Concrete is one of the easiest products to customise, it can be ground, polished, stamped, or stained, you can have glass, marble chips or other objects embedded in it. You can mould and sculpt it to create your own exclusive design and turn a rudimentary kitchen bench top into a distinctive piece of art.
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What's the Issue? - Commonly found in most toolkits, the utility knife is used for a variety of common everyday tasks. It can however lead to some pretty serious lacerations if due care is not taken, even when used for very basic jobs.
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Retaining walls are a common feature of many backyards and whilst they may be a small part of the building work, it is important that they are built to suit the block of land and to ensure their safety.
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The question is often asked if it is required to install an airlock between a kitchen and a sanitary facility.
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When tiling walls and floors, there are a few tips that can help you avoid some of the common problems and perhaps give you some ideas to help your next tiling job go smoothly.
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Maybe you would like to make changes to your home but don’t have the money or the inclination to undergo a major renovation. One quick and relatively inexpensive way of affecting a transformation is through a new colour scheme.
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Sixty years ago a sizeable proportion of Australian homes still had outside toilets? Moving the loo inside was at the cutting edge of bathroom design in and since then bathrooms have been the greyhounds of home design.
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The Building Code of Australia (BCA) is referred to as a ‘performance based’ document that provides flexibility when designing a building. But what does this degree of flexibility mean for those designing and constructing buildings and how can this be utilised in a practical sense?
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It is quite common for building practitioners to be involved in the planning or building application process, either through making the application, referring or appealing on behalf of the owner. It's important when you do this to comply with the Building Act.
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When specifying concrete it is important to take into account the season and the time of placement, as there is a different ordering and placement procedure between hot and cold weather. Precautions especially need to be taken when the air temperature falls below 10°C.
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Do you every forget to check what might be underground before you start work? Do you know how to find out what’s in the ground and who owns it? This information sheet explains who to talk to and what to look out for in relation to telephone cabling.
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What's the Issue? - Whilst using a nail gun to secure soldiers to ceiling framework, the nail has missed the soldier and appears to have then ricocheted, striking the worker on the concrete slab below (7.0 meters away), narrowly missing his eye.
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This policy statement sets out HIA’s position on the environmental performance of existing houses and highlights where HIA believes government attention should be focused to resolve the present disparity between the responsibility of new homes to meet environmental benchmarks and performance of existing homes
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Research in Britain suggests that it takes just eight seconds for a prospective home buyer to decide against buying a property - or to keep an open mind and investigate further. In other words, first impressions count for a great deal. It means that the approach to the home you want to sell and the front door take on an importance disproportionate to what lies inside.
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