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Entries Tagged as 'House Lifting'

House Available for Removal in Sydney

September 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I got this e-mail from someone in Sydney … Allan Zhong wrote: I have a fibrate house in Sydney that we want moved away. I’m wondering, do you want it? I am guessing that they meant a “fibro” house for removal in Sydney. I have no need or want for the house, but I thought [...]

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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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Our Finished Open Tread Staircase

October 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I had a comment from a friend that in the last photo that I took of the staircase you couldn’t actually tell that it was an open tread design for the stairs. They were a bit surprised about what it looked like when they saw it in person. So here is a photo I just [...]

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Removing our old Staircase

September 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Since the new internal stairs are finally almost ready for us to use we have removed our old rear external staircase. The old rear staircase actually consisted of half of the old (per-house lift) front stairs welded to the original rear stairs. The railing was a single 2 x 4 attached to the house at [...]

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