Posts Tagged ‘building inspection Sydney’
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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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 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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Heritage Style Restoration in Burwood Heights 1 In 2009 we were engaged to construct a veneer extension of a Federation house in Burwood Heights NSW. The rear of the house was cladding/lined with the dreaded toxic asbestos plus the internal ceilings as well. The area was greater than 10 square metres and a licenced asbestos…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 9 A particular part of the maintenance work last year was on one of the two shoulders of the main gates. The treated pine curved top rail was rotten to the core. So I utilised a piece of old clear American Oregon from my personal stock of timber for recycling…
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