Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from March 2006

Incoming Tropical Cyclone Larry

March 19th, 2006 · 4 Comments

I don’t think that “frustrations” would complete say what I am feeling. There is a category 4 cyclone about 15-hours away from hitting the coast 100km north of us. To give you an idea of the strength I think that is the same category that Katrina was that hit New Orleans. From what [...]

Tags: Renovation Frustrations

Day 8 of the House Lift - Massive Footings

March 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Gary from Northern House Raising, who is doing our Raise and Restump, called me to our house today to have a look at the footings for our house. From what he told me he has never seen anything like it before in Townsville. He even called out the engineer to have a look at [...]

Tags: House Lifting

Still can’t move in…

March 17th, 2006 · No Comments

We were supposed to be able to move in this afternoon, but because of delays that they have had with getting the house lifted we are now having to be out of the house for an extra three nights.
This is getting to be a bit frustrating as originally we were told we would be out [...]

Tags: Renovation Frustrations

Day 7 of the House Lift - Crikey That’s High!

March 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I drove past the house today and was absolutely shocked by how high it was! At first I thought that it was only that high to accomodate installing the new stumps into the ground, but after talking to Gary it seems that it will only be coming down a couple of centimetres to sit [...]

Tags: House Lifting