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Old 06-10-2006, 06:51 PM   #1
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Hmmm, this is whats left of my spare room, and now our loungeroom looks like this..... We will be eating outside. Oh well, its only till sunday...

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Old 06-10-2006, 06:58 PM   #2
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lol, my dad is a qualified carpenter and in our previous house he always had a project on the go, we used a tempory shower set up outside from the laundary door for like 6 months while he did the barthroom up, it was made out of plywood and had ***** all lighting in there. why is this always the case with what ever kind of tradies always do good work nice and fast for customers but on there own homes every thing is always half finished?

so i know how you feel leojvs and i hope it turns out well

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Old 06-10-2006, 08:12 PM   #3
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Old 07-10-2006, 01:44 PM   #4
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ahh, thanks to my dad for the help in the last 2 days.... Looks much better. And smaller
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Old 07-10-2006, 02:04 PM   #5
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Hmmm, this is whats left of my spare room, and now our loungeroom looks like this..... We will be eating outside. Oh well, its only till sunday...
The joys of renovating, i started mine in March, should be finished next month, i'm about to move the 2 kids into my room to paint the rest of the house....FUN !!!!!!
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Old 10-10-2006, 12:58 PM   #6
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Bought a house in Melb cheap because it was 'original' (1930) and had no kitchen, an outside toilet and the crappiest bathroom circa 1960. We have done stumps, bathroom, kitchen, taken out a wall, installed double patio doors out to the backyard and still have a lot work to go.....I have a love/hate relationship with my house. Hate it when the walls are still moving and cracks open up, love it when a project is finished and it looks like it came out of a magazine....
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Old 10-10-2006, 01:34 PM   #7
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I am taking a week off work to re-paint the interior of our house, trying to do it on weekends has seen 1 room done in about 3 months, too little time on weekends.

P.S. I love renovating, my wife is not so keen, but she always loves the end results.
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Old 10-10-2006, 03:15 PM   #8
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It's the way to go to set you up later in life if you can get a house and fix it up then make a good dollar on it. You might be saving every penny for a few years and budgeting very strictly, but put it this way, a few years down the track you make a heap and buy that house you always wanted and have more $$ for your family instead of making do with the opne you had

Being a landscaper though, I'm too busy doing the outside to do anything inside!
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I just pulled up all my floor tiles and hired a concrete grinder to remove the glue, it is the worst job ever, the whole house is covered in dust, i looked like one of those people covered in ash that escaped 9-11, 8 hours grinding with smoke dectectors going off every 10 mins and 3 weeks to clean the mess i reckon.
Next time i need to move out and rent.... :
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