Serving the greater Auckland Area since 1988
Schedule 1 of the building act - what can I do without a building consent? Good list of updates at the bottom - last ones December 2010
The Moisture Detection Company :The Probes - lots of information without drilling holes through the cladding
Learn about the Weathertight Homes Resolution Service
The Prendos "Leaky Home Guide"
ConsumerBuild - an excellent site with many useful links and articles
Want to frighten yourself by learning more about Starchy (Starchybotrys)?
a few links here: one, two, three and four
Visiscope - excellence in remote visual inspection (Wellington based)
Run the Risk Matrix over your house: The Design Navigator
Useful Practic Notes published by Auckland City Council - Council processing staff check all consent applications against these notes before a consent is issued; very useful
Understand your site - a whole collection of useful tools
A good selection of relevant, FREE publications from BRANZ
Look at DBH Determinations
The New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors Inc
The Home Owners and Buyers Association of New Zealand - A useful first stop for a homeowner who has just found themselves in the leaky home nightmare
Wood eating insects, two useful pages:
Borer (a private firm specialising in pest eradication
The Biology and control of beetles attacking seasoned timber (1950)
Builders specialising in repairs of leaky homes:
Reconstruct - the first and now biggest, moved on to big commercial reclads (apartment and offfice blocks etc) but still do single houses. Examples, good explanation of the process
Urban 1st New Zealand Ltd A second company now large enough to need office staff, plenty of references and testimonials
Platinum Pacific Reclad An Auckland Company that has been doing this for a while, Nice web site as of Oct 2011
Boss Projects Ltd Auckland firm, as of June 2010 usually has about three reclads going at any one time
Reclad Solutions. More into multis than stand alones, very efficient.
Jaros Construction. A medium sized Auckland company who has got into recladding, completed some large stand alones and blocks.
Integrity Building Services Ltd, done quite a few reclads over the last six years
Plastering.co.nz Yes that is the name of the company, comes highly recommended by someonoe I know who gets to see a lot of recladding jobs.
North Head Builders Ltd. A smaller firm just getting seriously into recladding houses. Nice new website.
Integrity Building Services Ltd. Done some reclads with a couple of surveyors I know
Draftspeople - for drawing up plans / obtaining building consent for the reclad
Beckstones - cost effective CAD Drafting and Drawing service