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Stripping wooden doors/staircase/door frames-melbourne

Started by Rhonie, 6th February 2013 09:29 PM

1920s, acid, advice, ages, amount, apologies, appreciated, based, board, bought, children, dealt, doors, doors/staircase/door, frames-melbourne, framesmelbourne, hand, house, involve, lead, massive, melbourne, paint, properly, restore, staircase, stripping, takes, time, wooden

Replies: 2
Views: 2,505

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th February 2013 08:50 AM; by Horsecroft88

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RESTORATION

How to......shellac

Started by ocwmb, 1st January 2013 11:45 AM

1920s, appears, bit, detailed, direction, found, hints, oak, provide, reference, restoring, shellac, sideboard, toshellac, veneer, walnut, web

Replies: 5
Views: 1,719

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2013 10:24 PM; by ocwmb

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FINISHING

Door restoration advice please?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 13th January 2013 03:50 AM

1920s, advice, attached, bit, bunnings, buying, cracks, door, doors, entry, fill, fitting, found, front, house, paint, read, renovateforum.com, replace, reply, restoration, sand, scratch, seal, style, thread, thumbnails, tips, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 1,237

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2013 03:50 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Bubbling of veneer on tabletop

Started by Antipodes, 6th August 2012 11:52 AM

1920s, birch, brick, bubble, bubbles, bubbling, couple, days, dining, fish, flat, glue, handle, heavy, issues, pale, parallel, picture, putting, raised, re-doing, shellac, suggestions, swedish, syringing, tabletop, thinking, top, veneer, wood

Replies: 6
Views: 1,739

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th August 2012 10:21 AM; by Timbacare

Forum:
RESTORATION

Demolition

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 13th February 2012 05:10 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 3,763

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th February 2012 05:10 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Hi everyone from Moss Vale

Started by rod13, 7th January 2012 10:28 PM

1920s, antique, cottage, furniture, highlands, moss, moved, renovation, restore, restoring, smoke, southern, start, starting, sydney, vale

Replies: 4
Views: 1,266

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2012 10:02 PM; by Christos

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Flood damaged - what to do?

Started by Objet Thingy, 25th January 2011 10:59 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1920s, bed, bedroom, bit, bleach, carted, damaged, drawers, dry, flood, furniture, googled, hell, left, main, nik, oak, pieces, pile, play, project, remove, restoration, rosenstengel, rubbish, silky, solution, suite, table, wreck

Replies: 16
Views: 4,967

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th December 2011 01:09 PM; by camsaragus

Forum:
RESTORATION

authenticity ... milk paint

Started by fletty, 18th September 2010 08:43 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1920s, 1930, austalia, australian, authentic, authenticity, catches, circa, cupboard, dresser, enamels, fletty, furniture, kitchen, layout, linseed, milk, modern, nice, oak, oil, original, oxides, paint, painted, pieces, read, silky, straight, tidy

Replies: 29
Views: 6,471

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2011 05:38 PM; by Woodwould

Forum:
RESTORATION

Hiya from Bris-Venice

Started by Objet Thingy, 24th January 2011 09:10 AM

1920s, bed, bedroom, bedside, bit, brisvenice, double, drawers, furniture, googled, hiya, home, ignorance, lisa, nik, oak, partner, pieces, pile, play, prefers, remove, restoration, rosenstengel, salvagable, silky, suite, table, tallboy, wardrobe

Replies: 1
Views: 980

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th January 2011 08:55 PM; by Christos

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Wooden vase finish

Started by Wombat2, 14th June 2010 01:13 PM

1920s, blistered, bubbled, damaging, finish, inherited, mothers, picture, restore, sort, vase, wedding, wooden

Replies: 2
Views: 1,721

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th June 2010 11:53 PM; by Wombat2

Forum:
RESTORATION

Builder recommendation?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 18th February 2010 01:10 PM

1920s, builder, bungalow, californian, examples, major, preston, read, recommend, recommendation, renovateforum.com, renovation, site, start, thread, victoria

Replies: 0
Views: 1,219

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th February 2010 01:10 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

security bars or grilles for 1920's house?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 18th February 2010 02:20 AM

1920s, 20mm, aussie, bars, deciding, flyscreens, grilles, house, inside, overkill, plain, professional, read, renovateforum.com, reply, rod, security, thread, welding, windows

Replies: 0
Views: 1,126

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th February 2010 02:20 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Skirting and architraves - stripping shellac

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 17th February 2010 09:40 PM

1920s, architraves, boards, caustic, cottage, dearly, dipping, facilities, gutted, items;, killing, locate, love, newcastle, peter, re-fit, read, ready, renovateforum.com, reply, salvage, shellac, skirting, stripping, suggested, thread, time, tips

Replies: 0
Views: 1,266

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th February 2010 09:40 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Californian Bungalow posts

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 23rd August 2009 08:00 AM

1920s, brick, bricks, bungalow, californian, concrete, extent, footings, foundation, inside, involve, level, method, methods, person, pier, piers, post, posts, read, removing, renovateforum.com, renovating, roof, strapping, suggestions, thinking, thread, tie, veranda

Replies: 0
Views: 2,383

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd August 2009 08:00 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

prime before plaster?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 13th August 2009 10:30 AM

1920s, add, added, ceiling, fall, house, integrates, ken, lath, loose, match, orginal, plaster, prep-work, prime, primed, read, ready, renovateforum.com, sections, smooth, starting, texture, textured, thread, tricks

Replies: 0
Views: 1,565

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th August 2009 10:30 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Extending Plaster Board Edge

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 23rd June 2009 01:50 AM

1920s, adam, avoid, bit, board, edge, extend, extending, gap, guys, hair, horse, house, mantle, matle, patching, plaster, prefer, question, read, renovateforum.com, replace, replaced, simple, sort, suggestions, taller, thread, type, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 1,104

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd June 2009 01:50 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

hard plasterer needed

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 9th May 2009 11:30 AM

1920s, alan, bare, brick, bung, cal, fireplace, hard, involves, job, matching, melbourne, plaster, plasterer, read, recommend, rendering, renovateforum.com, thread

Replies: 0
Views: 1,299

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th May 2009 11:30 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Patching very old plaster sheet

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 16th January 2009 10:00 AM

1920s, advice, appreciated, base, caused, coat, cracks, filler, finish, house, job, late, normal, patching, philip, plaster, polly, products, read, recommeded, renovateforum.com, restumping, sheet, sheeting, sissal, techniques, thinking, thread, top, type

Replies: 0
Views: 1,544

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th January 2009 10:00 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

convert push out casement window to winder operation?

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 07:21 AM

1920s, attached, base, casement, convert, current, edge, fixed, flyscreen, inside, install, installing, juts, lock, mechanism, middle, operation, push, pushout, stay, timber, vertical, winder, window, windows

Replies: 0
Views: 2,709

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 07:21 AM; by ubeaut

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Floor sander / polisher in Sydney

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 07:03 AM

1/2, 1920s, bedroom, black, boards, bring, carpet, complicate, east, experience, expert, floorboards, happy, hope, hubby, metre, polisher, randwick, recommend, reno, rest, sander, sander/polisher, sanding, south, stain, sydney, tackling, walls, wide

Replies: 0
Views: 1,828

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 07:03 AM; by ubeaut

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Wall Insulation

Started by dongi, 25th April 2008 07:34 PM

1920s, accumulate, batts, cavities, house, info, insulate, insulation, knowledge, lathen, layers, limited, planning, plaster, stuff, tearing, vapour, wall, walls, weatherboard, weatherboards, worry, wrap

Replies: 1
Views: 1,767

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th April 2008 09:37 PM; by ausdesign

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Hip roof extension

Started by panzer88, 9th February 2008 04:49 PM

1920s, adjoining, aesthetic, alternative, brick, builder, built, completely, correct, desirable, experience, extension, financial, footprint, half, hip, home, ideas, incline, owner, rebuilding, roof, shape, skillion, slight, steve, term, terracotta, tile, view

Replies: 1
Views: 3,257

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 11:11 AM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Hardwood corner posts - house frame

Started by blak, 28th January 2008 07:57 PM

1920s, 75x95mm, ceiling, circa, corner, day, e.g, equivalent, existing, frame, hardwood, house, houses, l-shaped, lounge, modern, moving, pine, post, posts, process, roof, shown, skillion, sqaure, structural, supports

Replies: 4
Views: 1,320

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2008 09:47 AM; by blak

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Installation of Sash Window Frames

Started by pwaite, 3rd January 2008 07:07 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1920s, advice, aluminium, attached, bought, carpenter, cheers, doable, double, faux, frames, front, gratefully, hiring, house, identical, install, installation, newbie, photos, plan, pull, purchase, received, sash, suggestions, underwent, weatherboard, window, windows

Replies: 19
Views: 6,809

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2008 12:32 PM; by SilentButDeadly

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

gap between floor and skirting

Started by Damo182, 20th January 2008 04:53 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

0.5cm, 1920s, appreciated, ares, beneath, boards, carpet, coming, filler, fix, floor, gap, gaps, instances, keeping, light, mind, move, paint, polish, recently, ripped, sand, semi, skirting, sort, timber, wide

Replies: 16
Views: 5,434

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd January 2008 11:29 PM; by Make it work

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Identifying timber in an old house?

Started by MelbMan, 3rd December 2007 03:34 PM

1920s, drive, educated, flooring, framing, guess, house, identifying, john, mallee, merbau, newbie, oregon, pine, question, real, sort, timber, verandah, victoria, wondering

Replies: 2
Views: 1,991

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd December 2007 04:18 PM; by MelbMan

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

What timber is this /question re joist

Started by Francis Tan, 24th October 2007 10:12 PM

/question, 1920s, 58648, advance, bought, built, carpet, clue, damage, floor, floorboards, francis, issue, joist, lifted, or question, picture, previous, question, recently, replace, replaced, replacing, sanding, subfloor, sydney, termite, timber, told, type

Replies: 4
Views: 1,904

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th October 2007 06:35 AM; by Tools

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

tiles or steel

Started by magnet 12, 17th October 2007 10:17 AM

1920s, act, bit, builder, cheaper, clay, coast.was, colorbond, concrete, cos, forced, hail, heritage, house, insist, metal, nearby, protection, questions, re-tiled, roof, roofing, steel, storms.council, stronger, summer, tiles

Replies: 2
Views: 1,256

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th October 2007 01:57 PM; by Barry_White

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Matching old Red Cedar Skirting from 1920's

Started by Brendan, 10th May 2007 02:00 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 2,096

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th May 2007 02:46 PM; by Brendan

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Timber floor finishes

Started by scubabob, 31st March 2007 10:10 PM

1920s, boards, built, chairs, check, circa, covered, dented, finishes, floor, floorboards, heard, holiday, house, layed, lounge, marked, oak, origonal, pack, pressure, real, section, stage, stuff, tables, tassie, timber, true, wide

Replies: 0
Views: 1,615

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st March 2007 10:10 PM; by scubabob

Forum:
FLOORING

1920s doors, architraves and skirtings

Started by eddy, 28th December 2006 10:57 AM

1920s, appears, architraves, bit, brighten, doors, dull, finish, gather, glossybut, japan, knowedge, level, meho, normal, original, picture, questions, raise, removed, safe, sheen, shellac, shelllac, simple, skirtings, specific, stained, timber, unpainted

Replies: 2
Views: 2,198

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2007 12:53 PM; by Torana68

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

1920s timber floors

Started by eddy, 28th December 2006 11:11 AM

1920s, appears, black-butt, coated, cypress, denting, finish, floors, happy, harden, heard, house, jarrah, lino, maintenance, oil, original, peeks, pine, previous, regular, remainder, resist, revealed, sanded, suggestions, timber, true, tung, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 2,539

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th December 2006 08:49 PM; by Larry McCully

Forum:
FLOORING

Period Restoration

Started by LegacyGT, 26th October 2006 02:16 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1920s, built, carry, devalue, hinder, home, house, idea, increasing, match, materials, mix, moved, period, property, renovations, resources, restoration, restore/renovate, simply, stated, styles

Replies: 24
Views: 4,862

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th November 2006 10:24 PM; by mungus

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

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: 2,072

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

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

How to repair a wall that is not plumb?

Started by bobdbuilder, 24th August 2006 10:53 AM

1920s, 2.7m, battens, bedroon, brick, ceiling, cement, clarify, cornice, due, external, fix, foundation, gap, hide, house, ideas, internal, plasterboard, plumb, rebuild, render, repair, rip, timber, time, veneer, wall, walls, wondering

Replies: 8
Views: 3,807

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th August 2006 06:47 PM; by rod@plasterbrok

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Demolishing a 1920's red brick chimney

Started by redhabanero, 31st July 2006 02:03 PM

1000, 1920, 1920s, additional, attempting, brick, bricks, cheers, chimney, corner, corners, demolished, demolishing, enable, fireplace, guess, ideas, kitchen, living, lost, questions, red, shaped, similar, space, tips, triangular, weatherboard

Replies: 11
Views: 7,876

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th August 2006 08:40 AM; by masoth

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

old door frames out of whack

Started by blockhed, 27th June 2006 11:55 PM

1920s, approach, blockhed, board, bungalowhovel, condition, cut, disastrous, door, doorway, eek, entrance, extensive, fits, flooring, frame, frames, handy, have/or, install, job, mistakesbut, poor, remove, renovations, square, start, step, timber, whack

Replies: 5
Views: 1,810

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th June 2006 10:47 PM; by blockhed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

effect on noise by painting floor boards

Started by Aangelique1611, 13th June 2006 10:39 PM

1920s, 3rd, boards, bring, builders, carpet, cat, cool, curiosity, effect, floor, floorboards, future, impossible, kill, love, noise, options, paint, painting, peoples, polished, practically, prefer, purchaser, report, stage, timber, unit, weighing

Replies: 3
Views: 2,454

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th June 2006 11:47 PM; by bitingmidge

Forum:
FLOORING

What is it?

Started by ozwinner, 26th May 2006 09:52 PM

1920s, disorder, doctor, extract, home, universal

Replies: 7
Views: 1,330

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th May 2006 02:14 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Builder recommendation in Brissy?

Started by rbrtoclto, 20th April 2006 12:54 PM

1920s, appreciated, bathroom, bring, brisbanes, brissy, builder, description, gutted, helping, lacking, leads, livable, mind, months, qlder, recommendation, south, time

Replies: 1
Views: 1,392

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th April 2006 03:47 PM; by julianx

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Wood borer in an old cabinet

Started by Dave32, 21st December 2004 06:55 PM

1920s, bit, borer, borers, cabinet, chance, corner, dates, finish, holes, left, lot, mid, radio, read, reluctant, restoring, strip, treat, valve, wood, wooden

Replies: 11
Views: 3,157

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd December 2004 08:25 PM; by Sturdee

Forum:
FINISHING

renovate or rebuild

Started by jackiew, 1st November 2004 06:40 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1920s, bathroom, bedroom, block, chimney, double, entire, extension, fairly, features, freezing, front, garden, heating, home, hot, house, insulation, live, lot, orientation, rear, rebuild, renovate, single, slopes, storey, street, west, wickedly

Replies: 23
Views: 6,811

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th November 2004 08:29 AM; by seriph1

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Fireplace Surround

Started by Flats, 10th June 2004 10:14 PM

1920s, aquired, basic, bit, eastern, equipment, era, existing, fireplace, found, frame, hand, hard, jarrah, job, match, mirror, online, perth, photo, prefer, preferably, price, reasonable, skills, style, surround, timber, top, touch

Replies: 8
Views: 7,766

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th June 2004 11:25 AM; by seriph1

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

central heating / insulation

Started by jackiew, 7th April 2004 06:27 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

1920s, board, bringing, central, concertina, cooling, difference, display, ducted, electric, fitter, fitting, floors, foil, heating, house, installed, insulation, location, lot, opinions, putting, question, suggested, temperature, tempting, unit, warmth, weatherboard, worth

Replies: 31
Views: 10,471

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th May 2004 09:34 PM; by MrFixIt

Forum:
HEATING & COOLING

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