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Do not trust your building survey report

Here’s some invaluable advice I never thought we’d have to offer home buyers regarding building survey reports: do not trust your building survey report. It’s been just over a year since we moved into our property and we’re starting to discover how misleading and inaccurate our survey report has been.

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Tips for siliconing your shower

As part of our expanding DIY skills, we re-siliconed our guest shower because the silicon laid by the previous owners had started to mould and peel away. It’s critical that you prevent water from getting behind your tiles and grout. So these are our top tips for siliconing your shower.

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State shift: have we reached the tipping point?

Recently, I have found myself thinking a lot about the climate, sustainability and the demise of our planet. It’s a mess: uncontrollable fires in Australia, plastic choking our seas and oceans, melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, bleaching corals, droughts, floods, record temperatures. Things are out of control.

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