About Me

Lots of people are aware of the funny idiosyncrasies of the Australian language...... a common tip for visitors keen to sound like a local, add an “o” to the end of each word, a ‘servo’ is a service station, rego is the car registration, the bottle-o is the bottle shop and reno is renovation. We are renovating our home, in other words, “we’re doing some reno’s”! This is our attempt at a blog, a way to describe the journey of the reno’s, an extended tale that's taken us from our little flat near a beach in Sydney, to our little miners cottage in Melbourne, come to think of it... we might call it the “reno blogo”.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Floorboards



What is it?
A floorboard puller uppera

Where do you get it from?
You can hire one from Kennards

How much does it cost?
$60 for a weekend

How does it work?
Well you kill a couple of floorboards first and then you just sort of get in there are "jimmy" the rest of them out.

Is it worth it?
Yes!
Either way you'll sacrifice a few floorboards but man if the house is old, those floorboards have been nailed in for like forever... and it's not that easy 'easing' them out..
We split quite a few floorboards but would have split heaps more if we didn't have that crazy tool!

So here's the living room before and after:




B1 went from this:



to this:



And the progression of B2:



And the hallway...



It's just so much fun isn't it??
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