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	<title>The Telarah Times &#187; Renovations</title>
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		<title>How many bags of cement do I need to make 1 cubic metre of concrete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently doing fence posts and some small concrete pads around the house so I need to self mix the concrete I keep searching for this type of thing on the internet: Here is a good example of what is required from Boral&#8217;s Site From my learnings: 1 Cement 2 Sand 3 Aggregate (gravel) is too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renovations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog post from the Android Phone. We are nearing completion. Just have to install Stainless Steel Wire Balustrading from All Things Stainless (incidentally they use Joomla and VirtueMart so nice to see a bit of open source being used in a nuts and bolts style of business). And fitout the laundry and then paint&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brick Piers, Antcaps and Termite Proof Silicone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Wife and I are putting an extension on our Weatherboard House. The extension is supported by 350x350mm brick piers with Gal Threaded rod running up through the centre of the piers to hold down the bearers. This setup requires a penetration through the Ant-cap (see image below). In the old days you would close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Guttering Installed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 3 days of struggling with scaffold my Wife and I have finished the scaffolding. [nggallery id=1] We sourced the Guttering from a sheetmetal product company in Newcastle Hancock Speedway When ordering the guttering I used my trusty QCAD, an Opensource 2D CAD Program to provide a drawing of what I wanted to purchase. Guttering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insulation &#8211; DIY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cold Floors We own an old timber cottage. It&#8217;s sitting on concrete peers on a sloping block, so wind can get under the house and chill the floor boards down. Insulating under the floors To try and take the chill off the boards, we have put insulation under the floor boards. It&#8217;s a fairly simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owner Builders License</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After completing an ozob.com.au online owner builders course. Today I traveled to Newcastle to get my Owner Builders License. After getting the license I let the council know that I&#8217;m about to start using a &#8220;Notice of Commencement&#8221;. Another small step/s in the reno complete!]]></description>
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		<title>Woo Hoo Plans Approved &#8211; On to the Manual Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After submitting my plans and less than a month later they have been approved. Excellent! Now a trip to the office of Fair trading to get my Owner Builders permit and we are good to go&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Finally &#8211; Plans submitted to Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many months of fretting I have mustered up the courage to submit my plans to council&#8230;. Hopefully in 4 to 6 weeks I will get approval and be able to proceed. 4/09/2009]]></description>
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		<title>Owner Builder Exam Passed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just passed my Owner-builder exam online at http://www.ozob.com.au. Now I have to go to the office of fair trading and get an Owner-builders certificate. I am so not good at digesting regulations and understanding what needs doing. Funny how some things you do, other people may find difficult (e.g. IT) and then other things you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Feast Cafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 10:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to Organic Feast for a Coffee on the weekend. As you do at Cafe&#8217;s you grab a magazine. My wife found me a magazine named &#8220;The Owner Builder&#8220;. I loved it. So many real life experiences of people building low cost but very interesting structures. By the end of the magazine I was ready [...]]]></description>
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