Plan a garage around the car first, then zone the walls, bench and ceiling so storage and a workshop fit without blocking a door.
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Attached or detached garage? On most Melbourne blocks the frontage, easements, overlays and driveway access decide it before your preference does. Here is how to read your site.
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Two builders can quote the same pergola and land thousands apart without either of them being dodgy. The word pergola
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Louvres, shade sails or a retractable canopy over your pergola? A straight comparison of how each handles Melbourne sun, rain, wind and upkeep, and which suits which backyard.
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The short answer: attach the pergola if you want it working as an extension of the room behind it, and
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What decides your carport footings is not the carport, it is the soil under it. Site classification, footing options, tie down and what to line up before you get quotes.
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Carport kit or custom build in Melbourne? What a kit leaves out, where reactive clay and slopes bite, and the costs people miss.
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A garage usually adds more to the sale price, but a carport adds more value per dollar. What your Melbourne block, budget and street actually decide.
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Walk out the front of most Melbourne homes and the driveway takes up more of the view than the garden
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A cracked or stained driveway does not always need replacing. Here is how to tell whether a resurface will do the job or whether the base underneath has actually failed.
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