Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 02, 2011 9:20 pm Hey all you guys, Guy's can you please help us with some great tradies. We need someone to build our pegola approx 8 x 8, concrete our driveway, side of house and pave our rear yard as well as some extra concreting for the small garden shed at the rear. also anyone who can lay synthetic grass. Also someone who does fencing and blinds. PLEASE HELP Re: HELP HELP HELP US NEIGHBOURS 2Feb 02, 2011 9:22 pm pete and mala whereabouts do u live?? viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43238 building with kerdels in gabbadah, wa block purchased april 2010 signed with builder oct 2010 papers signed jan 2011 prestart done 17/01/2011 Re: HELP HELP HELP US NEIGHBOURS 4Feb 02, 2011 9:46 pm Not quite what you want, but almost... http://www.permablitz.net/what-is-a-permablitz Or you could become an Amish and have a barn raising... Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when youβre happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: HELP HELP HELP US NEIGHBOURS 5Feb 02, 2011 9:58 pm Hi pete and mala, up to you of course, but you might want to not disclose your whole address on the forum, as it is public for anyone who chooses to look here to see. gabbybuild was just asking which general area you were in, so that people can recommend tradies to you who are in your area, and not a tradie in, say, Western Australia. There is an edit button you can use if you wish to change your post to just say the suburb and state, this will be sufficient for people to answer your question. Also, have you tried ****? I have used it a couple of times to find handymen and tradesmen and it worked really well. good luck "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." β Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: HELP HELP HELP US NEIGHBOURS 6Feb 03, 2011 6:58 am Hi Pete and Mala, I'm building in Somerfield too! Currently going through the same process as you. Checkout: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=24067 lots of info for you there. For the conctete I'm currently talking to Mentone PreMix. They have done a lot of the other driveways in the estate and can organise tradies. For the fencing I have a few guys quoting at the moment. Will let you know if any come back reasonable. For the turf, im going with real grass, so can't help you there. But a landscapper will prob do the turf and paving? For the pergola, I looked at Stratco. They seemed to have some nice designs. But decided to go with a shade sail in the short term instead. You can register a jobs on something like http://www.tradeconnect.com.au/ and get the trades to call you. Hope that helps, Milesy it depends on the natural ground level, if they excavated their boundary wall needed to be built as a retaining wall. If you filled, which sounds like the case then you… 1 7086 The only thing to add to these comments is that where possible it's always good to try and work with people than just say "no" because you can. Having someone… 4 17151 Hi there, long-time lurker but first time posting. I've bought a house 2 and a bit years ago and last year we had some major water damage on a converted pergola area… 0 7936 |