Posts by Michael Como
Heritage Style Restoration 16
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 3 21st OCTOBER 2017 At the turn of the century, in fact, the millennium, I was contracted to build an extension by my favourite client(s) that would blend in with the existing style of the grand house incorporating the particular external features of the existing dwelling, resulting in a bigger…
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Yesterday a gentleman mobile voice called yours truly asking for a quote to build a custom house in Luddenham NSW. Luddenham is a suburb in the greater west of our great city Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 42 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district [ pretty much the same distance…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 2 At the house in Strathfield, previous owners installed expensive wallpaper in what is essentially the ballroom. Some years back, ( not sure when circa 2000) the owner ( my client) stripped off the wallpaper and found evidence of previously removed timber decoration above a picture rail. The ballroom still…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 1 In 1998, I started working in/on a house in STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA and as of July 2017 still there. According to my calculations, that’s nearly 20 years. Why has it taken that long? The house was on an estate reportedly built by a grandson of the founder of…
Read MoreNoise Attenuation of dwellings 3
When noise attenuating windows in dwellings and similar buildings the bigger the void between panels of glass the better the reverberation and noise attenuation within that space and less noise is transmitted through the inner glass and into the room. Step one change the existing old float or modern thin glass in the existing external…
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