Two letterboxes from RubyRuby and associate. The locations of these holes not disclosed. The first one surely South Fremantle? Nice plaintive oyster shell on the pebble dash.
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Crazy paving was found in Scarborough.
The pebbledash was a Myarup original.
I note that you have chosen not to share any of my scathing rant regarding pebble dash.
Instead, I put out a TWOP query – does anyone have anything at all to say in the defence of the existence of this form of rendering?
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no.
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No more than an observation – this type of finish is now popularly expensive as a driveway/path, using a larger, rounded particle as the textural component.
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My next door neighbour has a new modern monstrosity, with a 65m driveway made of that shit. The noise from him bringing his bins in and out is deafening.
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I feel your pain. Hugs.
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They’re pebbly all too petrified to say anything, RR.
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Bam Bam!
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What are your views on vermiculite ceilings
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Artex? *frothes at mouth* no particular views…
Interesting how these hideous home improvement devices from the UK share the trait of being far too easy for the home handyperson to apply in a fit of wanting to reduce the value of their main asset, yet require professional intervention to remove. (the presence of asbestos in the earlier forms of artex is possibly a redeeming feature, considering all the amazingly creative swirling patterns created by wannabe Michelangelos).
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The mosaic looks like one Tonia Todman has knocked up after a long lunch with the girls.
I don’t think you see that much pebble dash in Perth – it is hardly the greatest building crime in a city where BCG are the largest home builders. Following on from poorly applied and cheaply coloured render from last decade, poxy fake stone columns, walls and porticos seem to be the currently favoured building crimes as far as I am concerned.
Mission brown for the FIFO generation.
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Yes, the shitty monolithic purply gray portico feature is fucking infuriating.
As is stacked stone.
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Had a house guest from Eastern States who kept raving over poorly chosen coloured faux-stone cladding everywhere. He was especially scathing over its use in older suburbs, where it showed the minerals from the bore water. Why clad if you’re not going to re-paint?
Weekend rolled around, I realise he’s critical of the use of limestone. I tell him it’s not cladding, and not cement sheets. He was sceptical. I sent him on a day trip to Perth Hills. He still muttered about “limestone facing” or “stone veneer”, but at least he stopped asking me where anyone would ever find that much limestone…
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Philistine – it’s the bore water stains that gives Perth its rich patina. I hope you gave him a bag of iron ore and told him to go back to where he came from.
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I did send in some pure worsting gold that TLA ignored, some time ago. Out in the Swan Valley, near the Cuddly Animal Farm, is a pebble-dashed, bore-water stained letterbox…
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You need to transfer your hate to something more meaningful. Eg swest apple growers.
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Not needed in Perth at all, pebble dash has been defended by its advocates (in British pubs) as “looking nice in the rain” and “cheaper than repairing brickwork”.
On the other hand, if you want to develop carpal tunnel issues in a single weekend, painting a pebble dashed surface is the way ahead – it requires jabs and dabs with a small brush rather than usually favoured large surface application, like, with a roller…
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pebble dash v. To crop spray (qv) the toilet bowl with clarts (qv).
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Rogers – it speaks my language…
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since Tasmania has surprised us all by being the most progressive state in the Commonwealth, who do we get to look down upon now?
does this mean that WA is now officially the most backward pissant redneck state in the country?
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You still can’t marry your sister here, except in Collie obviously. Even your gay sister.
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link murderous queens park house etc here. Probably Lannies haircut as well.
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STUPID JUST STUPID!
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just wondering what the houses would look like if these were iwanoff letterboxes.
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