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That curtain rail looks like a giant ARB. If you had said you were making an ARB for your bay window, all the VW guys would tune in to this story!
For render repair and actually making it, Bostik SBR is good. Its like ultimate PVA but thin and soaks into the sandy surface stablising it deep and water-proofing it. I did a concrete floor in my garage and fiddled with it too much. All the slack came to the surface and dried a little sandy. I painted on a couple of coats of SBR before painting and it hasn't lifted at all. Great stuff.
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That curtain rail looks like a giant ARB. If you had said you were making an ARB for your bay window, all the VW guys would tune in to this story! For render repair and actually making it, Bostik SBR is good. Its like ultimate PVA but thin and soaks into the sandy surface stablising it deep and water-proofing it. I did a concrete floor in my garage and fiddled with it too much. All the slack came to the surface and dried a little sandy. I painted on a couple of coats of SBR before painting and it hasn't lifted at all. Great stuff.
I thought that it looked like a ARB as well and was it going to link to all the steelework in the roof. Thought the saying about being a fool when speaking out might apply to me as I do not understand half of what James says or how he even thinks it up.
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... as I do not understand half of what James says or how he even thinks it up. Probably just means I'm not explaining myself properly. Or, more likely I don't know what I'm doing! It's wonderful what you can achieve when nobody tells you you can't do it. Anyway, even the garage is now on the back burner as other things take priority. Not least of which is that we are short of people at work and so I'm going to have a bad month. This weekend we went to see Mrs Sweetpea's parents. We keep them conveniently in France although once some idiot politicians make a plums of Brexit over the next few months they could wind up living in my spare room. Who was it mentioned plumbing in my other thread? Well it gave them ideas! "The tap on the sink in the bathroom has come loose" they said. Ok, how hard can that be? For some reason I couldn't remember what this offending tap was. So I just grabbed a few spanners, including my big tap nut spanner thing which I hate because it usually skins my knuckles and spits its components all over the floor. (Without tightening anything.) It turned out to be one of those mono block things with a single lever on the top. They are fastened to the sink with a couple of studs and nuts that clamp a big C shaped washer and rubber gasket to the bottom of the sink. No problem. I'm confident. Anybody spot what's missing?  Well the big C shaped washer was totally missing. By which I mean I never found it. The studs and nuts were still in the tap (I'd already removed them in the above photo) but the clamping washer was nowhere to be seen! Never found it or anything that might have been it. The closest I found was this debris on the shelf under the tap.  I still don't know if this was the remains of it. I can only imagine it is... So, that's a bummer. Maybe I can make something if I can get the nuts off the studs. Nope.  They both broke off. I mean look at it. It's half the thickness it should be. This is some crazy corrosion. The other thing in the photo isn't the mounting washer thing by the way. It's the rubber thing that goes between mounting washer thing and the bottom of the sink. Even half of that has rusted away, and I remind you, it's rubber! Well, with half the tap absent without leave and two broken off rusted studs stuck in the bottom of whats left... It's scrap. Even I'm not fixing that. Sorry! So we pootled off to Redon in the Citroen with the strange robotised manual gearbox, on the wrong side of the road, sticking to the strange speed limits in French miles per hour to buy a new tap using those strange European Pounds they are fond of... (It's like a different country over there.)  New tap. Sorted! Back home now. Work tomorrow. Boo hiss. Nobody mention plumbing... I'm not going near no more plumbing... James |
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^^
With it being French, does the cold water come out of it it on the right hand side? 😂
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jamesd1972
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^^ With it being French, does the cold water come out of it it on the right hand side? 😂 You can mock but I think there might be a convention that cold right side hot left side (as you look at it)In France today will test theory and report back. Google is for the weak. James (the younger) |
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I can't actually remember... But I'm fairly sure it's the wrong way round. Or it's the same way round but I just think it's wrong. Either way it's not right...
Let's wait for James the Younger to report back from the continent. Assuming they let him back in the country.
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Cold with a turn to the right as you look at it appears to be the standard. Will report back further tomorrow
James
(The younger)
And yes they did let me in again
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I believe the idea is that as most people are not weird and therefore right handed the cold tap is fitted on the right.
Saying that the plumbers (not sure they really are but they got the job) who did the refurb' job where I work just fitted whatever came to hand first and as the hot water boiler manages to get the hot just below boiling no matter how often they come out and 'adjust' it, we play- scalded hands lottery anyone ?
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Needs a bigger hammer mate.......
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is that a French fitting James (whichever you are)? are you in-continent?
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jamesd1972
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Jul 13, 2019 12:04:26 GMT
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is that a French fitting James (whichever you are)? are you in-continent? That was indeed a French fitting. I did also survey a couple of others but really didn’t want to get caught taking a photo. Trying to explain that I’m conducting an important piece of survey work for an on line car forum might have taken some time. No longer in-continent but home where you can get proper tea. James (the younger) |
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Been busy. So busy I've not even done any more to the garage wall. Want an example... Here have a tumble dryer.  Just needed a clean...  |
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Jul 21, 2019 16:44:54 GMT
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What does it need now?
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A priest! Actually it's back together and working. It was making an odd noise. Nothing terrible, just not right. It's a condenser dryer and it had sucked a piece of paper into the condenser fan (and a fair bit of fluff over the years). Trouble is that the condenser fan is quite literally the last piece that comes out. |
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Jul 22, 2019 12:02:02 GMT
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Nice place to work in the tranquil of the plants on the patio. Ferrari have something similar with a giant oasis in the middle of the engine assembly section of their factory. I don't know if it is to create a nice atmosphere for workers, or to off-set the emissions the engines will produce......
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I've had another pop at the garage wall... This bit...  ...Got filled with a fine sand / cement mix. Occasionally I use sand in the sand blaster, normally I use glass bead. But sometimes you need something a bit stronger. Anyway, the sand breaks up and becomes very file so I used that. And then I bunged a coat of paint on it.  To be honest it looks better in the photo than in real life, but it's the side of the garage so it'll be fine. Where the paint fell off the wall...  I attacked the edges of the paint with a stone grinding disk in the grinder. This feathers out the paint edge and seems to melt it slightly reattaching it to the wall. That too got a first coat of paint.  Then the window... Oh the window...  So the paint was peeling off. I jet washed it to remove the flaking stuff and half the putty came out too 'cos that was cracking up. Fair enough. I was expecting that. To remove the remaining paint... Well... I chipped it off with a screwdriver. I tried heat but it really didn't work but chipping it off with a screwdriver worked fine. Took ages though.  I think, back in the 30s, the frame had been primed with red oxide and it had eventually failed allowing the paint over the top to flake off. Shouldn't moan too much. It worked for 80 years or so. Partly as an experiment I've primed it with POR 15. This stuff will either fall off tomorrow, or be there for ever. I hope for the latter.  So next I need to putty the glass back in and then it's old skool gloss black. Oh yeah, Paint the wall... Paint the barge board... Have the guttering sand blasted... Paint it... Put it back up... You get the idea. James |
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Ran out between the showers and whopped some putty in the windows.  Not wishing to blow ones own trumpet but I'm reasonable pleased with that.  But sods law says that now I've learned this new skill and can go forth and make my fortune puttying glass into frames some mad fool will think of a better way of doing it. It'll be some mad cap idea like two sheets of glass in some sort of plastic frame held in with rubber gaskets... Nah! that's a silly idea. Nobody will ever do that. Anyway, the putty will take a few weeks to dry out. What am I going to do in the meantime? James |
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Aug 10, 2019 16:56:22 GMT
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Paint the putty so it does not dry out and crack again? Least thats what i always told to do, so it doesn't crack and fall out and remains flexible to allow for expansion and contractions of frame and glass
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Paint the putty so it does not dry out and crack again? Least thats what i always told to do, so it doesn't crack and fall out and remains flexible to allow for expansion and contractions of frame and glass Now that's an interesting idea. It's still going to have to dry out and skin over a bit before I can do that. Anyway, my fingers smell of putty and it's annoying. I think that's another great career idea down the loo. |
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I learned a long time ago that I can't use putty. When I was younger I did the obvious and broke a window when playing football, my dad made me do the repair (badly so that showed him :-)
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