are you commenting at all on their quality of product and its suitability for the climate here?? is there something i should know??
I was looking for a specific type of…

Gday,
does anyone know where/if i can buy any of the OzBreed grasses in Queensland?? wholesale or retail?
particularly Dianella king Alfred (caerulea)
cheers

try Craft building company
not sure if they do new builds but i had a reno done by them and they were excellent
infoau@craft-projects.com

greenstock nursery will have them

any suggestions for organic lawn fertilisers that can be used that dont cause the dog to dig holes looking for the smell??
blood and bone and organic extra are out
seasol is…

http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/docs/planning ... 02-033.pdf
a building tribunal decision detailling why a double garage wasnt approved on a small lot

it is all bullsh
there are blocks in north lakes that are 350sqm or less with double garages on them.
just zero lot your garage and you fit it easily and within…

the second last photo is of the release valve for the pipes that connect into you water tank. if it doesnt rain for ages the water in the gravity…

yeah i wouldnt be concerned either. Plantation are getting 300 houses out of council this week so they cant be all that bad. And they have 60 on the go…

Has anyone been through a maintenance check and if so what sort of things did the builders agree to fix??
Im not sure how picky to get eg cracked cornices (hairline)…

i would agree with littlechook
keep going to site and keep ringing them every day about issues you are worried about, write down what they say (even better email everything) and…

from memory it was 2mm galv shs 50 x 50 (could have been wider though 50x 75 rhs even, did it 3 yrs ago) it spanned 3-3.5m and had…

Maali,
we built the castella (completed last August)
we love the house it it a fantastic design for what we wanted and they are value for money in my opinion.
if…

grout colour change was only about 100 bucks from memory through plantation

Yes i have
it worked very well
i built it close to the ground so choose steel to prevent rot/termites etc etc
i used galv angle (bolted to concrete slab,steel thickness=6-7mm) instead of…

you could just get some rockcoat qrender and use that it is designed to go on pretty thin. it is pretty much sand and cement mix i think and…

we fitted all of ours and left a jbox for garden lighting
i suppose they could get pinched????

They are expensive
i bought the under cupboard fluoro downlights for 39 buck each and all it is is another wire pee light and the wires are run through the cupboard…

Has anyone looked into any of these houses or has anyone signed up or built one????
http://www.kubehomes.com.au/

sorry but the house we built (castella) turned out really well and we couldnt be happier with it. We had a leak in the alfresco roof but the…

we built with plantation in north lakes. we had 7 supervisors and most were duds , the one good one we had has left the company so i cant…

there are some plants in here that you might like too
this mob are in griffin and caboolture
http://www.stockadenursery.com.au/tropical-plants.htm

Does anyone have any experience growing pandanus pedunculatus and if so does anyone know anything about treating root rot in their prop roots and what effect this might have on…

Sort of, in brisbane
Pandanus, bromeliads, dianellas, zoysia, cordylines, bizmarcks etc etc

we built out first house when we were both 22. moved into our second build last august at 29
now into the dirty thirties...........wooot wooot!!!

the tiler i used said the porcelain are easier to cut as they are harder and fracture easily but some times not straight so there is more risk of waste.
the…

450's 48sqm brisbane

in Qld some of the big companies are paying their renderers $23 sqm

check out rockcote.com.au they have heaps of paints for masonry

i have polished porcelain in the bathrooms and they are not slippery, at least ot any more so than ceramics. we got the builder to do the wet…