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My Ikea Kitchen Install project

Started by tryitonce!, 2nd January 2008 10:53 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

angle, brick, cabinets, chase, day, dining, doorway, double, electrician, finally, finished, flat, floorboards, found, guy, ikea, install, installed, installing, kitchen, length, prelim, project, quoted, quotes, randall, remove, replace, wall, walls

Replies: 55
Views: 34,800

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th February 2008 04:37 PM; by jags

Forum:
KITCHENS

Please help young amateurs with plumbing issues!

Started by compete reno, 12th February 2008 10:33 AM

advice, amateurs, appreciated, bath, bathroom, bit, bought, cheap, condition, easy, floor, height, ideas, inch, issues, keeping, learnt, lesson, lift, lower, makes, nice, normal, plumbing, style, tile, toilet, walls, wondering, young

Replies: 2
Views: 1,638

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th February 2008 06:20 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
PLUMBING

Lighting requirements for 6m x 7.2m shed

Started by Ashes, 10th February 2008 11:03 PM

10.8, 2.4m, 2.9m, 3.6m, 7.2m, 72m, account, assume, brian, buiding, couple, guess, ignore, installed, lighting, lights, natural, night, partitioning, polycarb, recommendation, requirements, section, shed, sheets, suggest, type, walls, wattage, woodworking

Replies: 2
Views: 1,955

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 09:48 AM; by Ashes

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Best base under pavers for water flow

Started by Wombat2, 3rd February 2008 11:14 PM

access, base, concrete, corner, damp, deck, digging, filled, flooding, flow, grade, heavy, hill, house, meters, metre, patio, pavers, pebbles, rain, relish, resealing, river, section, slope, solution, wall, walls, water, wide

Replies: 2
Views: 2,636

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th February 2008 11:08 AM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

home insulation

Started by patty, 1st February 2008 11:44 AM

access, afternoon, air, appreciated, betweenthe, brick, ceiling, dollar, height, home, hot, house, inside, insulate, insulating, insulation, money, procratinating, roof, sarking, storey, tile, tiles, trap, underside, veneer, walls, wasting, west, wondered

Replies: 5
Views: 2,002

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd February 2008 10:37 AM; by Bloss

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Patch a hole in plasterboard, no screws, no tape & no backing block.

Started by pawnhead, 31st January 2008 02:48 PM

2tsup, backing, block, brilliant, damaged, easily, hey, hole, idea, patch, plasterboard, repair, rod, screws, tape, trick, walls

Replies: 9
Views: 7,476

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st February 2008 09:56 PM; by China

Forum:
PLASTERING

How to Chase pipework into the brick - Outside walls

Started by DaleBlack, 31st January 2008 09:58 PM

&around, 125mm, angle, brick, chase, cheers, chisel, cost, curved, cut, cuts, deep, existing, grinder, outer, pipe, pipes, pipework, plumber, pushed, shape, sinking, sort, std, surface, taps, thin, trade, walls, wedges

Replies: 9
Views: 6,547

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st February 2008 03:07 PM; by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Floating Floorboards - Expansion Gap / Preparation

Started by dammit, 24th January 2008 03:08 PM

5cm, boards, carpet, cement, chunk, compound, concrete, cork, edge, ensure, expansion, floating, floorboards, gap, hammered, holding, holes, nails, permimeter/outer, preparation, pull, question, read, removing, slab, smooth, strips, tack, walls, wooden

Replies: 7
Views: 12,901

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2008 01:07 PM; by madrat

Forum:
FLOORING

Advise about house movement/cracking problem

Started by Timed Out, 20th January 2008 11:23 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

adjacent, advise, advise/quotes, arrange, carried, concrete, cracks, door, dropped, entire, fixed, front, house, internal, lighter, movement or cracking, paths, porch, post, problem, replace, roof, simple, slab, steel, step, support, walls, weight, wider

Replies: 19
Views: 5,475

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2008 08:16 PM; by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Stitching Plasterboard Joints

Started by rod1949, 29th January 2008 10:52 AM

150mm, ago, blue, bottom, box, can’t, flush, ideas, i’ve, joint, joints, movement, noggins, plasterboard, product, red, remember, sheet, sheets, shop, similar, spacing, steel, stitched, stitching, studs, tape, they’re, top, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 1,935

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2008 07:47 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Frame for linen cupboard

Started by blak, 28th January 2008 10:39 AM

10ft, 5ft, bolt, building, corner, cupboard, frame, frames, framing, guage, house, interior, linen, studs, timber, wall, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 1,508

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2008 02:12 PM; by atregent

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

New Reno Problems - Cant get a builder for a small job.....No one wants to work

Started by Mattles, 22nd January 2008 02:19 PM

5 Pages •: 1 2 3 4 5

addition, appreciated, assist, basically, bedroom, builder, building, estimates, flat, garage, granny, house, job, jobno, layed, list, literally, main, move, plumbing, problems, reno, roof, roofing, small, time, tips, tricks, walls, work

Replies: 74
Views: 10,115

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th January 2008 01:32 PM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Ceramalite or laminex panels for shower walls?

Started by JB, 5th June 2006 10:45 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1800h, 900w, advantage, availability, bad, ceramalite, experiences, install, joins, laminex, mouldings, panels, pretty, products, relate, shower, similar, walls

Replies: 21
Views: 43,174

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th January 2008 08:16 PM; by Daren

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Recommendations on Rain Water Tanks

Started by Fozzy, 22nd January 2008 01:18 PM

brands, clark, corrugated, couple, difference, experience, heaps, hear, lid, litre, nylex, people, piece, planning, poly, rain, rainwater, recommendations, removable, sell, tank, tanks, team, walls, water, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 2,845

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd January 2008 05:19 PM; by Vernonv

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

How to attach Skirting to old rendered walls

Started by AIRMAN, 14th January 2008 11:35 PM

appreciated, attach, brick, cavity, cement, floor, flush, greatly, house, ips, masonary, nails, prior, realised, removed, render, rendered, request, screws, set, skirting, skitings, spelt, tapping, tiled, tilers, tiling, walls, white/thin, wrongly

Replies: 4
Views: 12,900

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd January 2008 10:30 AM; by Cliff Rogers

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Removal of load bearing wall

Started by Damo182, 20th January 2008 05:52 PM

ahead, appox, bearing, check, coming, cost, job, load, person, prefer, pretty, price, removal, remove, saving, sort, wall, walls

Replies: 7
Views: 5,719

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd January 2008 01:09 PM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Bathroom insulation?

Started by Pollyanna, 18th January 2008 06:15 PM

absorb, bathroom, batt, batts, cos, heard, insulation, moisture, no-no, walls

Replies: 5
Views: 2,033

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th January 2008 05:51 PM; by Bloss

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Is there any good quality interior painters available for work

Started by Sonny Girl, 19th January 2008 10:48 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,101

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th January 2008 10:48 AM; by Sonny Girl

Forum:
PAINTING

Best way to cut a cast-iron bath in half...

Started by Batpig, 15th January 2008 09:54 PM

185mm, 5mm, angle, attempting, bath, blade, buying, cast-iron, castiron, circular, cold-cut, correct, cut, disc, enamel, forums, glazing, gmc, grinder, half, irwin, kill, masonry, metal-cutting, possibly, remove, set, similar, size, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 2,845

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 10:08 PM; by DJ’s Timber

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Bumpy walls. Is it paint?

Started by Laura0381, 13th January 2008 06:58 PM

1960s, anyting, bedrooms, bubble, bubbling, bumpy, coats, effort, extreme, home, hope, house, ideas, paint, partner, peels, piece, plastic, question, rennovating, scrape, stick, sticky, stripper, strips, stuff, tested, thick, walls, worries

Replies: 1
Views: 1,665

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 02:05 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
PAINTING

1970's ceiling...and walls ....

Started by stuey, 14th January 2008 03:57 PM

1970, blend, ceiling, ceilingand, completely, cornice, dashed, effect, filler, helps, hole, match, orange, panel, pebble, peel, post, read, remove, repairs, smooth, sort, stramit, stripping, stuff, surface, thanks.actually, unit, walls, wardrobe

Replies: 4
Views: 4,003

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 10:18 PM; by China

Forum:
PLASTERING

building wall under house ant capping question on slab???

Started by steve666, 11th January 2008 05:29 PM

ant, apreciated, attached, building, built, capping, edge, garage, house, lot, picture, question, situation, slab, unsure, wall, walls

Replies: 4
Views: 5,269

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 04:20 PM; by les88

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Supporting electric water heater

Started by stuey, 13th January 2008 05:55 PM

balanced, brackets, brick, buying, duty, electric, heater, heavy, installing, kitchen, ona, pipe, precariously, rests, rheem, rubbish, shelf, size, standard, support, supported, supporting, unit, walls, water, weighs

Replies: 3
Views: 1,744

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2008 10:54 PM; by Smurf

Forum:
HEATING & COOLING

Body corporate and internal partitioning

Started by ronafios, 10th January 2008 08:28 PM

$30k, 2.4m, add, adding, bir, body, built, command, corporate, cost, desire, experiences, functionality, internal, kitchen, mine, opinionated, partitioning, question, ross, sale, similar, stopping, strata, title, units, upgrade, wall, walls, wondering

Replies: 2
Views: 1,378

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 09:13 PM; by LotteBum

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Sealing bath to wall

Started by Scottymc, 9th January 2008 02:55 PM

2000, attached, bath, bathroom, butt, butts, confusing, continue, edge, floor, glass, intend, intended, join, long/rambling, parallel, return, runs, scotty, sealant, sealent, sealing, shower, tile, tiled, totally, wall, walls, waste, waterproofing

Replies: 11
Views: 3,327

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 04:16 PM; by Ashwood

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

redoing out-of-square stud wall

Started by JontyG, 10th January 2008 08:08 AM

attached, bearing, brick, bulk, couple, fitted, framework, kitchen, leaving, load, middle, newly, noggins, outer, outofsquare, pics, questions, re-attach, redoing, remove, replace, square, standing, stud, studs, support, tie-ins, wall, walls, weight

Replies: 7
Views: 3,911

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 02:45 PM; by Eli

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Bluestone Repointing

Started by westcoast, 10th January 2008 09:21 AM

adelaide, advice, bluestone, brick, house, job, opposed, red, repoint, repointing, tips, walls, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 2,280

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 09:21 AM; by westcoast

Forum:
CONCRETING

What is "white set"?

Started by emptybucketman, 26th March 2007 02:08 PM

applied, cement, rendered, set, walls, white, white set

Replies: 6
Views: 15,086

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 09:17 AM; by handyandy2

Forum:
PAINTING

Bathroom Reno..Have you had any work done by this firm?

Started by petal, 3rd January 2008 08:12 PM

asbestos, basin, bathroom, canberra, cheaper, comments, company, complaints, consumer, cost, difference, firm, information, justfixit, people, quotes, rang, reno, renohave, renovate, rewalling, stripping, taps, tiles, tiling, vanity, walls, wondering, work

Replies: 3
Views: 2,198

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 12:28 AM; by tryitonce!

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

top plate anchoring

Started by tonee, 5th January 2008 05:43 PM

anchor, anchoring, brick, building, code, company, construction, converting, details, external, flat, free, garage, granny, hip, hoping, information, meet, method, plate, process, replacing, roof, single, standing, tony, top, truss, trusses, walls

Replies: 14
Views: 2,905

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 11:46 AM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

To strip or not to strip...?

Started by jambo000, 7th January 2008 04:17 PM

advice, appreciated, base, bases, bathroom, concrete, cover, durasheet, existing, fit, fitting, floor, intend, jim, leaving, plasterboard, question, removed, renovating, sheeting, sheets, shower, square, straight, strip, studs, studwork, tiling, walls, wet

Replies: 3
Views: 2,473

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th January 2008 04:30 PM; by jambo000

Forum:
KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, THEATRES, etc

Raising garage to pour concrete

Started by scout32flc, 4th January 2008 05:44 AM

bit, car, concerned, concrete, crack, dirt, exterior, figuring, floor, footers, footprint, garage, ground, handi, hunting, ideas, level, mountains, pad, pour, raise, raising, reinforce, safely, set, sunk, support, top, wall, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 2,903

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 08:08 PM; by peter_sm

Forum:
CONCRETING

Retainng Wall Car Park

Started by dub3media, 6th January 2008 08:16 PM

1000crs, 90x90, advance, aslso, bank, boards, bolt, build, car, diverted, drain, drainage, draincore, lead, leaning, load, metal, nail, park, parked, pipe, pipes, plumb, posts, retainng, sort, told, top, wall, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 1,291

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 05:55 PM; by Jacksin

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

How best to insulate a room

Started by noodle, 4th January 2008 07:43 PM

afternoon, converting, existing, heat, home, house, insulate, insulating, internal, line, lined, located, material, moment, office, reduce, room, strength, sun, walls, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 1,370

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th January 2008 07:43 PM; by noodle

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

To buy or not to buy - build in under the house??

Started by kateesc, 2nd January 2008 04:48 PM

add, appreciated, ballpark, bathroom, build, built, buy, costs, decide, figure, flat, floors, found, granny, height, hoping, house, idea, inspecting, kitchen, legal, moment, potential, property, slats, timber, underneath, walls, worth

Replies: 10
Views: 1,939

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 08:02 PM; by weisyboy

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Should I seal a wooden floor before tiling?

Started by Gooner, 23rd December 2007 09:56 PM

boards, cement, decade, ensuite, exposed, floor, floorboard, floorboards, floors, opportunity, protect, putting, question, quickly, redundant, removed, sand, seal, sheet, tiled, tiles, tiling, walls, waterproofing, wooden

Replies: 10
Views: 5,709

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 03:58 PM; by Eli

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

internal wall lining. what are the options?

Started by bunce, 1st January 2008 05:10 PM

alternatives, anticipation, bessa, bessar, brick, bricks, bunce, ceiling, cheaper, cost, factor, filthy, gyprock, house, internal, lining, living, means, office, options, painted, pillars, remaining, storeroom, wall, walls, white, windows

Replies: 4
Views: 6,810

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 12:52 PM; by bunce

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Best Wall Surface for ceramic tiles

Started by ECJames, 28th December 2007 10:43 AM

advise, appreciated, bath, bathroom, ceramic, coverings, favourable, greatly, materials, planning, renovating, replace, roll, situation, surface, surround, tile, tiles, vjs, wall, walls, wooden

Replies: 3
Views: 1,530

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st December 2007 11:42 AM; by ECJames

Forum:
TILING

Removal of cross bracing under high set house

Started by mark_au, 29th December 2007 03:15 PM

attach, bearing, bolts, bottom, bracing, build, cheers, cross, duragal, dyna, floor, frame, frames, high, house, install, load, mark, plate, ply, removal, replacement, set, strap, stumps, suitable, timber, type, walls, woudl

Replies: 1
Views: 2,490

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th December 2007 05:37 PM; by journeyman Mick

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Best sanding powertool for plasterboard..?

Started by ReP0, 9th December 2007 02:29 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

bad, bought, clogging, clue, cost, cover, diy, fill, fortune, gouge, gyprock, hand, installing, job, lazy, plaster, plasterboard, powertool, professionally, recommend, replacing, rest, sand, sander, sanding, sandpaper, spend, wall, walls, week

Replies: 15
Views: 9,225

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th December 2007 12:10 PM; by LegacyGT

Forum:
PLASTERING

Rendering over steel columns

Started by col5555, 23rd December 2007 12:25 PM

90x90x3mm, assist, brick, built, called, columns, colums, concerned, cracking, engineer, gyprocked, hold, key, leaf, render, rendering, requested, roof, single, steel, structural, support, tied, time, usbs, wall, walls

Replies: 2
Views: 6,224

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd December 2007 07:04 PM; by Barry_White

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

New kitchen cabinets - levelling and securing

Started by JontyG, 6th December 2007 04:25 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

absolutely, adjustable, anchor, anchored, bar, breakfast, cabinets, caeserstone, concerned, ensure, feel, feet, fitted, floor, free, guess, installing, jonty, kitchen, largly, level, levelling, opinions, secured, securing, slab, standing, thinking, u-shaped, walls

Replies: 17
Views: 4,023

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th December 2007 08:54 PM; by JontyG

Forum:
KITCHENS

Fixing Cornice to solid plaster wall/gyprock ceiling

Started by spirit28, 16th December 2007 09:01 PM

adhesive, advance, bad, bathroom, brick, ceiling, ceilings, condition, cornice, fixing, forsee, forum, gyprock, happy, hold, kitchen, nails, painted, plaster, posts, prepare, rendered, searched, sets, solid, suggestions, temporary, wall or gyprock, wallpaper, walls

Replies: 3
Views: 6,692

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th December 2007 07:06 AM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Painting Villaboard

Started by Deno, 16th December 2007 03:53 PM

appreciated, bathroom/laundry, downstairs, joins, paint, painting, plastered, prior, ready, renovating, sort, undercoat, unsure, villaboard, walls

Replies: 2
Views: 5,198

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th December 2007 06:27 PM; by Ivan in Oz

Forum:
KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, THEATRES, etc

tiling on timber frame

Started by suengoo, 14th December 2007 02:44 PM

3.5m, 317mm, advice, bathroom, beams, beefed, covered, floor, frame, framed, girder, glazed, heavy, kitchen, level, matte, original, particleboard, porcelain, running, steel, thick, tile, tiling, timber, underlay, uprights, walls, wood, wooden

Replies: 7
Views: 2,876

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th December 2007 06:28 PM; by suengoo

Forum:
KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, THEATRES, etc

waterproofing for tiles

Started by western6deputy, 2nd December 2007 08:11 PM

dome, effective, leaking, process, removing, replacing, seal, tiles, wall, walls, water, waterproofing

Replies: 2
Views: 2,020

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th December 2007 09:47 AM; by Ashwood

Forum:
TILING

Need your advice - New build, hard wood floor got soaked. whats the damage?

Started by cosmic, 9th December 2007 06:53 PM

action, advice, blackbutt, board, build, builder, building, ceiling, cornices, cracked, damage, floor, floors, hard, hardwood, house, joists, late, layed, particle, past, polished, replacing, running, soaked, term, times, walls, wood, wooden

Replies: 4
Views: 2,261

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th December 2007 12:10 AM; by cosmic

Forum:
FLOORING

Building Timber windows.

Started by bvdl75, 10th December 2007 12:19 AM

advice, arcs, ben, building, construct, contructing, cubby, dads, daughter, direction, door, frame, guideance, house, lined, parents, plaster, properly, real, resore, skirting, sombody, start, storage, timber, told, visits, walls, window, windows

Replies: 3
Views: 2,575

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th December 2007 09:53 PM; by bvdl75

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Gap filler for fibro walls

Started by snowyskiesau, 9th December 2007 05:50 PM

cover, covers, current, dulux, fibro, filler, filling, gap, house, joins, joint, paint, planning, project, provide, recommended, remove, seal, sheet, similar, strips, suitable, textured, thinking, timber, tuscan, walls, warped, waterproof, weatherproof

Replies: 3
Views: 4,785

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th December 2007 10:26 AM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
PLASTERING

Urgent help with Cement Mixer

Started by sanku, 9th December 2007 09:17 PM

appreciated, borrowed, built, cement, contractor, couple, direction, electrical, fault, fencing, guidance, hard, idea, mid, mix, mixer, perth, pretty, pump, repaired, retaining, stopped, suspect, urgent, urgently, walls, week

Replies: 6
Views: 2,884

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2007 09:28 PM; by sanku

Forum:
CONCRETING

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