onc, a classic. I'm stealing that for my signature.

doubt it. The polyurethane will dry rock hard in 7 days. It will crack, like cracking a tile, not be soft and gooey like that.
Got any more pics?

it's not because the boards are shrinking due to a change in moisture content. The flooring has been in the house for 5 months so it has had time to…

also the stupid box idea will increase the back pressure against the fan blades, so the motor will work harder, and eventually fail.

what are you trying to construct?

$250/m2

Best advice, sell the kids, divorce the wife and buy a kettle.

Wow, 3-phase water heaters and you want 3 of them. How many infantry battalions will be using your showers each day!!!
...I guess you dont mean 3-phase power.. or do…

it has nothing to do with you having steel joists. It would be the same if they were timber joists.
The electrical rough-in should have been done before you sheeted the…

right, so you put more credence in the marketing guff from the company that sells it, rather than Year 10 chemistry.
Love to read what they say....if the link…

geez, dont be a tightwad, get an architect for gods sake..you are doing this to make money arent you? Do it properly.

We do a lot of bathroom reno's.
Cut the plasterboard sheets 1200mm from the floor all the way around the room. New sheets will fit straight in. Also, it means…

Tishka, sent you a PM.

The bottom plate is short because of the base plate of the steel post. The stud should line up with the end of the plate, and another trimmer stud to…

I'd be getting an engineers report on that one.
Not within code, but has a warranty....so they give you your money back if it fails...and then what? Builder is long…

This is a very wise decision. Do it.

You could even go one step further and get an engineer to design a slab for you.
Certainly puts an…

Nev, you are not mistaken. It HAS changed.
In order to get a builders license you need to get a Cert IV qualification. The course you looked at is one…

Getting your builders license is a bit like going for a job interview.
A joke..right...????... I thought you were serious for a moment!!

There are various stages that require building inspectors to sign off that all RBP need to have done. The inspectors are responsible for the work they sign for and take…

wow, they let you build that close to the boundary in SA...the world has gone mad.
His garage is going to leak, mould, stink... It's up to him to waterproof.…

You need a builder or carpenter to look at it to see what it need to support, before you work out the beam to use. Unless you DYI, which…

Nope, cant lay over top. The carpet layers would have it pulled up in about 15 minutes. It would be quicker than them pulling up old carpet, so they shouldn't…

Simply pull up the floating floors. They are not nailed down, they "float".

I dont believe this is true. There is no way the H3 treatment can possibly effect the metallurgy of a screw or nail. "Chemshield" is just a marketing…

I dont know why you want to persist and buy the rubber boot. You dont need it. You are going to have to dig it up in a few years…

Duke, you are wrong. You are reading the span tables the wrong way(well I hope you are basing what you say on span tables). What you are trying…

$250-400/m2 for treated pine sub-floor, merbau posts to 900mm, decking, "waterfall" decking to cover the sub-floor.
People complain about the cost of decks. Dont forget you are adding a room.…

500mm to the top of the bath..so you can get into it drunk...and not to high, so you can lean in and bath the small pink critters...

Dave,
1. You can't use the carport slab to support the addition. They are only about 100mm thick. You have to look at this as though the driveway is not there.…

Nope, get the 15mm if you do it that way, but you'll still be wrong.
Best job would be to cut out the timber flooring. (Not a really hard job). Now…