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Ryan Bridge: Have we found the next leaky building saga? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Two questions for you this morning if you're buying or
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  Speaker 1: if you have recently bought a property. One, did you
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  Speaker 1: get a pre-purchase inspection done? And two, did that person
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  Speaker 1: have a qualification? Remember leaky buildings? How could you forget?
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  Speaker 1: There are builders and surveyors out there who reckon we
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  Speaker 1: are sitting on another leaky building saga right now. Good
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  Speaker 1: piece about this in the Herald at the weekend. New builds,
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  Speaker 1: builds less than 10 years old, failing, looks spick and
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  Speaker 1: span on the inside, looks nice, there's a nice kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: there's oak flooring underneath. Timber's damp, there's mould. Water getting
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  Speaker 1: inside the walls of houses that are pretty new. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but when somebody builds a
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  Speaker 1: house or an apartment, it should keep water out. You know?
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty basic. I've spoken to some builders and some
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  Speaker 1: tradies about this, and they are worried too. The bad
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  Speaker 1: news for anyone who may have got a building inspection
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  Speaker 1: is that you don't actually need a qualification. You do
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  Speaker 1: not even need insurance. You do not need a licence.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about these types of stories is that
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  Speaker 1: it's mostly anecdotal. You know, how widespread is this problem?
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  Speaker 1: Is it 1% of new builds? Is it 20% of
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  Speaker 1: new builds? You don't know what you don't know. And
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  Speaker 1: by the time you find out, your walls are wet
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  Speaker 1: and they're filled with mould.