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This year Townsville has seen about 2500 new homes built and has a population growth forcast at around 3500 people.
In the next 20 years the Townsville & Thuringowa population is expected to double from the current 140,000 to aroun 280,000 residence.
With a growth that fast I can only expect it to get even more difficult [...]

I was quite suprised when I looked over at the news stand last week and saw a picture of my street with the headline “The Street that Castletown Bought” plaster on the front page! I was tempted to buy a half dozen copies and send them to friends with our house circled.
So that’s why [...]

Tamara and I have been trying to work out a budget for our renovation. With the house lifting we have so far got 4 different quotes. They have a variation of about 35% and they all seem to cover the exact same things!
Raising and Restumping our house will, we hope, be the largest expense [...]

I just got off the phone with the house lifting people today and the plan that I had drawn up for under our house has to go through some pretty major revisions.
In the original plan I had pushed the lower level out by about a metre to accommodate a slightly larger garage. Well it [...]