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Repainting concrete bricks

Started by Smurf, 31st October 2007 09:46 PM

1978, actual, air, airless, block, bricks, brushes, built, cleaner, concrete, condition, easiest, fine, firstly, gun, house, inside, needless, paint, painted, painting, plenty, pressure, repainting, rollers, spray, thinking, type, water, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 1,761

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st November 2007 11:34 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
PAINTING

how much to have built?

Started by mummy novice, 20th October 2007 02:44 PM

approvals, asbestos, australia, beginning, build, builder, built, car, costs, council, existing, extension, feet, garages, idea, inches, joined, loft, matching, means, neighbours, plan, plans, readily, renovation, replace, required, roofing, space, storage

Replies: 2
Views: 1,937

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th October 2007 09:16 PM; by DJ’s Timber

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Walk in pantry shelves

Started by lindswiggo, 29th October 2007 10:21 AM

2.4m, advance, advice, building, built, cabinet, ceiling, cut, don’t, height, install, it’s, kitchen, lastly, lindsey, maker, melamine, middle, newly, pantry, renovated, sag, shape, shelves, shelving, size, tend, walk, what’s, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 6,955

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th October 2007 04:02 PM; by seriph1

Forum:
KITCHENS

Novice floor tiling question(s)

Started by adam01, 25th October 2007 02:27 PM

adam, additive, adhesive, advance, appreciation, bed, buggers, built, cement, cupboard, cut, existing, floor, impossible, inside, loose, loosening, match, neighbours, novice, questions, raising, removed, row, sort, stick, tile, tiled, tiles, tiling

Replies: 2
Views: 1,810

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th October 2007 02:27 PM; by adam01

Forum:
TILING

What timber is this /question re joist

Started by Francis Tan, 24th October 2007 10:12 PM

/question, 1920s, 58648, advance, bought, built, carpet, clue, damage, floor, floorboards, francis, issue, joist, lifted, or question, picture, previous, question, recently, replace, replaced, replacing, sanding, subfloor, sydney, termite, timber, told, type

Replies: 4
Views: 2,167

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th October 2007 06:35 AM; by Tools

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Home Built Kitchen Cupboards

Started by nev25, 24th October 2007 02:07 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

built, cabinet, carcase, charge, cheaper, cleaver, cupboard, cupboards, forum, home, kitchen, makers, price, scratch, wondering, woodwork, woodworkers

Replies: 18
Views: 4,971

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th October 2007 06:06 PM; by Sybarite

Forum:
KITCHENS

Timber or Metal Frame...HELP!!!

Started by samchuang33, 21st October 2007 02:50 AM

air, built, circulation, close, deck, ditch, due, durability, everyone2tsup, frame, framehelp, framework, ground, guys, informative, instance, kinda, lot, metal, plan, scenario, shallow, site, stratco, suitable, terms, thinking, timber, underneath, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 2,044

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2007 11:50 AM; by samchuang33

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Sand/Polisher in Adelaide

Started by ZoomJC, 21st October 2007 09:05 AM

1973, adelaide, advice, appreciated, approximate, bought, built, cheers, costs, coverings, current, double-brick, floor, floorboards, forum, hideous, home, pine, polisher, property, recently, recommend, recommendations, sand, sand or polisher, sand/polisher, sqm

Replies: 3
Views: 1,702

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2007 09:58 AM; by pski

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Setting out timber frame for small extension

Started by foxtel, 16th October 2007 05:56 PM

advance, building, built, chalk, completed, construction, desired, extension, flick, floor, flooring, follow, frame, home, joist, lines, otherwords, overhang, question, rear, result, setting, slightly, small, square, straight, timber, time, tongue, yellow

Replies: 3
Views: 2,106

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th October 2007 09:44 PM; by Metung

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

white powder in crawl space and roof space

Started by andrew29, 30th September 2007 02:05 PM

1950s, bits, brick, built, cavity, crawl, crawling, double, dusting, free, fumigating, hobart, house, idea, judging, late, move, noticed, powder, result, roof, sandblasting, sense, similar, sort, space, stuff, white, wood, worried

Replies: 10
Views: 7,256

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th October 2007 11:54 AM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Waterproofing deck - flashing

Started by nobloodyidea, 10th October 2007 11:43 PM

bricks, built, chased, compressed, corner, deck, desk, existing, fibre, flashing, floor, glue, hey, laying, mortar, options, pvc, reading, ripping, sheeting, sit, situation, stick, substrate, ths, understand, wall, waterproof, waterproofing, weekend

Replies: 0
Views: 1,802

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th October 2007 11:43 PM; by nobloodyidea

Forum:
DECKING

Sagging Ceiling -- any referrals

Started by FrankA, 8th October 2007 08:06 AM

advice, ago, bought, brick, brisbane, builder, built, call, ceiling, contractor, contractors, custom, fixed, fixes, frank, handymen, helpful, house, located, owner, referral, referrals, sagging, specific, suburb, sunnybank, top, type, wall, walls

Replies: 4
Views: 3,432

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th October 2007 07:45 AM; by FrankA

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Lifting old Klip-Lok (can you, or can't you?..)

Started by Batpig, 29th September 2007 01:18 PM

406, 70s, batpig, block, built, ceiling, clips, cold, confirm, converter, fix, flat, gal, klip-lok, kliplok, lifting, patches, protect, pull, repairs, roof, row, rust, screws, single, stated, supports, thread, visible, zincalume

Replies: 10
Views: 8,452

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th October 2007 11:05 PM; by scottyb

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

rust stains where nail heads.

Started by alwayscurious, 3rd October 2007 09:55 PM

built, cheers, curious, deck, doh, fence, fix, gal, ground, hand, heads, lot, nail, nails, normal, noticed, oxide, paint, painting?o, pine, rail, rails, rust, rusting, safety, staining, stains, stop, treat, white

Replies: 4
Views: 10,768

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th October 2007 02:03 AM; by Make it work

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

39 Things you should have learned by now

Started by fenderbelly, 3rd October 2007 05:44 PM

age, built, career, cares, confuse, contrast, dance, deal, destructive, earth, force, human, knife, learned, lick, life, logically, nice, people, person, reason, religious, share, shouldve, steak, things, time, universe, views, word

Replies: 0
Views: 1,809

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2007 05:44 PM; by fenderbelly

Forum:
JOKES

Replacement flooring advice

Started by zedman22, 3rd October 2007 12:34 PM

70s, advice, appreciated, boards, brisbane, built, damaged, dried, eliminate, expansion, fire, floor, flooring, floors, greatly, hardwood, house, kiln, majority, moisture, particleboard, putting, recommend, recycled, replacement, storeys, suppliers, t&g, timber, top

Replies: 1
Views: 1,677

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2007 02:23 PM; by glock40sw

Forum:
FLOORING

What's the truth about "Saddle Plaster" ceilings?...

Started by Batpig, 26th September 2007 09:28 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

70s, advance, apparently, bad, batpig, brisbania, building, built, ceiling, ceilings, cited, claims, companies, cornices, dodge, heard, home, insurance, plaster, policies, questions, reputation, saddle, saddle plaster, story, told, tonight, truth, type, unit

Replies: 19
Views: 7,505

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2007 12:35 AM; by Ashore

Forum:
PLASTERING

securing tap to wall

Started by notenoughtoys, 29th September 2007 02:27 PM

65mm, bob, brickwork, built, connected, externally, fiiting, fitting, guessing, homes, hose, house, internal, internally, joint, leaking, loose, method, nylon, olive, pipe, pipes, push, secure, securing, soldered, tap, thread, wall, water

Replies: 2
Views: 2,102

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th September 2007 10:14 PM; by frog's wife

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Fish Tank Cabinet

Started by Stang, 26th September 2007 11:09 AM

400g, awesome, built, cabinet, cedar, crap, day, dry, dust, eee, finish, fish, found, grabbed, lots, minmax, night, people, polish, poly, pretty, sanded, stain, stains, stuff, tank, trad, trouble, wipe, wood

Replies: 3
Views: 3,293

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th September 2007 09:37 AM; by Stang

Forum:
FINISHING

Design and build a timber frame wall

Started by mudjeep, 22nd July 2007 09:23 PM

2.5m, bathroom, bright, build, building, built, cheers, design, dimensions, extra, forms, frame, idea, ideas, jason, line, newly, separating, shed, shower, tiling, timber, type/size, wall, walls

Replies: 11
Views: 35,786

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th September 2007 11:37 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

fuse box query

Started by Guvnaar, 3rd September 2007 04:16 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

10mm, 1960, 250, 55a, answer, black, box, built, color, correct, diameter, fuse, house, installed, insulated, labelled, neutral, olympic, original, query, recent, reg, renovation, roof, runs, safety, switch, tells, volt, wiring

Replies: 21
Views: 5,270

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd September 2007 02:15 AM; by nev25

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Brick Cladding

Started by mandyther, 20th September 2007 09:37 PM

advice, alarmed, asbestos, assume, bought, brick, built, cladding, cornice, cornices, decorative, dilemma, feature, hideous, home, house, issue, mandy, manufactured, melbourne, pattern, plaster, plastering, professionally, pull, read, silly, tested, top, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 2,896

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th September 2007 10:02 PM; by some_one

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Finishing for a Coffee Table

Started by Neil Hodge, 3rd August 2007 11:25 AM

ago, average, built, catalysed, coffee, dilemma, easy, fight, finish, finished, finishing, horns, lacquer, months, neil, poly, properly, question, remember, rest, result, running, sand, satisfied, speak, spray, succeed, table, top, wear

Replies: 8
Views: 2,819

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th September 2007 10:19 PM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

Attaching a wood bearer to a metal post at an angle

Started by WA_decker, 12th September 2007 03:25 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

angle, attach, attached, attaching, bearer, bearers, built, deck, degrees, hanger, joist, load, lot, metal, opinions, option, patio, post, posts, postssee, recently, screws, specialised, steel, supportive, terms, thinking, type, underneath, wood

Replies: 20
Views: 8,875

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th September 2007 10:00 AM; by silentC

Forum:
DECKING

Youtube etc.

Started by Neil, 13th September 2007 12:22 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

ability, access, amazon, ame, aro-d, auto, bolt, built, configured, dailymotion, embedding, file, forums, google, ifilm, installed, means, media, metacafe, movies, myspacetv, play, portland, support, symposium, types, video, woodturning, yahoo, youtube

Replies: 18
Views: 3,925

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th September 2007 03:25 PM; by Howdya do that

Forum:
FORUMS INFO, HELP, DISCUSSION & FEEDBACK

Extension to older home

Started by tims, 14th September 2007 12:39 PM

adjacent, built, cheers, constructed, criteria, decoration, design, designs, detail, examples, extension, extensions, historic, home, house, ideas, keeping, link, main, nature, older, proportion, rectangular, roof, separate, simple, sort, start, style, suit

Replies: 2
Views: 2,260

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th September 2007 01:47 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

trusses or rafters

Started by HaydnG, 11th September 2007 02:19 PM

1.8, 2.5, attic, beams, builder, built, cheaper, cost, dilemma, dimension, easier, fab, garage, half, haydn, house, lower, rafters, reckon, roof, special, storey, suppplier, tight, truss, trusses, upper, wad, walls, weekends

Replies: 3
Views: 2,044

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th September 2007 08:15 AM; by OBBob

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Preventing Wood Rot in Joists (Decking)

Started by srohara, 5th September 2007 06:49 PM

400mm, 80mm, bearers, building, built, clearance, deck, decking, exposed, fairly, hanging, height, joist, joists, limit, maximum, minimum, preventing, products, rain, rays, recoat, rot, sunlight, timber, time, treat, uncovered, underside, wood

Replies: 4
Views: 7,285

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th September 2007 04:36 PM; by srohara

Forum:
DECKING

best finishing for box

Started by haosiliu235, 18th August 2007 07:27 PM

box, built, finish, finishing, forum, joined, oak, recently, redgum, suggestions, tassie, wooden

Replies: 4
Views: 1,431

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th August 2007 09:39 AM; by RufflyRustic

Forum:
FINISHING

Should I stain my Kwila deck before oiling?

Started by lsneesby, 9th August 2007 05:09 PM

bleeding, boxes, built, deck, fnish, infact, kwila, left, napisan, oil, oiling, planter, process, read, recently, speed, stain, suggested, superb, suugest, wash, weather, weathering, wood

Replies: 5
Views: 14,782

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st August 2007 11:12 AM; by russall

Forum:
DECKING

recycled flooring - oil stain thru 2 pack - help

Started by timbre, 15th August 2007 11:21 PM

Replies: 1
Views: 1,686

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th August 2007 08:45 AM; by Dusty

Forum:
DECKING

collapsing ceilings!!!!!

Started by Border boy, 14th August 2007 10:24 PM

affair, built, caused, ceiling, ceilings, collapses.the, collapsing, companies, cover, damage, failed, focused, home, houses, insurance, issue, maintain, maintenance, owners, preventative, prior, question, refusing, required, saddles, spontaneously, stories, tear, tradies, wear

Replies: 7
Views: 2,948

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th August 2007 11:18 AM; by rat52

Forum:
PLASTERING

Moved: May be some of our English Friends can explain

Started by rod1949, 11th August 2007 02:25 PM

approval, authority, blokes, building, built, commencement, council, designs, english, explain, friends, grand, head, house, is/common, local, night, plans, prior, submission, watched

Replies: -
Views: -

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th August 2007 01:27 PM; by bitingmidge

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Guide for sliding door

Started by ramonski72, 6th August 2007 04:49 PM

13mm, 5mm, alcove, allowing, attached, bottom, built, cut, door, doors, floor, groove, guide, hung, installed, length, pair, plastic, rail, slide, sliding, stop, suggest, swinging, top, wardrobe, wheels, wide, wooden

Replies: 6
Views: 6,762

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th August 2007 11:47 AM; by zenwood

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

What type of paint to use on Bookcase

Started by Strungout, 5th August 2007 09:25 AM

/records, acrylic, book/cd, bookcase, building, built, greg, hard, oil, paint, pine, type

Replies: 4
Views: 1,620

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th August 2007 06:27 PM; by Strungout

Forum:
FINISHING

Deck Over A concrete patio + what $$

Started by ravorama, 5th August 2007 12:14 AM

48sqm, 55mm, 65%, approx, batterns, built, concrete, cost, deck, decking, floorboards, hardwood, inside, level, merbau, nsw, patio, planning, question, shaped, sqm, total

Replies: 1
Views: 6,681

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th August 2007 03:54 PM; by Trav

Forum:
DECKING

Insulating Shed/Garage, again!

Started by juliussee, 10th September 2005 03:59 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

adrian, air, blanket, building, built, ceiling, cell, colorbond, deciding, definate, discussed, erected, foil, guys, insulate, insulated, insulating, insulation, lining, option, roof, shed or garage, shed/garage, sheeting, stage, structure, stuff, trouble, wall, walls

Replies: 21
Views: 19,540

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st August 2007 06:07 PM; by Dan

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Sealed/Painted TP decking for a cubby house??

Started by JDub, 30th July 2007 05:22 PM

100, 3.6m, build, built, concerned, cubby, daughter, days, debate, deck, decking, family, feeling, hand, hold, house, lengths, nice, paint, painted, playground, plays, previously, quality, reason, sealed, sealed or painted, solaguard, walls, xmas

Replies: 6
Views: 2,318

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st July 2007 09:48 AM; by JDub

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Garage renovation

Started by vlv8vic, 22nd July 2007 06:19 PM

apologise, appreciated, bit, bothers, boundary, bricks, built, costs, cut, fairway, garage, guys, hang, hole, inside, jon, keeping, lintel, mess, neighbours, photos, pictures, pull, renos, renovation, story, suggestions, supporting, unstable, yard

Replies: 10
Views: 3,092

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th July 2007 07:42 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Any Advice Please for Renovating

Started by NewAtIt, 23rd July 2007 02:51 PM

additions, advice, appreciateddoh, bedroom, built, commenced, complete, decide, designer, drawings, existing, finished, landscaping, laundry, living, manage, obtained, oversee, owner-builder, patios, pool, project, pulled, quotes, register, reno, renovating, wall

Replies: 6
Views: 1,526

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd July 2007 08:15 PM; by seriph1

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

PC Sound Question

Started by smidsy, 17th July 2007 09:19 PM

amps, built, cheers, folks, hei, nice, pair, paul, people, powered, question, situation, sound, speakers, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 1,133

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th July 2007 01:05 AM; by Harry72

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Ideal sink for home brewing/bottle washing

Started by Border boy, 12th July 2007 12:59 AM

arrangement, bottle, brew, brewing, brewing or bottle, brewing/bottle, built, cheers, consuming, deep, drinkable, experts, guys, home, ideal, laundry, office, past, produce, proven, question, setting, shed, sink, task, thinking, time, tips, washing, workshop

Replies: 7
Views: 2,516

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th July 2007 01:27 AM; by bsrlee

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

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: 12,791

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

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Fixed Timber Pivacy Screens

Started by Alby, 13th July 2007 12:55 PM

50x50, boards, bought, bracket, brick, built, cheers, directly, diy, fix, fixed, horizontally, house, matter, minor, nailing, pivacy, planning, posts, rendered, renos, screens, sort, suggestions, timber, tips, vertical, wall, walls, windows

Replies: 0
Views: 1,434

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th July 2007 12:55 PM; by Alby

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

sandwiching lvl for bearers

Started by gg23, 6th July 2007 11:52 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

140, 6.6, beam, bearer, bearers, bottom, built, combined, corners, cut, floor, greg, insulate, intend, lvl, piece, pieces, questions, recommended, rounded, sandwich, sandwiching, shaved, slightly, smooth, top, trap, water, whilst, wood

Replies: 16
Views: 3,413

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th July 2007 12:42 PM; by gg23

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

gas heaters /solar

Started by dzcook, 25th June 2007 09:37 PM

aust, booster, built, buy, dose, electric, england, expensive, fan, filled, gas, grass, heater, heaters, home, hot, ignite, instant, lge, magazine, or solar, peak, question, raditors, roots, solar, thinking, totally, water, yrs

Replies: 1
Views: 2,185

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th June 2007 09:44 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
HEATING & COOLING

Rough Estimate of Costs

Started by White Fox, 20th June 2007 05:14 PM

12m, 22.5, advance, attached, build, built, centre, colourbond, cost, costs, details, drawings, esitmate, estimate, house, non-house, pave, pergola, permits, posts, ridge, roof, roofing, rough, slope, underneath, wide

Replies: 9
Views: 11,977

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st June 2007 10:08 PM; by Barry_White

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Hardiplank vs Weatherboard cost

Started by jayem, 19th June 2007 10:00 PM

built, compares, cost, hardiplank, home, weatherboard, weatherboards

Replies: 5
Views: 12,716

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th June 2007 09:31 PM; by David L

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Building under a house on the cheap.

Started by Fantapantz, 14th August 2003 11:13 PM

architect, bearers, bolted, bracing, brackets, building, built, cheap, council, downstairs, falling, fifteen, floor, forgotten, future, house, ideas, left, lower, money, pit, plans, posts, read, resemble, sleave, straps, support, supposed, weld

Replies: 6
Views: 6,059

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th June 2007 08:25 PM; by pyro_15

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Agg pipe depth

Started by Wardy, 18th June 2007 09:00 PM

150mm, advice, agg, aid, built, cheers, construction, depth, drainage, floor, grateful, heavy, home, installed, level.any, musty, pier, pipe, rain, rid, smell, soil, sons, veneer, walls, wardy, wooden

Replies: 3
Views: 3,560

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th June 2007 05:19 PM; by totoblue

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

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