marjon said:
What on your drive:oops:

J
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Don't get this.
I have to repair and work on my Disco and all other cars at the moment on my drive as the garage is blocked and half full anyway.
AND the Disco is too tall for it.
I have deep gravel.
Out there I lose the occasional screw and nails have been left there by various trades.
I have yet to get a puncture on there but if one is at the right angle embedded in the gravel it could happen, as I mentioned we don't have pea gravel it is big chunks and a thick layer.
so yes, on my drive. :stars:
 
marjon said:
I had to show them what I could do/knew, before they believed me and started doing it to our standards.
So yes a bit slap dash here too if you let them get away with it, have upset a few for trying to overprice jobs cos we are brits "and made of money"
But we have found some good help.

J
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I think it happens to foreigners in many countries. It took us ages to find the one decent-ish handyman we use. And yes he was a bit slapdash, did stuff we didn't ask him to, badly, and bust the Hoover by using it to suck up plasterdust.
But he has done some sterling work for us. Stuff I really didn't want to do or couldn't do without buying some expensive stuff to use just once.
 
marjon said:
I had to show them what I could do/knew, before they believed me and started doing it to our standards.
So yes a bit slap dash here too if you let them get away with it, have upset a few for trying to overprice jobs cos we are brits "and made of money"
But we have found some good help.

J
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In the same boat here I give them the price if thay don't like it take a walk but I am fair and don't expect people to work for nout but not get rich of me the work has to be to my standard think that's why I do mostly my self 😅😅
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I'd rather find the rusty nails and screws with a £50 metal detector than with a £150 BF Goodrich All Terrain!!;);)

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Stanleysteamer said:
Don't get this.
I have to repair and work on my Disco and all other cars at the moment on my drive as the garage is blocked and half full anyway.
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Do i have to quote again?

Oh for a cozy garage ;).

J
 
Stone56 said:
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Ours is 90 mm high, all over the house. Would have been 3.5" in old money.
All the ones I found had a different profile ogee as well.
I am having to put it up next to the original stuff.
Standard height is apparently 145mm nowadays according to "theskirtingboardshop".
Just easier and quicker to pinch stuff from where it would have been hidden and cut it and reuse it. For once more about time and effort than cost. ;)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Ours is 90 mm high, all over the house. Would have been 3.5" in old money.
All the ones I found had a different profile ogee as well.
I am having to put it up next to the original stuff.
Standard height is apparently 145mm nowadays according to "theskirtingboardshop".
Just easier and quicker to pinch stuff from where it would have been hidden and cut it and reuse it. For once more about time and effort than cost. ;)
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Original was 4" and new is 3"
Problem around doorways is that the first plastering job was crap so they skimmed it again resulting in plaster being to thick for the architraves to fit properly around the doors.
I'm going to get some 5mm strips to tack on before the new stuff goes on then it'll fit nice
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Older skirting boards seem to be higher than the newer ones. I tried to find some ogee to go in the kitchen utility and couldn't so am having to reuse that which has been hidden behind the units.
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I have had skirting board milled to match a sample from the original house stuff several times. I got stung for the tooling (£40) every time on top of the wood & manpower cost.
 
...that the "lathe of wonder" is still providing surprises and giving up its secrets. :)
Today's discovery was that it has been partially converted from Imperial to metric.
I found out when I tried to recut a damaged Imperial 24TPI thread and it just went all to pot.
Unfortunately the bits removed to do this have not been kept with the machine so I will have to purchase them afresh (£45-60). :(
Fortunately the rather expensive bit to actually do the metric conversion (£168+vat) is on the machine. :)
I am still enjoying it and I am glad I bought it for the really low-price I did. :D
 
DanClarke said:
I have had skirting board milled to match a sample from the original house stuff several times. I got stung for the tooling (£40) every time on top of the wood & manpower cost.
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My ex-son in law did a load of this on his fancy spindle moulder, what it could cut was nobody's business. And yes he didn't always have the blades but he would offer them to the customer if he wanted to keep them. They very rarely did.
They can be a hack of a price.

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landowner said:
Original was 4" and new is 3"
Problem around doorways is that the first plastering job was crap so they skimmed it again resulting in plaster being to thick for the architraves to fit properly around the doors.
I'm going to get some 5mm strips to tack on before the new stuff goes on then it'll fit nice
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The house was designed and built by a Swedish company and as there was going to be an estate of timber framed built by Crest Homes, the Swedes came over and put them up, one of each type to show the Brits how they went up. Ours was one of the ones they built, I think there are three types two detached of different sizes and a bungalow. Maybe the 90mm size was brought over by them or maybe some interior designer decided that for the height of the rooms, (Standard 2m80) they needed to trim 10mm off standard! Who knows? They were built in 1984 odd. And who knows who finished them off!?
 
Stanleysteamer said:
The house was designed and built by a Swedish company and as there was going to be an estate of timber framed built by Crest Homes, the Swedes came over and put them up, one of each type to show the Brits how they went up. Ours was one of the ones they built, I think there are three types two detached of different sizes and a bungalow. Maybe the 90mm size was brought over by them or maybe some interior designer decided that for the height of the rooms, (Standard 2m80) they needed to trim 10mm off standard! Who knows? They were built in 1984 odd. And who knows who finished them off!?
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Mine's 1950's built
Might put some fancy stuff on cheer it up a bit
 
Stanleysteamer said:
My ex-son in law did a load of this on his fancy spindle moulder, what it could cut was nobody's business. And yes he didn't always have the blades but he would offer them to the customer if he wanted to keep them. They very rarely did.
They can be a hack of a price.

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Considering that once upon a time people used to have to do this sort of thing with moulding planes by hand, it seems to me a big improvement. Can you imagine filing out the desired profile on the blade, creating the corresponding profile in the wooden sole plate of the plane body, hardening and tempering the blade and giving it a final hone with an oil stone and so on before you even got as far as shaping your bits of wood? I think if I were doing this as a business I'd rather just shell out a couple of hundred quid for a head to put on my glorified upside-down router and get on with it.
 
Brown said:
Considering that once upon a time people used to have to do this sort of thing with moulding planes by hand, it seems to me a big improvement. Can you imagine filing out the desired profile on the blade, creating the corresponding profile in the wooden sole plate of the plane body, hardening and tempering the blade and giving it a final hone with an oil stone and so on before you even got as far as shaping your bits of wood? I think if I were doing this as a business I'd rather just shell out a couple of hundred quid for a head to put on my glorified upside-down router and get on with it.
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He also has a large collection of moulding planes that he started buying very young and still has ,to my knowledge. Obviously bought before he had the money for a spindle moulder.
 
marjon said:
No, I don't have to work on a gravel drive cos I have space for a car in the cozy garage ;).
I wish I had the time to wander the streets with some funny looking selfie stick, looking for rusty nails:p.

Besides the bank of M holds the money and my pocket money only stretches' to beer. I do have a "slush" fund though;), you never know when bargains come up that I need:).
Maybe some ATBs;).

J
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Some ATBs wonder if I could find some with my detector 🤣 🤣
 
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