Questions, questions! Why do you have to ask?

[ian]

£50 for 20 litres of daub? :shock: Must be mixed with rockinghorses**t

 

[Lime]

I have often used old style dishwasher powder to remove paint.
If you make it into a paste and leave it on (cover it so it does not dry out) the paint softens and can be removed relatively easily.
When I buy an old fitting (door knob or knocker for example) I place them in a saucepan in water with dishwasher powder in it and bring it to the boil.
Old paint floats off.
My wife sounds off.

 

[Feltwell]

I have often used old style dishwasher powder to remove paint.
If you make it into a paste and leave it on (cover it so it does not dry out) the paint softens and can be removed relatively easily.
When I buy an old fitting (door knob or knocker for example) I place them in a saucepan in water with dishwasher powder in it and bring it to the boil.
Old paint floats off.
My wife sounds off.

Interesting tip!

I've used the dishwasher before now to clean the plastic panels from my off-road motorbike. You clean them up first with a hosepipe of course, but for getting the muck out of the scratches on them the dishwasher is great.

Not a great tip for marital harmony though! Mrs F is very tolerant, she didn't bat an eyelid when she found some bearings in the freezer yesterday. :lol:

 

[Penners]

if you have to asked detailed questions about 'how to do something' in your period home, then you shouldn't be doing the job in the first place

If people aren't supposed to ask advice, then how does anybody ever learn anything?

Aaaah - silly me. They pay to come on one of your courses, don't they?

I suggest that your best course of action is to pay for an advertisement in the Products & Services section of this website. Just be careful, though. You may be killed in the rush, as all of us dunces scramble to attend your training courses.

I'm sure Jon Maine will be at the head of the queue.



:roll:

 

[Flyfisher]

Mrs F is very tolerant, she didn't bat an eyelid when she found some bearings in the freezer yesterday. :lol:

Sounds very much like Mrs FF, who grew up in a household where it was quite normal to have a lathe and milling machine in the sitting room that her Father used when building powerboat racing engines. Ruining the carpet wasn't a problem, though, because that had already been removed and placed in the bottom of the water jump so that teenage Mrs FF's horse wouldn't slip when practicing her show jumping. Against such a splendid upbringing my foibles are minor by comparison and rarely cause any consternation in the FF household.

In contrast, a friend of a traction-engine-owing friend (also a traction engine owner) was given an ultimatum by his wife that either the engine goes or she would go. The engine stayed and they are currently in the process of divorce.

The PPUK point to these tales must surely be that there's little point in trying to force inappropriate or unwelcome changes on people or properties.

 

[robgil]

ms robgil was a tad peeved at me for parking my 'project' on the drive for 8 months.

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it ended up looking like this in the end , i dont think she was all that pleased with how it turned out , more that it just got finished ,

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i never got round to putting parts in the freezer but my shed was a bit on the full side for a while.



but to go back on topic , ive thought about going on courses, such as plastering for instance but i would rather give it a go first before forking out hard earned on something that may be simple enough to pick up from an internet forum and an hour or two of trial and error.

 

[Moo]

Ps.... whats the best product to use for removing gloss paint off sandstone? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I have looked at a similar system called peel away 7... Has anyone used it?

Yes, I have (twice) on plaster cornices and sash windows and it was excellent. Mind you, that was ages ago (pre PPUK) and I thought they only did two versions (for different surfaces). But I've just googled their website and they have masses of different ones forumulated to deal with all sorts of different paints.
The one that caught my eye was the Smart one http://www.dumondchemicals.com/html/products.htm, but perhaps it would be wisest to use the Contact Us facility and ask your question direct.

Strippers of Sudbury are always highly recommended on the forum, so suppose you may end up making your choice on the grounds of cost.

 

[Feltwell]

ms robgil was a tad peeved at me for parking my 'project' on the drive for 8 months.

I shall hopefully be building a home for that kind of thing this year, if finances allow. My days of wanting to fix vehicles out in the open are long gone! I've always fancied a nice Series II or early IIa, with the headlights in the grille.

Or maybe a Rover P5B Coupe.

Or maybe a nice Austin Healy 3000 (if I happen to win the lottery or a hitherto unknown fabulously rich and childless Uncle pops his clogs).

Ahh, so many toys, so little time and even less money.......

 

[Feltwell]

Sounds very much like Mrs FF, who grew up in a household where it was quite normal to have a lathe and milling machine in the sitting room that her Father used when building powerboat racing engines.

Now that's impressive. Mrs F has put up with motorbikes in the kitchen several times, and so did Mother F when I was in my youth.

Re. traction engine divorce - that's pretty much what happened to Fred Dibnah as I recall !

 

[philpjuk100]

Ah good old Fred,didnt he have to sell his 20s AJS to pay for the divorce?I used to have an old Cotton JAP motorcycle instead of a sideboard but its now sold and Im still married!never mind Ive moved to a 400 year old cottage with an old wheelwrights workshop to keep my bikes in so it all worked out ok in the end!
phil.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Fred is my hero but his first wife Alison must have gone through hell. As well as their working holiday in blackpool he used to keep that rotten greasy oily cap on for bed.

 

[philpjuk100]

Yes Ive learned from that and have a hook by the bed to hang my cap on!

 

[Schoolmarm]

:lol: :lol:

 

[Flyfisher]

Very nice Landie restoration, Robgil. I hope to do a similarly good job on my old MF135 tractor one day, although it's nowhere near the state of your project, i.e. it's not actually in pieces!

Or maybe a nice Austin Healy 3000 (if I happen to win the lottery or a hitherto unknown fabulously rich and childless Uncle pops his clogs).

Ah, a fine choice. I confess to the same aspiration.

Ahh, so many toys, so little time and even less money.......

Indeed (sigh).

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I'm lucky enought to have a Stag - and would like a Frogeye Sprite. Or if money is no object then a Jaguar XK150 DHC....

We can all dream...

 

[skier-hughes]

I restored a Lotus Elan Mk3, 1967, superb car, miss it loads, but it was sold to start me up in business and so has repaid itself a million times over.

 

[yamin]

Jumping in with late reply on original subject. Didn't even read all replies, sorry, but a thoroughly childish but enjoyable raspberry blown to daubdolly! Some of us are trying, in our non expert way, to GENTLY restore our properties and learn as we go along. Its not ALL about not doing a job until you are an expert, you CAN also learn as you go. SOmetimes we'll make mistakes, hopefully not too bad, but I will also hopefully improve, learn a lot, and lovingly restore my peoperty to something not perfect, but much nearer to what it should be. Advice here is invaluable, informative, and the chats are by turns funny or infuriating. Perhaps you should take your unsolicited criticism elsewhere!

Sorry folks, back in my hole now!

 

[Me!]

I'm lucky enought to have a Stag

Me too, although it has been in storage since moving to this house as I don't have a garage yet. Unfortunately, She-who-must-be-obeyed seems to think that a working kitchen and bathroom are more urgent than a garage! But, when I do build the garage, it will also have room for a Jensen Interceptor as well, .... just in case. It would have to be a pre '73 one, just because the anarchist in me likes the idea of a 7.2 litre engine and free road tax, ...... sorry Biff, I'm normally quite environmentally friendly, but I do have my lapses. At least keeping old cars running is saving the embodied energy used in their production.

 

[worms]

Robigil,

Can I drop off my 200TDi 110 CSW, just to help you keep your hand in? After your 90 rebuild it would be a dawdle!

 

[robgil]

i would love to, if you live close i would be happy to take a look at it for you if its broke , my 90 still isnt finished though , well it is but it will always need bits and bobs doing to it. it keeps going through some pretty drastic changes.
lately its had a tilt and sticks and hopefully one day i will retro fit a decent engine (thinking izuzu) and a series two dash just to give it that landrovery look inside , although it does have an 'open the door and apply garden hose' type interior , i just dont like plastic dashes or any kind of trim in land rovers.

this is what it looks like today.

the whole idea of building the 90 was to chuck a roof tent on it and head down into africa for a holiday but after spending 5 weeks driving it down to corfu we soon realised that spending any length of time living in a land rover/tent was going to be hard so we have put it on the back burner until we sort something else out. to be fair i thought it wasnt too bad but ms robgil wanted a camper van. ive looked into unimogs and 101's as possible campervan conversions but this whole buying a house thing has taken up all our time and cash so we need to get that out of the way first.
although we have also been talking about knuckling down and saving to buy a 32'' colvic watson , which in my view would be the ultimate camper van and a much nicer way to travel.