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Monthly Archives: August 2011
CSIRO wants your help
The CSIRO wants to study 500 Australian homes, in brief you will; Learn to reduce your energy bills get a report on your home’s heating and cooling energy performance get a set of infrared photographs that show if you are … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, news posts
Tagged building construction, CSIRO, government, housing
LED lights, a great idea that sucks?
If like me you think LED lights are expensive and belong in caravans and torches, think again World’s First 60 Watt Equivalent LED Bulb for Under $15
Posted in By Marcus, news posts, technical matters
Tagged building construction, LED
A new angle on passwords
I needed a password with eight characters – so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.’
Posted in By Marcus, just for kicks
Tagged building construction, password, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
From our correspondent on the front lines
We are lucky to have a very talented staff writer here at buildinginyourblood. I asked her to share some thoughts on her background in a building family. It didn’t start well. He didn’t love it. He didn’t even like it … Continue reading
Posted in By Sly on building, profile piece
Tagged apprentice, builder, building construction, house building, writer
Three layers of government
One of the great pains in most businesses is dealing with three layers of government and “At present, a business operating in every state and territory faces a cost of more than $1000 to register a business name for three … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, news posts
Tagged building construction, economy, government
The king is dead, long live the king
Once I carried a watch, and a mobile phone. My music came on CDs at $35 a piece. In the car I had a torch and a digital camera. Stocks were checked in the newspaper and my news came through … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, news posts
Tagged building construction, iPad, iphone, ipod, iTunes, Mac, Pixar, Steve Jobs
One billion tonnes of CO2 locked up in forests
There isn’t a guy called Bunnings, but there is a Jack Bowen. This old-time timber man has his head around the carbon sequestration business, which I touched on before; There are no published estimates of carbon stored in the 15 million … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, news posts, technical matters
Tagged building construction, carbon sequestration, CO2, forest, Jack Bowen
High praise indeed!
I am currently rebuilding this girls house after it was extensively fire damaged. I was very touched. Pretty sure that chimney is actually a bit straighter than that, otherwise it is as built.
Posted in By Marcus, news posts
Tagged builder, building construction, fire, house building, housing
Poo Lap of Honour
Thomas Crapper, the man who popularised the flush toilet and lent his name to the slang term for toilet, would be turning in his grave at the state of US toilets and their notorious Poo lap of honour.
Posted in By Marcus, news posts, technical matters
Tagged building construction, flush toilet, siphon action, Thomas Crapper
The Block’s real estate agents dodgy?
The Herald Sun is running a story that CONSUMER Affairs Victoria is investigating the real estate agents handling the sale of the houses on Channel 9′s DIY renovation hit The Block for underquoting. Whilst the story will undoubtably be about … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, news posts
Tagged building construction, economy, Herald Sun, real estate, REIV
