Technical Drafting Service

27/10/2021

Our first attempt at 3D printing a house model. If you cant picture your house from plans this can be a huge help. The roof comes off so you can see inside.

28/06/2021

Did you know Hi Pages charge contractors (us) for every contact?
We get emails like this...... ‘ Mr X is looking for someone to give him a price to draw up an addition to his house’. The enquiry is free to Mr X but for us to answer we need to pay Hi Pages $33.
So as there is no facility for us to help Mr X without us paying first, we are not going to contact Mr X. But Mr X is not told this, so Mr X thinks no one is interested in his job.
If you have a question, please ask us directly and we will be happy to help.
To be clear we are happy to pay Hi Pages commission if it leads to a worthwhile job.

24/12/2020

Just wanted to wish all past present and future clients a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous 2021. Lets hope its a better year than 2020.

26/08/2019

We get asked to do quite a few retrospective plans. These are plans for work done without approval. Recently asked to go and measure a retrospective job. Found this: Umm... something looks a bit wrong. Dont think thats been engineered.

05/07/2019

We are pleased to announce the Development approval for the new Azacca micro brewery Safety Bay. We look forward to sampling some of the products :)

26/06/2019

Have a French client wanting to fit an en suite into their existing bedroom area. The room is compromised by an awkward staircase location. She likes an open type design. Knowing shes French I jokingly suggest a 'pissoir' (the open type cast iron urinals you see in France) she laughs and says you joke but my parents do actually have one at their house! She said my partner is Australian he would go crazy if I wanted one in our house!

26/02/2019

Got a client that has some factory units.

Recently put a change of use application in for one of his buildings. He gets a letter back from Council saying that certain aspects of the building and other buildings on the site never actually had planning permission. So we have to apply for retrospective planning permission.

Now the end of one of these buildings is 2850mm from the boundary (his own boundary to his own sites). It should be 3m. So we need to say its an existing building that was on the site when he bought it and he never measured it to find the encroachment and they will consider a relaxation. The Council know he owns the 5 adjoining sites and this one is in the middle. I think they would like him to amalgamate them but he doesn't want to as its expensive and time consuming. Talking to the Planning officer........”Oh and you will need written permission from all the neighbours”. Me... “are you joking our client owns the adjoining sites, hes hardly going to complain”?.

“Never the less we still need written consent from all neighbouring properties”.

“So your telling me he has to write a letter for the 3 adjoining properties, saying as the owner of Lots *** adjoining the site in question, I have no objections...etc”

“ No he has to write 3 separate letters of no objection, 1 for each site”.

I suppose they have to follow a procedure, but really how ridiculous.

10/10/2018

Heres an idea for your next room divider:

I have a couple of lamps, a small fireplace, and some photos on the wall in my house. But if I had the money, I’m still not sure I’d waste an Zonda R to make a wall. But, that’s my opinion, as this guy has obviously thought differently! Argentinian race car driver Pablo Pérez Companc …

12/07/2018

Co-incidence.
Last month we had a new client we shall call Fred Blogs (not real name) contact us. He wanted a new building to service his trucks from. To be located in a local industrial area. Yesterday had a different client contact us called Fred from ‘Blogs truck company’ (not real name) wanting some changes to his existing truck yard in the next street. They are in no way connected.

We design commercial and domestic buildings. Prepare working drawings for Council applications and builders to price from.

26/06/2018

We went to take a look at the new Perth Stadium on Sunday. Unfortunately we couldn’t get a good look at the finished station as its only open when there is an event on. Apart from the woefully inadequate parking (clearly to encourage the use of public transport) its quite impressive. The gardens and children’s playgrounds are very well done.

26/06/2018

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