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is everything possible in renos?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 27th March 2014 09:20 AM

1950s, architecture, buy, carport, ceiling, cheers, circumstance, dreams, estate, floor, front, hiring, house, martket, move, note, person, plan, price, professionals, raked, rarity, read, real, renovateforum.com, struggler, stuck, sydneys, thread, visions

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Views: 1,253

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th March 2014 09:20 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Best window lock for Double hung sash

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 13th March 2014 10:00 PM

1950s, 60-70mm, advice, bolt, double, drilling, fastener, fit, grunt, hung, inserted, job, lock, locks, meet, middle, nail, normal, pin, read, renovateforum.com, reply, sash, sashes, start, stiles, thick, thread, window, winow

Replies: 0
Views: 1,265

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th March 2014 10:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Moving walls in 1950's house

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 12th March 2014 05:30 PM

1950s, archways, brick, circle, easy/hard, expand, guessing, house, move, moving, plaster, read, renovateforum.com, semi, shap, solid, thread, walls

Replies: 0
Views: 1,436

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th March 2014 05:30 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Standard size of Australian interior door handle spindles

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 3rd September 2013 08:20 AM

1950s, 8mm, australian, buying, clump, diameter, door, googled, handle, hell, holidaying, interior, late, lived, perfect, read, renovateforum.com, reply, repro, sets, size, spindle, spindles, standard, surprise, sweden, swedes, sydney, telling, thread

Replies: 0
Views: 1,543

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd September 2013 08:20 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

G'day from Adelaide

Started by Homskie, 26th November 2012 11:36 AM

1950s, adelaide, bought, cheers, condition, drop, experiences, experts, forum, gday, home, homskie, house, involved, learn, line, lot, pretty, share, woodworking

Replies: 5
Views: 881

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th November 2012 10:41 PM; by coffenup

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Extension Plan ideas

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 27th August 2012 05:20 PM

1950s, advance, attached, bedrooms, brain, browsing, building, consult, drawings, extend, extension, family/dining, forum, hope, ideas, information, location, metres, plan, post, professional, provided, purchasing, read, recently, renovateforum.com, stage, storming, thread, thumbnails

Replies: 0
Views: 1,233

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th August 2012 05:20 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

1950s aluminium windows - keeping the handles on

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 17th August 2012 09:00 PM

1950s, 3/16, aluminium, attached, common, expect, filling, grey, handle, handles, hard, hit, hold, hole, holes, match, matches, metal, people, pretty, rawl-plugs, screw, screws, shots, slightly, thumbnails, time, window, windows, worth

Replies: 0
Views: 1,320

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th August 2012 09:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Snelling Saran chairs - lacquer?

Started by Antipodes, 5th August 2012 01:13 AM

1950s, 50s, australia, chairs, colour, cracks, crazy, design, dismantle, furniture, green, hairlines, ideas, intricate, lacquer, late, modernist, pictured, protecting, re-lacquer, recently, saran, set, slight, snelling, sort, webbing, wood, wouldve, wrong

Replies: 3
Views: 1,703

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th August 2012 11:51 AM; by Chief012

Forum:
RESTORATION

G'day from Gippsland

Started by allennj, 22nd August 2011 08:26 PM

1950s, australia, chainsaw, chainsaws, cheers, collecting, discussions, gday, gippsland, happy, neil, vintage

Replies: 4
Views: 1,196

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th August 2011 11:57 PM; by JJF

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G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Dry Rot in Sash Windows

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 28th January 2011 10:30 PM

1950s, bit, bottom, brick, cheers, double, dry, fix, level, moved, rail, read, renovateforum.com, repair, replace, reply, rot, rotten, sash, thread, timber, window, windows

Replies: 0
Views: 2,140

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th January 2011 10:30 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

young-griffo

Started by young-griffo, 29th November 2010 09:36 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 968

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th November 2010 09:08 AM; by NCArcher

Forum:
G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Removing Lino & Bitumen from Floorboards

Started by Kapetanovski, 29th August 2010 10:41 PM

1950s, approx, bitumen, chipboard, consistency, destroying, directly, feedback, floorboards, hoping, house, ideally, kitchen, laid, lino, maintain, nailed, oak, open-plan, remove, removing, renovating, restore, start, stuck, suggestions, tacked, tassie, tiles, underneath

Replies: 2
Views: 4,945

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th August 2010 11:06 PM; by Big Shed

Forum:
FINISHING

Englarging doorway in brick load bearing wall.

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 23rd May 2010 06:00 PM

1950s, adelaide, advice, awesome, beams, bearing, bit, brick, doorway, drawings, firdst, hanging, home, hope, improve, int, layout, load, perpendicular, picture, proposed, purchased, read, renovateforum.com, resting, section, structural, thread, wall, wallpaperoo

Replies: 0
Views: 2,031

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd May 2010 06:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Oak Framed Arm Chair Falling Apart

Started by tobydogger, 5th February 2010 06:09 PM

1950s, arm, armchairs, arms, body, chair, darling, falling, fathom, flapping, frame, framed, inside, leather, months, oak, past, reattach, rehupholstered, springs, strain, style, tighten, tips, traditional, trampolines, twins, untacked, webbing, wind

Replies: 1
Views: 2,302

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th February 2010 08:17 PM; by toolbagsPLUS

Forum:
UPHOLSTERY

Changing old tap washer

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 21st September 2009 11:10 AM

1950s, 60s, cap, change, changing, cover, external, flats, ideas, internal, read, renovateforum.com, seat, spindle, taking, tap, taps, thread, washer, whatsoever

Replies: 0
Views: 2,786

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st September 2009 11:10 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Restumping and asbestos plaster work - will it crack?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 13th September 2009 07:10 PM

1950s, asbestos, board-, cement, cheers, crack, house, imagine, plaster, read, realised, renovateforum.com, restumping, sheet, sheets, thread, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 1,833

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th September 2009 07:10 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Min Angle for Tiled Roof?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 7th August 2009 04:00 PM

1950s, angle, answer, assuming, built, cheers, easiest, easy, hoping, idea, imagine, measure, min, minimums, pitch, read, renovateforum.com, roof, shallow, thread, tiled, weatherboard

Replies: 0
Views: 1,265

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th August 2009 04:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Concrete under timberfloor in laundry - why?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 3rd August 2009 01:50 AM

1950s, 30cm, 30mm, approx, block, board, cement, cemented, concrete, corner, floorboards, hope, laundry, lay, post, question, read, remove, removed, renovateforum.com, renovation, screwed, slab, stupid, thread, timber, timberfloor, top, troughs

Replies: 0
Views: 1,341

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd August 2009 01:50 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Plaster or Asbestos

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 15th June 2009 05:40 PM

1950s, appears, appreciated, bathroom, bought, ceiling, cheers, clad, comment, cornice, cover, fibro, fixings, house, joins, laundry, plaster, presume, read, remainder, renovateforum.com, sheet, similar, sit, start, strips, thread, toilet, top, visible

Replies: 0
Views: 1,488

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th June 2009 05:40 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Inserting a toilet into a 1950s style bathroom.

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 4th May 2009 08:10 PM

1950s, approximately, basin, bath, bathroom, btw, complications, cost, costs, expensive, fantasic, forego, forums, ground, inserting, intersted, moment, plumbing, question, read, regular, renovateforum.com, renovations, shower, style, thinking, thread, toilet, visitor

Replies: 0
Views: 1,748

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th May 2009 08:10 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

Rangehood vent to outside. How?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 5th March 2009 04:10 PM

1950s, achieve, air, conduit, cooking, cool, easy, expelled, fairly, flexible, frying, greasy, hair, hose, meter, pan, piece, plumber, previous, rangehood, read, renovateforum.com, rented, rid, roofer, straight, tall, technician, thread, ventilation

Replies: 0
Views: 3,869

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th March 2009 04:10 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Cutting concrete with Angle Grinder?

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 07:18 AM

1950s, 500mmx, 600mm, angle, built, cheers, concrete, cost, cut, cutting, discs, grinder, guessing, house, idea, lol, measurements, option, pretty, roughtly, shed, slab, successful, thick, time, types, wet, wondering

Replies: 1
Views: 2,369

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd November 2008 04:44 PM; by les88

Forum:
CONCRETING

Flat Roof - potential problems?

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

1950s, cavity, ceiling, decent, flat, frog_hopper, house, i.e, issue, issues, kinda, leakage, line, lowish, metal, photos, potential, purchasing, roof, slope, type, water

Replies: 0
Views: 1,484

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

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Dampness problems, solutions?

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 07:10 AM

1950s, air, aluminum, bedder, built, clad, cladded, cladding, covered, dampness, difference, drill, fibro, hey, holes, house, lovely, provide, purpose, serve, similar, solutions, vents, walls, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 1,569

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 07:10 AM; by ubeaut

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

peeling paint

Started by ubeaut, 16th November 2008 06:50 AM

1950s, advice, appreciated, circa, coat, cracks, easily, fibro, fibrous, gday, house, larger, loose, movement, normal, owners, paint, picture, plaster, previous, repaint, sands, scraped, sections, skim, starting, surface, tmwu, twenty, walls

Replies: 0
Views: 1,879

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th November 2008 06:50 AM; by ubeaut

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RENOVATE FORUM RSS FEED

File Formats

Started by joe greiner, 7th April 2008 10:07 PM

1950s, antique, bastard, bet, checked, dad, damn, file, flat, formats, heard, joe, joke, label, late, lester, lesters, looked, pal, picked, rasp, rough, round, sonofabitch, story, teenagers, tool, true, visited, wood

Replies: 0
Views: 1,256

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 10:07 PM; by joe greiner

Forum:
JOKES

Vertical Nail Lamination

Started by Riggers, 27th March 2008 11:22 AM

190, 1950s, 45mm, bearer, circa, directly, drilling, drive, existing, f17, f17s, forum, guess, hardwood, integrity, laminate, laminated, lamination, leave, nail, pre, question, seasoned, sort, space, span, structural, venture, vertical, winded

Replies: 2
Views: 2,653

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th March 2008 01:37 PM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

How to level /smooth plaster walls?

Started by chromis, 11th February 2008 04:29 PM

/smooth, 1950s, advice, bumps, condition, even/smooth, level, lumps, or smooth, plaster, pretty, smooth, walls

Replies: 8
Views: 13,582

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th March 2008 04:46 PM; by chromis

Forum:
PLASTERING

Brisbane Restumping Recommendations

Started by mattius, 23rd November 2007 03:42 PM

1950s, bought, brisbane, cheers, city, concrete, floors, house, kilter, lowset, matt, properly, re-level, recommend, recommendations, restumper, restumping, set, stumps, wood

Replies: 1
Views: 3,056

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th November 2007 07:16 AM; by sol381

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

white powder in crawl space and roof space

Started by andrew29, 30th September 2007 02:05 PM

1950s, bits, brick, built, cavity, crawl, crawling, double, dusting, free, fumigating, hobart, house, idea, judging, late, move, noticed, powder, result, roof, sandblasting, sense, similar, sort, space, stuff, white, wood, worried

Replies: 10
Views: 7,028

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th October 2007 11:54 AM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

keeping ceilings of tiled roofs clean?

Started by chris718, 26th September 2007 01:57 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1950s, bite, ceiling, ceilings, cheers, chris, clean, concrete, decided, dust/pine, finally, heard, house, insulations, jaywoth, keeping, majority, needles, people, pine, rafters, roofs, sisalation, stapling, starting, tiled, tiles, underside, week, worth

Replies: 17
Views: 2,830

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th October 2007 01:27 AM; by chris718

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

sun lizard

Started by andrew29, 12th August 2007 12:37 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$2.5k, 100m2, 1950s, 4-6, abc, apparently, appreciated, aspect, brick, costs, degrees, double, hand, heater/ventilator, heating, hobart, inventors, ish, live, lizard, minimising, northerly, retrofit, solar, sun, sunny, temp, thoughts/comments, watching, week

Replies: 16
Views: 4,525

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th August 2007 08:44 PM; by andrew29

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

What type of hardwood floorboard is this??

Started by gsdavies, 19th July 2007 08:17 AM

1950s, ash, click, color, fine, finished, floorboard, floors, hardwood, helps, house, idea, larger, medium, oak, photos, rough, sand, tasmanian, type, variation, victoria, victorian, view, wood

Replies: 10
Views: 2,348

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st July 2007 02:12 PM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING

Dining Room with a difference!!!!!

Started by ptrott, 28th June 2007 10:36 PM

1950s, advice, difference, dining, forums, free, geraldine, house, link, ongoing, ouselves, phil, pics, re-located, renovations, room, set, site, tips, web, weeks.d, wife

Replies: 9
Views: 2,454

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th July 2007 12:32 AM; by ptrott

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Should I use LVL or Hardwood for my deck?

Started by LotteBum, 2nd May 2007 01:09 PM

150, 1940s, 1950s, bearer, builder, built, cheers, constructed, couple, deck, decks, draftsman, drawn, expensive, experiences, fared, feel, free, hardwood, house, inclined, lotte, lvl, opinions, pine, plans, share, sizes, told, treated

Replies: 3
Views: 7,888

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd May 2007 09:41 PM; by mic-d

Forum:
DECKING

Question. House, Insured value???.

Started by tameriska, 25th April 2007 11:33 AM

1950s, builder, ceilinged, concrete, considered, construction, contents, cost, destroyed, figure, floors, hard, house, insurance, insure, insured, low, online, plans, price, question, rebuild, service, solid, specifications, stove, thinking, timber, windows, wood

Replies: 5
Views: 1,688

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th April 2007 08:49 AM; by LuckyDuck

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Drainage

Started by Aries25au, 7th April 2007 09:39 PM

Replies: 9
Views: 2,470

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th April 2007 08:23 AM; by OBBob

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Political Rhetoric.

Started by Bleedin Thumb, 14th March 2007 06:17 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1950s, bit, chocolate, christian, clothes, deemed, election, expensive, family, ice-cream, idealised, ideologies, kids, language, not.no, persuasions, phrases, political, politicians, posting, promote, promoting, realised, rhetoric, sort, stop, turkeys, values, view, vote

Replies: 23
Views: 2,760

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th March 2007 10:13 AM; by Bleedin Thumb

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NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Fixing skirting to uneven floor

Started by Boldy, 9th February 2007 07:54 PM

1950s, access, advice, boards, coping, corner, crack, easier, entire, feel, fit, fixing, floor, house, length, mike, pack, practicing, ready, reasonable, renovating, scribe, scribes, skirting, stage, tackle, thinking, uneven, wall, wondering

Replies: 7
Views: 10,905

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th February 2007 02:37 PM; by silentC

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Old Floorboards

Started by jaffa, 8th November 2006 05:03 PM

108mm, 1950s, board, boards, damage, dining, due, edges, effect, floor, floorboards, giving, joins, laundry, masonite, normal, oak, replacing, ripped, rise, sanding, scalloped, solve, tassie, vinyl, water, weatherboard, wide

Replies: 1
Views: 1,923

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th November 2006 06:11 PM; by Tools

Forum:
FLOORING

Built-in Advice

Started by Kiz, 30th August 2006 10:58 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1950s, absolutely, access, advice, bedroom, bit, builder, built-in, built-ins, builtin, cheers, confused, country, cupboard, door, easy, hallway, handy, home, hoping, impossible, info, job, kiz, mates, sense, sort, stuff, switch, wall

Replies: 16
Views: 2,665

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd September 2006 09:59 AM; by Kiz

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Holtermann Gold nugget at Hill End

Started by Greg Ward, 21st August 2006 08:34 AM

0.0923, 1.43x0.65x0.1, 1.67, 15581, 1870s, 1950s, 442.6kg, article, articles, copied, cubic, end, errors, found, gold, greg, hill, holtermann, largest, marvellous, maths, metres, nugget, ounces, promoted, quartz, rest, tonnes, world, wrong

Replies: 5
Views: 7,452

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd August 2006 08:19 AM; by Greg Ward

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

2 part waterborne epoxy vs poly??

Started by qtecontrary, 19th April 2006 02:00 AM

1950s, 500, bit, claims, coats, concerned, epoxy, expensive, floor, left, light, mpg, offers, orangeish/yellow, original, poly, polyurethane, products, remove, residue, sanding, shellac, soap, time, times, tint, tks, waterborne, wood, yellow

Replies: 0
Views: 1,192

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th April 2006 02:00 AM; by qtecontrary

Forum:
FINISHING

Yeahhwooooo

Started by ozwinner, 17th December 2005 08:52 PM

100%, 1950s, ago, ankle, anywho, banana, broken, buying, concreters, cracked, earn, front, grade, job, likes, loud, monday, money, movies, releif, sci, son, sooooo, sore, spent, time, walking, watching, weeks, yeahhwooooo

Replies: 12
Views: 1,841

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th December 2005 10:18 AM; by Clinton1

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Paper Underlay....Contain Asbestos ?

Started by pau1, 16th August 2005 11:11 PM

1950s, asbestos, asbestoseek, cement, chances, dust, floor, green, hear, house, ideas, layer, lino, love, masonite, occured, paper, paper/cardboard, papery, polishing, process, ripped, sheeting, stuff, suddenly, tyles, type, underlay, underlaycontain, underneath

Replies: 11
Views: 9,558

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th October 2005 11:12 PM; by Trav

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Removing a dried out finish

Started by Green, 9th April 2005 01:24 PM

1950s, acquired, aka, armrests, buildup, colour, constantly, correct, dried, fingernail, finish, handled, intact, lounge, orange, original, piece, polish, polyurethane, portion, recently, removing, rosewood, scrape, sheen, situation, solution, surface, underneath

Replies: 9
Views: 2,175

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th April 2005 12:22 PM; by numbat

Forum:
FINISHING

louvre windows

Started by Beelzebub, 26th January 2005 09:14 AM

1950s, aluminium, bale, beelzebub, building, buy, coated, collective, confused, cut, dunny, easily, evrybodies, finish, fittings, glass, horny, house, lock, louvre, nice, plastic, powder, scungy, straw, trendy, usuallyfound, windows, wisdom, wot

Replies: 2
Views: 1,825

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th January 2005 09:39 AM; by jackiew

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Nitrocelullose lacquer / Shellac / Poly ??

Started by bernie01, 24th June 2004 03:02 PM

1950s, alternative, appreciated, bernie, cabinet, comments, days, estapol, fate, finished, folks, furniture, guy, handy, lacquer, nitro, nitrocelullose, poly, polyurethane, pro/cons, product, products, recommendations, repairer, shellac, spray, tempting, tinted, tweed, wollongong

Replies: 12
Views: 4,552

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th June 2004 05:22 PM; by bernie01

Forum:
FINISHING

Under floor insulation

Started by harrisonness, 7th May 2004 02:51 PM

1950s, advice/other, air, boards, brick, cavity, chill, chilly, cold, experience, floor, foot, gary, home, insulation, options, peoples, single-storey, swirling, underneath, void, winter

Replies: 13
Views: 8,933

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th May 2004 03:33 PM; by harrisonness

Forum:
FLOORING

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