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G'day from a tiny fibro shack in Canberra

Started by McPete, 29th September 2013 09:51 PM

answers, canberra, cheers, door, equipment, experience, fibro, fitter, forward, gday, ineptness, instrument, lack, laugh, limited, not-so-silly, pete, prepare, presently, pretty, professionally, proper, qualified, questions, rate, shack, silly, tiny, tools, woodworking

Replies: 9
Views: 1,750

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th October 2013 11:17 PM; by McPete

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

A plea for help

Started by Bob Hall, 11th August 2013 02:47 PM

act, bob, car, cheers, china, expertise, funding, grant, haircloth, happy, hear, lbe, offer, oily, plaintive, plea, pop, professionally, project, rag, region, resigned, seats, skills, smell, source, thasn, upholstery, white, wil

Replies: 10
Views: 4,235

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th September 2013 07:26 PM; by Bob Hall

Forum:
UPHOLSTERY

Restoring a red Cedar chest of drawers.

Started by oscara, 24th July 2013 08:57 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1850s, 278289278290278291278292, antique, based, cedar, chest, cutting, damage, decide, dove, drawers, guess, handles, idea, legs, mine, online, oscar, professionally, purchased, red, restoring, satisfaction, similar, strip, tails, test, thinking, wood, worth

Replies: 22
Views: 6,176

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th August 2013 03:39 PM; by oscara

Forum:
RESTORATION

Wax over Danish Oil?

Started by Johnnz, 8th July 2013 07:28 PM

agree, beauty, coatings, danish, edges, effect, effort, filler, finally, finish, flatter, grain, grooved, left, light, likes, marks, natural, oil, plastic, professionally, putting, recently, sanding, smooth, splits, table, top, wax, worth

Replies: 8
Views: 7,706

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th July 2013 04:08 PM; by LGS

Forum:
FINISHING

Spar Urethane Mess...Help!

Started by chachycharlie, 23rd January 2013 05:22 AM

bare, bought, chloride, concerned, crevasses, desert, dipped, door, dried, finish, follow, front, i’m, knots, messhelp, methylene, minwax, oil-based, professionally, question, recently, rustoleom, spar, stain, strip, underneath, urethane, varathane, won’t, wood

Replies: 0
Views: 1,684

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd January 2013 05:22 AM; by chachycharlie

Forum:
FINISHING

To sand or not to sand?

Started by ELM6061, 22nd June 2012 03:15 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advise, appreciated, choice, d-valuing, damage/misshape, dickie, eddie, excuse, form, furniture, gday, greatly, item, leave, left, lines, minimise, professionally, pros, purchase-e, repair, ridge, risk, sand, sanding, shoulder, spot, stripper, type, volunteer

Replies: 24
Views: 4,127

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th June 2012 06:15 PM; by ELM6061

Forum:
RESTORATION

Cleaning/protecting piano before restoration

Started by Lucy2, 5th February 2012 12:00 PM

care, clean, cleaning or protecting, cleaning/protecting, coating, lucy, music, past, patina, piano, polish, professionally, protect, replies, restoration, studio, temporarily, tomorrow, tuned, week, worn, wreck

Replies: 10
Views: 1,776

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2012 12:08 AM; by Lucy2

Forum:
FINISHING

Cost of weatherboarding older home?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 4th June 2010 02:50 PM

asbestos, boards, cement, cladding, cost, devalue, due, home, house, improved, install, live, potentially, product, professionally, read, remove, renovateforum.com, replace, supply;, thread, timber, told, traditional, type, vinyl, weatherboarding, weatherboards, weathertex/hardiplank, wise

Replies: 0
Views: 2,024

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th June 2010 02:50 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Farting pig sparks gas leak emergency

Started by Phil Spencer, 26th November 2009 04:36 PM

120-odd, alerted, axedale, bit, cfa, coming, compose, dealt, driveway, drove, emergency, fairly, farting, fire, fire-fighters, funny, gas, giggle, heard, huge, kilo, leak, obvious, pig, professionally, smell, sow, sparks, speak, station

Replies: 4
Views: 1,300

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th November 2009 08:30 AM; by Woodwould

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NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Painting MDF B.I.R Doors

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 26th November 2009 10:20 PM

2.7m, @$120, advice, brush, chance, doors, feedback, grooves, gun, installed, longevitiy, manufactor, mdf, paint, painter, painters, painting, pro, professionally, read, renovateforum.com, robe, robes, roller, routed, spray, stipulate, thread, warping, warranty

Replies: 0
Views: 6,779

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th November 2009 10:20 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Best finishing product for a Western Red Cedar shed

Started by Walkingabout, 30th August 2009 09:07 PM

3.5m, appreciated, built, cedar, cetol, colour, contender, craftsmen, deepen, filter, finish, finishing, greatly, hoping, information, learned, light, looked, product, professionally, recommend, red, redden, shed, sikkens, timber, transparent, website, western, women

Replies: 2
Views: 3,271

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd September 2009 09:30 PM; by Offcuts

Forum:
FINISHING

Sanding Swirls in New Floor - Acceptable?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 13th May 2009 12:40 AM

130mm, advice, affecting, ash, coating, degree, expected, fine, floor, forum, gloss, hardwax, job, level, light, marks, minor, noticeable, oil, professionally, read, reading, real, removing, renovateforum.com, sanding, thread, time, treatex, vic

Replies: 0
Views: 1,669

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th May 2009 12:40 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
FLOORING

Fixing a tassie oak jacobean chair

Started by trrac, 16th January 2009 12:46 PM

90-100, advice, appreciated, barley, central, chair, coast, cracked, fixing, hobbyists, jacobean, leant, length, nsw, oak, photos, pin, professionally, project, repaired, retired, steel, strongly, suggested, tassie, times, twist, type, wood, workers

Replies: 4
Views: 2,959

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th January 2009 08:16 PM; by astrid

Forum:
RESTORATION

Concrete slab tolerances

Started by Com_VC, 22nd April 2008 07:22 PM

3-5mm, 30mm, allowed, assumed, concrete, diagonals, guessing, lot, max, measured, metres, pretty, professionally, slab, sort, spot, square, there’s, tolerance, tolerances, wondering

Replies: 8
Views: 3,158

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd April 2008 08:34 PM; by Ivan in Oz

Forum:
CONCRETING

New Apartment

Started by Rodgera, 17th April 2008 01:04 PM

ages, animals, answered, apartment, behaved, children, earnestly, employed, family, manager, military, professionally, property, prospective, proudly, questions, residence, single-family, tenants, twelve, unit, usual, wife

Replies: 0
Views: 1,225

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th April 2008 01:04 PM; by Rodgera

Forum:
JOKES

Part Time Sales Rep

Started by Sebastiaan56, 2nd February 2008 05:13 AM

300, 900, bright, commission, days, essential, experience, hrs, industry, instance, justifies, performance, personality, print, professionally, provided, rep, salary, sales, silverwater, starters, sydney, thx, time, training, week

Replies: 0
Views: 1,705

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd February 2008 05:13 AM; by Sebastiaan56

Forum:
EMPLOYMENT

Water/Heat marks on table top

Started by Elise, 15th January 2008 11:59 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

absolutely, applied, bear, brasso, cheers, circle, coats, elise, entire, fix, gorgeous, hot, job, leave, marks, messing, newbie, oak, patch, professionally, professionals, scared, shellac, silky, stained, table, told, top, water or heat, white

Replies: 22
Views: 9,368

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th January 2008 10:45 PM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

What equipment to buy for finishing work?

Started by wixy, 5th January 2008 10:46 AM

$400, $500, brush, built, buy, equipment, finish, finishing, guessing, home, paint, professionally, recommend, speakers, spend, stain, suffice, thinking, varnish, work

Replies: 11
Views: 2,632

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2008 10:40 PM; by astrid

Forum:
FINISHING

Advice for subfloor and bearers

Started by trecd, 10th January 2008 02:47 PM

.05, access, advice, appreciated, bearers, bedder, blocks, bought, crawl, fixed, floor, greatly, job, metre, professionally, pull, rotten, semi, sinking, soft, soil, space, start, story, subfloor, suggestions, sydney, tradies, usual, west

Replies: 2
Views: 1,896

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th January 2008 10:17 AM; by trecd

Forum:
FLOORING

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: 8,843

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

Forum:
PLASTERING

Jarrah slab requires finishing - help

Started by missy, 11th December 2007 05:30 PM

brisbane, business, coffee/dining, finally, finish, finished, finishing, jarrah, locate, pay, professionally, recommend, requires, ruin, slab, slice, table, trunk, wood

Replies: 0
Views: 1,584

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th December 2007 05:30 PM; by missy

Forum:
FINISHING

Brick Cladding

Started by mandyther, 20th September 2007 09:37 PM

advice, alarmed, asbestos, assume, bought, brick, built, cladding, cornice, cornices, decorative, dilemma, feature, hideous, home, house, issue, mandy, manufactured, melbourne, pattern, plaster, plastering, professionally, pull, read, silly, tested, top, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 2,597

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th September 2007 10:02 PM; by some_one

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Acrylic over enamel???

Started by mjr, 8th August 2007 06:08 PM

50s, acrylic, advice, appears, appreciated, architraves, boards, coats, elbow, enamel, fairly, flake, gloss, grease, house, job, mjr, nick, paint, peel, previous, professionally, sanding, scraping, sealer, semi, straight, suggestions, suitable, woodwork

Replies: 7
Views: 10,996

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th August 2007 04:48 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
PAINTING

Solid Floorboards: Battens or Plywood?

Started by 8803, 13th July 2007 02:26 AM

130mm, advised, base, base;, battens, choice, collecting, companies, concrete, expensive, floorboards, flooring, installed, installing, plywood, professionally, quotes, received, recommendations, recommended, remove, solid, stairs, supplied, tile, tiles, timber

Replies: 1
Views: 3,829

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th July 2007 08:07 AM; by glock40sw

Forum:
FLOORING

black marks on professionally polished floor

Started by 6weekstobaby, 11th June 2007 07:39 PM

advance, baby, bedrooms, bit, black, bleach, bothered, concerned, corinne, deal, floor, flooring, girl, house, job, marks, months, neighbor, polish, polished, polishing, pretty, professionally, question-, removed, replace, rough, spot, truth, wee

Replies: 14
Views: 2,496

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th June 2007 11:45 PM; by 6weekstobaby

Forum:
FLOORING

Gaps in floorboards - how to stop water dripping through?

Started by rhancock, 11th April 2007 03:19 PM

basically, boards, broke, dripping, drips, fill, filling, floor, floorboards, floors, future, gap, gaps, ideas, kids, measures, moment, professionally, sanded, sanding, short, spills, stop, student, temporary, term, threads, time, underneath, water

Replies: 3
Views: 1,800

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2007 04:08 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
FLOORING

Seeking Painter for Period Home

Started by ella79, 10th April 2007 12:54 PM

attention, buildup, centurys, condition, dents, details, edwardian, his/her, home, homes, melbourne, original, paint, painted, painter, painting, pays, period, plasterwork, pride, professionally, recommend, recommendations, rot, seeking, takes, tear, walls, woodwork, worth

Replies: 0
Views: 1,282

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th April 2007 12:54 PM; by ella79

Forum:
PAINTING

Lino floors and skirting boards

Started by peter_sm, 29th January 2007 10:54 PM

bathroom, board, boards, buckets, buying, concern, easier, floor, floors, guy, laid, lino, plan, professionally, putting, reasoning, recommends, run, running, seal, skirting, tiles, top, wall, walls, water

Replies: 5
Views: 6,453

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th February 2007 03:46 PM; by peter_sm

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

Dark lines on pine floor after sanding and polishing, help!

Started by rbrtoclto, 11th December 2006 12:35 PM

anymore, bedrooms, carpet, checked, cover, cut, dark, dirt, fix, floor, floorboards, floors, grime, hearts, home, lines, penetrated, pine, polished, polishing, professionally, result, sanded, sanding, seeping, shampoo, sunk, surely, underlay, visible

Replies: 1
Views: 2,248

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th December 2006 01:03 PM; by old_picker

Forum:
FINISHING

Attic dust....what to do?

Started by railman, 18th October 2006 12:37 AM

advice, advisable, attic, bunglow, californian, ceiling, cheers, completely, cornice, danger, dust, dustwhat, fall, grey, leave, matted, minimise, move, moved, original, plaster, professionally, purchased, recently, renovate, roof.while, strippping, tiled, vacumed, walls

Replies: 4
Views: 1,689

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th October 2006 01:35 AM; by woodsprite

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Kitchen from scratch.

Started by Shedhand, 12th August 2006 10:12 AM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

advance, aford, backwater, blueprints/plans, built, carcasses, cheers, confused, contemporary, doors, extension, fashion, free, freight, gday, hobart, kitchen, mades, mainland, matter, money, professionally, ready, run, scratch, sheets, spray, sydney, tools, universal

Replies: 34
Views: 12,597

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd September 2006 08:55 PM; by taswegian

Forum:
KITCHENS

Water-Based Polyurethane for Floors

Started by RenoGirl, 24th July 2006 12:13 PM

children, compared, dog, drying, due, experience, finishes, floors, hear, lack, love, low, odour, p.s, planning, polished, polyurethane, polyurethanes, professionally, quick, sanded, time, toxicity, water-based, waterbased, wooden

Replies: 7
Views: 3,333

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th July 2006 09:38 PM; by RenoGirl

Forum:
FLOORING

Tile and Grout cleaning

Started by Stu, 16th July 2005 06:21 PM

advance, cheers, cleaned, cleaning, cost, evr, grout, happy, metre, outcome, professionally, tile, tiles

Replies: 3
Views: 2,348

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th May 2006 11:22 AM; by Reno8ter

Forum:
TILING

Vanishing Finish

Started by Katz, 23rd January 2006 08:17 AM

additional, allowed, appears, application, beautiful, coats, day, dry, family, finish, flecks, floors, gloss, happened, house, left, mahogany, months, occupied, polyurethane, poor, professionally, satin, socks, suggestions, technique, traffic, vanishing, visitors, wear

Replies: 0
Views: 1,159

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd January 2006 08:17 AM; by Katz

Forum:
FINISHING

How do you drill holes in tiles without cracking them ?

Started by JDarvall, 1st December 2005 09:42 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

bit, bought, brittle, cardboard, cool, cracking, cracks, diameter, diamond, drill, drilled, drilling, dust, failing, finish, frustrating, holes, job, lightly, lined, professionally, running, solution, solve, specially, suddenly, technique, tiles, trickle, water

Replies: 17
Views: 29,993

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th December 2005 02:43 PM; by beej75

Forum:
TILING

Bathroom vanity top

Started by growl, 1st November 2005 12:56 PM

bathroom, blue, building, equipment, finish, finishes, greg, gum, including, lasting, oil, people, professionally, projects, recommend, spray, successful, suggestions, suitable, sydney, top, unit, unsure, vanity, wet

Replies: 2
Views: 1,920

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st November 2005 01:36 PM; by woodcutta

Forum:
FINISHING

Staining Red Pine - help please

Started by rose, 21st October 2005 05:46 PM

apparently, based, beautiful, colour, darker, doors, heard, ideas, makes, pine, professionally, red, spirit, stain, staining, stripped, water, wood

Replies: 4
Views: 4,365

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd October 2005 08:05 AM; by rsser

Forum:
FINISHING

Asbestos in underlay

Started by slobs22, 8th September 2005 09:16 AM

ago, asbestos, backyard, carpet, concerned, flue, found, guys, harder, layer, lino, linoleum, papery, pieces, professionally, reading, removed, ripped, stuff, tested, thicker, thin, thinking, type, underlay, underlays, underneath, walls, websites, woolen

Replies: 3
Views: 3,817

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th September 2005 12:55 AM; by Ian007

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Spray painting over melamine

Started by Arron, 26th June 2005 06:27 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

arron, avoid, bit, built, cabinets, coated, conventional, cost, edges, enamel, faced, guys, hoping, job, laundry, mdf, melamine, paint, painting, polyurethane, product, professionally, quality, routed, similar, spray, stick, suggest, suspicious, time

Replies: 18
Views: 22,643

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th June 2005 10:57 PM; by Harry72

Forum:
FINISHING

Oh! a Tooth Forsooth

Started by John Saxton, 5th September 2000 12:33 AM

address, bright, burrowed, cheers, consult, dentures, doctor, fit, forsooth, johnno, juicy, life, perfecly.may, perfectly, pockets, produced, professionally, sadly, searching, served, set, shook, steak, stranger, tooth, troubled, undertaker

Replies: 0
Views: 1,326

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th September 2000 12:33 AM; by John Saxton

Forum:
JOKES

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