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Roofs and Roofing

• Roof construction materials and types includes hip gable and skillion
• Traditional roof framing construction of house roofs in timber
• Adding a gable roof addition to a hip roof
• Finding rafter cuts and birdsmouth for a simple roof
• Roof truss for residential construction fixing help
• Ladders extensions steps cat ladders safety tips and how to use them
• Adding an hexagonal roof to an existing hip roof
• Roofing angles and setting out roofs
• A practical way to get the rafter length and rafter cuts
• Split pitched roof construction odd shaped and odd angled roofs that create bastard hips
• Roofing angles and calculations for hips and valleys
• A house extension to an L shaped hip roof
• Roof insulation and energy efficiency measures for homeowners
• A loft conversion some structural considerations
• Extending a hip roof to cover a patio veranda
• Roofing tools used in sheet metal roofing
• Details on an attic conversion or loft conversion
• Insulation foil description and fixing tips
• How to get the eave rafter length given the level width or the width of the eave sheets

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Miscellaneous Topics,

• Asbestos in old homes and buildings Fibro or FAC sheeting tips from a licensed removalist
• tips on using a string line and a plumb bob
• MDF medium density fibreboard using it, health risks and safety
• Setting out a house building project fixing profiles
• checking a laser level or a dumpy level for true
• low tech solutions in building work
• Interesting diy links that are diy and home improvement related
• This is how to get in contact with Bill for comments or questions
• Squares and squaring used in building setting out large rectangles
• The latest updates to the site
• Who Am I to Give DIY and Home Improvement Help?
• Overflow relief gully ORG what they are and why you should not alter them
• Use of a trammel and trammel heads for building work
• Sign up for my monthly "Wrinkles"newsletter. Hints and tips from a "wrinkly"
• Underpinning is a method of adding strength to sagging foundations
• It used to be "tell em nowt", but I spill the beans on trade secrets
• How to remove screws that are clogged and worn
• We respect your privacy, our privacy policy in detail.
• Cleaning concrete concrete with a pressure cleaner
• Photos of a shed collapse. Said to be in Queensland and to be 40 metres span
• Share this site with your Friends. Help me to spread the word it's easy
• Making it look better look right presenting the best visual appearance in general building work
• How long does it take to learn how to do a good job?
• hammer in a four inch nail in one swipe
• Efflorescence, what is it and how to minimise it's effects
• DIY and Home Improvement Is Easy If You Start Right It is not rocket science
• Chemical Fasteners are great for fixing lots of bolts fast and strong

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Stairs

• Stair Basics and Intro
• Stair Design
• Marking out stairs, calculations.
• Stair landings
• Stair building rules and regulations closed strings
• Timber stair details at landings
• Steel stair
• Concrete stairs
• more on Concrete stairs
• Making and using a jig for routering stair strings.

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Concrete Formwork

• Concrete stairs setting out and building formwork re-bar and pouring the concrete
• Formwork basics introduction to concrete formwork for all types of work
• Concrete formwork for suspended slabs and formwork for beams
• Formwork for raft slab on the ground
• Various types of wall formwork construction and fixing
• Concrete column formwork How to
• An overview of various types of formwork materials and systems
• Formwork for concrete stairs
• Fabric formwork for foundations slabs and columns
• Making a formwork step around the edge of a raft slab

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Concrete and Concreting

• Concrete Basics
• Placing concrete
• Concrete finishing
• Concrete curing.
• Concrete tools.
• Concrete stairs
• More on Concrete stairs
• Shotcrete Swimming Pool
• Garden shed concrete slab
• Efflorescence

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Metal Roof Sheeting

• Roof sheeting or cladding with steel sheets, types and fixing
• Flashings for sheet metal roofs design fixing and ordering
• Fixing metal roof sheeting

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Bathroom and Tiling,

• Ceramic tiles types setting out
• Bathroom renovation new bath new WC ceramic tiles how to
• Waterproofing, fixing cupboards.
• Ceramic tile tools for laying your own floor and wall tiles
• Cleaning tiles getting grout tile adhesive and other spots off ceramic tiles

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Doors and Door Construction,

• fixing door frames or door jambs and architraves
• Door basics , intro and types of doors
• batten doors construction, fixing
• tips on door repair Fixing rotten and damaged doors
• How to fix a twisted door
• Paneled doors construction
• frame and filled doors construction

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Steel Residential Construction,

• steel residential construction introduction to using steel in modern homes
• construction and design of small residential steel roofs
• Portal frame construction in industrial and residential buildings
• Introduction to steel sheds, industrial construction into residential buildings
• Steel siding or wall cladding using and fixing
• Wall flashing corner details for a steel clad shed using Trimdek profile cladding

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Cyclone or hurricane resistant home construction,

• Hurricane construction, house building methods in high wind prone areas
• Tropical building House building in tropical climates
• The first of a series of articles on modern hurricane and cyclone construction of homes

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Blogs and blog topics

• blog post bar chairs for raft slab reinforcing steel
• Fixing to steel curtain tracks etc screwed to heavy steel lintel
• Cutting in, painting and using drop sheets
• Talk and tips blog posts archive

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Electric power tools,

• Wood plunge router diy jigs for making the housing in stair stringers
• Electric demolition breaker jackhammer concrete breaking up and general excavation work
• Rotary hammer drill hints and tips on using
• Using a hand held circular saw help and tips from a pro builder
• Electric power tools for DIY and building work
• Safety and safe use of electric power tools for DIY and home improvement
• Modern screwdriver guns, mobile,cordless,and don't need mains power
• how to set planer blades simply without any jig or accessories
• Hand held woodworking sanders, types and their use
• Mitre or miter saw DIY help and tips from an old pro
• Jig saw and sabre saw tips on using don't splinter that laminate
• Using a hand planer of buzzer
• larger size electric drill slower revving and more power for DIY home improvements
• Small to medium sized electric power drills bits hole saws
• diamond tools, working with a concrete saw diamond saws cutters and grinders
• steel chop saw or cut off saw for DIY and home improvements help hint and tips
• Changing carbon brushes in small power tools
• Us in a plate joiner or a biscuit joiner photos of Lamello Top

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Trim Carpentry and Joinery,

• Deck building design construction help and tips from and old deck builder
• Trim carpentry second fix carpentry fitout work after the framing is complete
• How to make a home made miter box
• A quick and easy saw bench you can build yourself that does remarkably good work
• scribing is the art of cutting neatly around complicated shapes
• A boatbuilder's trick for scribing to complex shapes.
• Fixing skirting boards or baseboards help tips and sketches
• Deck supports A quick and easy method of supporting a low level deck
• Laying tongue and groove solid timber flooring and laminate style floating flooring
• A Waterproof deck question how to make a room under
• Timber basics a small amount of timber technology
• Using a jointer or surfacer to straighten timber
• Adding walls to decking question

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Hand Tools,

• Hand tools for building DIY and renovation work
• tips on using a string line and a plumb bob
• Using a coping saw to scribe timber cornice Scotia or crown moulding
• Hand saw choosing the right saw for the job and using it
• Hammers what sort to buy and for what jobs you use them

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Drawing for Pleasure

• drawing and sketching pen and ink tips and techniques
• A quick watercolour sketch done in a cheap sketchbook
• Vang Vieng a pen and ink wash sketch among the karst outcrops
• Raffles Hotel Singapore brought back to it's former glory
• A pen and ink sketch with a wash from the same ink
• A conte crayon sketch from Akiro Kurasawa movie Rashomon
• Khao San Road Bangkok backpacker heaven
• A Conte crayon sketch of a work by Kathe Kollwitz
• A sketch of a Hindu temple in Little India Singapore
• A Pencil sketch of a wood carving by Grinling Gibbons
• A Conte crayon sketch from the movie Notting Hill
• A charcoal sketch of an aboriginal elder on Ingres paper with white chalk highlights
• ball point sketch from Tha Tien river boat stop Bangkok

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Innovations And Inventions,

• Construction innovations and inventions in the home building field
• A simple Hook on Scaffold system that makes working at ceiling or roof height safer
• The Ezy hang door lifter is a neat device to help in hanging doors that makes it easy for one man to hold and fix heavy doors
• Zip clip tile fasteners or roofing clips one size fits all thicknesses of tiles
• The Frook temporary truss brace system makes fixing roof trusses accurate and fast
• power snips are modern sheet metal cutting and scribing at it's best
• The Panel Form building system for easy insulated concrete walls suspended slabs and floor
• The new Hip Tite starter helps to keep possums out of your roof
• The Gem expansion joint for perfect control joints in brickwork
• Quick and easy method of making steel frames without welding
• The adjustable roofing protractor simplifies marking out complicated roofs

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