After cutting out the driveway and laying down the roadbase the guys came back to pour the concrete. Before they could pour the concrete they put down a black plastic membrane. From what I understand the plastic membrane is meant to provide a moisture barrier between the ground and the concrete. They did the same [...]
Entries from October 2008
Finishing Installing a New Driveway
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Gardening
Preparing the Site for a Driveway
October 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Before they could start putting in our new driveway they had to prepare the site. The first step for this was to cut away the old driveway and remove it. Because of the height difference between the old driveway and the garage they only cut away the first half of the drive. As you can [...]
Tags: Gardening
Our Finished Open Tread Staircase
October 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I had a comment from a friend that in the last photo that I took of the staircase you couldn’t actually tell that it was an open tread design for the stairs. They were a bit surprised about what it looked like when they saw it in person. So here is a photo I just [...]
Tags: House Lifting
Owner Builder fined $1500 for no Licence
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
In some recent inspections of building sites around Townsville the inspectors issued three fines to people doing work without the proper licence. This is a reduction from the last time that they did the inspections of licences when they fined a lot more people for improper licensing. All three of the people fined for not [...]
Tags: Planning

