PHOTO: Mark Russell outside his beautiful, but leaky Hillsborough home.

While most people are counting the number of shopping days until Christmas, lawyer Dan Parker is counting the number of days until his class action lawsuit against giant multi-national James Hardie can sign up no more leaky home owners.

So far just 70 homeowners have joined the action seeking damages from Hardies over what Parker says was defective Harditex and Titan board cladding. The company denies the claims.

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