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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Rods2 on 20 October 2011, 03:42:03
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Last night I had one of those evenings. Went to the DIY store Bug*er all in stock and Queue (B&Q).
Out of stock of Artex Sealer, which is main reason I went there where I'm preparing to re-artex landing and stairwell ceiling, par for the course for B&Q in Farnborough to be out of stock, as store is about as much use as fried snow.
As part of their customer unfriendly friendly service you now have to pay £1 to release a trolley.
Anyway where I'm about to fit a new bathroom, I need to replace the flooring as it is non-moisture resistant chipboard and is past its best. In normal diy multiple shop fashion you have to move 63 damaged sheets before you get to the undamaged ones! So, eventually sorted, they can re-stack the reject flooring sheets, their fault for trying to palm off sub-standard damaged cr*p.
Next to the plumbing section, parked trolley at the end of the row, sorted out 40mm pipe for new waste for bath where the waste in new bath is in the center rather than the end. Just managed to catch Dick Turpin B&Q assistant removing my trolley towards stockroom, no doubt to relieve it of my £1.
Now, I don't normally out of principle use the self service tills, so I joined the queue for human service. But I was beckoned by a good looking B&Q young girl at the self service tills and who can resist a beautiful young lady. All went through and paid, but I left 3m x 40mm pipe on the heavy weighing section of till, doh!
Loaded up car, realizing I had left pipe at till, as part of loading flooring sheets in a hurry, as shop was about shut, hit rear view mirror with head. Loaded up car, found eventually place to off-load trolley and retrieve £1, but shutters now down on shop entrance, so got trolley collector to let me in to retrieved 40mm pipe.
Touched rear-view mirror and it fell off windscreen, now my self positioning, self dipping mirror, which it is heavy and now hanging by it wires, so now got to get mirror repair glue kit to fix again as I've done this before, doh.
Murphy and his blo*dy law. >:( >:( >:(
Where I work from home and only do currently a small mileage in my car, in the last 300 miles: Crank sensor failure, puncture and tyre written off as 8mm bolt, deep chip in windscreen with small cracks, yet to sort repair, lost rh headlamp water washer jets, both keys intermittent, repaired one where battery terminal had broken, now got second to repair, and now rear mirror to repair. When will it end? >:( >:( >:( >:(
I've still got cam-lifter problem to sort (engine tic-tic-tic), along with intermittent overheating problem (I think it is intermediate fan, radiator switch or relay) and cam cover gaskets as all I could afford at the time of head gasket replacement was top end gasket set with was non-Vx cam-cover gaskets, which are leaking.
I'm not a happy bunny at the moment. :(
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do people still artex there ceilings :o :o
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do people still artex there ceilings :o :o
Yes we do. Some of us don't follow the fashion of house decorating as seen on many tv shows. ;D ;D
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Then the rest of us spend weeks melting it off ;D
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do people still artex there ceilings :o :o
Yes we do. Some of us don't follow the fashion of house decorating as seen on many tv shows. ;D ;D
Couple of scousers ;D ;D ;D
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I've just stripped an Artex ceiling for a customer. Just used my steamer to heat up the emulsion, which turns elastic and pulls away. Then heat/wet artex and scrape off. Bit dirty, but I was left with a perfectly plastered flat ceiling :y
Beware of steamers though if you are not used to them....can cause a lot of damage, to you, as well as 'shooting' your plaster :y
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The same also applies to removing Woodchip paper......heat the emulsion till it skins, pull off, then the woodchips virtually falls off :y
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Murphy and his blo*dy law. >:( >:( >:(
There's no doubt -he does have a lot to answer for. :y
Regarding B&Q - there's a certain knack to shopping there. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPilVfDeMBs&feature=related
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do people still artex there ceilings :o :o
I know, I thought they were posher than that down in Sandhurst! ;) ;D
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Funny that.. Had exactly the same experience in Farnborough B&Q yesterday lunch time, but with carpet gripper instead of 40mm pipe.(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26795734/Smilies/bangshead.gif)
It's becoming less of a DIY shop and more of a toy shop every time I go there. :(
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you should all go to travis perkins, and get a trade cash card...
cheaper than B&Q, with better range of available materials..... and free delivery most of the time..... (on sensible things.... maybe not if you ask for a bag of screws, but if you buy a dozen sheets of plasterboard and some timber.... it will be.... )
(i also happen to know the branch in Farnham near you kev is rather helpful, if not the largest... )
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I've been the the TP in Fleet for the odd bits and pieces. Trying to think where the Farnham one is, but will certainly have a look. We're a bit short of decent DIY places around Alton. We have a TP but they only do timer and building supplies, IIRC.
How easy is it to blag a trade card?
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hit rear view mirror with head.
This did actually make me laugh a lot for no apparent reason ;D ;D. I shouldn't laugh though because I have had days like that and they're a pain in the arse >:(
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I've been the the TP in Fleet for the odd bits and pieces. Trying to think where the Farnham one is, but will certainly have a look. We're a bit short of decent DIY places around Alton. We have a TP but they only do timer and building supplies, IIRC.
How easy is it to blag a trade card?
http://www.travisperkins.co.uk/Open-An-Account/Trade-Cash-Card
that easy.....
timber and building supplies is mostly what they do.... to be fair, but that's also true of B&Q
I would also suggest Toolstation, and screwfix.
(one of which is actually owned by the B&Q group)
basically B&Q are public retail,.... Toolstation, Screwfix, Travis perkins and so on, generally used by the trade.... indeed, if you just go to TP, as a punter, you'll pay a retail price more often than not.... if you go with a trade card i hand.... the price will drop by as much as 50% if the margins allow for it.... typically between 15% and 50% ,
as part of my work, I build studios and audio/music related installations all over the place ... I did the music department practice rooms at a school in Farnham ... thats why i know..... TP in Farnham is on the left on the road in to town from the roundabout at your end of farnham.... before you get to the mini roundabouts at the end of the high street.
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Will look at getting a TP trade card, as I never shy away from getting a bit of a discount. I use a friends trade card at B&Q but find only a small selection of things are actually discounted and sometimes if they are on special offer the trade price is more expensive. :o
B&Q still out of stock, I've had to buy the Artex sealer at my local shop decorating supplies shop, £4.60 more than B&Q, but I can't wait any longer. It must be the rough part of Sandhurst where I live as all of the immediate houses are Artex over plasterboard ceilings. ;D To much work for me to completely remove the Artex, so just smoothed old stipple finish, cover with Artex sealer and will do broken leather finish over it.
Ordered of Fleabay a Loctite rear mirror glue kit for £1.89 + £1.50p&p, so it will be a cheap repair to do.
I have got most of the stuff for refitting bathroom after I have finished decorating the stairs and landing. Finding reasonable priced low pressure washbasin and bath mixer taps has not been easy, as all of the cheap ones on Fleabay are high pressure typically a minimum of 0.5 to 1bar, you would need a header tank 16 to 32ft above the taps to achieve this. :D
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as part of my work, I build studios and audio/music related installations all over the place ... I did the music department practice rooms at a school in Farnham ... thats why i know..... TP in Farnham is on the left on the road in to town from the roundabout at your end of farnham.... before you get to the mini roundabouts at the end of the high street.
Ahh, OK. I know where you are. :y
Don't suppose it was the college in Farnham? In which case you might know Paul Whatton?
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Weydon Lane school , it's on Weydon lane, oddly enough, that horrid left hand turning just immediately after the railway bridge heading south from that same roundabout on the A325.