Recent content by pietbez

Hi all, i have gone the diy rout for my kitchen cabinets. i'v constructed the cabinets with 18mm mdf and they look good. im very happy with the results. now for the finish. i started with an undercoat of white MDF primer using a spraygun. did a few coats of that and sanded it lightly to get a...

i used to use a product called sanding sealer in south africa. it is a great product that gives wood a smooth satin finish. paint or spray it onto raw wood, it dries in 10mins, then sand. repeat the process until you have the desired smoothness. it gets rid of little upright wood fibers...

ok, call me crazy, but i want to try this i want to construct a wet room but a slope is not posible how about this for a mad idea. instead of one waste, have many small ones placed where the 4 corners of the tiles meet. like in the picture. i can acces the floor from underneat via...

i had a look at the bal tanking products and its not much more expensive than epoxy so i think i will go with the trusted method :lol: as for the walls, can i use a tanking product straight onto the wall (raw plaster) or do i have to use tanked plasterboard? you see, 10mm tile plus 10mm...

well i have experiance in boat making and i know that an epoxy coat aplied to a sheet of ply will make a waterproof seal for years to come. now i wanna see if i can use this as a cheap solution to tanking a bathroom. i know the ply and epoxy will work, if the tiles stick to the epoxy then...

does anybody know if tile adhesive will stick to an epoxy resin? if so, could i coat my 18mm ply base with an epoxy resin before tiling?

i am redoing my bathroom new floors, new tiles. i am putting down 18mm ply for a base. do i fix the toilet onto the ply and cut the tiles around the base of the toilet, or can i lay the tiles first and fix the toilet onto to tiles for a neater finish?

hi i am doing my whole bathroom. as i started to strip away old tiles, some nasty plasterwork revealed itself. i romeved the loose plaster but then even some of the brickwork was so loose that i had to to remove some bricks too. now i have a solid but very bad wall. could someone...

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