TVNZ, Fair Go
Adina Thorn comments on Council getting it wrong
A North Canterbury woman with a crumbling and leaky earthbrick home says the past decade has been the worst ten years of her life.
“This should never have been allowed to be built,” says Nic Purdom as she walks Fair Go around her unfit building.
Nic‘s home is built from Excalibur earth blocks – a product that has featured before on Fair Go in a house that failed, flaking and falling apart just like hers has for years.
Worse, the Government’s building regulator has weighed in at her request and determined the local authority Waimakariri District Council didn’t do it’s job when it signed off the work – but that same council is now avoiding responsibility because Nic didn’t rush to court to sue them.
The house itself is standing but lets in damp, the wind and sometimes it even rains indoors.