If you hold the asset for >12 months you only pay CGT on 50% of the gain, otherwise you will pay CGT at your marginal rate.

The stop is fine for the Windows. I have the same in mine. Approved by private certifier late last year.
I tried to argue about the pump enclosure. Mine has no…

Just move the scaf with the bobcat

It would probably be cheaper to use 50mm sleepers. Take the top rail, panels and bottom rail off, cut sleeper to length and slide it down between the posts. You…

Depends how you want to use the shed afterward, although 2 years is a while so you'll want to be comfortable.
You could frame up some walls and then line…

$100/m2 is reasonable for colour-through all-inclusive (in Sydney). Just measure the distance from the garage to the road x the width of the garage.

You should think about the pool before finalising the house plans as the position may need additional piering for the house + you'll want power run to where you want…

We installed it and with 5 kids downstairs (our bedroom is upstairs) it seems to do something. Ask again in 10 years or so when they really get rowdy.
We almost…

You won't hear it. Ours comes down in our home theatre. Can't hear anything and there's no bulk head either. We've got an access hatch on the external wall.

I siliconed the holes in our build myself. I read on here it was a good idea so bought a couple of tubes and snuck in one arvo

I don't think it really matters. I've used both 10mm and 20mm agg.

I would put a layer of agg in the trench 1st, then Geofabric in a U shape. Then 100mm socked agi then cover with agg and fold the fabric over.…

Try a wire brush (gently)

I did it for the same reasons (albeit the reverse, kids are downstairs, we are upstairs). Cost approx $3.5k (plans on the 1st page of my thread). Seems to do…

I was thinking more along the lines of site cost blowouts. Things like piering, slab upgrades, exposure grade bricks, splits etc can really add up quickly.

Is this the 1st time you've built? Builds have a habit of blowing out so if $500k is close to your upper limit what would you do if you…

The reality is it's not worth doing anything more than you have already done to save maybe $20.
I discovered once my neighbours house was complete that they didn't have power…

Speak to the builder about how close the pool can be before you need extra piering for the house. You might find you'll have to do the piering now…

We have one and while it's good, we could have bought 2 Dysons for the money (one for upstairs, one for downstairs). We got it so we wouldn't have to…

Yep, a shipload should cover it!
360m3 is heaps. Down here a "cheap" rate is $50/tonne for transport & dumping of soil, that's not including the excavation, you'd be looking at…

I've got them on both sides. Nothing special needed to clean them. We have a dish drainer on one side and usually stack dishes (dirty) on the other. They seem…

Work with 1m around all sides of the pool. So for a 7x3 you'd need 9x5 of space (plus an area for the pool pump & filter). Id consider 1m…

I put a thin layer of gravel down 1st, then place the fabric in a U shape with the ag line at the bottom. Then shovel gravel over the top.…

What I was going to say was if the posts weren't concreted in already then you'd be better off taking them out, placing the bottom layer of sleepers, levelling them…

Have those posts already been concreted in the ground?

We built our pool close to (within 1m) of our new house. Because of this we had to have additional piering on that side of the house (down to below…

I thought about putting in something to inject fertiliser but didn't in the end. Can always chop one in later.
Haven't laid the turf yet, need to finish a retaining wall…

No worries, it did my head in trying to think about all the things for my system. In the end I had to sketch it all out and then…

Here's my thoughts based on what I've bought/installed in my place recently:
* I went with an Irritrol outdoor controller, 6 zones. I had to get 2 because I had…

Works for me