Appreciate your idea Dannislade.
I did tossed that idea. Actually, I tried to see if a combined toilet & laundry could work.
Apparently not enough room. Also need to consider the impact…

Hi,
I would appreciate if anyone can have a quick look at the duplex design and provide few feedback.
Ground floor
Upper Floor

I'm heavily restricted by the land size.
Cheers,
devank

Plumber came in. Changed me $50 a tap to fully clean and change the washer. There were 24 taps so that is $1200!
Some sort of blue stuff was blocking the…

Thank you for your advice bashworth.
I checked the main tap (next to the water meter). It is fully opened. Called the water company. Apprently they haven't reduced the pressure in…

Even the problem with the bath taps (water doesn't come thorugh at the same time) due to low pressure?

Hi,
We are having a strange problem with our bath tub taps. This is only about 4 years old house.
We have two taps (hot & cold) like the T shape where…

I think that's a bit of over reaction
I have it where it is shaded areas or where natural grass is is not practical due to…

Hi,
This a clad granny flat I'm building now. One side of the building, where the sliding door is located, is about 0.8m under the natural land as shown in this…

Any render work & hardwood screens would cost a bit of money. I'm looking for a cheap solution
http://www.houseofbamboo.com.au/natureed_cladding.html would look nice...…

Thanks for the ideas!
smartlookingsheds might be the easiest to do but thier max height is 1.8m. I would like that to be more than 2m if I'm going for that…

Hi,
We have an ugly backyard fence.
I have attached few photos covering the whole area (18 long x about 1.5 m high).
We used to have simple bamboo covering all these time.…

House is valued at 600K. So it is not a great return. However, the median price for this suburb is about 430K. So not many people are going to pay…

Isn't this a very old news? way before GFC!

Basically, it all comes down to the rental return. For example, if I spend 10K then the modification should increase the rent by $10 per week! Currently rented for $450.00.
Here…

I talked to a renovation guy.
He basically told me to not to touch any external walls and avoid creating big openings to avoid any need for a beam. Otherwise the…

I really appreciate the time you spent on it. They are excellent ideas.
This house is rented out now. So I want to spend minimum for a maximum impact.
Here is take…

Valid point.
I was thinking about adding a power room for Bed 4 in that left bottom corner. However, I'm not sure if it is going to be worth doing it…

Hi,
I'm hoping to get few expert advice or helpful ideas.
I'm thinking of doing a bit of modification (shown in red) to increase the rent or value of this 40 year…

Yes. Tiler turned up with exact tiles and did decent good job.

Any update on this builder?

Because 1.5km was giving the max value for money when we had the rebates.

Personally I would prefer the tiles first for few reasons:
1. Any spiled water won't stick to the floor.
2. You will still have 'complete' flooring if you decided to remove or…

All my concrete (Eg: drive way, retaining wall, fence) work was done by one group. They also arranged for other things such as metal work (gate), deck and so on.…

I made the oder with Origin Energy in June but still waiting. They called and said that I need to wait for another 2 months!
They got my business mainly because…

I think it depends on your own council. In our case, our back neighbour blocked the whole fence with brick layers and didn't want to give easement.

Allcastle’s wardrobes are basic (just a bar to hang cloths) with swinging wooden doors. We wanted a bit more storage (shelves and drawers) setup and a bit fancier mirror sliding…

Flooring-$18, 600 (mix of Floating timber & carpet)
Wardrobe-$6,700
Lightings & extra wireing- $4,900
Blinds-$2,500
I think it took about 5 months to construct from the day they put the slab. Things…

Our council requires massive detention tanks in a back sloping land for a one in 100 years event! I still get angry when I think about it! Keep in mind…

Nothing tangible happened so far.
One general inspector turned up to ‘see’ the problems. I guess his job was to ‘reduce’ the work required. One of his comment was “I…