Renovate Australia

Should the government force home owners to upgrade their homes to be more environmentally friendly?
Should new green housing legislation be applied to new homes only, or also to existing home?
I’m listening to an ABC By Design podcast that is interviewing Tim Redway, the chief marketing officer for AV Jennings, one of Australia’s larger residential builders. [...]

From everything that I have read and heard renovating in Townsville in 2008 will continue to be a challenge for home owners.
Most quality builders in Townsville are booked well in advance, and the costs involved with renovating in Townsville continues to escalate. In October 2007 our builder was already booked until July of 2008.
A standard [...]

I figured that it was about time to update how the various stages of our renovations are going right now:
Enclosing Under our Queenslander
The actual enclosing under of our Queenslander is now complete. It has been finished up to lockup stage, so all the windows, exterior doors and cladding are now up. We can lock up [...]

It’s sort of funny, I was flipping through some of my old posts trying to find photos of our office and I came accross this quote:

That does bring up another problem though, what happens if it starts to leak again? How will I know until it has actually destroyed the ceiling under it?
Given the option [...]