On 24/11/2014 15:52, Andrew wrote:
On 23/11/2014 22:02, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 23/11/2014 21:34, soup wrote:
On 23/11/2014 21:25, DerbyBorn wrote:

in the days when people learned something from watching DIY on TV!

Like how to ruin paneled doors by covering them in hardboard. ;O)

My Dad did that!!!

So did mine.

We had a nice pine kitchen table. One weekend the pine top was removed
and replaced with a rectangular piece of new-fangled chipboard, with the
corners chopped off at 45 degrees, then covered with a sheet of red
formica and black edgeing stuck on with evostick.

if the panelled doors (or ornate balistrades) were just panelled in with
hardboord, then they were preserved and protected for future
generations. It was the berks who ripped all the cornicing and features
out who ruined houses.

Barry was interviewed about 10 to 15 years ago on TV and he was still
'at it'. He showed the interviewer his tea-trolley nicely upgraded with
a set of set of big rubber castor wheels that would be more at home on a
hospital trolley.


I suspect that it was a bit more than that. He died almost 12 years ago,
aged 91.

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