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Shading Elegance: A Comprehensive Guide to Window Tinting in Mandurah

This comprehensive guide sheds light on the transformative world of window tinting in the sun-kissed haven of Mandurah. Focusing on the dual challenges of glare and UV protection inherent to Mandurah's coastal climate, the guide navigates through the myriad benefits that tinted windows bring to homes, vehicles, and businesses alike.

From enhancing privacy to regulating interior temperatures, window tinting emerges as a practical and aesthetic solution that aligns seamlessly with Mandurah's lifestyle. The guide explores trends in residential and commercial applications, showcasing how window tinting becomes an integral part of Mandurah's architectural landscape.

With a spotlight on types of window tinting, legislative considerations, and the choice between DIY and professional installation, Mandurah's residents gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence their tinting decisions. The guide concludes with practical tips for the maintenance and care of tinted windows, ensuring a shaded legacy that withstands the coastal elements.

As Mandurah's homes, vehicles, and businesses embrace the shaded serenity provided by window tinting, this guide stands as a valuable resource, illuminating the path toward elegance, comfort, and protection in the midst of Mandurah's radiant sunshine.

[ohheybaby0]

Unveiling the Marvels of Baby Ultrasound: A Window to Precious Moments in Perth

The journey of pregnancy is an awe-inspiring and transformative experience for expectant parents. As technology advances, so does our ability to witness and understand the development of a growing life within the womb. One such breakthrough in prenatal care is the baby ultrasound, a non-invasive and safe procedure that offers a multitude of benefits to both parents and healthcare professionals in Perth. In this article, we explore the remarkable advantages of baby ultrasound, shedding light on its pivotal role in enhancing prenatal care and fostering a deeper connection between parents and their unborn child.

Early Detection and Monitoring:

Baby ultrasounds serve as powerful diagnostic tools that enable healthcare professionals to identify and address potential issues early on in the pregnancy journey. By utilizing ultrasound technology, doctors can monitor fetal growth, detect any abnormalities, and assess the overall health of the baby. This early detection allows for timely interventions and appropriate management of any potential concerns, promoting the well-being of both the baby and the expectant mother.

Bonding and Emotional Connection:

For parents, the experience of seeing their baby's image on the ultrasound screen can be an emotional and profound moment. The visual confirmation of their child's existence brings about a sense of connection and attachment, further deepening the bond between parents and their unborn baby. This remarkable experience allows expectant mothers and fathers to visualize and share their joy with loved ones, fostering a sense of shared anticipation and emotional support.

Gender Reveal and Family Celebration:

The baby ultrasound also offers an opportunity for expectant parents to partake in the joyous tradition of gender reveal celebrations. As the ultrasound technician unveils the gender of the baby, the room fills with excitement and anticipation. Family and friends can gather to celebrate this momentous occasion, creating lasting memories and building a sense of community around the new addition to the family.

Early Pregnancy Confirmation:

Ultrasounds can provide expectant mothers with the assurance of a successful pregnancy. Confirming the presence of a gestational sac, fetal heartbeat, and estimated due date through ultrasound imaging can alleviate anxiety and offer peace of mind during the early stages of pregnancy. This confirmation allows parents to begin planning and making necessary arrangements for the arrival of their little one.

Educational Opportunities:

Baby ultrasounds serve as educational tools, helping parents and families better understand the development and growth of their unborn child. Through real-time visualizations, parents can witness the miraculous process of their baby's formation, observing the development of vital organs, limbs, and other significant milestones. This knowledge empowers parents to make informed decisions and engage actively in their child's prenatal care.

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Dog Groomers In Mandurah

At Dog Groomers Mandurah we understand that every dog is unique and has different needs. We always make the wellbeing of your dog a priority, taking the time to ensure that the dog grooming experience is a positive one. We offer a high quality groom, which includes the following services:

bath, brush and blow dry nail clipping pad trimming ear plucking/cleaning full, breed-standard grooms scissor work de-shedding dogs hand-stripping doggy spa treatments

Mandurah Dog Grooming is a professional and friendly dog grooming salon based in Mandurah, Halls Head, Secret Harbour Dog Groomers which offers the best dog washing service for your best friend.

Why choose Dog Groomers Halls Head?

we have a calm, relaxed and friendly approach and environment only one dog at a time is present in the salon we never rush the grooming process. We recognise when a dog needs a break and they are able to stretch their legs and have a toilet break when necessary we do not use cages, crates or cabinet dryers, thus reducing unnecessary stress we work in a fully equipped modern salon. We maintain high standards of hygiene and all equipment is sterilised after each Dog Washing Service

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The dedicated team at All Weld Onsite have vast experience and innovative ideas to successfully complete the most challenging of fabrication and erection projects. Our highly skilled tradespeople and labour force are supported and guided by our team of effective Project Managers and office personnal to ensure complete customer satisfaction.

Every job is important to us, which is why we pride ourselves on working directly with your specific requirements from initial job concept to delivering the finished product. We have a team of specialists with many areas of expertise, who can do all onsite welding jobs, surface treatment and much more.

[artinovo]

Used to have my own sound chamber ( a conical pyramid shaped structure in Mandurah ) a few years ago. Now I have my Gongs set up at home, in a slightly more intimate environment 😉 But for a while I traveled up to the E-Shed markets and played monthly in the yoga studio upstairs.... Maybe you do yoga somewhere in or near Mandurah and think that would be fun to experience, please DM me😉😁👍 I’m available for private sessions, but I’m open to travel to do groups🤷‍♂️ #gongs #inspiring #relaxing #design #atmospheric #music #beautiful #meditation #love #soundtherapy #underwater #meditationmusic #healingtones #sonicjourney #coverart #interior #musicforsleep #waves #solfeggiofrequencies #cool #style #ambient #original #soundbath #artistic #artist #photograph #graphic #albumcover #cds https://www.instagram.com/p/CF_gkW4Hgpu/?igshid=rpz9cggf0i9o

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New and Witchy

Guest post

An Interview With My Author

By Rosemary Bell – Heroine of New Witch on the Block

What made you decide to write my story?

As someone who has spent time as a single mum, I am fascinated by the plight of women who are striving to slay it in their everyday lives: mums who work full-time, mums who are at home full-time (because that has a whole other set of challenges), mums who are in-between, or run their own businesses… the list goes on! I knew I wanted you to be a witch, and that I wanted moving to have to be a difficult experience for you. Giving you a downright reprehensible ex-husband whose influence you needed to overcome so that you could bloom into the woman you always were deep down inside meant I got to see your grow throughout the book. Adding the witchery on top of all that seemed like a logical step – but you needed to believe in yourself before you could believe in magic!

I see. Randy sure is a piece of work, so thanks for that I guess? Moving on – why Mosswood?

I’ve always been fascinated with the United States, ever since I was a little girl. A few failed attempts at visiting has meant that for the short-term future at least, my experiences of the US will need to happen through books, TV shows, and movies. I love the pictures painted of places like Bon Temps (Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series) Mystic Falls (L. J. Smiths’ The Vampire Diaries series) and New Orleans in general – so it made sense to set my series in the South. My editor is Southern and is an incredible source of real-life info, helping me adapt my language. And then once I knew I wanted a really tiny town surrounded by woods, I got my ten year old daughter to draw me a map! Kids are so inventive, and she thought of things that I never would have thought of. I loved collaborating with her on the project, and the story is so much richer for it. 

That’s actually adorable, bless her! But for real now – was the palmetto bug really necessary? And the biceps? Were the biceps really necessary? And the laundry machines? The skunks?! Actually nevermind, we aren’t speaking.

Stop being overly dramatic, it was just a bug? And sexy biceps. And… well okay, the skunks probably didn’t need to scare the crap out of you, so I’m a teeny bit sorry for those. 

Did you feel even remotely bad for any of the hurdles you threw my way during the course of the book?

Not really! The scene with the eggs was difficult to write, because I was actually imagining it happening to myself and my daughter as I was writing it and I shed a tear or two, I can’t lie! But everything that made it into the book was totally necessary for your growth and development as a character, so I can’t be too sorry! And I mean, sure Declan is annoying, but could you really call him a ‘hurdle’? Heh.

What about the naked magic casting? Did you feel bad about that? Because that was just unfair.

Not in the slightest, and I will do it again in a heartbeat. You needed to come out of your shell, figuratively and literally – and those scenes really demonstrate your transition from Randy’s Rosie to your own person in so many ways. In fact, the last of those scenes might just be my favourite scene in the whole book!

What’s in store for me in Jealousy’s a Witch? The title sounds ominous.

There will be a huge raft of new characters, and new places in Mosswood to explore in-depth! The plot definitely takes a turn – you discover that Declan’s been keeping a pretty big secret from you that makes you re-think your whole association with him. Maggie will experience a lot of growth in the book too, and the main plotline revolves around some dangerous situations for her. It’s gonna be a wild ride!

That makes me worried for Maggie! Will she be okay?

Absolutely – but it wouldn’t be the type of book I write without a little drama! She will come out of Jealousy’s a Witch with a rather cool experience of her own – but I don’t wanna spoil it for you!

 Author Bio

 Author by day, Netflix connoisseur by night.

 Louisa likes Pina Coladas and gettin’ caught in the rain. Determined to empty her brain of stories, she writes across several genres including fantasy, speculative fiction, contemporary and historical fiction, and romance.

 She lives in Mandurah, Western Australia, and drinks more coffee than is good for her. When she’s not writing or researching projects, Louisa enjoys spending time with her family, and Harriet The Great (Dane). Hobbies include playing video games, watching copious amounts of tv, and various craft-related initiatives.

 She strongly believes that the truth is still out there.

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[stevetervet]

Mad dogs and Englishmen

At twelve noon the natives swoon And no further work is done But mad dogs and Englishmen Go out in the midday sun

Noel Coward’s words still ring true, it has to be said, as a glance at the car thermometer shows a reading of 40 degrees just a few minutes before 12pm. In our defence, we are on the way home as opposed to heading out into said sun, and this Saturday morning swim did feel particularly refreshing, although there is definitely a mad dog element to attempting anything outdoors on a midsummer’s day such as this while all the locals, wise to the weather, hibernate indoors.

Bushfire smoke, rolling in from Canberra, is another reminder of the dangers which will remain throughout February and probably beyond - but it’s good to be back in Albury after recharging the batteries in Western Australia.

If I told you Rachel had to go to hospital the day after we discovered a snake in the beach cottage, you’d inevitably put two and two together and come up with five, but the two incidents were totally unrelated and doctors dismissed their patient without a worry or the need for any treatment.

It was an absolute treat to be so close to the beach in Shoalwater Bay, and some of the holes we dug must have tunnelled halfway back to England, but the adventurer inside each of us was silently looking forward to some trips further afield - and they duly came.

First stop was Rottnest Island, a 30-minute boat ride from Fremantle picking a path between the colossal tankers anchored a few kilometres out from port. It was straight to the cycle shed for Team Tervet upon arrival and off we biked to the north coast, taking in the beaches at The Basin, Longreach and Geordie Bay before leaving the coast behind and heading to the centre of the island. The views from Oliver Hill Lookout would no doubt have been impressive - but worth coaxing a four-year-old to make the steep climb to get there? We decided not, and swung east back towards the tourist hub and our departure point. The gusty afternoon winds which had been forecast arrived on cue and our voyage back to the mainland was anything but plain sailing. Look left and you could only see the sky, look right and there was the trough of a big wave, before the spray splattered very window and the pendulum began to swing back the other way. To see a crew member walking the gangway handing out sick bags did little to settle anyone’s anxieties, and how he stayed on his feet I’ll never know. Even back on terra firma, the swaying feeling took quite some time to fade.

Rachel wanted postcards but $2 each was daylight robbery so we kept our powder dry. And it cost exactly that to park the car at the train station for (up to) 24 hours the following day so we certainly felt vindicated. Public transport around Perth is so easy and good value into the bargain. It’s a small city and not hard to find your way around, so we traversed between landmarks without much difficulty. Top of the pile on this occasion was Elizabeth Quay, recently redeveloped and very much family-friendly with a cracking kids playground. Ivy also loved her ride on the carousel and we were handed a loyalty card, but the chances of her racking up nine stamps within 12 months and getting a 10th go free are microscopic.

The Mandurah Line runs down the centre of the freeway for most of the way, so travelling by train gives you plenty of opportunities to feel smug as you survey the slowing traffic beyond, although it was us in the car on that exact stretch of bitumen the following day as John & Cilla joined us for a venture into King’s Park - definitely the jewel in Perth’s crown. With more play areas than you could shake a stick at, including the superb Rio Tinto Naturescape, we could have stayed all day, and the views over the Swan River are still just as special as our first visit eight years ago. I loved answering Ivy’s questions about the State War Memorial; it’s so important kids know why we choose to remember those who fought for our freedom so many years ago.

Then came a real change of pace, and direction, as we embarked on a road trip to the south-west corner of Australia. Bunbury has a Dome coffee shop going for it, if little else, but it’s a good place to break the journey as is Manjimup, the last outpost before you plunge into the imposing Southern Forest. It’s about 120km from there to Walpole, all twists and turns, ups and downs, with no more than about 500m of the road visible at any one time. That made overtaking a real challenge so it was heart-in-mouth stuff when you did make the move, and a good buzz at the same time.

Walking 70m above the forest floor at the Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk was good fun but even better was the experience at ground level, marvelling at the monstrous red tingle trees and standing inside the charred holes left in some of the biggest by past fires.

Staying in Walpole with John’s brother, Harold, allowed us to venture off the beaten track and see some real hidden gems. We discovered the Deep River isn’t actually that deep, how the Thompsons of Tinglewood saved a Norwegian crew from their shipwreck back in 1911 and visited that exact spot, Mandalay Beach, where the remains of that wreck are exposed every 10 years or so as the beach erodes. It was hidden well below the sand when we visited but the pounding surf, stormy skies and rugged coastline made it well worth the off-road drive.

Our time on the south coast over, a fair drive lay ahead so we cracked on and after pausing briefly in Nannup, ate up the kilometres through more forests before emerging into the holidaying hordes around Geographe Bay. “You’re permitted to let a ‘wow’ escape” when the coastline at Yallingup comes into view” said our Lonely Planet book, and we sure did, with golden sand and ripping surf bordered by imposing cliffs while the sun shone bright.

We spent that night in Busselton - fish & chips on the beach mandatory - but $4 just to walk on the jetty? A deal no better than the Rotto postcards so instead we took our time having breakfast and then rolled back up the coast to Rockingham.

The ‘red eye’ flight back from Perth probably took more out of us than any of the exploits in WA. Hardly surprising, I guess, given that we took off at 11pm and gained three hours in the course of a four-hour flight. There can’t be many other places in the world where that’s the case.

And so to February, the start of Australian life returning to normal after the summer holidays. Ivy has started Kindergarten and already the kids have been kept inside at lunchtime because of the extreme heat.

Everyone’s following suit at the moment.

Except mad dogs and Englishmen.

[leanpick]

Man ‘squatting at Cooper Street home’ before his body found in Mandurah shed

Man ‘squatting at Cooper Street home’ before his body found in Mandurah shed

Neighbours say the man found dead at a property in central Mandurah had been squatting at the home in the days leading up to his death.

A visitor to the Cooper Street home arrived at 11.30am on Friday and phoned police, telling them there was a man asleep in the back shed.

But when officers arrived at the home, they discovered the 23-year-old man’s body.

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….The outside

Sunday 20 November 2016 – Sunday 11 December 2016

Its been  three weeks  a millennium or so since the last update and although the speed of the build and the changes to the physical appearance of the exterior have slowed somewhat we are progressing ever forward. Ash has just had a couple of weeks off to attend to some of his other clients needs, and Nino also took the opportunity to take a weeks’ leave and tidy up some loose ends which naturally occur when you are devoting so much time continuously to the one project.

That said the front deck is now almost complete from one end of the house to the other.

Eastern End Finished

East to Main Deck

Main Deck

Main Deck to Western End

I’m the hold up on the unfinished portion of  the Western End. The cladding underneath this bit of unfinished deck (aka: above the Secret Men’s Business door) needs to be done before completing the  deck above, and I have to decide how this is to be finished.

  The entry to the main door  and pantry have been framed and the same Duralife decking has been installed. Eamon Hurley  is the man to ring for orders and quotes.

The finished main Entrance.

We will use leftover  Glass Balustrade channel to frame our entrances with glass (or something else. 😄)

The other two entrances on this south side have also been framed and decked.The pantry

….And the Laundry.

We decided to included a ramp instead of the original stairs after seeing how high the deck was above ground level, that then necessitated a change of framing which was accomplished with little fuss and the usual enthusiasm. ( While I was present anyway!) We figure stainless wire as a balustrade here, so as we can continue it along the retaining wall beside the house.

The service area (Beow) has been set out and a cement floor has been laid to house the  heat pump and buffer tank for the Warmboard, two LPG gas cylinders (for cooking and automatic domestic HW boost) HW storage tank and gas booster for the evacuated tube solar HW system, and two rubbish bins.

Service area

When finished this area will be enclosed with an aluminium strip cladding

The Inside…

Laying the Pex.

To recap: We are having UFH in the downstairs room, this is over a cement slab, and upstairs  UFH is over joists. Warmboard S is used upstairs as it is 28mm thick and is a structural subfloor. Even although downstairs is over a cement slab we could still have used Warmboard R which is a thinner version of the warmboard S. Why we didn’t do this I don’t know, it would have been simpler and probably less confusing for those of us that don’t know anything about UFH.

So we started laying the pex:

Vacuuming the grooves

laying the Pex

As we had not opened any of the pex packages,and thinking all pex we had was the same we started with what was the closest on hand and that was the pex that  came with the consignment of studded or leggo looking attaching board for the downstairs install.

The pex

Close-up of the pex board

Hydronic pegboard arrives

The board  for attaching the Pex (Downstairs)

 It was a plastic oxygen barrier Cobra-Pex as opposed to what we were to soon find out the Al-CobraPex which came with the warmboard S consignment and still packed away in the shed.

Pex for Downstairs

Pex for Warmboard

The two types of Pex supplied

SO….of course the first pex to go down was upstairs and into the warmboard grooves.Bad Mistake: We had three loops of this stuff, designed for downstairs because in the warmboard it squeaks as it rubs on the aluminium when you put pressure on it. I thought it might be OK once the floorboards were set down, but no. And under carpet I would assume not even a chance of it not squeaking. I guess I should have done more research as I will now have to pull up and relay those three loops and replace them with the proper pex.And we have just filled them with water, so the plumber will have to be called back as well. I assumed to much. I assumed that all the pex we got was the same. I assumed all the pex we got would work with both systems. I assumed it would be in big letters somewhere why only certain types of pex works with warmboard (It does state why in the WarmboardS install brochure) and I did look at their approved list and did not find either type we had on it, so once again I assumed that what we were supplied with would work, not realising we had been issued two different types of pex for two different types of installation. Its called a Learning Curve.

Downstairs

The outer inso. barrier

First sections positioned

First of the loops

Finishing off

It also seems the downstairs loops have been laid down with some of the distances between the loops more than the optimum  (I think) of 200mm. Having the room a funny shape probably didn’t help with the layout either.Maybe I will have to shorten these 2 loops, put them closer and add another as we still have one spare flow and return on the manifold.

I have asked Peter Taylor from Warmboard Australia to send me another package of Aluminium pex to redo the upstairs. I have two loops of 100m spare, but will need three. I have also asked again for some documentation on the heat pump, sent from Australian Hydronics, that powers our heating. The pump arrived with nothing. Surely we need something for the electrician, something for the plumber, something for the user. Anything.🤓

We were hoping to get the system heating  before Christmas so as to enable us to acclimatise the Jarrah flooring (now sitting in the garage) over the holiday break. However the electrician has not been in contact so we may now be looking at a setback of a few weeks to our construction time. I hope I am Learning!!

On a brighter note: The house is locked up. Mandurah glass put the last of the glass in and a temporary lock on the front door.

Fitting glass

Fitting top window

Finished door. Made by Mandurah Glass

Ensuite switch-glass

It needs power..

Brad also fitted the switch glass in the ensuite

Hiding the Steel

Hiding the Steel

Mandurah Glass finishing

Some random Pics From 2016

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I think that’s me done for 2016.

A New Year has begun and I guess we will be back at in a weeks time. Hopefully an electrician will ring before then and I will get my anticipated head start with conditioning the floorboards, if not we will continue as before and approach each challenge as a new experience and enjoy the ride.

A safe, happy and prosperous coming year to all.

    Bremer Bay -Much Ado About …

….The outside Sunday 20 November 2016 – Sunday 11 December 2016 Its been  three weeks…

Bremer Bay -Much Ado About … ....The outside Sunday 20 November 2016 - Sunday 11 December 2016 Its been  three weeks…

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Homicide Squad investigating after young man found dead in Mandurah

Police attended the property on Friday afternoon and found the body in a rear shed of the Cooper Street property. from Sydney Morning Herald - National Read More from Blogger http://bit.ly/2GKPf1v

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Met two amazing Artists at J Shed, Bathers Beach Freo. They were welcoming , creative souls who provide a platform for young musicians, workshops for Artists, fantastic food truck and just a interesting place to spend time and meet people. Sadly J Shed Art precinct is under threat and June 30th the doors may close forever. The place is iconic and what a loss to Freo, the public, tourists, international artists and locals who all utilize this space. See Brett and Lisa for details on what you can do to help or contact the City of Fremantle for more info. #jshed #jshedwa #bathersbeach #cityoffremantle #sculptor #sculpture #painter #artist #musicians #artlife #jshedartstudio #closing #fremantle #fremantlemedia #perthartist #perth #perthart #fremantlemusic #youthplatform #youthmusicians #foodtruckfremantle #foodtruckjshed #mandurah #artistinresidence2017 #contemporaryart #conversation #casm #contemporaryartspacesmandurah #paulasilbertartconsultancy #westernaustralia #westernaustralianartist #perthtoday #needyourhelp #thankgodforart

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. ----- Australian Pelican ----- . This is an adult and juvenile Australian Pelican one morning with a low tide, sunrise, bed of sea grass/weed out in the middle of nowhere with nothing else around it and me.  No-one else.  Just me and two Pelicans.  So, I spent some time with them and made frame after frame as the adult went through the stretching motions and exercises to look after its pouch.  The juvenile did likewise for a short time and then squatted down as you see here.  As I was choosing an image for posting, I saw this and wondered about a lot of things.  Being the dad of a little bloke, as many parents/guardians will attest to I am sure, I have had more than my fair share already (and its only going to get more frequent as he grows a little older) of sleepless nights wondering about whether his two parents are doing all they can to help him walk this uncertain path.  I have no idea, of course.  I guess no one really does, but I do wonder if birds have thoughts of certainty all the time or whether there is just a little bit of doubt that creeps in there.  Again, no idea but I am sure an Ornithologist is busy studying it right now to shed some light on it.  Until then, I will make do with worrying, wondering, watching and, hopefully, not doing anything too stupid to veer the little bloke of his path.  All that from an image... . . . . . #Mandurah #perthisok #WesternAustralia #AussiePhotos #ausgeo  #birdlifeaustralia #birdsofaustralia #nuts_about_birds #eye_spy_birds #global4nature #bb_of_ig #nature_sultans #dof_nature #birds_adored #sassy_birds #feather_perfection #perfect_birds #bns_birds #birdphotography #birds_captures #birdlife #nature_worldwide_knowledge #birdsofinstagram #your_best_birds #bird_brilliance #pocket_birds #igscwildlife #nature_brilliance 

[fadingfartconnoisseur]

The Changing Face of Perth – The Underrated City of Western Australia

There’s plenty of things to do in Perth, whose injection of culinary and artistic enterprise and heritage regeneration has allowed it to shake off its ‘boring’ status and become a go-to state capital city in Australia.

It is misunderstood because it is still largely undiscovered, mainly due to the fact it is often overlooked in favour of those heading to Melbourne and Sydney to begin their Australia adventures. With big developments being only a decade in the making, Perth’s attractions don’t live up to Melbourne and Sydney and it’s OK with that.

Perth has been stirring up its own unique vibe over the past two or three years, where it has come into its own as a cool urban city escape. Yet it has not developed too much, still leaving it with a touch of the wild and adventurous that Western Australia is known for.

Australia’s ‘Sunniest City’ (so-called as it has more hours of sunshine than any other in the country) welcomed me with a little rain but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm for what has come to be listed as one of the world’s most livable cities. You’ll quickly see in Perth that many things have granted it this accolade.

There’s a ‘Sunset Coast’ of 19 beaches including the much-loved Cottesloe and Scarborough. It boasts a ferry route to the isle getaway of Rottnest Island, home to the adorable and infamous Quokka residents. The city’s fringes delicately harbour one of world’s largest inner-city parks – the Kings Park and Botanic Garden. Perth’s neighbourhoods are constantly expanding the urban cool and artistic offering, while all the while working on ways in which to reconcile the social, spiritual, cultural and historical significance of its aboriginal heritage with its modern growth.

Perth, whose flight path from London is four hours less than that of Sydney, should be firmly on your Australia travel radar.

If it doesn’t make the cut as a city from which you can easily begin a first trip to Australia and continue east, it should certainly form the basis for your second. Here’s a guide to Perth to show you why…

Perth Regeneration & Aboriginal Reconciliation

Things to see and do in Perth City Centre

No city trip is complete without exploring its many and sometime juxtaposed neighbourhoods, which is always my highlight – the subcultures that exist within an urban spree. Locals will eagerly throw out their favourite places and things to do in Perth, of which Fremantle and Leederville top the list, and maps are readily available for individual areas that are eager to show off their eateries, boutiques and artistic murals and outlets.

The Perth Central Business District (CBD) may just be standard corporate high-rise, which looks great from the air and the opposite side of the river in its steel and glass glory, but what is woven around it marks an interesting focus on regeneration.

One of the main things to do in Perth is witness its heritage in reconstruction.

Perth’s State Buildings in particular are the former government holdings once known as the Lands, Titles and Treasury buildings. After hefty investment for regeneration of these 140 year-old icons, they were lovingly restored as repurposed spaces for public use. What could have been lost has been put to good use, with boutique hotels, restaurants, bars, cafes, independent coffee shops and retail outlets where you can shop local from chocolatiers to clothing designers.

Aside from pursuing the wine bar and shop, alongside the bar which stocks craft beers from all over Australia as well as Gin and Tonic on tap, an afternoon was best spent dining in the city famed Petition Kitchen. Here, you dine in an iconic landmark while sampling some of the best local produce from seafood to seasoned fresh vegetables.

Elizabeth Quay is a 2.6 billion dollar waterfront development project with the aim of creating a huge outdoor space to reconnect the city with Swan River. This includes a huge promenade and the development of open squares. It will complement the 400 hectare Kings Park and Botanic Garden overlooking the city, classed as one of the world’s largest inner-city gardens. Like the garden, of which two-thirds is preserved as national bush land with native trails, Elizabeth Quay marks an import step towards the reconciliation of Aboriginal native rights of the Nyungar people.

Walter from Go Cultural Tours – a descendant of several Aboriginal tribal clans of the southwest region of Western Australia – provided a first-hand Aboriginal perspective into the traditional ownership of this land. This Aboriginal tour in Perth starts with a traditional welcome of the land of the Whadjuk people and stories of ancient Nyungar life where you learn that the and the city’s major roads and highways cover old hunting grounds, lakes and sacred sites that have existed for over 50,000 years.

It’s important to remember that Perth is not as new as one might like to think.

Perth’s Trendy and Emerging Neighbourhoods

Things to see and do in Northbridge and Leederville

Northbridge, the area nestled right behind the CBD, is the more youthful, and playful area of central Perth. Not only home to Perth’s Cultural Centre, including art galleries, a state library and a theatre, but it’s unkempt streets and street-art filled laneways are filled with tasty treats and arty rendezvous spots, reminding me a lot of Melbourne.

There’s hole in the wall cafes, one of which is home to the Museum of Perth (the smallest museum in the city) and people making simple eats like toasties incredibly hip (sample the cheesy-grilled choices of Toastface Grillah for proof).

Our introduction to Perth’s evolving food scene, hip bars and latest ventures, was with local foodie, Laura Moseley. There’s diners, international foods outlets, secret bars and a mini Chinatown full of budget dumpling houses – venues we otherwise would not have found on our own or thought to have hopped between so easily. The evening ended with sampling the best ice cream in the city at Chicho Gelato.

A local who wanted to highlight the more ‘outer-boroughs’ of Perth introduced Leederville to me. The younger, design hub of Leederville thrives on the artistic regeneration of its self-proclaimed “immigrant nostalgia architecture” built upon a melting pot of Italian, Chinese, Jewish, Greek and Macedonian heritage. The graffiti is cheekier, its coffee shops filled with young minds and bohemian youth and the area still retains an offbeat ‘only we know about this place’ vibe.

What to Do in Perth With Extra Time

Aside from beach hopping, of which Cottesole and Scarborough are top choices, those with extra time to spend exploring greater Perth can chose from a number of destinations. 

Perth Hills (45 minutes east of city) is full of bush trails and national parks, and the oldest Wine Region of Western Australia known as Swan Valley is just 25 minutes from the city. There’s also the southern suburbs of Mandurah and Rockingham – coastal chill areas, the latter of which I spent two days in visiting friends and enjoying the calm of suburban life.

Fremantle – The Stylish Sister City of Perth

Things to See and Do in Fremantle

Fremantle, on-trend with mixing the charming Gold Rush era old with the bohemian attitude new, is the number one hotspot of downtown Perth and deserving of its own acclaim. 20km south from the centre of Perth on the banks of the Swan River, you’ll find a 19th Century shipping heritage neighbourhood that repurposed all its old spaces and turned into a cosmopolitan historical port city.

A great introduction to the history, culture and quirky corners of the city is with local, Rusty Creighton from Two Feet & a Heartbeat who runs an insightful tour of Fremantle. I learnt that Freo is the place where you dine in reformed dockworkers’ cottages and warehouses, sleep in boutique hotels set in former sea cargo crates and brunch, market stroll and listen to live music in heritage hideouts (the largest collection of such buildings in Western Australia).

Highlights in Fremantle include the grandfather of all markets – the 1897 Victorian-era heritage building of Fremantle Market that is the area’s vibrant Friday-Sunday social affair with over 150 stalls. Hone in on the wonderful smells of the fresh produce and flowers and buy everything from souvenirs to antiques.

There’s also the B-Shed Markets in Victoria Quay (where you leave the mainland for Rottnest Island). Here you can shop and dine is a former cargo store that’s been around for nearly 100 years.

Then there is the National Hotel, once a shop and then a bank before being turned into a hotel in 1886. After being partially destroyed by fire in 1975, it underwent significant restoration in 2013 and re-opened as a modern bar and restaurant space, retaining its hold as one of the most historically important and most loved buildings in Fremantle.

Rusty also gave us a low down on the craft beer scene which has boomed here, with pubs like Sail and Anchor and Monk Kitchen sitting opposite one another. The star of the show is undoubtedly the Little Creatures Brewery at the Fishing Boat Harbour. This ‘open’ brewery with visible cellar door has been built within a huge converted boat shed, drawing in the hop-loving crowds and locals sampling their hometown brews.

No artistic hub is complete without the staple supply of coffee houses, a varying choice of good coffee in Fremantle found neatly aligned on the aptly named ‘Cappuccino Strip’ which is on the South Terrace (from Bannister Street to Fremantle Markets).

The local order is a ‘long mac topped up’, if you really want to fit in, with coffee from Dome, Salted Board, Dark Star and Milk Belly Café cited as being some of the best. The top brunch spot is the Attic whose hip wooden interior and picture perfect menu perfectly sums up the Fremantle spirit.

Visiting Perth deconstructs your misconceptions of a city that was once under developed and a city in the shadow of others throughout Australia. Just a few days here is all you need to see it an emergent hub and a pivotal jumping base from which to explore Western Australia (WA) – one of the most untouched and pristine regions in all of Australia.

Things to Know:

Hotels and Hostels in Perth:

The Alex Hotel in Perth is a creative space right in the very heart of the city and in walking distance to the creative highlights and foodie hangouts.

There are also many hostels in Perth – in the city centre, alongside ‘backpacker resorts’ and lodges with swimming pools hostels on popular coastal areas such as Cottesloe and Scarborough Beach.

Hotels and Hostels in Fremantle:

The Hougoumont Hotel Fremantle epitomises ‘affordable luxury’ and is a boutique hotel just five minutes walk from the ‘Cappuccino Strip’ and the very centre of everything. Named after the last convict ship that transported convicts to Australia and situated on Bannister Street, where those new arrivals began a new journey.

Fremantle YHA Prison is a place of long history – a modern hostel set within the World Heritage-listed former Fremantle Prison built in the 1850’s.

Getting Around Perth and Fremantle:

A CAT bus service (visitfremantle.com.au) and 25 minutes train from Perth. Tram tour, or easy to explore by foot.

Perth Luxury Tours specialise also in small, private customised tours including inner city, Fremantle, Kings Park, Swan Valley, Pinnacles and Margaret River.

Further Information on Planning a Trip to Perth:

Visit the Western Australia tourism website and VisitPerthCity.com specifically for city exploring and Perth’s surrounding neighbourhoods and sites.

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….The outside

Sunday 20 November 2016 – Sunday 11 December 2016

Its been  three weeks  a millennium or so since the last update and although the speed of the build and the changes to the physical appearance of the exterior have slowed somewhat we are progressing ever forward. Ash has just had a couple of weeks off to attend to some of his other clients needs, and Nino also took the opportunity to take a weeks’ leave and tidy up some loose ends which naturally occur when you are devoting so much time continuously to the one project.

That said the front deck is now almost complete from one end of the house to the other.

Eastern End Finished

East to Main Deck

Main Deck

Main Deck to Western End

I’m the hold up on the unfinished portion of  the Western End. The cladding underneath this bit of unfinished deck (aka: above the Secret Men’s Business door) needs to be done before completing the  deck above, and I have to decide how this is to be finished.

  The entry to the main door  and pantry have been framed and the same Duralife decking has been installed. Eamon Hurley  is the man to ring for orders and quotes.

The finished main Entrance.

We will use leftover  Glass Balustrade channel to frame our entrances with glass (or something else. 😄)

The other two entrances on this south side have also been framed and decked.The pantry

….And the Laundry.

We decided to included a ramp instead of the original stairs after seeing how high the deck was above ground level, that then necessitated a change of framing which was accomplished with little fuss and the usual enthusiasm. ( While I was present anyway!) We figure stainless wire as a balustrade here, so as we can continue it along the retaining wall beside the house.

The service area (Beow) has been set out and a cement floor has been laid to house the  heat pump and buffer tank for the Warmboard, two LPG gas cylinders (for cooking and automatic domestic HW boost) HW storage tank and gas booster for the evacuated tube solar HW system, and two rubbish bins.

Service area

When finished this area will be enclosed with an aluminium strip cladding

The Inside…

Laying the Pex.

To recap: We are having UFH in the downstairs room, this is over a cement slab, and upstairs  UFH is over joists. Warmboard S is used upstairs as it is 28mm thick and is a structural subfloor. Even although downstairs is over a cement slab we could still have used Warmboard R which is a thinner version of the warmboard S. Why we didn’t do this I don’t know, it would have been simpler and probably less confusing for those of us that don’t know anything about UFH.

So we started laying the pex:

Vacuuming the grooves

laying the Pex

As we had not opened any of the pex packages,and thinking all pex we had was the same we started with what was the closest on hand and that was the pex that  came with the consignment of studded or leggo looking attaching board for the downstairs install.

The pex

Close-up of the pex board

Hydronic pegboard arrives

The board  for attaching the Pex (Downstairs)

 It was a plastic oxygen barrier Cobra-Pex as opposed to what we were to soon find out the Al-CobraPex which came with the warmboard S consignment and still packed away in the shed.

Pex for Downstairs

Pex for Warmboard

The two types of Pex supplied

SO….of course the first pex to go down was upstairs and into the warmboard grooves.Bad Mistake: We had three loops of this stuff, designed for downstairs because in the warmboard it squeaks as it rubs on the aluminium when you put pressure on it. I thought it might be OK once the floorboards were set down, but no. And under carpet I would assume not even a chance of it not squeaking. I guess I should have done more research as I will now have to pull up and relay those three loops and replace them with the proper pex.And we have just filled them with water, so the plumber will have to be called back as well. I assumed to much. I assumed that all the pex we got was the same. I assumed all the pex we got would work with both systems. I assumed it would be in big letters somewhere why only certain types of pex works with warmboard (It does state why in the WarmboardS install brochure) and I did look at their approved list and did not find either type we had on it, so once again I assumed that what we were supplied with would work, not realising we had been issued two different types of pex for two different types of installation. Its called a Learning Curve.

Downstairs

The outer inso. barrier

First sections positioned

First of the loops

Finishing off

It also seems the downstairs loops have been laid down with some of the distances between the loops more than the optimum  (I think) of 200mm. Having the room a funny shape probably didn’t help with the layout either.Maybe I will have to shorten these 2 loops, put them closer and add another as we still have one spare flow and return on the manifold.

I have asked Peter Taylor from Warmboard Australia to send me another package of Aluminium pex to redo the upstairs. I have two loops of 100m spare, but will need three. I have also asked again for some documentation on the heat pump, sent from Australian Hydronics, that powers our heating. The pump arrived with nothing. Surely we need something for the electrician, something for the plumber, something for the user. Anything.🤓

We were hoping to get the system heating  before Christmas so as to enable us to acclimatise the Jarrah flooring (now sitting in the garage) over the holiday break. However the electrician has not been in contact so we may now be looking at a setback of a few weeks to our construction time. I hope I am Learning!!

On a brighter note: The house is locked up. Mandurah glass put the last of the glass in and a temporary lock on the front door.

Fitting glass

Fitting top window

Finished door. Made by Mandurah Glass

Ensuite switch-glass

It needs power..

Brad also fitted the switch glass in the ensuite

Hiding the Steel

Hiding the Steel

Mandurah Glass finishing

Some random Pics From 2016

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I think that’s me done for 2016.

A New Year has begun and I guess we will be back at in a weeks time. Hopefully an electrician will ring before then and I will get my anticipated head start with conditioning the floorboards, if not we will continue as before and approach each challenge as a new experience and enjoy the ride.

A safe, happy and prosperous coming year to all.

    Bremer Bay -Much Ado About … ....The outside Sunday 20 November 2016 - Sunday 11 December 2016 Its been  three weeks…