Cans of de-icer. Don't do it.

[driverrob]

The garage door has been freezing to the concrete due to dripping icicles all day.
Now they've stopped dripping I went out and chipped off what I could. Salt doesn't work on vertical surfaces (and I'm nearly out and Tescos is completely out) so I grabbed a new can of windscreen de-icer to spray on it. After 5 minutes trying to get the plastic cap off by hand I resorted to a screwdriver.
Gently, I pushed it in under the cap and twisted, working my way round. 20 seconds later the cap was off and 2 holes in the can were gaily spraying the fecking stuff all over my hands and coat.
Warning. they are made of very thin metal.

[TheEnd]

And you then lit the jets and threw it like a grenade?

If you didn't, you missed a trick!

[Cock Womble]

Are you also troubled by child-proof bottles of aspirin?

[Lois]

Tastes like apple though!

[gib6933]

I have done exactly the same thing. But with a tin of satin black paint!

[LukeBird]

Noted.

Don't use screwdrivers to open pressurised cans!

[Afriend]

TheEnd said:

And you then lit the jets and threw it like a grenade?

If you didn't, you missed a trick!

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

[DAVE-W]

LukeBird said:

Noted.

Don't use screwdrivers to open pressurised cans!

Yup.....who'd have ever thought of that one!

[cazzer]

gib6933 said:

I have done exactly the same thing. But with a tin of satin black paint!

Plasticote????

[Merlot]

cazzer said:

gib6933 said:

I have done exactly the same thing. But with a tin of satin black paint!

Plasticote????

I very nearly did the same with Plasticote Satin Black

[cazzer]

Merlot said:

cazzer said:

gib6933 said:

I have done exactly the same thing. But with a tin of satin black paint!

Plasticote????

I very nearly did the same with Plasticote Satin Black

I did.

It must be something with satin black.

[Petemate]

Going back to the question of the garage doors. We had the same problem with ice on the lower edges underneath; the doors are nil clearance to the concrete entrance when they pass over the edge, opening & closing. My lad managed to get the doors open but they would not close again. So when he went off to work, I got the heat gun and with a strip of aluminium about 5" wide to reflect the heat up on to the underneath edges and the doors open, I managed to clear the ice off then sprinkled some salt on the entrance ramp so the doors closed all right. Later this eve when he came home, they opened OK and in went the car. Result.

[p4pedro]

For fecks sake DON'T do it on a foam fill can.

peter