Renovate Australia

Last year is when Tamara and I made the big move and sold our old house to Castletown, The Street that Castletown Bought. In January this year we moved out of the old house and into our new house which has been the subject for the majority of this site. We would still drive past [...]

I just came across a service that appears to make it easy to find a builder or tradesman anywhere in Australia from one web-site. You write down your details, and a few details of the job, and the request is then sent by SMS to various contractors around your area.
The first three tradesmen to respond [...]

Gregory over at The Joy of Home Ownership posed a few very good questions to me about why out house was constructed the way that it is. I’ll go through some of his questions to see if I can answer them well enough.
1. Why is your house built on stilts?
From what I can tell [...]

In my previous post, Day 8 of the House Lift - Massive Footings, my mate David Couper asked what the footing were that Northern House Raising decided to leave in place. The footing is basically the bottom part of the foundations of the house and it is there to prevent settling or movement of the [...]