Woodworking Skills 3

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Friends of this blog site started commenting on the 18th of December 2022. Today, the 6th of January 2023 is the official day of the blog’s publishment. Well recently, I made what I call a timber chandelier! A couple of years ago I was in a furniture store here in Greater Sydney and saw a…

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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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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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Heritage Style Restoration 30

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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 27

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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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