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June 24th, 2014

Guides to building a home in Australia!!!

Over the next couple of weeks we will look at the revised laws that apply if you are Building a home or improving your property. We will give you extracts from the home owners guide to the Home Building Contracts Act put together by the Minister of Consumer Affairs and we will analyse and explain […]

June 24th, 2014

Prevent your building from loose foundations.

The most important factor in stabilising the moisture content of a site is proper drainage. It is essential to place drains up hill of the footings on a slope so as to divert water away from the footings. Surface drains can be incorporated in path and driveways and equally important are subsoil drains that are […]

June 24th, 2014

Designing a suitable footing to your building

The erection of a new building brings with it indirect changes in moisture content caused by the installation of gardens and lawns which have to be watered. Excessive watering or even leaking pipes, taps, gutters, downpipes etc could have quite a dramatic and dangerous effect on the performance of foundations. The roots of trees and […]

May 21st, 2014

While inspecting your building foundations

As promised a while ago we can now go a little more in-depth into foundation movement and its causes. Please read our older post What to inspect when buying a home? for foundations overview. Foundation (soil) movement associated with reactive clays which swells when wet and shrinks when dried out, is a well known fact among most […]

May 21st, 2014

How to check “Water Hammer” in your pipeline?

“Water Hammer” & its causes & remedies – Home inspection procedure before buying a house We had someone write in to us regarding a problem that some of us have experienced in the past and that is “Water Hammer”. What is it, why does it occur and how can it be remedied. We searched for […]

May 19th, 2014

Home inspection – Roof Construction

After I have complete this discussion we will go a little further into depth on “Foundation Movements”, but for now we will continue to examine at what to look for when buying a House. At this stage we have had a close look at the foundations and walls and what to expect, the next important […]

February 14th, 2014

Footing design for home

What is probably as important as consistent compaction is the design of the footings and the actual digging and pouring is equally as important. Firstly footings should be designed according to the nature of the soil. For example you would not design the same size footing when building in clay soils as you would if […]

February 5th, 2014

What to inspect when buying a home?

It goes like this, before you buy something, and a friend had described it to you in detail ”warts and all”, it would have helped in shaping your ideas in the purchase of that something. Well the same goes for when buying a car or a house. These are major purchases for most people and […]

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February 5th, 2014

Why concrete tiles are a perfect fit to your roof?

Ok lets continue where we left of in the last article, on the fact and fiction about roof tiles. If you are worried about the usage of concrete tiles when collecting rain water, well there is nothing to worry about as we are assured that the surface of the concrete tile is a suitable surface […]

February 5th, 2014

Choosing a suitable Roof Tile for your home

The other day I spoke to a gentleman who asked me, to confirm to him that he needs to replace his concrete tiles on his house with clay tiles, I questioned his rationale and a mountain of misleading statements flowed from his mouth, perhaps the most memorable was that “as concrete tiles become older they […]

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Guides to building a home in Australia!!!

Prevent your building from loose foundations.

Designing a suitable footing to your building

While inspecting your building foundations

How to check “Water Hammer” in your pipeline?

Home inspection – Roof Construction

Footing design for home

What to inspect when buying a home?

Why concrete tiles are a perfect fit to your roof?

Choosing a suitable Roof Tile for your home

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