Renovate Australia

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Entries Tagged as 'Painting'

Taking a Week Off Work to Paint

April 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I am taking this week off to paint under the house. The plastering is complete, so now it’s up to me to paint before the tiling in finished and the carpets are put in. There are four bedrooms, a hallway, an ensuite and a toilet to prepare and paint in a week. In the middle [...]

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Exterior Paint Colour Chosen for our Queenslander

November 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Since we finally completed the paint preparation on our Queenslander we are now able to start testing the paint colours. The top floor or our Queenslander has powder coated aluminium siding. Although it is possible to paint over the aluminium siding, we decided it would be best if we matched the colour from the top [...]

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How to Prepare Timber Weatherboard Cladding for Painting

November 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

When our Builder here in Townsville put the timber cladding on the house they used a heck of a lot of nails. Although the timber weatherboard cladding came pre-primed, we still had to prepare the cladding prior to painting. It was a five step process to prepare the timber cladding for painting

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