Grass Trees
Thanks so much Fu! I've never been so excited about a plant/tree. I'll have to post a pic once it's in. It stands about 50cm tall and has the start…
Grass Trees
Thanks Fu Manchu!
I was thinking about planting my grass tree in a raised planter box close to our pool. Do you think the odd splash of saltwater will hurt…
Grass Trees
Sorry to drop in on the topic. I've just bought my first grass tree as an architechtural plant for near our pool. I'd love to know the advice for its…
solar panels
To be honest, I would be very wary. I just searched ecovation and I think they are one of these fly by night companies who pop up and then disappear…
Cost of Compass inground pools?
Hi everyone
Looking at putting in an inground pool in time for Summer and thus far we like Compass Pools Vogue 8.2 and X-Trainer 8.2.
Has anyone recently installed a Compass Pool?…
Solar vs electricity
Not really wanting to walk into this debate about whether PV is useless or not, whether the govt is peddling the wrong product or whether you're better to curb your…
Ariston Washing Machine
Hi
Didn't know Hardly Normal owned Ariston!
We've had our Ariston front loader for approx 12 months and I absoluely love it.
Had a S!7ps@n front…
1 kW PV Solar Power system - fully installed for $749
Hi Darryl
Re: deposit - we were quite happy to pay a deposit. What I was referring to was the companies that require you to pay the full cost and then…
1kW Solar Power Systerms - fully installed for $749
I've posted in your other discussion thread, so won't repeat what I've said here. Just one question: Shouldn't you know the ins and outs of the product you are flogging??…
1 kW PV Solar Power system - fully installed for $749
What technology are you using? Where are your panels sourced from?
Just want to warn those thinking about Solar PV. After exhaustive research, we recently had a 2kw system installed on…
gas point to alfresco price
We got two additional gas points inside (for gas heater) and one to alfresco for $550.
cheers
Uses for leftover bricks?
I'm fairly sure that any leftover materials are the property of the builder - says so in the standard HIA contract, doesn't it?
Builder delays and substandard work query
Hi all
Our home completion date was approx 6 weeks ago and the builder/his subbies have been on site for about 8 days since that time. We understand the builder has…
corniceless rooms, i want them , i dont want to pay for them
Hi there
We've almost completed our build and opted for square set cornice in all living areas - it cost us an additional $300 = well worth it and cheap if…
Cost effective Flyscreen for bifold doors??
Thanks Ed. I'll take a look at the website.
cheers
Michelle
Cost effective Flyscreen for bifold doors??
Hi everyone - I have two rather large timber bifold doors in our new house and while they are lovely, the flies and mozzies in the house will not be.
Can…
PV costs
Those prices sound very unlikely. A 1kw system works out at approx $4000 after the rebate and in our region generates about 8kw per day - obviously less during…
add'l cost for add'l solar panel due to north orientation
That's bizarre - it should cost no more to simply move it from north to west, unless they are actually adding an extra panel to compensate for it being on…
Contract says waffle slab, got stumps!
Whether you're better off financially with stumps or not is really beside the point. If the slab wasn't constructed according to the engineers drawings, it won't be passed and you…
Land. How much did you pay?
Come to Hopetoun , Victoria - we paid $12,000 for three adjoining houseblocks - 1 acre.
Great little town in Victoria's Mallee.
Flashy Entrance Door
Ed's right - the Pivot doors can damage little hands - it happened to our daughter. We were planning on a Corinthian Pivot door before she had hers jammed in…
$900 for off-white mortar for 22square house
Off white mortar was standard for us, but we opted for white mortar - an extra $660 for a 35 sq single storey home.
$1900 sounds like a rip off. A…
National Builders or Dennis Family
Hi there
We're a few weeks from completion with NBG. Feel free to go back through my posts, but suffice to say, if I had my time over, I would NOT…
AGHHHHHHHHHHH! Bloody builders!!!!
Tell me about it!
I just found an email we sent to the builder back in the first week of November advising him that the bathroom plans he sent us had…
AGHHHHHHHHHHH! Bloody builders!!!!
I'm almost at my wits end with this builder! Very early in the contract, we advised the builder of a change in vanity basins we required. We advised this in…
Is this expensive for render?
Gee - talk about variation in pricing. We just got almost the same amount of render as House-To-Be. The plasterer charged us an hourly rate and it only cst about…
Where are all the people that are building in the country???
We're building in Hopetoun, North West Victoria - the middle of nowhere. We're 1.5 hours to the nearest town.
Building the NBG Kingsford and fingers crossed, only a few weeks off…
Rendering - how much?
We just had half the front of our house rendered for $270. The plasterer/renderer said it worked out better for us to go by his hourly rate plus materials…
Who's responsible for backfilling around a waffle pod?
This is so frustrating - i just checked our contract and it reads:
- Class MD Engineered concrete waffle pod slab as per Engineer's report of x date $6640.
- Provide additional…
Who's responsible for backfilling around a waffle pod?
Hi, our builder made us have a waffle pad - which ended up adding a LOT more to our contract price. It's now come time to backfill the soil around…
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