building tag
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Building steps/path down hill I'm looking to build some steps down a hill on my property. Googling I find you can anchor the stair runners using steel rebars on either side every metre or so. Does anybody have experience doing this? How effective is the rebar method for ho |
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Rules with building a deck with covered in pergola Hi, we are wanting to build a deck 8.5 metres by 3 metres. It will be 0.8 metres from the ground. As far as I can see this is fine to do without a permit? In addition to this we are wanting to have a pergola/roof covering over 3x3 metres of this so we hav... |
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Building Woes I think the honeymoon period between myself and the builder of our new house has come to an end. :( Went up to site yesterday as the roof had just been finished and wasnt very happy with a number of areas. I just can believe these guys would t |
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Remove items from a building contract Has anyone removed items from a master builders residential build contract? According to the contract, the builder is able to recover the cost of processing variations (additions, reductions or substitutions, as per clause 31 of the stand MB contract) whi... |
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Ideas for building an old folks home. My parents planning to retire soon and they are keen on design and build a home. I suggested they should make it future proof such as wheelchair accessible, wet area shower, higher toilet seat, hand rails, lever door handles , bigger light switches and si... |
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Building regulations re. piles : help Does anyone know what the requirements are with regards to piles and their need for cross bracing? We are on a sloping section and have piles that at the rear of the house are quite high so at what height do they have a requirement (and need) for cross br... |
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Building consent for extending a downpipe? We have a downpipe that empties onto the roof. We want to extend it by about a metre so that it empties closer to the gutter. Just a case of attaching a length to the end of what is already there. Someone has suggested that we have to get a Building Conse... |
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Building permit We are looking at switching our kitchen to our dinning and dinning to the kitchen to make better flow through the house. Would we need a builders permit? As new plumbing would have to be installed in the new kitchen? |
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Building Costs Anyone have a rough idea on building costs in Auckland. We are planning on building a new room that will be a kitchen at the rear of our 1920's bungalow. Total area will be about 16m2, iron roof. We will do the fit out and painting etc ourselves. Unfortun... |
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Building a shed which can be towed/moved We are looking to building a shed which we can move by towing. Has anyone out there built one of these types of sheds and any good ideas or plans I can access. My first thoughts are big round fence posts with the front of the post sawn off on an ang |
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Building a bbq. do I use fire-bricks? Am building a small outdoor bbq - very simple - brick surround, cast-iron plate on top.Do I have to use firebricks or can any old bricks do!e.g. external house bricks! thanks. |
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Replacing Garage Building Consent? I have an old Skyline garage and would like to raise the roof so I can get a vehicle hoist in there. I was speaking a little while ago to someone who sells garages for a living and they mentioned that since the Christchurch Earthquake you coul |
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Building a compost bin, bottom or no bottom? Im building a compost bin and was wandering if it needs a bottom i figured it shouldnt because maybe the worms and bugs can come up from the ground and have a feed. |
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If u were building a new house would u put in underfloor heating heated by diesel burner ! |
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Building on an Ash soil Hi, I am looking at a piece of land that has volcanic ash soil. I know that ash is very free draining so wondered if there are any special considerations for building a house! Would I be better to go for a concrete floor or piles! Is there additional expe... |
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Ahhh crap, plumbing/building advice? So we went away Auckland Anniversary, had a WICKED motel with an AMAZING shower (strip skin off your body). we returned home and I thought my mind was playing tricks on me as I'm sure our shower pressure wasn't quite the same and I had to turn the... |
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Building Plan Software - any recommendations? I'd like to get some reasonable plan drawing software so that I can get stuck in and draw up plans for council without doing it the old fashioned way (pencil and paper) There seems to be 2 types of product: 1 Cheap as software |
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Building in chch im considering building in chch - can anyone give me an idea of what it would cost to build a 4bdrm 2bthrm dbl garage home! i realise it would depend on how fancy - but i have no idea at all where it would even start from! Im thinking id use a company lik... |
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Building a deck Building a deck on a cross lease property! Do I need to tell anybody! Any permits to go through! Will b under 1.5m. It will be a island deck that will be in the middle of the yard. I just want to know if I can build it without consenting to anyone!! |
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Building a house In the not to distant future I will be building a house to my specs, probably end up at least 500sm two story, a huge mancave/shed under the house that will hold at least 6 cars, cinema room etc, I want something really nice so im guessing id be looking a... |
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Building A New Fence Help Needed Hi there, we are looking at building a new fence but unsure what size post rail's and pallings to use, we are looking at using 100x100 post 100x50 rails and 150x25 paillings or 125x75 post 75x50 rails and 150x19 pallings. The fence is 1.8 high |
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Noisy roof space mainly from black building paper Hi there , Ive noticed in our house when windy , mainly gusts of wind at times its pretty noisy in the roof space, went up there for half an hr with light , and in gusts the roofing paper is moving and noisy with the wind getting in , its a 25 year |
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Building Wrap Getting a new build in the new year. Around my neighbourhood there are several new builds, some with Tekton paper wrap, some with Ecoply plywood wrap. I asked one of the builders why the difference and he told me that brick builds normally have ply |
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Steel frame building I'm looking at purchasing a steel frame building, a small cabin. However i don't know where to begin to read up on how to finish it. EG, do i assemble a roof first before walls? do i need to put building paper on before exterior wall material? what type o... |
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Building own home Back in the dark ages ,many kiwis built their own homes, and by that i mean physically doing it yourself, hammering in the nails, cutting the timber, digging the foundations etc, How many MB members are actually doing that at the moment,( or in the near p... |
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Cheap electrical and building tools So hubby had van broken into, stolen, crashed and ransacked today. He has been a sparky for 45 years, the majority of the tools he uses every day were taken (they knew what they wanted). If anyone gets offered cheap or free stuff, please feel free to post... |
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Building plywood kitchen. Any advice/experience of such a project? Many thanks |
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Building Consent Statutory Timeframe 20 days Is it unrealistic to expect the council to process my application within this time period? Obviously different councils will have higher or lower workloads, but is it common for them to go well over the 20 days? Thanks. |
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Building a trainer model R/C plane Yes I know you can buy RTF for around $200.00 but keen to try one from scrap pvc sheet or similar folded around some sort of former, and then squirt in polyurethane foam maybe with a balsa wood spar down the guts for a bit of rigidity, anyone tried this, ... |
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Wood for building a box? I want to build a basic wooden box about the size of a microwave. What kind of wood should I use? I went to mitre10 and bunnings but other than MDF and plywood everything else is quite expensive and I want something that looks decent as it's going with my... |
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Questions about 1994 building plans for a house The exterior wall framing specifies "100x50mm P & G timber framing". https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/818956972 |
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First year building apprentice on $25 a hr yes/no someone in another thread reckons their son is on $25 a hr as a first year apprentice, i dont believe it what do you think any builders on here. stevo? |
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Building apprenticeship Do any builders out there know how long to get qualified as an apprentice if you have done the Carpentry pre-employment programme and completed all the level 4 NZQA papers? |
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Building consent for bathroom Christchurch Does anyone know if I need to get a building consent to knock down the wall between the bathroom and toilet (non loading bearing) and do a complete renovation i.e. reline, tile, put in new toilet, frameless shower and a bath and vanity? Have looked on the... |
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A Building Consent Question Please I have a 100 year old cottage, I have a section of about 3 m by about .7 m on the south side of the bathroom (poor access / can't be seen as is hard on the boundary) which I need to reclad - the current cladding rotton and falling off. For budget and long... |
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Carport, building consent ? Hi, if putting up a moveable carport, do you need consent? To explain, just putting it up for over winter for washing and protect bikes, trailer etc (Will be anchored to the ground, no concrete), and hoping to move it in about 2 years when lots of other s... |
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Building a small room/loft in the roof Hey guys, i'm wanting to build a small room in the roof space as storage with walk in attic stairs, does anyone know if generally i would need consent for such a thing? TIA |
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Building a deck Sorry if it comes across as a being a bit lazy on my part ( I have googled and asked around also ),,,, could someone give me a basic plan for a deck 5.5M x 7.5M deck. Im using 100x40 decking. What spacings to use etc for bearers, joists, posts etc Many th... |
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