Well from August to November and we had not heard from our energy assessment person so I contacted Tony Butters from Lateral Drafting, .104A Invermay Road, Invermay, Tas, 7248. Tel:03 6326 6100. Fax 03 6326 5473. Email info@lateraldrafting.com.au . Web:www.lateraldrafting.com.au Tony is a memebr of ABSA (Association of Building Sustainabilty Assessors) and uses AccuRate software to [...]
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Another dramatic change to the garden is the removal of a large willow tree from the very back of the garden. The rear neighbour was concerned that one of the five large trunks might come down on his house in high winds and that the roots were damaging his yard. A word with local council [...]
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Slowly the bedroom is taking shape. The clay paint has been applied and now the floor has the first coat of Volvox Hard Oil Wax finish applied and is drying.
It is applied with a scraper at the rate of 20ml per square metre.
We used a whole 300ml to coat the floor this morning applying volvox with [...]
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After only two weeks on the market an offer was made on our Bathurst house. We had valued the house at 249,000 which was quite a bit less than it was worth a few months ago but more than most Real Estate agents had valued it at. the offer came in only just under the [...]
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back garden western side July 08
There is something very satisfying in creating something from what others may call garbage, or might end up at the tip. This is what happened with our second raised veggie bed. The first one was already in the garden when we bought the house. Languishing under a mountain of weeds [...]
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Well at long last I managed to paint bedroom 2 with the Volvox Clay Paint. Two coats on the ceiling of Mont Blanc white and two coats of Ivory on the walls.
Very impressed. Goes on smoothly and dries to a great even coverage. The three of the walls were new plasterboard and one was already [...]
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