Re: Getting to grips with a rotten roof (Pic heavy)
Posted: 31 Jul 2016, 18:59
So pleased I a pop top right now!! Sincerely, Good luck!
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CovKid wrote:Dave, you could well have started the most watched thread ever. Hope you know just how big that job is going to be.
Footnote: My elderly Mum just said "I hope hes not married" lol
Smosh wrote:So pleased I a pop top right now!! Sincerely, Good luck!
bluebus1987 wrote:Excelent work there.Outdoors and in a timescale that puts most of us to shame.
It just shows what can be acheived if you set your mind to it. When I see vans being scrapped, described as beyond repair for a few rusty seams, it makes me wonder why they bought the things in the first place.
tforturton wrote:It never ceases to amaze me the jobs that van owners undertake - often, as in this case, on their own drive (or back garden). Hats off to you for taking on a difficult job - I suspect a lot of people would have simply sent the van to the breakers....
ZsZ wrote:Good work there.
When it is ready dont forget to use a lot of hollow section wax and/or a fluidfilm like penetrating fluid to seal those black converted rust spots you leave after the wire wheeling. Otherways the rust will come back.
Very true.... you work incredibly fast.evilnoodle wrote:Looks like an excellent job and in astonishingly quick time. Well done indeed
bluebus1987 wrote:Please, please don't mention neighbours. Friday, elderly nutso neighbour parked his car across the narrow lane where we live to get someone to call the police so he could complain to them about my van. When it didn't work out he started ranting and raving. When I ignored that, he started grabbing handfulls of my tools ( including my 8 year old sons pride and joy of a birthday present cordless drill ) and lobs them down the road.
Today I knocked on his door and asked in the meakest mildest terms if I could do a little more work and therefore move the object of his hatred, and he grumpily agrees.
An hour later he's out on the road again but all smiles and an hour long conversation about his life history and the world at large. Its not about noise or anything like that ,I'm very carefull about that sort of stuff.
The trouble is I wont know till tomorrow what sort of mood he's in, could go either way.
And I know perfectly well from experience that if it's not the van it will be something else.
Luckily all the other neighbours are fine.