After sinking 50cm into my back yard a few weekends ago and loosing my flip-flop I figured that I would have a look at some old photos to see where the plumbing was run under our back yard.
If you have a look at the photo on the left I actually sunk into the mud pretty [...]
Entries Tagged as 'House Lifting'
Running Plumbing Through our Back Yard
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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Choosing our Internal Staircase
November 1st, 2007 · No Comments
We have been looking at what kind of internal staircase to build into our house. The new internal stairs will be put in where our current office is and the will need to be a curved staircase with a landing in the middle. The space that we have for the staircase is actually quite small, [...]
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Still Finding and Fixing Cracks from the House Lift
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Since having our house lifted and restumped we have been fixing up the cracks in the walls and floor upstairs.
Today I fixed up another crack. This one was just above the window in the dining room. It was hidden behind the venetian blind top so I hadn’t even noticed it, but Tamara did and had [...]
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What to do with our Concrete Stumps when Building in Under?
January 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tonight I got an e-mail from someone who is Renovating their Queenslander here in Townsville. They have enclosed underneath and are currently adding a bathroom, bedroom and rumpus room. They had a question though about what to do with the concrete stumps that are under the house holding it up.
The concrete stumps used under many [...]
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