I have decided that I wish to………….?

Dont know what happened there.

This is the sealer:

https://regalpaint.co.uk/floor-paint/

I used this 4 or 5 years ago:

Regal Prime and Seal

Then painted 2 coats of this :

Choose your colour.

https://regalpaint.co.uk/floor-paint/garage-floor-paint/

Holding up well in a well used home workshop area.

My live in jacket back in the day at  Technical College was a…………Belstaff Waxed Cotton motorcycle jacket.

(Bike was a D175 Bantam…)

Ah. The Turner Gallery.

Good timing of this thread.

Looked at the link…..knocked on the head straight away….Band A to D…..I’m band E…..humphh.

Interesting what you say about a contracter covering air vents.

My house is constructed with the roof joists sitting on the iner cavity wall, meaning that there is no exposed joist ends or soffit panels. The outer brickwork has 3 ‘sailing’ courses of bricks, with the gutter fixed directly to the final course.

So, I would also be worried if the insulation covered the open gap that you can see when in the loft, as that being open is part of the breathability of the cavity.

At the moment there is no insulation at joist/ceiling level, but is ready attached to the tile underfelt. (House built in mid ’70’s. Looks like they made underfelt with insulation. Neighbours are all the same, so not a later DIY add on).

I was thinking along the lines of  https://www.wickes.co.uk/Kingspan-TP10-Roof-Insulation-Board—2400-x-1200-x-100mm/p/180438 or https://www.travisperkins.co.uk/cavity-and-internal-wall-insulation/knauf-dritherm-cavity-slab-37-100mm-455-x-1200mm-6-55m2-per-pack/p/848602 cut into strips to fit between inbetween the joists, sittting on the plasterboard.

There are ceiling lights in the bathroom, so I would want to cut around those.

Less messy than rolls of loose fibre loft insulation?

Time travel?

Car park full of Leyland (or was it Austin/Rover then?) Maestro’s.

Aerodynamic clothing….!

@kormoran

Yep. VAT thresholds.

@Rubber_Buccaneer

Thanks. But that looks a bit complicated for a spreadsheet numpty like me.

Have a look at http://www.cjautosheywood.co.uk.

They do all sorts of automotive lifter, adaptors etc, etc.

Something like http://www.cjautosheywood.co.uk/product/2-ton-crossbeam-adaptor-cl04/

@colournoise

Hey. Not too far away, still the fens.

Between 10 mile bank and Black Horse Drove (Just north of Littleport, adjacent to River Great Ouse)

Up River

Down River

Can you leave the airbag not wired in?

Could it be triggered in a certain condition?

It might mean that the flow rate of the hot and the flow rate of the cold is not balanced.

Where does the hot come from, unpressurised cylinder? How is this filled?  Header tank in loft?

Where does the cold come from? If this comes from the rising mains, then it will have more pressure/greater flow,  than the hot in the unpressurised cylinder, hence the imbalance.

If this is the case then the cold should be replumbed to come from the header tank. ie. Both hot and cold at the same pressure.

Try here.

https://www.suitdirect.co.uk/

Picked up a linen suit for a wedding in a couple of weeks.

Probably never wear it again.

Volt stick is your best tool before you start.

@sirromj

Sunley Tower from Tivoli Park? (Park next to Football Ground)

Hand washing here, in a big clean bucket and wearing rubber gloves.

Drip dry.

Short ‘flash dry’ in the tumble dryer.

(Berghaus, Goretex Paclite. Good few years old now).

@ sirromj

Margate ?

(And a marker showing where the old pier used to be)

https://deepdalecamping.co.uk/

Tents and camper vans.

I’d be fixing that myself.

Too much risk of a leasing company big bill.

Well. I am in that 50%

Bowel cancer at 48. Fit, long cycle riding, no smoking, healthy diet, not overweight etc.

Was it a shock or what.

Radio therapy,Chemo and surgery.

Now 65, still fit, long cycle rides, ……

No change really.

Good picture.

The Swalbe tyres that I have on do exactly the same thing but through the tread.

No sign of any sealant leaking through, but the soapy water  found it.

I’m loosing about 5 psi overnight from a 35psi pressure.

In my opinion, I just dont think these tyres are good enough for the job.

(All my trials and tribulations in the thread ‘I’m Giving Up’.

I really struggled through 3 weeks of may – absolute streaming nose and itchy eyes.

Had used Loratadine previous years, but this year absolutly no benefit at all.

Started taking Fexofenadine 120mg, releif within a few days.

You can also get 180mg on prescription.

@andeh

Its not like a coventional hole where something has pierced through.

Its more like a weak point in the inner carcass, allowing air in, and then out through another weak point, again not a hole , in the outer rubber.

Well here we are again.

Last Sunday, 2 ‘punctures’ one in the rear at the start of the ride and one in the front part way through the ride.

Both sealed for a short while and then just opened up again. This happened 6 or so times. When I got back the bike, oh and me, was covered in drying latex solution.

How to wash it off…..sponge down so you can see it and then wipe off with Isopropyl alcohol, then coat the bike with silicone spray again to help prevent things ‘sticking’.

Having emptied out the Stans and stripped the tyres off, and following thorough cleaning and drying,  I found that these were not punctures but a tyre failure. These ‘holes’ in the tyre are always in the centre. The positioning of these and previously repaired ‘holes’ follow the same pattern.

(I ran all winter over the same ground with tubed Maxiss tyres without 1 puncture).

This is what the defect looks like:

Plenty of tread:

Closer look, defect here:

So, lessons learnt:

Dont use cheap patches.

This looks like its OK:

Closer look, it has not stretched, the air is getting under the edge, and the Stans will eventually work its way out:

Use these patches :

Tip Top with a feather edge.

Reassembled again. Struggled with the tyre inflator on my workshop compressor. At 45psi the beads seated with a satisfying ‘click’.

I’m going to run these st 35psi, so pressurised at 1.1xWP = 40psi, for 30minutes. (sounds like a hydro test of some pressure retaining industrial equipment !)

Depressurised, removed the valve core, and filled with 60ml new,  freshly shaken and stirred Stans through the re valve stem. (No need to disturb the tyre again)

Going to buy an Airshot, or make a copy from an old fire extinguisher body.

Pressures held up overnight, been out this morning and all good.

Interesting comments about the age of the Stans.

The bottle is 2 years old, as the tyres are 2 years old. Maybe the solution has separated. I did give the bottle a good shake. Not much left in the bottle, so I will chuck that.

I will pick up a new bottle this week.

The inside of the tyre was pretty well coated with ‘dried’ Stans, but did wipe over the surface with a cloth and IPA.

Good idea above from Mudfish, to scrub a new tyre to remove any mould release agent.

All these little ideas must help.

The tyre size is 35, and at 35psi today felt comfortable over a mix of tarmac 60% / hard trail 40%. Weight here is 85 kg.

Well.

I did write the post in a bit of a mood this morning.

Missed 2 weekends riding due to a terrible bout of what I can only think is hayfever, but which has eased off now.

So, I wrote that I fitted tube, but reading comments above I stopped, and took a closer look at the tyres.

They are 2 years old, and where the Stans sealant was coming through co-incided with what must have been a puncture that the sealant had previously sealed successfully.

Pumped the tyres up to 100 psi and sure enough a stream of Stans was ejected from these 2 locations. Yellow crayon marked.

Tyres off, emptied out the sealant, (not a lot, nowhere near what I would have put in originally),washed and dried.

Could not see anything obvious inside, but proceeded to stick a Rema Tip Top patch in place.

Re fitted, added fresh Stans and bingo, no leaks.

Conclusion

These wheels have not been used since the end of the summer ’22, and have been hung up in one position. I suspect that as the inside of the tyre has not has a continuous coating of liquid sealant, it has allowed ‘weak’ spots to fail, and allow sealant to escape.

I had been running these at 40psi. Is this too much? I am going to go down 5, to 35psi.

Only time will tell.

They missed the discs/brakes.

They did a service…..did they?

Drained the oil out of the sump, or just sucked it up the dipstick tube? (Leaving any sediment in the sump, and any metal ‘bits’ on the magnetic sump plug?????

Did they change the oil filter??? (Pop the bonnet and check if you have a clean looking filter casing).

Stone bounced off the lawnmower, landed right on the light.

ooops. Sorry.

What a shame.

@footflaps.

When the blocks have dried out, don’t forget to brush Kiln Dried Sand all over.

You need to fill the gaps between the block to keep them ‘locked’ together. You will hsve washed all the sand out by pressure washing.

3 years ago I used:

https://regalpaint.co.uk/regal-prime-and-seal/

Followed by:

Quick Dry Garage Floor Paint

in Ford Tractor Blue

Rollered on. 2 coats.

Great finish. Wearing well.

Recommended.

errr.

What is the date today…?

Woosh.

Hmmmm.

Look at my classified ad, 7 from the top on page 3.

Fiamma Cycle Carrier

Happy to do some dealing.

PM me.

@ampthill.

American plug and voltage………Good observation.

What a disappointing story, about which should be a day full of ‘buzz’.

Hope that it gets sorted out.

I’m debating this for my upcoming 66th pension / bus pass year birthday.

Always wanted an Omega, but could never justify the spend. One day I always said.

If I don’t do it now, I will never buy one.

(Used the same excuse on the 60th birthday to buy a BMW1200RT)

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Old Hornby Stephensons Rocket 3 1/2″ gauge. Runs on Butane.

@joshvegas

Ignore technical advice?
Nit pick over half an hour on a timesheet whilst burning a day over it?
State in a project meeting with clients you don’t really understand anythign being discussed?
Book holidays for all significant deadlines?
Have you poor communication skills?

This sums up all the PM’s that I have come across in the past 20 years.

Just finished working on a project, delivered 1 year late, just had to be dispatched with Carry Over work for ‘somebody’ at site.
Even senior management was appalling.

The PM could not GAS, now even less so, although still things to finish and ship in 1st week of April.

As he said.

Alpkit will repair.