New TVR still under wraps! (Vol. 3)
Discussion
glow worm said:
Only Leeks,Parsnips,Celery & Beetroot left in the ground, planted a few new potatoes(Pentland Javelin, Charlotte & Maris Piper) and carrots in tubs for Xmas, now moved into the greenhouse with the Oranges, Lemons, Grapefruits and Olives . Need to dig up the Dahlias once it stops raining.
Off topic, I've been working on the new car showroom, screeded for the second time last week ( first time it exploded like a teenager face with pimples) . Now to fit skirting boards and seal , decided I'm not skilled enough to tile (36 sq metres) and I can't afford a tiler
. So I'll try sealing the flowcrete and see how it looks , I'm definitely not painting ( it always comes off) .
It doesn’t come off if you pva the floor first, even if it did you just touch it in.Off topic, I've been working on the new car showroom, screeded for the second time last week ( first time it exploded like a teenager face with pimples) . Now to fit skirting boards and seal , decided I'm not skilled enough to tile (36 sq metres) and I can't afford a tiler
. So I'll try sealing the flowcrete and see how it looks , I'm definitely not painting ( it always comes off) .Edited by glow worm on Tuesday 2nd November 14:36
Tiling easy with the floor levelling wedges now available.
Gazzab said:
Well someone else has made some progress…..
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/wells/vertige
What’s a dihedral door? I think there was one in Harry Potter on Platform 13 1/2 but I wouldn’t fancy having to run at the car to get in. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/wells/vertige
) ..."Please allow 2m for me to get in/out" bennno said:
It doesn’t come off if you pva the floor first, even if it did you just touch it in.
Tiling easy with the floor levelling wedges now available.
I've tried that in the past ... and it didn't work ... i was using International Paint Garage Floor paint Tiling easy with the floor levelling wedges now available.
I'll probably end up tiling, when I can find some large (500 x 500) heavy duty porcelain tiles
I got DOTTI samples, but they're smaller than I want.phazed said:
Any sort of ceramic tile isn’t going to deal with a trolley jack or axle stands or will that never happen!
It's my TVR showroom ... the "dirty" garage with the 4 post ramp is next door 
I got an expert company to do the screed.... Unfortunately 1st time they did it , it suffered largish pimples caused by the original concrete "Gassing off". No quibbles they overlaid a second screed and used a different Acrylic primer and kiln dried sand to act as a "key" and Flowcrete Industrial Top.. Still has dried with a number of pinholes.
I think some poor fill was used under the concrete in the 1980s , clinker or similar and that's causing the gas to pass through the original concrete.
It's amazing the finishes that are available today ... "polished" concrete etc.
Edited by glow worm on Wednesday 3rd November 12:20
QBee said:
Polished concrete sounds to me like a finish covered by the Warsaw convention.....?
Some years ago a colleague and I were on an ice breaker in Norway. The ship was owned by the Fins and during the summer season when not breaking ice we used the vessel in the energy sector. My colleague asked the Captain if he was Finnish, to which the reply was 'No, but I retire in three years and then I finnish'Nordic humour, not often seen
On the subject of how slow and crap we are in this country at so many things I was astounded to see that the taxiway resurfacing works at Heathrow are still going on some 3 years since they started!! I was there on Sunday and not a workman in sight!! Indeed frankly whatever day I am there there are just huge swathes of it coned off and various bits of machinery dotted about but nobody seemingly there to actually get on with the job!!
Contrast that with Frankfurt Airport who resurfaced runway 18 in 120 hours!!! That tells you everything you need to know about why VW/Audi/Mercedes/BMW go from strength to strength and we can't even raise £15m to get a small car firm back up and running or refurbish a factory unit in over a year!! https://vimeo.com/237045142
Then I look at the appalling PM and Government we have running the whole s
tshow with their corrupt contracts for cronies and their utter incompetence with managing the pandemic, the whole test and trace debacle where we're paying management consultants £3000 a day to sit at home ringing people up to check they are isolating rather than hiring more nurses to do it on £20k a year. Then you look at the collapsing NHS, overunning defence contracts, shortages of goods, the aircraft carriers with no planes on them, HS2, Heathrow's third runway, the lousy standards of secondary state education, the insane cost of housing and a state benefits system which simply isn't there anymore when you need it and I find myself wishing we could just vote to hand the whole bloody lot to somebody who is competent and sensible like Angela Merkel!!
The best thing about Brexit is that the Conservatives won't be able to blame Europe anymore for the fact this country is so rubbish! Yes it's got stunning scenery, wonderful architecture, culture and history and I love it for that, but in terms of being well-run British management and government are largely beyond useless and always have been... They never invest enough to do things efficiently or properly which is why there are so few British world beating companies and mostly we're famous for being unprepared, often operating with our backs to our wall and on our knees just about limping on! You can see it in everything from WW2 to the railways, the motor industry and the wider manufacturing sector. The only industry which is always propped up is financial services/banking and frankly they're part of the problem because they never back anything but a sure fire winner and their whole strategy is to look after the rich rather than the needs of the wider population.
Saxon
Contrast that with Frankfurt Airport who resurfaced runway 18 in 120 hours!!! That tells you everything you need to know about why VW/Audi/Mercedes/BMW go from strength to strength and we can't even raise £15m to get a small car firm back up and running or refurbish a factory unit in over a year!! https://vimeo.com/237045142
Then I look at the appalling PM and Government we have running the whole s
tshow with their corrupt contracts for cronies and their utter incompetence with managing the pandemic, the whole test and trace debacle where we're paying management consultants £3000 a day to sit at home ringing people up to check they are isolating rather than hiring more nurses to do it on £20k a year. Then you look at the collapsing NHS, overunning defence contracts, shortages of goods, the aircraft carriers with no planes on them, HS2, Heathrow's third runway, the lousy standards of secondary state education, the insane cost of housing and a state benefits system which simply isn't there anymore when you need it and I find myself wishing we could just vote to hand the whole bloody lot to somebody who is competent and sensible like Angela Merkel!!The best thing about Brexit is that the Conservatives won't be able to blame Europe anymore for the fact this country is so rubbish! Yes it's got stunning scenery, wonderful architecture, culture and history and I love it for that, but in terms of being well-run British management and government are largely beyond useless and always have been... They never invest enough to do things efficiently or properly which is why there are so few British world beating companies and mostly we're famous for being unprepared, often operating with our backs to our wall and on our knees just about limping on! You can see it in everything from WW2 to the railways, the motor industry and the wider manufacturing sector. The only industry which is always propped up is financial services/banking and frankly they're part of the problem because they never back anything but a sure fire winner and their whole strategy is to look after the rich rather than the needs of the wider population.
Saxon
I hope that you are not a real pilot! How many runways does Frankfurt have? How many does Heathrow have? How many can Frankfurt afford to close to resurface? How many can Heathrow afford to close?
And what does the rest of your garbled rant have to do with the funding of a sports car start up that has no hope of delivering a competitive product and more importantly a return on investment?
And what does the rest of your garbled rant have to do with the funding of a sports car start up that has no hope of delivering a competitive product and more importantly a return on investment?
Well said Lucy! I was thinking exactly the same thing. Be careful though, don't want to dampen his paisley socks and open toe sandal enthusiasm for the new TVR. He's just about all it's got left! 
Saxon, you are not alone with these thoughts.
I retire in the next 12 months and am certainly not hanging around in this cold, damp and incompetently run country any longer than I have to.
It's just a case of off to which country we will take our selves, now that an ego-driven Boris has driven us out of the EU.
I retire in the next 12 months and am certainly not hanging around in this cold, damp and incompetently run country any longer than I have to.
It's just a case of off to which country we will take our selves, now that an ego-driven Boris has driven us out of the EU.
The last thing this thread needs is to turn into a political one. That will definitely get it closed. There are plenty of other forums for discussing Brexit, although by now they have all been done ad nauseam.
In the absence of TVR news, it's fun to talk about vegetables and garage floor coatings, but for politics, please find somewhere else more appropriate.
In the absence of TVR news, it's fun to talk about vegetables and garage floor coatings, but for politics, please find somewhere else more appropriate.
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