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#2643866 28-Jan-2021 23:04

mulac: Haha brilliant. At least your lintel(s) went the whole way. This was our discovery where somebody had replaced a window. Beautiful work

Well it is, you've got to admire the way they kept the cutoff remnant of the king stud in place at the left. That's attention to detail that is.

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#2643872 28-Jan-2021 23:34

mulac: Haha brilliant. At least your lintel(s) went the whole way. This was our discovery where somebody had replaced a window. Beautiful work

That is awesome. It's a suspended window frame (sort of).

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#2643873 28-Jan-2021 23:35

mulac:

I know this feeling so well. People who complain about council inspection requirements haven't been through buying a house like this. Best of luck with the rest of the wall!

Yeah. I do have to laugh when people complain about houses being buit better "back in the day". So much dodgy stuff used to go on.

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#2643875 28-Jan-2021 23:54

Handle9:

mulac:

I know this feeling so well. People who complain about council inspection requirements haven't been through buying a house like this. Best of luck with the rest of the wall!

Yeah. I do have to laugh when people complain about houses being buit better "back in the day". So much dodgy stuff used to go on.

Yes but these houses are likely to have been well-built originally - then later have been dicked around with by amateurs or cowboys.

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#2643893 29-Jan-2021 03:23

eracode:
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Yeah. I do have to laugh when people complain about houses being buit better "back in the day". So much dodgy stuff used to go on.

Yes but these houses are likely to have been well-built originally - then later have been dicked around with by amateurs or cowboys.

There's a fair chunk that were built by cowboys originally.

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#2643915 29-Jan-2021 08:04

Wow, that’s terrible.

I feel your pain. We have cowboy renos from the 1990s at ours - I think the worst I’ve found so far is in the bathroom, where they cut through two joists with a spade bit to get waste pipes in - then just left them that way...!

Hopefully we’ve already found and fixed the worst of it.

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#2643970 29-Jan-2021 10:10

If someone if after a nz builder youtube channel try Scott Brown Carpentry

https://youtube.com/c/ThetravelingcarpenterBlogspot

Really good production values as he talks you through what he does while doing various projects in auckland.
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#2644027 29-Jan-2021 11:21

afe66: If someone if after a nz builder youtube channel try Scott Brown Carpentry

Would definitely recommend Scott's channel, it's on my daily-watch (or at least listen in the background) bookmark list alongside Trevor Noah.

Was talking to the sparky earlier on about some of the stuff they'd found inside walls, just wires patched together any old how, charred batts piled over light fittings, the works. When we moved in here I took out R7 halogens that had charred the TPS all the way back into the ceiling cavity, and that was just the stuff I could find.

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#2644029 29-Jan-2021 11:23

afe66: If someone if after a nz builder youtube channel try Scott Brown Carpentry

https://youtube.com/c/ThetravelingcarpenterBlogspot

Another subscriber here that would 100% recommend. Really informative stuff, although he can take a long time to get to the point of what the video is about sometimes.

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#2644070 29-Jan-2021 12:22

I've only noticed 1 video by Scott that worked for the customer rather than his Youtube presence. A council inspector arrived and passed the work immediately as he'd watched the video of it being done. I think he would take forever to build a house.

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#2644114 29-Jan-2021 13:35

Bung: I've only noticed 1 video by Scott that worked for the customer rather than his Youtube presence. A council inspector arrived and passed the work immediately as he'd watched the video of it being done. I think he would take forever to build a house.

He's said in one video that he is upfront about customer consent for filming and the customer doesn't pay for the time he spends filming.

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#2657320 16-Feb-2021 09:35

D'you reckon we'll find any other surprises in this place?

Naah, I'm sure we'll be fine.

As the builder put it, a nail plate is for a join, but not quite like that...

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#2657363 16-Feb-2021 10:34

neb: D'you reckon we'll find any other surprises in this place? Naah, I'm sure we'll be fine. As the builder put it, a nail plate is for a join, but not quite like that...

Just whack another nail plate in at the top if that cut off stud into the main joist above. That should hold up the cut lintel fine...🤣

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#2657410 16-Feb-2021 11:45

Not only is it the Casa de Cowboy, it's also an ant farm:

That's a solid mound of ants, and doesn't include the even bigger pile that was swept down through the cracks outside the ranch slider.

There were also vast numbers of ants in two other walls where the cladding was removed. No wonder my attempts to poison them haven't had much effect.

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#2657412 16-Feb-2021 11:51

neb: Not only is it the Casa de Cowboy, it's also an ant farm: That's a solid mound of ants, and doesn't include the even bigger pile that was swept down through the cracks outside the ranch slider. There were also vast numbers of ants in two other walls where the cladding was removed. No wonder my attempts to poison them haven't had much effect.

What is the standard R-value of 90mm of ants? might save on Batts

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