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Good tip Vernonv. I hadn't thought of keeping the tap open. nice one.

Thanks, that's exactly the advice I wanted to hear!

Cheers,

I have a 3000l Water tank which appears now that it is full to be leaking from the tap. At small triangle of wetness comes down from the tap.
The tank is poly with a brass fitting moulded into it. ...

A lot of good advice there. Thank you all very much!

Hello,

Easy question. I am building a 1m high retaining wall using trated Pine Sleepers. I recently broke up a Patio and have about 2 cubic meters of rubble, mostly about the size of a...

I'm also building one at the front on my place and will also have to be doing some hard labour with a shovel. I'm allowing for 500mm, although I think 450mm is the minimum. As you mentioned you...

Why do you recomend to install the gutter first?

Excuse the hijacking...

I'm in debate on weather or not to use Poly or Colourbond...

I'm leaning towards the colourbond but am wondering how much heavier it is than poly? The reason I ask is...

I used bits of old hardwood as I thought it would be "pre shrunk" and used pieces of Firbo for fine adjustment.

Also remember to leave doors open when you are jacking, otherwise you may find they...

Unfortunatly there is a 500mm eve, so taking the joist hangers to the wall under is not really and option. My house is basically a flat roofed shoe box design.

I'm guessing the main issue with...

Thanks for the replies, I appiriciate all comments.

The Fascia is in good nic, and I have the Pryda connectors attached to the inside rafters already and I plan to bolt every other Joist hanger...

Hi All,

I designing the roof which will cover part of my deck and am not sure how best to cater for the gutters.
The roof will attatch to the house with Joist hangers just under the house...

I have not seen any gone bad unweathered decks. My 2c worth is mainly to do with the finish of weathered Kwila. Let me explain.

I built my 40m2 deck basically in 2 halfs, the second half would...

Mr-T Pittys the fool that doesn't weather his Merbau.

Cheers, I'll do that and hope the old windows don't get too jealous...

Do a search on Merbau/Kwila bleeding, you'll soo know what its all about.
Basically Tannins within the wood seep out when the wood is exposed outdoors, they are not bad and protect the wood in its...

I Installed this window into my bathroom when I was renovating it, ripping out the Fibro and plasterboarding the Bathroom getting a good finish on the indide of the window was easy.
However I'm...

Couple more pics...
Weatered, Prepped and then 3 coats of cedar on 5 month old Kwila.

Hey Learninglots.

So far I have used Spa'n'Deck on other part of the deck and all I can say is, its a pleasure to use and looks great.
Applying it wet is awesome and sames time, being water...

Thanks for the advice guys.

The rain does not bother me so much, it great to see, but a little frustrating when rain is forcast and it never happens.
The orange concrete under the deck does not...

My deck has been weathered for about 4 months. At the weekend I did the Napisan thing 3 times and used the Spa'n'Deck prep. Just about to apply the first coat of spa'n'deck and a bloody storm came...

Thanks oohsam, I was sold 140m pre primeddoor jam, which I painted, but now has sap coming out of itin places. I'm not too fussed as I want to replace it with something that is 100mm, same as all...

Looks great oohsam, can I ask, what did you use for the handrail?

I'm looking for something that is 100mm wide and very straight for my deck.

:)

Thanks Scooter, I think I found the problem.
I bought a 60tooth Irwin blade for it for a smoother cut. Its actually all cuts have a slight curve/bow to them!

I put on the old blade and I get...

I feel daft for asking this, but here goes.:)

Whats the best tool for cutting boards? Drop saw or Circular?

Also what is the best tool for cutting a slight undercut for a tight fitting...

Thanks, I should have mentioned, the roof if Zincalume and its the walls I'm looking to paint.

Title says it all really...

I have a flat roofed single story house in Brisbane, its approx 50 years old, I have insulated the roof with batts and the walls hollow, with Villaboard on the inside...

Oh yeah, I made me 4 spacers by grabbing 5cmx5xm bit of plywood and driving a nail through it. Works really well, especially as most of the kwila I'm using is far from straight I can just drop the...

I'm using 2.8x50MM Titadeck nails and am having to pre-drill EVERY hole! if I don't they nails tend to bend about 20mm into the hardwood joist.
A couple of the Joists around the stairs are about 30...

Fat Chilli, It would seem that as long as the two are acrylic/water based you'll be okay. I'll post if I have problems...

Hi,

I'm in the process of rebuilding my deck from the ground up. I have a few quick questions that will most likley be obvious to the experianced, but my web searching skills have let me down....

What about joins where 2 boards meet above the joists?

Thanks joe

Thanks John.

Hi,

I am currently rebuilding my deck, it is a L shaped design 5mx5m which was tiled and 8mx2m whcih runs dow the rest of teh house.

The rebuild will be completly decked, but I have noticed...

I'm just about to lay my Kwila decking. A few people have told me to seal the ends where I have cut the decking, before I lay it. This seems to go against the weathering process.
Any toughts?

Hi, I am rebuilding my deck and I would like to re-use some of the joists.

They have screws in there which are completly rusted out, they were holding down cement sheeting so stick out about an...