Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from November 2007

Exterior Paint Colour Chosen for our Queenslander

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Since we finally completed the paint preparation on our Queenslander we are now able to start testing the paint colours.
The top floor or our Queenslander has powder coated aluminium siding. Although it is possible to paint over the aluminium siding, we decided it would be best if we matched the colour from the top floor [...]

Tags: Painting

How to Prepare Timber Weatherboard Cladding for Painting

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

When our Builder here in Townsville put the timber cladding on the house they used a heck of a lot of nails. Although the timber weatherboard cladding came pre-primed, we still had to prepare the cladding prior to painting.
It was a five step process to prepare the timber cladding for painting

Tags: Painting

Our Blueway Air Conditioner

November 12th, 2007 · 11 Comments

We purchased a very reasonably priced Blueway Split Inverter Air Conditioner for our living room from Harvey Norman. The Air Conditioner is a Blueway AS24-VR with 6000watt cooling capacity (we don’t really care about the heating up here in the tropics, but the air conditioner also has 8000watt heating capacity).

As you can see in the [...]

Tags: Technology

Make a Wall into a Chalk Board - for the Kids

November 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments

When I first opened up Pigeon Point Project: Writing on the walls… in my RSS reader my response was “wow”. Then I started to think about which wall of our house I could put up a chalk board for the kids to use?
Check out the article to see what photos of I am talking about, [...]

Tags: General