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Hi, My father left his will in the hands of the PT Tasmania. Bad move. Their fees plus fees to the agent they engaged cost us nearly 10% of the sale of the family home. Once they take hold you have no say and no rights in how the property is handled. Getting any information from them was a...

Hi, We did a bathroom (circa 1970) reno and were told that it wasn't asbestos but we thought it had to be for that era. I don't know about elsewhere but in Qld you can remove up to 10 sq meters of asbestos if you follow all of the guidelines for removal, packing and disposal. So all suited up...

Hi, We put a Bunnings kitchen in a granny flat, no time to shop around because father in law was in desperate need of our care. I am not happy with it. We chose white. After three years some of the doors and drawers have gone yellow, others have not. It looks messy! We took our time to...

Thank you all for your input. I like the suggestion re asking for tenders. Does anyone have a ball park figure for how much I should be paying per m2? The deck is about 2.4m above ground level. We had quotes for both colourbond and insulated fly over roof options. I don't want to go the...

I was in your partners position. I tried putting down all of the wonderful skills I had gathered in child rearing on my resume but no one took them seriously. I applied for everythig including base level public service. It took months but a job came up with the Commonwealth, they gave me...

Hi, We are looking at putting a deck along the back of the house 14x 4m with roof. Quotes range from 40K to 55k. Cheapest being in metal. Two quotes in timber have come in just under 44k. We have a contractor who's work we know is excellent. He'll do it for 44k but lacks a builders...

Does this all mean that if I turn one bay of my two bay garage (built under the house) into bedroom space, I will need council permission, a certifier etc? You see two story homes all over where the garage has obviously been built in when, as in our case, a garage or car port has been added to...