Mountain cattlemen’s hut right here on Djaara country!
This is just a beautiful example of what some of our clever customers got up to over lockdown. Built entirely from materials sourced from …read on »
External cladding option.
External timber cladding has definately made a come back (board and batten was a very affordable option in a bygone era) and we are …read on »
Cast Iron Hydronic radiators… ex Albury Base hospital and now old Castlemaine hospital (2023). And other types… read on!
Although this post is dated 2020… it has been updated and current for 2023! We often have a lot of cast iron hydronic heating …read on »
XL Johns and Waygood steel trusses up for grabs!
Stunning riveted gable trusses manufactured by famed Melbourne Engineering firm ‘Johns & Waygood’. The Engineering firm built structural steel works in many of the …read on »
Coolroom/Sandwich panel… truck loads!
Large amount of zincalume clad coolroom panel, predominantly 75mm thickness, all 1200 wide. $20 p/Lineal metre. Lengths up to 5m…. some hovering at around …read on »
Stained glass sashes… new in.
It’s time to advertise our collection of stained glass windows that we’ve had stashed away for eons. With a view to building a specialised …read on »
Silo Studio Opportunity!
NOW SOLD: We have a LARGE silo for sale. In rare A grade condition for an old guage heavy duty silo (a common weak …read on »
Mediterranean inspiration!
We often are asked if we ‘buy roof tiles’ (for the record, the answer is no!)… people can’t believe that their roof tiles aren’t …read on »
House Lot of Clinker Bricks
We currently have 20 pallets (10,000) of beautiful blue/red City clinker bricks in the yard. Clinkers don’t come up very often in demolition, so …read on »
Cast iron radiators
We get asked often if we come across these, and not for many years. But this year we hit the motherload!! These are from …read on »
Wicking beds/Stillages/wood boxes/fire pits… whatever you like.
These are ex- Ford plant, Geelong, stillages. We have used them for years as storage boxes for everything, around our yard… people always ask …read on »
Ex Melbourne Wharf doors up for grabs.
For those of you that have visited the back of our ‘humble’ shed as opposed to the grandstander next door… you will have noticed …read on »
A few changes afoot!
This year we are lucky to have ‘team Glennie’ back together. Comprised of Lennie McNamara (who was our first ever apprentice back in the …read on »
GLASS (and acrylic) BRICKS GALORE!!
Most of the bricks are 190 x 190 x 80mm thick (standard block size), we do however have a lot of ‘subway’ style glass …read on »
No such thing as off cuts!
Mat Pyers is a Kyneton carpenter… and this is a table that he built from offcuts of mixed hardwood bearer material from the yard! …read on »
Beautiful barn doors!
It’s been quite some time since I have updated our ‘clever folk’ site… but, back on the wagon today! Eric and Helen have been …read on »
Grand Designs debut!
In 2011, we met Bernie and Ruth Ryan. They wanted cheap glass and we had it… I can’t rightly remember how they found us… …read on »
Squash courts… tick!
We work WITH demolishers (often)… but there is one guy that we really, specially respect… nothing short of love really… Troy Diver of Victorian …read on »
Ex Melbourne Uni student housing hydronic heating panels!
We have (had) approximately 44 pressed steel hydronic panels that have recently been stripped from a Melbourne University student accommodation overhaul. They are in …read on »
New ‘childrens lane’ bowling alley table.
When we have some ‘down time’ we make products for folk … this latest table is headed that way. Just an example of what …read on »
Steel beams, trusses and posts.
Truck and trailer load of assorted large scale steel sections arrived over the last couple of weeks and are currently taking up LOTS of …read on »
Timber ladders
For all of your shelving, hanging and laddery needs!
House lot of Skyrange steel windows.
After recently stripping out this Clendon road house and very carefully removing all of the 29 window/door units… these are now for sale as …read on »
How does immigration affect our deconstruction industry?
The short answer is…. it’s booming! This may be one of those curly headings… but an experience we’ve had recently working on a strip …read on »
Full kitchen in excellent condition…
We won’t normally take kitchens (as they are bulky, often in dubious condition and relative to a custom space), but this was too good …read on »
Poly tanks new to yard!
Fresh out of a well intentioned renovation project in Toorak, now earmarked for demolition… are these 2300 Litre Slendatanks (food grade poly) 3 available …read on »
Stunning new cut glass doors just in!
This arts and craft era of housing seems to be the new ‘hot favourite’ for demolishers of late (sigh)… and although I really think …read on »
Bowling Alley bench tops.
Ex bowling alley slabs. All stored under cover. Plenty available. Mixed pieces to choose from, predominantly canadian rock maple, an exceptionally hard timber (at …read on »
1000L + Slimline polytank
Just a little bit late for the downpour yesterday…. cream poly tank, all fittings, $450.00.
Behind the scenes, a warehouse strip out.
Facade retention project!!! (never fear… the exterior is being retained, the interior is being given a new lease of life!) This last hot week …read on »
Song to the Moon… local creative thinkers.
Jenny Rodgerson and David Moore have been great supporters of the Salvage Yard since we opened our gates early last year… and we are …read on »
Changing of the guard!
It is a time of change for the yard… on many fronts, but this is the one we are ready to celebrate!! If you …read on »
Grey Gardens, Chewton.
Luke Mortimer is a bit of an enigma, he’s been a constant visitor to the yard since we first opened, has a canny way …read on »
Our timber racks.
We have extensive covered timber racks here, spanning over 2 levels. With a range of recycled timbers. An example of what is available: weatherboards, …read on »
Assorted, hard to find hardware!
We have 2 big walls of buckets that contain years of collecting fixings, fittings, brackets, brass bolts, hinges, plumbing bits and bobs, gate hardware, …read on »
Tandem trailer for sale… heavy duty.
Dimensions: 1850W x 3650L x 1040H (top of sides). A very heavy duty trailer, custom built, 85% on tyres. Will need a strong towing …read on »
One of a kind feature glass!
This piece of glass was ordered by a high street fashion store in Melbourne for a tidy sum… but apparently there was a measurement …read on »
Ex Thompson’s Foundry work benches.
Classic workshop benches, ex- Thompson’s foundry, Castlemaine. Would make beautiful kitchen island bench with dressed timber top and slide in shelves. Talk to us …read on »
Classic corner seat.
A rather classic corner seat. Varnished pine, in great condition, barr a nick out of the top (as pictured). $300. Measurements are: 900 H …read on »
Metal working lathe and mill for sale!!
Selling as a package: Rigiva: Officine, RIVA VARESE, ITALIA metal working mill and SHERATON DIPLOMA metal working lathe. Lots of extras (dividing head, tooling, …read on »
Ex Footscray factory cast steel feature columns.
Feature columns with a beautiful patina, 4.5m long. 9 available.
Recently serviced and re gassed Mitsubishi 7.1 Kw split system air conditioners!
A tip off from one of our insta followers led us to a project being demolished in inner Melbourne… which in turn, amongst all …read on »
Hungry boards – Getting more than heaps on your ute!
This is called ‘hungry boarding’. I always loved when my step dad reminded me to ‘throw in the hungry boards’… if I was coming …read on »
Useful brick stacking.
This is so good and such a simple idea to make a laborious job so much easier! On Monday I did a manual offload …read on »
Baltic floor sections, beams and bearers.
It’s great when good things come your way when you least expect it! And these big burly baltic sections are one of those things! …read on »
Custom made trusses.
A combination of restored, existing and custom made trusses. We are currently in the process of setting up our machine shop, which will enable …read on »
Uncategorizable goodies!
It’s a little bit challenging, as we add to the web page, to categorise some objects… so ultimately, I am now calling these ‘miscellaneous’. …read on »
Iron.
A large, ever evolving collection of corrugated iron, galvanised, zincalume, colourbond and cliplock of various profiles. We grade our iron, and price accordingly. Sculptural …read on »
Feature walls using offcuts!
This week we wanted to share the new feature wall in a customer’s house! They bought a pack of what is referred to as …read on »
Plumbing fittings and fixtures.
We try to collect a wide array of items that could be useful in any building project… amongst these are the less glamorous plumbing …read on »
Beautiful baltic side board cabinet.
Large oregon side board cabinet with a really lovely concertina opening action. 2200W x 1430 H (at front)/1340 H (at back) x 580 D. …read on »
Fabrication!
Just a reminder that we have a couple of seriously clever steel fabricators down here in the guise of Glenn and Jim… and can …read on »
The people we meet!
If there’s one thing that brings us back to ‘why did we swap life as we knew it to run a salvage yard?’ it …read on »
Cedar and Kauri dovetail drawers
These beautiful drawers are a combination of cedar and kauri, with dovetail corner details. Three sizes available: $65 + $55 + $45 (in corresponding …read on »
Affordable honeycomb insulating blinds
Winter has arrived, so just a reminder that we are suppliers of Turnils Arena honeycomb blinds. I wrote a post here about how we came across …read on »
Nomens land, Newstead.
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the fabulously industrious couple Lucy Mora and Julian Cairns, who have recently opened a beautiful cafe/event …read on »
CSC, missed opportunity for education on waste!
Recently the CSC – Castlemaine Secondary College – embarked on its exciting Stage Two reconstruction process. Sadly though, instead of making the most of a …read on »
Woodend patchwork!
Fabulous gate with all the gal offcuts…exposed framework always makes a nice touch! Cheers Anthony for sending these pics in!
Get bowling fit Castlemaine!
Sometimes we feel that some thing’s are just too good not to take a risk on! And although our preference is always to try …read on »
Travertine!
The last couple of weeks have seen a few trucks roll in with ‘surprise packs’ on board. Mostly we know what we are getting… …read on »
Gates of all sorts!
We are amassing a large quantity of gates down here… it seems to correlate with the amount of properties around the Toorak area that …read on »
All things Fire!
It’s caught my eye, that actually we have quite a growing collection of mantels and hearths…. in fact they were rather awkward to photograph …read on »
Our mailbox… a local tale.
It’s not difficult to miss, as you are really just concentrating hard on dodging the potholes, the corrugations on the blind corner, or steadying …read on »
The Glass Basket wall!
Last year we had the pleasure of meeting a Barkers Creek owner builder called Steve… and hearing his fabulous ideas on how to retain …read on »
Steel Miscellany!
We all become so used to beautifully rendered online images… and I’m no different to any other web user, when I look at my …read on »
Doors!
We have a covered racking system which holds over 500 doors…. it is rather full! The racks have been custom built for ease of …read on »
Ex industrial glass.. Clearance prices!
A large section of our yard is dedicated to the supply of ex industrial standard glass, and we would like to clear it out …read on »
Sleepers
Musical fence!
Sometimes we find something that is just so indicative of an era that makes us smile… that it is too good not to share. …read on »
Post Festival Reflection.
We can’t claim to be a super festival hub here at the yard… but in our own way (apart from trying to get out …read on »
A seriously recycled property!
I thought we’d kick off the ‘clever folk’ category with a post from Pumphouse Design’s past! Tooting the trumpet a bit here… but I …read on »
Bay windows.
Representing different eras, hardwood timber framed with stained glass detail. Stored out of the weather and in fabulous condition. Please contact us directly for …read on »
We (mostly) have bricks!
We ensure that there is always a supply of bricks in the yard… a selection of cleaned pressed reds, creams, hand mades, wire cuts …read on »
Behind the scenes.
What we love most about owning a big shed, is the ability to share it with our inspirational friends… who in turn bring THEIR …read on »
ex glass factory galvanised baskets.
Galvanised baskets that were used originally for glass factory output…. and then saw their second incarnation as a major shelving unit in a large …read on »
House strippers… their under valued role.
It is great that we can supply reclaimed materials to the general public, but it is somewhat perplexing however, that there is still so …read on »
Our squid!
We get asked on a regular basis… ‘why the squid’, I feel that a dedicated post is in order! This is a wee image …read on »
Honeycomb blinds now available through the yard!
We were looking for an affordable alternative to the very expensive Luxaflex brand…. that was pricing our clients out of the market and by …read on »
Pendant lamps and pots made by us!
We constantly wondered what possible use we could come up with to deal with our ever growing collection of fire extinguishers. As owners of rather …read on »
Gimme shelter
it’s been over three weeks since i’ve posted (which would have made it all of 3 posts in total to date for the salvage …read on »
unlikely hero.
An unlikely environmentalist: The world of building salvage has recently lost it’s grandfather and one seriously committed environmental activist! (WHAT??? I can hear most …read on »
Pizza and iron!
A very big THANKYOU to the wonderful Judith and Rob Bakes of ‘The Mud Brick Circus’ for their help and delicious pizzas that were …read on »
Waste not!!
Economic stimulus package… you know, it’s interesting the times that you play the devils’ advocate.. See the coin from the flip side. Many of …read on »
Breaking ground!
It’s been 3 years… but this is a bit of perspective of some of the energy, physical, environmental, emotional, financial that has gone into …read on »