I just got an e-mail from the Townsville City Council and I called them on the phone to confirm it, but we have been given approval for all of our plans! So that is very exciting news given that some people told us it would take up to three months for approval to be [...]
Entries from February 2006
Building Permit has been Approved!
February 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: Contractors · Council · House Lifting · Planning
Mystery of the Dead Grass - Solved…
February 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Just before the previous owners sold their house they put new turn / sod down in the back yard. We have been quite diligent in watering the lawn but this one patch just died, and no amount of watering helped. The patch seemed to have very square corners a fairly straight edges, so I [...]
Tags: Gardening
Bad Townsville Contractors & Dismantled Deck In the Garden
February 13th, 2006 · 5 Comments
The contractors that we had hired almost didn’t the deck down in time from the old house. They didn’t show up for work on time and didn’t take advantage of the days without any rain to pull down the deck. Instead they left it to the last available three days when it was pouring [...]
Tags: Contractors · General
Moving Bricks - 12km Walk!
February 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I spent about 7 hours on Sunday moving bricks from our old house to our new house. Because we don’t have any vehicle access to our back yard I had to carry the brick from the font of the property to the very back of the property so that they aren’t in the way [...]
Tags: General

