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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 2 At the house in Strathfield, previous owners installed expensive wallpaper in what is essentially the ballroom. Some years back, ( not sure when circa 2000) the owner ( my client) stripped off the wallpaper and found evidence of previously removed timber decoration above a picture rail. The ballroom still…

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Heritage Style Restoration 14

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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 1 In 1998, I started working in/on a house in STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA and as of July 2017 still there. According to my calculations, that’s nearly 20 years. Why has it taken that long? The house was on an estate reportedly built by a grandson of the founder of…

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Heritage Style Restoration 13

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Woolloomooloo Restore The previous look of a 100-year-old Federation house with a veranda enclosure before  2010 is as per this photo, (as per usual toxic asbestos material was present and I cannot believe some countries are still making asbestos products)- I initially missed out on the $25,000.00 contract. However, the property owner discovered the lower tenderer…

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Water Harvesting

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Our household water supply is potentially from various sources, i.e. it may be piped (reticulated) from storage dams, obtained from boreholes tapping into underground water, or collected off rooftops and held in rainwater tanks. Water quality varies. Public water supplies are treated to eliminate contaminants, whilst bore water may need filters to make it suitable…

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Household Water Use

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Water use around the country varies according to climate, nature of the water catchment, infrastructure costs, and resource availability. More water is used in hot summer than in winter. Interestingly, the higher the residential density within towns and cities, the lower the water use per household. Bigger residential properties use disproportionally more water, (swimming pools…

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