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Timber flooring options..

Started by Pikey, 18th June 2007 06:24 PM

advice, belt, black, cement, cheers, clog, dodgy, floor, flooring, forum, heaps, home, matting, moved, options, orbital, patch, pikey, polish, recently, reckon, remove, ripped, sand, sander, sanding, stuff, tar, timber, time

Replies: 8
Views: 3,990

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th August 2007 08:29 PM; by Jenks

Forum:
DECKING

polishing floorboards

Started by gorgac, 5th August 2007 07:20 PM

boards, control, difficult, edger, edges, floorboards, found, past, people, polish, polished, polishing, question, recommend, removing, sand, sanding, skirting, sore, walls

Replies: 0
Views: 2,472

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th August 2007 07:20 PM; by gorgac

Forum:
DECKING

Deck - To sand, or not to sand..?

Started by Theremin, 2nd August 2007 02:00 PM

25m2, ago, attached, cleaner, condition, deck, flood, front, hardwood, house, idea, moment, months, moved, past, photos, powerlift, preparation, question, re-coating, sand, spa-n-deck, timber, total, type

Replies: 4
Views: 11,114

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th August 2007 07:54 AM; by jimj

Forum:
DECKING

mixing 1m3 by hand/wheelbarrow?

Started by zongatron, 26th July 2007 07:28 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$$wise, 100, 1m3, 3300, barrow, blue, cutting, divide, figured, free, half, hand, hand or wheelbarrow, idea, makes, measurements, metal, mixing, peice, poured, reo, reos, sand, sections, seperate, slab, slabs, tank, thick, time

Replies: 27
Views: 9,132

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st July 2007 10:00 PM; by ian

Forum:
CONCRETING

Another Decking recoat question

Started by zendo, 21st June 2007 08:55 AM

.previously, cabots, clean, cleaner, coats, deck, decking, discussed, natrual, oil, pant, previous, question, recoat, recoating, remove, sand, sort, spa, striper, thinking, threads

Replies: 8
Views: 7,043

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st July 2007 09:09 PM; by jimj

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

waterproofing

Started by cabman, 29th July 2007 07:54 PM

1st, bathroom, cement, cheers, cooper, diy, floor, hob, house, level, market, notsure, peers, proof, sand, slab, straight, teh, top, tray, waste, water, waterproof, waterproofing

Replies: 0
Views: 1,658

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th July 2007 07:54 PM; by cabman

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Help with sealer for sand stone pavers

Started by ceaser, 26th July 2007 07:11 PM

dry, expensive, guys, normal, pavers, recommend, sand, sealer, stone, treat, wet

Replies: 2
Views: 2,918

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th July 2007 11:15 PM; by woodbe

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Problems using # 2 Phillips head screws

Started by lateral, 22nd July 2007 10:50 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

18volt, appreciated, bit, bits, bog, breaking, chipboard, correct, difficulty, drill, fill, flooring, greatly, greg, guys, head, joists, laid, laying, level, paint, phillips, plywood, problems, process, sand, screw, screws, tips, top

Replies: 21
Views: 5,855

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th July 2007 12:43 AM; by Ramps

Forum:
HINTS & TIPS

Re-finishing a hardwood staircase

Started by Pricey, 24th July 2007 09:40 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 1,557

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th July 2007 01:14 PM; by weisyboy

Forum:
FINISHING

Toning and sealing

Started by havenoideaatall, 21st July 2007 11:36 PM

120, 180-grit, 320-grit, addition, advice, and/or, apply, bare, boards, clean, coat, coats, comment, confirm, correct, differences, dry, finish, haveno, lightly, paper, regimen, sand, sanding, sealing, solvent-based, surface, toner, toning, wood

Replies: 3
Views: 1,564

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd July 2007 07:54 PM; by Zoinker

Forum:
FINISHING

poor paint coverage

Started by tony2096, 22nd July 2007 07:29 PM

3-in-1, aquamel, aquanamel, brown, cedar, coat, coats, continuing, coverage, dulux, fourth, frames, gloss, obvious, paint, painting, patches, persevere, poor, sand, seal, sealer/prep/undercoat, start, tony, top, vary, white, windows

Replies: 1
Views: 1,768

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd July 2007 07:34 PM; by Metung

Forum:
PAINTING

envirotex and 2 part epoxy

Started by Quasio, 21st July 2007 09:34 PM

1000, advance, andrew, box, carnauba, degassing, dust/lint, edges, envirotex, epoxy, experience, finer, gloss, grit, lint, lying, nice, option, paper, polish, sand, sanding, satin, spots, sticky, table, tape, wats, wax, waxing/polishing

Replies: 0
Views: 3,013

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st July 2007 09:34 PM; by Quasio

Forum:
FINISHING

What type of hardwood floorboard is this??

Started by gsdavies, 19th July 2007 08:17 AM

1950s, ash, click, color, fine, finished, floorboard, floors, hardwood, helps, house, idea, larger, medium, oak, photos, rough, sand, tasmanian, type, variation, victoria, victorian, view, wood

Replies: 10
Views: 2,455

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st July 2007 02:12 PM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING

Paving with bricks over concrete slab

Started by Chumley, 10th July 2007 03:23 PM

25m, advice, bed, bit, brick, bricks, canberra, chumley, concrete, cover, dirt, door, exposed, hold, ignore, lay, match, mortar, paths, paving, roadbase, run, sand, sit, slab, sound, structures, swmbo, top, worry

Replies: 14
Views: 7,201

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th July 2007 09:44 AM; by Chumley

Forum:
CONCRETING

Shower wall render

Started by Stu, 18th July 2007 11:53 PM

alternatively, basecoat, brickwork, cement, finished, gyprock, mix, patch, patching, ratio, render, rendered, ripping, sand, scratch, shower, stu, tidy, tiles, underneath, wall, waterproofing

Replies: 4
Views: 4,043

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th July 2007 09:23 AM; by arms

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Sealing Hardwood timber deck

Started by oricenap, 10th July 2007 05:50 PM

$$$$, building, cabots, clean, deck, decking, dirty, elements, hardwood, job, marks, merbau, oil, queensland, rain, rains, re-coating, repel, sand, seal, sealing, sick, stain, staining, timber, tired, water, weeks, wind, wrong

Replies: 6
Views: 7,681

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th July 2007 10:26 PM; by scooter

Forum:
DECKING

Filling holes, gaps and replacing boards

Started by bionicbeatboy, 16th July 2007 02:42 PM

3what, 4is, adjust, arvo, board, boards, cheers, cypress, dark, dogs, dry, easy, filler, filling, floor, gaps, holes, light, middle, occasional, pics, pit, polished, proverbial, questions, replacing, sand, stained, stand, unclear

Replies: 2
Views: 2,751

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th July 2007 09:06 PM; by bionicbeatboy

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Hardie's Versilux

Started by Andy Mac, 15th July 2007 03:34 PM

20yrs, 261, advice, ago, attached, basic, building, built, cellulose, cement, composition, extension, fibre, ground, hardie, hardies, house, laundry, lining, necessarily, panelling, portland, product, property, reinforced, sand, stumps, versilux, walls, water

Replies: 4
Views: 12,806

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th July 2007 05:46 PM; by Andy Mac

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

concrete wall paint or plaster ?

Started by jags, 13th July 2007 12:33 AM

.is, board, brick, coat, concrete, cover, exstensive, finding, grey, hoping, info, insted, major, paint, paints, plaster, plastered, reno, rob, sand, seach, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 3,068

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th July 2007 10:23 AM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PAINTING

Pool Paving

Started by ropina02, 29th June 2007 10:14 PM

advance, advantage/disadvantage, ants, base, beneficial, cement, compact, compacting, dig, diy, forum, i.e, laid, lay, manuals, mix, moment, pavers, paving, pool, preventing, push, question, questions, response, road, rob, sand, sprinkle, water

Replies: 10
Views: 3,215

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th July 2007 11:22 PM; by gsouth

Forum:
POOLS, SPA & WATER FEATURES

Sealer to stop ro t on deck stairs

Started by rhancock, 3rd July 2007 10:20 PM

ago, bog, builders, cracks, customer, deck, edge, exterior, fil, fill, fitted, front, house, leading, paint, painted, products, reckons, rot, sand, sealer, solarguard, stairs, steps, stop, tread, treads, treated, wearing, wooden

Replies: 3
Views: 3,015

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th July 2007 12:02 AM; by Krazee

Forum:
PAINTING

Painting / semi-gloss / render

Started by batcat, 2nd July 2007 10:26 PM

ago, basin, cement, cold, condition, existing, hand, hate, lightly, paint, painted, painting, prep, render, rendered, sand, semi-gloss, semigloss, soap, steam, sugar, toilet, walls, wash, water, yrs

Replies: 0
Views: 1,638

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd July 2007 10:26 PM; by batcat

Forum:
PAINTING

Render Problem

Started by jamjar, 1st April 2007 10:03 PM

acid, additive, adhere, application, applied, bead, bond, brick, cement, crete, easy, etch, etched, exterior, found, hydrochloric, mix, porous, pre-made, problem, render, roll, sand, stick, wall, water

Replies: 8
Views: 4,834

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th June 2007 01:10 AM; by Joister

Forum:
RENDERING

Paint peeling on asbestos eaves - what to do?

Started by LotteBum, 27th June 2007 05:42 PM

asbestos, bigger, cheers, eaves, gear, heck, house, ideas, job, licence, lotte, paint, partner, peeling, removal, replacing, sand, solutions, terms, whilst

Replies: 2
Views: 7,558

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th June 2007 06:15 PM; by Barry_White

Forum:
PAINTING

Project from Hell

Started by wattlewemake, 14th June 2007 11:07 PM

400mm, 50mm, easy, erected, garden, hell, house, install, it.there, lots, match, motorway, noise, painted, panels, patio, pic, pics, posts, product, project, reduce, retaining, sand, slab, slide, tank, time, wall, walls

Replies: 11
Views: 2,321

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd June 2007 04:32 PM; by Barry_White

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

general rules for filling in retainer walls

Started by ceaser, 17th June 2007 08:20 PM

4.8, 500, 600, amount, filling, general, guys, ratio, retainer, rock, rules, sand, soil, wall, walls, wide

Replies: 2
Views: 1,694

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th June 2007 01:43 AM; by joe greiner

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Recoating Stained varnish trim advice

Started by NSP67, 16th June 2007 01:58 PM

action, advice, bare, ceilings, colour, door, frames, gladly, job, major, nick, paint, received, recoating, redecorated, removed, replace, restain/revarnish, sand, skirting, splatters, stain, stained, strip, trim, type, varnish, varnished, walls, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 7,197

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th June 2007 05:56 PM; by NSP67

Forum:
FINISHING

recycling decking hints needed!

Started by would not, 15th June 2007 09:39 PM

100, 200l/m, cleaned, deck, decking, edges, effective, figured, flip, hints, house, intending, needed, paint, painted, question, recycling, regular, removed, renovations, reuse, rip, sand, thicknesser, timber, wide, worth

Replies: 2
Views: 1,785

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th June 2007 12:49 AM; by Eli

Forum:
DECKING

Novice tiler seeks help!

Started by adam01, 6th June 2007 11:16 AM

apply, bedded, cheers, compound, couple, guy, hope, job, joint, jointed, membrane, multi-purpose, novice, paint, plastic, sand, seal, seeks, slide, soft, spare, stuff, tile, tiler, tiles, tiling, toilet, topping, wall, waterproofing

Replies: 7
Views: 2,287

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th June 2007 10:14 PM; by adam01

Forum:
TILING

Removing carpet on Jarra

Started by barbz, 16th May 2007 11:51 AM

beneath, boards, bought, carpet, cheers, coating, deceided, easiest, floor, floors, house, jarra, move, owners, paul, polish, remove, removing, rubber, sand, sanding, underlay

Replies: 9
Views: 2,524

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th June 2007 06:39 PM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Sikkens advice

Started by roy, 29th May 2007 10:00 AM

advice, cost, decks, expectations, finish, heard, inability, keen, maintain, months, oil, price, real, reapply, reapplying, sand, sikkens, thinking, undercover, wash

Replies: 1
Views: 7,722

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th May 2007 11:39 AM; by strangerep

Forum:
FINISHING

Damaged floor boards

Started by snowyskiesau, 21st May 2007 03:00 PM

1900s], 7008, boards, built, carpet, caused, cleanup, council, damage, damaged, decided, fill, finish, floor, floors, house, insect, larger, left, office, possibly, pull, replacing, sand, semi, short, sydney, week, west, [fwiw

Replies: 14
Views: 3,568

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th May 2007 03:11 PM; by snowyskiesau

Forum:
FLOORING

Uneven Courtyard Conrete and Pathway- what to do ?

Started by Flynn, 25th May 2007 09:38 PM

bringing, builder, concrete, conrete, courtyard, due, dumb, erosion, floorboards, flynn, funiture, granitic, hearing, idea, mud, pathway, pebbles, people, river, ruining, sand, setting, soil, spoke, suggestions, tiled, underneath, uneven, unit, winter

Replies: 0
Views: 2,004

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th May 2007 09:38 PM; by Flynn

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

removing stain from Californian redwood / Red pine

Started by twincam71, 23rd May 2007 03:24 PM

acid, alternative?any, appreciated, californian, cameron, clogs, colour, deep, entire, gently, hard, heavily, mess, nice, oxalic, paper, patchy, pine, quickly, red, redwood, removed, removing, sand, sanding, skirts, stain, stained, suitable, timber

Replies: 2
Views: 2,086

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd May 2007 06:58 PM; by twincam71

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Tiling query

Started by gregt, 22nd May 2007 12:03 PM

bit, coat, greg, laundry, lay, query, sand, section, tiled, tiles, tiling, top

Replies: 1
Views: 1,318

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd May 2007 08:14 PM; by Tools

Forum:
TILING

Help Required For Painting Weatherboards

Started by Metal Head, 15th April 2007 04:48 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

240, advance, advice, avenue, bought, cartridge, coarse, conventional, easier, ezy, finished, gained, gaps, grit, half, makes, painting, preperation, required, sand, sanding, share, sheet, squeeze, thanking, time, tube, type, uswink, weatherboards

Replies: 15
Views: 5,803

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th May 2007 09:46 AM; by LotteBum

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

Sand paper techniques

Started by charlieart66, 10th May 2007 06:37 PM

120, 1200, 150, 400, applied, block, finish, hand, machine, missing, paper, plywood, resources, sand, smoother, techniques, tend, wondering, wood

Replies: 10
Views: 2,388

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th May 2007 08:57 PM; by soundman

Forum:
FINISHING

Re-putty old windows - is just patching up OK?

Started by cal0171, 11th May 2007 04:27 PM

appreciated, badly, bottom, corners, cracked, cracks, due, expect, gap, hairline, minor, patching, previous, properly, putty, rains, re-putty, remove, renos, reputty, revealed, roughly, sand, schedule, sideways, slightly, suggestions, tassie, threads, windows

Replies: 4
Views: 6,414

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th May 2007 05:48 PM; by cal0171

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Stone footing repair

Started by mark b, 1st May 2007 03:52 PM

10mm, 45142, 45143, 45144, advice, advise, black, bridged, built, concrete, crumbly, damp, fix, footing, form, fretting, home, layer, mark, mortar, permanently, repair, resulting, sand, solution, sound, stone, stones, stonework, thick

Replies: 4
Views: 2,652

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th May 2007 02:13 PM; by mark b

Forum:
CONCRETING

Advice on finish for blue gum table top

Started by Bodgy, 1st May 2007 11:42 AM

600, 800, advice, bit, blue, booze, bugger, comments, daily, damage, durable, eee, extensive, finish, gloss, grit, gum, hard, heat, insect, meals, nervous, polish, polywipe, proof, sand, shellac, strength, table, thinking

Replies: 1
Views: 1,468

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st May 2007 12:53 PM; by RufflyRustic

Forum:
FINISHING

'Suede' effect painting blues.

Started by makka619, 29th January 2007 10:50 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

am.b, blues, brush, choice, close, coat, crack, dried, dulux, effect, enter, fireplace, gyprocked, half, hmm, mess, paint, painters, painting, perfectionist, restpuke, result, roller, sand, splotchy, suede, uede, uneven, untextured, wiser

Replies: 16
Views: 8,886

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th April 2007 09:54 AM; by bpj1968

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

Painting Internal Brick wall

Started by Gert, 29th April 2007 03:06 PM

brick, bricks, brush, dust, fairly, gert, hand, internal, left, noticeable, paint, painted, painting, practical, reduce, removed, repaint, ridge, sand, slight, slightly, softened, sounds, stuff, surfaces, thick, valleys, wall, walls, weird

Replies: 1
Views: 4,501

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th April 2007 05:32 PM; by Tools

Forum:
PAINTING

sanding a concrete wall before painting?

Started by Aangelique1611, 24th April 2007 01:04 PM

1000, advice, advise, break, brick, concrete, curing, flush, forums, guy, hours, knock, leave, loving, paint, painting, prefer, rip, sand, sanding, sketchy, sounded, start, store, suggested, suspecting, term, time, wall, wondering

Replies: 14
Views: 23,707

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th April 2007 08:07 PM; by celeste

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

Repointing brickwork

Started by emptybucketman, 16th April 2007 01:30 PM

appears, based, basic, brick, brickwork, cement, crumbling, double, existing, house, lime, mix, mortar, perps, plan, planning, power, ratio, remove, repointing, sand, sand/cement/lime, tools, white, white/off-white

Replies: 7
Views: 5,540

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th April 2007 06:13 PM; by ozwinner

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Is this too expensive for hardwood floor?

Started by Aussiephil, 16th April 2007 09:56 AM

$6000, based, bit, coats, existing, expensive, finish, floor, forums, friend, glued, grade, gum, hardwood, includes, lacquer, nailed, oil, phil, price, quoted, reading, sand, secret, select, spotted, sqm

Replies: 7
Views: 2,800

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th April 2007 03:30 PM; by Trav

Forum:
FLOORING

concrete base to lay pavers do i use sand or motar mix

Started by ceaser, 19th March 2007 05:22 PM

25mm, 300mm, 400mm, 50mm, base, bed, concrete, conduit, court, decided, girls, guys, lay, mix, mortar, motar, pavers, question, sand, screen, shell, yard

Replies: 6
Views: 24,942

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th April 2007 08:30 AM; by varpy

Forum:
CONCRETING

re laying carpet ... can it be done?

Started by Aangelique1611, 5th March 2007 08:18 PM

boards, carpet, complain, floorings, intending, lay, laying, mnths, neighbours, noise, question, quick, rip, ripped, sand, soft, stairs, strata

Replies: 5
Views: 10,647

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th April 2007 08:56 AM; by BDM

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

gardens/lawns/retic

Started by celeste, 8th April 2007 05:38 PM

60%, celeste, channels, compact, compacting, deep, dig, easier, fertilizer, gardens or lawns or retic, grass, grow, guys, height, installing, lawn, laying, level, lower, read, retic, roll, roots, sand, sandy, soft, soil, step, thick, thinking

Replies: 6
Views: 4,185

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2007 08:07 PM; by celeste

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Laying Pebbles

Started by Arry, 7th April 2007 11:26 PM

appreciated, approx, black, door, feature, front, greatly, holes, house, ideas, lay, laying, level, live, metres, middle, pastic, pebbles, perth, pine, plastic, poke, pot, retain, sand, sound, suggestions, told, top, treated

Replies: 4
Views: 6,458

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th April 2007 08:28 PM; by Timed Out

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BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

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BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

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