Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Renovating Advice - Enclosing Rooms, adding doors. 2Aug 02, 2010 10:06 pm A carpenter who can do plastering. My OH is a carpenter and he fills in walls for me, knocks out walls, moves 'gaps' in walls etc etc and then plasters it all up again very neatly. He is an old fashioned tradie who learnt how to everything to build a house from the bottom up in his apprenticeship Re: Renovating Advice - Enclosing Rooms, adding doors. 3Aug 06, 2010 11:56 pm tracyc Hi All I have always built new houses before - but now we are looking at purchasing an established house and I need to some renovation questions answered. The house is a 10 year old brick and tile in Perth. At the front it has a formal lounge/dining area that is open to the passageway from the front door. What kind of tradie am I looking for to get walls put up to enclose it? I presume brick would be too tricky and expensive so it would be plaster board with some sort of insulation? Does this kind of alteration require council approval? Any experience or advice anyone can share. Is it very expensive? The laundry has no door, and it doesnt have the lintel thingy (yes I dont know the name) across the top, the gap is all the way up to the ceiling. How complicated is it to get that gap filled in and a door added? Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks Tracy Its always better to get guaranteed advice , councils are different the same as building codes from one coast to the other.Lucky your building in AUS where we have become good at giving people official source content to leisure over in their own time.Find info on your council and try track down their info pages. Small jobs like that dont interest alot of good builders,plasters,painters. you may have to find a handyman/builder to do it. You can really use anything you want the main consideration would be how it looks once painted/finished - or the look you want. Cabinetmakers use MDF because its cheap… 2 9978 What you are looking at is fibrous plaster, true gypsum, it is cast on horizontal beds with fibers included to give strength. I has no Asbestos in it. Houses before 1985… 2 7142 Hey, I am wanting to add a second toilet to my house, bit we have limited room. There is a hallway/entry that is never used, so was thinking this could be an option. Only… 0 4716 |