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Pohutukawa firewood. Anyone know how long it takes to dry out! It's just been dropped and split. |
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Bathroom Tiling for Wet Room - What is behind tile what do we need to put up on the walls and floor before we lay the tiles, we know we should use fibre cement on floor but what do we use on walls gib or ! thanks |
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Sanding weather boards What would be the best way to sand weather boards painted in acrylic prior to painting. Existing paint is 10 years old and needs re doing. So, orbital sander, disc sander, random orbital !. Advice please, many thanks |
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Shower door repairs? I have tried google without success. Can someone please give me the name of a company that repairs shower doors! A part of the roller has broken off and I can't find a replacement. I live in South Auckland. Thanks. |
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Compost bins and. Need a smaller bin to dispose of food,fruit andvege scraps.We are on a smaller cross lease.property. Ideas ! Also Garden refuse bag . Both naturally at a reasonab,e price. |
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Cherry or cherry plum? We have a plum/cherry plum/cherry tree and we do not know exactly what it is. It fruits quite well with red fruit about the size of a very large cherry but the coulur is not the deep red I would expect from a cherry tree. Birds do eat the fruit but they d... |
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Are there any plants that flourish in sand? I have a sandpit that my grandchildren seldom play in, and am thinking of getting rid of it. It was here when I bought the house and has wooden surrounds. I could spread the sand randomly in the rest of the garden, but before I do that . are there any pla... |
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Monarch butterfly question? probably a dumb question but how long do they live for!im wondering because i wanted to know if they return to the plants they hatched from. |
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Stripping paint to bare wood and painting I would like an opinion please. I am stripping the weatherboard to barewood before painting it. The challenges I faced are a. do I strip all the weatherboard to bare wood, sand it and then paint it or b. do I do a divide an conquer approach, s |
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HELP - Why have my beetroot leaves gone limp! I planted some beetroot yesterday, I gave them plenty of water after planting them but today they are looking limp, what could be the problem please! Cheers! |
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Plant ID No. 3. please cherry plumb! |
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Stopping cats crap in gardens easiest cheapest solution please - getting fed up of bloody cat crap each time i try to sift through soil ready to plant next lot of veggies |
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Lawn weed what is it? Pennyroyal! |
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Mould removal from nylon webbing please? The fabric of a sand chair that has been garaged is liberally coated with mould. How can I clean it off without damaging the nylon webbing over the frame! I posted this in tips/help/troubleshooting but so far no joy.TIA |
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Building in chch im considering building in chch - can anyone give me an idea of what it would cost to build a 4bdrm 2bthrm dbl garage home! i realise it would depend on how fancy - but i have no idea at all where it would even start from! Im thinking id use a company lik... |
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Another cherry tree question. Are they meant to have cherries! |
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Grafting plum My ancient very dark red plum tree has lost a branch.Is there anyone around who would like to rescue a couple of twigs, graft them onto another tree, keep a couple of them and give me two!I would love for a nice person to clone another plum for me.I have ... |
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Pumpkin help anybody ? Both my plants look good, and are huge plants, covering plenty of ground. But. If the flowers don't drop off before developing into anything, the baby pumpkins go yellow and drop. (at about the size of small egg). Why oh why co |
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Storing an unused fridge / freezer ? Any fridge service people know if it is feasible to keep a summer drinks fridge / freezer in good running condition by running it occasionally over the months it is not in use! If so how often would it need to be run and for how long! Does it need to get ... |
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Is my hoya dying? The leaves are looking starting to look shrivelled and some are yellow and dropping off. I know hoya don't like being overwatered and prefer to be pot boundbut it has been pretty robust the past fifty years, (it was my MIL's) and I really don'... |
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Roofing materials? Quotes to re:ROOF FLAT ROOF less tha 3 degrees. Whether to use galvanised with zincalume or coloursteel or what is the difference! |
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Black Flowers Random question of the night. I know that there isn't really a true Black Flower as such, most are a dark red/chocolate/burgundy etc colour. But any that are relatively easy to grow and do grow well in NZ Conditions and able to get! Don't really s... |
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Best multipurpose sanding tool for woman? Hi, I'm going to start renovating my house, and although I have had some experience before in sanding back paint on walls and on window frames, I now don't have access to the sanders we used.Which wouldbe a good brand of sander for me to pur |
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Tiny winged bugs under leaves on tomato plants and leaves looking droopy and dyhydrated.Any one know what this might be,could it be the tiny white fly!Looking for natural remedy to fix it, would dish liquid watered down in spray bottle do it!If so how much dish liquid to water do I mix.Any advice apprecia... |
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Painting Kitchen Walls. Have just had friend over & was saying that I was thinking of painting a feature wall in my kitchen and she said that you must paint the window sills and the window frames on that wallthe same colour as the feature wall. I never asked the reason why s... |
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