Case Studies

Meth Trends in New Zealand

Meth Trends in New Zealand MethSolutions has always held the view that the acceptable levels of meth residues in property should be as high as they can be without compromising health and wellbeing. The recent Meth Report from the Office of the PM’s Chief Scientific Advisor, has determined that for meth related behaviour that is [...]

July 3rd, 2018|Case Studies, Discussions on Meth, Goverment/Council, MethMap, Policy, Property Managers|Comments Off on Meth Trends in New Zealand

Drug labs a body corporate headache

Are you protecting your apartment from meth contamination? When meth is manufactured or cooked, the contamination can easily permeate the fabric of a building. But what if that building is an apartment? Can it seep through and affect other apartments next door? Definitely. We’ve seen cases of this. As the headline above shows, this is [...]

May 25th, 2018|Case Studies, Investors, Policy, Property Managers, Real Estate Professionals|Comments Off on Drug labs a body corporate headache

As bad as it gets – Total destruction!

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 in West Auckland Property was used by a tenant for manufacture of meth over an extended period of time. Police raid alerted the owner and meth test [...]

December 19th, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on As bad as it gets – Total destruction!

Meth testing Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 – Northland Post decontamination and redecoration, a property was Baseline tested at the time of installation of MethMinder (a globally unique air quality monitoring system used by [...]

November 30th, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on Meth testing Case Studies

Real Estate Industry Ducking the Issue Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 – North West Auckland A client requested a meth test on a Beach Haven property. The agents involved had previously had sales fall over with low levels [...]

November 9th, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on Real Estate Industry Ducking the Issue Case Studies

Commercial Property Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 - Northland Employee of the previous tenant visited the property when the new tenant (food processing facility) took occupation. Reported a history of meth use at the [...]

October 20th, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on Commercial Property Case Studies

Motel Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 - Coromandel Property is Baseline tested as part of pre-purchase due diligence over concerns regarding a previous manager. Baseline testing identifies low levels of meth residues in [...]

October 1st, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on Motel Case Studies

Holiday Home Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 - Northland Property rented for a week through an online booking website. Suspicion of untoward behaviour during period of the rental. Owners had the property Baseline meth [...]

September 13th, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on Holiday Home Case Studies

Rural Property Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 - Rodney district Long-term family farm leased to a share milker who employs a manager. Manager is moved on for poor performance and a new person takes [...]

August 23rd, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on Rural Property Case Studies

MethManaged Case Studies

We continue our series of meth contamination case studies - all of these have been collected by MethSolutions' staff while out on testing and sampling jobs. Example 1 - West Auckland An inspection immediately after a party identified some unusual activity which could not be accounted for by normal behaviour. A Baseline test was previously [...]

August 2nd, 2017|Case Studies|Comments Off on MethManaged Case Studies