If anyone knows can they provide a name and address so I can go round and give him a good kicking.
The lady who owns the house has offered to hold him down.
If anyone knows can they provide a name and address so I can go round and give him a good kicking.
The lady who owns the house has offered to hold him down.
But often put up to cover up a poor ceiling full of cracks.
Knickers are used to cover cracks.
What a crude man you really are.
Decorators my parents used said it was cheaper to replace the ceiling (either over boarding or rip down and replace) than spend the time taken trying to take down the tiles and clean up the ceiling back to an acceptable finish.
I had put the tiles up as a teenager when it was my bedroom, very well as it happens (none showed any sign of coming off easily). Parents had the ceiling taken down and took the opportunity to have insulation batts put up there (lack of insulation was why I fitted them in the first place).
You are the second person today to say that.
The first was the apprentice when I asked him how many fingers his girlfriend could take and he answered "How am I supposed to know?" I replied "Well after two you will have lost count"
Forgive me, but I couldn't resist it Adam - your knickers must be rather large to cover such a big crack!
Cash
True, but usually only one pair at a time though.
I think you'll have have to go round tom the cemetery and dig him up. Ceiling tiles have been around for a very long time, so he's bound to be dead by now!
Good to see you raising the tone in your usual inimitable way!
Is this the one who's still a virgin despite buying lots of handbags?
Owain
Yes, they had the virtue of hiding a poor ceiling finish (cracks and/or artex or peeling paint) and providing insulation whilst at the same time being incredibly light weight allowing the use of a cheap and not so strong adhesive (and if any did fall away, no risk of injury).
The only serious problem was that they proved to be a serious fire hazard (but only in the event of a fire - they weren't usually the cause of the initial conflagration, just additional accelerant in the event).
The (now long standing) advice in regard of such ceiling tiles is to remove them for fire safety reasons. When we moved into our current Victorian built 5/6 bedroomed semi-detached house just over 30 years ago, I think over half of the rooms had been cursed by such polystyrene ceiling tile blight.
The only room still so cursed is the first floor bedroom I use as my office/workshop. Some time in the next year or so (I'm considering retiring from the computer repair business RSN), assuming we've not been burnt to a crisp by a house fire, I'm planning on having these remaining ceiling tiles removed since, aside from being a fire hazard, they'll depress the resale value of the property when we finally do pull up stumps and move into a house more suited to our needs as an elderly "Empty Nest" couple.
They are a right old fire hazard when painted with gloss. I went in a house fire one time and a bit dropped on my shoulder and burnt through my clothes. Still got a mark.
Bill
Ooh, bondage!
The main danger is that in a fire they give off deadly fumes. Lots of people killed in quite a small fire.
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Well, yes, but which is easier to remove?
Wonderful invention. the real person to have a go at is the adhesive maker, cos the tiles come off fine when you want to change the look, but the adhesive seems be to be mostly rock hard or rock hard with a rubbery layer that does not want to come off. Brian
They are actually quite good at insulation, and the later ones, like the ones in use in my house have a very low temp melt and hence do not spread fire like napalm as the earlier ones did. Brian
Yes, but who paints them in gloss? The newer ones just melted but did not burn, so it seems daft to paint them in flammable paint! Brian
I have in the past used acoustic tiles to cover a ceiling which had previously had polystyrene tiles (fixed with very hard adhesive) (1) on top of artex, but they were quite expensive - actually pretty close to what a skim would have cost.
IIRC they were the same sort of tiles that can be used in suspended ceilings, but sticking them direct was fine, using the nominated (also expensive) adhesive.
The tiles remained for about 10 years until a complete kitchen refit. This time the entire ceiling was brought down (partly to allow an extractor duct to be fitted) and re-plastered.
(1) Actually two sets of adhesive marks - the installer had clearly started the job, then realised they needed to swap from tile central to join central, and ripped them off again.
Chris
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