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Before my health went south I was a builder in all aspects of home construction and renovation. If you don't have a handyman around I hope I can offer you some tips that may be of help. I have had many years of experience in home renovation and will do my best to help you out if you are stuck and need some advice
I hope my experience may be of help to the people on Beyond Blue and make their life a little bit better. Even if you need help with the most basic painting job or putting up a shelf I can help there too with some tips
I will do my best to get back to anyone that has a question when I can as this is social yet important thread
Geoff
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Hi RX, how much I miss tank water.
Best wishes.
Geoff.
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Hi Everyone, anybody trying to attach cornice to the ceiling/wall?
Geoff.
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Haaa, it's a nope from me, thank God.
Did finally build a nice microwave shelf today though, only taken me 4yrs.
Going gold detecting tomorrow , wish me luck people.
Thanks again geoff , all the best.
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Gday Geoff/
Well l'm pleased to say it's taken over 3wks but l've finally finished painting the eves and spouts. This place goes all over the joint ot was quite a saga and l had to repair a lot of roof and edging and some spout on the way as well and also redid the back porch . Sorry if l mentioned that but that's gone also from a dark dampish cracked fibro back entrance to a gorgeous warm whole new thing, shelves along , so pleased. The house , from driving toward say from along the road where you mainly see the top half, it's gone from rusty bits of corri and loose bits and unpainted woods and crap hanging off or flapping round in the wind to all really neatly finished painted and tidy , colours look great , can't believe it. But l can , know what a bit of very simple elbow grease and some paint can do for a place but still, looks incredible compered can hardly recognise it honestly.
Starting all the windows next , talked to you about those mths back and how to repair them tidy up the shytty wood bits and stuff so , some are a bit of a mess and some bits falling off but l think they'll screw up again all ok there's still framing to screw into they've just sorta come away over the years. Joints gonna look like a new house haha.
Hope your doin ok mate. rx
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Hi RX, sounds terrific, a lot of hard work you've put into it all, but I always say to myself, if 'I'm proud of what I have achieved, well that's all that matters'.
Other people may not like the colours you've shown, but then you may not their choice as well, that doesn't matter, if you are pleased that produces positive thoughts and behaviour.
I hope you find a nugget too heavy to lift.
Best wishes.
Geoff.
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Thanks for that Geoff .
Colour wise l just went for soft common stuff for selling later , looks good. Heaps more to do yet and then l have to do something with the garage and finish the fences too, the fencing's the biggest job and expense buttt, at least the eves and back porch are done.
lt fires you up a bit doesn't it Geoff when you finally actually finish some part or other and finally see some progress so l'm getting keen now.
No nugs l'm afraid . Although l think my detecting careers gonna be a pretty short one though anyway haha, gets pretty bloody boring pretty fast let me tell ya , my brothers finding the same although he's still got a bit more patience than me so far. We're both new at it but l think my nice new little detector might end up on gumtree for sale pretty soon. We see , l might find some patience yet,
Did you ever spend any time around the gold fields geoff? lt's a real treat being out on them especially with some reading up and understanding of how they all worked and the different minds and everything that went on back then. What amazes me though are all the shafts just left , wide open not even covered with something. We found one 60mtrs deep l mean someone falls down there it's good night for sure. There's a lot of those , pretty amazing l'd say a few people have gone missing over years .
rx
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Hi RX, what do you need to do to the garage, you might have said before and with the fences, just do them in parts and I'm sure the house looks great.
With gold-fields I've lived in or very close to two major towns where gold digging has been very dominant last and early century but have not been one of the lucky ones.
It doesn't rain gold does it, wish.
Geoff.
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Hi geoff.
Haaaa nope , can't say as l've see much gold rain lately.
Thats a great idea with the fence to btw , thanks for that . There's no reason at all why l couldn't do what's left bit by bit now that you mention it. lt would sure make it lass work , much easier financially too. Got lots of holes to dig too but if l just do a few posts and sections a time it already feels a much easier way to go. Wouldn't need a borer and the whole thing ripped out at once that way either.
Yep renovating the garage too , a man loves a great shed in regional areas eh so l'm tidying it all up and painting it. lt's 10mtrs by 8mtrs . Had two side by side but sold the other one with the other block so now just the one and one of my new fences runs down the middle now.
Thanks again. rx
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Hi RX, don't forget that you only have to pay 50% of the fence, the next door neighbour has to pay the other 50%.
Make an agreement with your door as to what each one of you wants to do, I always believe if one person does all the work, then the balance of 50/50 should be altered if you are doing all the hard work.
Best wishes.
Geoff.
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Thanks for that Geoff. Got exited for a second there then l remembered l owed get money for something else sooooo, l may as well just pay for it is easiest l think, bugger . Unfortunately the longest stretch runs up and around the corner too so l'll dip out there as well. Ah well.
Geez when l think about it though on our other place the neighbour did a really nice fence with thick heave posts right round and never did knock on the door, hmmm. got outa that one it's long gone.
rx
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