UPDATE:
We ended up paying for plain grey concrete which was essentially the cost of materials with no labour. The chemicals helped a bit and luckily the worst patches are not…

4 Litres of paint is enough to do 2 coats of an average bedroom. Our house is a largish 3 x 2 however I've needed nearly 50 litres of paint.

UPDATE: Our concreter went at looked at the job and has apologised. He is going to attempt to improve the exposure of the stones using some sort of machinery and…

Laminex licorice linea is really nice but also dark, otherwise Laminex Stipple Seal is a mocha-ish brown

Well, the only plus we have is that we haven't paid for it yet.
Hopefully that can work to our advantage.

We just had our driveway acid washed and were assured all would come up well....
AND IT LOOKS THE SAME!
We're contacting the concreter again to let him know it still looks…

Paving on sand was $45 pm installed and aggregate was $80 pm, however we did get one of the more expensive mixes. Pretty standard price for where we are.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I guess now we just have to convince the concreter of this! The concrete in the third pic I posted was the same mix installed…

We have recently had an exposed aggregate driveway installed, however it has not yet been sealed. We are not happy with the level of exposure, as well as a large…

Thanks for the quick reply Davinci.
We will get on to the driveway guy tomorrow and see if he can do anything, otherwise we'll give it a go ourselves.

We've just come home from our house to find that some one (kids?) has picked quartz stones out of our new aggregate driveway leaving holes and attempted to write a…

I have 60cm x 30cm polished porcelain tiles in an off-white colour. They are quite reflective and at $63m2 give a glossy look, but nowhere near the cost of glass.…

We will be installing jarrah skirting to our living area over the floor tiles. It is a double brick home, so skirting is not supplied by the builder.
The area…

We have textured porcelain tiles (600 x 300) which were $48 m2, plus laying cost of $45 m2, plus some floor prep.
Total of $109 m2
(includes glue, grout, screeding, filling…

I would check:
- lights/powerpoints/appliances are working
- window frames for scratches
- finish of cornices and bulkheads
- paintwork, particularly around door hinges and other fiddly areas
- stone/laminex for scratches
- tiles for marks…

I personally would not use polished porcelain on floors because I can't be bothered with cleaning marks. I also didn't worry about porcelain in bathroom because we didn't want to…

Did you get a sample tile of the $40m porcelain?
Porcelain tiles can cost more to lay if they are larger (300 x 600 or 600 x 600), which is the…

I tested mine with balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, undiluted bleach, cordial, beetroot juice, oil, red wine... and scratched them like crazy with a key! Both my wall and floor tiles…

Check with your tile supplier to see if your tile comes in diffrerent sizes. Our living area floor tile is 600 x 300 and so is our kitchen wall tile,…

Get a sample tile of the one you would like to use. I have scratched my porcelain tiles with a key, poured on undiluted bleach, red wine, beetroot juice, and…

When building, the FHOG can only be applied for upon signing of a building contract and the beginning of construction. You are not able to claim it on land or…

We had the choice of living in an ideal location on a smaller block compared to 20 minutes further away in an area with poor resale for the sake of…

Our new house-to-be has a 4m x 4.5m alfresco area in the north east corner with 3.6m x 20m as the backyard, and 4.5m x 20m down the north side…

Woohoo... down to 7.62%

Well, its been 5 days and we still don't have a quote back so I think we might stick with concrete. Before we started building, I didn't even notice what…

We are currently getting a quote on changing to clay tiles because we like the look of them better than the concrete tiles. We intially chose tiles over Colourbond to…

No, I'm in WA so we don't have either of those stores here that I know of. We bought ours from a local store... we were browsing and the couches…

We bought a black leather 2 seater and 3 seater three years ago for $2200 on sale. They have both copped constant wear including people sleeping on them, spilt drinks…

We chose tiles because they were $600 cheaper... we actually thought they were more expensive when we first signed up and weren't going to ask about having tiles as an…

No problem!
We found choosing colours was definitely the hardest part... so many options! We also chose paperbark for our garage door and…