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Friday, October 27, 2017

Basement Excavations in Auckland

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With booming property prices, the trend for Auckland home owners is to renovate their homes as values of property prices increase.

To make sure that this job is done professionally, it's important to make sure a home owner contracts a reputable excavating services provider.

Things to consider:
1. Range of services - it's best to work with a contract that can offer a range of services so he can offer a package. Having knowledge and experience across different tasks like excavations, drainage, CCTV inspections, earthworks and concreting will ensure that the job is done in consideration of all possible risks and issues during excavation.
2. Reputation and credibility  - having a lot of experience helps. Work with a tried and tested contractor.
3. Affordable pricing - make sure you get the best value and advise.

Contact Aaron from AJLC Excavations for a free no obligation quote for your basement excavation in Auckland.




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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Renovating a Property in Auckland - Excavation Partner Needed

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Building your home's or business' foundation is the most important thing in a new build.
This job needs to be done by professionals with tested reputation and years of experience.

These are a few key points:


  1. Stay away from underground services and ensure not to undermine nearby structures – use safe digging practice and dig away from them.
  2. Check the excavation daily before starting work and after any event that may affect its stability.
  3. Provide safe access for staff to get inside and outside.
  4. Prevent collapse – shore, bench, or batter back. Do not assume ground will stand unsupported.
  5. Prevent people and materials falling in – with barriers strong enough not to collapse if someone falls against them.


Safety is number one.
Source.

Make sure you have the right partners to do the job.

Things to consider in looking for excavation service providers:
1. Availability - number one is to make sure you can contact the team any time.
2. Good reputation and track record.
3. Professional experience and multiple skilled personnel.
4. Great equipment - modern and powerful equipment will ensure jobs get done quick and efficiently - bobcats, super sucker vacuum loading trucks
5. Affordable pricing



Excavations services, earthworks contractors, digger hires in Auckland.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Team Retreat in Rotorua New Zealand

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One of the best ways to develop team work and camaraderie is by setting up teams in exciting out of the office environments. This method has also been known to improve leadership skills and creativity.

Rotorua is known as the adventure Mecca of the North Island.
There's a great adventure for everyone, all ages and all activity levels.

Here are our favourites:
1. Mountain Biking at the Whakarewarewa forest
2. Rotorua Eat Street
3. Rotorua Geyser Tour
4. Rotorua Duck Tour
5. Rotorua's Government Gardens

Enjoy Rotorua even more by staying in affordable and comfortable accommodation like Cleveland Motel. It has it's own spa and outdoor pool. It caters to large groups too and very close to the CBD.

Make reservations quickly! The best way to book is through the website www.clevelandmotel.co.nz




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Sunday, November 23, 2014

How to Solve Auckland's Terrible Transport Problems

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Financing rail transport under government

The huge cost of the rail link would cause a $12 billion transport funding gap over the next 30 years unless alternate funding is secured – namely:
  1. Motorway tolls and regional petrol taxes
  2. Cut from community projects, parks and local works
  3. Increases local government taxation
“The options are for an overall rates rise of 2.5% in 2015 and 3.5% for the next 9 years, or a 3.5% rate rise every year plus a $3000 charge upon new houses”.[v]

This is not the best approach to providing services to the poor, or users, or even achieving some level of ‘commercial discipline’ in our urban areas. Our cities are the most important economic systems in the country. If they are not based upon commercial discipline or ‘realities’ or price constraints, then taxpayers are destined to experience a blow-out in costs, on top of the costs that the mayor and councillors have previously imposed upon rate payers. There is actually no reason why residents of Auckland need to pay more. They should only pay more if they get benefits. The only motivation for government officials to embark on such policies is if:
  1. They are so beholden to public pressure that they convey no personal integrity
  2. They are positioning themselves for a litany of kickbacks from business who are destined to be subsidised by such developments, and who will be reliant upon government as ‘gatekeepers’ presiding over these developments.
  3. They get the opportunity to act like Santa Claus, identified as the crusaders for development, without a corresponding requirement to be accountable for their flagrant spending.
This is an enormous spend for a city. It should not fall upon ill-disciplined councillors who have little experience to handle the affairs of such an immense project, and given a blank cheque to meet any indulgent expectation of lobbyists, who ultimately keep these councillors in power. Many councillors are sensitive to the ‘cost backlash’ of such policies. i.e. Labour councillor Ross Clow has called for the project to be deferred until 2020. These is however no reason to defer. The only necessity is for the project to be carried by those people who can afford the luxury of wanting it to risk investing in it. There will be a ready market of people who should pay, who will want to benefit, whether they are:
  1. Residents who want to live in inner-city apartments close to transport and ‘village cities’. Another example is Chatswood in Northern Sydney.
  2. Commercial businesses who want to profit, who are prepared to pay more for property and high rents in order to get access to that greater street traffic that arises from ‘denser living’.
  3. Finally rail system developers who want to develop a long term ‘cash cow’ by offering prospective residents a ‘village community’ and cheaper and faster access to jobs than is currently offered by cars on tollways. Residents in these places will save on bus fares or car parking fares in the city, as well as securing more options and great accessibility to services in other communities.
Labour councillor Ross Clow argues that the budget was gutting suburban areas such as Avondale, which had been waiting 30 years for a new town centre, in favour of “pet projects” like the City Rail Link. [vi] There is really no reason for people to wait if a road upgrade makes sense, but it ought not to ‘make sense’ because it benefits a councillor to say so. There needs to be objective criteria.
This is just an excerpt from a comprehensive essay analysis from Author Andrew Sheldon. The original article can be found on Critical Media Group's website - Auckland Transport Problems

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Monday, July 14, 2014

Great Business Partnership Opportunity for Local Tailors in Auckland

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Modern Tailor New Zealand offers a fantastic range of fabrics (thousands of options) for men's business shirts on top of enabling customers to design every aspect of their shirts online and enter their own measurements. Modern Tailor New Zealand is purely an online business and now looking for local alteration / tailoring repair partners in Auckland and all other cities in New Zealand.

If interested, please visit their website at www.moderntailor.co.nz

What do local tailor partners get?
1. Increased online presence by getting listed on our website
2. Referrals for Alteration Services from Modern Tailor
What extra income opportunities do our tailor partners get? What are the setup costs?
1. Referral commission via Referral Links – FREE! Just sign up!
2. Agent fees – increasing commision based on sales – FREE! Just sign up!
3. Landing page, custom domain name* and hosting $250 plus $50/year Contact Us for details (+gst)
4. Custom CMS website (5 pages), custom domain name* and hosting $500 plus $75/year Contact Us for details (+gst) 
*(excluding domain renewal costs)
Modern Tailor also offers a great range of suit fabric options, completely customizable and made to customer measurements.

Sign up on this link.




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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Business Shirts at $19.95 only from Modern Tailor New Zealand

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Send Us Your Favorite Shirt 
  • You may opt to send us your perfect fitting shirt and we will handle the measuring for you. We will also provide you with a $10 gift voucher to compensate for the cost of shipping your shirt to us. You may use this voucher in your future shirt order. We will also take good care of your shirt and send it back along with your new shirt.
  • See Shipping Instructions
Ask A Tailor To Take Your Measurements
  • Print our guide, visit a local tailor and request from them to take your measurements based on our measurement guide. This ensures that the measurement your local tailor will take from you is the same as how we measure.
You can also order standard sized shirts!
  • Check our standard measurements guide here







Sunday, June 29, 2014

25 Ways to Wear a Scarf

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I have watched this video more than five times!
A scarf is an elegant woman's best friend...adding flair and style to her overall attire.
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