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My place at Sunnybank went up 15%, but rates went up about 20% in the previous QTR already:eek:

What sort of roof is it? Do you have sarking (silver film) in place already? What are you trying to achieve? Anyways, high value R batts would work best - just be careful around electrical cables, down lights and other penetrations. You'll need a certain amount of clearance and try not to...

I'm currently in the middle of a DIY bathroom build/renovation. It's our old laundry and now converting into an ensuite. I cut through a non-load bearing wall to create a new door way and sealed up an external door way too. Had to move some plumbing around and also connect up new waste for...

I had some lovely ex-tenants who were alcoholics and drug users. Inspections didn't reveal any 'drugs', however the garden and subfloor were littered with empty bottles, cans, bottle caps, tenants clearly drunk/stoned, house in dirty state. Eventually had to evict them due to having multiple...

I made a gravel foot path recently....time will tell how well it lasts. Previous concrete path was utter rubbish. Had buried rubbish and no steel, cracked and uneven everywhere. Dug down the entire area of the path by 100-150mm into the dirt and boxed in the edges using 200x50 sleepers fixed...

I would have thought it would be cheaper and easier to do it now before they finish up the framing upstairs and get the roof on etc. As others have pointed out there are BCA requirements for rise/run of stairs and landings. You must check if you have space for all of that, especially since...

Since you've already put in the aircell product, I wouldn't see a need for additional foil with the boards, so just go with the >= R4.0 bulk insulation. I think glass batts (aka. Pink Batts) are banned in NSW, so you'll have to get the slightly more expensive stuff.

Agreed- the hype over asbestos in this country is quite crazy. Even in QLD, where we're allowed to remove 10sqm without a licence...really, if you take the same precautions, why can't you remove 20sqm? 50sqm? A lot of houses and buildings around us every day have asbestos. Most people aren't...

Would you consider replacing them with timber ones to maintain the character of the house? Probably not a real concern being an IP :P Your priorities would be low maintenance and longevity. Timber windows are relatively easy to 'restore' - strip the paint, re-putty, repaint. Should be...

So I found this under the house: Whilst demolishing a BIR in a room, I came across a syringe stuffed between the door frame and the lintel, tip and all exposed! If my hand had been 10cm to the left I may have been jabbed by the needle tip. Same cupboard had some suspicious antibiotics...

So a bit of background on what's happened to date: Tenants have been constantly late on rent every month, until recently where they breached the 2 weeks or whatever they had to pay the balance. Upon inspection by agent, they discovered they had more than the allowed number of pets on the...

I had a similar problem when tenants said they'd have one cat and later requested a 'small' dog which would be enclosed in it's own fence, not touching the house or property fence. After being constantly late on rent, then breaching contract terms, agent went to look and found they had two...

Bugger, that's a damn shame. Hate having to re-work stuff. Did you concrete directly over the floor boards or on top of some fibro sheeting? I ended up having to use a flexible rubber joint thing for my shower at one stage due to constant movement in "P" class highly reactive clay...

My personal experience with overseas students from SE asia have been quite positive, especially around the Sunnybank area in Brisbane. Despite appearing 'poor' and having no income, most of them have money forwarded to them from parents, and usually very careful with your property. Of course...

Just thinking out loud - so the CGT is pro-rata on a linear basis? Is there anyway to change that? haha

It sounds like it would be possible if it wasn't built pre-1946? I thought about it too and I though council was pretty strict on modifying the street appeal of houses like this, so rotating it 90 degrees would change the frontage dramatically even if it's the same house. In my case the house...

RPi, would there be restrictions on the house on the front to lift up and build in underneath? So long as if "looks" period correct I'm thinking if turning it into a duplex setup.

Thanks for the quick reply. Looks like there is potential but an expensive reconfiguration exercise (due to flooding?). It must be reconfigured into a front/back battle axe formation to release any of it's value. I think given those CR2 minimum lot sizes, I can get away without shifting...

Very generous of you do offer your time. PM sent - thanks.

Yeah, I think retaining the existing the configuration would be easiest. Only problem is shifting a pre-1946 house that's already 13m wide to a 10m wide lot tricky. It's already on stumps - was actually restumped not too long ago. I don't understand why they didn't lift it up to 2.5m at the...