The maintenance guy did a good job the other day in picking up a problem with our insulation the other day. The insulation job wasn't completed properly and their sub-contractors will be fixing that this weekend.
For all of you who have recently moved into your new house. Try to get a ladder, climb into the man hole and check the insulation installation above your ceiling. See if you are also one of the "lucky"(or unlucky?) ones like us who's insulation job wasn't completed properly. Honestly, I really suspect how many new house owner would spend the time & effort to check the above-ceiling area...
[Update] Sorry, I accidentally deleted this post by mistake. Got it restored now...
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
[Progress.146] Some Updates
We have someone from BlueScope Steel on site the other day to check our rain water tank and confirmed there's a problem with the pump. Unfortunately due to the holiday we have to wait until early January to have the plumber back to fix the pump.
The insulation fix work was completed as well, will try to post a few photos later.
The most important update however, is our court case against Demir Leather. After a few months' of fight, we lodged an application to the NSW Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal (CTTT) and they finally decided to refund our deposit. A huge victory for us!
The insulation fix work was completed as well, will try to post a few photos later.
The most important update however, is our court case against Demir Leather. After a few months' of fight, we lodged an application to the NSW Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal (CTTT) and they finally decided to refund our deposit. A huge victory for us!
Friday, 12 December 2008
[Others.029] Tracking Aircraft Noises
One of the annoying thing you should try to avoid when buying a house is aircraft noises. And the best way to find out more information would be to find out all the flight paths for the airports in your city.
There's this web site which shows the flight paths and noise levels from different monitors. Click on "location" on the left hand navigation bar, pick a city and you can see the current flight operations on the browser(with 40 min delay for security reason).
I found it quite interesting watching so many planes coming in and out of the airport. As shown below you can also have a clear view of the flight path for different aircrafts.
As shown below in the yellow bubble, whenever an aircraft approaches the sensor, it will change colour and show the noise level.
Wonder if there's services like this for other major international airports. Would be interesting to see the flight paths for all the very busy ones like New York or London looks like...
There's this web site which shows the flight paths and noise levels from different monitors. Click on "location" on the left hand navigation bar, pick a city and you can see the current flight operations on the browser(with 40 min delay for security reason).
I found it quite interesting watching so many planes coming in and out of the airport. As shown below you can also have a clear view of the flight path for different aircrafts.
As shown below in the yellow bubble, whenever an aircraft approaches the sensor, it will change colour and show the noise level.
Wonder if there's services like this for other major international airports. Would be interesting to see the flight paths for all the very busy ones like New York or London looks like...
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
[Others.028] Noisy Choppers
Don't know what happened, last night started from around 8:30 pm, we could hear very loud chopper noises from somewhere in the sky. As we were closed to the old Channel 7 site, we thought it's just someone visiting the site by helicopter. But then it came back again and again, about 5 to 6 times in total, circling the sky in huge circles, about 15 - 20 min per trip. I checked from the backyard and I could visually see 4 choppers flying across the sky. I tried to take some photo & video but unfortunately my equipments were not professional enough for the dark night and only record the noise. The strange part was, I noticed only the last one has a red flashing light at the tail part but the first 3 had no light turned on at all. We thought it might be some sort of anti-terrorist training by the police or army. Flying late at night in residential areas in such low altitude, making so much noises was very annoying when we all trying to have some quiet rest after long day at work. Wonder if anyone in Sydney area also noticed that last night.
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
[PropertyInfo.033] More construction work on our street!
The other day I was awaken early in the morning by some machinery noise from the street. Have a look from the windows and found some guys working on the trees for the house across the street. It was a very special day for them, because their DA finally got approved by the council!
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I mentioned in this post last November that there were 2 construction applications been lodged to council at roughly the same time, both to be built by Eden Brae.
The one on the other side of the street was approved within a few months, and right now they are already closed to lock-up stage.
The unlucky one right across the road from ours was knocked back a few times due to neighbours complaining about water drainage related issues and finally got approved in mid/end of November - almost 12 months of long battle.
According to an old neighbour who has lived on this street for more than 25 years, that side of the street was much lower than the street, and many years ago there used to be a huge pond at the backyard of those houses. It should be council's responsibility to fix the drainage but as we all know, there's always things that are more important and therefore nothing was done on that even though everyone complaints about it many times. And now when this new owners with no knowledge of the situation purchased the old house and applied for building a new house, both the council and the surrounding neighbours took this excellent opportunity to get the poor fellow to double, triple the size of water tank, do lots of extra things to help with the situation...
Now that it's finally approved, good luck to them and hopefully everything after that would be easier and less trouble...
Hope this helps anyone thinking of purchasing a property to think twice before buying a house/land that's lower than street level. Make sure you do lots of homework before you sign the dotted line!
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I mentioned in this post last November that there were 2 construction applications been lodged to council at roughly the same time, both to be built by Eden Brae.
The one on the other side of the street was approved within a few months, and right now they are already closed to lock-up stage.
The unlucky one right across the road from ours was knocked back a few times due to neighbours complaining about water drainage related issues and finally got approved in mid/end of November - almost 12 months of long battle.
According to an old neighbour who has lived on this street for more than 25 years, that side of the street was much lower than the street, and many years ago there used to be a huge pond at the backyard of those houses. It should be council's responsibility to fix the drainage but as we all know, there's always things that are more important and therefore nothing was done on that even though everyone complaints about it many times. And now when this new owners with no knowledge of the situation purchased the old house and applied for building a new house, both the council and the surrounding neighbours took this excellent opportunity to get the poor fellow to double, triple the size of water tank, do lots of extra things to help with the situation...
Now that it's finally approved, good luck to them and hopefully everything after that would be easier and less trouble...
Hope this helps anyone thinking of purchasing a property to think twice before buying a house/land that's lower than street level. Make sure you do lots of homework before you sign the dotted line!
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