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Here we share insightful resources to help you on your journey
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NCC 2025: What’s changed and what it means
NCC 2025, Australia’s updated National Construction Code, introduces new condensation rules for habitable buildings in cooler climate zones: ventilated wall cavities and rewritten roof ventilation. But the changes don’t apply everywhere, and each state adopts them on its own date. Here’s what’s changed, who’s affected, and why your approval timing…
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Loft Barns: Your Questions Answered
A loft barn is a high-walled timber building with an A-frame roof and an internal loft within the roof space. Greenspan’s Cedarspan is a PreCrafted modular loft barn available in footprints from 21m2 to 200m2, with 2.4m clearance at the highest point of the loft. It can be installed on…
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Is extra space on your Christmas list?
Christmas is when space runs out fastest, with guests staying over, family gatherings, kids home for the holidays and gifts to hide. A Melwood garden room adds a versatile extra space in a matter of weeks, ready in time for the festive season, and useful long after it.
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Back to barn basics: 8 Cedarspan uses you may not have thought of
Many customers come to us for the beautiful barn homes that fill our website and socials. And yes, our Cedarspans make stunning accommodation. But the true power of a Cedarspan lies in its adaptability, and accommodation – whether permanent or holiday – is only part of the story. If you’re…
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How to plan a pool cabana: Design, layout and features
Planning a pool cabana starts with how you’ll use it. That decision guides everything else: the features to include, where it sits, its layout, the services it needs, whether to insulate and how to finish it. Decide its job first and the rest of the design follows.
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How to set up a home gym in your backyard
The convenience of working out at home, with no membership fees, no commute and no waiting for equipment, has made the home gym one of the most popular ways to use a backyard building. But a home gym that actually gets used is about more than finding a spare corner…