More protection sought from home-owners

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:40p.m.

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Building Act changes announced yesterday are a move in the right direction, says the Home Owners and Buyers Association.

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15 Aug 2010 12:38p.m.

Trev wrote:

Trying to figure out that comment lightseed.

so National created Trev.
Excellent English... lol OMG go back to school.

And no labour didnt fix it Lightseed... when has the country ever had a spare 11 Billion dollars to fix Nationals stuff up.

13 Aug 2010 05:27p.m.

katrina wrote:

Why is it the builder is always lumbered with the blame. The developer and the designers specify - The builder builds to the consented plans.
The Building authority at the time approved the products that didn't work.
Anyone can pick up a hammer and call themselves a builder.
Some council imspectors barely even get out of their cars sometimes.
We looked at doing a job for friend, rebuilding a deck and the architect had designed it so that a now water-tight house would then start to leak, the council approved those plans and then when we looked at them and tried to tell the architect that his plan would not work without creating a big problem, he didn't care and wouldn't do anything about it, he had his money.

13 Aug 2010 03:03p.m.

lightseed wrote:

so national created Trev, and what did labour do to stop it, ah nothing.