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Deck sanding advice

Started by Loki429, 6th January 2008 09:37 PM

advice, approx, bunnings, cheers, day, deck, fine, finish, grit, hard, heard, hire, hiring, individually, loki, machine, oiling, planks, reach, required, sand, sander, sanding, sandpaper, sound, sqm, start, thinking, timber, unscrew

Replies: 12
Views: 22,821

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st January 2008 09:04 PM; by oohsam

Forum:
DECKING

Replace ceiling plaster after removing cornice?

Started by Gooner, 21st January 2008 12:53 PM

advice, ceiling, cornice, cornices, glue, left, paper, plaster, plasterboard, question, removed, removing, replace, replacing, ripped, sand, situation, stuck, wall

Replies: 4
Views: 8,787

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st January 2008 07:26 PM; by Gooner

Forum:
PLASTERING

Waterproof Finish !!!!

Started by Duke_Nukem, 11th January 2008 06:08 PM

advice, applying, bees, coat, couple, finish, finished, furniture, george, high--tec, input, intented, method, nice, offer, oil, p.s, pass, protect, protection, reccomend, sea, searched, spearguns, suitability, teak, water, waterproof, wax, wood

Replies: 11
Views: 4,177

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st January 2008 01:23 AM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

Renewing gold engraving on a burr walnut panel

Started by AlisonH, 9th January 2008 04:34 PM

advice, ali, bit, boring, burr, doh, engraving, fill, found, front, gold, holes, hope, option, panel, patchy, piano, picked, polishing, pull, renewing, sconces, screw, spiffy, stripped, timbermate, top, walnut, wondering, worried

Replies: 4
Views: 1,839

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th January 2008 03:46 PM; by MacS

Forum:
FINISHING

installing floorboards (the old way)

Started by Field, 18th January 2008 10:37 AM

advice, appearance, budget, clamps, floorboards, flooring, hammer, hire, holes, install, installing, lengths, lot, means, nail, nails, oak, planned, pre-drill, process, reclaimed, run, secret, share, sorts, tas, time, tips, tools, type

Replies: 4
Views: 3,210

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th January 2008 11:54 PM; by Field

Forum:
FLOORING

safety

Started by Odean, 16th January 2008 05:30 PM

Replies: 4
Views: 2,051

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th January 2008 05:08 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

90x19 vs 145x19 merbu boards

Started by oohsam, 14th October 2007 04:25 PM

145, 145x19, 90x19, advice, boards, buy, cup, deckboards, decking, gonna, heard, hey, merbu, mind, offer, opinon, true, warp, wide

Replies: 12
Views: 3,147

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th January 2008 12:34 AM; by oohsam

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

basic deck laying question

Started by dmh, 16th January 2008 11:44 PM

advice, appreciated, basic, butted, concerned, cons, contraction, crack, cut, deck, decking, difficult, due, expansion, flush, join, joins, laying, multiple, newbie, options, overlapped, pieces, pros, question, row, screwed, split, thinner, wood

Replies: 6
Views: 4,631

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th January 2008 05:18 PM; by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Forum:
DECKING

Help with phone line needed.

Started by gregt, 16th January 2008 01:18 PM

advice, fit, forgot, house, line, needed, phone, reno, rented, socket, socketoo, urgently, wall, white, wires, wiring

Replies: 1
Views: 2,217

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th January 2008 02:13 PM; by Wood Borer

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Heritage Home? Rules of renovation. Help please.

Started by Shannon Nash, 8th January 2008 10:11 AM

add, advice, authority, bought, built, can/cant, cheers, gudday, helping, heritage, home, house, including, landscaping, listed, mate, nashy, outdoor, period, questions, renovation, rules, specialise, stuff, taking, time, tradies, victoria, wardrobes, ~1860s

Replies: 4
Views: 2,532

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 01:54 PM; by totoblue

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Polystyrene vs blueboard

Started by kyeko, 23rd December 2007 06:55 PM

addition, advice, blueboard, body, cheers, exterior, foam, guys, house, polystyrene, renovation, site, tossing, wondering

Replies: 9
Views: 7,975

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 01:32 PM; by totoblue

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Decided I should use plumber.... any advice?

Started by Gooner, 31st December 2007 04:17 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

access, advice, basin, decided, ensuite, existing, expect, floor, gutted, hand, hard, house, inline, job, left, main, melbourne, move, outer, photo, pipe, plumber, plumbers, plumbing, remain, runs, swerage, taps, toilet, wall

Replies: 18
Views: 4,414

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 11:49 PM; by Gooner

Forum:
PLUMBING

Anyone know a good House leveller

Started by kyron, 14th January 2008 09:41 PM

250, 5.2m, advice, beam, besser, blocks, brisbane, engineers, fair, good, happy, house, jobs, level, leveller, north, pfc, piece, price, priced, pricing, putting, railway, removing, restumper, seeking, sits, slopes, specs, whilst

Replies: 1
Views: 1,944

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 09:43 PM; by Waldo

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Flexi-water pipes , ok for shower plumbing?

Started by jambo000, 12th January 2008 04:58 PM

15mm, advice, bad, bore, bottle-neck, braided, bunnings, copper, flex-pipe, flexi, flexi-pipe, flexi-water, flexiwater, flow, head, hep20, installed, jim, notice, pipe, pipes, plumbing, practice, relocate, shower, stick, water

Replies: 4
Views: 4,051

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 09:27 PM; by wonderplumb

Forum:
PLUMBING

Floating vs Solid

Started by ChrisB, 13th January 2008 03:28 PM

advice, basically, bloke, buying, chipboard, chris, direct, easily, floating, floor, flooring, glue, grateful, heard, idea, lay, live, local, locals, mildura, move, plenty, rip, solid, spanner, steel, vic, wholesaler, wife, wise

Replies: 4
Views: 3,372

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 06:14 PM; by Larry McCully

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

old vinyl glued directly on to floor boards!

Started by JayD, 13th January 2008 09:18 PM

70s, advice, beautiful, boards, bought, directly, floor, flooring, glue, glued, hardwood, house, idea, left, limited, mess, mid, ripped, sticky, success, turps, ugly, vinyl

Replies: 5
Views: 2,442

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2008 09:39 PM; by DJ’s Timber

Forum:
FLOORING

Ground level near concrete slab?

Started by tripitaka888, 12th January 2008 11:42 PM

adjacent, advice, ago, amount, basically, black, block, bricks, completely, concrete, decrease, earth/dirt/gound, formed, foundation, ground, inches, kitchen/bathroom, level, longevity, moisture, plastic, raft, rebuilt, reinforcement, seep, sideways, slab, slab/waffle, standard, start

Replies: 1
Views: 2,353

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th January 2008 12:39 AM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
CONCRETING

Furniture beetle in floorboards - can I still polish them?

Started by Tony Arnold, 11th January 2008 11:39 PM

adds, advice, appreciated, beetle, boards, carpets, character, concealed, couple, damage, experience, figure, floorboards, floors, furniture, house, infestation, love, partner, people, photos, polish, polishing, polite, pulled, real, surface, understand, weatherboard, ~70

Replies: 4
Views: 2,804

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th January 2008 05:26 PM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING

Best Nail/Screw for decking?

Started by Waldo, 11th January 2008 09:37 PM

4.5mm, advice, attempt, bell, bit, decking, describe, discussion, doh, gday, hole, hoping, hour, lot, merbu, mud, nail or screw, nail/screw, pic, pilot, predrilled, remember, ring, search, shank, shrug, specific, thread, whatcha, yeah

Replies: 13
Views: 3,469

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th January 2008 02:22 PM; by Waldo

Forum:
DECKING

Advice about pavers please

Started by therockdoctor, 11th January 2008 10:35 AM

400x400mm, advance, advice, brick, buy, clayton, compacted, courtyard, domko, expect, footprint, intend, larger, laying, levelled, limestone, money, paved, paver, pavers, paving, pay, price, re-pave, replace, sandstone, sealed, sort, type, vic

Replies: 1
Views: 3,223

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th January 2008 10:00 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

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: 2,231

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

Forum:
FLOORING

Small Split System Air Con - Advice Please

Started by tcns, 30th November 2004 11:04 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

14m2, 1hp, advance, advice, air, bedroom, bought, brands, broke, change, cheap, con, deciding, degree, half, happy, mistral, money, picked, real, reality, reliability, small, spend, split, suggestions, system, tom, unit, warranty

Replies: 18
Views: 15,237

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th January 2008 12:46 AM; by Tabby

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Low Level Deck

Started by nesbit, 9th January 2008 03:34 PM

70mm, 90mm, advice, advice/sketch, bearer, boardwalk, build, buy, construction, deck, decking, finished, frame, free, ground, height, house, joists, leads, level, low, merbau, meter, offer, posts, relative, setting, size, standing, wide

Replies: 2
Views: 2,773

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 02:20 PM; by jpshea

Forum:
DECKING

Bluestone Repointing

Started by westcoast, 10th January 2008 09:21 AM

adelaide, advice, bluestone, brick, house, job, opposed, red, repoint, repointing, tips, walls, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 2,342

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th January 2008 09:21 AM; by westcoast

Forum:
CONCRETING

BSA guarantees on an owner built home

Started by tobydogger, 5th January 2008 12:26 PM

advice, appreciated, bsa, builder, built, carpenter, caveat, contract, easy, guarantees, harder, home, house, include, jobs, landscaping, major, manage, owner, painting, people, plan, plumber, project, property, sell, tiling, trades, understand, whilst

Replies: 10
Views: 2,000

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 08:01 PM; by tobydogger

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

4.5mm durasheet - ok for wet area tile?

Started by jambo000, 7th January 2008 04:42 PM

4.5mm, 45mm, advice, area, bathroom, country, diy, durasheet, jim, local, renovating, sheets, shower, store, stuff, tile, tiling, wet

Replies: 8
Views: 3,632

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th January 2008 04:40 PM; by OBBob

Forum:
TILING

To strip or not to strip...?

Started by jambo000, 7th January 2008 04:17 PM

advice, appreciated, base, bases, bathroom, concrete, cover, durasheet, existing, fit, fitting, floor, intend, jim, leaving, plasterboard, question, removed, renovating, sheeting, sheets, shower, square, straight, strip, studs, studwork, tiling, walls, wet

Replies: 3
Views: 2,547

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th January 2008 04:30 PM; by jambo000

Forum:
KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, THEATRES, etc

New Kitchen, Brisbane questions

Started by Khunaus, 6th January 2008 09:01 AM

advice, appreciated, aus, based, bench, brisbane, cabinetmaker, caesar, company, direct, experience, experiences, glass, house, incurring, install, khun, kitchen, lots, markups, mason, north, offer, pop, questions, similar, splash, stone, supply, type

Replies: 1
Views: 1,967

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th January 2008 08:45 AM; by sol381

Forum:
KITCHENS

I don' usually clean...that's what I got married for.

Started by Big Bird, 7th January 2008 10:25 PM

advice, appearence, appreciated, bits, black, bloke, chamfered, clean, cleanthat, coat, crazy, dirty, don, exposed, finish, gday, greatly, grotty, guides, idea, married, photoes, piano, post, raw, string, suggest, top, usual, yeh

Replies: 0
Views: 1,555

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 10:25 PM; by Big Bird

Forum:
FINISHING

Built a step for deck...pics (advice needed)

Started by oohsam, 20th December 2007 11:05 PM

advice, becuase, blunder, boards, built, cuts, deckpics, everytime, fix, hate, inside, joist, laid, left, lines, measurements, measuring, needed, offcuts, pic, pics, realised, slowly, step, straight, stupid, timber, upset, wasting, wondering

Replies: 10
Views: 2,849

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 07:53 PM; by AndrewPatrol

Forum:
DECKING

Split level deck with spa and pergola

Started by BustedThumbs, 7th December 2006 11:42 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

100, 16th, advice, bearers, build, coloured, december, deck, decking, easier, experience, favouring, holes, hoping, house, joists, level, life, metres, mike, nailing, pergola, planning, post, posts, predrilling, spa, split, stainless, start

Replies: 35
Views: 11,874

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th January 2008 09:18 PM; by Loki429

Forum:
DECKING

sound proofing problem

Started by jags, 9th October 2007 12:47 PM

35mm, addiquate, advice, appreciated, basis, bats, bedroom, cloths, daily, dividing, greatly, gryprock, gyprock, half, hense, option, outward, presure, problem, proofing, reduce, rob, sound, spare, styrofoam, thick, thickness, thinking, wall, wardrobes

Replies: 14
Views: 8,377

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th January 2008 10:22 PM; by brickman

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Framing Gun and Compressor Advice Needed

Started by gg23, 4th January 2008 02:28 PM

2.5hp, 90mm, advice, compressor, fire, framing, greg, gun, hand, litre, min, nails, needed, purchase, requirements

Replies: 4
Views: 1,782

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th January 2008 08:36 PM; by OBBob

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

old oak table

Started by cazdids, 17th December 2007 09:06 PM

5 Pages •: 1 2 3 4 5

acquired, advice, finishes, ideas, oak, restore, start, table

Replies: 70
Views: 8,308

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th January 2008 06:00 PM; by astrid

Forum:
FINISHING

Engineering advice needed for steel support beams

Started by kyron, 1st January 2008 11:12 AM

500mm, advice, beam, beams, besser, block, brisbane, charged, cost, engineer, engineering, house, jobs, lifted, needed, north, post, prefer, priced, reason, reasonable, reluctent, shifted, size, steel, structure, support, supporting, time

Replies: 2
Views: 2,548

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th January 2008 05:42 PM; by kyron

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

F17 vs HYSPAN

Started by gg23, 4th January 2008 09:19 AM

5mm, 90x45, 95x45, advice, appreciated, cleared, difference, engineer, extension, f17, greatly, greg, height, hyspan, installing, joists, lvl, plans, process, rated, received

Replies: 2
Views: 2,672

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th January 2008 04:54 PM; by gg23

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Advice please - toilet water level varies

Started by ljcox, 30th December 2007 01:35 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

advice, air, attached, drawing, employ, happened, house, instal, leaves, level, occasion, occasions, odd, pipe, plumber, rarely, relief, run, scale, sewer, smell, toilet, toilets, understanding, varies, water, weeks

Replies: 31
Views: 8,136

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 07:49 PM; by ljcox

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Brown bread

Started by Allan at Wallan, 3rd January 2008 07:10 PM

advice, allan, approached, baker, bloke, bread, brown, calendar, doctor, eat, hard, loaves, lord, marry, months, nineties, plenty, recommended, replied, rock, saturday, sixteen, stole, yippee

Replies: 0
Views: 1,440

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 07:10 PM; by Allan at Wallan

Forum:
JOKES

Renovating then Selling

Started by Terry Lamb, 28th December 2007 07:49 PM

advice, buying, capital, cheers, costs, decent, directiondoh, forum, growth, guys, houses, labour, lead, level, lot, mackay, moved, previous, profit, project, qld, recently, renovating, renovations, save, selling, thinking, time, tips, undertaken

Replies: 14
Views: 2,263

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 10:59 AM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Sealing Ceiling Dust & Installing Insulation

Started by learninglots, 1st January 2008 07:40 PM

advice, arrangement, batts, ceiling, continuous, cut, dust, essentially, fall, foil, future, gaps, house, installed, installing, insulation, laying, lights, lining, queenslander, renovation, required, roof, sealing, shiny, similar, spaces, thinking, time, top

Replies: 4
Views: 2,261

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 03:52 PM; by OBBob

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

90ac covered in camphor--any advice??

Started by Mathuranatha, 2nd January 2008 11:20 AM

500-600, 90%], 90ac, advice, ago], appreciated, blade, blocks, bought, buying, camphor, camphor--any, camphorany, chains, circular, covered, cutting, determine, diameter, forum, greatly, joined, matu, mill, save, saws, swing, till, trees, type

Replies: 5
Views: 2,870

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 03:00 PM; by wheelinround

Forum:
HINTS & TIPS

Roof Tile Repair Advice Needed

Started by PhoenixP, 19th December 2007 12:14 PM

2tsup, advance, advice, appreciated, attached, capping, damage, damaged, guys, house, moved, needed, noticed, pictures, products, recently, repair, repairing, replacing, repoint, roof, roofs, seal, tile, tiles, unsure

Replies: 13
Views: 5,892

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 09:19 AM; by Bloss

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Water continues flowing to air con after shutdown. Advice needed.

Started by nomad, 1st January 2008 04:05 PM

advice, air, box, cavity, checked, con, continues, definately, doubt, fan, flowing, found, head, hear, ideas, left, needed, noticed, pipe, presume, pump, quiet, quietly, roof, running, shutdown, stuck, tower, water, yesterday

Replies: 7
Views: 2,253

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st January 2008 10:28 PM; by Smurf

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Bearer span advice - HELP!!

Started by n00bie, 31st December 2007 12:16 AM

125mm, 25sqm, 300mm, 90mx90m, advice, amount, appreciated, approx, bearer, bearers, box, checking, column, decking, directly, finally, hoping, image, joist, luck, on-top, post, rendered, size, span, stirrups, tables, understanding, verandah, wooden

Replies: 2
Views: 2,635

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st January 2008 04:58 PM; by n00bie

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Floor leveling - how to?

Started by madrat, 31st December 2007 12:28 PM

96sq, added, advice, bit, claim, concrete, consistency, desperate, dips, effect, fill, floor, flooring, flow, found, instructions, lay, leveling, majorly, mixing, runny, slab, streaky, stuff, supposed, threads, top, uneven, water, wrong

Replies: 0
Views: 2,075

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st December 2007 12:28 PM; by madrat

Forum:
FLOORING

discoloured pine

Started by gnu52, 29th December 2007 09:23 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, apply, bill, btw, coat, colour, damaging, difficult, discoloured, dry, fast, finish, hand, legs, live, mahogany, narrow, oil, oiling, piece, pine, result, ring, sanded, soaked, soft, stain, tempted, uniform, wetness

Replies: 16
Views: 3,331

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st December 2007 09:07 AM; by astrid

Forum:
FINISHING

Antique Repair - Huon Pine

Started by Shedhand, 29th December 2007 01:33 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

achieve, advice, age, antique, appreciated, beautiful, cheers, colour, destroy, drawer, effort, finish, fist, front, golden, hand, happy, huon, job, love, master, neil, pic, picture, pine, polishers, repair, restorers, suggestions, syrup

Replies: 20
Views: 4,332

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st December 2007 02:06 AM; by Shedhand

Forum:
FINISHING

Heart surgery

Started by artme, 11th December 2007 06:45 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

17th, advice, andpraise, bit, bypass, depression, dispense, double, downddd, feel, greenslopes, heart, iam, monday, private, spot, surgery, ticker, top, worry, year.oo

Replies: 57
Views: 6,921

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th December 2007 12:39 PM; by Scally

Forum:
Hatches, Matches & Dispatches. Birthday greetings and other Touchie-feelie stuff.

Painting over a chipped ceiling

Started by Gooner, 4th December 2007 01:25 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, apply, appreciated, assume, attached, bondcrete, ceiling, chipped, coat, confirm, current, fill, filler, flat, heard, job, paint, painting, peel, picture, previous, prime, primer, progress, question, sand, scraper, sealer/primer, stay, step

Replies: 28
Views: 12,587

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th December 2007 10:24 PM; by Joister

Forum:
PAINTING

Building a double garage

Started by blak, 28th December 2007 10:23 PM

advice, attempt, building, cheers, double, engineer, forward, front, garage, grateful, guys, house, ideas, integrate, piered, piering, planning, plans, project, require, roof, share, sign, similar, slab, stages, steel, style, verandah, wall

Replies: 2
Views: 3,456

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th December 2007 11:13 AM; by Terrian

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

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