Pinkfill

The colour's nice if you like that sort of thing?

It was probably specified by the same marketing assistant at B&Q who thought that having a range of ladies power tools would be a good plan. There was a set of them for about £70 with lilac handles with small curvy shapes. I think they were in the store for about 6 weeks and then disappeared. I doubt whether it was because they sold out of them.

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did you really mean Pinkgrip? Or is there another pink one around ?

The main claimed improvement seems to be that it has improved 'grab' so less need to pin or support items

I presume the pink-ness (not really pink) is a marketing ploy, which in a market full of 'Grip-a-likes' is fair enough I guess - ditto the 'not for amateur' use bit as well.

I got some form a local BM (Everbuild are a Leeds company so there products get into a a lot of places ISTM) sesm ok, can't really say if it any better, but certainly no worse (unlike some I have tried..0

Sorry, yes - Pinkgrip.

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I think it goes with many of the personnel who present BBC diy programmes. It's a lifestyle statement? Regards Capitol

Pinkgrip is essentially very similar stuff to Gripfill, but pinky/red in colour and marketed in a bit more gimmicky way.

Of course, being a northener, it must be better if it is made in Leeds, but in my use of both I have found no advantage of one over the other. Except, perhaps, that one looks better when you get it on your clothes, 'cos you'll never get it off!

Rob

Gripfill too, the stuff is f*cking flammable. There are mutterings that it may be banned for non-commercial use.

America had a pretty nasty explosion with this type of stuff, earlier in the year.

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If John Prescott hears about this we'll have part Z of the building regs put into law before the end of the year, and you will only be able to use it if you belong to the Blue Peter "here's one I made earlier with sticky-backed gripfill" club :)

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It a menaingless statement really. Who ever buys and uses it will agree to it believing that they have purchased and are using a superior product.

Will petrol also be banned for being flammable ?

Lots of products are highly flammable, if the end-user is stupid bad things will happen. I made the mistake last several years using low VOC products (varnish, woodstain etc), i have learnt from these mistakes and will never use these totally crap products where high VOC products do the job properly.

I started correcting these mistakes today just scraped the 5year guaranteed Ronseal (doesn't do what it says on the tin) woodstain off the external face of a window and cill, didn't protect the hardwood frame at all, many grey areas and the crap just sat on the wood no penetration and very flaky; it has only been on for just over 1 year (preparation was done correctly not just slapped on). Window has just received its first coat of sadolin classic wood protection, another coat or two of that then some sadolin extra durable woodstain should be a far superior end-result.

And the whole of america had a big explosion, damn that must have been one hell of a big diy job ;)

Petrol isn't as bad. Gripfill has some _real_ nasties in it.

And the reason we're still driving around in Molotov chariots is that no-one has yet produced a real alternative. Except my bike of course

- I start work tomorrow 11 miles away down a billiard-table flat cyclepath, paying myself 20p/mile mileage allowance 8-)

You may laugh when I have to be rescued from a snowdrift by St Bernards 8-(

I was deliberately being asinine w.r.t. explosion. You don't smoke in petrol stations because.... likewise you don't use any sort of ignition when varnishing a whole floor (high VOC) with the doors closed, if you do stupid things bad things happen.

Well a real step up will be highly pressurised cylinders of hydrogen, currently being trialled by LRT.

Except my bike of course

hehe, wrong time of year to start cycling to work. I know the feeling very very well, cycled in/out of uni for the best part of 6 years, and also to/from work for 3 years. One particularly bad day, driving blizzard, had to stop several times to thaw my eyelids which had frozen open :) you should make a higher winter allowance for cycling

What? You don't mean a job? What about the dungeon furniture and the mirrors? Please clarify as a matter of urgency :-)

NOT.

sorry, did i forget to put in sarcasm markers ?

I suspect so, It was late...