Posts Tagged ‘Environmental issues’
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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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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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 Rosehill 1 In early 2012, a potential client googled my services for working on a Victorian house in Rosehill. The Victorian house was previously the subject feature in the now-old Dulux paint heritage colours brochure. The quote was for: At the right front of the house attach 1 # existing lace…
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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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