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Retaining Wall Questions

Started by sanku, 9th March 2008 12:09 AM

add, advance, bigger, black, determined, drainage, filler, fine, finish, flush, hard, highly, joint, mortar, people, perth, project, question, questions, related, retaining, riversand, sanku, score, scored, scoring, soft, tool, visable, wall

Replies: 11
Views: 4,062

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th March 2008 09:37 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Tiling bath into wall

Started by reidy, 5th March 2008 05:15 PM

appreciated, bath, bed, comments, coupling, due, fairly, flexible, flexing, greatly, hope, installnig, mizu, mortar, opinion, pipe, process, question, reidy, require, requires, sheet, spec, suggestions, support, tech, tiling, underneath, wall, waste

Replies: 6
Views: 3,498

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th March 2008 05:24 PM; by reidy

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Replacing Sleepers with Rock Edging

Started by howto???, 4th March 2008 03:31 PM

advice, appreciated, barrier, bed, bought, cement, change, cheers, dig, edging, filled, form, garden, ground, guys, house, laid, loose, mini-wall, mortar, potentially, railway, recently, replacing, rock, rocks, sleeper, sleepers, told, trench

Replies: 0
Views: 2,237

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th March 2008 03:31 PM; by howto???

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Replacing a single brick

Started by emptybucketman, 5th February 2007 03:07 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

access, applying, bag, brick, brickies, bricks, double, fitting, laying, mortar, mud, premixed, replace, replacing, single, time, tips, wall

Replies: 19
Views: 6,527

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd March 2008 12:47 PM; by journeyman Mick

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Letterbox Construction/repair.

Started by Groggy, 8th February 2007 10:00 PM

access, assembly, bit, bricks, car, construction or repair, construction/repair, flap, friend, happening, hardened, held, letterbox, mortar, mounted, pack, plate, rebuilding, set, simply, sink, visit, weight, wires, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 3,309

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 08:51 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

re-pointing advise needed

Started by ger, 9th June 2007 11:36 PM

1926, advise, bricks, build, bungalow, california, coming, cost, fix, house, idea, job, materials, metres, mortar, needed, premix, re-pointing, recommendations, repointing, welcomed

Replies: 3
Views: 2,474

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 08:01 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

ridge capping mortar mix

Started by emptybucketman, 7th January 2008 10:50 PM

capping, cement, flexipoint, lime, mix, mortar, ratio, repair, ridge, sand

Replies: 3
Views: 6,525

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 07:21 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

Removal of mortar between limestone blocks

Started by Yann, 9th February 2008 02:10 PM

advance, angle, backyard, blocks, bolster, existing, found, grinder, hammer, jack, limestone, mind, mortar, move, quick, re-use, removal, remove, renovation, result, retaining, step, success, wall

Replies: 4
Views: 2,774

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:49 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

Lime mortar

Started by prof_montoya, 27th February 2008 10:07 AM

1900s, approx, bricks, built, e.g, flemington, front, hardware, hydraulic, lime, local, make/mix, materials, melbourne, mortar, non-hydraulic, property, repairs, repoint, sand, single, source, specialist, stand, store, suggestions, terrace, thinking, understand, worry

Replies: 1
Views: 1,946

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:19 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

Outdoor pebble finish

Started by Pete F, 12th February 2008 09:48 AM

assuming, blind, cracking/hollow, eventually, existing, finish, freddy, guessing, guide, match, mix, mortar, outdoor, patch, pebble, pebbles, possibly, re-do, replace, roll, simply, sounding, sprinkle, stairs, tiles, tint, totally, treads, unfamiliar, veranda

Replies: 1
Views: 2,160

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd February 2008 04:08 PM; by Caloute

Forum:
CONCRETING

Footing for Garden Bed Edge

Started by aussieorchid, 10th February 2008 06:53 PM

10m, 50-60cm, bed, bedding, blocks, boral, butted, cheaper, compacted, concrete, crusher, decline, distance, dust, edge, footing, front, garden, gardenwall, months, mortar, people, picture, pull, recommend, sand, sit, slope, wash

Replies: 3
Views: 3,765

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 08:56 AM; by Barry Hicks

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Concreting around pool + excavation

Started by Paul M, 4th February 2008 04:31 PM

1/2, 10mm, approx, base, bitumen, concrete, concreting, coping, depth, excavation, expansion, fall, fill, foam, footing, knowledge, laying, material, mesh, mortar, moving, paul, pavers, plastic, pool, reo, rid, site, soil, type

Replies: 1
Views: 3,220

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th February 2008 10:26 PM; by Cementer

Forum:
CONCRETING

Replacing toilet pedestal-advice needed

Started by tigger, 17th January 2008 01:16 AM

accessible, bella, bend, bought, collar, enters, inside, leading, line, low, mix, mortar, needed, pedestal, pedestal-advice, pedestaladvice, pipe, position, raymor, replace, replacing, sealed, sewer, sewerage, strength, suite, surround, toilet, visible, waste

Replies: 5
Views: 4,437

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th January 2008 05:53 PM; by Bloss

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Paving a sloping driveway.. from scratch

Started by becks, 18th July 2007 01:31 AM

becks, block, builders, cheers, dick, diy, drain, driveway, edge, edging, fill, grated, help/comments, herringbone, layer, left, level, mortar, pave, paving, road, run, sand, scratch, slope, sloping, slurry, sponge, sweep, time

Replies: 9
Views: 15,385

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 12:11 AM; by cmore_2

Forum:
PAVING

repairing plasterboard for tiles?

Started by Scottymc, 10th January 2008 12:56 PM

bathroom, bottom, covered, damaged, fill, holes, mortar, normal, option, perimeter, plasterboard, polyfilla, removed, repair, repairing, replace, rest, retileing, scotty, stuff, tidy, tile, tiles, type

Replies: 1
Views: 1,607

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 09:52 PM; by China

Forum:
PLASTERING

Durability of Shower bases

Started by tgbrooks, 6th March 2007 05:02 PM

750, acrylic, base, bases, bathroom, beads, bed, decina, door, durability, durable, fibreglass, gelcoat, gloss, leaks, marbletrend, material, models, mortar, moulded, polyester, reece, rely, shower, silicon, surface, swan, tiling, units, wide

Replies: 2
Views: 2,755

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 11:01 PM; by Daren

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Help - fixing loose mortar on bottom course of wall

Started by commonman00, 21st December 2007 11:29 PM

advise, ago, appears, appreciated, bed, bottom, bricks, built, caused, concrete, feel, finger, fix, fixing, floor, garage, garden, greatly, guessing, house, loose, loosen, loosened, mortar, questions, reason, running, surprised, wall, water

Replies: 4
Views: 2,093

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th December 2007 12:17 AM; by Joister

Forum:
CONCRETING

please help with structural problems (long)

Started by lacy, 26th December 2007 07:39 PM

appreciated, bricks, clay, coming, continue, cracks, disaster, found, gyprock, happen, hold, ingleburn, long, loose, lose, mistake, money, mortar, noticed, problems, property, reactive, rent, report, sell, structural, underpinning, villa, window, worth

Replies: 5
Views: 1,597

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th December 2007 07:33 PM; by addo

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

installing island bath

Started by nolta, 24th December 2007 09:43 PM

200mm, acrylic, alternatives, awful, base, bath, bed, concrete, cos, due, floor, installation, installing, island, lay, lot, mortar, notes, plumbing, raised, suggestions

Replies: 4
Views: 3,608

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th December 2007 10:58 PM; by nolta

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Loose bricks

Started by cart, 17th December 2007 08:26 PM

appreciated, board, bricks, built, cart, corner, fill, fix, floors, frame, fresh, gap, house, late, level, loose, mortar, noticed, option, remove, running, scrap, sense, sits, spirit, stumps

Replies: 14
Views: 2,987

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st December 2007 07:33 PM; by addo

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Installing Additional Venting

Started by damien, 11th December 2007 01:38 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

additional, brick, bricks, building, bunnings, buy, cut, existing, house, inspector, installing, mortar, reinstall, simple, told, vented, venting

Replies: 16
Views: 3,626

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th December 2007 09:22 PM; by Brickie

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Brick garden edging

Started by Spencer74, 30th November 2007 01:43 PM

bed, bedding, brick, bricks, edge, edging, garden, height, hook, lawn, lay, line, mortar, simple, single, straight, tips

Replies: 11
Views: 27,836

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2007 02:22 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Resoring victorian bricked in fireplace

Started by BeeMay, 27th November 2007 07:29 PM

advance, arch, banging, bit, bricked, bricks, concrete, damaged, filling, fire, fireplace, fireplace.we, floor, forum, grated, hearth, mortar, questions, render, resoring, similar, special, victorian, warmray, writer

Replies: 10
Views: 2,842

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th December 2007 08:06 PM; by Brickie

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Extending elevated concrete slab floor over bearers and joists

Started by Hybrid, 1st December 2007 09:44 AM

bearers, bed, concrete, cracking, designed, dislike, doh, elevated, eventually, explain, extended, extending, flat, floor, http://imageshack.us, hug, installed, joint, joists, laundry, line, lino, mortar, opinions, presume, situation, slab, sloped, tackle, tiling

Replies: 3
Views: 4,344

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th December 2007 06:27 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Removing old mortar from 2" floor tiles?

Started by Skew ChiDAMN!!, 3rd December 2007 03:55 PM

angle, baby, beggars, brown, chic, colour, concern, concerned, cost, couple, cutting, demolished, disk, edges, floor, frankly, grinder, grout, hold, housell, ideas, larger, lil, major, matching, mortar, pooh, removed, safely, tiles

Replies: 2
Views: 1,670

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th December 2007 03:57 PM; by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Forum:
TILING

Large Pavers with Big Gaps - How to Lay

Started by dazzler, 22nd November 2007 11:01 PM

1.8m, 450mm, 50mm, 7.5m, base, big, bit, cement, cheers, compacted, crusher, dazzler, dust, gap, gaps, large, lay, laying, locked, mortar, pave, pavers, raked, sand, secure, square, stick, thinking, top, wet

Replies: 2
Views: 5,069

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th November 2007 06:29 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Concrete driveway with paver bands - how?

Started by gapwedge0, 16th November 2007 12:23 AM

120mm, advantages, approx, assistance, bands, concrete, concreter, diagram, disadvantages, driveway, entry, fall, force, hill, idea, junction, lay, leave, left, lhs, mini-slabs, mortar, move, paver, pavers, paving, required, sand, sealing, worry

Replies: 9
Views: 3,249

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th November 2007 10:00 PM; by gapwedge0

Forum:
CONCRETING

Stone shed - slipforming sort of

Started by jrckelley, 8th November 2007 12:23 PM

150mm, 500x300x200, australian, average, books, cement, crack, exspansion, gap, harder, laying, lime, lxhxd, mix, mortar, pull, question, rates, sandstone, shed, sign, slipforming, sort, stone, stonger, subject, sun, thinking, worried, worse

Replies: 5
Views: 4,405

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th November 2007 11:35 AM; by jrckelley

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Blade Wall

Started by derekh, 6th November 2007 12:46 PM

align, awkward, bed, blade, block, bolts, brick, build, courses, crushing, derek, expansion, fix, foam, holes, house, masonry, mortar, predrill, prevent, provide, question, return, sections, set, stability, thinking, veneer, wall, washers

Replies: 3
Views: 6,066

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th November 2007 09:46 PM; by brickman

Forum:
BRICKWORK

What grout for slate tiles?

Started by caperskmt, 3rd November 2007 02:05 PM

adhesive, caperskmt, extension, grout, grouting, indoor, mix, mortar, option, people, planning, sealed, slate, sorted, tile, tiles

Replies: 1
Views: 1,674

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd November 2007 04:33 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

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: 3,837

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

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Fitting new toilet to old earthenware (clay) pipe

Started by r00fi, 13th October 2007 09:25 PM

bucket, cement, cistern, clay, collar, description, diameters, due, earthenware, existing, fit, fitting, guess, hate, inspection, iron, magnet, meantime, mortar, outlet, pipe, plumber, raise, removed, set, sheet, steel, suggestions, thread, toilet

Replies: 3
Views: 8,507

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th October 2007 06:01 PM; by wonderplumb

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

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: 1,794

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

Forum:
DECKING

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: 1,909

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

Forum:
TILING

Rendering a painted "lumpy" exterior brick wall

Started by whitelion, 9th October 2007 02:29 PM

advice, brick, commencing, compared, courtyard, difficult, exterior, extrudes, garage, garden, house, job, joints, leave, lumpy, mortar, neighbour, paint, painted, permission, professional, questions, remove, render, rendering, surface, told, uneven, unsightly, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 7,632

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th October 2007 11:57 PM; by jags

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Need a safe way to remove mortar

Started by ciscokid, 8th October 2007 06:11 AM

acid, addition, afraid, carpet, damaging, fireplace, guys, heard, hearth, house, job, laid, left, mortar, muriatic, notice, potent, pretty, remove, safe, slate, stains, stone, stuff

Replies: 4
Views: 1,635

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th October 2007 10:50 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Does any one know how to mix lime mortar???

Started by Make it work, 28th September 2007 11:41 PM

20s, 30s, absorb, advance, advice, answer, based, brickwork, cement, dampness, difference, easier, guys, hardness, hope, house, job, lime, makes, mix, mortar, original, people, rate, repoint, sense, sucessful, told

Replies: 10
Views: 15,298

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st October 2007 12:40 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Soil test and stump option

Started by mullfitz, 27th September 2007 09:35 PM

1996, 2870, 3.1.8, accordance, beam, bedrock, cheers, clause, concrete, depth, difficult, excavate, excavations, footing/slab, leveling, makes, mortar, occurring, option, pad, replaced, required, rock, site, soil, stump, stumping, system, test, trenches

Replies: 1
Views: 2,681

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th September 2007 12:06 AM; by brynk

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Bathroom reno - mortar bed

Started by nevalast, 19th September 2007 02:41 AM

answers, apply, appreciated, bathroom, bed, bondcrete, coming, divide, easiest, floor, footing, gradual, lot, membrane, mentioned, mortar, newly, people, planes, poured, prime, reading, rendered, rendering, reno, river, sand, sharp, smooth, suffice

Replies: 7
Views: 5,283

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st September 2007 11:23 PM; by mic-d

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

removing tiles from concrete floor?

Started by onionizer, 5th September 2007 10:13 PM

1st, advice, appreciated, bedding, buy, cleaned, concrete, create, difficult, easily, experience, floating, floor, gonna, hard, house, lay, living, mortar, paint, pop, prove, removing, rip, rock, slab, stuck, task, tiles, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 17,445

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th September 2007 05:09 PM; by 123

Forum:
FLOORING

Owner Builder Project

Started by Metung, 4th May 2007 12:20 PM

14mm, 2tsup, advice, batch, bed, brighter, builder, call, cleaning, complete, confidence, constraint, fitting, grouting, knees, laid, laying, leather, light, manage, mortar, owner, plenty, project, sealing, tiles, time, tunnel, volume, wheelbarrow

Replies: 5
Views: 2,173

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th September 2007 11:19 AM; by memphis

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Fake stone cladding.

Started by frog's wife, 6th August 2007 09:00 PM

$adhesion, appears, bag, bugger, cement, cladding, cottage, ease, easier, experience, fake, fantastic, fraction, glue, lay, laying, mortar, mortaring, piping, preparation, price, prices, product, qualities, rustic, sheet, sonja, stone, thermal, weighs$

Replies: 1
Views: 6,670