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New house built from scratch
A comprehensive account of the stages of building a new house, from foundations to completion. The project July 2016 The home we are building is about 45km west of Geelong in Victoria. It is approximately 30 squares including an indoor pool. I drew up the plans to scale and then sent them off to be professionally drawn up…
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Dining table makeover
I bought a redgum dining table to put into our new build. Was a bit rundown and whilst hubby wasn't pleased with my idea of pulling it apart to resand and varnish it, I did anyway as I didn't want to have to go around corners and not do every square inch of the table. Used dozens and dozens of sanding pads and almost…
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Farming animals - My story
Hi to all at the workshop community. It's been brought to my attention that there might be allot of people throughout the community that don't live in suburbia but on farms and whilst we all shop at Bunnings, we may not have had the opportunity to talk about our lives, our animals and the challengers that exist by simply…
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Building a new house from scratch
Well here goes, as suggested by Jason and Isobel, I'm starting a discussion/gallery of our dream home. I've posted a few photo's of the build process and I'm happy to continue to include photo's of other stages of our build if anyone is interested in a particular process and perhaps how we went about doing it, given the…
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Damper for Roof Vent
To all in the Workshop, need help!! I have purchased the Edmonds Windmaster 300mm roof vent from Bunnings and installed it into our cathedral ceiling roof but we now want to put a powered damper on it to close it off in winter thus eliminating having to climb up on a ladder to do it. Have contacted Edmonds directly and…
