Serving the greater Auckland Area since 1988
Schedule 1 of the building act - what can I do without a building consent?
The Moisture Detection Company :The Probes - lots of information without drilling holes through the cladding
Learn about the Weathertight Homes Resolution Service
ConsumerBuild - an excellent site
Visiscope - excellence in remote visual inspection (Wellington based)
Run the Risk Matrix over your house: The Design Navigator
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 Leaky Homes Action Group - more than a support group for leaky home owners! The First stop for a homeowner who has just found themselves in the leaky home nightmare
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
Urban1 Construction Ltd A second company now large enough to need office staff, plenty of references and testimonials
Reclad Solutions. An up and coming team with experience in both stand alone houses and apartments. Wesite basic as at June 08 but easy to catch on the phone.
Jaros Construction. A medium sized Auckland company who has got into recladding, completed some large stand alones and blocks.
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.
Reliant Residential. I don't know these ones personally but they sent me a wonderfully glossy book of their completed projects.
North Head Builders Ltd. A smaller firm just getting seriously into recladding houses. Nice new website.
Metro Construction, ditto.