Our Blueway Air Conditioner

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We purchased a very reasonably priced Blueway Split Inverter Air Conditioner for our living room from Harvey Norman. The Air Conditioner is a Blueway AS24-VR with 6000watt cooling capacity (we don’t really care about the heating up here in the tropics, but the air conditioner also has 8000watt heating capacity).

Blueway Split Inverter Air Conditioner

As you can see in the photo the head unit of the AS24-VR is quite large. It almost didn’t fit between the ceiling and the window, which was a problem we hadn’t planned for in purchasing an air conditioner.

The external compressor unit of the Blueway air conditioner I have found to be very quiet, but like the head unit the compressor unit is quite large.
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Make a Wall into a Chalk Board – for the Kids

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When I first opened up Pigeon Point Project: Writing on the walls… in my RSS reader my response was “wow”. Then I started to think about which wall of our house I could put up a chalk board for the kids to use?

Check out the article to see what photos of I am talking about, but they have made one wall into a massive chalk board for their kid to use. Of course if you believe the article then the kid did it…

Unfortunately I came to the conclusion that I don’t have an interior wall to use for as a chalk board for the kids, but the idea is still pretty cool.

Contractor Pages Updated with our Townsville Builder details

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I’ve finally updated the Townsville Contactors page with the name and details of our Townsville Builder – Glenn Sexton Pty Ltd.

I’ve also added some more details about the company who did our House Lifting and Restumping – Northern House Raising.

We took our time in naming who our Townsville Builder was because we had such bad experiences with our previous two builders.

We have heard from other contractors here in Townsville that our first builder might be going to jail for fraud and our second builder might be getting sued for dodgy and shonky work. Our success with our newest builder has been an entirely different and a very positive experience.

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Choosing our Internal Staircase

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We have been looking at what kind of internal staircase to build into our house. The new internal stairs will be put in where our current office is and the will need to be a curved staircase with a landing in the middle. The space that we have for the staircase is actually quite small, so the stairs will need to be narrow.

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