The workman ship of the carpentry and the reuse of existing timber has attracted attention from Urban Salvage , who recently featured this article in there recent newsletter , below is the excerpt:
Our August 2008 edition informed you of some old-growth hardwood floorboards salvaged from an old schoolhouse in Moonee Ponds. The refurbishment of the redbrick building was an intricate task and one of the biggest undertaken so far by Michael Paino of MSP Building Group. Undaunted by the scale and complexity of the task, Michael felt free to practise his core beliefs on sustainable building - the reuse of key building materials such as solid timber panelled doors, red bricks and some of the hardwoods. Not as a requirement of works, but rather his instinctive approach. The strip-out phase was calculated to salvage as many timbers and building materials as possible - even though most were reused off-site in other projects or sold to dealers. Kauri Pine and Tasmanian Oak floorboards, Messmate joists and Jarrah bearers were all recycled.
As the project nears completion, it is evident that the retention of original features - timber ceilings in particular - and the recreation of doorways and mouldings of the era, has given the building a merged identity with a strong sense of its history and an inspired modernist embrace.
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The workman ship of the carpentry and the reuse of existing timber has attracted attention from Urban Salvage , who recently featured this article in there recent newsletter , below is the excerpt:
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