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

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Renovation Planning Progress Update

October 1st, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

Tags: Planning

Renovating the Upstairs Bathroom

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

Tags: Bathroom · Planning

Queensland Owner Builder Course

March 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments

In trying to get our renovation project off the ground more, and open up more options for getting the work down I did a Queensland Owner Builder Course.
The idea behind the owner builder course is to allow people who are not licensed building Trade Contractors to build their own homes and perform renovations, extensions, etc. [...]

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How Far Behind Schedule Are We?

November 26th, 2006 · No Comments

At the moment I have two weeks of unused leave for this calendar year. In our original plan I was supposed to be using those two weeks to paint the exterior of the house.
Instead right now the only thing that I have that I can paint are the new front stairs. There are no walls [...]

Tags: Planning