05-06-2014, 08:57 AM
Hi,
Thanks for your sympathy Robin; the weather always plays havoc with my life and I'll never get used to this climate. I want to install new double glazing units then re-paint the exterior of our bungalow; I want to re-point an end wall; I want to spend time in the gardens; I want to be able to wander into the garage; why can't I? Because we live under a permanent cloud with a prevailing breeze or wind up the valley.
I too find buying best quality kit to be the cheapest in the long run; initially it hurts my pocket but better buy a single good quality tool than buy many cheap tools which end up being thrown away making these cheap tools highly expensive? A lot of work can be carried out with only a basic but good quality tool kit. More tools for specific jobs makes for easier working but hundreds of years ago top quality work was carried out before electricity was discovered? When it comes to the machinery I like to buy old cast iron British machines and repair/restore them then I have a machine to last a lifetime or two?
A poor workman blames is tools but a poor handsaw which binds in the cut curling up hardly encourages top class results. Cheap drill bits which smoke and glow white hot chisels which blunt on contact with wood; I've gone through the lot over the years but slowly have now reached the point of having good kit all I need is good weather?
Modern paint is poor and shed and fence treatments are just a joke. Last year I treated our exterior rough woodwork with Creoseal which is a Creosote substitute and although this Creoseal is much better and longer lasting than the Ronseal it is disappointing; I now wish I had bought the original Creosote assuming I could buy it because of all the current legislation and environmental regulations? I may as well have brushed on old dirty engine oil which I have used in the past this oil being free?
I filled the petrol mower with new oil yesterday and the mower is still in the garage because to drag it up to the shed in the rear garden will be a muddy job; 6" thick concrete might be a better option than grass?
Kind regards, Col.
Thanks for your sympathy Robin; the weather always plays havoc with my life and I'll never get used to this climate. I want to install new double glazing units then re-paint the exterior of our bungalow; I want to re-point an end wall; I want to spend time in the gardens; I want to be able to wander into the garage; why can't I? Because we live under a permanent cloud with a prevailing breeze or wind up the valley.
I too find buying best quality kit to be the cheapest in the long run; initially it hurts my pocket but better buy a single good quality tool than buy many cheap tools which end up being thrown away making these cheap tools highly expensive? A lot of work can be carried out with only a basic but good quality tool kit. More tools for specific jobs makes for easier working but hundreds of years ago top quality work was carried out before electricity was discovered? When it comes to the machinery I like to buy old cast iron British machines and repair/restore them then I have a machine to last a lifetime or two?
A poor workman blames is tools but a poor handsaw which binds in the cut curling up hardly encourages top class results. Cheap drill bits which smoke and glow white hot chisels which blunt on contact with wood; I've gone through the lot over the years but slowly have now reached the point of having good kit all I need is good weather?
Modern paint is poor and shed and fence treatments are just a joke. Last year I treated our exterior rough woodwork with Creoseal which is a Creosote substitute and although this Creoseal is much better and longer lasting than the Ronseal it is disappointing; I now wish I had bought the original Creosote assuming I could buy it because of all the current legislation and environmental regulations? I may as well have brushed on old dirty engine oil which I have used in the past this oil being free?
I filled the petrol mower with new oil yesterday and the mower is still in the garage because to drag it up to the shed in the rear garden will be a muddy job; 6" thick concrete might be a better option than grass?
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
