http://www.renovateaustralia.com/2006/02/13/bad-townsville-contractors-dismantled-deck-in-the-garden/ A home improvement blog about renovating our Queenslander house in Townsville, Australia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:30:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.renovateaustralia.com/2006/02/13/bad-townsville-contractors-dismantled-deck-in-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-6780 Renovation Planning Progress Update | Renovate Australia Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:39:04 +0000 http://www.renovateaustralia.com/?p=53#comment-6780 [...] that originally built the deck on our first house. In case you don’t know, we actually took our deck from our other house and it has been sitting in our backyard ever [...] [...] that originally built the deck on our first house. In case you don’t know, we actually took our deck from our other house and it has been sitting in our backyard ever [...]

]]> http://www.renovateaustralia.com/2006/02/13/bad-townsville-contractors-dismantled-deck-in-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-6005 Re-Designing Our Deck | Renovate Australia Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:50:49 +0000 http://www.renovateaustralia.com/?p=53#comment-6005 [...] our first dodgy builders got our deck plans drawn up by an architect they neglected to tell the architect that we already [...] [...] our first dodgy builders got our deck plans drawn up by an architect they neglected to tell the architect that we already [...]

]]> http://www.renovateaustralia.com/2006/02/13/bad-townsville-contractors-dismantled-deck-in-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-5210 Construction Has Begun! | Renovate Australia Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:38:36 +0000 http://www.renovateaustralia.com/?p=53#comment-5210 [...] our previous experience with builders here in Townsville (the first people we were talking too apparently might be going to jail for fraud and the second guy took almost a year to finish our [...] [...] our previous experience with builders here in Townsville (the first people we were talking too apparently might be going to jail for fraud and the second guy took almost a year to finish our [...]

]]> http://www.renovateaustralia.com/2006/02/13/bad-townsville-contractors-dismantled-deck-in-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Renovate Australia » Blog Archive » Still can’t move in… Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:21:36 +0000 http://www.renovateaustralia.com/?p=53#comment-104 [...] This is getting to be a bit frustrating as originally we were told we would be out for three weeks by some contractors that we used to be using (but not anymore, long story but the short version is here: Bad Townsville Contractors…). Then we were told to be out for only one night, then just as they started we had to be out for four nights, and now it’s a full week. [...] [...] This is getting to be a bit frustrating as originally we were told we would be out for three weeks by some contractors that we used to be using (but not anymore, long story but the short version is here: Bad Townsville Contractors…). Then we were told to be out for only one night, then just as they started we had to be out for four nights, and now it’s a full week. [...]

]]> http://www.renovateaustralia.com/2006/02/13/bad-townsville-contractors-dismantled-deck-in-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Renovate Australia » Blog Archive » Raise and Restump Begins on March 6th Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:06:49 +0000 http://www.renovateaustralia.com/?p=53#comment-20 [...] We have been really impressed with the contractor doing the raise and restump. The company is Northern House Raising and is run by Gary Robertson. He seems to be great guy and has been helping us to move along really quickly. Unfortunately we have found that we were given some pretty crappy advise from the previous contractors that we were talking to (see Bad Townsville Contactors… article) so now we are paying for it in extra time and some costs. Gary and his builders have already saved us about $4000.00 by changing how our exterior walls on the bottom of the house will be constructed, which will be good, but more on that later. [...] [...] We have been really impressed with the contractor doing the raise and restump. The company is Northern House Raising and is run by Gary Robertson. He seems to be great guy and has been helping us to move along really quickly. Unfortunately we have found that we were given some pretty crappy advise from the previous contractors that we were talking to (see Bad Townsville Contactors… article) so now we are paying for it in extra time and some costs. Gary and his builders have already saved us about $4000.00 by changing how our exterior walls on the bottom of the house will be constructed, which will be good, but more on that later. [...]

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