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Smoke Alarms
Australian Building Codes require smoke alarms to be installed into new granny flats which are no bigger than 60 sqm here in Sydney, NSW, Australia. In NSW licenced electricians have to install smoke alarms and self-certify as well. Note the photo is only an example. I am an NSW licenced building surveyor or basically a building…
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Heritage Style Restoration 32
Heritage Style Restoration is Dying in Tassie T ’was 24/11/2019 and the ABC News on MSN 9 reported restoring heritage properties is a dying art based on information coming out of Tasmania Australia. The highlight was Mr Green who is a bushman, and one of only a handful of tradespeople left in Australia who know…
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Heritage Style Restoration 31
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 11 Well back to Strathfield this last month in October 2019, since 1998 I have carried out a lot of maintenance work there at the house in Strathfield. Wood rots and needs to be mended with tender loving care, if not replaced. In early October 2019, I returned to Strathfield…
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Heritage Style Restoration 30
Ramsay 1 – Future Heritage Style Restoration? A heritage-listed custom-built homestead called Yasmar (Ramsay spelt backwards) was built in Haberfield NSW 2045 (that’s the Haberfield of Heritage Style Restoration 27 – 29 ) in the late 1850s on a big lot of land for the family of Alexander and Mary Learmonth (nee Ramsay), the first…
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Heritage Style Restoration 29
Heritage Style Restoration in Haberfield 3 Federation Style construction of dwellings in Australia is circa 1900. Haberfield NSW Australia is labelled the Federation Style suburb. In 1916, Mr Richard Stanton, a developer of Haberfield and Roseberry, imported an entire timber bungalow from Pasadena Hills, Los Angeles, USA and assembled it in the Sydney suburb of…
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Building Green Homes 31
Here below is an interesting post by Jean Cambridge on 13/3/2019 at 21:27 in SMART HOME comments and I have labelled it as above! Aside from grasses and flowers, trees can also make homes desirable and worthwhile. Nonetheless, maintaining trees call for extra time and endeavours which some householders do not have. Apart from that,…
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Heritage Style Restoration 28
Heritage Style Restoration in Haberfield 2 Federation Style construction of dwellings in Australia is circa 1900. Haberfield NSW Australia is labelled the Federation Style suburb. In 1916, Mr Richard Stanton, a developer of Haberfield and Roseberry, imported an entire timber bungalow from Pasadena Hills, Los Angeles, USA and assembled it in the Sydney suburb of…
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Heritage Style Restoration 27
Heritage Style Restoration in Haberfield 1 Federation Style construction of dwellings in Australia is circa 1900. Haberfield NSW Australia is labelled the Federation Style suburb. In 1916, Mr Richard Stanton, a developer of Haberfield and Roseberry, imported an entire timber bungalow from Pasadena Hills, Los Angeles, USA and assembled it in the Sydney suburb of Roseberry.…
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Sealing in Your Ceiling 4
In 1916, Mr Richard Stanton, a developer, imported an entire timber bungalow from Pasadena Hills, Los Angeles, USA and assembled it in the Sydney suburb of Roseberry NSW AUSTRALIA. The subject house is a solid double brick Californian Bungalow circa 1919. One of the decorative ceilings had seen better days and was buckling/collapsing. Times had…
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Heritage Style Restoration 26
Coogee Back to Coogee in 2014 [the first blog in Coogee was Heritage Style Restoration 7], the sandstone façade being [close to the Pacific Ocean corrosive elements] was in a sad, sorry state as per the photo: [By the way that’s my Aussie straight 6, 4 litre Ford Falcon]. Also, the deck was cracked,…
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Heritage Style Restoration 25
Heritage Style Restoration in Burwood Heights 2 Back at Burwood Heights, another facet of the building restoration was the opening up of the front veranda. This included: 6 no. new western red cedar window sashes, stripping paint off the brick walls, treating the wood affected by dry and wet rot, mending of the damaged and…
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Building Green Worldwide 2
Bosco verticale! [by the way that’s italian] Forest vertical or should we say vertical forest. It’s been done in Sydney and Milan. Developers propose to build more vertical forests in Waterloo [Sydney] and in Paris. People’s homes i.e. their units in multi-storey high-rise architecturally and structural engineer-designed concrete buildings have a forest on their balconies…
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