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Entries Tagged as 'Renovation Frustrations'

Photo of My Thong Tan

December 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Most of my outdoor work here in Townsville is done while wearing thongs. I lost one thong when I sunk into my backyard after some very heavy rain we had last year, but other than that they have worked out pretty well. They might not offer as much support as I would always like, but [...]

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Stop Your Pocket Sliding Door from Scratching

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

With most pocket sliding door that I have seen there are scratches on the inside and outside face of the door. These scratches are most often caused by the timber and other hardware that is inside the cavity that the pocket door actually slides into. Our old upstairs bathroom door had this problem, and had [...]

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Renovation Advice – “It’s Easy, You Can Do That”

December 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments

The next person to tell me that “It’s easy, you should be able to do that” in regards to my home renovations might end up with a black eye and a bloody nose. Our house renovations are not going well. We are approaching our second Christmas where we are still not able to live on [...]

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A Canadian Moose Blocked my Wireless

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I swapped around the space on my desk earlier today and tonight Tamara was unable to connect to wireless from her laptop in our bedroom. I tried the normal stuff to get it working, but didn’t have any luck getting it to reconnect. I thought that maybe our new cordless phone was interfering with the [...]

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