Renovate Australia

In a lawsuit in the United States (where else eh?) this week a man was awarded $1.5 million USD for an injury to his fingers that was caused by a table saw. The man injured his fingers while using a Ryobi table saw when he was installing oak hard wood flooring in 2006. The thing [...]

This Sunday is Sustainable House Day here in Australia and over the Tasman in New Zealand. Sustainable House Day is a day when all around the country people living in sustainable housing will open their doors for people to visit their homes. There will be people available to answer questions about what they did to [...]

When installing our new double kitchen sink we discovered that the countertop was synthetic stone. For some reason I had just assumed that it was a laminate countertop, but it turns out that I was wrong… The synthetic stone bench top has very similar qualities to solid stone bench tops, but at a significantly lower [...]

We installed a clothesline in our garage over the weekend so that we could wash clothes even on the rainy days. We don’t have a drier, so we need to dry our clothes on a clothesline, which doesn’t work so well on the backyard clothesline when it is raining. I was able to reuse our [...]