Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from October 2008

Finishing Installing a New Driveway

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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