Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from April 2010

How To Find Environmentally Friendly / Sustainable Timber and Wood

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments

I think that it would surprise a lot of people to find out that timber can be one of your most environmentally friendly options when it comes to construction materials. Sustainably harvested timber, when compared to other building materials, has a very small carbon footprint. When done sustainably the tree farms are also a natural [...]

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Tags: Building Materials

Taxpayers to Pay $50m for Foil Insulation Stuff Up

April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Since I wrote about some of the problems that the Free Insulation Scheme that the Australia Government has been having they have cancelled the plan and are now footing the tax payers with a $50 million clean up bill. According to an article in the Australian the scheme has been linked to 105 house fires [...]

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Tags: Roofing

New Comment Feature Added

April 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

I’ve gone and added a new plugin to the site called CommentLuv. It looks like a pretty cool little plugin as if you make a comment on the site it will check your blog and try to pull in the last story that you have written. It will then include a link to the story [...]

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