Thread: block of flats NZ

Christchurch, city of my misspent youth, took my daughters back 10 yrs ago, prequake bit cold for them. but in my mind I could, relive my times driving around in my 39 ford coupe, ahh those were the days. any way good luck with the build.

/\ any photo's the 39 Coup poo kecker?

Yes plenty of them, but can't be bothered sharing them with stupid people.

Originally Posted by Mozzbie47

Notice the proper form work in post 3, be good if dumb ass Thai's would do things that way. But no, they use odd thickness, odd length scrap timber we would burn, bang a few nails in and think they are doing a great job and saveing time, bloody hell.

Seems as though the results are pretty much the same, other than not looking as good when in place can you really tell the difference when the finish work is done?

Floor joists in, still some stairs and other structure to go in before they start on the second floor.

IS NZ in Thailand now?

Phunpin is a Thai in NZ. Close enough to fit the catagory.

PhunPhin, I have to ask
.... where are the sheep

I'm a kiwi married to a thai in NZ, sheep are in the freezer next to the cows.

safety guards up , ready for the flooring to go down

Views of the floor panels going down, will have to wait and see what goes on top of these.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by Mozzbie47

Notice the proper form work in post 3, be good if dumb ass Thai's would do things that way. But no, they use odd thickness, odd length scrap timber we would burn, bang a few nails in and think they are doing a great job and saveing time, bloody hell.

Seems as though the results are pretty much the same, other than not looking as good when in place can you really tell the difference when the finish work is done?

With in reason the completed work looked very good, it's more if they used better form work, they would have finnshed the job much much quicker and then moved onto something eles JMO

All this was put up in a day, thanks to per-assembled framing.

Scaffolding business must be raking it in.

Them and temporary fencing companys. can't do any work on a roof here without some sort of scaffold .

Building paper on and windows going in.

Real solid lookin Build.


Earthquake requirements I suppose.

What is the price, do you know ?

A 2 bedroom townhouse here would sell for around $350-450,000 so x 8 your looking at around $3million + retail . build cost would be under 2 million most likely.
but these are going to be rental units and may rent for 450-600 per week.

Insurance rules say you have to rebuild like for like, so if your house was demolished , you got it rebuilt exactly as it was before the quakes, but with modern materials.

so if you had a drafty 1970's disaster , you get a brand new fully insulted 1970's face lift.
My sister has huge 5 bedroom 1930's villa , that she paid @ 150,000 for 10 years ago, cost to repair based on the sq meterage is over 1 million.

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Good info.

TA

exterior cladding finally going on, but interior is yet to be completed,

Special construction this, interesting...

may be the flippos are building this, NZ is calling 3000 more Philippinos to help rebuild CC, salary of around 150k Php, a bit better conditions then UAE...