Gorgeous plants! Thanks for the recs, but they won't go with the style in our backyard.

Our neighbors have recently built in the rear of their section, which means their house is pretty much in our back yard.
We recently built a raised garden bed and planted…

Hi all,
I live in Melbourne and we've had a very wet winter, and mushrooms have started growing in our shower. Additionally the walls in the bathroom have started 'bubbling'…

Thanks for the reply, just read your 60k step post, you poor things!!!
Yes, i believe its quite damp under our house now, the extension part with concrete slab is fine…

Hi all,
since we bought our house 3 years ago and due to the droughts and recent wet weather in Melbourne, our house has moved a bit. We have quite…

Thanks for that.
I did a dumb girl measure...might be an expensive exercise!!!

With my NZ accent, i probably did say that!
I've remeasured our deck and the new numbers are...
New deck (needing support and framing etc) is 7.3 x 3.3
old deck (needing new…

Really, 5 k is do-able?
No rails, no earth moving. Basically the ground is ready to go. When we looked into doing it ourselves, we just need materials for the new…

Thanks!
the deck is about 50cms off the ground. What other info impacts it?
I had a brief look online and some basic decks were about $10,000-$15,000 for merabu....really?

We were going to build our new deck, but may possible hire someone to build it for us instead.
We're in Melbourne (western suburbs) and need a new deck built 4…

We have a large area of concrete in our backyard that needs to be broken up and removed...
Are there companies that will take the broken up slabs/pieces (depending on what…

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
A lot of really interesting and do-able info there.
You're fabulous!
I've just done some research on your suggestions...so i can buy the…

I'm intrigued by the great results you've had with molasses.
Will it help my roses with aphid infestation, and my vege garden and herbs with caterpillars? These two bugs are the…

Thanks for that!
May is ask who you used and how much is cost?

Hi all,
we have started stage one of many stages in our backyard overhaul.
Basically it requires pulling down and removing a 4x4x2 asbestos shed framing, small decking and above…

Does anyone have any recommendations for asbestos removal of a shed (approx 4m wide x 2 m high) with asbestos cladding in Melbourne (pref Westside)?
What sort of cost is it?

We need to get a good local fencing person, who is reliable and not expensive to replace our fence with a simple paling 1.8 metres high and 16 metres long.
Any…