After a week of tears and doubts, South Lismore business owner Stephen Butcher came up with a plan to rebuild his business to withstand the next flood.
Mr Butcher started by stripping back all the paint and plasterwork on the walls — along with the black mould he found growing beneath the surface —- and ripped out the flood-affected false ceiling.
"It's all solid structure, you can see that brickwork here now, the hardwood ceiling joists, and we are just going to attach to that ceiling joist there and make it a nice smooth surface. We will probably just have some downlights."Want more local news? Sign up to ABC North Coast's weekly email newsletter.
"I had already drawn up plans for the shop in my 1am stress over the table of how I roughly wanted it. We all had our input with all the regulations to make sure we can do this right and try and build the building to resist a lot of the hurt that we have been through this time.
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