Long way to go before building regulatory gaps are plugged

Long way to go before building regulatory gaps are plugged
Certified Builders says only appropriately trade qualified builders should be allowed to self-certify. (Image: Paul Rickard)
Maria Slade
The long-running television consumer affairs show Fair Go couldn’t go a season without at least one "ratbag roofer" tale.Roofing disaster stories were bread and butter for the now sadly discontinued champion of the New Zealand battler.A former staffer tells your correspondent that the unregulated sector seemed to produce an endless supply of inadequately skilled and unscrupulous practitioners. The programme was so inundated with roofing complaints that it limited the number it covered, fearing it would bore its audienc...

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