Renovate Australia

A home improvement blog about renovating our Queenslander house in Townsville, Australia

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Entries from February 2006

What do the Symbols Mean on my Oven?

February 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I really like the oven in our new house. It actually works!!! The one in our old house would take about 30 - 45 minutes to pre-heat. This one usually pre-heats even to the highest temperature in about 5 - 10 minutes! It’s great.
There is one thing that confuses me though. [...]

Tags: General

Didn’t you just move?

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

This is the question that I was asking myself this weekend as I moved everything out from under our house to put in a friends shed while our house is being lifted and then enclosed under. It took us about seven loads in a small trailer and my station wagon to get most of [...]

Tags: House Lifting

The Renovation Bug

February 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

Ever since Tamara and I have owned a house (only 2.5 years now) we have been renovating. Our first house we fully painted, re-did the floors, insulated the ceiling, renovated the bathroom, replaced all the doors and added a deck. This house we are doing a lot more, as you can read on the [...]

Tags: General

Raise and Restump Begins on March 6th - Northern House Raising

February 20th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Despite the fact that Townsville City Council only approved our house raise and restump on the 14th of February (see Building Permit has been Approved article) the contractor will be starting the lift in only two weeks time! We’ll have to be out of the house for a week, and we don’t have a [...]

Tags: Contractors · House Lifting