Daydream fund challenge part 4

lostinrates

I think that's wonderful. I'd probably want the belts all in one direction though, like planks.

I've always loved leather floors but never seen one like that.


What's cleaning it like though?

phoebe1989seb

Clever Kiwi (who btw, looks very much like our Australian Labradoodle Zetti ) Our two are refusing to budge from the warm kitchen atm - it's horrid here and hasn't stopped raining since late afternoon - and despite our usually shaggy SWD looking very much like a hunting dog since she was shorn this week, she's never managed to catch anything yet....bless her!

I think we *might* be going to that vintage fair in Salisbury LIR and Alfie, so may see you there depending on where we are with our move (as 14th was s'posed to be the date for exchange). However this is looking rather unlikely now as we're still waiting for the searches to come back, as is our buyer We would have been selling at the fair but don't think we'll have the time to sort through the piles of *stuff* that we've accumulated in our storage unit and are planning to leave it there when the move happens and come back for it in the New Year.....

Sorry LIR, I meant to say we're not staying in this area, no - we're heading off to the Midlands

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LIR that's what hubby said re- cleaning and how it would wear etc..


if you google leather belt flooring in google images. you will see all diff ways they have done it..


I was thinking of having a go at making a leather belt mat, do don't know if I need to use hessian backing or a very thing ply board, and glue them on..


maybe I need to google how to do it lol..


edit..


LIR just found this...


bit pricey lol
but looks good, if you click on the picture, it will become larger
http://www.branchhome.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=278&z#.VFvplJUqWP8


some other ideas
http://www.architectureartdesigns.com/18-diy-cool-ideas-how-to-reuse-your-old-belts/

lostinrates

I love it laid all in one direction, much nicer.

From what I understand about leather flooring its not all that durable. It might be better as a bedroom floor finish? And sitting room? Some where with no direct access to outside anyway....


In USA there is a cleaning product called Murphy's oil. Its good for wood floors and leather. There must be something similar here? I can't think of a saddlery product that would be easy to apply.

The trick with leather is you don't really want to get it wet more than you have to. A floor polisher and a balmy wax?

Better_Days

alfie_1 wrote: »

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Looks pretty nifty - good reviews on the Tesco site. Also if you have any problems I've found Tesco to have very good CS.

'orrible weather here today, wet and windy. Not as cold as yesterday though. Chickens looking very bedraggled, they hate the rain and hunker down under the little shelter that Mr BD built for them.

Toilet in cloakroom started leaking again after plumber 'fixed' it. :mad::mad: Luckily the leak isn't too bad, so we can wait until he returns on Monday.

Mr BD's head now too big for the Theatre Royal, they got a standing ovation last night for the third night of JC Superstar :D

phoebe1989seb when my searches were delayed I just rung up the LA and asked very nicely if they would expidite them, and the lady agreed with no fuss what soever to treat the search as urgent, and they were done quickly. Maybe worth a phone call if that is all that is holding things up.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,
what a night again, really heavy rain...mild though..


not much to say really, except, busy with work, animals etc and the dark nights are really interfering with what we can do now...


going to light a proper fire today in house1 to air it out, even though its not cold at mo, its so wet and damp...

Davesnave

Better_Days wrote: »

Mr BD's head now too big for the Theatre Royal, they got a standing ovation last night for the third night of JC Superstar :D .

Well done Mr BD! :T

If we get them standing at the end of our Panto, it's probably because our metal chairs are so uncomfortable! :rotfl:

Norra lot going on here in a building/gardening sense, but we have been shifting stuff from one end of the house to t'other, ready for a change of focus to more indoorish work. The big problem yesterday was my headtecher's desk, 1953 vintage, which ' just' went through the end external door in 2009, but needed its top removed to get past the new porch.

Now Dave's man-cave is no longer a kitchen, it's rapidly filled up with stuff from elsewhere. Today, I'm pulling almost everything out of the office, so that when they shoot that out from under me, I can be gone in 1/2 an hour.

Haven't had any rats delivered here, or even any more voles or shrews. Cats seem to have gone off the boil with that, and it seems that some of my peppers have been nibbled by mice. :mad: Never had that before. cant think what else would make a hole at the shoulder, presumably to get at the seeds.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

morning all,
what a night again, really heavy rain...mild though...

We were promised rain yesterday, but although it never quite arrived, it stayed miserable and cold, so we kept the woodburner going.

Raining now...:(

The window will probably come out of our bedroom soon, to be re-fitted in the kitchen. That will give us more light, a better view and less draughts in there. We only have a sheet of ply in the hole just now. You can guess where that will go! :rotfl:

We'll be out of that bedroom though, by the end of today..and into bunk beds! :eek:

Our old bedroom is going to be the utility room. That end of the house is going to get a bit cold and miserable as we bash it about, but while the radiators are still functioning, it should stay damp-free.

lostinrates

This is probably the only place on Mse where a picture of a dead rat and a terrier could get thanks in the double figures.

I'm not well this morning but my resident parent said he'd take him out for a little while so he could work a bit.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

This is probably the only place on Mse where a picture of a dead rat and a terrier could get thanks in the double figures. .

:rotfl:

Hope you feel better soon. That comment certainly brightened things up here, as I watched torrents of rain stream off the scaffolding. :T