and under the eaves.
The chicken wire will eventually rust being near the coast,
but we want to slow it down if possible. The
roof and spouting a powder coated metal and are seven

(41:56):
years old. Okay, that's not where I thought it was
going to go. I would suggest that you rip out
that galvanized chicken wire and replace it with plastics, right,
because that won't rust and almost anything that you could
spray on, you're still going to miss a spot and
you're going to get the rust.

Speaker 9 (42:14):
So I do that.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
The reason that I perked up with that one is
a place that I look after suddenly has had birds
roosting in the veranda roof. And the reason I know
that is because there's droppings all over the veranda and
the handrail. And I was there the other day and
I washed all of that down and I went back
a couple of days later and it's all covered in
bird pil again. So I'm going to try I've never

(42:37):
tried the stuff before, the sort of no bird's gel
that you can squirt into these areas and it dissuades
them from hanging around there. But I've got to wash
it first. So that means today possibly I'll go and
do some water blasting, ah, clean all that up, and
then apply that gel. If you've had luck with the
gel and you've got a moment, just let me quick

(42:59):
Text nine to two. Does it actually work? Oh wait,
one hundred and eighty ten eighty, let's get amongst the calls,
the conversation, Judy, good morning to you.

Speaker 13 (43:09):
Hi there people.

Speaker 14 (43:12):
I just need some advice. I've got a unit, it's
a cross cross lease, and I need some advice on
a party wall. The next door neighbors have placed their
garden on this party wall, and I'm finding there's mold
coming through into my bedroom.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (43:34):
Is this the cause?

Speaker 9 (43:35):
Do you think.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
Possibly? When you say they've placed the garden against it,
have they like built a planter box and then filled
it with soil and that's against the cladding above the
floor level.

Speaker 14 (43:47):
No, it's it's two units. My unit that's lower than
their unit, and I've put a fence in between the
two units. If you can sort of get the idea
and dub that filled all their section up against the
party wall. So it's probably about four feet deep.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
And the party wall that you describe, is that part
of that is exterior and it backs onto your habitable space.

Speaker 14 (44:19):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
And then they've backfilled against that, so there's soil where
there wasn't soil before. Yes, And the leaking has come
about after they've done that.

Speaker 15 (44:31):
I think.

Speaker 14 (44:31):
So it happened before I actually came here. I haven't
noticed it until probably a couple of years, and now
that is causing a lot of Well, I think it
is there's mold in that corner where the party wall is.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
I think it's not an unreasonable assumption to make. I mean,
if the building when it was designed had you know,
the wall was there and lots of fresh air on
one side of it, and now there isn't any fresh
air and there's lots of soil pushed up against it,
is going to hold moisture. And if there was either
no or inadequate waterproofing against that wall, then yes, you

(45:14):
can imagine the water is held there by the soil
it's being deposited, and then that's literally just soaking through
the block work and then it will saturate the space,
and even if it's not a leak, it will introduce
so much moisture that it will give the right conditions
for mold to grow. So I think you're probably onto
something given that it's a cross lease title, unless in

(45:39):
the cross lease agreement there is such a thing as
exclusive rights to a certain area. Yes, there is, ah Okay,
that's interesting. I'm just wondering whether that might mean that
it's a little bit more challenging for you to intervene
and to go to the neighbor and say, look, I
need you to remove this because it's causing issues with

(46:00):
my building.

Speaker 14 (46:02):
Yes, the exclusive rights are that I can actually go
on to their property on that side and they can
come onto mine. But now there's a fence in between
the two and the back filled the garden. That can't happen, right,
Not that I want to anyway, but I just know
what it is I can do to get this removed

(46:23):
off the party wall.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Look, I think from what you have described, it's not
unreasonable to say, hey, look, particularly if your floor level
is lower than the ground level that they've created. It
wasn't the original ground level. They've created it by backfilling it,
and they've put soil up against what's the wall. Is
it just a concrete block wall, standard concrete block wall.

Speaker 14 (46:46):
Yeah, it's the nineteen seventies units that's got there, just
the block wall.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
And so there's no waterproofing membrane against that block wall.
There's probably no drainage at the bottom of that block wall.

Speaker 14 (46:58):
That's correct.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
Yeah, Okay, look, I think that's most likely the cause.
So I mean, theoretically they could excavate all of that
material out, thoroughly waterproof the wall, add drainage, and backfill
it and not have that cause a problem to you.

Speaker 14 (47:19):
I have asked them, and I have got quotes which
I've given them. Of course they are refusing to pay,
but I just point of.

Speaker 16 (47:26):
What my rights are.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
I think the strongest point would be that when the
building was constructed, the ground level was lower, and that
they have altered or someone has altered, whether it was
their or the previous owner, it kind of doesn't matter.
It's their responsibility. I think that he was never intended
to be a retaining wall, which is what it's become. Right,

(47:51):
So a block wall is a block wall, and a
retaining wall might be made out of block, but it
doesn't make it a retaining wall. And because it was
never designed to be a retaining wall, it's causing moisture
or moisture is accumulating there, and so I think I
would think that you do have a right to say
it needs to be removed because it was not there originally,

(48:13):
and by making a change and not allowing for drainage
and waterproofing. Your building is suffering as a result, it is.

Speaker 14 (48:24):
How can I enforce that If they're not willing to
actually do anything.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
I suspect it becomes a matter for lawyers in terms
of enforcing your rights under the Property Act.

Speaker 14 (48:36):
Okay, yeah, all right, So you just think I need
to go forward with a lawyer to actually get this.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
I think if they're going to be unreasonable, then yes, probably. Okay,
you've got to do something that's enforceable.

Speaker 14 (48:53):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Okay, sorry to hear that.

Speaker 14 (48:57):
Yeah, it's a bad one, but.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
I think you're on the right track. Good luck with that.
Take care of all of this study, Bye bye. Actually
talking about cross leases next week on the program, Ben Thompson,
who is a lawyer who specializes in cross lease. And
when I say specializes, like when I talked to him
a little while ago before he came on the show
a couple of weeks months ago, he'd just been presenting

(49:22):
to the Law Society about cross leases. Anyway, we had
a great session with him last time he was on,
and I've reached out to him to say, look, could
you join us again next Sunday on the program, so
after eight o'clock next week and can we take some questions.
So next week, if you've got a specific question about
cross leases, we can get some answers from a lawyer

(49:45):
who specializes, and that Ben will be with me on
the show next Sunday. Really looking forward to that. Coming
upteen minutes after seven round quarter to eight, we're going
to catch up with Mike Olds from Razine Construction. Good
timing because earlier this week, I think it was it
was Wednesday morning and I was at my desk doing

(50:05):
I've got a pap work in the phone rings and
it was like a number that i'd recognize, and the
guy goes, oh, hi, it's I won't say his name,
and I thought I would reach out because I listened
to the show, and I'm like, okay, just to be blunt,
my number is not easy to find for a reason. Anyway,
he called and said, look, I'm interested in a property

(50:27):
that's up for sale and it's got rock coat on
the exterior, which is a Razine Construction system's render on
the exterior. Can you tell me much about it? And
I said, well, look, yeah, I think so because these
things have got records, right, because I know the people
at Razine Construction, and they'll probably have some records of
the job. It's a two thy twelve constructed house by

(50:49):
well known builder in a relatively new subdivision. So I
contacted the mic at Razine Construction, said, look, this chepie's
phoned me and I'll help him out. Can you have
a look on your records, and within minutes he was
able to bring up who the contractor was when the
job was done, what the building consent was records of

(51:11):
all of the inspections done not by counsel but by
their own team, right, so their own people go and
inspect the work, Photographs of it under construction, so showing
the fixing, showing the flashings, showing the sealant, showing ground clearances,
showing the ventilation, all of that sort of thing, and
then a certificate to say that the building has been

(51:33):
completed and all of that is kept. And what really
impressed me about that is I'm struggling to think of
another cladding system in the country that would have that
level of detail about it. And if we're moving towards
self certification, if we're moving towards being able to build
Grannie flats without having council do the inspections. I think

(51:55):
that's an example of what companies should be providing if
your product's going to be used in a situation where
it doesn't get or doesn't require a building consent. Takes
some comments on that too.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
Morning to you, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 9 (52:08):
How are you good, buddy?

Speaker 10 (52:09):
In yourself good?

Speaker 17 (52:11):
I've been the last few wns. I've been running around
the city in him open here looking for stuff to pull.
We've got going to put in this plank flooring, and
the hyprin one we're going to.

Speaker 10 (52:30):
Put in, and.

Speaker 17 (52:32):
Some of the floorboards. The flooring in the kitchen is
just flaking air that chipboard.

Speaker 7 (52:41):
When you.

Speaker 17 (52:43):
And I've been eblewhere to get this something to level
the floor off? I asked him about you know this
floor leveler, and I can't use it on wooden floors,
don't matter which one it is, the multi purpose one

(53:05):
of that do if you can't use them on wooden fools.
So I want to use the build this book for
Can I use that instead?

Speaker 5 (53:18):
I think, well, I suppose one of the concerns is
that nothing It's it's going to be really hard for
something to stick to the timber floor, right, it won't
bond and then potentially you put your new laminate floor,
your hybrid floor over the top, and then the material
underneath that you've used for leveling delaminates and starts to rumble,

(53:38):
right that that's what the concern would be. I I'm
wondering whether, like how how out of level is it?

Speaker 17 (53:55):
What would say.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
How out of level is the floor?

Speaker 17 (54:01):
Like obviously having all but there's just a few dips,
you know, it's the chip board is coming out, you know,
faking then yeah, sure, and we're going to put that
underfilled under rod as well, because quite but one's got
that rubbish stuff underneath on it or really and we're

(54:24):
going to put that in the kitchen?

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Yeah, sure, we're going to.

Speaker 17 (54:29):
Put that kind fill.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
I wonder whether you know this is your house right
that you're doing it, So let's say it doesn't work,
it's only you to blame, Okay. So I'm just looking
at this like, if you're working for someone, you'd arguably
want to do it absolutely right because you don't want

(54:51):
to someone to call it up and say it didn't work.
But in this instance, because if you're skimming I don't know,
five or six millimeters of if LC over the top
of that. What you might look for is to see
whether there's like a primer and adhesion primer that you
could apply to the particle board that will help the
floor leveling compound to bind to it. I'll be interest

(55:12):
because I do know a couple of flooring guys who
might have a product that will stick to timber, and
possibly the laminate or the hybrid flooring manufacturer or supplier
might be able to recommend because it can't be an
uncommon problem, right, Timber floors can be as out of
levels as a concrete slab, so there may well be

(55:34):
a product product If there isn't and you used FLC
and you used it sparingly and only the worst few areas,
if there was a problem with it later on, well yeah, I've.

Speaker 17 (55:45):
Been aund everywhere and a wrong m Yeah, we've got it.
You know, a multipurpose one. Windy at the Nakoy had
a look on the computer and said it said, no,
it can't be used on board warden flooring, So why

(56:07):
use a multi purpose? One will make a multi that's right.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
If it's only.

Speaker 17 (56:19):
Must papers means you can use it anyway.

Speaker 10 (56:26):
I mean.

Speaker 17 (56:28):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 10 (56:32):
And there we go.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Here we go rd X K sixty five.

Speaker 13 (56:37):
R X A r D e x.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
Oh, yeah, formulated to adhere to timber and flexible enough
to accommodate timber movement. You do a primer and then
you do an Ardix floor leveling compound. There you go,
problem solved.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Ardix A R D e x who makes it?

Speaker 5 (56:59):
Ardix do that's the company?

Speaker 9 (57:01):
So A R D e X O A d X.

Speaker 7 (57:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Well, just just jump online see if you can find
a local supply. It might be a specialist store, it
might be a tiling shop or possibly just sooner you're called.

Speaker 17 (57:20):
I've been to all those places, you know they deal
and floor and they can tell me.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Yeah, no, look Ardis, I mean I know the brand.
I've used their products over the years. Just get in
contact with them and and it's a Ardix K sixty
five will probably help you out there, all right, make
all the very best problem take care about it. Take care,
uh andy, just hold the line, but it will come

(57:45):
to you in just a moment. It is twenty three
minutes after seven.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Doing other house storting. The garden asked Pete for ahead.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
The resident builder with Peter Wolfkere calls you and a.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
Couple of texts as well a craggy This is frustrating. Hey, pek,
my neighbor has dire did new spouting from the three
story townhouse or three story house onto the carport roof
onto the lawn into a ditch that he dug next
to our joint fence. The paving area is gushing rain
water from the carports, spouting lawn floods next to this

(58:22):
joint fence, So the fence between the two properties where
he's dug a ditch for the spouting water from his roof.
I've spoken to him many times for quite a while now,
and he does nothing. I told the Wellington Council and
they've told me it's a civil matter and I'll need
to take him to the tribunal or to court. I
can't afford that I agree with your sentiments. I mean,
the fact is the neighbor needs to control the stormwater

(58:44):
right and it's absolutely their responsibility and obligation to do
exactly that in terms of enforcing it. If the building
is older and might not have a building consent, then
it's hard to go back to the council and go hey,
look it's a problem with the building consent. The conditions
of the building consent haven't been met, so I'd look

(59:07):
into that first. Actually, is it relatively new? Does it
have a building consent? The building consent will detail how
the storm water is mitigated or controlled, and if they
haven't done those controls then it is a council issue. Thereafter, Yeah,
you probably have to go to the tribunal, but getting

(59:27):
enforcement on that sort of thing is difficult and if
people don't want to do the right thing. Interestingly enough, though,
I'm just thinking about this water care in Auckland, who
to be blunts seemed to be doing a hell of
a lot better job than Wellington Water does have actually
taken the initiative of sending people out to pick up

(59:50):
on these sorts of things. So a downpipe that discharges
onto the ground or onto a pathway with no obvious controls,
they'll literally go up, knock on the door and go, hey,
we've noticed that you're going to have a bit of
a problem here, or even if you don't, your neighbors
probably will. What are you going to do about it?
So they're being proactive, which I think is great to

(01:00:11):
be fair, because you know, in these times, with the
amount of water that we're getting. It's increasingly a problem
if you and I, as individual homeowners don't take responsibility
for the water that we are collecting. Oh eight one
hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call glen us.

Speaker 15 (01:00:28):
Hello, Oh how are you? I've lost my boys?

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
Sorry, I'm sure sure you found it again just a
little bit.

Speaker 15 (01:00:37):
And my birthday to day too, so that's oh, happy birthday.
I know what a data happen in. I've got a
Healthy homes form sure. In two thousand and nine, they
insulated this seading with fluff. The thickness is two point
nine and it's got pulleys to acrylic carpet on the floor.
You can't go under the house, and that is one

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point one point three meters. Now this carpet on the
floor is and he's sitting on the concrete on the
concrete underneath. Because I've got an open planned lounge and
kitchen here upstairs, there's a got a fan heater. That said,
my bedroom's got a heater. The spare room hasn't got
a heater. They put like a heat pump in, but

(01:01:18):
it's got air conditioner written on it right by the
front door. Basically, the house is still cold. It's pubably
because it's concrete. I'm not used to concrete houses. Now,
my power was rising up like a warmer than what
the house is at the moment. I don't know what
to do. It's more's paying power for nothing, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Look, this is one of the challenges with the heating
requirement for the Healthy Home standards is that you know,
in order to comply, the landlord will need to put
in a fixed form of heating that can get your
room to or that the living room only the living room.
But if the living room has a staircase or is
open plan, then it ends up being quite a large area.

Speaker 15 (01:02:06):
To thirty feet long from the front door to the
ranch ludders here.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
Yeah, but it is the house to story.

Speaker 15 (01:02:12):
Yeah, it's one of those then no, but joined on
to people.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
Yeah, but then see for that. If you're doing a
Healthy Homes assessment on the heating, you need to calculate
the floor space of the living area, and if that
includes the dining area in the kitchen, that's got to
be included in it. And then because it's open plan
with a staircase, you have to calculate the space of
the staircase and the upstairs landing until you get to

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the doors right to any of the rooms upstairs, So
that ends up being quite a large space. If there's
also relatively low levels of insulation, then what tends to
happen is your heating requirement will will go up quite
a lot. So I wonder whether you're the tenant not the.

Speaker 15 (01:02:57):
Years here.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Okay, so you're the tenant. So what you could do
is ask the landlord to provide an updated heating.

Speaker 16 (01:03:05):
Calculation in front of me at the moment.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
Okay, and what does it give you?

Speaker 15 (01:03:11):
Nine when they put the insulation in. But this is
it was stated on the thirties, but the insulation was
put in on two thousand and nine in the ceiling.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
Which is fine. But remember the Healthy Homes legislation didn't
exist in two thousand and nine, right.

Speaker 15 (01:03:25):
So well that's what they've got written down here. Yeah,
they say it fits regulation to the house. But because
it's so big, it's probably why it's so cold.

Speaker 17 (01:03:33):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
What I suspect is that the if you did a
proper calculation of the heating requirement, what form of heating
you've got is probably insufficient and needs to be topped up.
And that's I think an obligation on the landlord to
do that in order to stay compliant.

Speaker 15 (01:03:54):
Yeah, they put the machine of the heat pump in
the backyard behind me and full of weeds in the garden,
so having it in the front of the house. They've
got it at the back of the house.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
But it doesn't really matter where it is as long
as Yeah, but they do need to ventilate, so if
the weeds are growing up in front of it, maybe
you need to just cut the weeds back a little bit. Yeah,
all right, So it'll be about the heating requirements, and
I wonder whether they haven't done a great job of
the requirements and therefore you're not able to generate the heat.

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The problem is, and this is often talked about I
guess for tenants and landlords, is you can put the
heat and requirement in, but to run it requires power.
Power is expensive, and so people not to run it.
So you can put it in and people won't turn
it on. That's what happens too. Robin, greetings to you,

(01:04:47):
Good morning, Good morning, Robin.

Speaker 16 (01:04:50):
I've got a query regarding the insulation of my house,
sure which I bought in nineteen eighty six, and it
was the nineteen seventy five brickhouse New World at the time.

Speaker 7 (01:05:06):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (01:05:06):
And the insulation of pink bats, which has been very good.
Now I'm just wondering whether there's any point in putting
a loose layer of a number of more pink bats
over the top. I have got two heat pumps, one

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in the lounge and one up the front hall, which
are very effective. No problem with those, but I'm just
wondering whether I go to the expense of putting.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
More insulation into the roof.

Speaker 16 (01:05:45):
That's the roof.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
I would heartily recommend that you do exactly that. So
if the insulation was installed all those years ago, and
the pink bats and it's nothing. It's not derogatory about
the pink bats, but they do sag over time. They settle, right,
so the actual insulation value decreases over time. Because they settle,

(01:06:07):
they don't have as much loft. So leave it in
there and get an insulation installer to do another layer
of insulation over the top of it, and ideally over
the top of all of the timber that's in there,
so the bottom court of the trusses and as far
out to the top plate around the perimeter as they

(01:06:27):
possibly can do have that installed. That will make a
significant difference to keeping the heat into the house. Okay, yep,
definitely a good idea.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Alrighty all, bestie.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
Robin, you take care.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
Bye.

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
We'll come back with Jeremy in just a moment. If
you've got a question, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
the number.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fence, or wondering
how to fix that hole in the wall. Give Peter
wolf capercall on eighty the resident builder on youth Dogs'
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Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty, then number to call peak
the coller with the heat pump problem. I'm exactly sure
whether it is actually a heat pump. Should ask the
landlord when it was last service, and if she keeps
the filters clean, that does make a big difference. Yeah,
you're absolutely right, Michael. It's on my list for a
couple of places I look after to have the servicing done.

(01:07:27):
It'll probably extend the life of the heat pump, and
certainly they perform a lot better if you clean them
and look after them. Jeremy, Hello, good morning, Peter. How
are we very well? What's up?

Speaker 7 (01:07:38):
Good man?

Speaker 13 (01:07:38):
Good so at the moment, good rental properly in that.
Oh and the nineteen sixties build frickin' tile, like really
good home in general on piles and the back patio.
It's just like cobbles laid on soil and sand. I've

(01:08:00):
been like that for like years, you know, but it
just it's always so damp and just you know, just wet.
And so I've hide one of those chained trench and yeah,
bro and trench the back, the back, the whole in

(01:08:27):
for the house at back fence, laid on one ten
overcall and chucked and some I forget the grade, but
Scoria basse so about two hundred yeah, about two hundred
worth a Scoria laid the overcare and then put scorer
on top. Now there's no suspits or or or drainage

(01:08:53):
like that I can feed into. Now, can I obviously
obviously it's got to have fall, But can I create
some sort of like scorier kind of kind of drainage
pit at all?

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
I mean, look, I've got to say that the best
solution would be to try and find stormwater, your own
storm water and tee into it, which technically I think
would require it consent but anyway, we'll put that to
one side for now. So ideally, what you want to
do is have that drainage coil dropping into a catch pit,
which will allow the sediment to sink to the bottom

(01:09:31):
and only clean water to go into the storm water.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
Light.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
So that's that's your gold plated solution. Let's say you
can't do that, or it's you know, the stormwater's miles
away or something like that. I guess what you could
do is do a soakage pit. I would suggest that
you try and move that away from the boundary so
that if it did get inundated, it doesn't impact on
the neighbor. And we've been talking about that where people

(01:09:56):
don't control this stormwater and it impacts the neighbor. So
and one of the keys to doing those soakage pits
is to so dig you know, a decent sized hole,
and we're talking like, you know, met deep met a
square sort of thing, take all of the material out
line that with geotextile cloth, right, which is like a

(01:10:19):
matting that you'd put under driveways and behind retaining walls
and those sorts of things, and then fill that with scoria.
And when I've done them, I actually take like a
couple of meters of that drainage coil or black snake,
whatever one you're using, and I loop that in there.
So I've got like a volume that can't be crushed
if you imagine, right, Because what typically often happens is

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you'll run your drainage coil into the scoria, but then
it kind of just hits the scoria, right. What you
want is for it to have some space to percolate
out through the scoria. So I do a big loop
of drainage coil in there and then fill it with scoria,
fold the bittom cloth or the geotextile cloth over the top,
and then put your soil back over there. And that

(01:11:05):
if you're in the right sort of environment where you
don't have heavy clays and that sort of thing, the water,
because you're only collecting groundwater, will drain away and percolate
back into there. Yeah, but ideally you'd want that to
be a reasonable way away from the neighbor. And you know,
if you're really in heavy, heavy clays, then in the

(01:11:25):
end the clay is just going to hold it and
it's going to fill up with water and not actually
go anywhere. So you've got to be a bit reasonable
about where you can actually put it.

Speaker 13 (01:11:34):
Yes, sweet, I mean like it's not like weat weat wheat.
It's like essentially it's we're actually copecting the drainage from
the neighbor. So it's kind of yeah, it's kind of
we just kind of want.

Speaker 7 (01:11:46):
To dry it out.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
So and look, even the fact that you're collecting some
of that water and running it through a length of
the drainage coil will help with the moisture that's held
in the in the soil around the patio on that
sort of thing. So just just having the field drains themselves,
the French drains themselves, will help.

Speaker 13 (01:12:07):
Yeah, I mean French, it's just right out already, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
So yeah, direck that into a into a soakage pit.
But the key to the soakage pit is having that
geotextile cloth. Right, the old ones that I've dug up,
where they've just dug a hole put scoria in it,
they end up just filling with sediment and then they
don't work. So the is the key.

Speaker 13 (01:12:31):
Yeah, Now, when when when I relay the patio tiles
like by three two fifty, just old like terracotta looking one. Now,
can I should I should I run like a sand
or some sort of like gap over the scoria between

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the cobbles and the soil, or and it'll still.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
Move around a little bit if you can be bothered.
I would actually do that scene. I'd do a scene
in cement mix like a slurry. So compact. Yeah, compact
the base down really well and then literally bed your
pavers down into a sand and cement mortar bed and

(01:13:19):
that will keep it level for a lot longer than
just putting it down onto the sand over the top
of the scory.

Speaker 13 (01:13:25):
Yes, and what the natural is, the natural moisture will
just harden the cement in the sand and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
It'll just bond. Or what you can do is do
the sand and cement and then just before you lay
the tile, just take a little handful of cement and
scatter it over the top and you'll see it change
color because it'll hit the moisture. And then when you
bed the tile down over the top, it'll it'll help bond.

Speaker 13 (01:13:47):
Gotcha, what's the ratio to sand cement?

Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
Six to one six one six scoops of sand one
of cement. That'll be a nice strong mix.

Speaker 7 (01:13:55):
And the where you go.

Speaker 10 (01:13:58):
Take care.

Speaker 5 (01:13:59):
Actually, that'll that ratio is exactly what I'll be using
tomorrow when I mix up some concrete for the fence posts.
So I'm just gonna go. I don't know, the bags
are great, but I kind of like old school, so
I'll go and get some builders mix. I'll get a
bag of cement, the mixer out, or not even the mixer.
I'll just do it in the wheelbarrow and then six
to one, nice strong mix, not too much water.

Speaker 18 (01:14:22):
Bingo.

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
Job done. That's tomorrow sorted. Right, We're gonna take a break.
We're gonna talk to Mike Olds from Razine Construction straight
after the break.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
Squeaky door or squeaky floor.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Get the right advice from Peter Wolfcare, the resident builder
on News Talks.

Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
HEB you and News Talks heb so interesting sort of
situation for me this week where just doing some paperwork
at home, phone rings number that I didn't know, not
a hidden name, but just a number that I didn't know,
and talk to a delightful gentleman in christ Church who said, look,
I'm reaching out because I listened to the show. I've

(01:14:59):
heard you talk about different claddings and I'm looking at
a house. In fact, I'm looking at a house that
I might buy this afternoon. The auctions twelve o'clock. We're
talking at like eight thirty in the morning. And it's
got rock coat as the exterior render. Basically all of
the house bar a little bit of weatherboard, was all
done with that. Do you know much about it? And
I said, well, yeah, I do. I know the guys

(01:15:21):
quite well. But also if you tell me the address,
I can go to Razine Construction, who supervise these jobs,
provide the product, and they've got records of it. And
so that's exactly what I did, quite genuinely. What I
was surprised about was the level of detail held by
the manufacturer, let's say Razine Construction, about each individual job

(01:15:48):
that they do. Because the only way you can do
rock coat is by using a licensed applicator. They then
have phenomenally detailed processes to record every step of that job. Flashings, installation,
cavity batons, type for fixings, whether or not they've sealed

(01:16:09):
the cuts, all of these sorts of things is all recorded.
That was all available so I could phone this gentleman
back later in the day and so, yeah, I've seen
the records don't have a problem with it. So a
person who runs all of this is Mike Olds, and Mike,
thanks for your time on Wednesday, So.

Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
You know what I was.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
It's not completely surprising, but I was still quite impressed,
to be honest, about the level of detail that you
guys at Reseen Construction hold about every single clouding job
that you do. And this is obviously something that you've
built up over time. So that's the process, and every
single job gets recorded.

Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
Yeah, absolutely, Pete. And it was a sort of perfect
scenario when the person that contacted you wanted to know
some information that normally, as I think we spoke the
vendor would normally have a lot of information. Yeah, for
potential for our purchases and this particular project in christ Church. Yeah,
you gave us the address and if it's one of

(01:17:10):
our systems. I mean a lot of people, a lot
of projects would potentially have a specification on a project,
but sometimes that specification doesn't get achieved. So we do
we do it again. Pine calls and people saying I've
got your clouding system on our home, but I want
to see if it's in the system, and if it's
not in the system, we can generally say that possibly
the even the specification has been changed and it's unbeknown

(01:17:31):
to the original owners or even potential purchases. But part
of our process and it started way back and I
think two thousand and five we really got into this,
and it involves a substrate review on all residential projects
where we go and check the cavity bats, the flashings

(01:17:52):
and this photographic evidence. There's a checklist that we go
through and then we go through and do a final
review in terms of workmanship detailing other sub trades. The
first one is probably the most important in terms of
the substrate stall that deals with other sub trades and
pipe penetrations, electrical penetrations, root flashing connections where we connect

(01:18:14):
with other other trades as well. But as you generally
find where there's connections with other trades, they don't they
do their trade and we do our trade. That there's
there is definite crossovers and that's that's some of our
biggest focus focus areas. But it stays on that file
on that particular project, goes through for the for the

(01:18:36):
life of the project and it's always available. We also
it also flows through in terms of the warranties, so
that whole documentation package. Then we send that out to
the clients. Then in seven seven years we actually touch
base with that particular residence are known. If it's the
same home for the original owner, we send them some

(01:18:59):
messaging around starting to budget for general maintenance purposes. We're
looking at repaints and all all that sort of good stuff.
So we sort of customers for life, is probably the
best way to describe it. And it gives us because
you never remember everything.

Speaker 7 (01:19:15):
You know, you should look back at a job you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:16):
Did fifteen twenty years ago and trying to recall a
who did the job, and b what was a color,
what was the finish, all of those sorts of things
just coming very very handy down the track, and you've
got a really really good record.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
And it was the level of detail that in the
recording that really again really impressed me in the sense
that you know, there's a tremendous surety for a homeowner
many years later. So this is a person this house
was built in twenty twelve, all of those records existed.
This person's interested to know, you know, who did the work,

(01:19:52):
was it done well? Is there a record of the
actual the installation and you know, how do I know
that the flashings were installed all of these sorts of
things and you can find it. And the other thing
I guess that I'm thinking about is that you know,
potentially we're going to move to bards, a situation where
more dwellings can be built without necessarily requiring a council consent.
Therefore you're not having council inspectors. And if you're going

(01:20:14):
to own one of those properties, how do you know
that the work has been done well? And that level
of reporting and review is kind of like a template
for what we might see in the future for all
sorts of building performance systems.

Speaker 6 (01:20:28):
Yeah, I absolutely absolutely think this is this is the
this is the bar for, particularly for supplies and a
market to go yeah and say this is this is
the expectation, because I don't think it's reasonable for for
manufacturers by and large to say we understand that the
materials have been supplied and installed in accordance, because we

(01:20:49):
generally get the first phone call if there is ever
an issue, and if you're just reliant on just supply
and not taking into regard the skill and the competencies
of the people that are installing your products.

Speaker 7 (01:21:04):
Then, yeah, it up a really big gap.

Speaker 6 (01:21:10):
And I think this is something that's just so normal
for our business and our contractors, our LBP contractor network,
that it's a great practice and process for them as well.

Speaker 7 (01:21:20):
You know, we've got it to the stage.

Speaker 6 (01:21:21):
We've actually got it to the stage now where all
the LVP contractors can undertake and do these reviews with
the digital information photography, all the checks and balances themselves
on single story dwellings. You know, they go through and
do that when we get into the more complex projects
we get involved. So yeah, it's pretty comprehensive and it's

(01:21:42):
a good backup and it saves a lot of racking
the brain in terms of memories of what what actually
happened and who did what.

Speaker 17 (01:21:48):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
They also they also put notes on the project files
just in terms of conversations that have been held about
someone said this or someone said that. You know, there's
a there's a number of things, so I can avoid
those types of you know, a few years time.

Speaker 7 (01:22:04):
So it's really really works.

Speaker 5 (01:22:07):
Really appreciate your time this morning, we're going to rush
for the news. Good luck with the golf today. He's
not playing, he's looking after his boys playing. We'll come
back and talk a little bit more about all things
building in construction straight after the news, sport and weather
here at News Talks EDB.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Helping you get those DIY projects done right. The resident
Filder with Peter WOLFCAF call OH eight hundred eighty eighty
Youth Talks EDB.

Speaker 5 (01:22:30):
A righty Oh, welcome back to the show. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Will
take your building questions right through till eight thirty. Then
we're into the garden with the red climb past as
always at around eight thirty this morning. Just a heads
up too next week on the show at this time
Ben Thompson, who is a lawyer who specializes in cross
leases and property law in general, but cross leases very particularly,

(01:22:55):
will be available and we're going to we've had a
conversation with him before just kind of general stuff about
cross leases. But we'll cover the same topic next week
on the show. But you can text a new questions,
so if you've got specific questions about your cross lease
or a cross lease that you're involved with, then fire
them through. We'll do that next Sunday on the show.

(01:23:16):
And my thanks again to Mike OL's from Razine Construction
Systems for making himself available just before again, following on
from this completely random conversation I had with someone the
other day, rang me and said, look, I'm interested in
this property. I'm about to buy it. They're an older
couple looking for a retirement sort of property, low maintenance,

(01:23:36):
single level, all of those sorts of things, and said,
do you know much about the clouding system? And so
when I rang Mike, all of the records was there.
And what struck me, particularly at a time where there's
a lot of discussion now about government allowing up to
seventy square meters of building to be granny flats to
be constructed without necessarily requiring a building consent, which means,

(01:24:00):
how do you know you've got a good building right?
Because typically the default position has been well, because you
get a building can and because a council inspector comes
out and has a look at it, you feel confident
that the building, once it's got its final inspection, got
a code of compliance, is going to be okay. It's
going to comply with the code. So if we're not
going to have counsel there as the gatekeeper, let's say

(01:24:23):
to compliance, how do you know it's going to comply?
And then it shifts the responsibility, let's say, on to
individual contractors or suppliers of materials to say, look, I
think it's it's okay.

Speaker 10 (01:24:38):
How do you know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
Well, that's where you need good systems and checks and
reviews and paperwork basically to ensure that compliance. And these
guys are they've been doing it for twenty years, so
good on them. I say, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Apparently someone else text through and said, look, we do
a similar sort of system and we've got these certified

(01:25:00):
contractors to do the work. So a lot of these
products and I went to buy something, I don't know,
a little waterproofing product and they said, ah, you are
licensed applicator and I said, no, I'm not, and they said,
we're not going to sell it to you. That's fine,
It's absolutely fine. You know, if you're going to have
a product that is going to be critical to the
building performance, some of those products will then only be

(01:25:23):
sold to people who are licensed to install them. And
I think that's a sensible safeguard. Quick text as well,
can you please ask your rock coat specialist what painting
systems required for upkeep? How often should it be repainted? Typically?
You know houses should be washed every year anyway. And
in terms of recoat for razine construction or for rock coat,

(01:25:47):
I think the recommendation is sort of six to seven years,
and it'll be razine X two hundred for the top coat. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Let's get amongst it, Roger,
good morning.

Speaker 18 (01:25:58):
Morning, morning, thanks, no problem. On the topic of birds,
yes under eaves, Yes, I've got a large covered deck.
When we moved into the house, there was a couple
of pairs of birds that were determined to put their
nests there. After knocking the nests down a few times,
realized that wasn't working. Long story short, I climbed up

(01:26:22):
a ladder and the one I put a round a
tennis ball another one I stuck a lemon and filled
the nest up with a foreign body who sat back
and watched the birds come back, and they were not happy.
They perched on top of them for a little while
and made a lot of very upset noise. Basically, I'm

(01:26:46):
glad I didn't speak bird, because it sounded like they
were swearing in about live different dialects.

Speaker 10 (01:26:52):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:26:52):
They were not happy. Yes, oh yes, that result. They
didn't come back. They abandoned the location as an unsuitable neighborhood.
Following year, one of them tried again. I did this thing,
and same result, and six years I've never had a
bird under any of the eaves here.

Speaker 5 (01:27:12):
Interesting, okay, because this was something. I went and washed
the deck down last week and in lo and behold
them back there again the other day and I'm like,
what the you know, it's all the bird poops back again.
And then I look up and I think, oh, look
at the little buggers. They're good on them. They got
to find a home. Everybody's got to live somewhere. They're
just not going to live at that place.

Speaker 9 (01:27:32):
So yeah, well you can.

Speaker 18 (01:27:33):
Keep knocking the nest down and they'll keep coming back.
So I just made it so they decided themselves not
to come here. I've told this to friends.

Speaker 9 (01:27:42):
They sort of like, yeah, give it a try.

Speaker 18 (01:27:44):
They did saw them a while later and they go, yeah,
no more birds.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
Good stuff. I'm going to have a crack at using
one of these gels that apparently dissuade the birds from
coming back. So I've got to clean the area thoroughly
knock the nest out, clean the area. So I'm can
to do a bit of water blasting and then I
will try this gel and we'll see how that goes.
Appreciate the call, Roger, and thank you. We're on the

(01:28:08):
same page and you're right the determination of birds to
come back, and it took me about three years to
beat them at my own place where they were hopping
into the spouting on the bullnose veranda and then ducking
their heads underneath the corrugated iron, jumping up over the
facerboard and into a little gap that was there, a
little safite that ran around there, and they were roosting

(01:28:32):
in there, but they were very, very determined. Appreciate the call, Roger.
Thank you very much. Steve. Good morning.

Speaker 10 (01:28:39):
Can I Steve Phillip? Oh yeah, get hey, yeah, look
I just got a question. Can I talk about a
cross Lea's situation?

Speaker 8 (01:28:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:28:51):
Yeah, absolutely, okay, right, right, look, got this project and
because I'm very interested in the hearing from.

Speaker 5 (01:28:59):
Is it ben at A the next week on the show.

Speaker 10 (01:29:03):
Is his last name Thompson? It is yep? Okay, good hey, listen,
because we've got this situation where we've got a house
that's going to be demoed. It's a plaster house and
then rebuilt, right, And so the house is being designed
and it's on the southern side. It's on a cross
lease house section with the front house being a villa

(01:29:26):
on the front. Now, the people on the front, the
cross lease neighbors have to sign off on the new
plans for the rebuilt of the house because of the
you know what's required, and they are not wanting the
rare property to have any windows on the northern face

(01:29:47):
that's facing their house, right. And now, from my understanding,
you can't object unreasonably. You have to be reasonable in
your objections, right, And so they're only their concern is
that they think the neighbors in the new house would
windows on At the moment, the house doesn't have that.

(01:30:09):
It's more of a single level and a large roof.
So all they're looking at the moment as a roof
no windows. The new house will be a double level,
it will have windows, and it'll have windows on the
on that on the northern face that will peer into
their backyard. But it's on the southern side, so the
light's not being blocked at all, and the house hasn't
even close to them, so it complies with all the

(01:30:30):
other rigs. The only objection is that they don't want
any windows. They don't want any glass facing their backyard,
and I would have thought that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Would be the questions. Is that reasonable?

Speaker 10 (01:30:45):
Yeah, you could understand if the house is blocking out
some sure, nor it's on the southern side and the
house is a fair ways back. It's actually ten meters
back from the boundary, so it's not even close. Biness factors,
They've just got this be in their bonnet. They've got
their backyard.

Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
At the moment, they don't have any I guess uish
is going to be around. How do you enforce reasonableness?

Speaker 7 (01:31:12):
Yeah, that's what I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:31:13):
Yeah, but look, I'm happy to keep a note of this,
and look, if you'd like to text through again next
Sunday when Ben's actually available, that that would be a
great question. But yeah, trying to enforce reasonableness. Gee, that's
it's a tricky one, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:31:29):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
I mean we've all met people who are just downright
ornery and just won't be reasonable.

Speaker 7 (01:31:36):
Yeah, yeah, we're all.

Speaker 10 (01:31:39):
We should be allowed to have your sunlight, right, you
should be able to have your your son, your neighbor
shouldn't be able to tell you just because they're worried
about it. A few people peering out windows and look.

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
I guess you know, listening to what you're saying. If
it's ten meters away, then you could also do some
planting on the boundary. It's not like it's one meter
away and three meters up in the air and looking
straight into there. So it would seem that there is
some way of being a little bit reasonable around that.
Really appreciate that. We'll put that to Ben Thompson who

(01:32:11):
is from Pigeon Judge Lawyers and a specialist in Crossley,
so he's going to be available to answer some questions
text questions next week on the show. Really looking forward
to that. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, would
take a short break. We'll be back with Peter after
the break.

Speaker 1 (01:32:24):
Measa twice God was, but maybe called Pete first, feed
your wolfcab the Resident Builder News Talk.

Speaker 7 (01:32:30):
Sa'd be.

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is the number to call, just my own experience of it.
Hey Peter, good morning to.

Speaker 19 (01:34:39):
You, and good morning do you, Peter.

Speaker 5 (01:34:42):
Great.

Speaker 19 (01:34:42):
So we've got a small house that's been converted into
a retail shop on the main road. The question I've
got is does a Healthy Homes rules mean that we
need to supply a heat pump in that situation or
does it just apply to accommodation.

Speaker 5 (01:35:00):
I would think it's only accommodation because essentially what it's
about is the Healthy Homes requirements relate to It's part
of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act. So if it's not
a residential tenancy, then it basically it's irrelevant. Right, So
if you're using what was a residential property for a

(01:35:21):
commercial purpose a shop or an office or something like that,
then no, I don't see how if there's no tenancy
agreement in place, then I guess you don't need to
apply with the Healthy Home standards.

Speaker 7 (01:35:33):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 19 (01:35:34):
But someone suggested to me that the rules might have
changed from one July. No, no, that Google I couldn't
find anything.

Speaker 7 (01:35:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
No, what happened on the first of July is that
this is a piece of legislation that's had a really
long gestation, right, so it was signalled gosh, I think
as far back as twenty seventeen. Then there was a
whole series of deadlines. Certain types of dwellings needed to
comply by certain dates, and then there were always exemptions. So,

(01:36:02):
for example, if you had a sitting tenant in a
property and maybe they'd been there for five years, right,
you didn't need to comply with the regulations until they
moved out or until they renewed their tendancy. And if
they just went onto a periodic, they wouldn't renew it, right.
So so in effect. You might have had a long

(01:36:23):
term tenant in a residential property up until the first
of July, so six days ago that that building didn't
need to comply because the tenant never moved out. That
exemption has ended, right, So from the first of July,
every single residential property, including state houses, all need to

(01:36:44):
comply with the healthy home standards from now. That's that's
the change that you might have been talking about. Great listen,
Thank you very much, Pleasure all the best, pleasure to
take care your new stork seed b oh, good point.
Just quick text. We were talking with Robin who's in
an older sort of nineteen seventy house had some insulation,

(01:37:08):
but insulation standards there were pretty poor, to be blunt
to the lady who was asking about putting up bats
on top of old bats, or more insulation over the
existing one in her ceiling if she has a community
services card. There are all sorts of government grants for
that kind of stuff, and the cost is actually really cheap,
and there are many companies that do it, and believe me,
it's definitely worthwhile. Plus they'll also do underfloor installation if possible,

(01:37:33):
and the vapor barrier onto the floor from Ron, Thanks
very much, and you're absolutely right. There's quite a lot
of support available if you're in the right category for that.
And you've got a hats off Taika, who run the
Warmer Homes program. The actual number of dwellings, and I

(01:37:55):
was surprised by this because I talk about this quite
a lot at different seminars and presentations and that sort
of thing, and I had always assumed that there was
a significant like hundreds of thousands of New Zealand homes
that are either completely uninsulated or poorly insulated. Talking with
ECA who measure this, they actually think that the number

(01:38:16):
of houses that are really poorly insulated is possibly down
in the one hundred, one hundred and fifty thousand dwellings.
Now there's about two million dwellings in New Zealand, there's
about five hundred it's almost six hundred thousand rental properties
in New Zealand. So if we're down to a nub
of about somewhere, be nice if it was zero. But realistically,

(01:38:39):
there has been actually great progress for most of our
housing stock to add some insulation where it's practical to
do so, and that I think is a really really
good thing. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number
to call. Last call for the morning Peter, Hello there.

Speaker 9 (01:38:55):
Hello, just spring up. Really on a tight budget, yes,
really on a Tiday's budget. What happened was ah two
messive holes in the war. What I did was, being
on the type budget, I had a block of wood.

Speaker 7 (01:39:17):
I placed the.

Speaker 9 (01:39:17):
Wooden in the in the middle of the hole. And
what I did was I nailed the wood in the
whole winded. I placed a piece of two year car
well paper. Well, you know, for exactly the same color
as the war.

Speaker 7 (01:39:39):
It didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:39:39):
I placed bother because look, I'm on the type budget.
Flower in water and looks the flower up. It worked.
It worked, honestly it worked.

Speaker 5 (01:39:51):
Is it your own place, Peter, or is it a
rented place that you're in.

Speaker 9 (01:39:56):
Well, apparently I got the job done. Landlord came to
day and he didn't know anything about it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
You cod mate, if it works for you, it works
for you, and maybe later on the landlord, I want
to take the flower out and put in some plaster
or some jib compound or something like that. Appreciate the call.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
call for rid climb pass because he is standing by.
And just another quick reminder, So next week at this

(01:40:28):
time from eight to eight thirty, we'll have Ben Thompson,
who's a lawyer who specializes in Crossley's I'm already getting
a whole bunch of texts. You'll need to text in
next week if you've got a specific question. And I
think it's going to be a very very busy half
hour on the show. So looking forward to that next week,
looking forward to talking with Rut as well. And love

(01:40:49):
the text that came in just a moment ago, so
says the texter from last week's show with Rud. I've
made a RUU box. Now could I ask where would
be the best place to put it? We will answer
that question and many more than just a moment back
with Rut.

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