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typo, they "made a big duck" ....and now they're gone

Didn't know you can buy Poles so cheap. Ja, das ist gut.

Long time ago I read the sentence, I think it's from Twain, that goes like this: "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by…

Great post. I'm not new to Australia, but new to the industry. Never owned a house before, therefore never looked how it all works in…

That's not what I meant - I have no issues reading hundreds or more pages but if they are not available, accessible, lost, getting outdated…

Have you been to museums here at all? I visited many in Canberra, most are free - how is that not a value for money? Same Sydney, many free…

Met these types of people before. Typical story goes like that: usually with some talent, but serious mistake is made in the past, like…

Validated by my employer. If you have open position, send me a link and you'll see my CV with all necessary paperwork lol

I think I have fallen a victim of sales pitch, to be perfectly honest. I had no idea it is legal for the REA/seller to draft up their own…

I've been trying to get that stuff, but apparently they're available to owners only, who are not very good, at least in the cases I've come…

Precisely my point. I've seen technical docs going into thousands of pages, but that's not what I want - don't care about "War and Peace",…

Unfortunately, true. And if any seller would provide you with such unreliable information about product they're selling as REAs typically…

Not really, if you compare equivalent metrics. Never had a PC component that would have different dimensions that declared by its…

Precisely, no guarantee of quality of outcome. In that case, it seems a bit easier to assess what's already been delivered. Also the reason…

So it happens I replaced my graphics card recently and still have the original box in the room. Just from that box, I can learn about the…

@leiiv you're absolutely right. We're not at that stage of development, as civilisation, to get rid of standards. Or courts. Hence my first…

As civilisation, if "It is what it is" were the main thinking line, we probably wouldn't even invent the wheel.

Started watching it, thanks. Best advice I've got so far is to accept you'll get a house with defects, just get the one that'll be…

"Dimensions on real estate sites are estimated" - this is beyond me. Imagine car maker selling you a car that may be doing max speed of…

Sad, but true. Seems doing personal inspection with qualified builder is the only way to find quality here.

Labour is also a **market** and yet, we've managed to abolish slavery and even give people few weeks of paid holidays, plus medicare. Not…

Unfortunately, true. Confirms my newly shaped conclusions that poor quality housing in Australia is not only builders responsibility, but…

Different communities, different answers, dead simple

Not possible, I'm afraid, as we're engineers in completely different fields. Knowing there are effectively no standards helps, though -…

When I was a kid, my family was buying top quality food from a local farmer. Of course, the guy didn't have a single certificate, didn't…

If you put the word "non-compliant" into OZB search engine, you'll get dozens of posts where people discuss safety of $20 electrical…

Thanks, if standards are not enforced, means, there are no effective standards in place. I'm OK knowing this, just need to approach home…

Thanks for the tip, invaluable - I may actually hire these guys to check my next home

Why not? The fact people are talking about "comparable sales" yet you cannot get simple reliable m2 metric to make simple comparison - even…

It's OK, mate. All negs tell quite a bit how people approach the market, and also why the quality is declining. I always thought it's just…