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The Casinny Repairs blog: renovation notes from Brisbane sites
Real costs, real timelines and the mistakes we keep fixing in other people's bathrooms. Written between jobs, no fluff.
01 · Featured
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Costs
8 min read
What an apartment renovation really costs in Brisbane in 2026
We pulled the invoices from our last twelve months of jobs and wrote down what people actually paid, kitchen, bathroom, floors, the lot. If you're budgeting, start here.
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02 · All articles
Everything we've written lately
More coming
We write between jobs, so the next one's probably half-drafted on the ute's dashboard.
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03 · From the sites
What the articles look like in real life
From the waterproofing article
The $14,500 kitchen from the cost article
Low-sheen walls: the humidity guide in action
The week-by-week board from the timeline piece
04 · The writers
Written by the people holding the tools
Dan Casinny
Costs, waterproofing, timelines: the owner who still applies the membrane himself.
Lena Kowalski
Planning and body corporate: the one who reads by-laws so you don't have to.
Sam Tierney
Paint and finishes: eleven years of knowing what survives a Brisbane summer.
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