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type of villaboard screws

Started by emptybucketman, 30th December 2007 09:57 PM

bugle, ceiling, cement, fibre, fix, nails, plasterboard, screws, type, villaboard, walls

Replies: 11
Views: 7,279

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd March 2008 09:50 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PAINTING, PLASTERING, TILING, DECORATING, etc.

re-pointing advise needed

Started by ger, 9th June 2007 11:36 PM

1926, advise, bricks, build, bungalow, california, coming, cost, fix, house, idea, job, materials, metres, mortar, needed, premix, re-pointing, recommendations, repointing, welcomed

Replies: 3
Views: 2,483

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 08:01 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

Sash window fly screen replacement

Started by Spencer74, 27th February 2008 09:48 PM

advice, beading, bottom, chisel, existing, fix, flexible/fibreglass, fly, flyscreen, glass, guess, half, held, house, idea, piece, replace, replacement, replacing, reuse, sash, screen, slides, stiffer/cheaper, stuff, tension, timber, type, wall, window

Replies: 2
Views: 5,447

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th February 2008 04:57 PM; by Spencer74

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Blocked Sewer Plumber Cant fix help

Started by dougpurd, 26th February 2008 09:39 AM

600, access, air, apreciated, bend, blocked, blocking, branch, camera, corner, dug, eel, fix, found, foundation, ideas, land, level, meters, pipe, plumber, pressurising, property, section, sewer, solid, sweeping, unbuilt, vertical, water

Replies: 10
Views: 2,642

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th February 2008 07:29 PM; by dazzler

Forum:
PLUMBING

Mr Fixit

Started by nev25, 26th February 2008 12:44 AM

bake, bakers, beer, cake, cried, delight, door, enquired, fix, fixed, fixit, flickering, forehead, fridge, home, honey, left, light, nice, notices, offered, pub, repairs, replied, sex, steps, stopped, told, written, wrong

Replies: 0
Views: 1,007

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th February 2008 12:44 AM; by nev25

Forum:
JOKES

Installation of Leadlight Windows

Started by Geebung, 8th February 2008 12:22 PM

answer, assume, beading, classic, company, disappointed, finish, fix, guess, installation, installed, installers, job, leadlight, materials, mind, original, painter, path, persons, ploy, provide, resistance, respect, reused, started, tradesmen, tradesmens, typically, windows

Replies: 8
Views: 4,483

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd February 2008 08:32 PM; by Geebung

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Patching Plaster wall over very old plaster

Started by aspenglow, 16th February 2008 09:59 PM

answer, diy, fix, forgive, gyprock, hair, horse, money, normail, patch, patching, people, plaster, pull, question, replace, save, sheets, techniques, wall, walls

Replies: 4
Views: 2,624

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd February 2008 07:26 PM; by seriph1

Forum:
PLASTERING

DIY 'Ripple Signal' Ceiling Fan Noise Fix ?

Started by SteveAndBelle, 15th January 2007 10:46 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

air, brisbane, call, ceiling, conditioning, cool, diy, electricians, energy, fan, fans, fix, guzzling, hot, house, join, klunky, nights, noise, noisy, refuse, ripple, rotary, signal, solution, starting, summer, type, usual, weeks

Replies: 36
Views: 23,660

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd February 2008 06:12 PM; by craig 75

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Anyone had problems with their credit file ?

Started by Brown Dog, 4th February 2008 01:05 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

20+, account, address, application, behavior, card, cheers, company, concerned, contacted, credit, debt, duhrolleyes, file, fix, fraudulant, identity, incase, liable, obvious, phone, pretty, problems, proper, read, record, requested, sad3, suppliers, theft

Replies: 40
Views: 5,524

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st February 2008 10:27 AM; by Waldo

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Help with deck finishing problem

Started by rob81, 20th February 2008 01:56 PM

ago, applied, applying, appreciated, aqaudeck, cabots, clean, coat, deck, doh, events, feel, finishing, fix, fool, greatly, involve, middle, patch, problem, real, rest, resulted, rob, sanding, scrub, series, situation, this/improve, weeks

Replies: 3
Views: 2,260

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th February 2008 05:35 PM; by rob81

Forum:
FINISHING

Creaking Floating Floors - is there a fix?

Started by Bradd, 20th January 2008 05:42 PM

apartment, appreciated, assist, badly, brad, cheers, confrim, creaking, expected, extreme, fix, floating, floors, forum, gaps, installed, intstalled, mess, post, professional, quality, recently, reduce, regupol, site, sprinkling, stop, talc, timber, underlay

Replies: 4
Views: 23,676

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th February 2008 12:12 PM; by madrat

Forum:
FLOORING

Is this asking for trouble?

Started by tourgy, 16th February 2008 11:15 PM

15cm, 3-700kg, 5cm, beleive, brick, brickie, bricks, bro, build, clay, consist, filled, fix, gravel, guessing, heavy, house, idea, law, link, middle, mix, mud, oven, sand, similar, straw, top, trouble, wil

Replies: 1
Views: 1,891

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th February 2008 11:36 PM; by manoftalent

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

split fuel tank on my lawn mower

Started by Ian007, 10th May 2006 11:48 AM

air, bits, cheers, cleaned, cool, corner, cost, dremmel, filled, fix, fixing, found, fuel, gentle, gently, gun, hot, ian, lawn, leaks, melted, mold, mower, plastic, pressure, removed, split, tank, tip, welded

Replies: 10
Views: 4,319

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th February 2008 02:30 PM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Ceiling Battens

Started by dno, 13th February 2008 05:31 PM

301, 305, advice, appreciated, attached, batten, battens, ceiling, couple, expensive, fix, fixing, found, hanger, hangers, inbetween, joist, joists, knocked, level, original, pack, pic, previous, recently, replaster, rondo, screw, set, square

Replies: 1
Views: 2,614

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th February 2008 08:32 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PAINTING, PLASTERING, TILING, DECORATING, etc.

Repairing burned Tassie Oak flooring

Started by kman-oz, 6th February 2008 12:07 PM

base, black, boards, burned, burning, burns, dining, edit, effected, estapol, finish, fire, fix, floor, flooring, jenny, managed, oak, oil, pan, pics, pot, repairing, replacing, sanding, severe, spot, tassie, timbers, time

Replies: 10
Views: 3,376

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th February 2008 06:47 PM; by Larry McCully

Forum:
FLOORING

Fixing broken keys on ceiling (lathen plaster)

Started by prof_montoya, 11th February 2008 02:50 PM

1900s, broken, call, ceiling, cement, corner, cornice, cracks, developed, diy, e.g, fix, fixing, found, front, hessian, keen, keys, lathen, melbourne, novice, plaster, plasterer, plasterers, pros, recommend, single, solid, space, terrace

Replies: 1
Views: 2,959

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 03:47 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Blotchy finish with Shellawax

Started by govarney, 7th February 2008 06:41 PM

appreciated, blotchy, bowl, comments, covered, demonstrated, demonstrator, expos, finish, finished, fix, friend, g.o.varney, giovanni, instructions, light, newbie, noticed, outcome, pleased, process, pronounced, recently, removing, repeat, rolleyes, shellawax, wood, wrong, yesterday

Replies: 5
Views: 2,154

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th February 2008 07:13 AM; by ubeaut

Forum:
FINISHING

10 years experience in carpentry

Started by matty3uk, 31st January 2008 05:06 AM

australia, carpenter, carpentry, companies, cost, english, experience, fix, hear, home, hope, hoping, jobs, matthew, mind, net, photos, qualifications, qualifications.doh, references, round, site, sites, sponsor, start, tools, travelling, visa, working/holiday, years

Replies: 7
Views: 2,963

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th February 2008 10:01 PM; by rhancock

Forum:
EMPLOYMENT

internal corners on cornice

Started by cflake, 29th January 2008 10:01 PM

corners, cornice, embarrasing, fix, gaps, hints, installing, internal, joins, mitre, pretty, stuffed

Replies: 9
Views: 5,836

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd February 2008 01:47 PM; by vlv8vic

Forum:
PLASTERING

Frank Feldman

Started by Barry Hicks, 2nd February 2008 04:42 PM

amazing, answer, avoid, blacks, cabbie, district, eat, feldman, fellow, fix, frank, fuse, guy, highly, jambs, married, measure, meet, met, mistake, passenger, perfect, polished, quickest, shoes, stuck, time, traffic, widow, wow

Replies: 2
Views: 1,368

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd February 2008 10:56 AM; by Calm

Forum:
JOKES

staining of bricks

Started by cheryl, 2nd February 2008 02:43 PM

acid, aggregate, boral, bricks, built, cheryl, colour, coloured, driveways, exposed, fix, house, light, paths, porous, splashed, stained, staining, yellow

Replies: 1
Views: 1,866

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd February 2008 10:20 PM; by Brickie

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Sir Walter - section dying

Started by TomDunreedy, 18th July 2007 12:22 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

basically, brown, day, dead, dying, experienced, eye, fertilizer, fine, fix, front, gradually, green, lawn, metre, metres, rest, section, similar, sir, spreading, walter, watering

Replies: 28
Views: 11,216

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st February 2008 07:21 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Staircase questions

Started by petersemple, 1st February 2008 01:13 PM

150mm, adding, angle, balustrade, bolted, botton, chamfered, edge, fix, middle, offset, overlap, posts, protrude, protrusion, questions, removing, risers, slightly, sort, staircase, steel, steps, stringer, timber, tread, treads, underneath, vertical, wooden

Replies: 1
Views: 2,400

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st February 2008 01:50 PM; by SilentButDeadly

Forum:
STAIRS, STEPS and RAMPS

Taps hard to adjust

Started by Smurf, 27th January 2008 10:34 PM

adjust, backwards, bit, blast, control, exercise, fix, flow, forwards, freely, garden, hard, increases, mess, nice, nuisance, previous, real, slightly, sprinkler, tap, taps, type, versa, vice, walking, washer, water, watered, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 2,105

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st January 2008 07:10 PM; by Smurf

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Joist and Bearer starting to rot at end

Started by prof_montoya, 29th January 2008 01:34 PM

bearer, bolting, cuting, end, extending, fix, fixing, foundation, joist, piece, putting, remaining, rest, rot, rotten, section, started, starting, stump, thinking, views

Replies: 1
Views: 3,920

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2008 11:32 AM; by SilentButDeadly

Forum:
SUB FLOORING

fixing old bentwood chairs

Started by astrid, 24th January 2008 03:28 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

age, astrid, beasts, bent, bentwood, bits, chairs, clamping, fix, fixing, legs, lovely, main, probs, springing, stay, steamed, success, sugestions, suposed, tips, true, twist, wetting, wobbles.sounds, wood

Replies: 15
Views: 13,468

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2008 12:26 AM; by astrid

Forum:
FINISHING

Hicks's Handy Hint #1

Started by Barry Hicks, 26th January 2008 12:02 PM

electrical, fault, fix, hammer, handy, hicks, hickss, hint

Replies: 0
Views: 1,171

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th January 2008 12:02 PM; by Barry Hicks

Forum:
JOKES

Water/Heat marks on table top

Started by Elise, 15th January 2008 11:59 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

absolutely, applied, bear, brasso, cheers, circle, coats, elise, entire, fix, gorgeous, hot, job, leave, marks, messing, newbie, oak, patch, professionally, professionals, scared, shellac, silky, stained, table, told, top, water or heat, white

Replies: 22
Views: 9,542

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th January 2008 10:45 PM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

gap between floor and skirting

Started by Damo182, 20th January 2008 04:53 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

0.5cm, 1920s, appreciated, ares, beneath, boards, carpet, coming, filler, fix, floor, gap, gaps, instances, keeping, light, mind, move, paint, polish, recently, ripped, sand, semi, skirting, sort, timber, wide

Replies: 16
Views: 5,710

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd January 2008 11:29 PM; by Make it work

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Wanted- full time roofing and guttering workers or biginners!!!

Started by TFT R&G SINISA, 15th January 2008 07:52 PM

0402960037, adelaide, australia, biginners, business, called, fix, guttering, gutters, info, iron, live, monday-friday, phone, roofing, roofs, saturday, sinisa, sizes, suply, tft, time, wanted, wanted-, workers

Replies: 0
Views: 1,842

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 07:52 PM; by TFT R&G SINISA

Forum:
EMPLOYMENT

Merbau. Is it the right material?

Started by hmhdyman, 10th January 2008 04:14 PM

bad, bleeding, choice, condition, constructed, deck, fix, forum, frame, gentle, hardwood, i/g, installing, lot, material, merbau, p.s, pine, pls, pool, prior, read, replacing, rgds, richard, sealing, timber, treated, wet, woodwork

Replies: 7
Views: 3,898

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th January 2008 02:44 PM; by nesbit

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Repeated "water hammer" in pipe

Started by Gooner, 7th January 2008 11:31 AM

access, assume, bathroom, clamps, creating, difficult, fix, flow, frequency, half, hammer, house, offending, phenomenon, pipe, pipes, position, repeated, required, resonant, simple, solution, start, tap, upstairs, vibrate, vibrates, vibration, water, water hammer

Replies: 2
Views: 2,188

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 11:48 PM; by Gooner

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Built a step for deck...pics (advice needed)

Started by oohsam, 20th December 2007 11:05 PM

advice, becuase, blunder, boards, built, cuts, deckpics, everytime, fix, hate, inside, joist, laid, left, lines, measurements, measuring, needed, offcuts, pic, pics, realised, slowly, step, straight, stupid, timber, upset, wasting, wondering

Replies: 10
Views: 2,801

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 07:53 PM; by AndrewPatrol

Forum:
DECKING

Outdoor Tiling on old slab

Started by OBBob, 7th January 2008 12:12 PM

adhesive, base, cement, chickenwhire, clean, direct, direction, expeansion, external, fix, gaps, guid, lay, outdoor, searched, sections, sheeting, slab, sort, tile, tiling

Replies: 1
Views: 1,829

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 02:47 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
CONCRETING

floor tiles

Started by chips59, 3rd January 2008 06:48 PM

board, concrete, entrance, family, fix, floor, floors, hall, hallo, lay, lge, lifting, meals, rest, thinking, tile, tiled, tiles, time

Replies: 1
Views: 1,424

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 07:26 AM; by OBBob

Forum:
TILING

Problem with Dulux Aquanamel bubbling

Started by KVF, 6th January 2008 10:18 AM

2007, 40+, april, aquanamel, architraves, bubbled, bubbling, coat, doors, dulux, feels, fix, hitting, noticing, paint, painted, prep, prepped, problem, sanded, soft, spongy, summer, temperatures, woodwork

Replies: 2
Views: 5,600

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 07:22 AM; by OBBob

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Water leakage - need assistance!

Started by goraek, 3rd January 2008 06:13 PM

assistance, control, correct, council, drop, expense, fix, leakage, leaking, meter, realized, term, thingy, water

Replies: 3
Views: 1,790

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th January 2008 01:01 PM; by Bloss

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Framing alignment for blueboard

Started by familyguy, 4th January 2008 08:26 AM

3meters, 4mm, 5-6mm, 90x45, aligned, alignment, blueboard, bow, bowed, care, critical, csr, delivered, edge, fine, fix, fixing, flatness/alignment, framing, joints, length, lengths, manual, pine, run, sections, straight, studs, treated, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 3,301

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th January 2008 08:26 AM; by familyguy

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

cleaning toilet

Started by madjace, 10th April 2006 10:44 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

bought, bright, brown, budge, cleaning, fix, forum, guys, house, pad, rid, scoth, stains, toilet, toilets

Replies: 28
Views: 4,042

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 08:00 PM; by neol

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Eaves is blowing/dropping SOS

Started by banhien, 31st December 2007 01:54 PM

31dec2007, blowing, blowing or dropping, blowing/dropping, dropping, eaves, fix, fixed, handyman/trademan, happy, hard, hot, house, living, melbourne, outer, sos, storey, suburb, time

Replies: 2
Views: 1,403

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 08:56 PM; by banhien

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Lawnmower carburettor aargh!

Started by Tiger, 27th December 2007 07:52 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

aargh, able/wants, air, bearing, bit, carburettor, carby, chamber, combustion, cut, dazzler, expert, experts, feels, fix, grass, guidance, hip, lawnmower, lugging, mind, mothers, operation, petrol, playing, stroke, surprised, tank, time, victa

Replies: 15
Views: 11,319

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st January 2008 02:32 PM; by lpg_falcon

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Help - fixing loose mortar on bottom course of wall

Started by commonman00, 21st December 2007 11:29 PM

advise, ago, appears, appreciated, bed, bottom, bricks, built, caused, concrete, feel, finger, fix, fixing, floor, garage, garden, greatly, guessing, house, loose, loosen, loosened, mortar, questions, reason, running, surprised, wall, water

Replies: 4
Views: 2,135

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th December 2007 12:17 AM; by Joister

Forum:
CONCRETING

Need Help/Advise on 80K repair bill

Started by cKone, 26th December 2007 08:13 PM

20k, 80k, afford, ago, bill, builder, building, council, days, executive, expenses, fined, fix, health, help or advise, inspector, involved, owner, p.s, paid, pay, plumbers, repair, road, strata, sydney, time, units, warranty, water

Replies: 5
Views: 2,334

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th December 2007 08:24 PM; by cKone

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

plumbing current question.

Started by ap99, 27th December 2007 04:22 PM

aka, bit, current, fields, fix, magnetic, pipes, plumbing, question, water, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 1,515

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th December 2007 04:22 PM; by ap99

Forum:
PLUMBING

Stuck gate

Started by Tiger, 20th December 2007 05:39 PM

binds, bricks, cracked, create, fix, gate, hinges, hold, holding, reweld, space, stuck, thinking, top

Replies: 6
Views: 2,597

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th December 2007 10:50 AM; by Jacksin

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Can i paint a stencilled driveway??

Started by PhoenixP, 21st December 2007 09:05 AM

advice, appreciated, bad, bin, book, burn, charcoal, colour, doh, driveway, easy, fix, grey, ground, guys, maggots, match, metho, methylated, paint, painting, spirits, stencilled, stupid, white

Replies: 12
Views: 15,025

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th December 2007 03:32 PM; by wheelinround

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Help with Flik Mixer

Started by Bodgy, 23rd December 2007 09:30 PM

$100+, advice, bit, called, competent, copiously, dads, dis-assemble, doo, fix, flik, idea, leak, lever, mixer, ony, ordinary, pay, plumber, replace, shower, single, sort, started, tap, taps, washer, xmas

Replies: 3
Views: 1,725

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th December 2007 12:21 PM; by Bodgy

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

toilet flush wont stop

Started by astrid, 19th December 2007 07:49 AM

astrid, ball, bowl, buttons, caroma, cock, consiquently, describe, dosent, dosnt, duel, filling, fix, fixes, flush, flushthe, happen, lot, plumber, sharply, somthing, stick, stop, tank, tapping, time, toilet, wasting, water, worn

Replies: 13
Views: 7,900

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th December 2007 11:49 AM; by bricks

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Loose bricks

Started by cart, 17th December 2007 08:26 PM

appreciated, board, bricks, built, cart, corner, fill, fix, floors, frame, fresh, gap, house, late, level, loose, mortar, noticed, option, remove, running, scrap, sense, sits, spirit, stumps

Replies: 14
Views: 3,004

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st December 2007 07:33 PM; by addo

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Staircase Handrail

Started by Metung, 14th December 2007 10:30 AM

effective, fix, fixing, footlights, guy, half, hand, handrail, inclination, joking, left, lights, opposite, picture, plenty, preference, pretty, question, reasoning, staircase, step, straight, timber, trivial, window, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 2,302

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st December 2007 11:02 AM; by Metung

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

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