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New floor shrunk - need advice

Started by efar, 25th January 2008 05:09 PM

1mm, 3mm, advice, appreciated, attempt, board, boards, builder, cracks, expand, floor, floors, gum, home, lasting, possession, shrink, shrunk, solution, spotted, watering, wood

Replies: 10
Views: 2,409

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th January 2008 11:45 PM; by MrFixIt

Forum:
FLOORING

Advice for paving over concrete

Started by Plunkett, 16th January 2008 11:50 AM

600, advice, car-service, concrete, correct, cracks, cut, fill, first-time, floor, garage, guess, guides, intend, middle, mix, nick, painted, pave, paver, pavers, paving, piece, pit, porous, sandstone, seal, size, timber, tips

Replies: 7
Views: 7,611

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd January 2008 12:54 AM; by Make it work

Forum:
CONCRETING

Cornice fine crack repair?

Started by Novi, 15th January 2008 11:31 AM

appeared, appreciated, complete, corner, cornice, crack, cracks, diy, fine, home, ignoramus, joins, months, noticeable, noticed, novice, plastering, question, recently, repair, repaired

Replies: 4
Views: 7,558

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th January 2008 01:32 AM; by Slobba

Forum:
PLASTERING

Long hot dry summer

Started by OBBob, 8th January 2008 04:44 PM

avoide, bench, bit, boards, components, contracted, cracks, dry, floor, hot, jarrah, long, lumps, maintenance, melbourne, movement, notice, oif, ridden, standards, summer, terms, timber, top

Replies: 0
Views: 1,649

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th January 2008 04:44 PM; by OBBob

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

How to finish teak carving?

Started by steck, 4th January 2008 09:58 AM

advance, bought, carved, carving, cracks, darken, dog, finish, mind, oil, protect, recently, stroke, suggestions, teak, timber, unfinished

Replies: 4
Views: 1,626

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th January 2008 12:49 AM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

Old Concrete Patio that needs covering any ideas?

Started by colind321, 1st January 2008 01:06 PM

attached, colind321, concrete, contacts, cover, covering, cracks, existing, garden, helpfeedback, ideas, larger, patio, picture, presentable, section, tired

Replies: 2
Views: 8,430

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 08:57 PM; by Big Rick

Forum:
CONCRETING

Black Stains for Floors??

Started by Luisa, 30th December 2007 01:55 PM

based, black, cracks, disaster, feast, finish, finished, floors, hard, ideas, japan, oak, peels, product, recent, sealant, shellac, stain, stains, tas, tung, watson, wearing

Replies: 1
Views: 2,816

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th December 2007 03:10 PM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING

Help with preparing slab of redgum for bar top

Started by Gilly, 28th December 2007 06:31 PM

bar, bark, basic, buy, cheers, complete, costing, cracks, deep, do??c, edging, fairly, fill, finish, finished, fortune, matt, metre, nice, preparing, process, product, products, project, purchased, redgum, slab, step, top, weeks

Replies: 11
Views: 14,911

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th December 2007 09:15 PM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

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: 1,489

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

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Wallpapering

Started by tims, 11th December 2007 02:10 PM

absorbant, additional, amount, application, apply, bought, cheers, couple, cover, cracks, dry, fair, glue, irregularities, paper, papering, practice, pre-pasted, preparing, questions, selleys, size, spackfilla, start, stick, surface, tim, wall, wallpaper, wallpapering

Replies: 1
Views: 978

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th December 2007 10:47 PM; by Slobba

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

What do you call this?

Started by test123456, 26th November 2007 12:42 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1880, based, build, building, call, check, cheers, correct, cracks, fixed, health, house, knocked, notice, outer, perform, purchase, replaced, replies, sound, structurally, surveyor, term, thingy, time, told, tradesmen, wall, wife, worry

Replies: 15
Views: 3,948

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th November 2007 09:20 PM; by test123456

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

advice on brickwork

Started by moose, 10th November 2007 11:01 PM

advice, blue, bourd, brick, brickwork, builders, cracks, double, home, house, putting, single, story, walls.and, woundering

Replies: 6
Views: 1,743

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th November 2007 09:31 PM; by moose

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Fastener/Compound "Pops"

Started by Batpig, 7th November 2007 09:49 PM

5c-piece-sized, adhesive, batpig, ceiling, clouts/screws, compound, cone, cracks, dozen, enlighten, fastener or compound, fastener/compound, folks, millimetre, move, occur, plasterboard, pop, pops, push, round, shrinkage, upwards, words

Replies: 4
Views: 1,372

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th November 2007 09:22 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

How can you tell if house needs restumping?

Started by mandyther, 24th October 2007 06:10 PM

20mm, access, advance, ago, bathroom, building, cracks, floor, gain, guy, house, inside, inspection, lean, mandy, months, obvious, reckons, reno, restumping, signs, tells

Replies: 9
Views: 7,808

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th October 2007 10:54 AM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

retaining wall question

Started by XT4V, 8th October 2007 04:09 PM

affect, black, bottom, contact, cracks, creating, dam, dodgy, drainage, drawing, effect, fence, floor, level, line, means, neighbours, performance, pipe/scoria, planning/building, plastic, proper, question, relation, retaining, rock, soil, system, wall, water/mud/dirt

Replies: 9
Views: 2,039

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th October 2007 01:03 AM; by XT4V

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

What Would You Suggest Next?

Started by Metal Head, 26th September 2007 08:05 PM

actions, avail, bitso, btw, cheers, continue, cracks, doh, ebay, electronic/electrical, feedback, floor, hour, house, lasers, levellers, melbourne, move, paste, positive, prevented, recent, recommendations, restumpers, soil, sort, spent, suggest, tested, winter

Replies: 8
Views: 1,999

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th October 2007 02:15 PM; by Geebung

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Cant decide - cement render or plasterboard

Started by john9996, 21st August 2007 08:01 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

battens, building, cement, channels, corners, cover, cracks, damp, decide, durable, easier, easy, etccons, finish, form, furring, hard, harder, house, internal, movement, moves, plaster, plasterboard, pros, render, residual, resistance, walls, windows

Replies: 16
Views: 12,484

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th September 2007 03:25 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Cracks in shower floor - leaking?

Started by demuire, 19th August 2007 09:20 AM

cleaner, corners, crack, cracks, downstairs, dry, dryer, floor, grout, grouting, hair, house, installed, joists, leaking, membrane, never-ending, noobish, noticed, owner, previous, questions, re-done, renovation, set, shower, supply, vacuum, water, waterproofing

Replies: 11
Views: 4,067

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st August 2007 08:38 PM; by bricks

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Butt join cracks in ceiling gyprock

Started by Dirty Doogie, 12th August 2007 12:22 PM

appearing, butt, ceiling, cracks, fill, finished, grr, gyprock, hide, join, joined, nice, permanentlly, repaint, sheets, tiny

Replies: 8
Views: 8,975

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th August 2007 06:38 AM; by Capt. Zero

Forum:
PLASTERING

Steam Explosion Rocks Manhattan

Started by silentC, 19th July 2007 11:48 AM

carrying, coming, cracks, doubt, explosion, exposing, ground, heating, ignorance, manhattan, network, pipes, rocks, steam, suppose, wondered, york

Replies: 5
Views: 1,556

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th July 2007 02:25 PM; by joe greiner

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Another Rendering question

Started by sstyln, 15th July 2007 10:02 PM

attempt, bagging, brick, colour, crack, cracks, darker, fewer, finnish, home, house, imperfections, inside, job, light, minor, movement, painting, question, render, rendering, trouble, understanding, visible, won’t, worried, worth

Replies: 2
Views: 2,000

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th July 2007 09:24 PM; by sstyln

Forum:
RENDERING

Ceiling repair

Started by alisonol, 10th July 2007 10:09 PM

40cm, appeared, base, ceiling, coat, coats, cracks, crackshair, finished, fix, forgot, is.~, join, line, month, plasterboard, recently, reno, repair, sheets, sound, tapped, themgauze, top, type

Replies: 9
Views: 2,908

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th July 2007 08:41 PM; by alisonol

Forum:
PLASTERING

Plasterboard onto brick wall

Started by john9996, 3rd July 2007 06:14 PM

backb, breathe, brick, bricks, brickwork, cement, channels, cracks, dampness, dry, due, eventually, fixing, furring, house, internal, membrane, method, paint, plaster, plasterboard, question, removing, rendering, ruled, similar, success, wall, walls, waterproof

Replies: 8
Views: 5,062

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th July 2007 09:24 AM; by ozwinner

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

How do I find a water leak?

Started by bubbleboy, 4th July 2007 11:16 AM

advance, appliances, coming, concrete, cracks, dark, detect, extensive, gauge, ground, home, house, inside, isolating, leak, marks, meter, plumber, plumbing, pooling, scotty, slowly, smashing, stab, start, suggestions, system, ticks, tool, water

Replies: 13
Views: 3,698

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th July 2007 08:53 PM; by bubbleboy

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Sealer to stop ro t on deck stairs

Started by rhancock, 3rd July 2007 10:20 PM

ago, bog, builders, cracks, customer, deck, edge, exterior, fil, fill, fitted, front, house, leading, paint, painted, products, reckons, rot, sand, sealer, solarguard, stairs, steps, stop, tread, treads, treated, wearing, wooden

Replies: 3
Views: 2,926

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th July 2007 12:02 AM; by Krazee

Forum:
PAINTING

Sagging Ornate Plaster Ceilings - Help!

Started by finchy, 26th May 2007 10:29 PM

battens, ceiling, ceilings, continue, couple, cracks, excellent, finish, finished, holding, hours, lines, liquid, lot, nails, ornate, paint, plaster, props, pushing, question, reason, remainder, remove, repair, results, sagging, sound, thickness, worse

Replies: 5
Views: 5,638

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th May 2007 12:57 AM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

New Decking (splits)

Started by dreadz, 19th May 2007 01:19 PM

batu, blend, chips, cracks, decking, fairly, fill, flloor, floor, holes, nailed, rought, splits, timber, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 2,161

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th May 2007 09:18 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
DECKING

Re-putty old windows - is just patching up OK?

Started by cal0171, 11th May 2007 04:27 PM

appreciated, badly, bottom, corners, cracked, cracks, due, expect, gap, hairline, minor, patching, previous, properly, putty, rains, re-putty, remove, renos, reputty, revealed, roughly, sand, schedule, sideways, slightly, suggestions, tassie, threads, windows

Replies: 4
Views: 6,158

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th May 2007 05:48 PM; by cal0171

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Replastering brick hard plastered walls

Started by Hennessy, 7th May 2007 12:34 PM

100, advise, beauty, brick, bungalow, californian, corners, cracking, cracks, due, floor, gaps, gyprock, hard, internal, means, odd, path, plaster, plastered, rail, repairing, replace, replaster, replastering, skirts, stripping, stucco, walls, worthwhile

Replies: 4
Views: 4,957

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th May 2007 12:30 AM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

How to stop timber soaking up resin filler

Started by Bodgy, 30th April 2007 03:07 PM

artists, blue, brickies, brighter, bubbles, casting, cracks, deep, easy, fill, filler, filthy, hardener, holes, knot, oxide, polishes, prefer, quicker, resin, sealed, shellac, soaking, stop, stuff, timber, tint, translucent, trapped, watercolours

Replies: 1
Views: 1,566

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th April 2007 04:07 PM; by la Huerta

Forum:
FINISHING

cracks in new brickwork

Started by contrebasse, 23rd March 2007 01:49 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

brick, bricks, brickwork, builder, built, ceiling, courses, crack, cracks, engaged, fix, footing, footings, garage, inside, mortar, mud, normal, normal.~, pier, piers, resting, running, slab, standard, sticky, stuff, tied, ties, wall

Replies: 22
Views: 5,233

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th March 2007 06:38 PM; by ozwinner

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Cracks in wall joints, stairs seperating from walls,

Started by kirkland99, 11th February 2007 08:44 AM

1-2mm, aprox, bathroom, ceillings, completed, concern, cottage, countersin, cracks, floor, guys, gyprock, joints, kitchenalso, leading, major, meets, post, purchased, recently, seperating, slipt, split, stairs, thinking, vanity, wall, wall1, wall1-2, walls

Replies: 12
Views: 2,193

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd March 2007 09:43 AM; by Honorary Bloke

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Stripping wallpaper and painting walls

Started by McBrain, 12th February 2007 11:59 AM

beneath, check, coating, cracks, easy, fill, filler, glue, green, lining, paint, painted, painting, paper, plaster, plasterboard, pretty, remove, sand, seal, semi-transparent, soapy, stripping, thin, top, wall, wallpaper, walls, warm, water

Replies: 3
Views: 4,138

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th February 2007 09:37 AM; by savage

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

Floor finishing advice

Started by Eddie Jones, 3rd February 2007 02:34 PM

advice, blue, coat, colour, compound, cracks, eddie, finish, finishing, floor, gratefully, gum, hard, holes, knot, low, match, matt, oil, prefer, preferred, protective, received, repair/fill, suggestions, teak, timber, top, tung, wearing

Replies: 8
Views: 3,735

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th February 2007 04:13 PM; by sco

Forum:
FLOORING

more from lemon cottage

Started by meg, 16th January 2007 05:34 PM

advice, anticipation, atleast, await, blow, boys, cheers, cottage, cracked, cracks, feels, fill, filler, gust, hardiflex, honestly, lemon, meg, plans, pressure, pretty, rains, recommend, sage, siding, sort, water, wind, winter, wobbly

Replies: 4
Views: 1,966

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th January 2007 01:25 AM; by journeyman Mick

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

Pergola post strength

Started by playpen, 12th January 2007 07:39 PM

$15mm, advice, base, bunch, cracks, cut, discovered, equal, folks, fracturing, height, install, installed, ledger, length, measurement, pergola, post, posts, pressuring, pushing, rafter, rafters, roofline, square, strength, swmbo, time, top, weaken$

Replies: 2
Views: 2,477

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2007 11:47 AM; by Pulse

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Colorbond protective plastic

Started by TEEJAY, 8th January 2007 02:02 PM

bio-degradeable, colorbond, cracked, cracks, degenerates, degrades, down-pipes, finish, left, patch, plastic, pretty, protective, question, quickly, remove, sticks, stuck, success, thinners, turps

Replies: 9
Views: 16,967

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2007 08:46 AM; by TEEJAY

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Painting a sloping concrete driveway ??

Started by rapapa, 31st December 2006 09:56 AM

$3000, 3mm, 45sqm, blends, concrete, cost, couple, cracks, degrees, driveway, experiences, extended, fill, looked, minor, paint, painting, prohibitive, sealant, section, share, slope, slopes, sloping, stencilling, traffic, type

Replies: 0
Views: 6,791

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st December 2006 09:56 AM; by rapapa

Forum:
PAINTING

removing paint from concrete floor

Started by maglite, 17th December 2006 11:59 PM

advance, belt, bought, coats, concrete, contractor, cracks, decaying, easiest, filled, flaking, floor, freshen, gday, grinder, hire, hit, numerous, paint, painted, previous, product, recomend, removing, sander, seal, sort, steve, times, verandah

Replies: 3
Views: 2,368

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th December 2006 09:24 AM; by Honorary Bloke

Forum:
PAINTING

Finishing of table top

Started by new woodworker, 21st November 2006 10:27 AM

advice, apply, burnishing, combination, completion, cracks, expect, fill, filler, finish, finishing, hard, hole, knot, mahogany, oil, orbital, organ, project, random, resin, sander, stage, system, table, timber, top, west

Replies: 8
Views: 2,291

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th November 2006 07:26 PM; by BrettC

Forum:
FINISHING

Creaking floor caused by quad

Started by bresmith, 7th November 2006 10:45 AM

1cm, bit, board, brent, caused, cover, cracks, creaking, easier, fix, floor, floorboards, floors, gap, hammering, heap, installed, liquid, lots, nails, planning, pulling, punched, quad, require, running, skirting, stage, wall, weekend

Replies: 4
Views: 2,287

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th November 2006 12:38 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
FLOORING

Fixing floorboards to concrete (best way?)

Started by Mr Crow Bar, 31st October 2006 02:51 AM

apply, bar, boards, brains, concrete, cracks, crow, deterred, edges, finish, fixing, floor, floorboards, form, formation, glue, hand, maintain, maintian, metre, oxconfusedeekd, rough, seal, spatula, spread, stick, straight, talk, timing, wave

Replies: 7
Views: 3,643

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th November 2006 07:04 AM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING

Cutting board filler

Started by JB, 25th October 2006 12:17 AM

based, board, boards, cracks, criteria, cutting, eaten, epoxy, fatal, fill, filler, fillers, holes, impractical, loose, meets, regularly, resin, washed/rinsed, water

Replies: 9
Views: 15,549

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th October 2006 08:10 AM; by JB

Forum:
FINISHING

Knots in weatherboards

Started by deidre, 15th October 2006 01:12 PM

appeared, base, cheers, confused, cracks, filler, house, knots, oil, painted, painting, prep, primer, sanded, sealer, special, undercoat, weatherboards

Replies: 1
Views: 1,663

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th October 2006 07:52 AM; by woodsprite

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

Heat gun on Acrylic Paint

Started by bpj1968, 2nd October 2006 10:13 AM

80s, acrylic, allowed, answer, cracks, doors, exposed, final, frames, grain, gun, heat, job, layer, levaing, paint, painted, patches, poor, process, repaint, repainting, sand, sanded, speed, strip, thinking, timber, weather, window

Replies: 1
Views: 2,482

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd October 2006 09:04 PM; by durwood

Forum:
PAINTING

Pool Renovation Blog

Started by spartan, 4th September 2006 04:04 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

arrived, basic, belonged.the, blog, bottom, coping, cracks, dangerous, deck, directly, edges, establishing, fine, ground, house, hurdle, laid, list, looked, loose, patio, pavers, photos, pool, post, renovation, rocks, rolled, sleep, stuck

Replies: 15
Views: 12,986

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st October 2006 06:01 PM; by Ironwood

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

What should I use to fill cracks in ply walls ?

Started by JDarvall, 27th September 2006 07:54 AM

bog, builders, choice, compound, cover, cracks, fibro, fill, flush, hear, ideas, job, joint, justify, leave, mesh, money, paint, plaster, ply, question, real, remove, sand, solution, spending, strips, total, wall, walls

Replies: 5
Views: 2,102

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th September 2006 08:57 PM; by JDarvall

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Alkathane Finish Problem

Started by Malic, 20th September 2006 07:06 AM

advice, alkathane, boards, coat, cracks, detail, dull, dulling, finish, floors, grain, grains, happen, imperfections, lengthy, met, naturaly, post, problem, realy, rectified, rest, rights, spots, sucked, timber, told, top, weeks, worse

Replies: 6
Views: 4,492

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st September 2006 11:39 PM; by Malic

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Covering up cracks in internal walls

Started by JIT, 5th August 2006 05:41 AM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

appearance, change, climate, cosmetic, cosmetically, cover, covering, cracking, cracks, filling, fixing, friend, improve, internal, lasting, method, movement, option, permanently, plaster, presume, properties, property, re-open, rear, repainting, simplest, solution, wall, walls

Replies: 49
Views: 18,503

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th September 2006 02:19 AM; by JIT

Forum:
PLASTERING

How does a Twisted Architrave come about?

Started by bobdbuilder, 30th August 2006 01:18 PM

1920s, againt, architrave, bottom, brickwork, closes, corner, cracks, distorted, door, due, fit, fix, flat, foundation, frame, house, internal, movement, parallelogram, rubber, shape, sign, sort, talking, top, twisted, wall, warped, wondering

Replies: 3
Views: 2,114

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st August 2006 07:21 AM; by Bondy1s

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

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