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Fire Wall Options

Started by OBBob, 20th November 2007 09:07 PM

60/60/60, aware, brick, cement, external, fire, methods, options, plaster, sheet, wall, walls

Replies: 6
Views: 2,315

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd November 2007 07:04 AM; by OBBob

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Moving toilet and sewer pipes

Started by tims, 16th November 2007 07:13 AM

2.5, backyard, bend, bit, clay, concrete, digging, existing, foundation, hassles, hole, inspection, int.diam.~100mm, length, major, meters, money, moving, pipe, pipes, plumber, pvc, save, septic, sewer, short, tank, toilet, ventilated, walls

Replies: 11
Views: 5,421

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th November 2007 08:31 PM; by bricks

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Expansion gap needed for fibre cement?

Started by Tiger, 17th November 2007 07:55 AM

apply, bathroom, boards, cement, expansion, fibre, fitting, floor, gap, laid, nailed, needed, preparation, resulted, sheets, square, tight, tiling, trim, wall, walls, wood

Replies: 3
Views: 2,187

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th November 2007 10:36 AM; by mic-d

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Timber posts

Started by bianca3920, 15th November 2007 02:01 PM

?timber, balcony, benefits, compressed, debating, due, exposed, extension, fibre/tiled, floor, ground, half, hardwood, hidden, hubby, job, lower, novice, pine, posts, realise, renovation, santina, species, timber, top, treated, type, walls, wood

Replies: 7
Views: 2,000

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2007 11:56 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Cavity Wall Insulation - Melbourne area

Started by MarkWags, 16th July 2007 06:17 PM

area, blown, boards, cavity, chemical, condition, contractor, eith, external, foam, house, insulation, internal, material, melbourne, moved, option, pulling, recently, recommend, retrofit, rock, views, wall, walls, weatherboard, wool

Replies: 3
Views: 5,318

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th November 2007 02:31 PM; by MarkWags

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Making a bathroom out of a sow's ear

Started by brettsyoung, 12th November 2007 12:32 PM

6mm, avoid, bath, bathroom, build, deal, drain, ear, exhaust, fan, floor, heater-lights, hoping, install, major, making, paint, plan, products, roof, seal, shower, sloping, sow, spills, tile, toilet, villaboard, walls, waterproof

Replies: 6
Views: 2,398

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th November 2007 12:06 PM; by brettsyoung

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Installing new manhole cover

Started by Pete F, 12th November 2007 01:23 PM

advice, basically, centres, chose, cover, covers, cut, cutting, frame, hacking, heck, install, installing, joists, larger, location, manhole, nogs, pete, plates, precautions, safe, specific, start, support, thinking, title, top, walls, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 7,565

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th November 2007 09:44 AM; by billbeee

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Waterproofing bricks

Started by Kaiser Soze, 9th November 2007 12:36 PM

100%, 1mm, adhere, ahead, bathroom, brick, bricks, cladding, cubicle, exposed, forum, lots, membrane, newly, proofing, questions, re-tiling, read, render, sheet, shower, successfully, surface, terms, thick, tiles, villaboard, walls, waterproofed, waterproofing

Replies: 5
Views: 5,786

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th November 2007 07:39 PM; by rmartens

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

Completed Retaining Wall

Started by Feralbilly, 8th November 2007 06:38 PM

block, building, completed, cover, filled, filling, garden, ground, hanson, herb, lavender, pics, planting, posting, recently, retaining, rosemary, section, shrubs, slowly, soil, sorts, space, strawberries, terrace, top, wall, walls

Replies: 6
Views: 2,580

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th November 2007 07:05 AM; by Feralbilly

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Compressed Fibre Cement flooring for deck

Started by shauno, 5th November 2007 03:42 PM

1200, 15mm, 1800, accross, aim, cement, compressed, deck, fibre, flooring, galv, joists, lay, laying, newel, pine, posts, sheets, site, stage, straight, tile, tiles, tiling, tips, treated, walls, waterproof, weather, wondering

Replies: 1
Views: 3,927

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th November 2007 06:01 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
FLOORING

Necessary to do the square set join if using cornice?

Started by krakatoa, 3rd November 2007 07:12 PM

bathroom, ceiling, cornice, covering, join, joining, paper, reno, required, set, square, stability, tape, title, walls

Replies: 8
Views: 2,624

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th November 2007 05:22 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Structual Engineer needed in South Yarra Melbourne

Started by hotproperty, 4th November 2007 09:41 PM

appricated.2tsup, approx, assess, bearing, building, costs, council, engineer, knock, load, melbourne, needed, permit, plan, property, recommendations, report, require, south, structual, submit, walls, welcomend, yarra

Replies: 0
Views: 1,562

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th November 2007 09:41 PM; by hotproperty

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Builder in South Yarra

Started by hotproperty, 4th November 2007 07:37 PM

added, advance, approx, brick, builder, correct, cost, costings, couple, doors, forum, french, greatu, happy, hold, hope, ideas, installed, jobs, knock, metal, recommendations, reduce, roof, set, south, supports, this.b, walls, yarra

Replies: 0
Views: 1,407

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th November 2007 07:37 PM; by hotproperty

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Fill

Started by Ross, 4th November 2007 09:37 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 1,887

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th November 2007 12:37 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

little bumps all over walls

Started by thoms, 2nd November 2007 12:40 PM

afford, attached, bumps, mind, painted, paper, perfect, photos, plaster, plasterer, rustic, scape, scrape, type, underneath, wall, walls

Replies: 5
Views: 2,199

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd November 2007 07:51 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

My New Shower Mortar Base

Started by zacnelson, 2nd November 2007 11:05 AM

aluminium, angle, angles, attached, base, bases, dry, easier, edge, edges, ensure, exact, external, found, hard, job, level, mic-d, mix, mortar, perfectly, picture, posts, recently, share, shower, stuck, times, trick, walls

Replies: 2
Views: 3,860

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd November 2007 05:59 PM; by celeste

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Gap between floor and plaster board

Started by krakatoa, 31st October 2007 10:00 AM

1.2, 100, 2.5m, 200, 30mm, advice, bathroom, board, bottom, cement, distance, double, floor, gap, guees, half, krakatoa, laid, overhanging, plaster, reno, run, sheets, standard, strip, thickness, tiled, tiles, walls, wet

Replies: 10
Views: 3,399

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st November 2007 10:15 AM; by zacnelson

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Double gyprock Vs insulation???

Started by Rhino666, 30th October 2007 07:04 PM

900mm, add, added, batts, builder, cavity, ceiling, couple, double, existing, expensive, gyprock, insulate, insulated, insulation, interior, layer, layers, lot, office, option, plasterboard, proofing, sound, space, tiles, travels, wall, walls, walls3m

Replies: 8
Views: 21,348

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st October 2007 08:38 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
PLASTERING

Removing Plaster sheets

Started by mattbl, 28th October 2007 01:06 PM

appreciated, attached, butt, carefully, ceiling, corners, cornice, entire, external, fresh, greatly, internal, job, joints, knife, matt, plaster, remove, removing, running, scrap, sharp, sheet, sheeting, sheets, start, study, suggestions, thinking, walls

Replies: 3
Views: 2,742

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st October 2007 02:02 PM; by mattbl

Forum:
PLASTERING

Mobile Machines in Workshop

Started by gatiep, 3rd September 2007 02:38 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

ago, butt, cabinets, cars, castors, clip, double, easily, garage, guys, hey, link, locate, machines, memory, mobile, moved, parking, posts, remember, right.i, searched, serves, site, subsections, variety, video, walls, workbenches, workshop

Replies: 27
Views: 4,953

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th October 2007 11:59 PM; by gatiep

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Paint Rollers - Various Advice Required Please

Started by Metal Head, 29th June 2007 11:40 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

acyrlic, advice, advised, ago, bad, benefit, ceilings, cheers, eradicate, finishrolleyes, grit, lot, material, nap, oil, opposed, paint, pre-wash, process, questions, replieswink, replying, required, roller, rollers, special, time, type, wall, walls

Replies: 19
Views: 3,998

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th October 2007 05:11 PM; by scooter

Forum:
PAINTING

Covering an exposed brick wall.

Started by Yalgoo, 28th October 2007 11:35 PM

4.5, advise, appreciated, boards, bogging, brick, bricks, cornices, cover, covering, entertained, exposed, glue, hardiflex, joins, looked, mark2tsup, mess, neatly, plaster, quickly, render, skirting, thick, thickness, time, ugly, wall, walls, wooden

Replies: 7
Views: 8,505

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th October 2007 08:49 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Garage with Attic (or Garage plans)?

Started by Williamstown, 7th October 2007 03:04 AM

3mtr, 4mtrs, 7mtrs, allowed, approx, attic, boundry, council, drafter/architect, fence, garage, hoping, house, match, max, office, pitch, planning, plans, process, roof, similar, starting, storage, talking, top, walls, wide, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 7,507

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th October 2007 01:11 AM; by pawnhead

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Boral Heathstone Retaining Wall

Started by mirz, 23rd October 2007 02:03 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

16m, 500mm, advise, aprreciate, backyard, boral, break, coming, diy, expect, green, heathstone, height, job, landscaped, lawn, length, paver, pay, realy, replace, response, retaining, similar, sleepers, tips, wall, walls, wooden, x-mas

Replies: 15
Views: 9,817

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th October 2007 05:27 PM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

A question Rod?

Started by Jacksin, 25th October 2007 01:14 AM

adhesive, attach, bag, cornice, cornices, gyprock, left, masonry, mention, note, post, question, reluctant, rod, throw, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 1,842

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th October 2007 05:43 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Skirting, door & architrave finish

Started by rscho, 24th October 2007 08:59 AM

adhere, advice, alternative, appreciated, architrave, based, boards, bows, compare, considered, darker, door, epoxy, finish, finishing, gluing, nailing, oil, planning, plaster/bricks, product, products, recommend, sand, skirting, slight, solid, suggest, walls, wax

Replies: 3
Views: 3,400

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th October 2007 04:43 PM; by Ian Wells

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Floor plan and renovation idea's

Started by pski, 15th October 2007 11:09 PM

1500x3650, 1880’s, approx, bathroom, bi-fold, bring, current, doors, floor, guy’s, hey, house, idea, ideas, insidenot, install, i’ve, lean-to, original, plan, purchased, rear, recently, remove, renovation, scale, settlement, symmetrical, waiting, walls

Replies: 4
Views: 2,040

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2007 01:08 PM; by pharmaboy2

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Pressed metal walls/Skirting boards

Started by Hulbs, 17th October 2007 08:34 PM

attempted, boards, bunch, damage, devestated, fix, hope, house, in/dented, metal, method, posts, pressed, pushed, read, remove, removing, skirting, spots, tips, wall, walls, walls or skirting, walls/skirting

Replies: 2
Views: 2,865

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2007 09:02 AM; by OBBob

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Timber Over Concrete Stairs?

Started by UteMad, 12th June 2007 08:24 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

280, based, bead, bit, bottom, butting, butts, chippy, concrete, elev, front, hangs, installing, past, plywood, riser, risers, run, scrappy, shaped, stairs, stop, stringers, thinking, timber, tools, tread, treads, view, walls

Replies: 15
Views: 11,136

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st October 2007 06:53 PM; by Larry McCully

Forum:
STAIRS, STEPS and RAMPS

Plasterboard Drill

Started by Spelunx, 21st October 2007 12:30 AM

$100, auto, buy, ceiling, cheers, cordless, day, drill, ebay, electric, gun, hire, jayson, panasonic, plaster, plasterboard, possibly, postage, screw, spotted, surfing, trusty, upstairs, walls

Replies: 3
Views: 2,016

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st October 2007 11:08 AM; by Spelunx

Forum:
PLASTERING

Villa board or plaster board ?

Started by jags, 6th September 2007 12:41 PM

,which, achieve, attached, bath, batterns, blue, board, ceiling, gyprock, hit, line, matter, pic, plaster, premium, recess, replacing, rob, screwed, shower, snag, space, standard, store, tiled, villa, wall, walls, wet, wood

Replies: 14
Views: 5,529

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th October 2007 09:43 PM; by sorryidunno

Forum:
PLASTERING

Painting the walls

Started by Allan at Wallan, 19th October 2007 03:13 PM

allan, barry, barrys, clothes, coats, day, decked, door, dying, hope, hot, house, instructions, mate, neighbour, paint, painting, ready, replied, results, stated, time, walls, wearing, worried

Replies: 1
Views: 1,365

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th October 2007 03:19 PM; by munruben

Forum:
JOKES

best cement mixer

Started by HaydnG, 12th October 2007 03:24 PM

3.5, 3/5, bit, cement, concerned, concrete, cubic, day, economical, experience, garage, gmc, half, hand, haydn, jobs, larger, list, mixer, mixing, months, odd, reckon, retaining, slab, spending, swmbo, underpowered, walls, wheelbarrow

Replies: 5
Views: 7,945

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th October 2007 10:26 PM; by want2learn

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

I think my walls are damp!

Started by Kaiser Soze, 16th October 2007 06:39 PM

1st, bathroom, brick, brickwork, bubbled, causing, cheers, complex, damp, dry, drying, flaky, issues, leaking, naturally, noticed, paint, process, proof, proofing, questions, recesses, renovate, shower, suspect, terminated, tiling, trapped, wall, walls

Replies: 6
Views: 2,209

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th October 2007 06:11 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Painting cost

Started by Larry McCully, 11th October 2007 10:12 PM

101, advise, aprox, ceilings, change, charged, coat, colour, condition, cost, costs, doors, dulux, existing, expect, glossing, jams, paint, painting, refresher, walls, wear, wsh

Replies: 5
Views: 4,919

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th October 2007 02:10 PM; by Larry McCully

Forum:
PAINTING

In bath shower and waterproofing

Started by manofaus, 11th October 2007 08:24 PM

appreciated, bath, bathroom, concrete, corner, fit, floor, frameless, layers, level, membrame, membrane, opposite, ready, removed, rest, screen, seal, semi, set, shower, silicon, tiles, tiling, toilet, vanity, villaboard, walls, waterproof, waterproofing

Replies: 2
Views: 2,393

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th October 2007 07:04 PM; by bricks

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Floor joist specifications

Started by hamjam, 12th October 2007 03:19 PM

22mm, board, boards, builder, building, butted, caused, defects, extra, floor, flooring, glued, installing, internal, issue, joist, joists, longreach, main, messmate, nailed, particle, pryda, rectified, specifications, strip, supplied, top, walk, walls

Replies: 4
Views: 2,716

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th October 2007 05:49 PM; by thebuildingsurv

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Painting help with weatherboards

Started by adsl3897, 4th October 2007 04:16 PM

applied, attached, boards, brendon, coat, coats, cracked, cracking, embark, final, finishing, flexible, gaps, house, looked, no-more-gap, owners, paint, painted, painting, pictures, previous, question, read, silly, solve, undercoat/prime, walls, weatherboards, website

Replies: 7
Views: 7,757

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th October 2007 10:35 AM; by adsl3897

Forum:
PAINTING

How to make cut out for windows, and how to install insulation/roofing?

Started by FlyingDuck, 1st September 2007 10:56 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

aligned, bit, cbond, cut, cuts, ground, hearing, holes, inbetween, install, installing, insulation, insulation or roofing, lay, lining, make, method, neat, pile, purlins, roof, sheets, stay, straight, taking, terms, tricky, underneath, walls, windows

Replies: 16
Views: 4,926

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th October 2007 03:23 PM; by Geebung

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Bathroom Disaster Area

Started by Lilly, 9th October 2007 10:40 AM

.the, adhesive, alternative, area, bathroom, demolition, disaster, gyprock, idea, issues, leaves, living, lot, lots, lyl, mortar, option, picking, pricey, recess, shot, smash, stuck, talking, taps, tile, tiling, top, trashed, walls

Replies: 3
Views: 1,922

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th October 2007 08:30 AM; by Lilly

Forum:
TILING

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: 3,436

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

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

meaning of poor

Started by wheelinround, 3rd October 2007 05:46 PM

boys, buy, dad, family, father, food, friends, garden, grow, life, live, makes, meaning, people, perspective, poor, property, protect, reaches, servants, serve, short, sight, single, son, speechless, trip, walls, wonderful, worrying

Replies: 10
Views: 2,484

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th October 2007 09:10 PM; by fred.n

Forum:
JOKES

Joining load bearing beams

Started by jimc, 5th December 2005 02:38 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

appropriately, attach, beam, beams, bearing, degrees, engineered, head, idea, ideas, install, joining, level, load, metres, mid, peoples, phase, placing, planning, princple, remove, roof, section, shmbo, sized, space, spans, understand, walls

Replies: 16
Views: 6,284

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th October 2007 04:30 PM; by jimc

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

7 1/2 foot kitchen height...ok?

Started by Art Martin, 3rd October 2007 08:32 AM

1 or 2, 1/2, bit, bulkhead, bulkheads, ceiling, circumstancesopening, drop, due, foot, height, heightok, kitchen, low, opinions, perimeter, reasonable, section, tidy, walls

Replies: 1
Views: 1,729

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd October 2007 12:36 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
KITCHENS

bathroom reno procedure

Started by hopoz, 1st October 2007 09:24 PM

advice, base, bathroom, bottom, clean, curb, gap, hole, install, leave, pack, procedure, professional, recommended, reno, scotte, shower, slab, soo, straight, surface, tile, tiler, tiles, tiling, top, tore, type, walls, waterproofing

Replies: 1
Views: 3,020

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd October 2007 12:14 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

bluestone vs limestone

Started by alpsy, 30th September 2007 01:16 PM

apply, black, bluestone, bottom, internal, limestone, pond, properties, sealer, similar, tiles, walls, waterproofed, wondering

Replies: 1
Views: 3,682

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th September 2007 11:08 PM; by Dirty Doogie

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

Cost to gyprock whole house

Started by aussieorchid, 23rd August 2007 01:24 PM

100m2, 200-250m2, bathroom, bedrooms, ceiling, cost, costs, dad, dining, existing, foot, gyprock, hallway, house, jobs, kitchen, lounge, painted, price, queensland, separate, sort, spoke, style, toilet, tradies, typical, walls, walls/ceiling

Replies: 13
Views: 21,099

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th September 2007 01:52 PM; by benno84

Forum:
PLASTERING

deck between brick walls

Started by andrew webster, 29th September 2007 09:07 PM

1.8m, 90mm, additional, bearer, bearers, bracket, brick, building, concrete, deck, directly, existing, fasten, fastening, galvanised, ground, house, inspection, pass, piers, pine, plan, screw, screws, sit, stump, surveyor, wall, walls, width

Replies: 3
Views: 2,842

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th September 2007 12:49 AM; by pawnhead

Forum:
DECKING

Painting curved staircase walls

Started by Biko, 26th September 2007 06:36 PM

2.7m, access, biko, ceilings, curved, curving, ideas, internal, ladder, makes, multi, normal, painting, plastered, platform, position, problematical, reach, render, rendered, repaint, roller, smooth, special, staircase, surface, textures, type, upper, walls

Replies: 0
Views: 2,034

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th September 2007 06:36 PM; by Biko

Forum:
PAINTING

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: 35,793

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

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

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