Tag Archive: Fail

Here is something that really gives me the 5H!T5 and it seems all too common. Some inconsiderate person leaves his car parked across the footpath because they are too lazy to walk another 5m. No consideration that they have to…
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Here is one facade detail I first saw a few years three ago. Its one of those ‘WOW’ features that builders like to use to make their house look different. The walls are built in rendered brickwork to about 200mm…
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This is the strangest lawn I have ever seen. It’s in a Melbourne inner suburb. No Its not fake! it is real grass, in a tray about 30mm thick.  Apart from the fact that there is very little soil the…
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I saw this large house in one of  Melbourne’s Northern suburbs. I couldn’t believe that someone had designed a house to look like a World War II bunker! Perhaps you think I am being a bit harsh?……………. Well here is…
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Have you got a “No Junk Mail” sticker on your mail box? I thought it really appropriate when I saw this Wilderness Society sticker. Want to know Why? Well have a look at the house that the mail box belongs to:…
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An ingenious method of replacing a broken downspout on the cheap.   When they have gone to all the trouble to get a ladder to get to the roof level you would think they would have just spent a few…
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Lucky it wasn’t raining when I was walking down this Melbourne street !   Not only does this rainwater tank discharge the overflow over the footpath. . . It discharges it at shoulder level.   It’s sad but I don’t…
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