Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from November 2008

Replacing our "Door to No Where"

November 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Since we had the back stairs removed from the house we have had a "door to no where". It has looked pretty funny to tell you the truth (as you can see on the left). The door has been screwed into the frame so that no one could open it, but it has still looked [...]

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Tags: Windows

Stop Your Pocket Sliding Door from Scratching

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

With most pocket sliding door that I have seen there are scratches on the inside and outside face of the door. These scratches are most often caused by the timber and other hardware that is inside the cavity that the pocket door actually slides into. Our old upstairs bathroom door had this problem, and had [...]

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Tags: Renovation Frustrations

We Are (Finally) Moved Downstairs!

November 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

After a lot of time, painting and hard work we are finally moved downstairs! The final stage for this you would have though would have been finishing the internal staircase, but we still had a lot of painting and preparation to do before we could finally move down into the four new bedrooms, including painting [...]

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Tags: House Lifting