by James McDonald | Jul 10, 2014 | Renovations
When you do bathrooms you need to create fall to the floor wastes. This video from DTA shows how to mix and lay a screed. It doesn’t show how to create fall or how deep the tile screed bed should be. I use tiling products from Jacoba tiles. You can go to Ceramic...
by James McDonald | Jul 10, 2014 | Renovations
Taping Top Coating
by James McDonald | Jul 24, 2012 | House and Garden, Renovations
Maitland publishes some standard drawings which may be very handy for people such as myself who are trying to get a handle on the requirements for improvements and additions to a house. To get them: Go to Maitland Councils Website Hover over Planning & Development...
by James McDonald | Jun 5, 2012 | Renovations
My wife and I are so sick of not having any storage space we have decided to put new wardrobes in both the front bedrooms. Now all I have to do is assemble the mecanno set. Shouldn’t be too difficult.
by James McDonald | Dec 30, 2011 | Renovations
Currently doing fence posts and some small concrete pads around the house so I need to self mix the concrete I keep searching for this type of thing on the internet: Here is a good example of what is required from Boral’s Site From my learnings: 1 Cement 2 Sand...
by James McDonald | Jul 4, 2010 | Renovations
A blog post from the Android Phone. We are nearing completion. Just have to install Stainless Steel Wire Balustrading from All Things Stainless (incidentally they use Joomla and VirtueMart so nice to see a bit of open source being used in a nuts and bolts style of...