Posts Tagged ‘stormwater management harvest’
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 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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