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B*******g up a door and frame in a restoration stylee

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PekkaNF:
Blimey. You are making all jobs looking intriquing.

Starting to look like zero budget (in monetary terms) = kazilion man-hours + well equiped work-shop + evil genius.

Pekka

awemawson:
Ross you have talents that you've been hiding from us  :bow: :bow:

Looking very good, and much nicer than a new door in my opinion. When we re-furbished our house the hard part was keeping a balance between character and practicality - making old houses into modern boxes is easy - making old houses into comfortable old houses is the hard part !

Andrew

Joules:
I like it Ross, your last photo looks like something out of the "Twilight Zone".  I think your skills have moved beyond dangerous.....  :med:

          Joules

RossJarvis:
Once again, thanks for the kind positive comments :beer:.

Joules, you've got me thinking now, what happens if I open that door and walk through it, hmmm

RossJarvis:
For those of you who think that my Works in Progress are like watching paint dry, here are some photos of paint drying, Primer Preservative;



…and first undercoat;



In case you’re wondering if the Harris Eclipse paint brushes;



 ….are better than their standard “no loss” type, because they are more expensive, I can confirm, NO THEY B****Y  WELL AREN’T;



…they seem to have missed the strap-line “TOTAL LOSS”!!!!!  Here you can see one of dozens of bristles carefully left smattering the surface;



Once again I forgot what I try to remember every time I paint something, “don’t put the paint on too thickly at first, you k**b, cos you’ll run out too quickly”.  So I ended up putting a third of a tin on the frame and a third on the door, this leaves me a third of the tin for the second coat on frame and door.  However, as I couldn’t find the dark grey undercoat so got white instead, I’m going to mix a bit of the green top-coat in with the undercoat.  Maybe the frame won’t need another coat as there’s already three coats worth of paint on it already.  Dulux says “one litre covers up to 16 square meters, 16 square meters my a**e.  If you can get 10 out of it you’re b****y lucky.  Plus, have you ever tried to work out what the range of Weathershield paints is?  Not by using their website you won’t and if you try finding all 3 parts of the 3 part system in one shop, you’re a better man than me Gunga Din.

Enough of that (not that I’m bitter), I’m hoping to put the second coat on tomorrow morning, once I’ve rubbed down all the flies and bits of Celotex stuffing that appear to be magnetically attracted to the door. 

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