Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from October 2007

Townsville Builder Shut Down - Mybelle Homes

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments

In the midst of a huge shortage of housing in Townsville one of Townsville’s builders has been shut down because of dodgy business practices.
Mybelle Homes has been shut down last week by the Queensland Building Services Authority (BSA) because of concerns about financial and other harm coming to their customers, employees, subcontractors and suppliers.
This week [...]

Tags: Contractors

Bathroom Walls

October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

When we had to rebuild our bathroom we actually had to pretty much rebuild all of the internal and external bathroom walls. Two of the walls had the frames rebuilt or reinforced, while the sheeting on one of the sides was left intact. The other two bathroom walls were completely removed and the frame and [...]

Tags: Bathroom · Framing

Deck Furniture and Art

October 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

This Japanese Deck furniture looks pretty cool. It goes from this:

To this:

I don’t think that it would work on my deck as we plan to put a couple of fans on the deck roof, and they might just chop off the top, but the deck furniture still looks pretty neat.
Source: Japanese Furniture - This Is [...]

Tags: Gardening

Air Conditioning Season has Begun

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, today marks the official start of the air conditioning season.
Despite getting the roof on our house sprayed with a reflective paint, today we fired up the Blueway split inverter air conditioner in the living area of our house. Most of our Northern Hemisphere friends would probably be starting up their boilers or furnaces right [...]

Tags: Technology