I’m visiting a mate at the moment who wants to turn the huge shed on their property into the “Ultimate Man Cave”… The shed is 45’ x 20’ high with 13’ ceilings (13.5 metres x 6 metres with 4 metre ceilings). In addition that that area there is also an annex at the back that [...]
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Creating the Ultimate Man Cave
August 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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How Wide Does A Door to a Furnace / Mechanical Room Need to Be?
July 31st, 2010 · No Comments
At the moment we have a rather large storage / mechanical / furnace room in the basement of our house here in Calgary, Canada. The room has our furnace, hot water tank, freezer and a lot of shelves in it. It is easily large enough to be changed to a storage / furnace room and [...]
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Owner Builder fined $1500 for no Licence
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
In some recent inspections of building sites around Townsville the inspectors issued three fines to people doing work without the proper licence. This is a reduction from the last time that they did the inspections of licences when they fined a lot more people for improper licensing. All three of the people fined for not [...]
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Taping off the Construction Zone
September 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
While they were cutting out the floor and building the new staircase we taped up some black plastic tarps to block off the construction zone openings from the rest of the house. When they had to demolish our old concrete bathroom floor the entire house got covered in concrete dust. This time we didn’t want [...]
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