Recent content by Jindaro

Gate to Council land My house backs onto a large reserve (Blacktown Council) and 90% of the houses have gates leading onto the reserve. I've been here 17 years and never heard a peep from Council. I know it's not legal and Council could make us remove it at any stage, but imagine how many...

Concrete driveway prices We had a plain concrete driveway done recently. It included a 32sqm garage slab with some deepened edge beam, a long concrete driveway, a rainwater tank slab, a slab for our spa and a garden shed slab. All up it was 160sqm. From memory, by the time we paid our...

Imperial vs Metric Old titles were drawn in imperial measurements in rods and perches. 1 perch = 25.29sqm from memory. When they drew the area of the block in perches, they only went to the nearest 1/4 perch, therefore, 25.29sqm / 4 = 6.3sqm. Considering the above, there are property...

Carpet I put down the cheaper carpet in 1 room in my house that was rented for 4 years. The rest of the house was 100% pure wool. The cheaper carpet now has to be replaced as the stains won't clean out while the wool carpet which is now 13 yrs old, is still going strong and seems to clean up...

Colorbond and timber fences We have now used Amazing Fences for both timber and colorbond fences in Sydney. I got about 3 quotes and they came in the cheapest. The first job they did was for about 40 lineal metres and their fencer, AJ, did the entire job in 1 day. He was 'amazing' - heheh...

Tregear Ah yes, that would be hubby and I. Hubby's first house was the cheapest house in Tregear and we were going to move in for 1 year, do it up and move on. 1 year extended to 2.5 years and I was begging to leave because of the neighbours amongst other things. The 'bad' neighbour live...

We had a slightly similar situation about 3 years ago in NSW. The house was filthy when hubby moved in. On moving out, 4 of us cleaned solidly for 2 days and the house was spotless. The REA was upset because 2 of the vertical blinds had broken. I had stored the broken pieces in a drawer but a...

From memory we are paying our surveyor about $4-5k for the works that include Council approval and LTO approval as well.

Well, our family finally finished our first development. We bought a corner block in Budgewoi, put plans through Council for a detached dual occupancy on torrens title, renovated the existing house and built a brand new 4 bedroom house with double garage that is now for sale. If you know...

I'm here :) Thanks for the phone call Skater :) Ekman, I'll pm you with my details... I do pop in from time to time - was only here a few days ago but missed your message :( Hello everyone !!

One off sale I think it was a one off sale and they probably just hired the place for the weekend. We are doing a bathroom reno in about 6 months and we bought a $400 toilet for $99, a 1700mm long bath for $50, a set of dorf chrome shower taps worth $260 for $50 and a dorf chrome bath set...

Address The flyer states the address as: Crossroads Homemaker Centre Beech Road, Casula Next to Flower Power Hope this helps...!! I also heard the add on 2dayFM this morning so I know the flyer is real :D

I work for a large builder and we just received a flyer today that Tradelink Crossroads (Casula) are having a huge sale up to 80% off. Yes, I know, it sounds too good to be true and that’s what my husband and I thought 2 years ago when we received the same flyer. We attended anyway just in...

Thanks Hey, thanks for that. We're about to install skirting in the entire house in the next week or two. Will get hubbie to have a watch of your video. :cool:

Tips Take your lunch to work each day. Track what you spend ALL your money on via a spreadsheet. Each month, put 1/12 of each of your annual bills into a 'bills account' so the entire amount is there when the bill is due. If you do already have a home loan, sit this money in an offset...