Heritage Style Restoration 34

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Heritage Style Restoration in Ashfield 1 I find it weird, the homeowner and architect say the Council heritage listed the house some years back. However, I have not found it listed in the appropriate legislation as a heritage item. This will need further research. The architect claims to have had headaches submitting the documentation for…

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Mould

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Rain, rain, rain, La Niña > mould, mould, mould here in Sydney. La Niña is continuously ensuring large parts of eastern Australia are drenched with water over the summer, autumn and winter, according to the experts, the wet weather bomb is likely to continue into summer 22/23. Currently, as I write there is a big storm…

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Smoke Alarms

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Australian Building Codes require smoke alarms to be installed into new granny flats which are no bigger than 60 sqm here in Sydney, NSW, Australia.  In NSW licenced electricians have to install smoke alarms and self-certify as well. Note the photo is only an example. I am an NSW licenced building surveyor or basically a building…

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Heritage Style Restoration 31

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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 11 Well back to Strathfield this last month in October 2019, 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. In early October 2019, I returned to Strathfield…

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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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