Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from January 2007

New Townsville Contractors Page

January 28th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve added a “Townsville Contractors” Page to the web-site.
Slowly I will be adding more information to the page about different contractors that we work with during our renovation process. Each contractor will have their own page, with specific information about our experience with them. It will probably take me a while to fill out all [...]

Tags: Site News

A Canadian Beaver Ate My Door!

January 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Here in Australia we need to protect our houses from numerous pests, especially termites. But one thing that we didn’t expect to have to protect our house against was a Canadian Beaver!!!
In this case the Canadian Beaver was in fact our four year old son. For reasons that we simply can not fathom our son [...]

Tags: General

Townsville Stump Grinding

January 21st, 2007 · No Comments

We had to remove some more tree stumps from our yard so that we could move the fence into the proper boundary position. The previous owners had moved the fence into the neighbours hard and planted a stack of trees on the property line. Now our neighbours are putting in a new car port, so [...]

Tags: Gardening

Replace the Back of a Kitchen Cabinet

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Tonight I had to figure out how to replace a water damaged kitchen cabinet back panel. Last week we had a fizzy drink break in the kitchen cabinet and we didn’t find it until the next morning, by which time the MDF-Melamine back panel had soaked up a lot of the liquid and become quite [...]

Tags: General