Prime TV documentary A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters explores the leaky home crisis in New Zealand.
We see them everywhere in our cities – vacated leaky apartment buildings and terraced houses covered in white plastic sheeting while they undergo remedial work. What we don’t see is the huge personal cost and anguish behind the defective buildings. And, in case you thought this only happened with older buildings from a particular era, you’re mistaken. Apartments are still being built with problems. The Altera Apartments in Stonefields, Auckland, was completed in 2015 by Fletchers, one of our largest residential building companies. But a new TV documentary screening on