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

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Entries Tagged as '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 [...]

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How Much Does a Driveway Cost

October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

We are getting a new aggregate driveway put in when we replace our existing driveway. As we looked at what to do with our driveway, how much of it to replace and what sort of driveway we were going to get put in cost obviously played a part in making our decision. To get our [...]

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Replacing our Driveway

September 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Up until now our garage has been virtually inaccessible because of the original old driveway. The original driveway is about 20cm (8 inches) below the garage entrance, which is rather difficult to navigate. I had already tried to build a ramp out of timber, but that didn’t work very well as it had a very [...]

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Cleaning Out our Backyard Gardenbed – Finally

April 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

To clean up all the rubbish that the builders have created while working under the house they ordered a 6 tonne rubbish skip to take all the construction waste away. They filled up about half the skip, leaving the other half free for me to fill with all of our left over construction waste from [...]

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