Building Consultants Ltd
Serving the greater Auckland Area since 1988
Welcome!
We are a small, Auckland based firm of building consultants established in 1988.
If you are looking for a registered building surveyor, information about leaky homes or the "leaky home syndrome", need help getting a CCC or are looking for a reasonably priced building consultant and project manager to design, supervise and take responsibility for the repairs or recladding of your house, you have come to the right place.
First, some cladding fundamentals: if the outside of your house is "monolithic", this could mean one of three common materials: plastered polystrene ("chilly bin"), plastered (or just painted) fibrecement or lastly, stucco (sand/cement mix about 20 mm thick). How easily can these be repaired?
Reclad or "Targeted" Repairs?
To use a sporting analogy, there are three "strikes" in the monolithic
cladding world:
- the house was framed up in kiln dried, untreated timber
- the cladding was fixed directly to this framing (without a cavity)
- the flashings around the window and door openings were less than 100%
watertight.
It will be difficult to find anyone who has meaningful insurance cover to "target repair" a house like this. However, there may be other options besides fully recladding the house.