Even though we have been in the house for 6 months now this is actually the first 3 month maintenance check/fix. We did email them our check list at 3…

We have been in our new home (42+) for a good few months now and have been pretty happy with the end result.
A few things need maintenance (door handles, air-con,…

Our driveway on our new build is only about 8 weeks old and we have only been using it for four weeks. We are starting to see fine cracks in…

Just a quick question for the new home owners. We have our first walk through tomorrow and just want know what are the things we should be looking for besides…

Just about to purchase this unit and thought I would check to see if anyone had any reviews on it ?
We are open minded to any other suggestions... so sell…

Just a quick question .... we are in the midst of building a new home and noted that one of the inside doors had a chip in it about 3…

Hi all,
Just thought I would post an update on the people who say the are trying to create a website for home owners to use to control their build.
I had…

Hi all,
Just thought I would post an update on the people who say the are trying to create a website for home owners to use to control their build.
I had…

Hi Maximus, strange you should mention Evernote because my hubby has been using Evernote for years and swears by it. I know for sure that he does not use…

I posted this in the things you forget section but had no replies. I am going to email them to find out more information.
I was googling around last…

This is so good .. it really makes you stop and think about the things that are really important and things that we could take it or leave it. We…

Thanks so much for all the replies ... you have given us some more food for thought. We will keep you posted on the outcome but we are not going…

Any advice would be great regarding our neighbours tree – Grey Gum.
Our neighbour has a huge gum tree in her property which sits on our back fence. The roots…

We are just starting on building our dream home and are throwing around a couple of ideas and don't know which way to go.
Unfortunately the street we are building in…

Thanks for that but we have payed $1000 deposit already. We did have a second quote and it was the same .. we had to supply the fence.

Is it the norm for demolition company's not to supply safety fences ? We have signed up with a demo company to be told we need to supply the fence.…

Hi Lilac, we are new to this blog stuff so we are still getting our heads around it. Our blog is invite only and the address is

Hi doohan777,
Your post is quite timely as we have signed with Kurmond, now have our plans in to Council and have almost finished the required appointments for everything. We're…

We have been quoted around $130 for each date point. We think this is pretty steep so naturally we want to get a few more quotes. We are building in…

In the process of getting to the end of our tender .... just a couple of questions.
We have a glassing sliding door in our laundry to the outside of the…

We are almost ready to put our names to the tender but can't decide if we should put windows in the garage.
Every house that I have been too has windows…

Hi Lilac,
Thanks for the extra information - everything helps at this stage of the process.
We are considering going back out to see exactly what is included in the standard ranges…

Hi All, we are almost at the deciding stage with Kurmond (we do have a tender). We are just waiting on another tender from another builder to compare.
Lilac, with Kurmond…

bump anyone !

We are in the tender stage at the moment and have been told from our builder (still deciding) that the only choice for us for hot water is electric boosted…

I know no one can give an exact price but just wondering how much it would cost to demolish a 3 bedroom red brick home with no garage (car port)…