S.O.B.S (Slow Owner Building Syndrome)

Apparently Christmas is not too far away….. again…. Yep the house was going to be a two year project……three and a half years ago!!!  As I gaze at acres of plywood that needs to be sanded, undercoated and painted my mind drifts. When you are Owner Building it seems that time stretches, in the words [...]

Stepping out !!

After approx two years of having a dodgy set of steps made from pine decking and 4 x 2 treated pine joists taken up from the old deck we decided it was time to upgrade to a set that befitted the new deck. Enter Lee, a neighbour of ours who created our gabion and old [...]

Decking – the story reaches its finale

  Back in May I started part one of the journey or our deck and that we had decided to purchase a Wood Plastic Composite decking product called Futurewood. Finally in September after much angst and mucking about I managed to finish our deck. The supplier on the mainland (Australia) was great but there were [...]