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AshG
Just Starting Out
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Hi team, I have just removed the mantle and old texture coating on my 1920s fireplace. I need to sand it, patch and smooth. A few questions:What grit ...

Natalie4
Finding My Feet
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What is preferable to install a 12 mm thick Classic water resist Laminate or a 7.5 mm thick Hybrid in living and bedroom. Pros and cons.

dstanley
Getting Established
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Hi there, We have had a new skylight installed in our apartment, complete with open skylight shaft. I need to paint the new skylight shaft as well a ...

oscar_
Finding My Feet
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Hello, long time viewer first time poster. Appreciate any help and advice! My gf and I made this book shelf that we are very proud of. Our intention i ...

szy
Finding My Feet
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Hi there I was hoping to get some advice as to how to remove this built in bookshelf and mirror with as little damage as possible to the walls. They ...

Dan11
Finding My Feet
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Hi, I am looking to install curtain rods to a hebel wall. I’d expect with the curtains I would need 20kg of support. Rod length will be 220cm with t ...

androidhaig
Getting Established
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We're in an old apartment built in the 70s and there's a strange fireplace/mantel that doesn't actually work. I can't tell if it's been bricked up or ...

shumm
Growing in Experience
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    Hi team, any advise on how to conceal this gap please? It’s wider (~2.5 cm) on top and tapers to around 1 cm at the bottom. Someone advised alum ...

Jimi
Making a Splash
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Making complete use of the back room to a functional office space for my wife and I. To get everything custom built I provided measurements to a fr ...

nila
Finding My Feet
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Hi I had damage occur to a bedroom wall as some water came through a window. The window has now been fixed so I’d like to restore the wall. The water ...

mahabalesh
Just Starting Out
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Hi, I am planning to do the wall panel design like the attached photo. I am using 60mm X 11mm MDF boards(https://www.bunnings.com.au/66-x-11mm-5-4m-m ...

MrsV2580
Just Starting Out
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Hi - we recently bought a single brick house about 35 years old. Each built in wardrobe and cupboard has large gaps on the inside between the gyprock ...

Mark270481
Growing in Experience
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Hello my helpful and awesome community ..need your help yet again …so looking to paint a wall in the living area but the the way the previous owners d ...

TamsenCB
Just Starting Out
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I want change the colour of the ceiling beams in my downstairs rumpus room. They are currently painted brown - and i would like to paint them white - ...

JoshKing
Finding My Feet
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Hello all, have this paint peeling off from the hall way/living area ceiling. The house is from the 70s and the bedrooms' ceilings are just fine. The ...

RenoLiz
Getting Established
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Hi team I've got a horrible (for me, you might like it) fireplace surround that was added at some point to a 1951 fireplace. I'll be demo-ing it in ...

Olivia22
Just Starting Out
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Hi I’m looking to remove the old steel frame on our wardrobes inside one of our bedrooms. I don’t know how these come together or how they come apart ...

LadyHawke
Just Starting Out
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I've got a really ugly internal brick wall I'd like to modernise using timber planks. I thought the easiest/cheapest way to achieve the look I'm after ...

christopherbmas
Getting Established
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I removed the vermiculite ceiling in my bedroom in this 1980’s apartment. Wow what a job… probably 500kgs of plasterboard, wire and cement removed. In ...

Sandirose
Just Starting Out
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  Hi all, I have slate flooring in my lounge room. It is a sunken lounge so there are no doors or windows to worry about. I want to put floor levelle ...

theDIYedit
Making a Splash
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I would like to share my recent project - I am so happy with how it turned out, despite my husband (Lee) and I not doing anything like this before! It ...

GeoBob
Just Starting Out
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Hello. I am planning to replace the hinged doors on bedroom built-in wardrobes with sliding doors. Bunnings sell Cordroy track units and Hume Smartrob ...

antothom
Getting Established
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hkjoshi
Just Starting Out
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We have an open study room in the corridor between front door (house entrance) and the kitchen / living areas. currently we are unable to use the stud ...