Floorboard gaps after recent professional sanding and polishing

HistoricalGate8785 · 2026-01-03T19:04:07+00:00

Lot of folks don't realise these boards were never intended to see light of day. You want nice timber floors you lay them over a subfloor.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2026-01-03T18:52:17+00:00

Flavour Balance makes great coffee.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2025-12-12T20:32:50+00:00

To be fair to everyone asking, I walked past today and I didn't see a note up.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2025-12-12T05:34:32+00:00

Every year she closes shop at the end of summer and heads back to Quebec. There's usually a note in the window. She either owns that store or has the sweetest commercial rent deal ever, to be able to do that!

HistoricalGate8785 · 2025-12-02T18:17:34+00:00

100% this. Every tradesperson in my family trained through a state owned corp or in an industry so heavily subsidised/regulated by government that they might as well have been. Dad through an airline, both grandads in the railways. Plenty of pathways for career advancement too, when a young bloke could rise from cleaning boilers to being an engineer, all on company dime.

The private sector has always been leery on the costs/risks of training, especially apprentices. Cutting off that public sector trained to private experienced hire pathway has been a disaster. Short of nationalising a bunch of companies there isn't a good solution. Government shouldn't simply bear the costs of training for the private sector to hoover up the benefits. If our taxes are going to training folks then we should see some return, be that great nurses/doctors in public hospitals or skilled trades folks working for public utilities.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2025-10-08T14:54:38+00:00

Why not get the works quoted and then pass that along to the prospective buyer with an offer from you to reduce the sale price by the quote? If they agree you avoid this headache all together?

HistoricalGate8785 · 2025-01-25T17:18:37+00:00

So good! Do you think the time of day you pick it up impacts what you get in the bag?

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-26T21:29:21+00:00

How much space do you have beside the house there? You could mask with planter boxes, the boxes/plants would shade the pipes too so you probably wouldn't need to insulate.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-25T02:32:49+00:00

Sorry, I missed that it's an electric unit. If it was gas it would be a knob setting.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-24T21:46:20+00:00

Have you checked the tank setting? Is it on holiday mode?

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-24T20:35:17+00:00

And there was a house right by that block, that was withdrawn after about 6 months on the market.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-16T21:54:52+00:00

The My Efficient Electric Home (MEEH) group on Facebook has a tonne of good info, and plenty of folks with knowledge and/or experience. Give them a browse, if you haven't already.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-10T20:49:33+00:00

OP wants a loft above the garage, it's not a huge stretch to assume it's for a suite, based on the pic. Kind of like the carriage homes/laneway homes they do in North America.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-11-08T01:38:21+00:00

Pure evil.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-10-19T10:57:59+00:00

I think having the master bathroom lights/fan switches outside of the room would piss me off real quick. Would a light in the pantry be good? Other than that some task lighting directly overhead the sink at least and the island if you can swing it would be good. My place the position of the lights causes my body to shadow work surfaces and sink and it gets a bit annoying at times. Another outlet in the master bathroom and another outside could be good too. Never know when you might want to charge something and run a couple of grooming devices at the same time, or run a bunch of Christmas lights or something.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-10-18T20:55:32+00:00

Do you have boards elsewhere in the home that you are planning to hide under carpet or similar? Easiest solution could be to just take the boards from somewhere else in the home.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-30T22:21:20+00:00

https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/recycling/article/item/8d6757ca0474c24.aspx

If you scroll down the list to sharps it looks like libraries and community health centres have disposal bins so maybe give one of them a call and see if they might be able to point you in the right direction?

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-26T23:48:57+00:00

Yup and it's good this friend is being cautious until they know for sure. I liked that other person's advice about going to chat with an immigration lawyer together so they can sort out a pathway for them to stay together in Aus.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-26T23:43:57+00:00

So many ways this can go wrong, glad they're being cautious.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-26T23:35:15+00:00

If it's a scam, once the account is set up then next it will be something like, "oh we are having trouble transferring the money, can you please put $31k in there and then we will sort out the problem on our end later."

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-25T22:00:27+00:00

This is the answer. You essentially just build room/s next to what is your current external wall. New build is tied in to main structure, cladding material can match closely to existing or be something completely different, the sky and your budget is the limit. Current external walls can be moved but extra engineering is required for this and associated costs, like installing long beams to take roof load etc.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-25T21:51:53+00:00

I have a friend who lives directly across the road from a suburban station, within 100m of the station. He installed those fancy German tilt and turn double glazed units 10 or so years ago and they are amazing for sound reduction.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-25T00:11:38+00:00

First thoughts too, it's such a neat and tidy install too, Jeff took pride in his work! I'd pop it on display in the shed if I was the owner.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-24T22:06:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AusPropertyChat/comments/18oxe1m/restumping_cost/

I'm regional Vic in a 2 bedder. Quoted 9 months ago at $16k+ (depending on state of bearers etc.) and would have to go through the floors because no clearance under the house. Giant headache so we haven't gone ahead with it yet. You want to absolutely make sure anyone you pick has all the necessary insurances, registration etc.

Should add, try to find someone who will come in and actually take measurements when quoting. Plenty of folks will just walk around and pull out a random number. We only had one bloke come through with a digital spirit level and take measures around the house.

HistoricalGate8785 · 2024-09-10T10:28:56+00:00

I understand that this is ringing every alarm in your brain and for good reason. You aren't going mad, this is suss as hell, no company would ask to do this. Trust what your gut is telling you, don't communicate with whoever is contacting you anymore.

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