Just done one of ours, had left it to long to maintenance coat it.
Pressure washed it, then sprayed it (garden sprayer) with Intergrain Deck Prep, scrubbed that in with a…

You might consider hydronic in slab heating driven by a heat pump.
Effectively silent, supplemented by your thermal mass it will transfer heat to your southern rooms, and on a timer…

SE NSW.
C section studs rather than U section, the extra lips add strength.
You are correct, a rectangular home is cheaper to build, every feature detail adds cost.
You might want to…

Just in the final stages of our build, 700m from the ocean, beside a saltwater lake.
I used a crew from Bega called The Steel Framing Company using Truecore steel, frames…

Can't help on which product to use, but I can tell you that a 20kg bag gives one square metre at 10mm thick.

About to start work on a standalone garage. 6mx6m
Which wall should I fit an EV charger?

Ask to see their plans. A brick wall at the boundary may be advantageous in terms of a sheltered outdoor area (ie you could hang a pergola off it…

I'm probably the wrong person to ask, 100m2 3.6m opening on the roller door, 9m deep. Boat, 2 x motorcycles, wc and shower, woodworking equipment and no room for…

I'd hold them to the deeper pods on class m.
Better to be slightly over engineered than to have issues in the future. Concrete is relatively cheap

129m² house
56m² deck
40m² of open lower story on slab that is engineered to be built in if required
10k site costs
40k to floor level
30k steel frames & trusses, assembled
5k ironbark…

I would suggest an L shape, with garage, front door an utilities facing the street. Kitchen on the SE corner, bedrooms on the southern side, with North facing living…

Under the overhang on the side of our island

Approaching completion on my owner build, with the exception of finishing the slabs, fitting fascia gutters and roofing I have done everything else up to fit out.
100m2 of 3.2…

Building lakeside on a tidal lake with a very high termite risk.

I am owner building, and we have 2.7m of fall. I used the Spantec system, and as part of the design had perimeter and deck beams powdercoated, and a…

Try buffing it vigorously with a dry microfiber cloth, it may be grout haze

Which way is north? For block and house...

It will screw with your bench height, or cabinet/kick height.
If you are all tall another 50mm of bench height is a backsaver, but if you're not then the extra height…

We did a 40mm top with shadowline and sharknose .
We specced bench top height to be 950 above FFL.
The kitchen guys put a 19mm packer sheet under the stone to…

Lockwood do networked (proprietary but can be driven by almost any system, requires 2 seconds of momentary on to initiate action) window motors for awning windows.
We have two highset windows…

Retrofit usually runs to 3k if it's simple, and you pay for breakers in the initial install that is money wasted.
Can get very expensive if the fitted meter doesn't support…

3 phase is cheap at initial construction.
3 phase is a bloody expensive retrofit

5mm wall is too thick for riv nuts...
Betterhardware.com.au do a flip toggle where you can just drill a hole...

If the posts are 5mm wall you may get a better result drilling and tapping each hole.
This would give a professional looking finish.
Use duralac on the eye bolt threads to…

Range hood has been fitted since pics, waiting on the sparky to hand led bar pendant over the island

It depends on where you are and how you want to use it.
I am on the south coast NSW and put our Alfresco area on the southern side. …

For the money you spend to do it properly, you are better off upgrading to a heat pump drier.
Heat pump drier expels water rather than steam. No fogging, no…

The stone isn't cracked, the supporting structure has moved.
Nothing to serious, scrape it out and clean with thinners, run some new sealant into it, spray with soapy water and remove…

I am using a company called Coverforce Allrisk

Up front, I am an owner builder, so I won't try to estimate labour costs.
On my current build, I have built 56m2 of decking. Materials cost was $6700 for…