The downpipes are no big deal, ours were disconnected for ages, you just get more runoff...
The shed looks great!

I got it through a wholesaler, so prices are massively disparate to sourcing from a retailer

Gave up... They're less than 10mm different, and you stop looking after a while...

Doubt it, I've already been in touch with Beaumont and they don't have any of the batch left

The entire bathroom need to be ripped out to do it properly...
I've asked for waterproofing certificates. I know they don't get them issued, because they don't waterproof to the…

The soil was cheap... About $900 for 45 cubic metres...

Billy with the height extenders

After our shower tiling saga during construction, we've now got a leak in the first floor bathroom over our living room...
To say I'm hacked off would be putting it…

Floor creak is normal, because they rarely put the fasteners at the correct spacing, or use the correct number.
We've only got 2-3 creaks upstairs and they're not in areas that…

Love the kitchen colour scheme!! We've got twin kitchens hehehe

JM? I'm calling our maintenance inspector tomorrow about it, because I really want to avoid them having to rip out the family room ceiling if I can.
Also going to…

We've got a leak coming from our upstairs bathroom and staining the ceiling, but can't get my service lady to return an email or phone call...
About to go to head…

One thing not to forget is two way light switches over places like the stairwell... We've had to use a smart plug in the ceiling for turning our chandelier on…

We've got a Dyson V10 downstairs and a Xiaomi Roborock S50 upstairs.... Great combination

A Stanley knife won't scratch the glass - I did some of ours as a occupancy certificate requirement, and when I took it off, no scratches

I reckon the drawers on your island look heaps better in white, and use the side that faces your living room as a feature...

Sonos, Bose also do built-in Alexa, which are better quality again

looking great - make sure that you inspect the brickwork before the brickies leave - the Moonshadow is a film face brick - i.e. it is a painted finish.
If they've…

First of two 15 tonne loads of soil

Back yard landscaping started today... Nearly 30 cubic metres of cr@p that Metricon left behind is now gone.
Tomorrow our lawn soil comes in, all 30 cubic metres of it!!

I'm hearing you!

LoL, i see what you did there!
This is a temporary solution. We're going to build another garage in the back yard to house the toys, workbenches, etc, so the…

I cracked the **** over the entire paint job, our P38 joint on the stairs, cracked tiles, scratched windows, a kitchen bench top that won't remain joined - now up…

Before I went to NZ, finished putting together our bookcases in the rumpus room
Need to get another unit from IKEA as we have more books than we remembered...

A big day in the garage today after a work week in NZ.
I've had all my power tools, cupboards and drawers in my mates factory for the past 5 years.
I…

Don't worry about the upstairs flooring, that material is waterproof as hell...
Ours got rained on for about 10 days, and swell up anywhere

We also didn't pay for our island bench top to be 3m long, as it's the size of a sheet of Caesarstone, so in theory we saved them money but…

Are you getting timber or concrete retaining walls? I did ours in concrete, heaps longer lasting then timber and cheaper