If all goes to plan, some time in the next week we'll be going live with an all new Renovate Forum. The current Home Reno Forums will be split from these forums and made into a whole new forum on its own site.

The new forum is located HERE (threads are currently locked for posting until the whole thing is downloaded onto the new site. Have a bit of a look, see what you reckon and if there is anything you feel needs to be done, added, taken away, etc put it into THIS THREAD and I will look at all suggestions, no matter how weird or whacky (well..... ).

There's a couple of basic skins for now and the site is running the latest version of vBulletin 3.7 There's a few new bits and pieces in the new version so it's worth having a bit of a play around.

To the nitty gritty. All who are registered here up to the time of the split (probably 15th May) will also be automatically registered on the new site. You will however need to login to the new one and if you don't log out should happily be able to switch between the two at will.

A transfer link will be placed in the current Home Reno Forum and this will stay indefinitely. Posts in the new forum won't be shown in the new posts or iSpy lists here. It will be a completely independent forum with its own domain. www.renovateforum.com.au or www.renovateforum.com will both get you there but for now the entry point to the forums is the link in the second paragraph above or click on the header graphic.

We will need to close the Home Reno Forums on both sites for around an hour on the day if the split. This will ensure that we have all the threads and posts transferred without any problems and hopefully all in tact.

Cheers - Neil