I need to add another shelf to my TV cabinet. The current shelf is chipboard covered by a black laminated 'plastic'. I beleive that these used to be sold as 'conti' boards and came in various colours including black. I have been around all of the local sheds today and can only find white or beech. What happened to black ? was it so unpopular that they stopped doing it ?
Alan
Tell me about it.
I go to the skips to collect bits to match what I have already.
And also weird reclaim place where ex cons sell stuff donated to them.
It just went out of fashion.
Its like trtyng to get silver Hifis when black is in, or vice versa. Every few years the fashion changes and the Dixons salesman looks as if you had stepped out of a time warp.
Like everything else - it was a fashion created by the industry to persuade people to change all their furniture. Now everyone's gone beech! I read in a 'Homes' magazine the other day that laminate flooring is so 'yesterday' - just when everyone has thrown out their carpets and gone 'hard'. !!!
Kev
As for the looks I get from visitors, when they see my orange and beige hi-fi....!
Alan, I have the identical problem! If memory serves correctly the board finish was called Black Ash. I need a board to re-jig my home theatre unit and then more to make up a new unit for some friends, hopefully in time for Xmas.
There must be some of this stuff still available somewhere. If you find any please post back here, I will do the same.
Richard.
In article , Bob Eager writes
QUAD?.....
Not sure there are any others...or are there?
I think these people are just down the road from you, they do a whole range of colours to order:
Talking of that, did you ever get your DVD machine issue with them resolved?
Ive been looking for over a year, and believe me reclaimed junk is the best way.
Yes. I went back in on the date they promised to have it fixed, and they meekly handed me a new one.
A week later some servicenter phoned me up to say my DVD player had been repaired, and they would send it to me. Sadly it never arrived, so I never got a free second one. :-(
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:20:21 -0000, "Uno Hoo!" strung together this:
My mates one up on that one. He was going to get the laminate floor down as they were becoming the in thing, he still hasn't got round to it so has decided not to bother now thus saving a fortune!
I'm one of those that could not care less about what the "style experts" think :)
I really do not like fitted carpets, and laminate was a reasonable compromise, where floorboards were in too poor a condition and real wood flooring too expensive. It will be a shame to see this option become unavailable - which it undoubtedly will now that the masses are "supposed" to go back to carpet.
Lee
'Ere!! Wos wrong with an orange and beige hi-fi? Mine works just fine.
You might try:
. ^^^^^^ I thought Quad called it marigold.
Oh yes.
That would be the Sugden A48
My mother bought Reading B&Q's last 3 pieces about a year ago.
Christian.
On 28 Nov 2004 14:05:07 GMT, "Bob Eager" strung together this:
Just seen in the CPC flyer today a orangey\beigey DAB radio affair made by Crown. That's shaved a few points off of yours then!
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