Renovate Australia

We had a rather eventful weekend, some joyous news and an unfortunate accident. I’ll be writing the exciting news soon, the photo on the left is a bit of a teaser… The accident involved my son head butting the concrete retaining wall in our backyard. This is the second time he’s done it, but this [...]

The Shade Cloth cover we picked up for at Bunnings for only $40! It is a 4 metre x 4 metre Coolaroo Shade Cloth Sail that comes with a 15-year warranty and offers 90% UV protection. It was discounted because it’s a non-standard colour, even though it matches our paint colour scheme almost perfectly. First [...]

We finally finished off our back patio a few weekends ago. Since we sold the deck that we were originally going to put on the back of the house we ahead with covered patio, coming out of the back door. The Shade Cloth Cover of the patio works great for keeping the sun off the [...]

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 [...]