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  • Quoting on Repairs or Restoration of Palisade Fences, Gates and Balcony Balustrades.

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    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 the round pickets. The gates and fences are made from puddled wrought iron and are made…

  • Terrace Home Lace Balustrades. Meeting Australian Standard 1170.1

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    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 for balustrades, so using replicas of the original casting to replace damaged or badly corroded original…

  • Balustrades Series. Meeting Australian Standard 1170.1

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    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 He thought most builders and metal fabricators doing domestic work were years out of date on what…

  • Why Specifications are Necessary for Conservation and Restoration work

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    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 by the term ‘restore’. Without a specification written by someone with expertise in that work, the…

  • Why Specifications are Essential for Quoting

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    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 on which to base a quote. They are next to useless when sourcing quotes because they…