SYDNEY’S BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN TERRACES
The inner, older suburbs of Sydney, such as Paddington, Kirribilli and Redfern have many Victorian terraces with traditional fences and gates, known as palisade fences. Typically, these fences have spearheads or finials on top of Read more
Victorian terraces are common in many inner suburbs of Sydney such as Paddington, North Sydney and Balmain. Originally they had cast iron lace balustrades around 800 to 900mm height. These days the building code (BCA) requires 1.0M minimum height Read more
A structural engineer we often engage to certify that our balustrades will comply with Australian Standard 1170.1 amazed us recently when he gave his opinion about industry knowledge of the need for balustrades to meet the Australian Standard. He Read more
HOW TO OBTAIN QUOTES ON THE RESTORATION OF HERITAGE METALWORK
We are frequently asked by builders, homeowners and architects to provide a quote to ‘restore’ heritage metalwork, without being provided with any firm specification to define what is meant Read more
HOW TO OBTAIN A QUOTE
We are frequently asked by builders, homeowners and even architects to provide a quote based on drawings that are preliminary or concept quality only. Sometimes we are provided with internet images or random photos Read more