Accepted Products for Recycling
Responsible household waste disposal is more than just throwing out your rubbish. A tour of the Kimbriki Eco Garden with Environmental Consultant Peter Rutherford, will show you better ways to sort, manage and recycle your kitchen and garden ... [... more]
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Building Materials Auction
Once you've discovered building materials auctions, you'll never want to go back to paying full retail prices! At a building materials auction, you can pick up a huge range of goods at bargain prices. Every second Tuesday at Gray Eisdell Timms in ... [... more]
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Recycled Kitchen
When they decided to renovate their kitchen, the owners of this house wanted to minimise cost but didn't want to skimp on quality. Responding to an advertisement in the classifieds, they bought a 12-month-old kitchen for only $2500. The kitchen ... [... more]
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Snug snow chalet
A chalet on the ski fields needs snow-friendly features to make it liveable in the winter months. It must withstand high winds and freezing conditions. Hotham House, on the ski fields at Mt Hotham in Victoria, is built from western red cedar, ... [... more]
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Dobbie house
This environmentally-friendly home really stands out from the crowd. When the Dobbie family built their house at Green Point Estate near Lake Macquarie, they had two things in mind. Complementing the rural setting and environmental conditions ... [... more]
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Island home
Dream of living the island life? This family has done it - and all on a shoestring budget! Rebecca visits a family who have chosen to leave the city for a bush lifestyle. Having dreamt of a waterfront property without the Sydney price tag, they ... [... more]
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Rustic Cottage
A Victorian couple turns a run down dairy farm into a rustic cottage. About 25 years ago Mandi and Ron Heath found a former dairy farm on 20 hectares near Maldon, Victoria. When they first got there, they had very little to work with - just one ... [... more]
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Bathroom fan
Here is an exhaust fan for the bathroom that won't add to your electricity bill We look at the installation of the Enviro fan for use in bathrooms. It is a ceiling exhaust fan, driven by water which moves through the system when the tap is turned ... [... more]
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It's OK Cleaning Products
Linda Edwards and her daughter Simone operate a Gold Coast company called "Capture It". Linda has come up with her own line of cleaning products, with the brand name "It's OK". Her products are Australian made, naturally based and are [... more]
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Sydney Antique Centre
You've no doubt heard the old saying that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Well, it's certainly true of the Sydney Antique Centre, one of the largest collections of some of the most diverse antiques in the country. The Sydney Antique ... [... more]
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Geelong furniture
Unusual materials and quality craftsmanship result in this wacky furniture. When Shirl visited these two men back in 1994, they'd just begun their own furniture company, turning recycled fence palings into unusual pieces of furniture. Well, ... [... more]
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Reverse Garbage
Grab a bargain from Reverse Garbage, a company that collects unwanted stuff destined for landfill sites. Reverse Garbage is a community co-operative dedicated to recycling waste for household use, arts and crafts. They sell industrial leftovers, ... [... more]
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