My back got hurt just looking at those rocks. I have lots of rocks at my place if you still need more rocks please come by.
They have done great job placing those rocks by hand.
Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 43Nov 13, 2015 6:55 am shazaw :shock: My back got hurt just looking at those rocks. I have lots of rocks at my place if you still need more rocks please come by. They have done great job placing those rocks by hand. How's the approval going?? I don't think we'll need more rocks but thanks for the offer. See if your neighbours want them as they are expensive to dispose of. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 44Nov 13, 2015 7:31 am shazaw :shock: My back got hurt just looking at those rocks. I have lots of rocks at my place if you still need more rocks please come by. They have done great job placing those rocks by hand. Where abouts are you again please Shazaw? Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 45Nov 15, 2015 8:24 pm yvonneh shazaw :shock: My back got hurt just looking at those rocks. I have lots of rocks at my place if you still need more rocks please come by. They have done great job placing those rocks by hand. How's the approval going?? I don't think we'll need more rocks but thanks for the offer. See if your neighbours want them as they are expensive to dispose of. Long story...we now have consent from our 3 neighbours as our council wants us to connect stormwater easement into the Sydney stormwater channel which is located next to the third neighbour house. - Which means we have to get our names registered under the land title of our neighbour's. Currently waiting for banks to release the titles ( take 6 to 8 weeks ). Our neighbour has already created stormwater retention pit and the easement pipeline for us to join when he was building the duplex. - We are required to provided separate written consent from three neighbours for the council. All we need to do is join two meter from our land to the exiting pit located in his land. - But council wants to be sure that the pipe is capable of carrying extra stormwater.... meaning we had to go back to hydraulic engineer for new stormwater easement drawing and engineer assessment as well as landscaper's certificate stating the new landscaping will not impact on the easement pipe. The good new is we do not needs to dig up already exiting pipe. The pipe is big enough to carry stormwater from our land. Too many steps... we now have a lawyer to handle registration of our name under our neighbour's land title. We still have not demolish the house. I have gone back to do some gardening and will be working on vege patch soon... hopefully we start building next year. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 46Nov 15, 2015 8:35 pm cat_dunc shazaw :shock: My back got hurt just looking at those rocks. I have lots of rocks at my place if you still need more rocks please come by. They have done great job placing those rocks by hand. Where abouts are you again please Shazaw? Sydney... St George area. Not too far from Yvonne. Do you wants to dig up rocks from my garden? Long way from Newcastle Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 48Nov 16, 2015 2:53 pm shazaw Long story...we now have consent from our 3 neighbours as our council wants us to connect stormwater easement into the Sydney stormwater channel which is located next to the third neighbour house. - Which means we have to get our names registered under the land title of our neighbour's. Currently waiting for banks to release the titles ( take 6 to 8 weeks ). Our neighbour has already created stormwater retention pit and the easement pipeline for us to join when he was building the duplex. - We are required to provided separate written consent from three neighbours for the council. All we need to do is join two meter from our land to the exiting pit located in his land. - But council wants to be sure that the pipe is capable of carrying extra stormwater.... meaning we had to go back to hydraulic engineer for new stormwater easement drawing and engineer assessment as well as landscaper's certificate stating the new landscaping will not impact on the easement pipe. The good new is we do not needs to dig up already exiting pipe. The pipe is big enough to carry stormwater from our land. Too many steps... we now have a lawyer to handle registration of our name under our neighbour's land title. We still have not demolish the house. I have gone back to do some gardening and will be working on vege patch soon... hopefully we start building next year. Oh wow, that sounds like a PITB! But you seem to have a lot of patience! We had a brief thought of trying to get changes in our land titles and buy out an easement our neighbour has on our property (access to the reserve) but they didn't want to discuss it and now we have allowed the space for it I can't really be bothered... Your green thumbs were amazing! I've only just got the garden beds sorted for ours. We'll do two worm wicking beds and two normal beds (4 beds in total). Each bed being approx 4ft squares. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 49Jan 25, 2016 9:45 am Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 51Jan 31, 2016 9:53 pm Slowly getting there. The pumpkin plants are asking greenery but I haven't been diligent enough to fertilize the flowers... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The random tomato plant is fruiting Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ . The mulching makes a difference Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 52Feb 16, 2016 9:44 pm So I honestly thought it replied already to this. No worries! I love pumpkin plants. Probably because I love pumpkin. Seriously, how delicious is it! It will be a first plant in our veggie patch when we get it up and going. That's a great scheme for the deck. Really ties in with your interior scheme and a will form a nice secluded feeling retreat over looking the reserve. How's all the planning going for it? We have to put ours through council now too... SO tempted to just build the damn thing I'm impatient and we're doing the concrete at least. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 53Feb 24, 2016 10:27 pm We still don't have ours on council. I need plans drawn up. As in proper ones. The last thing I need is council to knock it back. Finally got quotes. Scary quotes. $33k for the deck but without the gazebo. Including gazebo it was $48k! It's only money right? On a better note my husband has been doing a great job with the rocks! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We may even be able to get our OC soon! Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 54Feb 27, 2016 9:25 pm yvonneh We still don't have ours on council. I need plans drawn up. As in proper ones. The last thing I need is council to knock it back. Finally got quotes. Scary quotes. $33k for the deck but without the gazebo. Including gazebo it was $48k! That is way expensive!! Your husband is pretty handy right, can he do the decking with some help from mates. Or both of you might wants to attend carpentry course. There is one person I know get some quote from him if you wish. I had use him for dividing my garage one half turn into a room. I find his price reasonable. I will pm you his details. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 55Mar 03, 2016 6:01 pm Thanks shazaw. I got another quote. Much cheaper. Just need to clarify a few things before going ahead. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 56Mar 09, 2016 6:28 am Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 57Mar 10, 2016 10:38 pm Ah ha here are your photos. You guys are doing a great job. Wow that is expensive! All our back patio prices are out of this world as well. The hunt continues til I find someone who will do it for a reasonable price The bamboo is for the side next to the courtyard? I love the maple tree. I need to get us one of those Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 58Mar 11, 2016 4:51 am The guy I have now for the deck and pergola is very well priced. He's semi retired and I think charges very little for his labour. It was through a call out via hi pages. Bamboo is for sides of the front garden and courtyard. The ones I have in ground are going great and sending up tall shoots. Yeah Japanese maples are great! I've had that one for years now. Been moving it around a lot in the last few years. Still need to keep an eye out for a cloud tree. Also a Japanese water feature. But all that is possibly too much and may end up cluttering things. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 59Mar 11, 2016 6:40 am Hi Yvonneh, what bamboo type and where did you get them? How much per pot? I am looking at getting bamboo for screening the sides of my house and my backyard too. Ta! Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 60Mar 11, 2016 7:01 am I got ours from http://www.bamboos.com.au/ it was 200mm pots at $29 ea + GST plus $200 delivery to Sydney. Once the pots are in the ground they grow fairly quickly. The ones in the pots are all growing roots too. I use lawn fertilizer and water everyday at this stage. We went with Dark Weavers as they are a darker green and can get a bit taller than the gracillis. Hope that helps. I ended up going with 'Andrew Belic Construction Co.' https://www.instagram.com/andrewbelicconstruction/ 2 59659 0 4982 No idea about the driveway question, but your price for a house that size including landscaping seems very good! 1 6159 |