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.

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:29:55 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

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.

Fitting rockwall, onto the underside of a floor when lieing in the
crawl space. I would never do this again.

However painting is right up there. I got talked into "United Colors
of ........." paints, 6 coats it took to get the ceiling vaguley right
+ the days doing the walls. In the end I gave up, went and got some
Dulux Profesional Colour Matched, and went over the top of the whole
lot, perfect in 1 coat, and much less money than the orignal stuff,
only took a day to do 2 rooms.

Gloss Painting could be used as a torture technique, its in my Room
101.

Rick

Rick Dipper wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:29:55 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?

Fitting rockwall, onto the underside of a floor when lieing in the
crawl space. I would never do this again.

Funnily enough, I was going to say 'laying Rockwool' too; in a roof
space where the pitch of the roof above was incredibly low and shallow,
necessitating me lying full length on crawl boards wiith push-sticks to
lay the stuff. But fitting it *above* you?? Yeuch - I think you've
beaten me there!

David

Funnily enough, I was going to say 'laying Rockwool' too; in a roof
space where the pitch of the roof above was incredibly low and shallow,
necessitating me lying full length on crawl boards wiith push-sticks to
lay the stuff. But fitting it *above* you?? Yeuch - I think you've
beaten me there!

I was in a shed the other day (Homebase) and they did a rockwool /
insulation roll that came pre-wrapped in a plastic film, so its only when
you actually cut the roll to length that you expose the fibres. There
appeared to be plenty of expansion room to the film, so it should fill
out fine.

Jobs like this might never be quite as bad again :-)

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"Broadback" wrote in message
...
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, snip

Well you used the wrong type (class) of mask then, didn't you !... Duh.

Broadback wrote:
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?

IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result, and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Recent example for me would be after my monitor failed, I took it apart,
spent a while finding the fault, fixed it, and went on to add a small
low-speed fan to keep it cooler, and then replacing some caps on the board,
as they were a bit old, and high ESR.

Turned it on to check it. Result!, slightly brighter, with no shadowing like
it was doing, and better EHT regulation.
Left it going for 12 hours, still fine.
Slid case back on, and was met with a whooshing noise.
A wire that needed to be in one position when out of the case, has to be
taken off and put back on before you put the case back on.

It had caught on the board at the back of the CRT, and ripped the neck off
the tube, making it utterly unrepariable.

For "nasty, smelly" jobs, I tend to skip the whole mask thing, and
go for a full facemask with air supplied from a fresh source.

In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result, and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Yup - the print head on my trusty old Stylus 600 was blocked, and no
amount of cleaning cycles would cure it. I removed it and left it soaking
in distilled water for a day or so. Then tried forcing water (gently)
through it with a small squeezey bottle - the type ink re-fills come in.
Linked to each ink input in turn with some sleeving. Some jets worked but
not others. Soaked it in industrial alcohol. Tried forcing some of that
through. More jets working. After a couple of days of soaking and forcing,
eventually all the jets seemed clear. In jubilation I went to pull off the
sleeving from the input - careful to do this in line and not break the
tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of repairing
that.

Anyone got a broken one lying around where the head might be ok? I bought
a new printer, but it's not as good in some ways.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Ammonia based cleaners (Windex) are good for Epson heads.
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"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 ?!...
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:


"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...

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.

--
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www.annalaurie.co.uk

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result,
and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Yup - the print head on my trusty old Stylus 600 was blocked, and no
amount of cleaning cycles would cure it. I removed it and left it soaking
in distilled water for a day or so. Then tried forcing water (gently)
through it with a small squeezey bottle - the type ink re-fills come in.
Linked to each ink input in turn with some sleeving. Some jets worked but
not others. Soaked it in industrial alcohol. Tried forcing some of that
through. More jets working. After a couple of days of soaking and forcing,
eventually all the jets seemed clear. In jubilation I went to pull off the
sleeving from the input - careful to do this in line and not break the
tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of repairing
that.

Anyone got a broken one lying around where the head might be ok? I bought
a new printer, but it's not as good in some ways.


Dip the whole cartridge in metholated spirit and leave it for a day. Most
inks are based on something similar to metholated spirit as their solvent,
so it works wonders on cleaning the heads.

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:20:51 +0000, BigWallop wrote:

Dip the whole cartridge in metholated spirit and leave it for a day. Most
inks are based on something similar to metholated spirit as their solvent,
so it works wonders on cleaning the heads.

Isopropyl alchocol is also *very* good for this job - available from
friendly Chemist shops. No impurities either. Also handy for tape heads
etc.

Timbo

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:20:51 UTC, "BigWallop"
wrote:

tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of repairing
that.

Anyone got a broken one lying around where the head might be ok? I bought
a new printer, but it's not as good in some ways.

Dip the whole cartridge in metholated spirit and leave it for a day. Most
inks are based on something similar to metholated spirit as their solvent,
so it works wonders on cleaning the heads.

Possibly useful advice in general - but he's broken it now anyway...

--
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begin a new life...dump Windows!

BigWallop wrote:


Dip the whole cartridge in metholated spirit and leave it for a day. Most
inks are based on something similar to metholated spirit as their solvent,
so it works wonders on cleaning the heads.

Minor point, but on Epson's the print head is not part of the cartridge
like it is on HP or Canon etc.

Hence you need to think twice before trying anything too bold because it
may cost you more than just a new cartridge as Dave discovered!

You may get a result with part filling an empty cart with IP and then
running cleaning cycles with that.

There are also kits available from www.fixyourownprinter.com for some
printers.



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In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
Minor point, but on Epson's the print head is not part of the cartridge
like it is on HP or Canon etc.

It's not on my newish Canon either, although it's plug in so easier to
remove than with the Epsom.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result,
and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Yup - the print head on my trusty old Stylus 600 was blocked, and no
amount of cleaning cycles would cure it. I removed it and left it soaking
in distilled water for a day or so. Then tried forcing water (gently)
through it with a small squeezey bottle - the type ink re-fills come in.
Linked to each ink input in turn with some sleeving. Some jets worked but
not others. Soaked it in industrial alcohol. Tried forcing some of that
through. More jets working. After a couple of days of soaking and forcing,
eventually all the jets seemed clear. In jubilation I went to pull off the
sleeving from the input - careful to do this in line and not break the
tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of repairing
that.

I'm glad that happened.

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


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result,
and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Yup - the print head on my trusty old Stylus 600 was blocked, and no
amount of cleaning cycles would cure it. I removed it and left it soaking
in distilled water for a day or so. Then tried forcing water (gently)
through it with a small squeezey bottle - the type ink re-fills come in.
Linked to each ink input in turn with some sleeving. Some jets worked but
not others. Soaked it in industrial alcohol. Tried forcing some of that
through. More jets working. After a couple of days of soaking and forcing,
eventually all the jets seemed clear. In jubilation I went to pull off the
sleeving from the input - careful to do this in line and not break the
tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of repairing
that.

I'm glad that happened.



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



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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:22:05 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely
result,
and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Yup - the print head on my trusty old Stylus 600 was blocked, and no
amount of cleaning cycles would cure it. I removed it and left it
soaking
in distilled water for a day or so. Then tried forcing water (gently)
through it with a small squeezey bottle - the type ink re-fills come
in.
Linked to each ink input in turn with some sleeving. Some jets worked
but
not others. Soaked it in industrial alcohol. Tried forcing some of that
through. More jets working. After a couple of days of soaking and
forcing,
eventually all the jets seemed clear. In jubilation I went to pull off
the
sleeving from the input - careful to do this in line and not break the
tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of
repairing
that.

I'm glad that happened.



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


Oh dear ! It's Imm again. :-)

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:22:05 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely
result,
and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Yup - the print head on my trusty old Stylus 600 was blocked, and no
amount of cleaning cycles would cure it. I removed it and left it
soaking
in distilled water for a day or so. Then tried forcing water (gently)
through it with a small squeezey bottle - the type ink re-fills come
in.
Linked to each ink input in turn with some sleeving. Some jets worked
but
not others. Soaked it in industrial alcohol. Tried forcing some of that
through. More jets working. After a couple of days of soaking and
forcing,
eventually all the jets seemed clear. In jubilation I went to pull off
the
sleeving from the input - careful to do this in line and not break the
tiny plastic pipe. But held the assembly wrongly, and pulled the thing
apart - ripping off the ribbon to the piezo part. No chance of
repairing
that.

I'm glad that happened.



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

He will not?

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 ,
"Ian Stirling" says...
Broadback wrote:
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?

IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result, and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Agreed. The output chip in my car stereo died, so I got a
replacement chip from Maplin and fitted it. Hooked it up on the bench
and it worked well, but then I knocked the metal case onto the
circuit board and the magic smoke escaped :-(
Okay, it wasn't hours of difficult work, just getting the chip and a
few minutes soldering, but I was _well_ ****ed off, and the stereo
ended up in the bin - so near and yet so far ...

"Rob Morley" wrote in message
t...
In article ,
"Ian Stirling" says...
Broadback wrote:
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?

IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result,
and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Agreed. The output chip in my car stereo died, so I got a
replacement chip from Maplin and fitted it. Hooked it up on the bench
and it worked well, but then I knocked the metal case onto the
circuit board and the magic smoke escaped :-(
Okay, it wasn't hours of difficult work, just getting the chip and a
few minutes soldering, but I was _well_ ****ed off, and the stereo
ended up in the bin - so near and yet so far ...

"and the magic smoke escaped :-( "

LOL

"Incidentally, Edison is widely credited with the "smoke theory" of
electronics which maintains that all components in any given circuit really
operate on a minute charge of white smoke and when the component fatigues
and releases its smoke, it is rendered useless since its source of energy
has escaped."

Full story here....
http://www.g4fik.com/humour/electricity.html


Still laught at....
Bob Transformer and Billy Joe Farad

On 22 Dec 2004 15:08:14 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

Broadback wrote:
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?

IMO, nothing beats spending hours on something, getting a lovely result, and
then completely wrecking it just as you finish.

Recent example for me would be after my monitor failed, I took it apart,
spent a while finding the fault, fixed it, and went on to add a small
low-speed fan to keep it cooler, and then replacing some caps on the board,
as they were a bit old, and high ESR.

Turned it on to check it. Result!, slightly brighter, with no shadowing like
it was doing, and better EHT regulation.
Left it going for 12 hours, still fine.
Slid case back on, and was met with a whooshing noise.
A wire that needed to be in one position when out of the case, has to be
taken off and put back on before you put the case back on.

It had caught on the board at the back of the CRT, and ripped the neck off
the tube, making it utterly unrepariable.

For "nasty, smelly" jobs, I tend to skip the whole mask thing, and
go for a full facemask with air supplied from a fresh source.

I think these are the worst.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who regularly forgets to put the
sleeving/collar/grip etc onto the cable before terminating it. This
is especially a pain if I've just soldered the joints.

As for the worst DIY job, I think pulling a ceiling down after I had
replaced all the tiles and batons on the roof above it.

Rob


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"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I had to cut through a cast iron pipe recently,

Wished you hadnt said that I have the job in a few days of cutting through
a cast iron soil pipe cant wait now ) may leave it till after xmas,
incidently what type of mask did you use? i have a P3 mask which is for fine
hazadous dust alos how hard was it to cut through the pipe was it like a
knife through butter or did it take some time, also I take it there were
alot of sparks, the only reason I say this is because I have to cut the pipe
in a small loft area with a very old type of rockwool and I can see the
whole lot going up in flames. And if you connected a plastic soil pipe to it
(as i want to do) where did you get he connectors

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.

Broadback wrote:
snip pipe cutting

By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?

So far it has been stripping ancient paper off of a kitchen ceiling
that hasn't been cleaned for years.

Imagine a room full of steam.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling, that hasn't been cleaned for probably... _ever_,
since it was last papered - I reckon about 10 to 20 years and it's
covered in congealed yellow fudgey grease.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling, containing melted 20 year old yellow fudgey grease
and it dripping all over your face, your clothes, the floor, running
down your sleeves as you hold the steam stripper up.

Don't imagine the smell. It's rank. Oh and the paper is blessed with
a plasticy layer that refuses to peel off and refuses to allow the
steam through no matter how many times you run the spikey three footed
yellow hedgehog over it.

We had to bin the carpet at the end of the day because it smelt so bad.
Yep. That's been pretty much our worst job so far.

Same here I had to strip the same kind of wall paper which had been painted
with some plasticy paint which again refused to come off but this was in a
room about 4ft by 5ft imagine that filling up with steam oh it was the
toilet btw and stripping round the back of the WC produced some of the worst
smells I could EVER imagine
"Fitz" wrote in message
oups.com...

Broadback wrote:
snip pipe cutting

By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?

So far it has been stripping ancient paper off of a kitchen ceiling
that hasn't been cleaned for years.

Imagine a room full of steam.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling, that hasn't been cleaned for probably... _ever_,
since it was last papered - I reckon about 10 to 20 years and it's
covered in congealed yellow fudgey grease.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling, containing melted 20 year old yellow fudgey grease
and it dripping all over your face, your clothes, the floor, running
down your sleeves as you hold the steam stripper up.

Don't imagine the smell. It's rank. Oh and the paper is blessed with
a plasticy layer that refuses to peel off and refuses to allow the
steam through no matter how many times you run the spikey three footed
yellow hedgehog over it.

We had to bin the carpet at the end of the day because it smelt so bad.
Yep. That's been pretty much our worst job so far.

Fitz wrote:

Broadback wrote:
snip pipe cutting

By far my most unpleasant job what's yours?


So far it has been stripping ancient paper off of a kitchen ceiling
that hasn't been cleaned for years.

Imagine a room full of steam.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling, that hasn't been cleaned for probably... _ever_,
since it was last papered - I reckon about 10 to 20 years and it's
covered in congealed yellow fudgey grease.

Imagine standing in a room full of steam with condensed water dripping
from the ceiling, containing melted 20 year old yellow fudgey grease
and it dripping all over your face, your clothes, the floor, running
down your sleeves as you hold the steam stripper up.

Don't imagine the smell. It's rank. Oh and the paper is blessed with
a plasticy layer that refuses to peel off and refuses to allow the
steam through no matter how many times you run the spikey three footed
yellow hedgehog over it.

We had to bin the carpet at the end of the day because it smelt so bad.
Yep. That's been pretty much our worst job so far.



Oh, I had one like hat laying discotehque lighting wires in a suspneded
eceing over a kitchen area.

Congealed fat and dirt everywhere.
Fortunately we were on te top floor of a 30 stortey bulding.
The building manager said 'its worse lower down where all the soil pipes
have open up due to building expansion'

Haha.

I like painting - especially glos as it happens. I get a sense of
satisfaction when everything is gleaming white.
Its the preperation I hate - espeically sanding. And as we are aware
this is the key part of any job.
When I moved into my house, the previous owners had rag-rolled the
walls yellow with orange bits in the hall, stairs and landing. This had
to be sanded off which with an electric sander took two days and a lot
of sanding pads. This was by far the worst job I had ever done. Even
wearing a dust mask I was completely yellow, had yellow ear wax and
yellow snot for some time.
CM.

On 22 Dec 2004 07:43:41 -0800, "Charles Middleton"
wrote:

I like painting - especially glos as it happens. I get a sense of
satisfaction when everything is gleaming white.

No thats just the fumes you like?
;-)

I hate painting in vinyl silk. That was a mistake and a half! It
skinned over and was very gross. Also smelt horrid too.

Its the preperation I hate - espeically sanding. And as we are aware
this is the key part of any job.
When I moved into my house, the previous owners had rag-rolled the
walls yellow with orange bits in the hall, stairs and landing. This had
to be sanded off which with an electric sander took two days and a lot
of sanding pads. This was by far the worst job I had ever done. Even
wearing a dust mask I was completely yellow, had yellow ear wax and
yellow snot for some time.
CM.

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Broadback wrote:
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.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/Skanksville/index.htm

Say n'more.

Si

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 :-)

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.

In article , "The Natural
Philosopher" says...
Rob Morley wrote:
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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.
:-(

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
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 roof off an old barn is the worst lately. The pan tiles were
fine but underneath was a thick layer of straw bound together with
lime-based
mortar. Impossible to stop it flying about. Wonderful drying effect on skin,
especially in the creases.

Peter Scott

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
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.


Removing a lath and plaster knackered ceiling in the kitchen of a 1st floor
1 bed converted victorian flat, whilst still living there. Think that there
was a layer of whatever soot-like substance was used as fire retardent on
top of it as well.

Anyone who's ever removed a l&p ceiling knows what sort of mess I'm talking
about....

Or removing the old loose-fill insulation from the loft space of that same
flat, before reinsulating & boarding. Again, 1/2" of the same soot-like
retardant, and was about July time in a particularly hot summer.

I've done a lot of stuff to my current place, but nothing comes close to
either of those.


--
Richard Sampson

mail me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:12:01 -0000, RichardS wrote:

Again, 1/2" of the same soot-like retardant,

As the property was victorian that stuff probably was mainly soot from
the umpteen coal fires in the neighbourhood. There was no sarking in
my parents house and that had a good 1/2" layer of black dust in it
and that was only built in the 1930's...

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
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?


Pulling down an old lathe and plaster ceiling in a room where the chimney
had obviously leaked soot into it. The floor ended up feet deep in debris
and I was black from (protected) head to toe.

Anything to do with fibreglass or rockwool. This irritates my hands,
arms etc for days. Even if I have been wearing gloves.

Broadback wrote:

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.

Defnitely anythung that produces quantities of dust, and has to be dne
in the icy cold and wet.

Like cuttng up concrete slabs in winter.

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.