Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from February 2008

Free Energy Saving Light Bulbs in Australia

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Right now you can get free energy saving light bulbs in Victory and New South Wales. There is no maximum number of lightbulbs to replace, but you need to replace a minimum of three.
The energy saving light bulbs are available for free because the company that replaces the original light bulbs with energy saving light [...]

Tags: Lighting

Plan a Community Garage Sale

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments

When I wrote about our last garage sale here in Townsville I mentioned Community Garage Sales (also known as street garage sales).
In Calgary there used to be one weekend a year when the whole community would hold their garage sales. It worked really well as everyone knew that on this particular weekend you could head [...]

Tags: General

Should I Buy a Blueway Air Conditioner?

February 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

Right now we have a 24,000 btu Blueway Air Conditioner with 6000watt cooling capacity in our main living area that has been working very well. It manages to cool the area fairly well, given that the odd shape of the room. I’ve previously written a review of the Blueway AS24-VR, so you read the full [...]

Tags: Technology

Under the House is Finally Sheeted!

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

We finally got the plasterboard sheeting up on the walls under the house. Originally it should have been up in December, but because of some problems that we had with water leaking under the house it had to be postponed until the leaks were fixed.

It might not look like much to you, but for us [...]

Tags: Framing