doubleboost
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If i go to buy paint or solvent .
I make sure it has pictures of dead fish on the label
I make sure it has pictures of dead fish on the label
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gordon stephenson
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Cheap drills that don't drill should be advertised as manufactured from "case hardened" plasticine, or to save time just label it as":landfill"
I go out of my way to NOT buy these 'environmentally friendly' products as I know they're all 100% carp.
Paint stripper? I always buy some 'professional use only' stuff with DCM in it off ebay etc. Works just like Nitromors used to before it went eco.
Creosote? Need some of that for my various sheds so I'm going to buy a 25 litre drum which is about the smallest you can get now, again professional use only. No way will I entertain the substitute Creocote nonsense that everyone is flogging now.
Paint stripper? I always buy some 'professional use only' stuff with DCM in it off ebay etc. Works just like Nitromors used to before it went eco.
Creosote? Need some of that for my various sheds so I'm going to buy a 25 litre drum which is about the smallest you can get now, again professional use only. No way will I entertain the substitute Creocote nonsense that everyone is flogging now.
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Good tip!!
I always look at the VOC label as well and it goes straight back on the shelf if it says Low VOC. Only the High VOC stuff for me
mtt.tr
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I use zepp, it's pretty good
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On Monday we got a 15 kg sack of UK Spalding grown daff bulbs from our vegetable & fruit wholesalers at Carmarthen in which most of the bulbs had started to double and a few that even trippled , split them apart when planting them out yesterday. I doubt many will be dead next year. But the Dutch ones we got last year & in previous years as top up's from Wilkinsons are definitely dead, not an old daff to be seen anywhere. nor any evidence of them, it appears they have been consumed by something... Doubt it was as you say a chemical spray treatment, much more like pest attack from all manner of creatures including baby slugs due to the very hot year and no rain for a long while .
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Try a spray / trigger pack of the amazing " Elbow grease " from the likes of the B&M .
Spray on, leave it 10 min to start breaking the grease down, respray & work it in with a paint brush , leave another 10 min & power wash or if you can use hand hot water inthe powerwasher so much the better , repeat in stubborn really thick gungy areas.
It's a mild caustic sugar soap liquid so be careful not 6to get it neat on you skin or innyour eyes .
It also works well inthe power wash dosing tank when you add a half litre bottle of it to a 2 litre tank and top up with clean water .
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On the other hand I've been using Surfex HD for years which is better than the solvent ones I used to use - buy cheap, buy twice!
DAPPH
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That's because you didn't know how to give her a good servicing .I had a girfriend with Dysons Disease
whined a lot and wouldnt suck ... does that count
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Tom next time you see your Dulux man can you please ask him what has replaced the old oil based brilliant white that does not chip or yellow like the newish ( sold in the last 15 yrs or so ) Dulux low odour acrylic white does ?
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Can you give for use inside your house high VOC paint names & where to buy them please , I'm sick of this chipping, cracking, yellowing, white acrylic rubbish that's now common place,I always look at the VOC label as well and it goes straight back on the shelf if it says Low VOC. Only the High VOC stuff for me
It used to be that the old Woolworth & Dulux paints lasted at least seven-years before you needed to repaint, now you're lucky to get away with two years before having to think about doing it.
Im using a great white at the moment ,,, Ill check the can tomorrow , and a great emulsion too ,,,,again I will check tomorrow .
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Just look for the “new improved formulae/ recipe” . It applies to food aswell as products
My Bain with wood preservative is that now instead of a fence post lasting ten years plus , it’s barely 6 in wet ground . So basically we’re using less chemicals , but cutting down twice the amount of timber .
As for Panther paint stripper , the only it strips is the will to live .
My Bain with wood preservative is that now instead of a fence post lasting ten years plus , it’s barely 6 in wet ground . So basically we’re using less chemicals , but cutting down twice the amount of timber .
As for Panther paint stripper , the only it strips is the will to live .
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My experience says the opposite, these close up's were taken a few seconds ago. Where the paint gets UV it is white, where it does not get any or much it yellows,
The small spotty stains on the wood in the top shot are because the painters didn't sand down properly & use a knot stopper /sealer as I'd asked them to , such stains didn't show through for 18 months or so .
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pity you wernt near ruffoth the guy sells it for 30 quid a drum . proper stuff
i have 50 ltrs of it. might get another on sat if he is thereThe latest thing I've tried, on the recommendation of a painter & decorator friend of mine, is Johnstones Trade Professional Undercoat and Satin top coat, both oil based. I painted a few skirting boards with it and it's good at taking knocks without marking / chipping. It also went on nicely but one thing that's weird with it is it gets a slight yellowy / greeny tint to it where it DOESN'T get exposed to UV light (e.g. behind a cupboard). Expose it and it goes white again in a couple of days, bit strange!
The problem with oil based stuff nowadays is it's not the oil based stuff we used to know. It's still oil (solvent) based but the make up is very different and most of them have issues with the binders breaking down (or so I'm told) and they go yellow much quicker than the old stuff.
Dulux used to do a diamond hard white but I don't think you can get than now.
