What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:39 pm That's the shed painted (well sprayed) ready for winter

https://www.diy.com/departments/ronseal ... lsrc=aw.ds

Try and do it at least every other year got one wall done last year and the weather put a stop to it ..

Got a cheap pump up sprayer in b&m with a brass nossil and it took me about 20 minutes to do the whole shed ..

Masked up and a old NBC suit not to protect against the paint rather the conifers down one side which usually leave me itching like mad and blotchy no such issue tonight forced my way past and got busy spraying
My fences that I installed have now been in for 3 years, and I've still not done them. But even I could use a pump up sprayer like that ... and though I don't have an old NBC suit, I *do* have an old shower curtain that I could drape about me :lol: seriously, I do!
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:D :D Speaking of fence painting… I am just sitting and having a cuppa between jobs. I have an outbuilding-brick- that is painted white. Everywhere is on our ground! :lol: I’ll do it with a small roller on an extension, and I can sit down to do it on my workshop barstool. The house itself will have to be done by a decorator, as I can’t use ladders now. Doctor told me off ‘cos of my seizures. Whoops.
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Arzosah wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:41 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:39 pm That's the shed painted (well sprayed) ready for winter

https://www.diy.com/departments/ronseal ... lsrc=aw.ds

Try and do it at least every other year got one wall done last year and the weather put a stop to it ..

Got a cheap pump up sprayer in b&m with a brass nossil and it took me about 20 minutes to do the whole shed ..

Masked up and a old NBC suit not to protect against the paint rather the conifers down one side which usually leave me itching like mad and blotchy no such issue tonight forced my way past and got busy spraying
My fences that I installed have now been in for 3 years, and I've still not done them. But even I could use a pump up sprayer like that ... and though I don't have an old NBC suit, I *do* have an old shower curtain that I could drape about me :lol: seriously, I do!

I got some years ago sealed in a brick like vacuum packaging... For a fiver a set .. make great robust overalls for mucky jobs I bought about a dozen sets
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 1:26 pm
Arzosah wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:41 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:39 pm

Masked up and a old NBC suit not to protect against the paint rather the conifers down one side which usually leave me itching like mad and blotchy no such issue tonight forced my way past and got busy spraying
My fences that I installed have now been in for 3 years, and I've still not done them. But even I could use a pump up sprayer like that ... and though I don't have an old NBC suit, I *do* have an old shower curtain that I could drape about me :lol: seriously, I do!

I got some years ago sealed in a brick like vacuum packaging... For a fiver a set .. make great robust overalls for mucky jobs I bought about a dozen sets
What a good idea! Though to be honest, for the job we're talking about, I could easily use the old clothes I use to paint in. However, having an NBC/CBRN suit appeals to the catastrophist in me :lol:
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Arzosah wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:29 pm
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 1:26 pm
Arzosah wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:41 am My fences that I installed have now been in for 3 years, and I've still not done them. But even I could use a pump up sprayer like that ... and though I don't have an old NBC suit, I *do* have an old shower curtain that I could drape about me :lol: seriously, I do!
I got some years ago sealed in a brick like vacuum packaging... For a fiver a set .. make great robust overalls for mucky jobs I bought about a dozen sets
What a good idea! Though to be honest, for the job we're talking about, I could easily use the old clothes I use to paint in. However, having an NBC/CBRN suit appeals to the catastrophist in me :lol:


The peeler suit makes a good set of coveralls for most conditions

https://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop ... apEALw_wcB


Since COVID and the Ukrainian conflict most of this kit has gone through the roof price wise
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As long as stuff you are using doesn’t eat through skin and bones or turn you into a zombie :lol: then a bog standard boiler suit ( washable,durable) for about £12 does the job. Mine must be ten years old and boy it’s done some work.
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jansman wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:37 pm As long as stuff you are using doesn’t eat through skin and bones or turn you into a zombie :lol: then a bog standard boiler suit ( washable,durable) for about £12 does the job. Mine must be ten years old and boy it’s done some work.

That's the one at the time I bought a pile stuff it was cheap not any more that and we were paint stripping the house with some rather nasty commercial grade stripper
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Today's task was a big service on the wife's car 4 hrs work

£230 in the garage
£75 for all the parts ..

£155 saved the wife won't pay me £40 per hour :shock:
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I won a job lot of swiss army knives (10 in total) and purchased some scales and accessories also.

Time for some fettling when they arrive, will save me time swapping out cooking kits and my edc.
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Well in common with a few in here I'm flattened by health probs and not prepping at all :evil: And last payday I spent my pocket money on Dior which is not really a good example of a committed prepper is it... - I'll try harder. Honest. :mrgreen: