Forum Archive Index - May 2004

["Duncan MacGregor" <d-m_macgregor@xtra.co.nz>]

Hi guys
              promise i will never post on this subject ever again.
Stuff web says 1829 leaky building claims so far.  home owners can lodge a
claim within ten years of construction woopy doo.    The poor buggers only wrecked
any chance of a resale In the future.   the building industry authority in feb announced
a crackdown on leaky buildings, announcing an amendment to the building code.
Thirty years of pleading and trying to get them to understand, costing me thousands
and they still know nothing.  For those people that think its bad construction think
again.   It boils down to the basic rules of science.  Air tight or leak free wall creates
a vacuum or Interior of a wall has a higher temperature than the exterior then the
wall sucks.   Water gets sucked up hill.    Show me one builder that can stop that.
Treated timber is not the answer let it breathe like they understood 100 years ago.
I have in the past hired commercial dehumidifiers to dry out for a whole week homes
that were dry simply because i used treated wood and refused to use untreated.
The moisture gauge is 2 spikes that record how long an electrical current takes to
pass between..   Treated timber has copper and all sorts of nasties that are impregnated
which shows up as wet.   Try for thirty years to argue a point with a bunch of idiots
like i did then tell me .  The very very sad part is they are so dumb nothing changes.
                             cheers macdunk
ps plaster house on timber frame pre 2004 run like hell