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A Charleville resident, experienced board director and former country council Mayor, along with a retired army Brigadier have been appointed to the South.
A woman who s been wading through a leaky home battle for the last eight years says the experience has been worse than when she had breast cancer.
A High Court class action lawsuit regarding building materials company James Hardie is currently being heard in Auckland (file image).
Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers
Lesley Wheatley is blaming the building materials company James Hardie for what she says was faulty cladding. She says the exterior cladding allowed water to get in to the structure and turned parts of her home to a wet, Weet-Bix-like mush.
She s one of over 1000 people party to a High Court class action lawsuit being heard in Auckland, seeking around $220 million from the company.
A $220m class action claims cladding was sold without adequate testing.
One of the leaky homes in the Harditex cladding class action lawsuit was atrociously built, and did not even have a code of compliance certificate, James Hardie’s lawyers claimed at the High Court in Auckland. The global building materials manufacturer is defending itself against a $220 million class action claim for compensation by owners of leaky homes clad in Harditex. About 1000 owners of 376 leaky homes blame James Hardie’s Harditex exterior cladding system for the leaks, claiming Harditex was defective, not suitable for New Zealand’s high-rain climate, and not properly tested before being sold.
Photo: RNZ / Patrice Allen
The James Hardie group of companies are being sued by more than 1000 homeowners over what they claim were product deficiencies of their Harditex exterior cladding, causing their houses to rot and develop mould.
Today, a lawyer for the defendant said the cladding in question was not at fault in one of the homes in the case.
Homeowners said Harditex fibre-cement cladding allowed rainwater in and not out, causing damage to the structure of their homes. They also say James Hardie knew or ought to have known the product was defective. The company stopped manufacturing the product in 2005.