Rob Morley wrote:

In article , "Broadback"
says...

I had to cut through a cast iron pipe recently, masked everything, made
a polythene tent, wore a mask, cut it with a cutting disk. Ugh, the
fine black dust got everywhere, including up my nose and in my mouth,
the taste was awful, as it was a toilet pipe I'm sure I could taste the
sh1t, not that I had ever tasted it before. Worse of all the iron in my
mouth reacted with my filling, it was like chewing silver paper.
By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?
I think if I had to do it again I'd buy a reciprocating saw, whatever
the expense.


Stripping the glue from a plaster ceiling after having removed the
polystyrene tiles. I did one room, but the second is still only half
done years later :-( Every so often I think I'll finish it, then I
think maybe I'll strip the plaster and renew it as it seems like less
hassle, then I put it off some more. The plus side is that as the
dining room is a mess I use it as a workshop instead :-)

Thes days I'd simply rip the ceiling down, whack up new boards and get a
plasterers in.

couple of days and 150 quid against several days of hassles and you
probly still need to replaster anyway.

Rod Hewitt wrote:

":::Jerry::::" wrote in
:


"Dorothy Bradbury" wrote in message
...

Ammonia based cleaners (Windex) are good for Epson heads.

Thanks, but what has that got to do with the question, or are you
suggesting that cleaning an Epson head (what ever that is) is the
worst possible DIY job ?!...


It is also almost impossible to find Windex in the UK. I think that is what
makes it one of the most unpleasant DIY jobs. All that swimming...


I went loooking in teh supermarket, and found just one product that
contains ammonia.

Its around, but yu have too hunt..

However, the very similar window cleaning product Sprint seems to work as
well in the UK as does Windex in the US - on Epson print heads.

Andy Hall wrote:

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:22:05 -0000, "IMM" wrote:



I'm glad that happened.




What's the matter with you? If you don't behave, Santa won't visit you
on Friday night...... ;-)


And then you won;t get your Christmas shag.

So watch it.

In article , "The Natural
Philosopher" says...
Rob Morley wrote:
snip
Stripping the glue from a plaster ceiling after having removed the
polystyrene tiles. I did one room, but the second is still only half
done years later :-( Every so often I think I'll finish it, then I
think maybe I'll strip the plaster and renew it as it seems like less
hassle, then I put it off some more. The plus side is that as the
dining room is a mess I use it as a workshop instead :-)

Thes days I'd simply rip the ceiling down, whack up new boards and get a
plasterers in.

couple of days and 150 quid against several days of hassles and you
probly still need to replaster anyway.

Problem is I'm averse to paying anyone to do the work - if I ever get
my act together I can do it myself. Plasterboard and a skim coat
would probably be easiest, but it's plaster on lath and I'd like to
keep it that way if I can. Anyway I really need a shed to store the
stuff that's in there now before I can clear the room and finish it.
:-(

By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?


I once watched a neighbour replace a 2 foot section of a live 9 inch sewer
pipe !!

The JCB driver had cracked the pipe whilst digging footings for an
extension, my neighbour decided to make the repair himself (which was
possibly a foolish thing to do !!). From what we could make out, the sewer
served a bunch of houses across the road.

There he was stood in the bottom of a 2 metre deep footing with a petrol
stihl saw cutting out the 2 foot section whilst turds and the like were
flowing down the pipe ! He managed to replace the damaged pipe and get two
rubber joining sleeves on.

As you can imagine, by this time the footings were full of all kinds of
unmentionables !!, and the spray off the stihl saw blade was well worth
avoiding !!!

Oh well, I'm glad MY house doesn't flow into that pipe !!

Meery Christmas all,

Paul.

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:54:38 GMT, Paul wrote:

There he was stood in the bottom of a 2 metre deep footing with a
petrol stihl saw cutting out the 2 foot section whilst turds and the
like were flowing down the pipe !

No up stream manhole where you could block the flow for the 15mins to
hack out and replace? Takes quite a while to back up far enough to be
a problem.

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