Before I can secure the last few deck boards, I need to build/finish the garden wall. I used Hebel blocks, which are aerated concrete. Easy to handle, can cut them with a hand saw, and join them with liquid nails. I worked out roughly where the garden was going before laying the joists, but its […]

So now the fun part starts – building stuff! I always wanted a deck. I had some of the tools (two drills, one powered, one cordless), but it was time to get a power saw as I had a lot of cutting to do with this project. Bunnings was happy to oblige with a $59 […]

After about 2 months in Council approvals, finally, the patio roof went up. I designed and had this built (by professionals, wasn’t going to DIY this one) to collect heat during the winter months. It was completed just in time for summer, so I wont know how effective it is for the winter months until […]

So, that huge stairwell needed “something”. Big art for a big space. I had some canvas left over from years ago, so it was just a trip to Bunnings to pick up some pine for the frames. The finished art was about 1.8m x 1.6m. It wasn’t until it was finished that I decided which […]

This is probably one of the easiest home DIY jobs you can get. Shower head leaking at one of the joints in the head or piping from the wall. A brand new shower head is $15ish from Stratco. I was in there today, but that will be another story. Btw, I think the same shower […]

One of the sliding glass doors appeared to be “crooked”. Either the door wasn’t level or the building wasn’t square, as there was a pretty big gap at the top of the door when it was shut, and no gap at the bottom. I couldn’t see through the gap, but it was letting cold air […]

Lots of little chips, some minor cracking and a couple of dodgy previously “repaired” plaster dings to repair first, using both render/cement filler and plaster filler depending on the cracks, but then it was into the painting. I repainted the feature wall in master bedroom to the Drifting Drab, and have started repainting all of […]

Typical cornice crack. A couple of coats of undercoat might fill them but a light application of plaster filler, a light sand, undercoat and top coat sorts them out perfectly.

So I wanted the washed timber effect on the bedside cupboards to match the bedhead but in a darker shade, so it compliments the bedhead, but doesn’t look like they are trying to be identical. The bedhead IS timber, the cupboards are melamine, I didnt want them identical, but did want them to compliment each […]

Don’t do this at home. Of course you should get a licensed electrician to do electrical repairs. Make sure any electrical appliance you are working on is of course disconnected from any power supply. Some appliances can store electricity, so again I warn, do not do this at home, take your broken electrical appliances to […]