The bloke that started it all! I think that was his name. Anyone remember Barry on the telly in the early 70s with his hardboard, Formica and Evo-Stick?
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Barry Bucknall: the Father of DIY
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Barry Bucknall?
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I do.
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Bod wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
in the days when people learned something from watching DIY on TV!
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Very nearly 100% but it was BucknEll.
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The very one, from the subject line!
My dad hardboarded all our doors...
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Like how to ruin paneled doors by covering them in hardboard. ;O)
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thus preserving them for a future generation to restore them :-)
Owain
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I've heard of him, but I didn't have a telly in those days!
He certainly didn't "start it all" though. I've been doing DIY since long before that - late 50's I reckon. I suppose he may have made people more aware of possibilities.
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Well on the bright side, it actually preserved some decent doors and prevented them being replaced by eggbox nasties. At least one can pull the hardboard off.
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If he is the one with the big yankee driver, then yup - just about.
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Why, FFS?
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I do, and I think he was a bit before the 70s - 1950s more like - and he was Barry 'Bucknell'.
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Panelled doors seen as old-fashioned and dust-collectors.
Owain
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Only because Barry told him to.
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Or us old carpenters to cut our then young teeth, repairing some the errors that were made by the then budding DiYers - thus earning a few shillings to add to our beer money pot. Tax free of course!
Ah, nostalgia - that's about the only thing I can do now without some bloody body joint or other hurting.
Cash
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Same with the staicase in lots of houses, including this one.
I pulled off the hardboard, stripped the paint, and replaced the plain spindles with some inexpensive turned ones. Applied woodstain, and it really sets off the hall.
And yes, it does collect more dust.
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Because Barry did a programme about modernising the look...
Actually, he did the banisters all down the stairs too. Hardboard both sides!
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In my Grans case a couple were still damaged from debri bashing into them in the Blitz , the OP mentioned the 70's but Bucknell started over a decade before then.
G.Harman