Photo: FilePre-sale building inspections are continuing to uncover hundreds of Christchurch homes with botched repairs or undeclared damage. As of February, the Earthquake Commission had bailed out 561 homeowners who had found botched repairs or undeclared damage only after buying their house. And then we got a building report, a full building report done and that came back with floor levels being out of level by 50ml, in one room." Holland is well qualified to comment on buying a home in post-quake Christchurch, having fallen victim to a botched EQC repair herself. But she worried about the lack of knowledge out there amongst the house buying public.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 23, 2020 20:03 UTC