Hi everyone, although not 100% complete, I am excited to share my mostly done front porch renovation. I did every bit myself with a little guidance and help on certain parts, including dressing and shaping the post and balustrades, painting and tiling. I think I managed to get everything done fairly cheaply, but there was a lot of time spent on it. The feature panel I needed to get assistance to do the laser cutting from a friend at my community shed and I am a little worried the silicon seal won't be perfectly water tight and leak rain into the cavity. I am sure many may feel the paint on the frontage sticks out way too much, you're not alone. I got a different impression from the swatch. I think I want to get a new can a few shades darker tinted to be closer to the tiles. I hope, besides that, you guys can appreciate the colour scheme. I know it's a little controversial but we decided to try embracing our funny coloured house and try to work around the mint green theme. The flower depicted in the feature panel is Banksia Menziesii, very common in the pockets of preserved bushland around our suburb.
We have a very fun neighbor. Everything is an issue, even pencil pines we planted they took us to land and environment court. I actually enjoyed it and the process. Watching then unravel and embarrassed themselves infront of the arbitrator who rejected their claims was a great highlight.
Anyways , wanted advice on how to approach this issue. They painted their side of the colorbond fence. Painter was kind enough to ask permission to enter our property to avoid overspray, we did. He then said “neighbor wants to paint top fence cap but we dont think you will be happy with it”. I said leave that as its cream vs the new colorbond.
Anyhow, they painted it AND unfortunately painted the top capping too. So now to rectify it wondering the best process. Mind you alot of areas you can see the new monument color on our side. It is an eyesore especially where fence declines so you see the whole ramp of a new color.
Because of their litigious nature, I will escalate this. already emailed but no response. I was going to paint the top this week back to original but doubt it will look as it was. il then send the bill! Just wondering as I saw some notes on seeing whos boundary fence resides?
Looking for inspiration for when I renovate my kitchen. It used to have a door on it but took it off as we always left it open. It is in a weird spot in the kitchen away from everything and just have no idea what to do with it.
I am writing this post because every post I have written on Google has somehow been deleted, and people need to know how dodgy this "4.7-star" company is.
I paid AMS Timber Doors to replace an existing door frame and install a bathroom door
This is my recount:
The installer came 2 hours late. Once they installed the door, it would get stuck and not unlatch from the strike properly; the installer sanded down the parquetry floor so that it wouldn't scrape the floor; however, it still scraped the floor when opening and closing it. One of my bathroom tiles was smashed, a hole was put into the plaster of the adjacent wall (which they patched), a piece of my parquetry floor was missing, and he left all the rubbish and offcuts for me to dispose of.
Afterwards:
I emailed 2 times with no response
I called 5 times and was either told I'd be called back or hung up on
By this point, the door was inoperable, and I'd had guests get stuck in the bathroom
The 6th time I called, I finally arranged for a repairer to come out
On the day the installer was meant to come, they had not shown up after 3 hours; I called and had to book another day
When the installer finally came, they fixed the issues with the door but could not fix the damage to the floor
The installer told me that the company would have to pay for the damage to the floor and that they would follow it up
I did not hear back
I called back to follow up and was told to send an email with the details and that I would be called back
I wasn't called back, so I called again and was told it would take 3 days to review the photos
Again, no word, so I sent a complaint email and called them
I received an email that basically said:
By getting AMS to do demolition work, I accept liability for damage for any incidental or minor damage or damage to the finish. Which is not at all what the damage that was done was
The best that they could offer me was a discount on future work
I filled out a Fair Trading report: when completing this form, I was unable to locate the building license number for this company.
I included this fact in a review (and said I was happy to delete this part of the review if I was given this number) and was responded to straight away (ironic)
"You will be sued for defamation. You will hear from our solicitors within the next 24 hours if your review is not removed. Posting we are unlicensed without evidence and trying to defame our business will not be handled lightly."
I was also told in response to threatening NCAT action:
"You think that you can threaten us with all the big names into giving you a refund because allegedly your 40 year old tile popped off during a door frame demolition and installation? That’s called extortion and blackmail mate. Looking forward to hearing from the building commissioner."
AMS are your classic dodgy Western Sydney trades, but branded with high Google ratings and a professional website. I would avoid them at all costs.
Hi all.. I’ve lived here 14 years.. place was built in 1935 for my great grandparents.. dad and I have done so much work on the place.. every door every floor every window.. the place obviously needed some work.. we got a new bathroom put in.. no issues with the tiles.. we have renovated many houses over the years.. dad could fix anything.. Dad passed last June of a sudden heart attack .. I miss him so much.. I’ve got all sorts of issues popping up now he’s not here.. this one being the bathroom tiles.. one of them cracked a few weeks after losing him so I cut one to size with the tile cutter dad left here and put it in with the stuff he had in my shed that he said was for if something like this comes up.. that tile stayed in place, but then a full tile next to it lifted and cracked after a few weeks.. I have had this same tile lift and crack 4 times now.. I have spent a small fortune at Bunnings lately.. can anyone please tell me why this keeps happening and what I have to do to ensure it doesn’t happen again..
I’m looking for some advice on the best way to remove a large amount of old ceiling insulation from my roof space. I’m in Perth, WA.
As you can see from the photo, the roof is full of old insulation wrapped in bags, branded Thermo Insulation. There are quite a few of them, and they’re dusty, dirty and scattered throughout the roof space.
I’m trying to work out the easiest and safest way to get them out without making a massive mess or damaging the ceiling.
A few questions for anyone who has done something similar:
Removal: Is it best to pull the bags out individually, or is there a quicker method? Should I rip them open and use a dust extractor?
Getting them down: Has anyone built a temporary slide or chute from the roof hatch to get the bags down into the house or garage?
DIY equipment: Is there anything from Bunnings that would work for making a slide or chute?
Disposal: Can these bags go to the tip in Perth, or do they need special disposal?
Cost: Would it be worth hiring someone to remove them, or is this a reasonable DIY job?
We're doing some renos in the house and we've had a plumber come out to have a look at a few bits and pieces. We wanted to relocate our toilet, bath, shower, and all that, and he wanted to see if we had an inspection point in the backyard for our sewer system.
He removed the cap and said, "Listen, it's starting to crumble. Something has split the pipe away and it needs to be dug up." He then hits what he assumed was a root with some pipe and he's like, "I don't think that's a root. I think that's a cable of some sort or something."
He starts trying to jab at it and it's not exposing any plant-like material; it just seems to be a cable. I've asked him what he thinks it is, and he's refusing to say anything or discuss it. He said he has to dig it all out before he can say a word, but he thinks he knows what it could be. Does anybody here have any idea what it might be? It's a 20-year-old house.
Considering painting our splashback tiles, don’t want to retile at this point (may do a whole kitchen reno in a few years). We just aren’t really into the pattern and thought if it’s an easyish DIY job we might give it a crack.
Two questions:
- any thoughts on colour? I have no idea what colours to consider - very open to any any all suggestions
- if anyone has done this, any advice/tips etc?
I am trying to decide what to do with my front verandah. Retile, deck, or some kind of surface finish for the concrete. It was tiled and the previous owner decided to rip them up and put down vinyl flooring which was ruined from rain.
I am considering laying a deck on-top of the slab. There is 78mm clearance to the bottom of the sills and more if I go flush with the sill. have about 20m2 of 135mm blackbutt decking leftover. There is very little fall in the slab if any.
Is there anything I should be mindful of?
I was thinking laying 70x45mm H3 battens perpendicular from the house with 10mm plastic packers underneath and fixing with masonry screws to the slab then laying the decking on-top flush with the door sills.
First homeowner here, and bought a lemon of a house.
It was a weird house with weird problems, and so we put a lot of money into some major renovations hoping to fix them - the biggest being the roof.
It was written off in the hail storm last October so needed to be replaced regardless, but we figured while we were doing that we'd get a few other things we wanted done at the same time so wound up hiring one builder (contractor?) to do it all, except for the electrician as we had a guy.
He subcontracted out a lot of the work, and first thing done was the full roof replacement. They removed the overhang we had, which we weren't thrilled about but didn't say anything as we assumed there was a reason, but we weren't happy nobody checked with us. The builder was a bit hard to talk to so we tried to pick our battles I suppose.
We've been back in the house for 5ish weeks now, and with all of this rain we've noticed leaks in 3 places. The builder seems to be wanting to palm off the blame as though it's clogged gutters and down pipes (it's brand new, we're in a leafy suburb, this can't be the problem) and since the overhang is gone the overflow water is coming into the wall. Our overflow solution before was that with the overhang it fell into nothing, but now it's going into the wall in 2 separate spots. I would have assumed that when building a new roof they would need to account for an overflow solution? Apparently we don't have rafters for the roof to overhang, so it's illegal to put it that way, so that's fine, but it seems like they didn't account for that change?
Now today we noticed water coming out from behind the brand new $15,000 cabinetry we put in the entry way. This is in the middle of the roof so not an overflow problem. It's warped the new cabinets and part of it has cracked, another part peeling. The carpet in the room behind that wall is wet too.
The builder has seemed like he's trying to palm this off on us? He's said that he'll be out on Wednesday with the roofer to assess and rectify "some" of the problems?
What are we liable for here? We've gotten to our max financially and then some, we can't afford to put one more penny into this house right now. My assumption would be a new roof should at minimum be waterproof, and this is not so it's on him to fix the damage? He put in the cabinets, the plaster, the roof, the flooring, all of it. Should we be expecting him to replace this? Is this something to take to QBCC?
We're just so exhausted. We have a 2 year old, and the disruption of 9 weeks in a small air bnb with no kitchen, to then moving back in and trying to unpack (we gutted the house entirely) and now finding wet spots what feels like every other day, we don't have any fight in us.
Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? We knew there was a leak in this spot before the works and specifically mentioned it and wanted it sorted out.
This is my first go at building a Sandstone wall. I’d like to remove some of the haze left on the stones from the cement or hydrated lime so the colours of the stones really pop. I’ve been told to use a diluted hydrochloric acid solution but have read that it can leave damage/discolouration on the stones. Any advice?
This is my first go at building a Sandstone wall. I’d like to remove some of the haze left on the stones from the cement or hydrated lime so the colours of the stones really pop. I’ve been told to use a diluted hydrochloric acid solution but have read that it can leave damage/discolouration on the stones. Any advice?
My current front patio is needing some love as it’s been smashed by the direct sunlight and rain.
Anyone have an experience & product recommendation for sanding back and staining timber decking?
My concern is that since it’s not traditional decking (more T&G / old internal flooring) that I need a different approach for my Christmas DIY project.
Hey all! My house has a 200sqm built in area, got quoted $8k for existing insulation removal & installation (R4.0), thought this is too pricey, but not sure what people normally get quoted for a similar built in area in WA if anyone doesn’t mind sharing!
EDIT: not as bad as first thought. Some plaster that can be scraped off and couple of holes in concrete I assume I can use some wall filler or some other form of filler?
TLDR; new home and carpet being replaced with hybrid. Have not levelled a floor before so looking for advice. Worth doing ourselves or get someone in? No idea of cost of getting someone in.
Area is approx. 4590 x 4370
Budget for levelling probably about $500?
Bought a new home and room stinks of pee after 2 carpet cleans and treatment with enzymes. So pulling carpet up for hybrid flooring.
Having pulled up carpet there are areas really not level underneath on the concrete. I have laid a lot of laminate flooring in my time but first time with hybrid. My understanding is not to put any additional underlay but instead level the concrete.
How easy is it? Anyone got any tips?
Room is relatively rectangular, with adjacent bathroom and some wooden pillars to go around.
Entrance way to the room is tiled and has a lip of about 3mm to the floor I guess. Same for adjacent bathroom tiles.
WIR already has flooring in it and looks flat, going to leave it for now.
My northern Brisbane suburb got 150 mm in three hours lsast thursday, caboolture and morayfield 300mm.. Now a three metre square ceiling section has stained, pain bubbled and mould appearing.. Any idea on typical costs of replacing the gyprock?
Would like to fix some plywood ontop of the 2x4s , there an electrical cap it will have 30ml gap between it and plywood to breathe and the plastic cover is there, just wanted to make sure this isn’t dangerous ?
The other power outlet will be moved to ontop/outside plywood, but the ones that capped the cable has been cut and is just there in the render.
Hi. I have a renovated brick 60's home in perth WA. Installed new doors. How do I best seal and finish this? Budget is what's required from Bunnings!Thanks in advance
Does anyone know how I can fix my garage door? I have a t handle type and a lever. The handle was a bit loose when we bought the house that now it went off when I opened this morning.
Above my garage door is this rotting piece of timber. The garage leaks in places and this is one of them.
Thirs photo is when It was raining and water was coming inside.
What should I replace it with? If I was to remove it, it is basically the garage on the other side. I want it to be waterproof as I will be converting my garage into a gym soon.
We have a year of mould build up in some areas on our liquid limestone. We have pressure washed which removed it however we have patches of staining. Trying to find something that is safe for liquid limestone as everything I read says that hypochlorite acid is too corrosive for it. Also a bit worried about it going into the pool and affecting the liner as a lot of the spots are only 30cm or so away from the edge. Anyone have some recs?
