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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
For all of your shelving, hanging and laddery needs!
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Just a little bit late for the downpour yesterday…. cream poly tank, all fittings, $450.00.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Feature columns with a beautiful patina, 4.5m long. 9 available.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
These beautiful drawers are a combination of cedar and kauri, with dovetail corner details. Three sizes available: $65 + $55 + $45 (in corresponding …read on »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Fabulous gate with all the gal offcuts…exposed framework always makes a nice touch! Cheers Anthony for sending these pics in!
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »