Home Improvement With Wooden Ceilings 2

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Friends of this blog site started commenting on the 6th of December 2022. Today, the 26th of December 2022 is the official day of the blog’s publishment. The sloping wooden ceiling had not been painted for some twenty years and was well overdue for embellishment. The wooden ceiling is in the rear of the house…

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Alucobond Removal & Replacement 2 of 3

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The NSW Government has introduced the Project Remediate Pattern Book which is the best-practice resource to help consultants replace combustible cladding such as alucobond. The book is a package containing a guidance document and technical drawings. The building in the picture is an apartment building – people’s homes. It was Project Remediate’s Global Façade Consultant [GFC],…

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Fix a Blocked Sewer 1 of 2

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After all that rain in early 2022, I noticed my sewer trap was overflowing. The next thing you know the waste in the bathroom was gurgling. Then I realised there must be a blockage of some sort in the sewer line, so I called the licensed plumber [my son], but he did not show up.…

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Woodworking Skills 2

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Recently on 31/12/2021, I was commissioned by a family member to cut slots in the top of sample blocks of wood to enable a table number card with a menu to stand upright view for an upcoming wedding party. The slot had to be on the rounded edge of the block. On 1/1/2022 I made…

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Ultra High Rise Project 2 of 2

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Australian Ultra High Rise [UHR] Development Key Transition Drives UHR development is generating differing views and unhappiness among all types of Australians. Suburbs with leafy green canopies are transformed by skyscrapers jutting into the skyline. ’Fears leafy suburbs will become concrete jungles’ (ABC 2019). ‘We’re trading backyards for balconies and courtyards, and this has resulted…

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