Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

wageslave

lostinrates wrote: »

where have you been? How are you?

Well obviously I have been decorating. Unsuccessfully.

To everyone else...

!!!!!! is a stair ladder? I am hiring bu g ger all. The whole idea of me and a Farrow and Ball paint bucket was ECONOMY.

Why have I wooden beam bits in my hall and why did I imagine I could outdo an honest artisan?

I blame the conservative government.

Oh fu ck I have half a hallway painted and the honest artisan is going to have a field day to finish this

Heeeeeeeeeelp

wageslave

I have just read back a few pages. Jesus, you all sound like home, every one of you.

What does that say about me?

Generali

Stair ladder:

http://www.diyhowto.co.uk/projects/wallpaper-stairs.htm

Breaking your neck isn't money saving.

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I have just read back a few pages. Jesus, you all sound like home, every one of you.

What does that say about me?

that you have been gone too long.


we've all been a bit leaning towards the morose recently. And ill, everyone keeps getting ill.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

PN, if old can walk a bit, can you take a kitchen chair towards car with you so he can have a break as needed?

LOL... kitchen chair. You're such a posh lot.

I've got a plastic garden chair. That'll have to do. Have to set out early in case we need 2-3 rests down the garden.

PasturesNew

I'm not ill

I'm probably the only one here that's as fit as a fiddle .... I'm never really ill.

wageslave

I am never ill. I am a peasant, you can work us to death until we hit 60 and then we just quietly drop dead.

None of which solves the stairs problem.

I can't remember the last bloke who decorated coming with speshul equipment. To the best of my recollection all he had was a rag and a brush.

I will not be defeated by a mere ceiling with wooden bits

What fu c king function do the wooden bits fulfill BTW

wageslave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not ill

I'm probably the only one here that's as fit as a fiddle .... I'm never really ill.

You are single and healthy as a horse.

The rest kinda speaks for itself

Generali

wageslave wrote: »

I am never ill. I am a peasant, you can work us to death until we hit 60 and then we just quietly drop dead.

None of which solves the stairs problem.

I can't remember the last bloke who decorated coming with speshul equipment. To the best of my recollection all he had was a rag and a brush.

I will not be defeated by a mere ceiling with wooden bits

What fu c king function do the wooden bits fulfill BTW

They are installed at the behest of the painting and decorating industry to prevent you from painting your own home.

PasturesNew

I had a home once, new, when I walked in it had lots of wooden bits: beams supporting the upper mezzanine, window frames, window sills, stair handrail and banisters. Four completely different types and colour of wood. Somebody looked round and said "you should stain that". I didn't know about staining ... when explained, I didn't fancy it ... so the mug that suggested it stained the lot

That worked a treat pretty much.... it certainly got the four shades of wood to a stage where you didn't really notice they were all different unless you were looking hard/for faults.