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How to build steps to BBQ area perpendicular to slope

Started by wookiebreath, 1st April 2008 12:08 AM

area, awkward, balcony, bbq, build, cramped, door, edit, entrance, feel, feels, front, imagine, narrow, outdoor, perpendicular, photoshop, poor, rarely, removed, rework, slope, space, step, steps, struggling, suggestions, visualise, width, wook

Replies: 7
Views: 6,824

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st April 2008 12:47 AM; by wookiebreath

Forum:
STAIRS, STEPS and RAMPS

Free House Heating

Started by echnidna, 19th April 2008 10:29 PM

Replies: 7
Views: 2,505

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th April 2008 07:16 PM; by woodbe

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Installing dishwasher + plumbing

Started by Spelunx, 9th April 2008 08:55 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

2tsup, actual, advice, appreciated, bit, cabinet-making, cane, cold, cupboard, cupboards, dishwasher, drawers, drill, fill, greatly, half, hole, install, installing, jayson, kitchen-top, left-over, plug, plumbing, remove, sink, snap, space, thinking, wine-rack

Replies: 19
Views: 6,833

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th April 2008 06:10 PM; by TJAY

Forum:
PLUMBING

underfloor insulation

Started by stuey, 7th April 2008 06:50 PM

batts, bits, concertina, fiddly, fix, floor, gaps, gun, hardwood, house, insulation, joists, netting, normal, option, plenty, read, roof, silver, space, staple, underfloor, underneath, viable, void, wooden

Replies: 5
Views: 5,471

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th April 2008 07:53 PM; by Gravy258

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Can I tile over new render immediately?

Started by SkyHook, 6th April 2008 08:23 AM

advice, appealing, batons, brick, brickwork, cheers, crawl, damp, dark, existing, forum, imagine, immediately, info, leave, mark, meets, pine, render, roof, space, termites, thread, tile, tiled, tiling, villaboard, walkway, wall, waterproofed

Replies: 2
Views: 3,755

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 10:21 PM; by RPMT

Forum:
TILING

Tiling on brickwork

Started by SkyHook, 4th April 2008 09:53 PM

bathroom, batons, brick, bricks, brickwork, built, cheers, directly, en-suite, existing, extension, garage, home, limited, mark, maximise, piers, recess, shower, single, space, stick, suggestions, thin, tiled, tiling, veneer, villaboard, wall

Replies: 7
Views: 3,272

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 09:56 PM; by RPMT

Forum:
TILING

converting my loft/roof space

Started by lloydyboy, 5th April 2008 03:41 PM

,with, 4x2, advice, area.could, comply, convert, converting, floor/stairs, house, idea, involved, leading, living, lloyd, loft or roof, loft/roof, process, regs, roof, sized, space, stairs

Replies: 1
Views: 1,806

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 02:42 PM; by ausdesign

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Building Extension with Pre-Fab Wall Frames

Started by zacnelson, 3rd April 2008 08:31 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advance, build, building, company, construct, easier, experience, experiences, extension, frames, house, joists, limited, lying, mind, option, personal, pre-fab, prefab, real, recommendations, roof, slab, space, tips, trusses, variations, wall, walls, zac

Replies: 21
Views: 3,900

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th April 2008 08:18 AM; by zacnelson

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

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: 2,845

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

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

whirly birds /evap air cons

Started by jags, 27th January 2008 06:18 PM

.how, .its, /evap, air, aircons, birds, bloody, bond, colour, colourbond, cons, effect, effective, evap, finished, hot, house, live, or evap, reducing, renovating, result, rob, roof, space, temp, tiles, whirly

Replies: 10
Views: 6,260

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th March 2008 06:25 PM; by davo2310

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Staircase problem and BCA

Started by Wildman, 3rd March 2008 11:24 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1/4, 196mm, 210mm, 900mm, adjust, bca, build, council, degrees, depending, flight, inches, landing, limits, losing, lot, moving, outrageous, problem, regs, rise, rises, short, space, staircase, timber, time, top, walk, width

Replies: 25
Views: 7,420

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd March 2008 01:41 PM; by Riley

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

small deck with 90x45 bearers

Started by dub3media, 21st March 2008 04:37 PM

1500mm, 200mm, 90x45, alot, bearers, building, concrete, deck, dig, friends, ground, joists, limited, nailled, reckon, slabis, small, space, spacing, spans, top, wondering

Replies: 1
Views: 3,316

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st March 2008 05:43 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
DECKING

How to join floor joists?

Started by chromis, 12th March 2008 06:18 PM

advice, approx, boards, brick, bricks, cracked, fix, floor, floorboards, foundations, gap, gaps, join, joist, joists, leave, level, past, post, prefer, relay, remove, removed, removing, repair, replace, space, terminology, wall, width

Replies: 5
Views: 6,475

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2008 10:20 AM; by chromis

Forum:
FLOORING

My new 'old' shed

Started by OBBob, 26th February 2008 07:38 AM

60s, amount, barn, coming, cost, demolished, doors, feature, fitting, gable, garden, house, landscape, lot, materials, recyled, rest, roof, salvage, shed, similar, size, slide, sort, space, timbers, time, tin, ugly, yard

Replies: 11
Views: 2,800

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th March 2008 04:13 PM; by OBBob

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

The old saga Renovate or Rebuild

Started by neverquiteright, 6th March 2008 02:32 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

bearing, bedroom, bedrooms, block, build, building, buyers, clad, dining, drive, extension, exterior, fibro, garage, garden, house, inspection, kitchen, laundry, load, lounge, polystyrene, rebuild, render, renovate, report, roof, saga, space, wall

Replies: 17
Views: 3,383

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th March 2008 10:53 PM; by Morr1e

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

query re small channel and grate

Started by doug1, 9th March 2008 09:03 PM

80mm, changed, channel, doug, drain, grate, guys, material, preferred, pvc, query, small, space, usa, wide

Replies: 4
Views: 1,579

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th March 2008 10:24 PM; by echnidna

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Kitchen sink plumbing - space saving options

Started by ambersand, 21st February 2008 05:54 PM

bin, bins, concept, correct, cupboard, demanding, drainage, efficient, fit, found, issue, kit, kitchen, maximise, options, plumbing, plumbng, questions, redirecting, saving, sink, sort, sorts, space, system, systems, told, underneath, unrealistic, waste

Replies: 7
Views: 8,267

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2008 11:12 AM; by Sybarite

Forum:
KITCHENS

Replacing Lathe & Plaster in 1890's house

Started by ICEMAN., 1st March 2008 03:55 PM

1890, 1890s, 1900s, appears, attatched, boards, dead, expected, house, idea, inch, insulation, lathe, paper, pictured, plaster, pre, replacing, ripping, sills, solid, space, started, studding.~, tar, walls, window, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 2,082

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2008 03:42 AM; by ICEMAN.

Forum:
PLASTERING

Space b/w floor boards

Started by prof_montoya, 21st February 2008 09:11 AM

145mm, 150mm, 5mm, acceptable, b or w, b/w, baltic, boards, damaged/rotted, fixes, floor, gap, gaps, house, leave, nails, pine, polishing, pull, rest, rusted, severely, shrunk, solutions, space, stop, surrounding, thinking, wider, wood

Replies: 1
Views: 1,680

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 05:38 AM; by bnpenty

Forum:
FLOORING

Stainless steel fixings near pool

Started by OneEyedMan, 12th February 2008 01:06 PM

advice, bearers, boards, building, cheers, close, corrode, deck, enamelled, fail, fixings, gentle, gratefully, ground, hangers, joist, joists, mounting, nail/screws, newbie, peter, pool, received, running, saltwater, skew, space, stainless, steel, upto

Replies: 10
Views: 5,979

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th February 2008 04:06 PM; by Chumley

Forum:
POOLS, SPA & WATER FEATURES

Repositioning roof support (Attic Bedroom)

Started by cujo, 26th February 2008 02:03 PM

advise, appreciated, attic, bedroom, conscious, cottage, cupboard, distribution, diy, engineer, forum, happy, job, moment, nic, positioning, purchased, recently, reposition, repositioning, roof, scoured, semi-detached, similar, space, storage, support, supports, threads, weight

Replies: 4
Views: 2,014

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th February 2008 09:22 AM; by cujo

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Hinged workbench - store against wall

Started by Spencer74, 14th January 2008 10:39 PM

1200, 220, anticipation, brick, build, compromises, deep, eager, flexibility, flush, folded, free, garage, hinged, main, nicely, plans, realise, reasons, retain, similar, sit, space, store, stuff, supports, type, wall, wide, workbench

Replies: 10
Views: 8,885

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th February 2008 06:17 PM; by bricks

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Wall mounted wine rack

Started by atregent, 12th February 2008 09:41 AM

16mm, 85kg, 90mm, board, box, build, calculate, capacity, climb, finally, fine, idea, lengths, melamine, mounted, pipe, pvc, question, rack, screw, space, stacked, structural, suppose, suppot, test, wall, weigh, weighing, wine

Replies: 8
Views: 3,529

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th February 2008 04:39 PM; by atregent

Forum:
KITCHENS

Convert pantry to wine storage

Started by sammy_h, 22nd January 2008 11:44 AM

560, 60-80, 700, bottles, bottom, build, constantly, convert, cupboard, doors, double, figure, fit, fluctuation, house, insert, insulated, insulation, minimised, pantry, plan, possibly, sam, space, storage, temperature, thicker, walled, wine, wondering

Replies: 12
Views: 3,495

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 10:49 PM; by Cliff Rogers

Forum:
KITCHENS

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: 3,022

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

Forum:
PLASTERING

Old Slate Tiles in Ceiling Space

Started by prof_montoya, 11th February 2008 09:46 AM

1990s, adding, broken, ceiling, cleaning, concerned, corrugated, dust, fixing, found, front, insulation, keys, lathen, leave, left, melbourne, monty, piles, placing, plaster, replaced, roof, single, slate, space, structure, terrace, tiles, unnecessarily

Replies: 0
Views: 1,274

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 09:46 AM; by prof_montoya

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

downdraft vs rangehood

Started by Jimmy, 4th February 2008 06:14 PM

comments?d, downdraft, hood, losing, putting, range, rangehood, space, stove, thinking, wall

Replies: 10
Views: 4,922

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th February 2008 05:38 PM; by markharrison

Forum:
KITCHENS

Cooling the house on a budget - ideas please?

Started by JustAChick, 26th September 2007 11:02 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$2500, blinds, budget, build, canvas, chick, cooling, couple, final, guy, heat, house, ideas, insulation, light, long-winded, mark, months, option, outdoor, possibly, post, roof, space, split, suggestions, verandah, vistaweave, whirlybirds, winter

Replies: 24
Views: 8,364

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st February 2008 12:05 AM; by Gypsy

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Level for Foundations

Started by Chandler, 28th January 2008 09:20 PM

100, 100mm, 200, 200mm, 2400, 2400mm, 2900mm, beams, bobcat, concrete, cut, deeper, dig, excess, fill, finished, floor, footings, foundations, height, joists, level, plan, plans, slab, soil, space, thick, tidying, wall

Replies: 4
Views: 2,229

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th January 2008 07:58 PM; by Tools

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

My First Shed

Started by Geebung, 28th September 2007 02:44 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

backyard, build, circular, cut, damp, design, edge, erect, floor, flooring, frame, front, hand, happy, house, inverted, kit, pine, roof, shed, skids, space, steel, step, timber, toungue, treated, wall, weatherboard, yellow

Replies: 54
Views: 11,492

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th January 2008 04:40 PM; by Geebung

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Electrician costs

Started by Cin, 18th January 2008 12:10 PM

$350, 2-3hrs, bit, cin, costs, doori, electrician, fixing, fixtures, fluoro, front, garage, imho, install, light, process, reasonable, replace, sensor-light, single-batten, space, supply, switches, twin-batten, workshop

Replies: 6
Views: 2,671

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th January 2008 04:04 PM; by patty

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Flik Mixers lose

Started by Jimbeam, 5th January 2008 09:12 PM

benchtop, decided, flik, granite, installed, living, loose, lose, mixer, mixers, months, parents, sinkin, space, special, tight, tighten, tool, undermount, undo

Replies: 7
Views: 2,243

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th January 2008 09:24 AM; by Jimbeam

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

double lintels over large span

Started by gg23, 10th January 2008 10:00 AM

2/190x45, architects, butt, confirmation, correct, door, doors, double, drawings, fit, frame, frames, french, greg, hope, house, jamb, large, length, lintel, lintels, roof, single, space, span, studs, tight, wall, window, windows

Replies: 13
Views: 3,161

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 10:33 AM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Power point loc in kitchen

Started by Tabby, 11th January 2008 03:59 AM

amount, attached, avail, bench, complying, costs, drain, drawer, flat, guess, kitchen, loc, locaion, matter, maximise, microwave, pack, photo, plan, planing, point, power, propose, question, reduce, regs, reno, sink, space, sparkies

Replies: 7
Views: 3,579

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th January 2008 07:46 PM; by dan76

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Foil insulation for ceiling / roof - good idea?

Started by jellycan, 11th January 2008 11:16 PM

3.9, affect, appreciated, ceiling, claim, claimed, company, diy, dust, easy, experience, fill, foil, good, handle, idea, ideal, insulation, loose, material, performance, plausible, product, reflective, roof, sort, space, stuff, thinking, weight

Replies: 1
Views: 2,824

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th January 2008 09:27 PM; by Bloss

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, 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: 2,251

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

Forum:
FLOORING

Melbourne west shed meet

Started by kman-oz, 27th October 2007 11:52 PM

6 Pages •: 1 2 3 4 5 6

10am, 2008, 5th, amount, bbq, beverages, bring, date, details, dinner, food, gear, grow, huge, humble, january, lunch, meet, melbourne, midday-ish, offer, offers, provision, shed, space, suburbs, time, west, western, workshop

Replies: 79
Views: 12,997

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 09:20 PM; by scooter

Forum:
EVENTS

Exposed, free standing deck - mid construction

Started by blakhomer, 26th December 2007 01:20 PM

600mm, bearers, construction, decided, deck, decking, dry, exposed, finally, free, grips, hardwood, holes, joists, kwila, level, mid, mixed, oil, posts, reading, set, space, standing, stirrups, trees, triple, uniform, week, wood

Replies: 5
Views: 7,568

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th January 2008 11:57 AM; by BazzaDLB

Forum:
DECKING

Brackets in Breeze Blocks

Started by aussieorchid, 5th January 2008 06:58 PM

attached, blocks, bracket, brackets, breeze, brick, bricks, court, cracking, drill, excessive, install, job, orchids, outdoor, picture, shelf, space, span, special, support, wall, weight, yard

Replies: 1
Views: 1,947

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th January 2008 07:36 PM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Installing / Re-doing a shower

Started by dammit, 1st January 2008 06:44 PM

appears, bath, bathroom, coming, concrete, diy, dollars, drain, house, impossible, installing, laundry, measurements, option, plumbing, power, redoing, renovation, replaced, required, screen, shower, sits, slab, space, square, thousand, time, wall, waste

Replies: 3
Views: 3,223

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 10:52 PM; by juan

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

Your Workshops

Started by Richard Findley, 1st October 2007 02:46 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

build, cheers2tsup, elses, garden, guys, kit, moment, plan, richard, size, space, squeezed, wondered, workshop, workshops

Replies: 25
Views: 5,615

Last Post By:: Last Post: 31st December 2007 10:07 PM; by Waldo

Forum:
THE GARDEN SHED

Tile Skirting

Started by Hootsmon, 28th December 2007 09:55 PM

100mm, 300, butt, floor, folks, grout, laundry, moment, plan, skirting, slice, slices, space, tile, tiles, tiling, wall, wide, wondering

Replies: 8
Views: 4,730

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th December 2007 06:41 PM; by Hootsmon

Forum:
TILING

Stuck gate

Started by Tiger, 20th December 2007 05:39 PM

binds, bricks, cracked, create, fix, gate, hinges, hold, holding, reweld, space, stuck, thinking, top

Replies: 6
Views: 2,676

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th December 2007 10:50 AM; by Jacksin

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Ducting a portable evaporative cooler?

Started by Smurf, 14th December 2007 02:11 PM

advantage, air, avoiding, change, cooler, day, duct, ducting, evaporative, home, hot, indoor, install, installing, leave, main, portable, rain, risks, robbed, roof, running, space, strong, thinking, unit, vent, weather, windows, winds

Replies: 2
Views: 2,224

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th December 2007 08:52 PM; by Smurf

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Decki

Started by snowyskiesau, 8th December 2007 07:08 PM

Replies: 4
Views: 1,836

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th December 2007 11:26 PM; by Trav

Forum:
DECKING

Door 40mm wont fit 38mm frame space?

Started by 3Days, 2nd December 2007 05:56 PM

38mm, 39-40mm, 40mm, 42mm, changed, chisel, concerned, construction, correct, correcting, cut, door, external, fit, frame, intergrated, jamb, jamb/door-stop, method, mms, move, newbie, replace, route, space, standard, stop, stops, suggestion, thickness

Replies: 3
Views: 7,201

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd December 2007 07:16 PM; by 3Days

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Poll: What is your preferred type of insulation

Started by outback, 25th November 2007 02:48 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

brains, canvas, ceiling, collective, house, insulate, insulation, preferred, space, type

Replies: 17
Views: 3,123

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th November 2007 10:17 AM; by rod1949

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

More Disabled Parking

Started by rrich, 26th November 2007 03:49 PM

bit, disability, disabled, discussions, drive, drop, entrance, event, feel, friend, insists, irritated, issue, outback, park, parking, permit, privalege, someplace, space, spaces, taking, walk

Replies: 7
Views: 1,948

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th November 2007 06:46 PM; by ian

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Removable car stop

Started by Tiger, 24th November 2007 10:53 PM

accurate, attach, ball, car, distance, equipment, fair, fine, floor, line, liquid, machine, metal, nails, option, parker, posting, properly, quickly, rafters, removable, remove, roll, solution, space, stop, swmbo, tennis, tight, tolerance

Replies: 10
Views: 2,208

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th November 2007 11:20 PM; by Tiger

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Replacing a tiled section with iron.

Started by skrout1, 18th November 2007 08:23 PM

3.1, batterns, brought, cheers, extension, flat, gday, house, ideas, iron, pitch, pretty, renovations, replacing, roof, screw, section, sheets, skrout1, space, stage, tile, tiled, tiles, water, wide, wondering

Replies: 4
Views: 1,511

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th November 2007 10:12 PM; by bitingmidge

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

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Poll: What is your preferred type of insulation