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Vinyl Paneling vs Gyprock vs Fibre Cement

Started by Griller, 23rd April 2008 02:09 PM

account, amount, bathroom, called, cement, colour, covering, downstairs, fibre, flooding, frame, garages, grain, grooves, gyprock, home, inches, makes, mini-renovation, occurs, paneling, plywood, re-line, rotten, slight, study, timber, underneath, vinyl, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 3,269

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd April 2008 02:09 PM; by Griller

Forum:
PLASTERING

Preparation of timber sleepers for painting

Started by Tubby2, 21st April 2008 12:00 PM

bit, brush, bye, cement, cheers, clean, edges, finished, gday, months, mud, paint, painting, pine, preparation, prepare, retaining, roll, rough, sell, sleeper, sleepers, spray, super, timber, treated, undercoat, wall, wearing, wondering

Replies: 2
Views: 2,780

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd April 2008 09:49 AM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Cut and weld stirrups, pack out or bolt on bearers above plate for correct height?

Started by Williamstown, 18th April 2008 10:01 AM

300mm, alternatively, bearer, bearers, bolt, bolts, cement, clearance, correct, cut, deck, firstly, height, i’m, isn’t, level, options;, pack, plate, required, resting, short, slab, stirrup, stirrups, taking, thin, timber, weight, weld

Replies: 5
Views: 3,830

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st April 2008 09:06 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Core Fill mix and advice please

Started by GAM, 12th April 2008 08:18 AM

advice, backfill, bags, blocks, cement, chisel, concrete, core, couple, extra, fill, filled, happy, heap, holes, ideas, left, lime, mix, options, questions, ramp, ratios, remove, slide, smart, smash, steel, suggestions, top

Replies: 13
Views: 4,127

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th April 2008 08:11 PM; by brickman

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Grouting Pavers around a Pool

Started by Art Martin, 26th March 2008 02:11 PM

brands, brickies, bunnies, cement, commonly, concrete, ensure, grey, grout, grouting, i.e, mix, mixes, mortared, nice, normal, option, pavers, pool, premixed, recommendations, sand, sand/cement, sand/cement/plasticiser, slab, stock, tile, visit, white, white/light

Replies: 8
Views: 4,459

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th April 2008 09:29 AM; by Compleat Amateu

Forum:
CONCRETING

Tiling a shower/bathroom floor

Started by dianedowd, 19th April 2008 04:23 PM

1130, 800, base, base/shower, bought, building, buy, cement, crack, cubicle, damage, fit, floor, grout, hate, house, laminate, measurements, pink, report, sheeting, shower, shower or bathroom, showering, suggestions, tiles, tiling, time, waiting, water

Replies: 2
Views: 2,068

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th April 2008 10:17 PM; by journeyman Mick

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Crushed Rock Driveway

Started by Fozzy, 16th April 2008 05:49 PM

ago, bags, buying, cement, crushed, driveway, extra, filling, form, found, garden, heavy, plain, pre-mixed, rain, rains, rake, raking, resurface, ridiculously, rock, rutts, slopes, stabilised, stop, stuff, supply, wacking, wondering, worth

Replies: 2
Views: 5,053

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th April 2008 03:46 PM; by Fozzy

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Supercoat as tile underlay?

Started by SkyHook, 15th April 2008 04:54 AM

agreed, base, bathroom, brick, builder, built, cement, ensuite, eventually, expecting, fall, friend, mark, mine, opinion, plaster, queried, render, rendered, shower, soft, substance, suitable, supercoat, tile, tiles, underlay, wall

Replies: 2
Views: 1,792

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th April 2008 02:31 PM; by SkyHook

Forum:
TILING

Fix humidity in garden shed

Started by arose62, 6th March 2008 02:33 PM

acquired, andrew, bed, bird, cement, cheers, coating, days, e-vent, electricity, fix, garden, humidity, ideas, lathe, layer, laying, light, mentioned, nsw, plastic, practical, rust, seller, shed, thin, thinking, whirly, woodwork, worth

Replies: 2
Views: 2,187

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th April 2008 11:37 AM; by arose62

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Enclosing eaves

Started by col5555, 9th April 2008 11:09 AM

1960s, abut, accept, adavance, brick, cement, cormmercially, eaves, employed, enclose, enclosing, era, fixed, frames, hide, join, metal, methods, people, roof/timber, sheet, trim, wall

Replies: 3
Views: 2,360

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2008 05:21 PM; by kevin pickering

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Why do hairline cracks develop with terracota tiles?

Started by strangerep, 31st March 2008 10:33 AM

annoying, balcony, cement, cfc, changing, characteristics, cracks, develop, due, expansion/contraction, exterior, fixes, garage, grouting, hairline, inadequate, laid, leaks, months, noticed, pushing, regularly, sheeting, sikaflex, silicone, stability, terracota, tiled, tiles, underneath

Replies: 2
Views: 2,406

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 10:09 PM; by RPMT

Forum:
TILING

Bathroom Drainage

Started by Ozpom, 4th March 2008 07:14 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, bathroom, cement, correct, create, directly, drainage, floor, idea, ideas, lay, laying, outlet, rendering, sheeting, slope, timber

Replies: 19
Views: 4,689

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th April 2008 11:31 AM; by cfv

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

White coloured mortar

Started by zacnelson, 28th March 2008 07:31 AM

achieve, bricklaying, bricks, bright, cement, change, colour, coloured, grey, ingredients, light, loved, mortar, mortar;, nice, normal, oxides, past, prefer, red, sand, start, type, typical, white, zac

Replies: 6
Views: 7,108

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd April 2008 08:20 PM; by Terrian

Forum:
CONCRETING

Replacing Shower + Base

Started by Pooran, 28th March 2008 05:58 PM

900, acrylic, advice, appreciated, base, boards, buy, cement, floor, glue, greatly, house, mix, mortar, normal, plaster, premaid, read, replacing, retiling, sheeting, sheets, shower, showers, thread, tile, tiled, underlay, walls, waterproof

Replies: 5
Views: 3,526

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st April 2008 06:02 PM; by wonderplumb

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Cement sheet, waterproofing, external tiling and other mysteries of the universe

Started by frog's wife, 12th March 2008 11:49 PM

$3000, applications, approx, base, blueboard, cement, checked, costs, existing, external, joins, listed, mysteries, ordinary, polyurethane, pricing, products, retailer, sealers, sheet, sigh, silicone, sonja, stone, suitable, thinking, tiling, told, universe, waterproofing

Replies: 14
Views: 5,314

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st April 2008 04:22 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
CONCRETING

To seal or not to seal render before painting

Started by Bulldog Ward, 30th March 2008 12:16 PM

ago, brickwork, cement, coats, dulux, finish, finished, house, intend, months, paint, painting, person, render, rendered, renovation, seal, sealer/undercoat, tells, time, weathershield

Replies: 1
Views: 6,232

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th March 2008 12:34 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
PAINTING

Tiling Q's - get me set up...

Started by q9, 27th March 2008 02:13 PM

bits, buckets, catch-all, cement, cost, desperate, easiest, effective, existing, fittings, fixtures, gear, glue, grout, hammer, held, hurry, month, plan, premix, prep, replacing, ripping, set, sheeting, sponge, suggestions, thinking, tiling, tool

Replies: 7
Views: 2,534

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th March 2008 12:17 PM; by AIRMAN

Forum:
TILING

Bathroom cornice

Started by Metung, 1st March 2008 03:07 PM

advice, amount, answer, appreciated, bathroom, bathrooms, bloke, calls, cement, ceramic, cornice, crack, fix, granite, grout, joins, paid, plasterer, polished, putting, reliable, roof, stick, supposed, thinking, tiles, understanding, wondering

Replies: 9
Views: 20,245

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th March 2008 08:19 AM; by RPMT

Forum:
PLASTERING

prepairing wall for tiling

Started by just a girl, 19th March 2008 08:54 PM

adhesive, board, brick, bricks, cement, coating, cornice, discover, expect, flat, girl, kitchen, mans, pity, plaster, prepairing, question, read, removed, section, silly, skim, smooth, stick, tile, tiler, tiles, tiling, wall, world

Replies: 4
Views: 1,910

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th March 2008 06:04 PM; by vlv8vic

Forum:
TILING

Waterproof an external timber balcony

Started by solcom, 24th March 2008 04:28 PM

advance, balcony, bed, cement, centre, compressed, create, drain, external, fall, feedback, fibre, finish, floor, lot, membrane, mortar, normal, product, proof, sandy, sheeting, sheets, sort, texture, timber, trafficable, trowel, water, waterproof

Replies: 0
Views: 2,647

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th March 2008 04:28 PM; by solcom

Forum:
DECKING

Garage roof saga

Started by Cin, 15th January 2008 01:32 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

Replies: 42
Views: 6,697

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th March 2008 10:52 PM; by rileyp

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

installing a shower base

Started by civmeup, 20th March 2008 05:47 PM

10mm, adhesive, advice, appreciated, base, based, cement, concrete, flooring, floors, footing, glue, installing, laying, mortar, nicely, people, proudly, putting, questions, recommend, rich, sheet, shower, silicon, sit, thick, timber, top, vinyl

Replies: 0
Views: 2,534

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th March 2008 05:47 PM; by civmeup

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

clouts in sub-floor

Started by bosco1, 19th March 2008 11:33 PM

400, appreciated, cement, clouts, fibre, floating, floor, flooring, headless, heads, holding, lost, minimise, nailed, pine, previously, proceed, push, putting, raise, risk, sub-floor, subfloor, suggestions, tiles, timber, time, told, true, underlay

Replies: 2
Views: 1,703

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th March 2008 08:49 AM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
FLOORING

How Removing/Installing Shower Base on Concrete

Started by JessieJessie, 16th March 2008 04:44 PM

base, cement, clueless, concrete, current, destroy, easter, jack, lifting, picture, plum, properly, reconnect, remove, removed, removing or installing, removing/installing, reno, scare, screen, sheet, shower, steps, thinking, tile, unscrew, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 2,940

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th March 2008 04:44 PM; by JessieJessie

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Shower Tray Installation... has come unstuck :((

Started by Gooner, 11th March 2008 06:57 PM

adhesive, advice, alot, alternative, alternatively, appreciated, base, based, cement, coat, expensive, greatly, installation, leave, level, mix, mortar, perfectly, question, recommends, rip, shower, spent, start, thin, tile, time, tray, underlay, unstuck

Replies: 12
Views: 6,335

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th March 2008 01:01 AM; by Gooner

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

cutting plasterboard for insulation retrofit, worth the effort?

Started by sundancewfs, 15th March 2008 07:52 AM

batts, brick, ceiling, cement, cutting, double, effort, external, fit, foil, glazed, home, insulation, plasterboard, polyester, retrofit, retrofitting, thinking, tiled, tontine, type, underfloor, venneer, wall, walls, windows, worth

Replies: 4
Views: 2,329

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th March 2008 06:00 PM; by sundancewfs

Forum:
PLASTERING

Fitting architraves to uneven window frames

Started by peter_sm, 11th March 2008 11:07 PM

19mm, 4.5mm, 8mm, architrave, architraves, bullnose, cement, fit, fitting, flusherer, frame, frames, half, holds, hung, inside, internal, lined, mdf, preprimed, proud, rebate, rectangular, sheet, silly, straight, uneven, wall, window, windows

Replies: 2
Views: 2,732

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th March 2008 07:21 AM; by les88

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

Jayson's Deck - Up She Goes (Slowly)

Started by Spelunx, 10th April 2007 10:54 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

bags, bearers, bottom, bush, cement, cheers, concrete, deck, filling, footings, holes, jayson, keyed, load, lunch-time, morning, night, picked, picture, poles, post, promise, race, sand, slowly, spent, tomorrow, town, underway, work-rate

Replies: 56
Views: 11,143

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th March 2008 09:25 PM; by Spelunx

Forum:
DECKING

Nails required for 4.5mm cement sheet.

Started by peter_sm, 6th March 2008 10:54 PM

35mm, 4.5mm, 45mm, 6mm, break, cement, compressed, edges, fastening, garage, ideas, joining, laying, locking, nails, pretty, required, sheet, stud, studs, suggestions, tile, underlay, wall, weekend, wide

Replies: 2
Views: 1,635

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th March 2008 11:02 PM; by peter_sm

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

Making cement pavers

Started by JB, 3rd March 2008 08:45 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

20cm, 30cm, 5cm, advice, appreciated, cement, cement/aggregate, completely, dry, failed, making, mix, mould, pavers, plastic, ratios, reinforcing, required, resist, stepping, stones, testing, thick, tips, tub

Replies: 16
Views: 5,429

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th March 2008 07:00 PM; by corbs

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Att "silent c". ardex lq 92 info

Started by tidemaster, 5th March 2008 11:36 PM

20mm, 5mm, appreciated, ardex, att, bed, cement, cracking, fall, flexible, glue, grout, info, layed, liner, membrane, product, proof, pvc, response, sand, silent c, suggested, suitable, thicker, tile, type, water, weight, wooried

Replies: 0
Views: 1,814

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th March 2008 11:36 PM; by tidemaster

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

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: 1,993

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

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

type of villaboard screws

Started by emptybucketman, 30th December 2007 09:57 PM

bugle, ceiling, cement, fibre, fix, nails, plasterboard, screws, type, villaboard, walls

Replies: 11
Views: 7,142

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd March 2008 09:50 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

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

Bathroom Floor tiling

Started by rickl, 3rd March 2008 03:54 PM

25-35mm, additive, adhesive, appreciated, bathroom, bed, bottom, build, cement, concrete, current, direct, floor, lay, level, mixture, option, sand, sand/cement, slab, suggestions, tile, tiles, tiling, waht

Replies: 3
Views: 1,962

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd March 2008 06:43 PM; by journeyman Mick

Forum:
TILING

Plasterer's sand

Started by memphis, 26th December 2007 04:55 PM

acrylic, bluemetal, brickies, build, buying, cement, coat, concrete, cubic, decorative, fill, form, front, guys, hey, house, left, meters, mixed, planning, plasterer, plasterers, posts, question, render, renderer, sand, skim, steel, structrual

Replies: 9
Views: 4,425

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2008 06:48 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Base coat 60

Started by mic-d, 1st March 2008 08:15 AM

10-15, 12mnths, ages, bag, base, cement, cheers, clean, coat, decrease, makes, michael, minutes, mixed, offcut, plastering, set, sheet, time, usual, water, yesterday

Replies: 2
Views: 1,816

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st March 2008 11:12 AM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

How much cement

Started by cart, 11th December 2007 05:49 PM

add, added, amount, answer, basically, borders, cart, cement, forum, garden, gravel, gravel/sand, mix, mixed, plants, pot, purchased, question, quick, ready, sand, shovel, shovels, slabs, sound, told

Replies: 6
Views: 3,431

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st March 2008 07:10 AM; by Terrian

Forum:
CONCRETING

Renovating a fireplace

Started by TJAY, 23rd July 2007 11:20 PM

assume, assumed, ben, box, brick, brickwork, cement, cheers, easier, fake, fibro, fire, fireplace, mentioned, option, proper, pulled, quickly, render, rendering, renovating, repaired, sealed, sheet, sheeting, shiny, sort, stick, stuff, yellow

Replies: 6
Views: 13,497

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 07:57 PM; by Quikcote

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

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: 6,379

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

Forum:
CONCRETING

Base for sandstone blocks?

Started by Dr - 307, 7th February 2008 12:56 PM

307, base, bed, blocks, brother-in-law, building, cement, channel, cheers, concrete, garden, guys, laying, level, mixed, poured, powder, raised, real, row, sand, sandstone, sit, strip, thrown, weekend

Replies: 5
Views: 4,429

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 07:01 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

Making Liquid Limestone

Started by Teutonic, 13th February 2008 01:29 PM

2004, answer, arrived, australia, cement, diy, forum, found, giving, heard, info, lime, limecrete, limestone, liquid, looked, luck, making, overseas, posting, poured, previous, products, refer, round, sites, specific, time

Replies: 3
Views: 9,382

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:50 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

mixing cement for bricks

Started by Com_VC, 16th February 2008 11:57 AM

basically, bricks, cement, colour, cracks, due, grout, mix, mixing, ratios, replacing, sand, water, weekend

Replies: 9
Views: 2,471

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:39 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Removing cement from bricks

Started by Programmer, 11th September 2004 03:13 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

acids, appreciated, bricks, cement, chisel, clean, deposits, hammer, ideas, major, remove, removing, thick, time-consuming

Replies: 22
Views: 12,766

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:32 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Restore Old Floor Boards - with a twist...

Started by BigCal, 20th October 2007 08:47 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

addition, approx, board, boards, callum, cement, compressed, cypress, dining, essentially, extent, fibre, floor, half, help/suggestions/comments, house, kitched, kitchen, living, original, particle, prefer, re-tiling, restore, sqm, structure, tile, tiles, twist, wet

Replies: 48
Views: 13,403

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 04:57 AM; by bnpenty

Forum:
FLOORING

render blueboard

Started by ctsiotas, 20th February 2008 10:08 PM

,spray, acra, agood, blue, blueboard, board, bondcrete, cement, clay, couple, crack, days, expanded, grid, guys, joints, mac, metal, mix, nail, normal, patch, question, render, renderers, riversand, set

Replies: 3
Views: 3,400

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd February 2008 09:43 PM; by myla

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

timber balcony floor...help!

Started by tiggerjump819, 19th February 2008 03:58 PM

4mx2m, advices, balcony, budget, builder, carpenter, cement, concrete, dealing, floor, floorhelp, forum, guys, ideas, material, membrane, nice, professions, quoting, replace, sealed, sheeted, size, sort, suggest, suggestion, tiggerjump819, timber, timeber, top

Replies: 3
Views: 3,161

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th February 2008 08:45 PM; by manoftalent

Forum:
FLOORING

Paving sand washed out and away.

Started by Nudge, 11th February 2008 09:55 AM

add, brush, builders, buy, cement, chance, compactor, filled, gaps, grey, guys, hardened, lift, lifted, lot, mistakes, normal, pavers, paving, pergola, pool, rain, recommended, returned, sand, surprised, tiles, washed, week, wrong

Replies: 5
Views: 10,231

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th February 2008 08:17 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
PAVING

Screws into ceiling, and adhesive as cornice cement?

Started by Spelunx, 9th February 2008 11:19 PM

adhesive, advice, bad, bucketload, buried, ceiling, cement, channel, cheers, concerned, cornice, eye, finishing, flush, half, indented, jayson, job, layer, left, pictures, plaster, post, promiseddd, questions, screws, sitting, slightly, stud, tips

Replies: 12
Views: 3,818

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th February 2008 11:15 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Fixing broken keys on ceiling (lathen plaster)

Started by prof_montoya, 11th February 2008 02:50 PM

1900s, broken, call, ceiling, cement, corner, cornice, cracks, developed, diy, e.g, fix, fixing, found, front, hessian, keen, keys, lathen, melbourne, novice, plaster, plasterer, plasterers, pros, recommend, single, solid, space, terrace

Replies: 1
Views: 2,835

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 03:47 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
PLASTERING

Running coaxial indoors

Started by Damo182, 6th February 2008 06:37 PM

brick, cables, casing, cavity, cement, coaxial, electrical, exposed, hate, hide, indoors, install, interior, product, rendered, run, running, socket, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 1,666

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th February 2008 08:02 PM; by Barry_White

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

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