Home insurance rebuild rip off

[Ocean1]

Don't forget to add in for the cost of a surveyor if your replacement building (or alterations) will be closer to a boundary than the existing main dwelling.
If you are unable to establish where the survey pegs are located, this is an additional grand on the bill.

That's interesting. Do you know how difficult it is to do that nowadays? It takes longer to smack in the pegs than it does to establish where they're supposed to go.

[oneofsix]

That's interesting. Do you know how difficult it is to do that nowadays? It takes longer to smack in the pegs than it does to establish where they're supposed to go.

That would depend on the subdivision. A modern could be quick but I don't believe GPS would be accurate enough, they still have to establish a link back to a reliable known datum down. And if it is an old subdivision there is all sorts of conversions to be done. I expect this would have been a big headarche for Chch with some of the datum point themselves having moved.

[Swoop]

That's interesting. Do you know how difficult it is to do that nowadays? It takes longer to smack in the pegs than it does to establish where they're supposed to go.

Quite easy nowadays. The GPS based systems make things far quicker and you're right about the time involved to drive in the pegs.

Having a chap wander around your land, looking busy, whilst tut-tutting at his equipment and scribbling down a few notes (or choosing his weekly lotto numbers) adds up. If people get change out of a K, they are quite lucky.

[Ocean1]

I expect this would have been a big headarche for Chch with some of the datum point themselves having moved.

Now that's a good point. Wonder how many people's sections have grown or shrunk....

[oneofsix]

Now that's a good point. Wonder how many people's sections have grown or shrunk....

Actually I imagine the main issue would be that the pegs will have moved making people think the section has changed size but actually all it means is that the peg is now in the wrong place. Their section never grows, only really shrinks when it drops into the sea , but trying to re-establish the sections size and position could be fun.
Umm now there is a question, as the plates move, the land your section is on moves. Is it possible that part of your section could end up in the road? Or to put it another way the road could run over part of your section unless the alignment is corrected?

[Naki Rat]

Now that's a good point. Wonder how many people's sections have grown or shrunk....

Following any decent quake a resurvey of the affected area is done based on trig (datum) points outside the extent of land deformation. For the Edgecombe quake this necessitated establishing a new survey network from the trig stations on the surrounding ranges.

This resurveying is not only for cadastral (legal boundary) reasons but also for engineering purposes such as redesigning sewer and stormwater systems that mainly flow under gravity by gradients that are often altered by ground movement. The land registry of a quake affected area will have a blanket disclaimer put on prior boundary locations and new titles will be issued often taking account of where fences, walls, hedges ('occupation') is located post-quake.

[BMWST?]

That's the most shitting thing about the whole bloody thing.

Fuck it,I really don't like paying for something that should never happen.

I didn't buy at the bottem or the top of a gully on the river flats by the beach or on top of a fucken cliff,the nearest volcano is a fair way away an we don't have earth quakes around here thanks.

Anybody wanna buy a nice three bedroom late 60's style home in Tokoroa ?

Fully fenced, two car skyline garage/workshop,new fan forced fire,,,concrete fucken drive way bro',,,,,with a gate.

Why live in Auckland when you can buy 6 of these fuckers for the same $ in Tokoroa ?
Then sit back an rake in the rent from all the solo mums that are the few people still allowed to live in Toke by WINZ if their on the dole.


Buy my house damn it.

your are deluded my man.The whole of NZ is an earthquake zone...ask people if Christchurch was supposed to be,Auckland sits on Dormant(supposedly) volcanoes,Tokoroa is closer to volcanoes that have proven not to be dormant.

[oneofsix]

your are deluded my man.The whole of NZ is an earthquake zone...ask people if Christchurch was supposed to be,Auckland sits on Dormant(supposedly) volcanoes,Tokoroa is closer to volcanoes that have proven not to be dormant.

Who the fuck said the volcanoes in Auckland were dormant?

[Naki Rat]

Who the fuck said the volcanoes in Auckland were dormant?

According to Auckland Council "It is expected that these volcanoes won’t erupt again and any future eruptions will occur in new, unknown locations".

From GeoNet I understand that the volcanoes may or may not be dormant but the lava pocket 100km below is still "young and active"

[Akzle]

Some say the end is near.

Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.

I sure could use a vacation from this
bull
shit
three
ring
circus sideshow

...The only way to fix it is to flush it all away. Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near. Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz I sure could use a vacation from this Silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction, I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied. Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting Hip gangster wannabes.
Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory. Learn to swim.
Fuck smiley glad-hands With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional, Insecure actresses.
Learn to swim.
Cuz I'm praying for rain and I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.

Time to bring it down again. Don't just call me pessimist.

Try and read between the lines!
I can't imagine why you wouldn't Welcome any change, my friend.