Project of the Month - February 3

We are working again at 645 Harris St Ultimo – this time to do carpark line marking. The old marking was almost completely erased. We need a parking plan to confirm lots and unit numbers. It takes a bit of organisational work to make sure that cars are removed from the area we are working on. But all is done in a day. Hopefully there will be no more conflicts when someone parked on a wrong spot.

Project of the Month - February 2

Macquarie Bank Building at King St Wharf is an absolutely iconic building! It’s Australia’s first “inside out building” – it’s steel structural support, known as a diagrid, sits outside its glass walls.
Our manager, Oleksandra used to work for an architectural company Cox, who developed the area. Now we are doing maintenance painting here.

As always with the office projects, we have to do painting over weekends and have everything perfectly nice and clean by Monday opening.

Project of the Month - February 2

This month my display project is a Federation house in Stanmore. As with many period homes, a detail timberwork is a house main feature. We mainly panted woodwork – windows, doors, architraves, skirtings, and picture rails. But this was quote a large job.

Project of the Month - February 1

Some properties are blessed with the most gorgeous views!

This Mosman house is facing my most favourite place in Sydney – Chinaman Beach. Actually I discovered this beach last years when we worked on interior painting in this same house. This time we did some small exterior work. What a nice few days of work!

Project of the Month - January 2

Our recent challenge was this office building on Harris St, ULTIMOR.

They found lovely timber columns under the plaster work. So we were asked to remove partition to open it columns, patch and repaint walls and ceilings, strip the old paint from columns and varnish them. It looked really nice at the end. I'll add "After" photos when I upload them from my mobile

Boomerang Reclaimed Paint

I came across Boomerang Paint when browsed the web for some recycling ideas. Cannot say enough about the work that they are doing! How I wish we had a similar product in Australia!

This Canadian company collects unused paint and stain (even the hardened stuff!), reformulates it, then sells it in a recycled plastic container, at about half a price of the new paint of the same quality.

In 2008 Boomerang Paint recycled some 4,000,000 litres of paint!

To the best of my knowledge we do not have paints like this in Australia. Here even taking your left-over paint to recycling spot would cost you few dollars per litre. We have a lot to catch up!

Source: Boomerang Paint via Natural Chic

Is your shower killing you?

I never though that something as common as a shower curtain could be harmful. But the US Centre for Health, Environment and Justice have released a report stating that new PVC shower curtains may contain and release more then 100 toxic chemicals including volatile organic compounds (VOC’s), phthalates and metals, some even 28 days after curtain was unwrapped. Hot water even further promotes the release of chemicals.

I got it – no plastic should be heated! Anything plastic that smells is bad for you.

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