Extending Washing Machine Hose
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Currently renovating our laundry, bought a new washing machine but have found that the drainage hose is alot shorter than the old machine (which I used to get the…
Making a hallway airtight
That's exactly what happens in our house!
We have three air con zones, front lounge / middle lounge and kitchen / bedrooms
When we turn on the front zones and not in…
Making a hallway airtight
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Recently replaced all carpet in the house with floorboard. This has left some larger gaps beneath doors to bedrooms and therefor has created a draft and air loss when…
No Air Gap for Sisalation Paper
I was told the air gap needs to be between the foil side (inside) and everything else. The paper has been installed between the exterior wall and the wall frame…
No Air Gap for Sisalation Paper
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to insulate the walls in a home office I had recently built. The installers included sisalation under the external walls, with…
Painting Foilboard
The foil lining is both sides I believe? I was only looking to paint the internal so the external foil would still be fully functional at reflecting external heat
Truth be…
Painting Foilboard
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I recently had an Aarons outdoor shed built, that I am converting for a home office. It's installed in an area that gets full afternoon sun in summer and…
Insulating roof of shed / home office
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I recently had a small studio office built by Aarons Outdoor. It comes "raw", so you have to paint the exterior and finish the interior yourself (this keeps down…
How to deal with destroyed yard
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Looking for some advice and please forgive the essay
Last year we had an unhealthy camphor laurel cut down in the front yard. Today we finally got around (after much…
Spring Lawn Reno Questions
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I'm currently in a rental till July next year in the Kellyville area of Sydney. Looking to do a small reno on the current lawn as it's come out…
Help me decide - Complete backyard do-over
Decided to put this on hold until next year. Will be a constant struggle to keep the wild grass out until they finish building behind us
Window and sliding door replacement - Supplying own glass
So I managed to finally convince someone to quote.... 5k to replace the sliding doors and two large windows. 3.7k without the glass
I've discussed with some connections I have and…
Help me decide - Complete backyard do-over
Kikuyu will grow in almost any conditions... so it will overtake ANYTHING if given half chance. Which is why I'm thinking starting from scratch is the best idea
Help me decide - Complete backyard do-over
The lawn doesn't look too bad because I only mowed it a few days earlier
If you saw the before pics, the front half was low…
Caesarstone or an alternative
I did some measurements myself and since we've got a small kitchen, we'd have less then one slab of CS used. So I'm trying to get a couple of mobs…
Help me decide - Complete backyard do-over
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I've been wanting to rip up and replace my existing back lawn for a while now. Previous owners laid down buffalo years ago but never took care to prevent wild…
Caesarstone or an alternative
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Been planning a kitchen refurb for some time... getting the existing cabinets resurfaced (high gloss spray-painting basically) but the wife has decided she wants to replace the entire benchtop…
Window and sliding door replacement - Supplying own glass
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Repainting stenciled concrete
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Our house has a stenciled concrete driveway that's starting to look a bit faded / dated. We love the design and don't want this to change (ie, we don't…
Window and sliding door replacement - Supplying own glass
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Currently we're paying an absolute bomb in heating and cooling at our house because our main living area has two large glass sliding doors either side of the room…
Kitchen Refurb Ideas
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Looking at doing a bit of a refurb on our current kitchen... nothing to major, wants to replace the benchtops (probably with caeserstone or something similar) but not replace…
Grange Avenue Schofields - Burawa Rise Development
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I currently live next door to Burawa.... I'm curious to know if anyone has an idea on what they're actually going to do to the land on the south…
Office Nook in Wardrobe
The cupboard will be 60cm deep (in total) with 50cm of desk space depth. I've used the built-in in my daughters room for comparison (actually moved my laptop, monitor, server…
Office Nook in Wardrobe
I took some more measurements this afternoon. Allowing for the car to be parked RIGHT against the roller door (less then 10cm space at the rear), this allows for 50cm…
Office Nook in Wardrobe
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The wife and I are expecting our second little bundle in July and since we have a small three-bedder, this means I'll lose my home office (I work from…
Buying a second home Questions
We did go through all the options to "help" me get the loan without involving a third party. Unfortunately we just don't have the equity in our current house yet…
Buying a second home Questions
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We're arranging to see an accountant in the new couple of weeks where I'll be asking all these questions again. I've had other people mention family trusts…
Buying a second home Questions
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My wife and I currently live in a battle-axe block which is split with another house. Our neighbour mentioned recently wanting to sell up later this year to move…