A team of about 10 Christchurch builders and engineers will be in Whanganui this week to assess properties damaged by slips in June, Bryan Staples says.
It's just the start of what is likely to be a long haul for the property owners. He warned some would not be back in their houses for two or three years.
Mr Staples is the director of Earthquake Services Ltd, the company helping Christchurch people fight EQC to get funding to have their properties thoroughly repaired after the 2010-11 earthquakes.
He's bringing two teams of four, each staffed by builders and engineers, to Whanganui on Thursday. They will assess properties damaged in mid-June last year whose owners have been unable to get enough of a payout from EQC to repair them.
Often that has been because of the law EQC works to and the low value of land in Whanganui.