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  1. Brenda Irwin

    Peter Spann Last Night on ABC 7.30 Report

    Yeah I'm still around. Wiser after losing 50cents in the dollar on a certain investment. Won't say any more apart from the fact that I am happy I got out when I did. Ya gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to RUN. :D
  2. Brenda Irwin

    Any extra value in reconfiguring a lot?

    Decided just to finish renovating, move out and put it up for sale as an acre. Would rather look to the future of what I do once moved to a new area and what bargains I can find over there. :D
  3. Brenda Irwin

    Any extra value in reconfiguring a lot?

    I wouldn't have thought sewer and water would immediately require connecting even though those run right across the front of each block? My parents built their house across two blocks but they only had one sewerage connection and one water meter. If I were to move my highset timber house...
  4. Brenda Irwin

    Any extra value in reconfiguring a lot?

    I have an acre of land with house in the middle. Possibly worth $300k. Thanks to a subdivision in the rear we now have two road frontage and it looks like it would be a simple thing to reconfigure to 4 house blocks but with the current house remaining where it is on all 4 blocks until such...
  5. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Tiles cemented down and awaiting grout. Because we are all living here it had to be quick set stuff. Grouting done and still wiping down the excess. All done and nice and shiny. I did add a couple of coats of sealer over the lot when the grout had properly cured. The bath is still...
  6. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Bathroom floor I did wonder why the previous owners left the old cupboard in the bathroom. Look what it was covering up lol. There were two holes in the floor under the bath tub. One was for the waste and one was there I dunno maybe they stuffed up the first hole? I decided since the...
  7. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Unbelievable this old house. The window was shoved in there with rough splintery hard wood and left like that. Brenda framed window. Not really sure what I was doing but it looked much nicer and that's the main thing. Finished window with a nice little Bunnings eco blind.
  8. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Bathroom So much to do it wasn't funny. For starters only one wall was ever painted. All the rest is pure unpainted timber. Halfway thru gap sealing the ceiling. Shower cubical I had added myself a few years ago. Omg I still remember packing out the wall behind it because it was so not...
  9. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Painting, sheeting and sealing done. Doors are for another time. I accidentally tapped the window with a hammer and had to get the glass replaced oops. That was just a bit of chipboard I had laying around. Painted up nice though. Floor came up nice. Brace yourself next for before...
  10. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Before pics of hall foyer which connects bedroom, bathroom and toilet from lounge room. Very dark in there due to high ceiling and unpainted. Tends to absorb light and hide heaps of daddy longlegs spiders. The big moths liked it too. Charming gap in the ceiling dropped all manner of...
  11. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Seeing the same old houses for sale that were for sale before the boom. Thinking they are a bit over priced as yet. Property isn't exactly a liquid asset so you have to be sure you are buying well before you commit. I will be moving to Burrum Heads one of these days and would prefer buying...
  12. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Its a labour of love when its your own house. I am trying to use recycled products where I can and try not to overcapitalise. I would like to buy a house on acreage up near my beach house but shares haven't taken off in enough capital growth yet. Had a major setback when we loaned a...
  13. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Haha worth every penny too. Next overhaul was the toilet. I had already removed the 4mm ply stuff from the walls which was falling to bits and put in 10mm pine vj's. Just needed a repaint to spruce it up. The floor was the problem. What to do? Tile it or lino or polish? I decided to be a...
  14. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Now for the floor. We discovered it was hoop pine. Just using a 4 inch belt sander (Festool) and a dust extractor with an orbital sander to finish the edges. One board needed replacing. Ever tried to find a wide bit of hoop pine of thickness about 3/4 inch? We trashed the timber...
  15. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Just to show the wardrobe installer earned his money. Look at the spacing at the side. This house I think was built according to eye, not technical measuring. Solid as a rock but no two walls are on the same degree.
  16. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Bedroom western side I haven't been hiding, just retired and living the boring life as ya do lol. Got into aquarium fish keeping and had to learn all the water chemistry and stuff that goes with it. I had also forgotten half of what I learned doing rental renos so I chose a small easier...
  17. Brenda Irwin

    Home reno

    Anyone interested in my home reno? I've been taking before and after pics. Not really sure what I will be doing with it after the reno but I am going to be moving up into my beach house where the weather is nicer. Trying to do it all on the cheap with my own labour. Time period is not important.
  18. Brenda Irwin

    Leaking shower - Megasealed?

    Its the water hitting the floor and bouncing back out the gap between the glass door and the lip of the entry? Go to bunnings and buy a peel and stick weather strip. Don't worry if its doesn't say water proof, with the glues they use on them they stay a long time stuck. Put it on the inside of...
  19. Brenda Irwin

    Re: How we bought 20 IP's in 5yrs

    No we never had any financial planners as hubby said we are quite able to make/lose money all by ourselves thankyou lol. We aren't the sort to want to travel much (just try and get hubby on a plane, never going to happen) and we're not snappy dressers or anything fancy, just average joes so...
  20. Brenda Irwin

    Re: How we bought 20 IP's in 5yrs

    Yup both Les and I are retired now. Well retired as in we don't have a paid job. I have started an ornamental fish breeding business which one of these decades I might be successful with lol. If I can stop losing the breeders I will be fine but I picked some pretty tricky fish in the south...
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