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How to remove Kikuyu grass for garden?
I have just started putting in a native garden in my front lawn. The lawn is very well-established Kikuyu. I removed a 70x50cm rectangle of the sod with a square spade for the first plant. It was very time consuming, and looking at the rest of the lawn I’m wondering about a more efficient way to do it. I hear a…
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Do you have to use certain planks for a shelf?
I want to put a single shelf at the back of my small WC. The studs aren’t terribly far apart, and with all the floating and single shelves I have looked at, they insist on using “hidden” fixtures which mean I would have to use the preset distance between the holes in the back of the shelf. This might be a silly question,…
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Minor fixes but big improvement to my laundry
I was amazed at how a few relatively small things made a huge difference to my laundry. In the past, I’d had half of one wall removed (by licensed professionals) because it was asbestos and the plumber needed it gone. The person who redid the area with plasterboard did a pretty rough job, the work the plumber did left…
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How to prep and paint these chipboard shelves?
I got these shelves very cheap off Gumtree. They’re wonderful and sturdy, but the finish is a bit ugly. They’re just chipboard covered in a thin veneer made to look a bit like wood. The veneer is peeling off in a small area at the bottom. How do you prep this kind of furniture, and what paint would I use? I’ve never…
