B&Q chandlery bargains

[andy_wilson]

Builders Buckets £1.50 nm

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[Guest]

Sharpies in Dover

Great Chandlers and nice people with realistic prices! there is a tube company a couple of doors along backing into the caves they are very helpful for one off crimping of drybolic tubes and supplying every sort and size of exhaust pipe ever made I should think!
Rob

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[claymore]

Re: Clear plastic sheet

Lexan is the stuff - its what they use in banks etc and is bulletproof. Its not cheap and its not easy to get hold of. That helps a lot doesn't it!!
I'd try a shopfitter who does banks - or should that be a shoplifter?

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Claymore
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[david_e]

Re: Bankrobbers

Thanks, I'll give either Sinbad or tcm (he used to be a part time bank robber) a shout.

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[dickh]

the Anti-Fouling is Flag - which I've used for the last couple of years and is good at £39.99/2½Litres. The bilge paint is good too. Not tried their Varnish though.
BUT don't buy the B&Q International Yacht Varnish - the one with the nice yacht on the tin - much cheaper than the chandlery BUT when you read the small print it's ONLY suitable for interior NOT exterior. A bit of misrepresentation methinks...

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[bigmart]

I tend to stay away from B&Q whenever possible because it gives SWMBO ideas about things other than boats. Not a good idea.

Martin

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[richardandtracy]

Re: B&Q International Yacht Varnish

I've got stung by that one myself. It stays soft for ages, goes soft when it gets warm & is a pain.

Regards

Richard


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[vyv_cox]

Re: B&Q International Yacht Varnish

And it retains its unpleasant smell for a very long time. I remade all bunk locker lids in winter 2001 and the smell of the varnish still persists.

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[Guest]

I use Micro-porous finish

..... B&Q is same product that is put in other tins at greater price ..... I won't name the household name ....

As to the Yacht Varnish - mines come out alright - but then again - I don't use that much - except where I want that glossy decorative effect - otherwise its Micro-pore stuff .... allows me to rub down lightly - overcoat each year easily.


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Bilge Keelers get up further ! I only came - cos they said there was FREE Guinness !

 

[Avocet]

Re: I use Micro-porous finish

I got some cheap louvred cupboard doors that looked very nautical. They were too wide for the locker I had in mind but were relatively easy to take apart, shorten all the slats and re-assemble. A quick coat of staining varnish and they could almost pass for teak (on a dark night after a few bottles of wine!)

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[graham]

A few years ago a friend of mine dried his 90 year old 28 foot sloop in a mud berth on the bank of the Rumney River to do a bit of work.

Unfortunately the wind changed over one high water and pushed the boat too high up into the berth.Result was neaped on the biggest tide for months to come ,as a liveaboard drastic action was needed.

About 8 pm as soon as the water started ebbing out of the berth he started digging away the mud under the keel .Horror of horrors the shovel snapped!My friend in a state of panic and plastered from head to toe in Mud ran about 2 miles to our local BandQ and just got there in time to buy a new one.

Following morning with one boat towing several people pulling on halyards and pushing he slithered back into the river exhausted,whole boat plastered inside and out with mud but successfull.

I can only wonder what the B+Q staff thought of it.Demented grave robber springs to mind.

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