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Heritage Style Restoration 21
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 8 Yes indeed, 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. Pet dogs chew up my good work and I have to mend wood or take protective…
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Heritage Style Restoration 20
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 7 It was 2010 when I was carrying out maintenance work at the Strathfield property when I realised the treated pine timber picket fence I erected in 2008 was rotting! So it was rotting within 2 years. The rot was despite the use of anti-rot treatments purchased at the hardware…
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Heritage Style Restoration 19
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 6 In the year 2014, my favourite clients, commissioned me to tear down a cheaply made powder coated rusted steel rose arch and build a new one out of timber. I took it upon myself to sketch-artist draw the rose arch on two elevations, photograph and text it to the…
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Heritage Style Restoration 18
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 5 My favourite clients again commissioned me in 2008 to build their architect-designed, Council-approved brand new fence sympathetic to the period style of the house. The corner block has approximately 70 metres of boundary against the council infrastructure footpath and crossover. The work involved: demolition of the existing ankle-high brick…
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Heritage Style Restoration 17
Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 4 Circa 2004, I was contacted and engaged once again by my favourite clients at Strathfield to build a 3 no. car carport ( as in Figure 1) complementing, blending in with the existing style of the dwellings’ external looks, roof configurations, and roof materials (i.e. tiles and sheet metal…
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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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Quote a Custom Build House
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 15
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 14
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…
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Noise 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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Noise Attenuation of dwellings 2
When noise attenuating doors in dwellings and similar buildings you might encounter gorgeous leadlight panels in the door and adjacent side lights. As well as installing aluminium beads that have inbuilt seals and door bottom seals shown in Noise Attenuation of dwellings 1, a certain degree of noise attenuation can be achieved by installing additional…
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Noise Attenuation of dwellings 1
Noise attenuation of doors in dwellings and similar buildings can be achieved by installing a range of products made by an Australian company called RAVEN. I have personally installed them on many an occasion. An aluminium bead that has inbuilt seals such as in the sketch is installed onto the door jamb’s sides and head.…
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