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Advice needed on retaining wall timber seat

Started by ozizu, 21st April 2008 09:30 PM

advice, backyard, copy, frame, helpful, idea, ideas, link, needed, retaining, seat, similar, size, timber, wall, walls, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 3,653

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st April 2008 09:30 PM; by ozizu

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

mini orb in the bathroom

Started by goannadareyou, 22nd September 2003 09:27 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

Replies: 15
Views: 16,568

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th April 2008 09:11 PM; by Asifaz

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Cracks in solid walls?

Started by zx9, 11th April 2008 03:25 PM

100%, 1930s, brick, cracks, feel, fill, painting, patch, pre, prep, ps-i, renovation, repairing, restumping, solid, sound, start, terrace, victorian, walls

Replies: 12
Views: 6,217

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th April 2008 01:17 PM; by zx9

Forum:
PLASTERING

Acrow Props

Started by blackers123, 14th April 2008 02:38 PM

1960s, acro, acrow, dug, existing, footings, hold, house, internal, metre, project, props, question, renovation, strip, wall, walls

Replies: 3
Views: 2,418

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th April 2008 08:17 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

needing help on bathroom renovations

Started by shaybe, 11th April 2008 03:55 PM

advice, bath, bathroom, book, bricks, concrete, cut, grateful, links, needing, nice, posh, purchased, pushed, questions, recess, reno, renovations, ripped, selastic, sitting, solid, solus, stick, tiled, titles, tub, wall, walls, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 2,186

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th April 2008 10:16 AM; by wonderplumb

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Hot Water Pressure

Started by goforitifudare, 27th March 2008 10:30 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

cold, diameter, feed, filters, fittings, flow, gravity, hot, house, installed, joins, minute, mixer, pipes, piping, plumber, pressure, rate, replace, rough, slow, system, takes, talking, taps, teh, valve, vanity, walls, water

Replies: 20
Views: 4,409

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2008 10:21 PM; by Smurf

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Hoop Iron Specified in Double Brick Base Walls

Started by zacnelson, 10th April 2008 02:18 PM

appreciative, attached, base, bearers, brick, clarification, concrete, detailed, double, drawings, element, existing, extension, floor, foreign, hoop, house, iron, joists, love, photos, plans, requirement, stumps, this;, timber, totally, understand, walls, zac

Replies: 10
Views: 5,310

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2008 06:53 AM; by zacnelson

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Asbestos removal and gyprocking costs

Started by drt, 6th April 2008 12:27 AM

asbestos, bathroom, bedrooms, ceiling, ceilings, cost, costs, drt, experience, gyprocking, half, hallway, idea, ideas, including, internal, job, qualified, quotations, recommendations, reliable, removal, remove, sheets, shower, sydney, tradesman, tradesmen, type, walls

Replies: 6
Views: 9,997

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th April 2008 01:13 PM; by davo_scuba

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Turning Doors into Walls...

Started by CluelessChick, 5th April 2008 03:28 PM

10-12cm, 70s, bedroom, block, cc-, close, closing, concrete, cost, divides, door, doors, existing, finished, frame, involved, loungeroom, skirtings, sort, thin, thx, turning, unit, useless, wall, walls, width

Replies: 10
Views: 2,380

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th April 2008 07:02 PM; by Fuzzie

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Dynabolting to Brickwall

Started by whitta27, 7th April 2008 11:40 PM

apartment, assistance, assumin, board, brake, brick, bricks, brickwall, building, crack, dryer, dynabolting, electrical, extruded, faced, fix, hang, hanging, hav, hollow, internal, method, screw, services, solid, time, wall, walls, whit, wooden

Replies: 1
Views: 1,782

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th April 2008 12:21 AM; by thesupervisor

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Asbestos in Plasterboard?

Started by noideamad, 24th March 2008 11:27 PM

1982, 50s, 8-10mm, asbestos, board, built, cornice, fibre, hemp, hope, house, initially, internal, kitchen, plaster, plasterboard, powdery, prior, re-plaster, reading, renos, reverse, rough, suggesting, thick, walls

Replies: 8
Views: 34,016

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 10:09 AM; by Bloss

Forum:
PLASTERING

Building Extension with Pre-Fab Wall Frames

Started by zacnelson, 3rd April 2008 08:31 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advance, build, building, company, construct, easier, experience, experiences, extension, frames, house, joists, limited, lying, mind, option, personal, pre-fab, prefab, real, recommendations, roof, slab, space, tips, trusses, variations, wall, walls, zac

Replies: 21
Views: 3,703

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th April 2008 08:18 AM; by zacnelson

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Replacing Shower + Base

Started by Pooran, 28th March 2008 05:58 PM

900, acrylic, advice, appreciated, base, boards, buy, cement, floor, glue, greatly, house, mix, mortar, normal, plaster, premaid, read, replacing, retiling, sheeting, sheets, shower, showers, thread, tile, tiled, underlay, walls, waterproof

Replies: 5
Views: 3,647

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st April 2008 06:02 PM; by wonderplumb

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

What paint to use in Bathroom

Started by LegacyGT, 31st March 2008 10:39 PM

bathroom, celings, doody, howdy, paint, special, walls

Replies: 9
Views: 2,298

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st April 2008 12:11 PM; by JMB

Forum:
PAINTING

Poll: Would you paint the walls or sand the floor first ?

Started by Daren, 30th March 2008 01:19 PM

dust, floor, fresh, job, kinda, nice, paint, poll, ruin, sand, sanding, vote, walls

Replies: 10
Views: 6,144

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st March 2008 07:46 PM; by rileyp

Forum:
PAINTING

Holesaw size for 50mm PVC?

Started by montiee, 28th March 2008 02:14 AM

50mm, 57mm, 58mm, advice, cabinets, diameter, fed, fibro, gap, gaps, holesaw, internal, matter, measurement, minimise, pipe, pipes, pvc, question, rough, size, sounds, suited, tight, walls, weird

Replies: 9
Views: 3,270

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th March 2008 01:31 PM; by peter_sm

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Painting Aluminium Windows.

Started by Lynds, 6th September 2006 12:47 AM

alternatives, aluminium, colour, comments, date, drying, etch, frames, giving, glass, home, light, lyndsay, nick, paint, painting, pak, prime, quick, removing, rendered, repaint, sandbalst, thinking, unit, walls, window, windows, wondering

Replies: 4
Views: 17,593

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th March 2008 05:11 PM; by vlv8vic

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Exhaust fan in bathroom

Started by dan76n, 21st March 2008 10:20 AM

actual, bathroom, can/cannot, close, construction, cut, directly, exhaust, fan, hole, i.e, install, installed, lights, plug, powerpoint, qld, roof, rules, shower, walls

Replies: 9
Views: 5,150

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th March 2008 10:43 PM; by Metal Head

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Cutting treated pine

Started by brettsyoung, 21st March 2008 07:54 AM

ant, bad, bath, brett, buggers, building, cheers, concerned, cut, cutting, evaporate, exposed, feels, frame, internal, pine, question, quickly, silly, structural, timber, treated, treatment, untreated, walls, white

Replies: 5
Views: 5,406

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th March 2008 09:45 PM; by brettsyoung

Forum:
KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, THEATRES, etc

Wanting to Expand

Started by Stuart, 23rd March 2008 12:49 AM

advertising, afford, business, cheap, cheers, converted, credits, existing, expand, expansion, free, ideally, materials, negotiated, obvious, offchance, opportunities, roof, shed, show-stopper, site, source, stuart, suitable, videos, walls, wanting, whod, wondering, www.stusshed.com

Replies: 1
Views: 1,937

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd March 2008 07:49 PM; by Stuart

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Another new shed (gutter brackets issue or wallsheets too short)

Started by spruik, 20th January 2008 12:17 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

100mm, 2.4m, 50mm, 600mm, brackets, c-purlins, cut, deep, door, gutter, issue, issues, mounted, post, ribs, roller, roof, roofing, shed, sheets, short, slab, supplied, supporting, top, u-bracket, wall, walls, wallsheets, wide

Replies: 16
Views: 5,988

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd March 2008 09:07 AM; by spruik

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Paint over paint

Started by cart, 19th March 2008 03:05 PM

cart, coat/s, colour, cracks, dollars, finish, flat, initailly, low, ltrs, paint, painted, plaster, plasterboard, repaired, save, sealer, shed, sheen, sit, surface, time, undercoat, undercoating, untill, wallboard, walls, waste

Replies: 0
Views: 1,256

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th March 2008 03:05 PM; by cart

Forum:
PAINTING

Insulating walls

Started by dombat, 7th March 2008 06:44 PM

25mm, air, aircell, batt, coburg, cost, embarking, energy, expertise, future, gap, guru, hoping, idea, insulating, insulation, major, melbourne, mind, normal, nurse, pretty, question, renovation, requiress, shaky, talk, thankyou, walls, wrap

Replies: 7
Views: 2,658

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2008 01:05 PM; by jimc

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

How long before I paint new solid plaster

Started by prof_montoya, 27th February 2008 10:11 AM

acrylic, based, days, long, oil, opinion, paint, painting, plaster, plasterer, products, professionaly, sealer/undercoat, sealing/binding, solid, suited, told, understand, wait, walls

Replies: 11
Views: 5,126

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2008 02:42 AM; by ltfc1988

Forum:
PAINTING

Removing battens on old wood panel walls

Started by TCX, 13th March 2008 08:05 AM

answer, attached, battens, board, bought, consist, easily, exact, filler, flush, hope, horizontal, interior, joins, nailed, panel, photo, plywood, pulled, question, removing, rid, similar, studs, stuff, thankfully, thin, vertical, walls, wood

Replies: 12
Views: 2,876

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2008 01:12 AM; by Charles81

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

cutting plasterboard for insulation retrofit, worth the effort?

Started by sundancewfs, 15th March 2008 07:52 AM

batts, brick, ceiling, cement, cutting, double, effort, external, fit, foil, glazed, home, insulation, plasterboard, polyester, retrofit, retrofitting, thinking, tiled, tontine, type, underfloor, venneer, wall, walls, windows, worth

Replies: 4
Views: 2,496

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th March 2008 06:00 PM; by sundancewfs

Forum:
PLASTERING

Shower Base Question

Started by Outbackrr, 8th March 2008 10:40 AM

20mm, 900, anyones, base, building, depth, height, installed, installing, marbletrend, project, question, quoted, rebate, shower, size, studs, wall, walls

Replies: 3
Views: 2,115

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th March 2008 08:04 PM; by Outbackrr

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

repairing solid plaster on brick walls?

Started by Border boy, 7th March 2008 07:05 PM

1940s, 5mm, attached, brick, brick/render, cheers, filler, fireplace, home, lounge, modifying, parents, plaster, removed, repairing, shelves, shelving, solid, stick, walls, yesterday

Replies: 4
Views: 1,934

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th March 2008 09:45 PM; by Border boy

Forum:
PLASTERING

Anythoughts on Rockcote acrylic sealer/undercoat

Started by prof_montoya, 7th March 2008 08:37 AM

acrylic, anythoughts, avoid, based, oil, plaster, restored, rockcote, sealer or undercoat, sealer/binder, sealer/undercoat, solid, solvent, walls

Replies: 0
Views: 1,292

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th March 2008 08:37 AM; by prof_montoya

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

How to level /smooth plaster walls?

Started by chromis, 11th February 2008 04:29 PM

/smooth, 1950s, advice, bumps, condition, even/smooth, level, lumps, or smooth, plaster, pretty, smooth, walls

Replies: 8
Views: 13,750

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th March 2008 04:46 PM; by chromis

Forum:
PLASTERING

Beam size to support a joist hanger

Started by Jack101, 6th March 2008 01:02 PM

18”, 200kg, 35+, 3800mm, 450mm, beam, brick, ceiling, centre, forward, guess, hanger, internal, joist, joists, proposed, rest, rough, size, spacing, steel, structure, suggestions/comments, support, supported, supporting, tired, wall, walls, weight

Replies: 1
Views: 2,580

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th March 2008 01:55 PM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Sealer/undercoat for "white set"

Started by prof_montoya, 21st February 2008 08:52 AM

based, fresh, hard, paint, patches, plaster, read, sealer, sealer or undercoat, sealer/undercoat, set, suitable, tins, undercoat, walls, water, white, white set

Replies: 4
Views: 4,619

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th March 2008 03:01 PM; by prof_montoya

Forum:
PAINTING

How to flash base plate of laundry frame?

Started by Fisherdroid, 26th February 2008 04:19 PM

base, board, damage, flash, form, frame, gidday, laundry, plate, protect, timber, villa, walls, water

Replies: 2
Views: 1,200

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th March 2008 10:19 AM; by Fisherdroid

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Attic Truss Design for Old Cottage

Started by mondo45, 4th March 2008 04:42 PM

125, 912, access, adzed, attic, beam, beams, ceiling, construction, cottage, design, flat, floor, gable, hardwood, house, joists, lower, middle, pitch, question, roof, supporting, tree, truncated, truss, trusses, wall, walls, width

Replies: 2
Views: 2,377

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th March 2008 09:03 AM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

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: 7,280

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

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

Looking for Cavity Sliders

Started by Clearlybbb, 8th October 2007 03:40 PM

brick, carpenter, cavity, company, exist, idea, makes, sliders, supposedly, sydney, told, walls

Replies: 6
Views: 4,358

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd March 2008 02:16 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Natural land slope

Started by Yann, 12th February 2008 11:08 AM

900mm, backyard, bed, difference, elevation, excavate, excavated, fence, flower, gradient, house, land, level, natural, planning, retaining, running, sandy, slope, soil, sort, stabilise, thinking, walls

Replies: 9
Views: 2,333

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2008 01:56 PM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Replacing Lathe & Plaster in 1890's house

Started by ICEMAN., 1st March 2008 03:55 PM

1890, 1890s, 1900s, appears, attatched, boards, dead, expected, house, idea, inch, insulation, lathe, paper, pictured, plaster, pre, replacing, ripping, sills, solid, space, started, studding.~, tar, walls, window, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 2,033

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2008 03:42 AM; by ICEMAN.

Forum:
PLASTERING

cornice question

Started by DrRazzle, 28th February 2008 10:43 AM

appeal, bit, cheers, cornice, cornices, cottage, curves, dead, doubt, edge, fill, flex, gaps, issue, mdf, means, original, plaster, plasterboard, question, raz, reinstate, renoed, return, slick, slight, straight, victorian, walls

Replies: 9
Views: 2,048

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st March 2008 05:28 PM; by DrRazzle

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

Rendering question

Started by cinderella, 11th February 2008 10:16 PM

10-12mm, brick, coating, diy, finish, formation, hallway, home, houses, internal, leaves, painted, question, read, render, rendered, rendering, renovations, smoooth, smooth, smoother, staircase, surface, talking, textured, unsure, walls

Replies: 14
Views: 4,693

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:54 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
RENDERING

Repairing & Painting solid plaster walls

Started by rscho, 25th February 2007 09:38 PM

5mm, acrylic, adhere, advice, appreciated, coat, crack, dining, ensure, existing, exposing, fine, imperfections, living, matt, paint, painting, plan, plaster, prep, range, re-plastering, repairing, size, skim, solid, sticks, suit, wall, walls

Replies: 2
Views: 8,290

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 02:50 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PAINTING

Damaged Water Pipe

Started by Sacred Cow, 28th February 2008 12:35 PM

2.5mm, bitten, black, boundary, coming, couple, damaged, deep, difficult, digging, fence, flex, footpath, glenn, hole, joint, leaks, meter, options, pipe, polyethylene, post, presence, realised, remove, scuffed, shovel, spots, walls, water

Replies: 3
Views: 1,901

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th February 2008 03:19 PM; by wonderplumb

Forum:
PLUMBING

Skirting a curved wall. Any ideas?

Started by Laura0381, 13th January 2008 07:04 PM

curved, edge, finished, forward, hearing, house, ideas, simple, skirt, skirting, straight, suggestions, tiling, tips, wall, walls, wondering

Replies: 13
Views: 7,894

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th February 2008 10:33 PM; by kally

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: 2,627

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

Forum:
PLASTERING

Is my builder doing this right?

Started by gauntone, 16th February 2008 09:58 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1.5cm, bare, bottom, builder, building, check, checking, door, door/window, doorway, fixed, frame, frames, honest, house, internal, jamb, level, measure, narrower, pine, plumb, presume, roof, square/plumb, tape, timber, top, walls, worried

Replies: 15
Views: 3,444

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd February 2008 11:55 PM; by joe greiner

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Reinforcing plasterboard

Started by gpkennedy, 21st February 2008 09:06 PM

clean, considered, consuming, damage, easier, effectiveness, george, gluing, idea, lower, masonite, paint, plasterboard, reinforcing, rerpair, school, secondary, sections, sheets, strengthen, suggestion, tear, time, vandalism, walls, wear, white-cote

Replies: 1
Views: 1,588

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st February 2008 09:19 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

VJ Walls and Ceilings

Started by Nachoman, 17th February 2008 02:28 PM

ceilings, coatings, fine, green, guessing, house, inside, owners, paint, painting, pink, planning, previous, start, stuff, thrown, top, ugly, walls, wondering, wood

Replies: 3
Views: 2,382

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th February 2008 08:32 PM; by womble

Forum:
PAINTING

Zincalume or Galvanised?

Started by ytbc, 18th February 2008 09:23 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

advice, block, bush, clad, corrugated, galvanised, iron, makita, planning, prefer, preferable, progressing, roof, shack, shiny, told, views, walls, zincalume

Replies: 30
Views: 17,487

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th February 2008 08:57 AM; by Barry_White

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Lifechanging Experience

Started by MICKYG, 19th February 2008 04:02 PM

ain’t, boy, button, chair, circular, closed, experience, eyes, fat, father, git, lady, life, lifechanging, light, momma…”, moving, pressed, quietly, reached, regardswink, rolled, son, stepped, taking, walls, watched, wheel, woman, “boy

Replies: 1
Views: 1,036

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th February 2008 06:13 PM; by Calm

Forum:
JOKES

Best way to clean Walls and Ceilings before painting?

Started by Batpig, 16th February 2008 11:59 AM

broom, ceiling, ceilings, clean, cleaning, cord, head, ladder, method, mop, mop’s, paint, painting, photo, powered, process, rag, ring, scrubbing, soap, steam, sugar, time, type, wall, walls, wasn’t, water, wide-head, wringing-lever

Replies: 2
Views: 3,521

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th February 2008 05:46 PM; by Pollyanna

Forum:
PAINTING

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Poll: Would you paint the walls or sand the floor first ?