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And a very very good morning to you. Welcome along to the Resident Builder on Sunday. That's with me people wolf Camp, the Resident Builder, and this is the opportunity to talk all things building and construction. So if you've got a project that's underweight, it might be an ultration, it might be a renovation, it might be an addition, it might be a new build. It might just be some good old fashioned maintenance that you're doing around your
place and you've got a question about it. Whether that's around gosh, could be around the regulations, could be around the products that you use. It could be around the tools that you use and the gear that you need to get the job done. It might be around the like I say, the regulations, the contractors, the materials, whatever it is that relates to building and construction and your place. We can talk about it this morning on the program. So a very good morning. Nice to be back in
the studio here in Auckland. If you were tuned in last week, I was down and told on it, which was fabulous and great to be broadcasting out of another studio. Nice to be back in Auckland. A little bit of a miserable day, and I'll see if we get some more information about the power outage at Munga Fi. I think it is where some three thousand houses without power in the possibility of there being a small tornado. If you know anything about that, feel free to give us
a little bit more detail. And I mean it is days like this that you go ah, that's the reason that I wander around and make sure that the drains are clean and the spoutings working, and the downpipes are actually connected to the storm water, and the windows have got latches on them that keep them closed. If I mentioned this the other day, I got a call from a mate going, look, could you just do you have
any plywood? And it was a property that they look after where with the high winds early in January, it literally just popped the bifold doors open, smashed them to pieces, glass all over the place and a great b opening smack bang in the middle of the public holidays. So you know, the little things often make a big difference. And I tell a story often when I'm doing public speaking about a window that fell out just because someone had you know, like, oh, I must get round to that.
I must get round to that. I must get round to it. So if you've got a job that you're thinking, gee, I must get round to that. But I'm not quite sure where to start. We can talk about that on the program this morning as well. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number. Nine two nine two is the text if you'd like to send me a text, just like Felicity just has, and if you'd like to email me, that's a doable thing as well. That is
Pete atnewstalk zb dot co dot nz. A couple of things coming up on the show today, prompted by a
conversation which I was really intrigued by. To be fair, I'm intrigued by all of our conversations, but one stood out to me from a couple of weeks ago where a caller said, look, I bought a house, discovered that there were some problems with the house, discover that the previous owner knew about them but failed to declare them in the sale and purchase, went through the disputes tribunal, and got it might have been twenty or thirty thousand dollars from the excuse me, from the vendor from the
previous owner of the property, some two years after the sale and purchase. Now, that was a little bit intriguing for me, and so during the course of this week, I rang a guy that I've gone to for sort of real estate advice on a number of occasions because he's a real estate agent. He's a very good real estate agent, Wayne McGuire. We had a bit of a chat and I said, look, I think this is something
we could talk about on the radio. So he's coming in just after eight o'clock this morning, Wayne McGuire, who was a Ray White's real estate agent and agency owner, to talk about exactly that. And it's really around there'll be a whole lot of things we want to talk about, but in particular, when you're going to sell a house, what do you as the vendor need to declare because
it's there in the contracts and there's an opportunity. We had some texts last week about this, where you know, people were sort of like, well, if I don't know, am I okay? If I genuinely don't know that there's a problem with the house because I'm not a building expert. I'm just a homeowner selling a house, you know, and
that becomes a problem later on. So we'll talk about all of that subtlety around what you have to declare, what you have to know, et cetera, et cetera, with Wayne Maguire from Ray White's Realty at just after eight o'clock. And to be fair, if you've got a text question on that, feel free to fire them through and I'll stack them up and we'll see if Wayne can deal with a couple of those questions too. But we are
going to be very specific. It's really about what you have to declare, what is reasonable that you should know, and who determines that. So we'll talk about all of those things after eight o'clock. But right now it is your opportunity to talk all things building and construction. If you're in the Upper North Island, it's a little bit wet and wild. Not so much rain last night seemingly, but a lot of wind. And when the rain did
come through. Had some friends who went off to opera in the park out at Glover Park and Saint Helier's. I think they got about halfway through that and then the organizers said, look, it's just not practical and safe to continue. So weather impacting our events. So yeah, and gosh, I was watching too that storm that's rolling through Northern Ireland, Scotland, parts of the UK, you know, watching roofs peel off buildings.
I was intrigued by one which looked like a relatively new build, you know, lots of glass, lots of steel, big overhang and the entire roof just got peeled off, what like a reasonably new build. It's one of those things as a contractor when you're there going why do I have to put in all these brackets? Why do
I have to put in all these extra screws? Why am I you know, out of da Well that's why basically it stops stuff getting torn apart in extreme weather events, which to be fair not so extreme these days, we're getting them more and more. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call open line on all things building and construction. Coming up fourteen minutes after six call
us now eight hundred eighty ten eighty. We'll come to a couple of texts in just a moment, but if you've a great time to call, we are going to have a guest from eight o'clock, so it's going to get a little bit busy. We're into the garden with Redklin past. I've had a couple of correspondences with rud over the last couple of days, mainly me sending him pictures of myself, my wife and our son at Wingspan.
So we went there. If you were listening to Sean Sunday, we were on our way down to Rotrue and then one of the things we wanted to do there was head out and a two wingspan, which we did on the Monday, beautiful day there. As it happens, it was actually closed, but Ennica, the manager came out she was working anyway, opened the gates. We went in and had some time with the falcons which are amazing and with the little ruru and saw the work that they do
and the space that they're creating. It was absolutely fantastic. And then I said what was I thinking about? Yes ah, And then just by the bike, if you happen to be watching the Block Australia like I am, and our family is there, I was happily watching away looking at out door week thinking oh, that's right, that's when I was over there. This was back in May of last year.
I shot over for two nights, stayed at Phillip Island, had a day and a bit of a day, and the next day on site at the block and there I am standing in the back of the shot. So that was a bit of a laugh, rightiot, Let's get into it. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Texts come through morning peat. I've got a nineteen twenties villa and one of the windows has started to rot and the glass is slipping down. It's the only one that has this problem. When it's fixed,
it has to match the rest of the house. A woman in my early fifties, not sure how to start about getting it fixed before winter. Many thanks, from Felicity. Didn't send this last week, but hopefully the email with the pictures will come through. Haven't seen it, but I'll check that out in just a moment. I mean, it's obviously a reasonable amount of decay in the window if
the glass is starting to slip out. So I'm thinking that the mortise and tenin that holds in the bottom rail of your in the sash has actually started to rot, and that's dropping down, and then the glass is dropping down. It might be possible just to remove the entire sash, remove the rot, or cut out some of the rot, fix a piece of tantalized timber into there, and kind of just slide the glass back into place. Maybe you have to do a little bit of reputtying and repair
it on site. It might be that it's that bad that the entire sash needs replacing, in which case you're better off going to a local joiner, a timber joiner who specializes obviously in making timber joinery and wooden sashes. They could remake a sash based on the one that
you've got. Then it's a question of getting someone to come and hang it, which might be someone in the factory, but often they've got exterior contractors, external contractors rather who can come out and do that sort of work for you. But it is quite the process because obviously the sash is made, it needs to be primed, it needs to be painted, possibly new glazing installed, hinges installed fitted, and that can be quite a process, and then hardware reinstalled
and a top coat of paint applied to it. So there's a little bit of work in that, but it can be done. So I think the next porter call is probably going to be a joiner or a good what we call a jobbing carpenter. I don't know if it's a common word anymore, but it's a sort of carpenter that specializes in not so much odd jobs, but just these small maintenance tasks and typically someone with a bit of experience who might be able to do the
job on site. Take the sash out, make the repair, fetch in a new piece of timber, put it all back together again, give it a coat of paint. Job done, replace the hinges, maybe redo the hardware. Job done. That's what you need to do. Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty this is the number to call. The text from Shane. There's apparently some changes. The district plan in Northland requires all driveways to be sealed for the restriction
of dust. Goodness me this now excludes permeable driveways like paving, but that's permeable as a specifically designed to be permeable. I presume one issue big flooding risk. Too many homes with metal drives will now need to concrete a building work consents on site are required for anything. Oh gosh, I wonder if there's a limit as in the length of it. And imagine if you're in a sort of
a more rural area. And I'm just thinking about a place that we did many years ago where the driveway would have been the better part of I don't know, probably would have been close to one hundred meters long. And I know eventually the owners did many years later get it concreted, but for a long time it was basically just metal. In fact, it was tailings that we got from Ashveldt that we had run in and that we could compact down. It actually bound together really quite well.
It was great for us when we were building the property, but it lasted for a number of years after. So gee that it's going to add a bit of expense. It might be a good time to be a concrete contractor in the far North. If you've got a comment, eight hundred eighty ten eighty, it's the number to call. It is coming up twenty three and a half minutes
after six. Again reminder, Wayne Maguire from Ray White's Realty is going to join me in the studio just after eight o'clock to talk about this really interesting idea or not interesting it's I was really intrigued by the call a couple of weeks ago where someone said, look, I've managed to take essentially a case through the disputes tribunal
and have won some money twenty thousand dollars. I think from memory from the previous owner of the house that we've just purchased because they failed to declare in their sale and purchase agreement's something that we could prove that they knew about in terms of a building defects. So we're going to talk about sale and purchase contracts, and I guess what duty you might have as a vendor to declare information about the house, particularly if there might
have been an issue. And I'll make a little note. I had the most glory this day of puttering yesterday, it was. It was. It was a spectacularly happy day for me puttering. I'm going to write down the list of all of the little jobs that I got done, and you will be amazed. I was amazed when I finally wrapped up at about six thirty last night. It was a fabulous day. Anyway, we'll talk about puttering but later
on the show. Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call Andrea A very good morning to you.
Good morning, Pete, Good morning Kate. I had a new build built next to my home, Yes, And when the contractors, the concrete guys came in to labor concrete, the degas hit my seeds in two or three paces, yes, And I spoke to one of them and said to her that, oh, you've just popped my seeds, and he said I'll come over and see. He never returned at all, so I've got photos that never think of it. But anyhow, the owner at the time was away overseas, and since he's
come back, I spoken to him. So they builders that the actual builders came back and nailed one piece of iron on it right, touched the ravings or any sake they are the bottom railings, most of them. With the owner and I spoke, he said, Oh, I'm just so sick of the whole lot. I just wanted to get rid of it all. I don't want to have anything to do with them. So what do I do? As the owners on the concrete people?
Well, yeah, I mean, look, I guess there's a kind of like a hierarchy, isn't it. There's the person that did the damage, which might be the individual contractor. If they kind of can't be bothered, then you would go to the person that paid the bills for that contractor, which is probably the owner of the property. And even if the owner of the property is now sick of the contractors, and to be fair, that's not uncommon, they
still have a responsibility, I would have thought. And even if they're sick of the contractors, doesn't mean that they can absolve themselves in my mind, of their responsibility. So I think, if you've got photographs of the damage, do you have, by any chance photographs of the fence in its original state?
No, that you can compare it to No. I mean that the fence is about twenty five years but I mean it's iron, and there was nothing wrong with it before, so you know, I just because it's not to see that I've got to be worrying because of the railings all my side of course.
Yeah, where it gets really difficult is enforcing it, right. You know, I think it's quite clear that the person has a responsibility probably legal but more import moral responsibility to repair damage.
Right.
You cause the damage, you fix it, and you know, to be you might even end up just writing to them and saying, look, I understand that you don't want anything to do with it. I've had an estimate from a local builder to repair it. It's going to be five hundred bucks. Please pay that and that's the end of it. And you know, if they were the owner of the property, they'd probably accept that and just go look,
I just need to get this gone. But you know, if they don't reply, if they're not civic, I suppose they're in their approach. The really hard thing is how do you enforce it? Do you make a claim for damages through the disputes tribunal And chances are what would happen is you could go to the dispute tribunal say that look, i've had this dispute with my neighbor who's unwilling to make reparations for the damage that they've caused. You'll get a date, you'll turn up, they won't turn up.
The referee at the disp tried to bunal will find in your favor, which they typically do if somebody doesn't turn up. And then but then you've got something that you can enforce through the district court, right, and that's quite useful. So I think if if you can't convince the person to do the right thing, then dispute tribunal is probably where you want to go.
Right, so you think that the best thing would be better to best to get a contractor and then give me an estimation about it.
I think that'd be a really good way of doing it as well. You know, that's that's if you know someone and they're okay to just pop out and say, okay, well, look there's three rails that are broken that you know, there's this much material. It's going to take me a couple of hours to do. Here's an estimate for the repair. And then you can go to the owner of the property. Has the owner of the property sold the property, Have they done it as a development?
No? No, right? So damaged.
Actually, but the house that's been built next year, is it just one house or is it several houses? Just one house? So the person that got the builders in is the person who's going to live in the house. They're going to become your neighbor. Okay, should make it a bit easier. I mean you'd think that, you know, if you're going to be neighbors, they'd want to do the right thing.
But yeah, well he wasn't a nasty or anything about it. He just sort of said he was sick of all the things.
That have got wrong, I know.
But to be blunt, that's his problem, not yours, true, you know what I mean. Like, you know, almost all clients are sick of their builders by the time we've got to the end of the project, right, you know, they just they love us when we arrive, but by the time it's finished, it's like, I'm really pleased to see the back of you, if we're really honest.
Yeah, I thought of one that sort of to be on the project manager, you know, the builders that got in these contractors, because he didn't even know the name of them. I know the name of them. I saw it. Love the truck. But yeah, so he wasn't aware of the.
Way I'd see it is that ultimately, the way that I would see it, Andrea, is that ultimately the person who's paying the bills is kind of responsible. You know that.
That.
Yeah, That's how i'd see it. Good luck with that, hopefully. But maybe getting an estimate's a good idea. Give an estimate. Go to your neighbor, Hey, this is what it's going to cost. If you can contribute to it, then we'll just get it done. It's it's over. Otherwise I am going to go the dispute trouble.
Thank you very much.
Alrighty, all the very best to you. Take care. It's a tricky one. I'll tell you. What is absolutely worthwhile is if there is going to be you know, there's well, intensifications kind of slowed down in most urban areas because the developers have kind of got out of the market. But I have noticed in the last little while that development sites that have sat empty, we're starting to see some activity. I saw a house getting pulled off a site the other day. Obviously that's going to be a
bunch of townhouses. If you're the neighbor and you know that something's going to start happening next door. I would go through and photograph the roadway, like the curb and the driveways and that sort of thing. And if you've got a shared fence or a retaining wall or something like that, I would go through and photograph or video all of that. And it's kind of we do it sometimes where it's like a dereliction report. Right, this is
the state when you started building. If it is damaged or affected in some way after you've finished your building, then the contractor or the owner of the adjacent property should be responsible. And that's where having evidence I photographic evidence. This is what my fence looked like before you guys started building next door. Now it doesn't because you've been running trucks up and down there, or someone backed into it, or in this instance got hit with a digger. I
did it a couple of well I didn't. Actually the digger operator that I was using collected like a handrail of an adjacent property. It was a while ago. We'd run up and down that driveway I don't know, seventy eighty hundred times, and almost at the end of the day clipped it with the bucket on the way out. So okay, I'll fix that. I didn't get onto it immediately. I think I did it like a week later, but that's what you would expect should happen. You may care
to comment. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call six thirty three here at News TALKSB Radio. You're with News Talks heb Pete wolf Camp resident builder here right through till nine o'clock. We've got a guest after eight o'clock we've got red Cline passed as always from eight thirty. Looking forward to that and if you'd like to join us, it'd be lovely. Oh eight hundred eighty ten is the number to call.
Hello Martin, Good morning Peter. Long time, long time caller and listener and enjoyed your program for a quite few years. I've got a very major problem there. Last year I subdivided my three thousand square meet of property into three sections. But property was created with all the council's RMA services and easements consented and signed off. And the council then have consented for us to do earthworks to create a new building platform and get our ground structure reports to
build a new home. YEP, this straight after Christmas we got the excavator in and started digging to find that there's an illegal, non compliant sewage pipe running right through the middle of my section right going to be right through the middle of the new house right now. No easements all that, you know, nothing on any of the paperwork. And council have been in touch with counsel and they've sort of just said it's a private matter and don't wish to be involved.
Yeah, they'll say that's a civil matter.
Yeah, yes, yes, do you know.
We obviously we know where that pipe goes to and which house will be affected. I'm guessing it's a knock on the door. And hey, by the way, don't know that you know, but your drainage runs through my property. There's no consents for it. I'm building. I'm going to rip it up.
They know all this, and I wrote them a seven day letter, given them, you know, seven days to remove said pipes. But they're all just sitting back nothing, nothing, doing nothing, not wanting to put their hands in their pockets. Yeah, bearing their heads in this end.
I guess I would probably go to your lawyer and go, look, I rip that pipe out. Am I legally entitled to do that?
And if I have been, I have been, and he's told me because it's pre exesting, no I can't, but a couple officials. There's a couple officials. There's no easements, no written permission to ever have that quite there. And this pipe, this property was originally borough council land. And I'm sure if permission would ever given for that pipe to go through their land, there would be some paper trail. So it's no about any consentsal permission.
Yeah, no, not necessarily or even if there was originally permission. I know his situation similar to this where let's say there's three adjacent properties, right and and so you got number one, two and three, number three there wastewater travels across the backyard of number two, underneath the garage of number three and finally gets into the council wastewater line in an adjacent street.
Right.
And I've had a look at the gies. I've had a look on all of the drainage plans. It doesn't appear anywhere, but it's there, right. Yeah, And without it, that house number three would literally not There is no other practical solution. It's a very old one. You know, this is an old area et cetera. And despite that, and even though it doesn't appear on the plans, somewhere along the line, it probably did get consent right back in the day. So the fact that it doesn't appear
it doesn't necessarily make it illegal. I mean, if it was something that was done recently, when we know we should have had consents, maybe you'd feel differently about it. Shivers, can you bridge it?
And then it comes right out the bank, straight through the middle of the house.
I've done, and.
There's two two neighbors away. The neighbor beside me that it comes through first before it ends my property. He has given me permission to remove it. He doesn't want to either. He doesn't you know, he's given me permission to chop it off.
Hang on.
The neighbor heads, yeah, but it comes from the next neighbors, okay, And the neighbor, the neighbor next door doesn't use it. He's gone through through courts and got all of permissions to run a new, complete, new saw line down you know, down the roadway, and so he you know, I've got my own services and easement told me signed and things off.
But he my next neighbor, he's going I had permission from the courts to put in he's a new one right down the roadway, but this one then comes from probably above that.
Yeah, I'm with you, Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I know it's very awkward.
Could could you dive because I think it's going to be uh, I think wow. Tell you one of the things that happened where because it's private drainage running through an adjacent property, there is a process where counsel sort of adopt it, right that because it effectively because private drainage should really only be on the property that it relates to, right and then when once it extends to
the boundary, it becomes public. So could you convince counsel to take ownership of your of that pipe that runs through your property and effectively through your neighbors? And then the.
Only way, the only way I can see for it, I've got to just disconnect topic in the neighbors and then then fight it and court, you know then, and which could take years. And these these housess houses that are affected are going to have no no.
Sewage or yeah, well that that's what going to work for them for about a day and a half, isn't it? Before you know this toilet stop flushing basically.
And then and then maybe councils and everyone will start moving. But it's it's not a nice way to go.
No, it's not. I'm just thinking about the practical implication of having this pipe running through where you want your new building platform to be. Could you divert it and then you can build where you want to build without having a sewer pipe running underneath the house.
But it's a non compliant. It's it's one hundred mil surpi. You know, feeding two houses now, I had to put my two plub houses. I had to do all things with one fifty mil. Yes, yes, it's a non consented It's bit like when you do alterations to your house and you know you sort of changed, you know, the window structure or something. You've got a thing so illegally, if I do that, it's illegal.
Yeah, I'm with you.
Yeah, it's not going to be.
If you were to divert it, and if you took responsibility for it, you would have to comply with the current regulations. And if that man's one hundred and fifty mil, then suddenly you're putting in.
So you're talking hundred thousand dollars plus is what you're talking could be Yeah, they have done I do. My part was fifty thousand dollars for things, and you know you're talking twice quite twice my distance.
What would be interesting is if you went back to council and said, look, you've you know, I've I've complied with all of the drainage requirements for my property right and you've given consent for that. You've also given me seemingly consent for the location of the new build. And now I've discovered that there's a public drain or a private train that runs through my land. What do they suggest? They just go, we don't want to know.
Yes, these properties are all off a private mary road, and the councils just close their eyes and shake their head. I've talked to the council for a couple of years now, head engineers, and they just close their eyes and what they don't want themvolved there is been to the Maryland courts and they've given permission for my neighbor to put all the services down the LPE near the private road.
I presume too that given that you've had legal advice from your own lawyer, and your lawyer is quite clear and saying you don't have the right to just cut it off.
Mhm.
Is that correct?
But yeah, but that's from that's that's that's coming from two neighbors away. My neighbor next door who doesn't use it just to be a section, doesn't use it, and it says to create his own. It's quite heavy for me to cut it off. So now who's my thing from the where it starts or from where it enters from where an inters. Yeah, I guess that might be a bit complicated.
Hell, I don't I.
And the only way I see forward is for me to cut it off and then then I will get some action from thee.
An interesting one for our Well, we've had a couple of We've got two lawyers that I call on on the show, Mike Thornton, who does sort of construction law, and then Ben Johnson, who does more property law. It's no help to you, but that would be a great question to ask them.
No, just last week and you had those ones with the storm water, you know, ye damage well the neighbors and that and yeah, I'll.
Tell you what someone's just text through. And it's interesting, morning, Pete. The pre existing pipe will have to be moved by the developer, which is effectively you. It's a cost of the subdividing. Unlucky, but just one of those unseen costs for developing. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You just have to take the good with the bad. That's from Tommy.
It sounds like Tommy probably is realistic and maybe it is just going to be you're going to either have to bridge it, so you're gonna have to redesign your slab so that it's bridging, or you're going to have to divert it and just decide which is the more cost effective solution, or move the location of your house. But that's not that easy.
No, no, of you looking right down unto the lake. It's oh.
Yeah, it's an intriguing one. But I think it is incredibly frustrating, isn't it When you go to counsel and then the end they just go, we just don't know, and you go like, you're the people that should.
Be and these neighbors are just buried the head and.
Wow, hey, I'm sorry that we can't come to a conclusion on that, but I'd love to know where you get to Please let.
Me know it.
Thank you very much, we'll take nice, take care then far out, far out. That could be a mess. I eight hundred eighty two. Oh, maybe an even bigger mess if you just caps it. I wait, hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Six forty eight. Will take a break, We'll be back with Rose and moment you and new Stork se b actually just wrapping up,
hopefully bit of that conversation with Martin just a moment ago. Hey, Pete pipe would have been built installed prior to nineteen ninety one, so to be considered an existing situation under the Building Act. Hence it is legally established. And that's pretty much exactly the same situation as I'm aware of where like I say, now you know house number one, two and three all in a row. House Number three's sewer travels across the backyard of two, through the backyard
effectively of number one, and out into the road. So it's on a corner site. And yeah, nobody knew it was there, but it is, and so obviously cutting it is not really an option, as tempting as that might be. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Haven't finished about my story about the puttering. I'm just starting to write my list. It's a very long list of jobs that I got done. Yes, that was awesome, Rose, good evening or good morning to you.
I found myself in a bit of a side situation. I applied for a council flood report, yes after the twenty three floods, and I didn't expect anything. They came back and notted me a buyout and so last thing I wanted and I've just got choices. Is it possible to raise a two story brick house?
Interesting that you mentioned this now because I had a conversation with very good friends yesterday and they have had similar things just in the last couple of weeks. And this is Auckland Council. And I actually went to the Auckland Council website yesterday and there's a large number of houses that are going to be bought by council. Like we're talking seven eight hundred houses through the Auckland area. So can I presume that.
You're in Auckland use definitely I'm in one of those. And whole streets have disappeared, you know, Yes, apparently.
Yeah it is, and so yeah, I am aware of it. I see I, well, I don't know that if you were to, because obviously you want to stay living where you are, right, and what I'm doing.
It wasn't in one of the major areas, and no one else in most street doesn't even apply it, So wouldn't have applied if I'd realized it could lead to this. But there were any mornings like that I applied to I did it get out with drainage?
Right? Okay?
Pay unless your neighbors applied.
So in this now, and just to be clear, rose, so in this instance here after the flooding, where obviously did you have flooding inside your house?
Yes, it was a level about seven, right.
And so you made an application to counsel for assistance I guess in terms of remediating drainage and the hope that would solve it. And the council responses has been to come back to you and go, we're going to buy you out.
Yes, yes, right, And we realized it came from a cad drain that hadn't been maintained and as soon as they worked on it, it just immediately subsided.
Right, Okay, wouldn't get to bear the king.
Look, it does sound like you're probably going to need some professional advice, you know, maybe from a lawyer who can look at the the areas that counsel are going to buy out. And if yours, you know, I guess in your situation, if you're the only one like I do completely understand counsel going you know what, we we aren't We are not going to be able to fix
this problem in some areas. So our best solution is to offer to buy people out right, But if that would typically apply then to your neighbors, because that's illogical that it's just you unless you're in a particular Well they.
Didn't apply, so nothing right and they still get insurance.
Well then I h yeah, that's going to be the hard thing, isn't it.
I presume it's just the flooding and you can get fire. Another.
I wonder whether you may need to go to a planner. And I'm sure that some planners town planners will have become very familiar with this process now and go to a planner, You're probably going to have to pay for some professional advice and that they then would act on your behalf to go back to counsel. And in this instance, because your neighbors are not being brought out and simply
go Actually that that was not my intention. That while there is a risk of inundation, it's it's infrequent, and so I would, I mean, maybe even just withdraw your application for any assistance back in the mo right, Oh, good morning, welcome back. Sorry appalling broadcasting skills on my part, just crashing into the news, but I was so captivated by the conversation with Rose that I completely ignored all the other stuff. Anyway, we will talk to Rose, wrap
up that conversation if you'd like to join us. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call a couple of really big issues around development, which makes me think that maybe it's time to get one of our legal eagles back on the show as well in the next couple of weeks, which we will do. Eight hundred
eighty ten eighty. We're taking your calls right now. Remember after eight o'clock a guest I reached out to gentleman by the name of Wayne McGuire, who is a Ray Whites agent, has been an agency owner, so very familiar with the I guess the laws and the requirement around sale and purchase agreements, particularly after a conversation on this show two weeks ago where someone talked about having taken a successful case against a previous owner of the property,
the person they bought the house from, some two years after the sale and purchase agreement was completed, because they found that the person did not declare information that they were fully aware of around some building defects sought redressed through the dispute tribunal. Won that case and I think it might have been twenty grand that they got. So how does that work? What if you're going to sell a house, what do you have to do as the vendor in terms of disclosure. We'll be talking about that
with Wayne McGuire after eight o'clock. MEMBERD at eight thirty, but right now we'll take your calls at eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Rose, thanks for staying with us for a moment.
That's okay. I you suggested withdrawing that that wasn't an option They want.
You to do that.
No, I think, gosh, it feels like you've let the genie out of the bottle inadvertently and it's going to be really hard to put it back in. I just wonder whether because you are, you know, like if you were in a street that was low lying and all of your neighbors had had an offer from counsel to buy them out, then I guess it's very hard to push back against that right. But if you are the only person that they have made that approach to, I just feel that that gives you some hope in terms
of being able to negotiate with counsel. The hard thing is it won't change, or it may not change, the concerns around flooding that will be on the property file. And you're right, will you be able to get insurance? And if later on when you go to sell, you know, would someone want to buy a house that they can't ensure? Possibly, but not at market price.
No.
Look, I do wonder whether either through your lawyer or through a property like a town planner, you could seek some professional advice, someone who understands what the legislation is, what the parameters of the council offer it is, and whether or not there's an option for you to push back and stay in the house. But it's not going to change the fact that your house has now been identified as obviously being in a flood zone.
No, I know that's true, and I just send all the insurance money over two hundred thousand doing it up and it's beautiful. Now it's just till I liked it. Yeah, and that's wasted. If I think they give you that money back.
I don't think so. Oh that's a really tricky one.
And I.
Hopefully you can take some consolation by the fact that you're not alone. There will literally I'm aware having looked at the website yesterday, that many several hundred Auckland property owners will be in exactly the same situation.
Yes, I think they are just not in this area.
No, that's right, Good luck with that. But I think professional advice from a town planner might be the go.
Nice to talk. It's not practical to raise the house.
As their own, well I guess it would be. And that's a sensible flood prevention issue. So you know, if you were to say, hey, look what I'm going to do is I'm going to raise the house and maybe it's going to be a block basement down below, which has you know, like if the water comes through, it'll just flood through, the blocks will be saturated for a
period of time. Or you could lift the house and put it on poles, certainly there's large areas in the Bay of Plenty that were also affected by the floods. Oh sorry, around East Cape and all sorts of areas there where people are going, actually we might need to if we're going to rebuild, we're going to rebuild at a higher level, and you know, if the floods come then it'll just go underneath the house and carry on.
But again, was a garrige or not?
I guess it's non habitable. If it was non habitable, and if it was designed in such a way that the water just simply flowed from one end to the other, you could possibly do that. But then that's a significant cost on your part.
Well, it definitely isn't It was a big section. I wanted to build out the back, and I would have thought they would allow it if it was built at the right level. But I don't think that's going to be an option If I'm a Category.
Three I don't think so either. To be fair, I hope it all works out for you. Thanks Rose.
Thanks, it's interesting plan.
No trouble, Yeah, good luck with that.
Thank you all right.
You take care. Bob oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the number to call if you're I suppose it's one of those things. If you are aware of this because you've had a letter from council recently, then you'll be aware of it. If you're not, like me, I wasn't well. I was aware that some areas were being targeted, but identified as areas where there is sort of basically
flood risk that can't be mitigated. And I remember going to a house before the January twenty twenty three flood that flooded the previous year and they were going to get bored out at that time. Well, it's it's confirmed these areas. It's staggering numbers they If you're interested, you can go to the Auckland Council website. Just search for what I searched for was north Shore because I'm on the north Shore of Auckland buy out and it just
listed literally hundreds of houses. Doesn't say any details about them. It just says suburb number of houses that are in that z own number that have been brought out. It's a big process. O eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call if you've got a building question. We can talk all things building, construction, anything really to do with home ownership and for some people having council come along and make you an offer and your property is going to be a reality. So oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty is the number, Hollow Georgie. Hi, how can I help?
We purchased a property which will be coming up four years in March, and about a year ago we noticed a shower this weeking so it was a double lingard shower, so he stopped giving one in anyway. So just recently we've ripped the shower out and found that it hasn't been lined with jib aquiline. It's been lined with ply which hasn't even been fixed to the wall, and it's had very minimal waterproofing. So they ran a strip down the corner and a stripped down underneath where the tats are.
And when we looked at the PS three, the property owner signed it himself.
Oh the product he used, Yeah, the product he used was.
From the warehouse, yes, and where the council obviously signed off on this. We're having to rip the shower up and replace it. Obviously the woods the base places are rotten. Do we have any come back on him because he signed the PS three.
Which is kind of what date is on the PS three?
Oh that I don't know when the build was done?
Which how long ago? Do you think that was sort of early two.
Thousand, approximately four years, just over four years, because we bought it four years ago and they hadn't lived in it very long.
Oh okay, then yeah, I think you do. Because by it's interesting that someone who's not can I ask you, without going to too much detail, where are you in Auckland or somewhere like that?
No? Final?
Okay, all right, because for example in Auckland, and I mentioned this just for everybody else's information, like, in order to issue a producer statement, particularly for waterproofing, you have to be on the approved Producer Statement author register with Auckland Council, right, So it stops this process, right, So I know I've if I've had a waterproofer work for me.
You can either go online and check or when it comes to CCC time council check that the person who has been the author of the producer statement is in fact qualified to issue or to author a producer statement, and they will reject ones that are from someone who
just signs one. Right because because typically in order to do waterproofing most manufacturers of the product will have a licensing system, right, so only someone who is licensed to install that product should be the person doing the installation of that product in most cases. So I think that you probably do have a claim because the person has also by authoring the producer statement, they're implying a warranty, right, and that warranty should at a very bare minimum extend
for ten years. It's failed within that ten year period, they are then responsible for it. So I think you've got a strong case to make, and you know, possibly you go through the courts. Will possibly you just go through the disputes tribernal and again problem you go on the problem.
The problem we had is the man. Two things. The man that did it no longer lives in the country, and when he did it, he worked for our council. Local council by all accounts, had to exit left very quickly for some unknown reason. And yeah, so how do we contact him? Do we go back through our lawyer when we bought the property and contact their lawyer.
Yeah, but look, if the person's overseas, your chances of getting anything from them is to be blunt.
Just about zero.
And you probably already know that in your heart. The other option is that I presume the building, after the building consent was final, inspection took place, it did receive a code compliance certificate. Yes it did, which means that council takes responsibility, which means that you could try and sue counsel.
We fought the council for two years for resource consent was finally one. Ah, you councils are not fun to deal.
With, No, And look, they've they've got deep pockets and they will fight it every step of the way. And you know, we can't be too critical of that because as rate payers, we want them to, you know, be as Yeah.
We've already given the council a lot of for two years.
One I wonder whether you know, you could spend several thousand dollars trying to fight this or you could just put that money into repairing it and just get on with it.
Which is exactly what we're doing.
But yeah, okay, and look at part of me hates giving that sort of advice, but that's just kind of practical.
I think, yes, no, that's fine, Thank you, damn goodbye.
Damn hey, good to talk with you all the best. Thanks Georgie, take care. Oh that's got to hurt. Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty is then i'mber to call quick text before we go to the break. Gordon text A a moment ago, um, a little while ago actually, so sorry for the delay. Gordon. Hey, Pete. I want to replace the polycarbonate roofing on my wooden framed greenhouse. It is eighteen meters by six that's massive and four meters high. I'll use a scaffold on the inside. That's clever.
Question on how do I replace the capping along the top? Do I use plywood sheets to carefully walk on? I can't find a roofer to do the job? Ah, Gordon, Yeah, I think that's probably going to be. Your best bet is to lay the sheets using the scaffold, so you can work off that from the inside, so you're not trying to stand on the sheets, particularly if you're Perlins are let's say it, you know, more than nine hundred centers.
It's a big step from one Perlin to the other, and you could quite easily see yourself going through the polycarbonate. But maybe as you're laying it, you'll need to lay sheets along the ridge line that you can then fix the ridge capping too, and then take those sheets from one end to the other, walking on the plywod until you get to the end of the building and then hopefully you've got a scaffold there you can load it
onto and go down from there. I can sort of understand why you couldn't find a roofer to do the job. To be fair, it is tricky. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. And another quick text morning Pete. Can you tell me if the government have relaxed the rules on tiny homes yet? I'd need more information on that question. I don't. I
haven't seen anything recently on that as it happens. Actually this week, I think on Thursday, I'm going out to have a look at a fairly significant tiny home manufacturer
fabrication place. I'll have a bit of a chat with them while i'm out there, I'm meeting the owners and having a look around, and then I'm off down to Hamilton Action on Thursday to look at a three D printed house showroom for a three D printed house that's just been done, so a factory tour and then a bit of a look at this three D printed house could be interesting as well. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty will take a short break. We'll be back
with Graham in just a moment. I mentioned earlier in the show that I had a for me what felt like a fantastic day yes today, puttering. Puttering is my new word for twenty twenty five. Puttering, as I see it, is the act of performing tasks that are practical and achieve something. You fact something done, something that makes a difference, but nobody else will notice it. And so I had a puttering day yesterday where I had to take all of my tools out of the back of the ute
when we went away for the weekend. So I loaded everything into the shed and then before I put it all back in, this was task number one for the puttering was to go through I've got a set of drawers that sit in the back of the ute that I made out of plywood years ago. So I went through all of those, cleaned them all out, got rid of all the debris, got rid of stuff that I don't use anymore or off cuts, and da da da
da clean that re established that back into there. I had a hole lot of garden stakes that i'd taken out from a job that still had the cloth around them. So pulled out all the staples, got those tidied up. I had bought a nifty little it's like an attachment to a vacuum that if you're drilling a hole in a wall and you plug the vacuum into this little attachment, it sucks itself to the wall and sucks the dust.
It's brilliant anyway. So I needed somewhere to hold that up, so I reorganized things in the workshop, made a little holder for that and one for the square next to it. Then in the back of my ute, I've got to pull out tray that I made another platform on that had a bit of a bend in it, So I took that out, strengthened it with a bit of aluminium, and then painted it. Put that back in. Done that. We picked up a second hand brazier the other day
from the recycling center. I gave that a rust clean and did that, mowed the lawns, cleaned out little paddling pool. For some reason, used the little I've got a little eighteen vault Rhyobi wet and dry vacuum cleaner, so it looks like a lunch box. You can just carry it
around with you. So I took all of my tool bags, so one with my power tools in it, one with another set of power tools, another one with grinders and bits and pieces, then and emptied all of those out, sucked out all of the sawdust at the bottom of that, and with the little Ryobi vac, cleaned out the Ryoby vac because I'd used that the other day when I was doing some concrete drilling on a job, and I think I got a couple of other jobs done too.
It was fantastic puttering day. Awesome, took the whole day. It got started nice and early. Guy came round to pick up a garden roller. I had an antique garden roller. I loved it, but anyway, it's time to move it on. So he came picked it up seven thirty on Saturday morning. Got a love a trade me purchase that goes I'll be there at seven thirty on Saturday, and he was. It was awesome. He turns out to be chippy as well, so it was a bit of a chat. And anyway
that's gone. Now I'm on the hunt for a replacement garden roller. We'll get round to that later on. I'm in the market. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number. Graham, Good morning, Good morning, a good buddy.
Hey.
I just i was listening to your show this morning, and I've got some issues. Who has a good issue in the council, but the sun Plaine issue.
Yeah.
So, and there street on one side the street, the back of the house below the street, yes, And some of them are slightly below the footpath. And then you come along as it gets further down to the street, and the loans of mine, which is built on a lava flower, is extually elevated right off yep. So anyway, some of some of these houses got water ingress into the down down stairs, and some of their backyards flooded. And I was actually home when there's when those big
rains came through. Ye took some video footage and what was actually going on. The drains weren running and and the water was coming down the down the gunner six feet wide heading the abutments to the driveways, and then the pressure wave was sending it back uphill and then down people's driveways right so shoes around and not seeing their drains. But the funny thing is. So I've googled the mat in the in the in the in the very start of my driveway has a blue blue as a pain on it.
They were oval and flow path.
Uh oh yeah, well that's a good point. I'm exactly sure which one there is. But the nigh his house who sits level with the road, their whole house has scott blew all over. And then recently they got seen to letter from the council saying hey, look we'll give you eighty percent of the value and buy your house because it's in this in this their house never flooded at all. Mhm, never flooded. And I'm like, well, what's going on? How's that? How's that even happening?
I suppose, especially you know in terms of like it just will go back a couple of steps. So I've been fascinated with this new flood viewer online tool.
Right, that's that's the one I'm talking about.
Now, that's one, and I presume at the stage, well, all I know is I know Auckland Council's got one, right, and and I'm involved with the local college and we had you know, like that particular area there is an overland flow path and we had a lot of water through there and in that area, and so looking at it now, it is remarkable to see the extent of
the floodplain. Right, So I can remember looking at Gis three or four years ago and now you look at it, and I found it fascinating at the precision of what they've been able to map. And my understanding is it's mapped off real data. So this is what they know. This is where floodplains happen. But obviously if you're saying, hey, look in this instance here, this one's being identified as being in a floodplain, but in effect they had no flooding.
You know, do you have an opportunity to go back to council or to planners to go actually in reality that it just didn't happen. Because I'm aware of another property that I know had extensive flooding, serious damage to the property, which when I had a look on flood view a flood you the other day, it's not even highlighted and and there's no overland flow path that goes
through the property. And that was actually a situation similar to yours, where the sheer volume of water that was coming down the curb whipped around the corner and then up and over. And in their instance, they didn't have they had a driveway that sloped down to a basement, and they had no they had pumps in the channel and the catch pit, and once those got overwhelmed, there was just nowhere else for the water to go.
Nowhere to go. Yeah, yeah, well these this because what they did in the in the street reached the beautiful and they came through and they put that slightly relates to it, but they put the script down on it.
Yeah.
Yeah. And and for Ages because it could it gets stramped into into my into my basement on tires the least flower and I'd blow a mess of piles into the gunner and then ring the counselor you need, you need to pick all your crap.
Yeah, heading one.
Way into the into the one hundred yards here on the street to low point in the storm orders. No storm waterer in the street runs across down in the bottom of the step. And of course I guess so on cost saving measures, no one's cleaned to drains there for Ages, and their big rain came and of course they were hardly working.
You know.
Yeah, And look I think that council have had quite Auckland in particular, quite the wake up call where you know, there's I guess it's not really sexy. Like if you were like there's going to be local body elections this year and council elections this year, and if you ran on a campaign that said the only thing I want a campaign for is to fix the pipes, you know
how many people would vote for you? Possibly quite a few these days, I'm not sure, but yeah, probably, you know, And I think for a long time, you know, checking the pipes and that sort of thing hasn't been a priority. I think it genuinely is nowadays. And I'm aware of a couple of large public lines that when they did finally get round to doing camera surveys and that sort of thing, they found that they were fifty sixty percent full of sediment. Right now, that's if you've got.
A lot of it's grit that they've been putting around the neighborhood where yeah, and I have big arguments with them over and obviously it was done about five six years ago, maybe even seven, and I can still go out there with a leaf blow and big a big pole.
Into the other whereas you know. My understanding is with the chip is that they do the chip right and then they come through with the sweepers and they let it settle for a while and then they take the excess away. But if they don't come back and sweep, then you're right that that grit is going to end up in the channel. Eventually it'll end up in the catch pit. The catch pit then has got no volume, and so they just over top.
Yeah, and I honestly believe that's a lot of what happened in our street because when it when it came down, it so it was about six feet wide coming down the gunner. As soon as I had those abutments, you can see the pressure wave, yes, going back up and I'm like, right this where it isn't where where I happened. I have a double engine strike. My neighbors singles next, so we've got freely wide. So it's sort of didn' they have a chance to get at me. But I
can see how it would get to hers. Ob suggested putting a speed up in the driveway enough to send it down.
Yeah, just to divert it you.
Needed to do. But it's caused a lot of inks for people and these these two guys that have bought the house next door to me. That's sort of like, well, what's going on? And I'm like, mate, I'm telling it. I was here in that place to look like.
Yeah, well, particularly if you're lava flow or something like that, you know, potentially there's there's more. They call the tomos or what you know, the amazing.
That's how I got my drainage on the aqui for water View YEP, at our hooks and there.
It's a great system if you can prove that it works. I did one years ago where it was you know, sort of a volcanic area. We were able to drill down. We then tested the sheer volume that it would accommodate, and once we could prove that it would handle the rainfall, then we could do storm water on site just by simply dropping it straight down back into the ground. Great system, but that's what that's what I do.
It's a success thing. And then eventually it's south side and down into it so that that main equa.
Funnily enough, the way that I did was an only hunger. So really, hey, good of you to call good luck with your neighbors, and thanks for raising that issue. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call seven thirty six here at Newstalk, se'd be call us now. We've got time to take your calls through till eight o'clock. After eight o'clock, real estate agent agency owner and expert WAYE. Maguire is going to join me
in the studio. We're going to be talking about this issue of I suppose declarations what you have to declare in a sale and purchase agreement. So we'll talk about that after eight o'clock and happy to take any text if you've got any questions on that. See now, people are telling me that it's pottering. Puttering is the North American version. I like the North American version to be fair. I don't mind pottering. Pottering kind of implies that you're
just doing tasks, but more for amusement. Puttering seems to have an urgency about it, as in, these are actually jobs that will make a difference, just no one else will notice it. So I'm sticking with puttering at the stage. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number. We'll talk to Kate after the break Your News Talks e B twenty minutes away from eight o'clock. Kate, A very good morning to you.
Good morning pee, Kate.
How are you?
I'm siged, thank you and yourself bad.
Thank you.
I've got these beautiful you uPVC windows and doors in my new home. Very happy with them. And they were delivered with a film protect the film on them, and the house was painted and the scaffolding came down and I asked a few times, when does that film come off? Because it's covered in all this writing. It looks horrible, and nobody did anything about it. That film stayed on for weeks in the hot sun, and I eventually called the builders have left the site with the film on
the window. And I called the manufacturer and he was very distressed. He was wonderful. He came on Friday night, he got a ladder in his business clothes. He was climbing his ladder and peeling off the film. He said, this should have come off weeks ago. This is negligence. And now there's residue, bluey, sticky residue on there which has taking the nice shiny surface away. And he said, what you need to do is put some mefilated spirits on it and then follow up with a damp cloth
and it will come off well. Some of the some of the film is coming off in shreds. It's baked on so hard from areas where the sun caught it. So I tried this. I called the build it one and called builders because they actually will only email me now by many issues. If they're not they don't want to deal with me. And so they said they'd send the builder over the weekend. Of course, now it's not
great weather. But I tried a little bit of methylated spirits and it didn't really do the job terribly well. So I googled, and every Google site says, don't use methylated spirits. You can use isoprobo alcohol or in a heat gun ra that will read me a hair dryer. So I'm just not sure. I can talk to the manufacturer again Tuesday. But of course it's a long weekend, and if we get any more sun, which we today, we're not. But I don't know what to do about this.
He said, it's really urgent. You need to not let this bacon anymore. Sometimes I can see the writing from the film in the glue of the window. I'm wondering if you've got experience of this having been snored and that's for too long and what to do.
Yeah, it's incredibly frustrating. I can certainly understand that. I mean, the protective film is there to protect it during construction and then ideally it's removed as soon as any painting or scaffolding comes down. I think the fact that you've reached out to the manufacturer and listen, I would listen to their recommendations. I think the fact that you've gone
to Google is great. But you know, I good on them for coming out, and I suspect I know who that company is, so look, I think it is going to be Mislad Spirits. I think it is going to just be a really time consuming task. I think, just being realistic, the chances of getting the builder to come back and do it is unlikely. Whether or not you could then get a contractor to come in and do that work, and it's just diligence. It's just time, right
time and attention to detail. Yeah, whether or not you could make me.
Yeah, does this fall under naked?
See. What's really interesting for LBPS now is, and I'm speaking as an LBP myself, is there is now a code of ethics and it's been around since about two thousand and two, I think. And just go and google LBP Code of Ethics, it'll take you to the LBP website. It makes it really clear around some responsibilities that we have in terms of how we behave right and so you know there is you could remind the LVP of their responsibilities under the Code of Ethics and and that's
things like informing clients. So for example, if they decided that they were not going to take off the film and that it was going to become your responsibility, they should let you know if you know, if it's something that they should have done and should reasonably have known that they should have done, and they didn't do it, then you could say, well, look it was part of your task. If you installed the joinery, then you're also
there to remove it. In the same way that you know, roofers that install flashings know that they have to remove the the there's often a plastic film on flashings, so typically when a roofer installs them, they remove them right. They don't put them on with them on and wait for someone else to take them off. Yeah, I have a look at the Code of Ethics.
Yeah, I have.
I understand about the code of ethics, been there and oh okay, send a screenshot of it to the builder. But some of the writing on the film says remove after installation. Yeah, it's right there, it's all over it.
Yeah, did the builder install the joinery or did the contractor from the manufacturer install the joinery? The builder did, okay, which is fine, But then yeah, it's part of their responsibility to remove it. They haven't if it's unlikely that they're going to come back and do anything, or certainly not with any urgency, in which case you could get a contractor in to give you a price. You have to send that to the builder. You have to say it's going to cost me this much because there is
a first ride of refusal, right so or rectify. So you have to go back to the contractor to say I'm going to have to spend this much money to have this repaired. Either you're going to do it or I'm going to spend the money. But you do have to give them the opportunity of fixing it in the first place.
Oh okay, it was sort of contract you would do that.
Gosh. I used to. I had a guy come and do some work for us a little while ago who actually was a sign writer, but he was and what we needed him to do was clean off swarf and that sort of thing from long run metal installation, right, And it was just a guy who was meticulous. So that's all you need, just someone who's got patience and
determination to come and do it. It might be a professional cleaner, it might be a joinery installation person, it might be another builder, just someone with the right attitude. A number of people have texted and said the isopropyl alcohol is much better than meths for cleaning the glass, but the film wouldn't be on the glass, It'll just be on the extrusion.
Correct. There's a little of the little marks on the glass from small stickers, but I can deal with that.
Yeah, have it go, you can buy I bought some the other day, actually, little spray bottle of icopropel alcohol. Try that. If it's more effective than meths, go for it. But I think you know, i'd listen to the manufacturer about their recommendation.
Well, I actually, yeah, do ask the manufacturer about that, and he said no.
To it, just strong. Okay, Oh, well then then go with the mess just down the line. I'll just get you to tell my producer as I who the manufacturers I'm curious to know, but yeah, just down the line, Kate, if Isaiah will ask you that question in just a moment, it's coming up twelve minutes away from eight eight hundred and eighty ten eighties. The number to call will take your calls right up to the news at eight. After the news at eight o'clock, we're going to talk to
Wayne Maguire who's from ray White's Realty. Been in the business for a long time. I'm really curious around this whole sale and purchase and as a vendor, what do you need to declare? And I mean it's interesting it came up just with Georgie straight after the eight o'clock news talking about a shower that are being poorly built and intrigued there that someone was able to issue a producer statement without being qualified to do so, and that
that got accepted by counsel. Those sorts of things. If it's a new sale and purchase agreement, no, there's no problem, but you are aware of a problem. What what declarations do you have to make and what responsibility do you have to declare? What you may know, particularly in terms of defects about a house before you sell it. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty the number to call call us Now we'll take short break back with your calls in just a moment, you and we're taking your calls.
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Hello, Paul, Hi, Hey Pete.
The other week, you were talking about your usual paint company's acrylic paint remote. Yes, is that called latex paint remoter?
Yeah, it is, because that's what the frame. They obviously get it from the state, and that's typically how they describe acrylic paints in the state. So latex paint remover.
Cook and how old paint will it remove? You know, how long have the paint's been on the air for weeks? Months?
I don't know that it would necessarily matter because in the end, I mean, I was using some water born enamel paint yesterday to paint this tray that sits in the back of my ute, right, so I guess it's on. It takes two hours to dry, then it's dry. I don't know that it makes a difference whether it's two hours, two weeks, or two years.
Right, Okay, all right, I'll give it a go.
Yeah, I think it's probably more designed for you know, patches, and so it's not a paint stripper if you want to paint.
Strip patches, you know, but yeah, that's what I want to remove.
Yeah, yeah, like I you know, it's probably one of those situations I've said property the other day and you could, you know, the painter had done a really slap dash job and there was bits of paint all over the aluminium extrusion and I guess it's for that type of task.
Good, yeah, excellent, all right, all right, give it a go, all right, make all.
The best, take care, take care, all the best. A couple of quick texts as well. Hey, Pete spied you on an episode of The Block the other day. You're right, actually the Block Australia, Tony very eager eyed listeners on the show. I got a message through social media the other day too so and look, to be fair, I was not sure whether there would be any footage or
anything like that. I certainly didn't go with the intention of being on camera, but I did have a very delightful day wandering around the site with Julian Cress, who's the producer and the originator of the show. He was very generous with his time and just a fantastic guy. Spoke with him for quite some time, had the opportunity to meet good old Scotti, Cam and Shelley and Dan as well, and sort of wandered around watching them work.
And obviously I'm familiar with it, given that I did it for ten years on the block here in New Zealand, but it's quite interesting being on the other side of it, watching the production, watching the way in which the story produces and the camera crew work and the way that
it's organized there. Ended up that night going out for dinner with actually Robert from Felax, was good of my host at that time, and then ended up going out to dinner with two of the guys from nine and six who are the main construction company and they effectively run the site due all of the management of the subcontractors and they do the bill. So I had dinner with a couple of the guys from nine and six, spent a bit of time with Scotty, gave them a nice bottle of wine and had a bit of a
chat and followed them around. And yes, there I was in the back of the shot the other day. I've put that out actually, a couple of photographs on my Facebook page. So if you can't have look for resident builder or people Camp on Facebook you'll find it there. But had it. It was a great time. It's back in gosh when was it May? Middle of May of last year. Don't tell me what the outcome is. I'm still hoping that it's going to be a surprise for me.
I think it'll be on sometime next week. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number to call
if you've got a question of a building nature. Well, actually we've run out of time for building questions, But if you've got a real estate question, particularly around sale and purchase and disclosure, text it through on nine to nine two because Wayne Maguire from Ray White's Realty, he's going to join me after the eight o'clock news and we're going to talk about this really intriguing case that
came up just a couple of weeks ago. So we'll do that after eight o'clock Your News Talk, seid B News, Sport and Weather, Top of the hour at eight your News Talk, said B people camp with you this morning, and it is a great pleasure this morning to have in the studio. I'll get the right microphone. I'll bring it up Wayne Maguire, who I was saying as we came up in the elevator, pretty much exactly two years ago since we had you here in the studio. I
don't know where those two years have gone. But hey, great to see you again. Thanks very much for coming in.
Yeah, great to be with you, Peter. And hopefully I can add a bit of value.
Yeah, oh, look, I know that, And thanks for your time on the phone this week. So the beginning of this was a phone call a couple of weeks ago where a caller said, look, I've just been through a situation where I purchased the house two years ago. I've then found that there were some defects in the house. I've investigated it found that the vendor, the person who sold me the house, was aware of the defects but did not disclose them in the sale and purchase agreement.
And I've been able to prove that. I've gone to the dispute tribunal and they've found in my favor and I've got twenty grand out of them. Oh okay. And it started me thinking about crikey. What is it in a sale and purchase agreement that a vendor has to declare?
Yeah, great point to raise. And there's a couple of documents, to be honest. So it's going to be the salent purchase agreement. Yes, And that's a contract between the buyer and the seller.
Yes.
And inherently, and there is warranties, you know, vendor warranties we call them. Yeah. And in the warranties you're saying in escence, you're saying, anything I've done while I've owned the property that needed a consent, I made sure it had a concent of mad Sure, it's been done as per the concent of mad Sure, it's had sign off, you know, a co compliance certificate, and of made sure. I've given away no rights, you know to the property.
You haven't allowed the nighbor to build or do anything different.
So you're looking for that, Okay, Yeah, so.
Think about that in your Salem purchase. So that covers the period while the vendors owned it. But we actually go further. We actually go what happened before and what else is going on with the property. So I think you've got to go a bit wider you've really Now if we jump back a step, Peter, and we go back to the listing point, and this is the contract between the vendor and the agent. Okay, ask then, and there we're asking lots of questions.
Now slightly tricky question for you. So let's say I'm about to sell my house and I decide, right, I want to list it with you this choice it would be a good choice, but we don't live in the same area. But anyway, so I decide that I'm going to sell the house. I want to list with an agent. So in terms of your agency, you would then sit with me and go through what sounds like quite an extensive questioning. Okay, and what's included in that?
So there's an agency for more. The big agents or agencies are about the same, you know, they've got the same sort of questions, which is have there been any events at the property? Has there been any damage on the property, any flooding? Is there any problems? You know, it just keeps going and going and going. At our team sitting out with Ray White and the base, we
add even more pages. So we've got another list and it just asks everything and it actually asks everything that we've seen is a problem in the past, we ask again, So if we've seen it pop up on another house, we ask on this out. Yeah. So there the vendor makes the declaration. It's a yes or no. You know, has there been a problem?
Yes?
No?
Or unknown?
Okay? Now, if a vendor you know, because not all of us are building experts, right, and you know, I've met people that couldn't describe what sort of clatting they have right on their house. So and that's okay. So if you have little knowledge and you don't know and you take unknown, is that fair?
Yeah?
It is fair. It is fair. And to a degree, the agent's in the same boat. Now, they should obviously know the exterior clatting and they're going to know which ones have got more risk, and they've got to tell a buyer about that. You know that this is a monolothical plastic. Sure, they'll highlight that for them. If it's something that's buried in the agent can't see it or the owner can't see it, that's cool. But if they should be aware of it, yes, then they've got to
do something about it. So the agent actually gives the vendor a bit of guidance. Here's the interesting thing. The vendor can take the guidance or not. So this this is going to be I think this is going to surprise a lot of people. The vendor can say, yep, I've got a problem, but you're not allowed to tell anybody. You imagine that the agent has then has to caution the vendor and say we should disclose it. But if you don't want to disclose it, I have to walk
away from the listing. I can't represent you.
Do all agents have to walk away from the list?
Yeah?
Yeah, it's it's Aria rules, government rules. Yeah, absolutely, all right.
So if I decide, well, look, I've I've done something. I know it's slightly dodgy, but I you know, I don't want to tell you, then you should walk away. Let's say you are aware that you know, maybe you added a deck and you kind of knew that you needed consent for it, but you didn't get one, or you as an agent realized, well, hang on, that decks over a meter high and it doesn't have a handrail in and should have something like that. Basic practical stuff
that from your experience you'd know about. What's the process? Then what would you do in the listing.
Noted on the listing. Yep, make sure you disclose it to the buyers. Yes, so in fact that check sheet. When we first did it, I thought, oh my god, look the vendors are going to get pretty ansy about this. We're explaining everything. But we actually added a little bit at the end. It was pretty cool. We actually added, you know, the vendor discloses you know, this is everything, and the agent's aware of it. And the agent must tell the buyer before the buyer makes an offer. All
bids at auction and then they sign it. So we now give it to all buyers. So the problem that you described that costs somebody twenty thousand dollars. If we've got a problem and we've told them about it and we've made it very clear to the buyer and they proceed, then the buyer owns at and you can and sorry, Peter, you can. There's a clause in the contract. So we may have clauses saying look there's unconsented work may or
may not required. Bathroom is a good example. Everybody tells it, tells us the bathroom was like for like, yeah, no one ever moved anything in Orca. So you've got to be pretty careful about that, and now vendors making a warranty on that, so they've got to be pretty careful, or producer statements, checking up on producer statements and sign offs.
So sometimes if it's unclear, we'll have a clause just saying it's unclear yep, may or not, may or may not have required a consent, yes, and then the person procedure.
But it's all around that disclosure. Yeah, yeah, okay, And obviously in terms of sale and purchase, you know, if there's work that needed a consent but clearly didn't have one, you can still put a property on the market. Yep, with that as long as you declare it. Absolutely, absolutely, just I'm just thinking about this particular case. So in this instance here, the vendor was, for want of a better term, duplicitous, right, they were aware that there was
a defect. They didn't declare that in the sale and purchase agreement. Is it that that would have allowed the new owner to seek redress from them? The fact that they didn't declare it.
Yeah, they were aware of you if you took that as being the facts, they were aware of it, They had it and tried to get away with it. So if I'm talking to a vendor, I'll say, if you know something, let's just tell them. And here's what I found, Peter. If you tell a buyer early enough, if a buyer loves the property, yes, yeah, And this is what they sound like when they love a property. They say, when I don't really like it, that's that's a code for
I really loved this. We really want to be you know. Then if you tell them about the problems up front, they still love it. Sure, and they want to jump through hoops the same as we do a building inspection and it finds some use. The buyer hates that as much as the vendor. You know, they want that house. Yeah, So if you disclose upfront and they're aware of it, then absolutely In that case, the vendor had something. It's
interesting somehow they found out or discovered that. And Auckland, New Zealand, such a small little village that you know, probably the first builder they had through the house to do something said oh yeah, I checked this for the last owner. It tells them. Yeah, it's a pretty small world.
Ye.
So those sorts of things happen. So yeah, if you know something, tell them if you think there might be a problem, investigate and then tell them yep.
But it is quite clear in the sale and purchase agreement what level of disclosure you're expected yep.
Okay, which is around work you have done right now, it's silent on previous works, yes, but inherent in the contractors that you haven't misled them. So if you're aware of previous I think you should look at that decks or a good exams so I won't earnly be building, it will be title. Somebody has added a deck on a cross lease or a balcony, and now the footprint looks different, yeah, and somebody goes, well it's always been like that, Yeah, but you know what the rules are
tighter now. You know, people are making discovery.
Just on that whole cross Ley's thing, because it's come up with some friends of mine that have purchased recently where you know, when they're doing the due diligence, they've found that, in fact, the other property on the cross lease added for example, a deck or a balcony, didn't update the flats plan correct. That can be quite an.
Issue absolutely, So now the flats plan is defective. Right, So yeah, here's the evolution of a realistat agent. You know, and I don't record this, but I know anybody listening stop listening. You know, twenty years ago it was you know, we we sort of didn't want to hear anything, didn't want to know anything.
Yes, sure, and industry ran you know, yes.
Then it became more, well, if you know about it, you should do something about it. And then it came you should actually discover and have some intelligence around looking for what might be a problem because they exist. And then on top of that, also sort of halfway through that period was if the vendicit it's all okay, you went,
thank god, the vendor set it's okay. We're now at a point now, and it has been for a period of years where we go, if that's the case, what's the evidence, right, So vender goes it's all okay, So well it doesn't seem to be what's the evidence. Let's get a builder through to check this.
Yeah, okay. Now, one of the phrases that's often used in terms of real estate agents in particular, well, there's a number of phrases, but the one I'm going to choose is duty to disclose. How do you see that? What does that mean for you? As an agent. Duty to disclose in terms of I'm coming through an open home, yep, and I ask you a question, and the duty to disclose is you tell me everything you know about the property. Is that?
How do you see It's here's the balance. Duty of care to a buyer fiduciary. Care to a vendor fiduciary is the highest level they're in front of, even me. I do everything for them. I tell them everything I know, and I protect their interests. On the buyer's side, I've got to take care of the buyer, make sure the buyer is okay. So disclosures through there is an agent. If you know it, you must tell them. If you should know it, or you should have looked at something
and seen an issue, then you should tell them. And remember, if the vendor tells the agent, hey, I want you to stay silent. The agent their legal positions, I must walk away from the listing. So then we just caution the vendor. Every vendor goes hard. I don't want everybody to know about that, but if it's material, we just manage it. So yeah, if I'm aware of it as an agent, I tell the purchases and if I can add another way, please you've got to be careful what
you're representing. You know, it's crazy to me, But say we run an auction, I don't know, and there's half of the buyers have not done building inspections and the other half have. Ye, then we have three building inspections, we get three different answers. Now, a buyer quite often will come to us and say there's a problem from their building inspection. But now we've got to work out what's the true case. So we get the vendor to
check it. Also, they're builder to check it, and then we've got to make a decision what's the correct representation here. And if I roll that back one stage further, and everybody who's thinking of selling, I suggest this, before you go to markets the vendor, get a builder to check your property. Right, like one of your buyers is going interesting, Yeah, So why engage your agent? Why spend six seven eight thousand dollars in marketing to get tripped up?
Yep?
Just get a builder through for your own benefit. Yes, so you've got confidence to go to market.
Just on that. And we've got to take a break in a second. But I remember a couple of years ago I was asked to do a building condition report on a property that was about to go to market. The intention was that the vendor would then have that available for anyone who was interested in the property as a purchaser. Would you accept a building report that you didn't commission.
No, because you've got you've got no redress, you've got a party to that. You know there'll be disclaimers at the bottom. So yeah, and agencies do it a little bit differently. But the trickis I really like, is the vendor does it for themselves? Yep, And if there's anything that they need to sort out, they sort it out.
Yes.
And when a buyer asks, you know, has the vendored on a building in specially, we say yeah, absolutely for their own benefit. And they found I can think of one right now. They found there was an issue with this flashing. Yes, it lifted in the storm, but a water got in the flashing up there that you can see has been fully repaired and that's the integrity of the flashing. And when you go to buy it, you'll
do your own building inspection. So that to me, that's a really a nice loop there that's closed off.
Yeah.
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for another four minutes. I'm going to hate you with us. We've got so many Texas is great? Right, Oh, here we go. Please ask the real estate guy that you wang what they mean when they say plus GST.
If any okay, So that's quick fire answers. That's on the contract that sits there inherently. If it's a Rizzi property residential, then it's fairly well. I'm not going to apply. No agent's going to answer that if the vendor is What they'll answer is if the vendor is registered for GST, Yes, and the buyers registered for GST, then yes, it will apply. We will always direct everybody back to their accountant and to their lawyer. It scares us too.
Okay, all right? A question? Should the vendor advise if someone has passed away in the home?
Yeah, if it is. If it's a violent event, then the answer is yes. If it's sensitive to the buyer, then yes.
Right Okay. Someone has suggested must have end or disclose a proposed motorway that will pass approximately five hundred meters from a property for sale.
They should the end, the buyer should right sorry. The agent should absolutely and the buyer when you as your due diligence you're building inspection, you'll also request a limb. You should be looking for that sort of detail sitting in there too, Okay, absolutely, and sorry. An agent should be aware of something like that, right.
It's putting a lot of responsibility on the agent.
Absolutely, they've got to be very very careful, very diligent, and they've got to know the area. So now now agents that try and sell out of area, yes, they've got to be careful.
Absolutely. Text from Paul. If you put as is clause in the sale and purchase agreement, does this cover you for any previous problems?
It's a very good practice, Paul. Do that cross out the vendor warranties that are in there and make it absolutely clear as is we're as we're selling a property like that in Mission Bay right now, as is, we're as no warranties and no representations because we're not aware. But we're saying this clearly is a property where it's as as we're.
As right, Okay, And I mean that's okay, isn't it? Because if you're looking to buy a do up, then the fact that it's unconsented or falling down or whatever. As a purchaser, that's what you're after.
One hundred percent. And okay, so I'll be at that one this morning. I was there last Sunday on the opens. People that came through that look like qualified builders. You know, yep, you guys have got a bit of a look to you better. Yes, they were cool, you know, so they go, Yeah, I'll come back and have a look during the week. People that came through, like first home buyers looking for a renovation or redecoration. I said, I think this is
probably too much. Go and find an easier one, so we give that's the duty of care to the purchaser.
Okay, someone's about to replace a twenty year old deck on an exclusive use area of my cross lease property. The deck is not on the plan, but does not have an overhang and is under one meter off the ground. My lawyer said, I do not need to add it to the site plan or get a building consent. It's probably right about the building consent. But what's the issue with decks being added to properties that are on a cross lease because someone else has said it's not enclosed
or attached. Ye, therefore you don't have to addit to the site plan.
Yeah, I'll give you. I'll give you a check answer. And this is the way law works. It is the vendor's lawyer will have one opinion and the purchas's lawyer might have another one. Yeah, so I think refer back to your lawyer. If your lawyer is pretty cool with that, I think you need to run with that. They they're the experts on titles. Yeah, okay, we would look at it and we would say, okay, I think we need to check this. Yes, absolutely, I'd be careful around that one.
This tricky one. A real estate agent told me last week that if I did a builder's report for my house, which I'm planning to sell, that somebody buying my house could then buy the builder's report off me. Is that true?
There's building companies that do that. So they say, hey, Pete, i'll pick a number here. It won't be this number. They say, hey, Peter, I'll charge you five hundred bucks on the basis that it should have been about one thousand dollars report. But anybody subsequent, any of your purchases, can buy it off. My company also a building company for two point fifty yep, so I have seen that done.
Yeah okay, But again it goes back to our issue we were talking about earlier about you know, if you're a vendor and you get your own building report, should a purchase you know, how confident would a purchaser be that it's correct. You'd be suspicious, wouldn't you? Well, not suspicious, but.
Which Okay, So the builder doing it for the vendor, I'm just checking that everything's kosher and that we should be able to proceed and we're not going to get tripped done. The builder doing it for the purchaser is probably looking deeper and longer, right, okay, So say a roof, We're looking at a roof going okay, well it works right now, but you might have to replace it in ten Okay.
Last question, what would you do if there was an issue, example, some minor flooding, You fixed it by adding drainage, waterproofing, recontouring, and it never happened again, would you still disclose the.
Original per That's that's a great example. Hey guys, we had some minor floating on the property. Here's the remedies that were in place. Yes, and it hasn't flooded again. That's exactly what it should sound like.
That's brilliant. There we go, brilliant, Oh, fast and furious. Awesome, Wayne, thank you very much for coming to the studio. I really appreciate great seeing you. Right, we're going to take a short break. Then we've got ridd in the garden in just a moment
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