I turned the water off at the mains, in order to do a quick washer change on a tap in my main bathroom. Turned the tap on to drain the…

I accidentally broke 2 tiles in the kids shower when removing the shower screen frame. I saved the two large broken pieces and they fit back nicely with just smallish…

Oh i hope i don't have to pay a plumber to come out, oherwise i would have just left it and let them do the whole thing! Hopefully the hammer…

thanks kek, this house is just a regular 80's brick 'n tile on a concrete slab The tiles in the hall outside the…

thanks heaps for the advice
I had a go at it with the stanley knife, this was scraping some of the concrete off but very slowly.…

Thankyou, i will try the stanley knife first. I thought it may be concrete but it does look like grout, its the same colour as the grout too, a kind…

I am trying to remove our old toilet to put in a new one in ensuite. The old toilet I assume was put in when the house was built in…

the vinyl tiles that are supposed to be waterproof enough for bathrooms, are they also waterproof enough to put in the floor of a shower?

What paint (brand/shade) is closest to the neutral used in this pic on the right side wall? I'd ultimately like to find one just slightly darker shade but in the…

oh forgot to mention my second choice after the deep red was a plum colour

Does anyone have pics to share of kitchens with modern dark brown cabinetry?
I am thinking of very dark brown cabinets, with steel pull handles, taupe/stone benchtop, not sure on…

how easy is this to lay? for a complete newbie with no experience at all...the actual click together part of the flooring i understand completely but I don't have a…

sorry no advice here but i also have one of those really old wall aircons and was wondering how taking it out would go ahead - i'm a bit of…

thanks for that, i have never heard of that company though - are they in WA?

I'm just wondering what the average/expected price would be for ducted evaporative air con in a smallish 4 bedroom house, 120 square metres (need about 4-5 vents only), brick and…

Hi, when measuring metres squared for a benchtop, do i measure the solid piece or subtract the cut outs (for sink and hotplates)? Just so I can get my own…

no, i'm brunette

mmm well now i can't drill into the door frame this is doing my head in! I tried normal bits and these…

mmm interesting, we have aluminium window frames, which i really don't like, prefer timber...but our front door frame and sidelight etc are timber and well worn outside - looks like…

the wall paper on the bedhead sounds cool, i am looking at making one too just hung by brackets to the wall so removable...i was going to do wadding and…

what do you think of a light grey granite / granite look alike counter? The cooking appliances will eventually be upgraded to stainless steel so that may suit? And it…

ooh i didn't even consider red, might photoshop that and see what it would look like....what colour would you do the other walls in that case? I was thinking a…

i like dark
no i really want darker cupboards, littlies + hand prints + light walls and cupboards = pain in the butt

so here is my current 1980's kitchen
oven side
sink side
yes its a walkthrough (galley?) layout, and fairly small (compared to some), and i'm on…

are they the brad point ones?
i bought an impact drill anyway, it switches from hammer drill to drill, and it worked great...took a while to do each hole but…

i'm trying to put some new curtain rod brackets up...took down verticals
my drill goes through the plaster, hits brick and stops! have tried a small bit and low speed, have…

ask for their abn and then search it on http://www.asic.gov.au/
i searched the name and found a few called omegastone, but you'd need to the abn to…

is it easy to completely remove a wood fire? The floor (tiles) looks intact underneath it, but it appears to be bolted to the wall or something. How would I…

Currently have brown tles with about a million marks and chips in them, all through the house. Want to put timber-look-laminate flooring throughout, but don't really want to chisel…

the bench top doesn't have a postformed edge, its white laminate with obvious black joins?
the cupboard doors do though, the laminate rolls right over and around like contact, but they're…