Hi,
I was searching for some information about Solar panels here in SA on Home One, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for, so apologies if this is the…

As far as our builder went we were instructed that the stormwater HAD to be done once the roof/guttering was complete because if flooding occurred and we hadn't done it…

We've been in our house for 3 years now and we have a Beam Ducted system that was done by Smart Systems in SA, we have no complaints about the…

Hi Pellana,
I'm not sure about the wind factor with Ziptraks, we do get windy conditions but I think it would be far less that where you are, I've seen them…

Hi Dani,
Welcome, I'm not sure if there are other ways of uploading photos but I put mine on imageshack, then use a link in this forum, I think there are…

Hi TomCat,
We had them put in yesterday and they look fantastic, in the end we got Robertsons Blinds (Larry) to do them, his quote was the best of anyone's and…

Hello Fellow South Aussies,
I haven't posted on Homeone for quite a while now as we built in 2009 with Fairmont and have now been in almost 3 years, my how…

Can't really help you with prices now as we had ours done about 2 and a half years ago, but the only thing I would do differently is get the…

I'll see if I can rig a rope up somehow, only problem I need to get on the back section of the roof and it's about 30 mtrs from front…

Thanks for that.
They look interesting I'll have a look at where the tec screws are and I probably wouldn't need many, with the benefit of hindsight I probably would have…

Thanks for that the roof has a 25deg pitch.
I would only get up there on a nice calm dry day, I remember when the house was built the roof was…

We have a problem with birds sitting on our TV aerial and "pooping" all over the our dark colourbond roof, I was worried that over time it would "eat away"…

We've got one of those are it's very good, also great not to have another tap, just get nice filtered water through our NICE tap

We got our vacuum from Smart Systems and as it's over 12 months ago I emailed (with the information above) to them to ask what their advise is NOW as…

Thanks for the advise FU

Instead of starting a new thread I thought I'd hijack this old one.
We are going to do the landscaping/lawn thing soon and under the lawn have subsurface irrigation, my question…

Hi Drayto,
I didn't have a specific thread for our house, I did put a few images up here and there throughout this SA section.
Good luck

Our house is 336m2 and we have 8 downpipes our initial design had a downpipe on the post right in the middle but we got them to change it so…

We visited the display home that our home was based on with our paper work, we were there for about 3 hours (because we have trouble making our minds up)…

I have put a post in the landscaping area about SA, link below.
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=41298

We are currently looking for a landscaper in the Adelaide Metro Area, so far we have had one quote which was about twice what we thought it would be we…

I took photos of everything as well, I took them from each angle in each room when the frame went up and have recently used them to help with hanging…

Beer and Chips and MORE BEER!

Tonight we had
Tandoori Chicken Mix
Lean pieces of tandoori chicken, pieces of kesari chicken and chicken tikka
Chicken Butter Masala
Boneless tandoori chicken slices cooked with tomatoes, herbs and spices and finished…

is this retaining on your boundary for putting a fence on?
We did this but had a "plinth" poured all up about 50mtrs (I think from memory) and varying depths and…

We just wanted another one because the floor of the garage is not as clean as the rest of the house and didn't want to get the other one dirty…

After being in our new house and using the ducted vacuum for about 8 months I thought I would give a brief synopsis of what we think about it, firstly…

Hello Again Lex,
Our builder must have just had an arrangement with Origin because they were the ones that billed us first we had AGL before we disconnected we demolished (we…

We demolished and rebuilt last year, we, like you, had to get the gas DISconnected, but the builder did the rest as far as connecting it up again and making…

We were really shocked at the price of blinds, We do have a lot, 18 windows of various sizes plus the sliding doors and a separate door all with blinds,…