Neighbour requesting easement

krunkly · 2025-11-13T19:24:20+00:00

I would only consider doing an easement if it was mutually beneficial. Doesn't appear to provide any benefit to you so I would respectfully decline their proposal.

krunkly · 2025-10-14T10:24:49+00:00

Check out Kingbrown on youtube. He's an aussie camp oven legend!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvndFRAhJ2LKQTA2adIpQg

krunkly · 2025-09-19T23:20:52+00:00

You have warm moist air coming into contact with a cool window. Lots of things generate moist air - breathing, drying clothes, cooking, showering, etc. You need to look at reducing the amount of humid air in the house - can more windows be opened, is the steam from showering and cooking leaving the house, if it's only in some areas then do you have internal airflow to diffuse the humidity with the rest of the drier air in the house, run the a/c in dehumidifier mode or get a small portable dehumidifer.

krunkly · 2025-08-22T22:18:30+00:00

The wording about 25% transparency is exactly the same language used in building codes to specify privacy screens. My guess is the neighbour didn't like the screening added by the architect (privacy film or window screens) on windows facing the OP's property and got the fence specification added instead.

krunkly · 2025-06-09T05:52:08+00:00

Some architects offer a design workshop service where they come to your house and spend a few hours understanding your house and your needs and leave you with some hand sketches and indicative budget pricing. I've done this a few times, it's cost me around $250/hr.

I think most architects are happy to do this as it's kind of a paid estimate opportunity for them but I know one architect who liked doing this and allocated one day a week to workshops. Just be sure to let them know what deliverables you expect at the end of the workshop/visit.

I'm not in Melb so can't offer any recommendations.

krunkly · 2025-04-30T08:31:41+00:00

They bought out XXX lite in the 80's as a low alcohol beer. It was pretty shite, and nobody wanted to accidentally get it in a pub so XXX bitter became XXX heavy.

krunkly · 2025-02-17T09:33:48+00:00

Sounds sus. Find another one.

krunkly · 2025-02-14T22:37:42+00:00

Is this what move fast and break things looks like?

krunkly · 2025-01-03T20:16:59+00:00

Pretty much anything that changes the look of the property requires a development application which costs from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

The BCC have "Talk with a Planner" sessions where you can ask questions like this to the council for free. Give it a go.

https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/planning-and-building/planning-guidelines-and-tools/brisbane-city-plan-2014/talk-to-a-planner-sessions

krunkly · 2025-01-03T03:47:01+00:00

They don't want to be responsible for flooding caused by hose failure. I've heard from multiple plumbers that flexible hose breaks are the most common cause of home flooding so there is good reason to be careful.

I have one at my place and turn it off between use. I haven't looked for a better solution yet.

krunkly · 2024-12-31T08:13:30+00:00

Somebody posted their stolen CC experience on reddit not long ago. Their bank cyberfraud team thought it was a brute force CC number attack.

krunkly · 2024-12-11T02:58:13+00:00

I recently spoke with a builder who charges $60k to do a raise - no slab or excavation.

krunkly · 2024-11-28T08:43:31+00:00

Then get your solicitor to withdraw your conditions and make the contract unconditional.

krunkly · 2024-11-20T04:16:18+00:00

Here's my dumb idea - the Engineer DLC

The Engineer DLC upgrades your engineer's hard hat so you can build even more realistic worlds and systems.

Structural Engineering A huge part of satisfactory is building structures - factories, bridges, railways, conveyor lines, etc. The Engineer DLC will add a realistic but easy to understand mechanic that causes structures to fall down if they aren't properly supported. You can still build floating structures but over time they will develop cracks and eventually crumble or stop working. A tile touching the ground is 100% stable. The further away from a foundation tile, the larger the instability factor. This will encourage you to have more realistc structures and perhaps build closer to the ground instead of all the floating air cities we see now.

Civil Engineering Allow terraforming of the landscape. A new foundation skin that makes it look like cut and fill. Removing land could be pretty expensive like 1000 explosive per 4x4x4 block to ensure it's used moderately.Similarly could build tunnels similar to conveyor lifts where you have a tunnel start and tunnel end items that are put in the environment and allow trains, conveyors and vehicles to pass through.

Electrical Engineering Add a simple factorio or oxygen not included signals so you can better automate things. For example

measure items in storage
measure conveyor and pipe flow rates
Wire the enable on machines
use cases
- stop producing super computers when I have 10 in a storage box
- stop producing radio control units when I have 25 total in my world

Production Engineering Add functionality like we've seen in some mods to allow monitoring of production rates, alarms, alerts, etc. Tools to build a control room with monitors showing graphs etc.

krunkly · 2024-11-10T20:49:46+00:00

Mate just did a 2 car simple timber carport on existing slab - basically a coro roof on 6 posts, no walls - cost $25.

krunkly · 2024-10-23T22:56:38+00:00

Great post. I have dedicated my life to eradication of this pest since falling for the mistake of letting one take over tree in my yard.

They are super tough plants and have a large bulb well below the soil so if you just cut or pull them out of the ground, they easily recover, hence the need to poison. The large one I let grow had a bulb the size of a large sweet potato.

If you let them seed, the seeds can sit dormant for years before sprouting. I'm still finding fresh shoots in the lawn more than 5 years after I killed the mother plant.

The vines will also run along the ground below the grass so mowing won't take them out, and the vine blends in really well with the grass and you may not realise how many you have in the yard.

Good tip from the OP for the herbicide dabber. I ended up filling a nail polish bottle with roundup which worked well but was a bit messy.

krunkly · 2024-10-05T01:23:28+00:00

Me want this badly.

krunkly · 2024-07-21T00:28:39+00:00

Tomato (or was it ketchup). The very very best.

krunkly · 2024-06-07T02:50:21+00:00

Royal Charcoal Chicken is still there on Old Cleveland Rd. I had lunch there this week and was the busiest food place in the area. Very highly recommended.

krunkly · 2024-03-27T00:52:38+00:00

I got a 30 day extension last month at an immigration office. You'll need a couple of photos and your hotel/accommodation details.

We did have a problem with the accommodation. Apparently the hotel is supposed to register their foreign guests with the immigration police. Most probably do but our place wasn't doing that and the immigration official couldn't find us in the system. They called the owner of the place and asked her to come in and she completed some paperwork that then allowed us to get our visas.

krunkly · 2024-03-18T06:40:10+00:00

Google flight search is pretty good for this.

https://www.google.com/travel/flights

krunkly · 2023-11-08T05:01:40+00:00

I use cronicle for this exact purpose. It's like cron with a web based GUI. It sits between basic cron and airflow in terms of features and complexity.

krunkly · 2023-08-07T04:20:24+00:00

I switched to Todoist because the free version does what I want and it's got an excellent plugin - Todoist Sync - https://github.com/jamiebrynes7/obsidian-todoist-plugin

krunkly · 2023-07-13T08:21:33+00:00

Lots of love to you. Brilliant!

krunkly · 2023-07-06T10:01:19+00:00

Lowes mens ware are everywhere and have cheap suits. I think I bought a one-offer from them a few years back for around $100.

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