damo posted:Which fridge? and any feedback?
We've also got the F&P french door fridge, paid $2690 inc. delivery (Aug 08).
The major downside we have found was the fruit/vegie compartment, and needing to open both doors to…
damo posted:Grass for SA conditions
We recently laid our turf and went with Palmetto soft leaf buffalo for the back lawn, and wintergreen couch for the front lawn, mainly for cost/budgetary reasons.
The Palmetto was…
damo posted:Another retaining wall Question
also, if you're looking for someone to build a sandstone boulder wall we used the following guy(s), they did a pretty good job and were reasonably priced
SNW Earthmoving
Steve - 0423…
damo posted:Another retaining wall Question
there is heaps of info about using these blocks for retaining walls on the Hanson website:
http://www.hansonbp.biz/document_get.aspx?id=233 - retaining walls
http://www.hansonbp.biz/document_get.aspx?id=234 - how to:…
damo posted:DISHWASHER...............2 Drawer
we've got the flat door style f&p dishdrawer, it's only been installed a couple of weeks and already the door sensor on the top drawer has stopped working, a service…
damo posted:What Were Your Site costs? - A Ready Reckoner
Site Classification: H Class (red soil/clay)
Final Footing Design: Waffle Pod
House Size: 34sq - 317sqm - lowset
Location: Brisbane - south side
Wall Construction: Brick veneer, concrete tile roof. 2590mm ext. wall height
Cut…
damo posted:What is AV J like?
No personal experience but there are 3 AV Jennings homes in our small estate, the one 3 down from us started building about four months before us and finished about…
damo posted:Refrigerators - Tell us what you have!
We've just bought the Fisher & Paykel (RF610ADUX) mentioned a page back, $2600 incl. delivery from The Good Guys.
Razzle: I'm pretty sure the 4-door bottom mount Electrolux is a…
damo posted:floor tiling - go it alone or include in building quote?!
We decided to do our main floor tiling after handover, and the costs were;
- floor tiles - 600x600 polished "maintenance free" porcelain - approx. $45/m2
- floor tiling - approx. $60/m2
We…
damo posted:cheap blinds?
We ended up going with cheapa-blinds for our timber venetians. Pretty happy with the service and delivery times, 4 days from order to delivery, and the quality seems to be…
damo posted:We can't have the tiles we ordered? WHAT?????
if it's only the feature tiles can't they just tile the rest and do the feature tiling when they are available?
damo posted:BRISBANE Area Independant building inspectors
we financed our construction through ANZ and had valuations for the enclosed, fixing and final stage payments.
damo posted:costs for wall insulation & roof sarking
We paid around $2500 for roof sarking on a 34sq lowset, so quite a large roof.
damo posted:READY.....SET..... GO!!!!!!!!!!!
extremely jealous phoenix, you've had such a good run on your house and the finished product looks to be very good.
hope you enjoy it for years to come!
damo posted:CheapaBlinds or CheapBlinds
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the above companies?
We're looking at ordering white timber venetians and the prices appear to be much cheaper than what we can find…
damo posted:Henley Render Job - Would Value All Your Opinions
We've had some areas of our render patched, so interested to know more about these standards.
Our main concern is the patched render coming away from the original render, although…
damo posted:Tip - always put a drain hole in the floor of your bathroom
from experience laundry floor wastes aren't compulsory in QLD, we had to pay extra to have one installed (around $150 from memory)
damo posted:Just Begun!!!!
We're building with Plantation, have a read of our blog....
Our neighbours built with Adenbrook and their house turned out fantastic, and it was only 3 months from start to finish.
There's…
damo posted:choice between indigo homes and plantation homes
I'd like to revise the above statement, we are building with Plantation Homes and have had nothing but problems.
damo posted:READY.....SET..... GO!!!!!!!!!!!
looking good phoenix! 
when do the tilers start?
damo posted:Joins in Glass Splashback
vegimite, we had our glass splash back installed last week and we also have 2 joins in ours... (but our splash back is slightly longer at ~3.7m total)
we checked our…
damo posted:Render
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oefFrT0mK6k
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K-VOpr7CEqc
doesn't look too hard (famous last words) 
I'm pretty sure that Bunnings also have brochures on rendering in…
damo posted:READY.....SET..... GO!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Phoenix,
Your cupboards look great!
It looks like you have a similar schedule to us, ie. fixing, prep, paint then tiling. But we have been promised a handover in May???…
damo posted:we had handover today would you have accepted....
We're also in a similar position, only Boral ran out of tiles in the colour we selected after 90% of the roof had been laid (the colour was discontinued).
Boral…
damo posted:Tiling with Porter Davis. Hamilton 34
another option is to talk to your wet area tiler and see if he is interested in doing your main floor tiling (this is what we are doing)
damo posted:Wall insulation
we did ours ourself (prior to plastering) using R1.5 wall batts from bunnings, the batts cost just over $350 and took us about half a day to install
damo posted:Show and tell - Roof Tiles :)
and ours in a lighter grey, boral striata silver cloud
damo posted:Opinions on brickwork problems
Phoenix,
to be fair our s/s has agreed there are some issues and that they will be recitified, I'm sure the delay is just due to rescheduling of the various trades…
