We are looking to extend our house and are having to choose between going to a major builder and getting them to do everything vs going to our own architect,…

We want to renovate our house. We need:
- advice on what is feasible from a engineering perspective
- advise on how to design the house/drawing up the plans
- the plan…

Our back garden has a large liquid amber tree which drops copious amounts of leaves in autumn (which I tend to leave for the kids to play in rather than…

We have an area of our backyard that is in part shade. It appears to be the favourite haunt of wandering trad (Tradescantia fluminensis, also previously known as wandering…

We are in a suburban area and a developer has bought some properties near us and is seeking to (in our view) over develop them (i.e., put in much higher…

We currently live in a house with some flaws but in a good location. There is currently an inappropriate development proposed for near us. We were looking to…

Wouldn't they still have the problem of heating up inside the roof (and so therefore preventing insulation from being laid over the top of them)? Are the expensive to…

We have downlights in our kitchen area and I don't like them for several reasons (seem to add heat to an already hot house, they prevent insulation covering the roof,…

Is it easy enough to reuse if we renovate?
Also I we have double brick walls but these just have a cavity in them. Is it worth insulating the cavity…

I have an older house and we may be renovating at some stage in the next few years. The house does not have air conditioning and has been really…

I have painted some sheets of wood with standard acrylic paint (which has then dried). I have found that when I stack the sheets against each other the painted…

The issue would be is that would the native fish eat enough mosquitos to reduce the population (beyond what the water source would add)?

I can get a normal car down the drive way and reverse it back up. It is however tight enough that you don't have a huge amount of leeway…

We have a property with a large amount of greenery down the back (which I like). The problem is that it seems to attract hordes of mosquitos from around…

We don’t have a place to park our cars. Our house is built upon a sloping block and has a driveway on which you could park a car (but…

We have a narrow driveway at our place that we can’t really use (it is so narrow that reversing out means that it is hard not to scrap the car).…

We have two bathrooms in our house, one being a smallish en suite and the other being a rather larger bathroom/toilet/shower.
We have a perpetual problem with black mould growing in…

I have salvaged some thin sheet metal that I want to use for a hobby project. I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way of flattening it…

How much would be reasonable for a regular pest inspection in suburban Sydney (i.e., one that you get done every year or so to check for termites - not a…

We have interior paint peeling around our house and I am uncertain of the problem. I was keen to get someone out to advise me what is going wrong,…

It is a brick based with what I think is rendering on top, which has then been painted.

In several locations over our house (including in the ceiling in some areas) we are having problems with paint cracking (as in the picture below). I was wondering if…

We have a home that is about 100 years old in Sydney. We seem to have a problem with mould in both our bathrooms, with it growing extensively on…

I was wondering what the difference was between fence and interior paints? I wanted to buy some paint for hobby work (colouring saw dust to make flock; painting timber…

Managed to get a big bag of the red/dark stuff but when I add it to paint and dry it out it goes a khaki colour. Was wondering if…

I have a bucket of that ghastly mission brown paint downstairs. I was wondering if there was a way to make it into a plainer brown paint - I…

I am doing some hobby projects and am looking for very cheap acrylic paints in a number of colours (brown, green, yellow etc) in the Sydney area (I am at…

I was wanting to cut at an approximate 45 degree angle with my jigsaw but it doesn't have an adjustable foot. As I only need an approximate angle, is…

Was wanting to use it to make modelling flock. Would be happy to use other material for this but apparently saw dust is the standard.
Went to the local timber…

I am wanting to get a bag of saw dust. I was wondering whether anyone knew where to get this? I live at Turramurra (in Sydney).