What an absolute pain! Surely they need to make roofspaces trafficable for future work/maintenance etc.

What's the best way to attach "scotia", the small skirting boards that you can't really drill through?

Is it recommended to add Zeolite and Bentonite after the lawn has been laid?

any idea if these brad nail guns can be used to punch a small nail through brick/concrete walls for skirting boards?

I've got these - (premium lighting ruby)
happy with them, nice and bright, good colour etc.

Is it easy to go from bullnose to flat later? I'm guessing not - but worth asking.
i'll post pics of mybullnose stairs with carpet when i'm home

So since then - i've done this twice.
First time dad welded a frame, and we installed the gate. Was a lot of mucking about and finish was ok.
We've…

Favourite number is 7, and got number 7
Happy with that.

By the builders or their contractors themselves most likely

How did you go? Keen to see the outcome!

FYI - most of the links above don't work anymore/out of stock etc. and Bunnings don't sell it anymore.
I went to Ikea and spotted this:

Karndean Frosted Birch is what we got (and pictured above)
very happy with it so far, but it's only been ~1 month or so.

They don't recess on the ground floor either which is concrete slab.

Our laundry plumbing was in the wrong spot - but it was picked up when the cabinets were going in, and rectified.
With regards to the tiling, I was worried…

Yup, our tiling job was absolutely shocking by 101, got it resolved numerous times and they still didn't get it right. In the end, the job was taking far too…

So I must say i've been pretty impressed with 101 and how responsive they've been with regards to getting the final items completed. Still a few stragglers left to resolve,…

Here you go

We have the same plastic thing where vinyl meets carpet - not the biggest fan of it, but you get used to it.. would be very interesting to see if…

great stuff John. I don't know how you do this every year to the exact date!

We got our karndean vinyl planks installed last week by Carpet Court. Very very happy with it. Pics can be seen in my build thread. Not the best pics as…

Not the best quality - still in the process of cleaning it up so floorboards are a bit dusty.. Got our massive TV in one of the photo's there.

So we're moving in tomorrow! Most of the furniture is in, painting and flooring complete etc!
Very happy with how the floors turned out, and apart from the painter getting a…

Parents built with lifestyle homes about 22 years ago and had the same problem. The towels going on the towel rail had even started to wear away at the plaster.…

We built with 101R, and ended up using Stegbar for the windows as it was the cheapest quote we could find. Haven't really had much of a chance to use…

I’m looking at some internal shutters – my choices are the Newhaven (PVC) shutters from Boardwalk, or the aluminium shutters from ABC..
Pricing is quite similar, and I’m happy to…

Thanks Zaxon! I've sent off an email asking for a quote! Looks like they've done a good job!

Bump - no recommendations?

Got keys! Still some work left to do, mostly minor, but the two major pieces are in progress and due to be completed by Monday.
Just feel relieved, can't…

So we laid Empire Zoysia at the previous house and whilst it looked great initially - when our Labrador arrived, it went to crap.
The slow growing nature of it…

So apparently still on track for Friday handover... fingers crossed everything lines up well! Only got the final invoice on Friday evening so now the bank has to scramble to…