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Misterhelpful you are correct, aluminium paint just like he told me. I wonder why it has stuck to rest of window though. Anyway its a mess that needs fixing and I don't want a repeat disater. Thanks for your reply

I think I followed some rum advise from an old guy. I stripped a south facing sash window and he told me to just use one coat of aluminium paint as a primer/undercoat then two coats of gloss. He said that is how greenhouses were painted to stop the sun baking the paint off. Well I shaded the...

Just started pointing in a riven sandstone patio with 5:1 mix with a glug of SBr. All going well but I have trees all around especially birch dropping seed and leaves and add to that the next doors chickens were running around all over me nice wet pointing. :lol: Yes, a new fence is due to...

Tee Hee. Twas a typo. I think its all lime mortor which I hear was all that was used back then.... sometimes with a bit of cow dung!. Correct I just want to seal it all and burn on safley. Think I will do normal cement in the deep, deep bits followed with fire brick and fire cement to...

Thanks so much for your reply and help, its good to get some feedback. Ditto. inside it says WELLBECK. CF I have searched the web and emailed companies who supply these cements and even furnace and kiln products and had no real response or limp ones at best but with no advice or...

Hi yes thanks thats possible and bit less cement behind but I would have to try to cut the broken brick level and its tucks in each side 28mm so it is not going to be easy. Either way I need some solid gunck to glue it all together. Do you know ought about these cements, ie how skicky and how...

Thanks for that. I have looked at several fire bricks and I need it 42mm thick then 20mm of cement behind it, more if the fire brick is thinner. I am going to have such a depth of fire cement on the other bricks-up to 80mm in the middle- I can't see it holding in or if it can be used that...

Yep thats contaminates. :( Liquid soap often has animal fat in it like the lanolin found in sheeps wool. You need a degreasent like sugar soap or household amonia but thats not much help with it covered with paint. You could try fine sanding the bubbled area's and perhaps doing a coat of...

Hi I need some advise. I have an old cast iron range cooker c1940/50 its working fine and the chimney has been swept but the fire bricks at the back were cracked. I was going to clean the soot and dust of and use a fire cement to patch them up but cleaning revealed the extent of the...

:D Thank you so very much for all your help TheDec, the grey cloud has lifted and i shall press on, I have six sash windows to do when poor sickly one is finshed.

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Thanks TeDec you make perfect sense, it was hard to get that sticky stuff to stay put on top of linseed oil :lol: It was the old fashion linseed oil paint I was refering to v coventional (modern) paint. I was reading up on linseed paint from Holkham and that sent my thinking should i...

Thanks TheDec and DcDec I am new to the site, so not sure how to do a reply. I was told Aluminium paint and i did wonder if it should be primer, so thanks for that. I was also told linseed oil feeds the wood and slows the drying of putty so as to prevent cracking but yes a long drying time...

Hi all Before I go any further I wanted to check with you all that I am doing the right thing. This is an old south facing window with float glass that was thick with paint that has failed and rot has set in. So far I have stripped the paint off the frame with a hot air gun and will strip...