Dry Lining a Wall
Dry Lining involves applying plasterboard sheets to a masonry wall and using the face of the boards as the surface for decoration. Plasterboards are either fixed using dabs of adhesive plaster or...
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Building a Brick Pier
Building a pier into a wall not only looks good, but it also adds to the structural strength of the wall as a whole, particularly on Half-Brick Walls (walls which are only one brick thick). Half-brick...
View ArticleHow to Fit a Door Lining
Before fitting a door into an opening in a stud or brick wall, you need to fit a door lining. The door lining gives you something to firmly affix the hinges to, as well as forming a cleaner finish to...
View ArticlePainting Stripes on an Interior Wall
Having a feature or accent wall, painted or papered in a bold colour or pattern, is increasingly popular in our homes. A feature wall can bring a bold colour into a room that is not, perhaps, large...
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Tiling a Wall
Tiling a wall is one of those DIY jobs which is fairly easy for anyone to do, but more difficult to do well. Preparation, as with most DIY jobs, is the key here. If you don’t have a solid and flat base...
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Building a Retaining Wall with Railway Sleepers
If you can get hold of some old wooden railway sleepers, they are an excellent alternative to using bricks of blocks for building retaining walls for raised beds. Firstly, using reclaimed sleepers will...
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Building a Wall
Building a wall is a fairly easy task, building a wall well is a lot tougher. Bricklaying is a job that can only be mastered by practice. Building the odd wall here and there does not make you a...
View ArticleReplacing a Brick
If you live in an old brick built house, it is inevitable that at some point some of the bricks will need replacing. Assuming that the area to be replaced is not too large this is a relatively easy...
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Blocking Up Doorways in Brick Walls
When blocking up a doorway or entryway in a brick wall, it is important to make sure that the new section is tied into the existing wall. This can be done in a variety of ways, as we will show here. If...
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Planning a Solid Block Wall
There are several reasons why you may want to build a partition wall from solid blocks, rather than the potentially easier and quicker stud partition wall. Solid walls will give far greater acoustic...
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