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When it comes to building, close enough usually just isn’t good enough. When my neighbour’s builder made a mistake of 100 mm it meant he had to pull down part of the renovation and start all over again.
You might remember from my first Neighbour from hell post that I said the challenge would be making [...]
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Just when you’ve dragged yourself through years of the grit, grot and gross insanity that can be renovating hell, your neighbour decides it’s his turn. What do you do when he wants to build a McMansion extension in a street of little terraces?
I’d always wanted to buy the house next door if it ever came [...]
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More than half of home renovators found renovation stressful and a third found renovation to be a source of tension between themselves and the people they live with, a 2005 national survey found. I don’t believe things have changed much.
This week I caught up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a few years. [...]
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Tonight I’ve been searching a few forums. A moment ago I read this amusing (but also awful) post from Web Child blogger Jayne Kearney.
She writes:
“Day One of our renovations and I have a question: what kind of fresh hell is this?
I am simply not a renovator and never thought I would be. All I [...]
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So you’ve finally managed to liquidate your builder so that you can claim on your HOW insurance. Now you need to jump through a whole lot of other hoops as you battle your insurer (and bureaucracy).
After my posts on HOW earlier in the week, I received an email from Rob. For six years he’s been [...]
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While this renovator’s builder refuses (and seems unable) to fix her leaking deck, getting another builder to fix the problem would void her HOW insurance. Authorities say she needs to FORCE him to fix it.
In The Renovator’s Survival Guide I wrote about my friend Margaret, whose builder stealthily altered clauses in the contract after it [...]
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Aware that some men think I’m a bit of a ball-breaker, I thought trying to appear a little bit softer might be the way to get on with my builder. Bigotry bends for no one however.
Blonde moment ten - Ugly behaviour rarely gets better
From the time building started in September 2002 to the time that [...]
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