"Capitol" wrote in message
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Tim Watts wrote:
On 05/11/15 22:12, Jonno wrote:
Andrew Mawson scribbled


Anyone watch the Grand Designs on telly this evening?

Fabulous pad on the Isle of Wight, clad in expensive impregnated
timber,
fixed with un galvanised nails so rusty stains running down everywhere
!!!!!

Madness



Character innit.


There's some building coming into London on the Hastings line that's
"clad" in rusty expanded metal. It it's made to look like that. It's
almost like it was pre-rusted and soaked in lacquer.
Grand designs featured this sort of finish a week or two ago.
Apparently the special steel is produced to surface rust only and then
stop. I'm just low on faith, if it hasn't stood there for a century then
I'll let someone else use it!

Its worked fine for more than 50 years now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_steel