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MrsV2580
Community Newcomer
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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
Finding My Feet
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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
Finding My Feet
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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 ...

itssimon
Finding My Feet
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Hi all, I'm planning to convert an old walk-in wardrobe with a door into an open study nook. I want the study nook to feel like it's part of the roo ...

Kimbra
Finding My Feet
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  Hey everyone, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to install VJ Panelling over a brick fireplace. If it is, is there an installation guide of some ...

vish2024
Just Starting Out
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Is that a problem in future for having 1.5mm spacer for porcelain , honed and rectified, 1200×600 size tile in bedroom & living area? What can be don ...

OldSmokey
Just Starting Out
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Small bar off Lounge.Closing off old entrance. want to make new doorway through drywall in hallway. Cot out drywall on hall side encountered steel bra ...

Janar_Dhan
Getting Established
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Have these tiles in living room and kitchen. they are in very very good condition except that grout and dull look.( I think they are dirty). what ca ...

bstevens5
Just Starting Out
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  hello! I live in an old Queenslander and have just pulled out carpets in bedroom. I’m very new to anything home DIY and living rural no one is a ...

Taznz
Finding My Feet
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Hi, I have a painted villaboard walls and I’m planning to put ceramic tiles in one and thin brick in the other, Do I need to do anything to prep the w ...

MisManaged
Just Starting Out
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Hi guys, we have this odd alcove in our living/kitchen area. We are removing the fireplace as it is broken and we have r/c aircon. Any ideas on how ...

selvins
Getting Established
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Hi We recently used Peel Away to remove layers of paint from our circa 1940 home in the Blue Mountains, and have been left with small dents/scrapes i ...

Janet2
Just Starting Out
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I have a BIR which is approx. 3000mm wide but only has a hanging rod and nothing else. I would like to create a several shelves and keep some hangin ...

Mitch_1990
Finding My Feet
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Hi! I'm looking for advice for mounting a track curtain to a concrete ceiling in my unit. The building is an 80's double-brick construction with concr ...