How to make ukrm jealous

I just spent the afternoon doing some tinkering on the FJ [1], all in
the comfort of a heated garage .

[1] cleaning brake pads and general lubes.

 

I've got one of those. More enviable as the 30A cable I run all the
electrics off doesn't appear to be connected to a meter.

No doubt there's some silvery haired pensioner a few doors down wondering
why her meter eats 50 pences.

 

LOL. Nice one.

 

snip

If I give you an long extension lead ..................


--
Nidge
ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few
bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5

'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
Homer (Simpson).

 

I have one of them, with a newly coated floor (factory floor paint).

Doing the wheels and brakes this weekend.

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Gavsta.
GSXR600K1
Z750 Race Bike
R6 Race bike (shared)

e: gwilby [at] stoof [dot] co [dot] uk
msn: gavsta2k [at] hotmail [dot] com
Web: http://www.stoof.co.uk

Currently Playing - "Eminen - Encore"

2794 tracks, 7.8 days, 11.23 GB.
20 gig 3rd Gen iPod.

 

I always preferred plain concrete myself ;-)

 

Hmm, soaks up any spills though, and then looks, well, just nasty.


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Gavsta.
GSXR600K1
Z750 Race Bike
R6 Race bike (shared)

e: gwilby [at] stoof [dot] co [dot] uk
msn: gavsta2k [at] hotmail [dot] com
Web: http://www.stoof.co.uk

Currently Playing - "Eminen - Encore"

2794 tracks, 7.8 days, 11.23 GB.
20 gig 3rd Gen iPod.

 

Dusty as **** too.

My shed floor is a rather fetching shade of.erm, red[1].

[1] some tough as **** single pack stuff I found in father in laws garage.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Mine's a groovy shade of oil with added sawdust.

 

We once went to look at a house for sale with a workshop in the garden.
According to the particulars it had "power and light" - neither worked when
we visited,
to which the guy said "You don't need light, it's not dark yet".

When we had a survey done they found that the workshop was powered from the
streetlight in the alley,
which was on a timer and only powered on in the dark!

We didn't buy the house, for other reasons...

Dave

 

*ding*

www.stoof.co.uk/floor/cimg1001.jpg When I first did it.
www.stoof.co.uk/floor/cimg1051.jpg Now.

--
Gavsta.
GSXR600K1
Z750 Race Bike
R6 Race bike (shared)

e: gwilby [at] stoof [dot] co [dot] uk
msn: gavsta2k [at] hotmail [dot] com
Web: http://www.stoof.co.uk

Currently Playing - "Eminen - Encore"

2794 tracks, 7.8 days, 11.23 GB.
20 gig 3rd Gen iPod.

 

Not if you get it all the same colour ;-)

 

Your webshite doesn't work.

I painted my garage floor last Christmas - and the walls. It looked
pretty good when I was finished, if I say so myself. I have the
"before" pictures, but never got around to taking the "after" shots.
That's annoying.

 

This is part of your line of work isn't it?

What would you recommend for a cement floor that's started going a bit
'powdery' in one corner?

I think it's damp, but TBH I know nothing about the mysterious of cement - I
would like to seal it so it doesn't get worse/fill the garage with dust
though.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

PVA - buy it by the 2 or 5 litre can, dilute 5:1 with water and apply
with brush or roller.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Its up now.

--
Gavsta.
GSXR600K1
Z750 Race Bike
R6 Race bike (shared)

e: gwilby [at] stoof [dot] co [dot] uk
msn: gavsta2k [at] hotmail [dot] com
Web: http://www.stoof.co.uk

Currently Playing - "Eminen - Encore"

2794 tracks, 7.8 days, 11.23 GB.
20 gig 3rd Gen iPod.

 

Used to be, not so much these days.

If it is due to damp there's not much point in sealing it, it'll just come
out somewhere else.

If it's just gone powdery any proprietary concrete sealer should do the
trick, although personally I reckon a good grey single pack polyurethane is
good for garages. Only thing to watch out for is that if the car / bike is
parked up for more than a few days, when you move it you'll pull up small
patches due to migration of the plasticizers in the tyres. If this is a
worry either a 2 pack or a single pack clear penetrating "case hardener"
would be better.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

pos

Mine's grey with white walls.