Comments on: Know your rights

By: Reuben

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:51:39 +0000

Is it ok for eqc to cut the bearers, instead of repairing the piles that have sunk?

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By: Darlene

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:33:46 +0000

Kylie, reading your comment is nearly identical to our situation. We have never claimed the house was dead flat but that the EQ has caused it to slope further. Our EQC assessor with his trusty tape measure continues to just measure corners and walls pointing out that they were previously scribed or made at different lengths hence the EQ is not to blame.

I am keen to hear any information you have in relation to your matter as we are fighting with their repair strategy of notching bearers out to bring rounds in our floors down level or close to where the concrete footing has sunk and pulled the house down into.

We are TC3 blue land and they claim that no geotechnical work will be done and that God is to blame for the ground shaking now.

Thanks

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By: Blair Anderson

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:12:29 +0000

Kylie, the ground movement sensed in your house, due to traffic, is [likely] less about the movement in your foundation than it is the weakening of the road’s integrity. We have the westerly direction of Wainoni Road ‘repaired’ with asphalt (though moot as to how long it will last) while the tar seal easterly is as it was post quake. The difference in our house response to heavy transport at speed is chalk and cheese according to direction travelled. Wainoni at this point was 100-150mm base on sand on silt and then blue/grey pug at about 1500mm – a poor base for any arterial. especially post quake with thousands of 40+ton axle loads. A full bus was about a Richter 3.2!

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By: Kylie

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:55:40 +0000

I’d like to know how I actually get Fletcher/EQR/EQC to agree to fix my foundations properly.

They are proposing jack and pack on a handful of piles (originally they had scoped to fully repile the house, this has changed as of their latest scope).

The house has some historical unlevelness, this has worsened since the quakes. However the worst problem is that the house constantly shakes with traffic going by. This never used to happen before the quake.

It’s all very well and good people telling me that they have to replace ‘as new’ and that jack and pack doesn’t qualify ‘as new’, but I need some practical advice on how I actually go about getting them to change their mind on this and update the scope to reflect a more appropriate repair strategy.

Thanks in advance

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By: admin

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:37:11 +0000

No this is not OK. This is not best trade practice, there is a chance the repair will delaminate later and this solution will not return your wall to ‘as when new’.

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By: Kylie

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:24:17 +0000

EQR has proposed raking out and plastering cracks in lathe and plaster in my older home, and wants to skim coat over existing wallpaper. Is this OK?

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