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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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JonnyBravo wrote: »That's normal. You then scrape it off and repeat. The number of coats is dependent on the layers of paint I'm afraid.
I HAVE repeated, and repeated, and repeated and repeated. My dad had a go a few times too......its just not happening there, think we are still on the first layer of paint even after all that repeating!:o The hot gun, while slow at least does something small but properly. Its not an urgent job, but its annoying to leave things unfinished. I think it will look great all as stone again....but there might be a reason they painted it!0 -
That's bizarre... I wrote that, but as my name. On my PC. And nobody else has access to my PC. Must be some bizarre system fark-up.Hmm - you are the last person I would suspect of bothering with sockies PN - is everything OK? Surely you haven't got banned?!
The other bizarre thing is that I tried to follow the links back to the original and the post seems to have been removed.
I think we can put that one down to a once-in-a-lifetime systems error.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »TBH, the whole thing seems unrealistic. And sort of distant....though I'd like to crack on with it. (this was in ref to my stable floor)
I even have thought if we put walls in first we could do floors a stable at a time as we need them...but don't know how feasible that would be either.
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Pretty realistic, I'd say, but you might have to put the foundations in a little deeper so you could dig out the floor when the time comes.
But I am not an expert, just a bodger.:DJonnyBravo wrote: »That's normal. You then scrape it off and repeat. The number of coats is dependent on the layers of paint I'm afraid.
We've bought the foil and stuff to do it, but haven't got round to it yet. Maybe someday.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I HAVE repeated, and repeated, and repeated and repeated. My dad had a go a few times too......its just not happening there, think we are still on the first layer of paint even after all that repeating!:o The hot gun, while slow at least does something small but properly. Its not an urgent job, but its annoying to leave things unfinished. I think it will look great all as stone again....but there might be a reason they painted it!
If you do scrape the paint off, what's it like underneath? I'd expect the paint to have got into the pores of the stone (in the cracks amongst the crystals), so it mightn't look really right even once you have the main part of the paint off.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I checked up on those foil things behind radiators to see if it might be worth doing for my house, but what I'm reading says it's only worth it for external walls that aren't properly insulated in the first place. So they're great if you've got solid walls or empty cavities, but don't make much difference if you've got filled cavities. Since some of my walls are filled cavities and I've had all the others insulated and dry-lined, I don't think there's much point in messing about with the foil thingies, but I would have got them otherwise. I'm sure I've lived in a house that had them, but which of a series of rented houses (plus one tied one), I can't remember.
In other news, DD has broken the hinge of the new shower screen already.
I have positioned it in the closed position, so I can still use the shower 
but it's a bit of a pain reaching round to turn the thing on without getting soaked. I've phoned the builder about it and he says he will get a more robust kind of hinge for it. Am really loving being able to have a proper standing-up shower with a decent water flow, though. It's been a long time to be stuck with the choice between bath and pathetic electric shower.
Oh, and DD has been enumerating everyone she loves and deciding who she loves best. I was just pipped to the post by the hamster, "because she's cuter, Mummy, and you're not fluffy, and you're too big for me to pick up". :rotfl:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I checked up on those foil things behind radiators to see if it might be worth doing for my house, but what I'm reading says it's only worth it for external walls that aren't properly insulated in the first place. So they're great if you've got solid walls or empty cavities, but don't make much difference if you've got filled cavities. Since some of my walls are filled cavities and I've had all the others insulated and dry-lined, I don't think there's much point in messing about with the foil thingies, but I would have got them otherwise. I'm sure I've lived in a house that had them, but which of a series of rented houses (plus one tied one), I can't remember.
In other news, DD has broken the hinge of the new shower screen already. I have positioned it in the closed position, so I can still use the shower but it's a bit of a pain reaching round to turn the thing on without getting soaked. I've phoned the builder about it and he says he will get a more robust kind of hinge for it. Am really loving being able to have a proper standing-up shower with a decent water flow, though. It's been a long time to be stuck with the choice between bath and pathetic electric shower.
Oh, and DD has been enumerating everyone she loves and deciding who she loves best. I was just pipped to the post by the hamster, "because she's cuter, Mummy, and you're not fluffy, and you're too big for me to pick up". :rotfl:
Oh dear. well, I think you are AT LEAST as cute as a hamster, if that makes you feel any better. :rotfl::rotfl:0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Oh dear. well, I think you are AT LEAST as cute as a hamster, if that makes you feel any better. :rotfl::rotfl:
Well, as long as you don't think I'm fluffier!Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
If you do scrape the paint off, what's it like underneath? I'd expect the paint to have got into the pores of the stone (in the cracks amongst the crystals), so it mightn't look really right even once you have the main part of the paint off.
Its...ok. there are little bits left, tiny dots, but in the main, the hot air gun thing lets you sort of peel it up, so it comes out of the little cracks and pores. Maybe I shoule nitro mors it at the end...but that too might dmage the stone. A light sandblast or steam clean (apparently bricks have to be steam cleaned ...but thats a long way down the line, decades).
Even spotty they'll look better...in a sort of monastic way, IMO. Not everyones taste...a bit cold and puritan.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Its...ok. there are little bits left, tiny dots, but in the main, the hot air gun thing lets you sort of peel it up, so it comes out of the little cracks and pores. Maybe I shoule nitro mors it at the end...but that too might dmage the stone. A light sandblast or steam clean (apparently bricks have to be steam cleaned ...but thats a long way down the line, decades).
Even spotty they'll look better...in a sort of monastic way, IMO. Not everyones taste...a bit cold and puritan.
What sort of building is this that you're renovating? How old?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Why would the upstairs/downstairs thing make much difference? I know hot air and hot water rise, of course,
My mother would love you, Lydia. One of her pet hates is "heat rises...."...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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