What is your idea of a challenge? (38)
kizzy27a south coast beach, New South Wales Australia106 Threads 6 Polls 7,413 PostsHi Ven, a little over a year ago I bought this house I was terrified at the prospect of renovating as Im not very handy but ,It was a bargain locate at the beach for $250,000 4bed 2 bath, solar hw ac rear lane access & a sunroom The house itself was wrecked inside & the exterior looked like a junkyard.It belonged to a man who was arrested for drug dealing thru his buisness i jst happened to be in the right place at the right time I have ( with help)repainted fixed every hole remodelled a bathroom,recarpeted the entire house & tommorrow I am knocking the sunroom wall out and having bifolds put in a 25 sq meter deck with a roof will lead out to 2 wide timber steps leading down to 25 metres of pavers,I am having a firepit placed in the centre with stone benches around 2 sides I have put in a pond with a creekbed made of river stones & off to the side an outdoor open air rainforest shower hot /cold water friends have helped me do alot of it but all this has added up to just under $25,000.The house has a studio to the side which I have made into a bunk house for the kids.We have decorated the entire house in a beach holiday theme I has turned out great !!!~ My Daughter and I will be renting the house out for january each year and travelling together on the proceeds ! 
My big challenge was building a fiberglass boat from sketchy plans. Succeeded but by then had lost interest in boating and sold the boat.
robplum: http://www.paalkithomes.com.au/
Oh venere, you'd probably be needing more than one builder to build the one like the one they display on there home page
Oh venere, you'd probably be needing more than one builder to build the one like the one they display on there home page
My feeling exactly, Rob!...Did you check out the comments from the satisfied customers, where the 41yr old 'granny' build one of their huge homes, single-handedly??
SunshineOnaRainy: My Idea of a challenge is trying to push a bloody supermarket trolley in a straight line :)
Hi Sunshine, the person who succeeds will go in the Guiness book of records!
kizzy27: Hi Ven, a little over a year ago I bought this house I was terrified at the prospect of renovating as Im not very handy but ,It was a bargain locate at the beach for $250,000 4bed 2 bath, solar hw ac rear lane access & a sunroom The house itself was wrecked inside & the exterior looked like a junkyard.It belonged to a man who was arrested for drug dealing thru his buisness i jst happened to be in the right place at the right time I have ( with help)repainted fixed every hole remodelled a bathroom,recarpeted the entire house & tommorrow I am knocking the sunroom wall out and having bifolds put in a 25 sq meter deck with a roof will lead out to 2 wide timber steps leading down to 25 metres of pavers,I am having a firepit placed in the centre with stone benches around 2 sides I have put in a pond with a creekbed made of river stones & off to the side an outdoor open air rainforest shower hot /cold water friends have helped me do alot of it but all this has added up to just under $25,000.The house has a studio to the side which I have made into a bunk house for the kids.We have decorated the entire house in a beach holiday theme I has turned out great !!!~ My Daughter and I will be renting the house out for january each year and travelling together on the proceeds !
Well done to you, kizzy! Sounds heavenly. Some hard work there, but fantastically satisfying, no doubt.
Newlife08: I wouldn't even attempt anything from Ikea so a kit home would be well and truly beyond my expertise which is NIL!!
I don't have the patience if things don't work first time
I don't have the patience if things don't work first time
I think if the instructions are CLEAR and all pieces are there/holes in right place, that's half the battle won. Unfortunately, time and again, instructions are too brief, illegible and so on. Makes for a right challenge!
robplum: http://www.paalkithomes.com.au/
Oh venere, you'd probably be needing more than one builder to build the one like the one they display on there home page
Oh venere, you'd probably be needing more than one builder to build the one like the one they display on there home page
Yeah, right, sure thing, not a worry...I can do that!
you should get Angie to do iton her own see how long it takes her to set out the slab, pour concrete with all the plumbing in right places, toss up the frames, roof trusses, the roof, bricks (or other cladding) and render to lock up single handed in just a couple months, no worries a blind grand-mar could do it
on her own see how long it takes her to set out the slab, pour concrete with all the plumbing in right places, toss up the frames, roof trusses, the roof, bricks (or other cladding) and render to lock up single handed in just a couple months, no worries a blind grand-mar could do it Newlife08: I wouldn't even attempt anything from Ikea so a kit home would be well and truly beyond my expertise which is NIL!!
I don't have the patience if things don't work first time
I don't have the patience if things don't work first time
Ikea is the classic for kit constuction. Well made items that actually fit, extensive plans to follow, all parts supplied. And it takes forever to get it right.
Kit homes are 'easy' to erect, if you know how. And it takes a bit of labour to get it done. Councils are a bit fussy about a lot of things because they do not want you to erect a home that will be eaten by termites, placed on a loose slope where the house will slide down the hill, be in an intermitant watercourse which will flood you out every time it rains, have the house fall down because of poor foundations, and many other reasons - often seem so piddly and why do they bother. But the homeowner is the first to scream at Councils when something goes wrong because "you f....... approved it."
robplum: you should get Angie to do iton her own see how long it takes her to set out the slab, pour concrete with all the plumbing in right places, toss up the frames, roof trusses, the roof, bricks (or other cladding) and render to lock up single handed in just a couple months, no worries a blind grand-mar could do it
Yes, I feel like contacting the company and ask if I could be put in touch with this Angie. I'd like to know what she eats and drinks, and order the same.
Man challenges compulsory voting law
By Loukas Founten
Updated April 03, 2012 15:00:09
Court told voting is a right but not a duty (Shannon Stapleton: Reuters)
A man is fighting in the courts against compulsory voting for federal and state elections.
Anders Holmdahl, 65, decided not to vote in the federal poll in August 2010.
He wanted to set up a legal challenge to compulsory voting.
Holmdahl was found guilty by a magistrate for failing to vote, but is appealing against his conviction in the South Australian Supreme Court on legal grounds relating to whether he was compelled to vote.
Kevin Borick QC told the court voting was a right, not a duty, and argued that compelling someone to vote destroyed that right.
He said the term vote had never been defined by legislation.
Holmdahl has indicated his fight is likely to go to the High Court regardless of any ruling by Supreme Court Justice Tom Gray.
By Loukas Founten
Updated April 03, 2012 15:00:09
Court told voting is a right but not a duty (Shannon Stapleton: Reuters)
A man is fighting in the courts against compulsory voting for federal and state elections.
Anders Holmdahl, 65, decided not to vote in the federal poll in August 2010.
He wanted to set up a legal challenge to compulsory voting.
Holmdahl was found guilty by a magistrate for failing to vote, but is appealing against his conviction in the South Australian Supreme Court on legal grounds relating to whether he was compelled to vote.
Kevin Borick QC told the court voting was a right, not a duty, and argued that compelling someone to vote destroyed that right.
He said the term vote had never been defined by legislation.
Holmdahl has indicated his fight is likely to go to the High Court regardless of any ruling by Supreme Court Justice Tom Gray.
finding a partner is very challenging.
some say it's a lot easier patching things up with your ex
some say it's a lot easier patching things up with your ex
daggyone: finding a partner is very challenging.
some say it's a lot easier patching things up with your ex
some say it's a lot easier patching things up with your ex
No doubt, but it's also a cop-out
daggyone: finding a partner is very challenging.
some say it's a lot easier patching things up with your ex
some say it's a lot easier patching things up with your ex
Quite obviously, you don't subscribe to that.
robplum: Man challenges compulsory voting law
A man is fighting in the courts against compulsory voting for federal and state elections.
Holmdahl was found guilty by a magistrate for failing to vote,
A man is fighting in the courts against compulsory voting for federal and state elections.
Holmdahl was found guilty by a magistrate for failing to vote,
In early Australia, you had to prove you were worthy of having the right to vote and I do have somewhere one of the family's voting right. And it was SA that was the first to allow women to vote. Federation resulted in 'all being equal' and basically said that everyone over 21 must vote (changed by Whitlam to 18 so he had the Uni student vote but that backfired on him). However, there was an exclusion clause that Indigenous Australians were exempt from compulsory voting, often interpreted to mean "not permitted.' All changed now but the law does say that you must vote (who ticks the boxes anyway?).
Like tax returns. Law says you must submit a tax return form if you earn over some amount and then sign a Stat Dec saying all you have entered is "true and correct" (not legal as no witness required). So put you name and address, tax file number and ignore the rest and sign and send. All true and correct what you filled in and submitted as required by law
Although you are likely have to spend many years worrying about the hassle they give you trying to get the information.Some laws make no sense at all to so many of us and are often changed. Although there was one bit of legislation in NSW that was repealed in the 80s which I found dissapointing to get rid of. If a gentleman was caught-out without a nearby public convenience, Police were obliged to hold out their cape to give him privacy during the event.
wash2u: In early Australia, you had to prove you were worthy of having the right to vote and I do have somewhere one of the family's voting right. And it was SA that was the first to allow women to vote. Federation resulted in 'all being equal' and basically said that everyone over 21 must vote (changed by Whitlam to 18 so he had the Uni student vote but that backfired on him). However, there was an exclusion clause that Indigenous Australians were exempt from compulsory voting, often interpreted to mean "not permitted.' All changed now but the law does say that you must vote (who ticks the boxes anyway?).
Like tax returns. Law says you must submit a tax return form if you earn over some amount and then sign a Stat Dec saying all you have entered is "true and correct" (not legal as no witness required). So put you name and address, tax file number and ignore the rest and sign and send. All true and correct what you filled in and submitted as required by law Although you are likely have to spend many years worrying about the hassle they give you trying to get the information.
Some laws make no sense at all to so many of us and are often changed. Although there was one bit of legislation in NSW that was repealed in the 80s which I found dissapointing to get rid of. If a gentleman was caught-out without a nearby public convenience, Police were obliged to hold out their cape to give him privacy during the event.
Like tax returns. Law says you must submit a tax return form if you earn over some amount and then sign a Stat Dec saying all you have entered is "true and correct" (not legal as no witness required). So put you name and address, tax file number and ignore the rest and sign and send. All true and correct what you filled in and submitted as required by law Although you are likely have to spend many years worrying about the hassle they give you trying to get the information.
Some laws make no sense at all to so many of us and are often changed. Although there was one bit of legislation in NSW that was repealed in the 80s which I found dissapointing to get rid of. If a gentleman was caught-out without a nearby public convenience, Police were obliged to hold out their cape to give him privacy during the event.
Currently
A person does not need to or have to enroll on the electional roll,(regards of the crap the States put out) you only must if you have enrolled.
41.
Right of electors of States.
No adult person who has or acquires a right to vote at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of a State shall, while the right continues, be prevented by any law of the Commonwealth from voting at elections for either House of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
109.
Inconsistency of laws.
When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid
yes
127.
Aborigines not to be counted in reckoning population.
In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.
Do not try to build a kit home by yourself.
I live in a kit home. I employed a qualified and licenced builder to put it together. Even he struggled with the kit, which he described as nothing them than a pile of wood and a dodgy plan.
Even though 99% of builders are compulsive liars and thieves, find yourself a builder to do the job. You do not need that sort of angst and pain in your life . . . and the exercise would become very expensive indeed if you had to use a builder later to do corrective work.
I live in a kit home. I employed a qualified and licenced builder to put it together. Even he struggled with the kit, which he described as nothing them than a pile of wood and a dodgy plan.
Even though 99% of builders are compulsive liars and thieves, find yourself a builder to do the job. You do not need that sort of angst and pain in your life . . . and the exercise would become very expensive indeed if you had to use a builder later to do corrective work.
My Idea of a challenge is trying to get one of them old fashioned girdles off a woman
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