Lathe plaster ceilings

[Silly Sausage]

just get out the crowbar

Who nicked the original cast iron fireplace then?

 

[Sparky_Steve]

its my pad still a work in progress i was debating starting a thread as completely gutted and pretty much started again. i still have the fireplaces in my scrap pile

 

[Silly Sausage]

its my pad still a work in progress i was debating starting a thread as completely gutted and pretty much started again. i still have the fireplaces in my scrap pile

If they're proper old cast iron fire surrounds, get them stripped and blacked up.
There's GOOD money going there!!!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

This is the stuff

Liberon Iron Paste 250ml - Wood Finishes: Osmo, Liberon and more inc Varnishes and Wood Stains! - agwoodcare.co.uk

 

[Silly Sausage]

This is the stuff

Liberon Iron Paste 250ml - Wood Finishes: Osmo, Liberon and more inc Varnishes and Wood Stains! - agwoodcare.co.uk

I used to use Zebrite (?), but recently I've had good results using some rust killer fluid from Toolstation/Screwfix and black boot polish, the proper stuff that comes in the little round tin.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Yeah I doubt theres much difference between boot polish and that iron paste!

got a couple to do actually. As in old fireplaces that have been glossed (arrrhhhhhh) over and need taking back and blacking up. REALLY looking forward to it. Its one of those jobs on the 50+ list that is going to be done slowly. And properly. Like all the other jobs I do of course....

 

[Sparky_Steve]

will give it a go thanks

 

[SPARTYKUS]

I'll do it for you. And pay you :willy_nilly:

 

[amlu]

with that big hole it would be easier to knock the rest down and replace with plasterboard.

 

[uksparks]

The day before, drill a small hole and pump in gallons of diluted PVA, then plug it.
The plaster soaks it up and stabilises it quite nicely!

Thanks for the tip.

 

[PEG]

Yeah I doubt theres much difference between boot polish and that iron paste!

got a couple to do actually. As in old fireplaces that have been glossed (arrrhhhhhh) over and need taking back and blacking up. REALLY looking forward to it. Its one of those jobs on the 50+ list that is going to be done slowly. And properly. Like all the other jobs I do of course....

...You sound like a man after my own heart...I did my folks roof a while back,and begrudgingly put through on regs (as required here),BC officer,nice bloke,says "can i ask why you used copper nails and 1" battens?" I told him that i decided rather than do the minimum required,by the regs,i would do the maximum possible,by a dutiful son.He said "fair play,it'll outlast all of us..." :stooge_curly:

 

[driverman]

Off subject.........but whilst working for a DNO company in a conservation area, several shops /flats were being fed with new U/G supplies. The Guy overseeing the whole job wanted the DNO cables to emerge from the outside and clipped up the outside of each building to the internal meter positions. No problems there....as such. The guy wanted the cables hid! His suggestion, and he was very serious, was to hide said cables in Victorian metal rain water down pipe with gully at the top! I refused point blank giving my reasons from a safety point of view. No one would know that live mains cable would be with what looks like an everyday down pipe. I was not very popular. The council were spending millions on this particular area to get all the local shops etc to look original as it was years ago. I suggested tongue cheek get gas lamps installed!

 

[ipf]

Don't think plaster goes too well with these.....

 

[shanky887614]

Don't think plaster goes too well with these.....

isn't it lath and plaster

i wouldnt like to cover a lathe in plaster