Building Repairs and Maintenance in Rolleston

The Jobs That Never Get Done

Every house has a list. The back door that has to be lifted to shut. The window sill that has gone soft. The deck board that bounces. The weatherboard the dog chewed, the fence post that leans, the cupboard door that has never hung right. None of them is big enough to ring a builder about, so they stay on the list for years - and a few of them, the rot ones especially, quietly get worse while they wait.

Hayde Construction does repairs and maintenance across Rolleston and Selwyn as real work, not as a favour between bigger jobs. Adam is a Licensed Building Practitioner, which means the repairs that touch the structure or the weathertightness of the house - a rotten bottom plate, a window that has let water into the framing - are done by someone licensed for exactly that, and the small ones are done with the same care.

What We Repair and Replace

• Exterior doors and windows. Replacing a tired timber or aluminium door with a new one, fitting a pet door, re-hanging a door that binds, replacing a rotten sill or a whole window unit, and doing the flashing and cladding work around it properly. The new aluminium door with a built-in pet door in our photographs replaced an old sliding door.
• Rot and water damage. Cutting out rotten weatherboards, sills, bottom plates and joists, finding out where the water is coming from, fixing that, and replacing the timber with new.
• Decks and outdoor timber. Replacing boards, joists and rails on an existing deck, re-fixing loose handrails, rebuilding steps, and re-oiling or staining.
• Cladding and trim. Weatherboards, fascia, barge boards, scribers and the timber around windows and doors.
• Interior joinery. Doors, architraves, skirtings, shelving, cupboards, and hanging the things that need to be hung properly.
• Fences and gates. Posts replaced, panels repaired, gates re-hung so they latch.
• Inspection reports and pre-sale work. The list from a building inspection report, worked through in one visit with a written quote first.

Repairs and Building Consents

Most repairs do not need a building consent. Schedule 1 of the Building Act exempts a range of low-risk work, and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's guide to checking if you need a consent notes that some repair and maintenance may be exempt - in general, repair and maintenance using comparable materials in the same position. Replacing a rotten weatherboard with a weatherboard, or a window with a window of the same size, is that kind of work. Where a repair grows into something bigger - a window enlarged, a structural member replaced - it may become restricted building work, which is exactly why it is worth having a Licensed Building Practitioner look at it first. Adam will tell you which side of the line a job falls on.

Why Call a Builder for a Small Job

Because the small job is usually a symptom. A door that binds is often a house that has moved or a hinge screw into rotten timber; a soft sill is water getting in somewhere above it; a bouncy deck board is a joist that has gone. A builder who does alterations and bathrooms for a living reads those signs on the first visit, fixes the cause, and tells you honestly when the cause is bigger than the symptom. That is cheaper, in the end, than fixing the same thing twice.

It also means one visit and one quote for the whole list. Adam will price the list you give him and the things he finds on the way round, and you decide what gets done.

Contact Us

To get the list done - in Rolleston, Lincoln, Prebbleton, West Melton, Darfield, Leeston, south-west Christchurch or Mid Canterbury - ring Adam on 027 444 5657 or send it through the form below with a photo of each job. If the repair turns out to be the start of something larger, our home renovations and alterations page covers that, and if a tired bathroom is the real problem, bathroom renovations are what we do most.