Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: Ice on March 25, 2007, 20:42
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No, not that kind of butt crack. :lol:
A friend of mine is throwing away a plastic water butt as it has a crack in it. Is there any possibility of repairing it? Not sure exactly where it is on her butt at the mo. :lol:
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Like your way with words Ice.
Would that silicon that is used on fish tanks work on plastic? If so just cover your butt crack with the goo and wait for it to harden.
You could ask in a fish tank shop.
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what a post subject! I had to check it out; can't help you on th problem but thank you for making my eyebrows rise! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I got some modelling stuff called Milliput to repair one of my Lilliput Lane cottages.
It is heat resistant up to loads of C, and water proof and cold resistant too! Tried it on my water butt last year and no leaks at all.
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Thanks grannieannie, it's sounding possible.
Fluff, keep reading your post and having hysterics for some reason. Something to do with spreading goo on my butt. Not sure why this is funny as it is a perfectly legitimate thing to do in the circumstances.
Har har :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Fibreglass resin and matting should fix it.
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Thanks grannieannie, it's sounding possible.
Fluff, keep reading your post and having hysterics for some reason. Something to do with spreading goo on my butt. Not sure why this is funny as it is a perfectly legitimate thing to do in the circumstances.
Har har :lol: :lol: :lol:
You started it :lol:
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Fibreglass resin and matting should fix it.
I was gonna suggest Isopon - is that much the same?
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Yeah, but you lowered the tone Fluff. :wink:
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Fibreglass resin and matting should fix it.
I was gonna suggest Isopon - is that much the same?
Think so WG
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AUNTEEE !!! ... I'd be on the naughty step if I'd posted anything half as smutty as this thread ... I trust you have noted my restrained and helpful reply?
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AUNTEEE !!! ... I'd be on the naughty step if I'd posted anything half as smutty as this thread ... I trust you have noted my restrained and helpful reply?
SMUTTY? How very dare you. This is a legitimate question that could save me over 20 squid. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Aunty is back :!:
I've given you a gold star in the naughty book WG, well done :!:
I've taken eveyone elses names :shock:
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Yeah, but you lowered the tone Fluff. :wink:
Moi? Never!
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as said already - fibreglass. You can get fastglass kits for about a fiver at most motoring shops. But patch it on both sides, and give it a good overlap, say 2" all the way around the crack. A fastglass kit gives you the glassfibre matting, resin, hardener and a spatcula!
Anything that doesnt have any reinforcing in, for instance araldite, would seal the crack but not take the pressure
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where abouts is the crack ?
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I did see an actual 'butt crack' repaired, Ice Hockey. It was in the movie Cor blimey, which Barbara Windsor of the Carry On gang wrote about her life on the show and with Sid James. Seems the tall, snotty Ken was having insecurity problems and when they were all at a pub one time, he climbed on the table, dropped all his drawers and asked Barbara to perform some miracles to his backside so his cheeks would be perkier. :lol: I laugh now but at the time was so grossed out over that scene and poor Barbara's reaction. I suspect that no amount of silicone helped.
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Thanks Zac, that sounds like a good idea.
As for you Trillium!!!!!!!!! :shock: That's put me right off my lunch. :lol:
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Thanks for the laugh, Ice Hockey Mad. And remember, whatever you use to cure the problem - including Zak the Rabbit's 'but patch' (but patch it on both sides, and give it a good overlap) - don't sit down till it's dried. I can just imaging paramedics doing a mercy dash across the allotments to rush you off to hospital with upturned bucket attached or whatever !!
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It would take a bit of explaining in the ER :wink:
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It would take a bit of explaining in the ER :wink:
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judging by RoSPA statistics its probably one of the least bizarre things they'll have seen :D
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where abouts is the crack ?
It's on the BOTTOM of course, D'oh. :roll: :wink: :lol:
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where abouts is the crack ?
It's on the BOTTOM of course, D'oh. :roll: :wink: :lol:
turn it upside down then hockey :wink: :roll:
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But there is a huge great hole where the lid goes and all the water would fall out if I turned it upside down Shaun :roll:
Ooooh, I'm getting one of my headaches. :lol:
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put the lid on and then turn it upside down :wink:
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Sorted :wink:
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:roll: women :roll: you cant live with em and you cant live without em
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:roll: women :roll: you cant live with em and you cant live without em
You can live without them, you just can't reproduce without them ... Oh sh*t, here's Mrs Golf, gotta go
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:roll: women :roll: you cant live with em and you cant live without em
:roll: MEN! :roll: Can't live with 'em and you can't shoot 'em :lol:
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Nice one ytyynycefn.
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Best not to let him know that his idea stinks. Male ego and all that.
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Nice one ytyynycefn.
So you didn't like my reply then Ice?
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Sorry WG, missed that one, but did you ever hear of cloning?
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Nice one ytyynycefn.
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Best not to let him know that his idea stinks. Male ego and all that.
i was only trying to help have you tried a bit of chewing gum or selotape or failing that go and get another one
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Sorry WG, missed that one, but did you ever hear of cloning?
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Of course ... Dolly the sheep was even Scottish wasn't she? Not that I associate sheep with reproductive activity you understand. Gotta be careful 'cos we've got folks from Wales and New Zealand listening ...
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Yeah but Shaun, I posted in the frugal living thingummy, not the got money to waste thingummy.
I need a top up, beer doesn't drink itself does it? :lol:
I really, really want to be horrible to the Welsh WG after they wouldn't let me into their country last week. Got to the toll on the Severn bridge after a 3 hour drive and discovered I'd left my wallet at home. We didn't have enough cash to go through and the **** told me to turn around and go back. Did the helpless girly thing to the driver of a van behind and he paid the difference. What a top bloke. Pah, Wales? I would pay to get out, not to get in.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, just needed a rant. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Yeah but Shaun, I posted in the frugal living thingummy, not the got money to waste thingummy.
I need a top up, beer doesn't drink itself does it? :lol:
go round the local building site and put your best frock on and ask those lovely happy builders for one and i bet you come away with a nice big new butt.
I dont drink beer anymore since i fainted in the toilets at the labour club
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shaun is gonna get auntied cos he is talking about womens butts agin
go round the local building site and put your best frock on and ask those lovely happy builders for one and i bet you come away with a nice big new butt :shock:
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water butt i meant jeeese you always twist things around :lol:
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And Aunty hears everything Shaun :!: :roll:
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have i got to stand in the corner again aunty with my hands on my head :cry:
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Not this time Shaun, just remember I miss nothing :wink:
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I really, really want to be horrible to the Welsh WG after they wouldn't let me into their country last week. Got to the toll on the Severn bridge after a 3 hour drive and discovered I'd left my wallet at home. We didn't have enough cash to go through and the **** told me to turn around and go back. Did the helpless girly thing to the driver of a van behind and he paid the difference. What a top bloke. Pah, Wales? I would pay to get out, not to get in.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, just needed a rant. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Nightmare! Most of the people in the toll booths are English though :lol: But I'm not a Welsh, I just live here.
On Sundays, I have to cross the bridge to collect the nipper from his dad - we meet at the services on the English side of the old bridge. Handily, Jay's mum has a disabled badge, and lives just a couple of miles away, so we usually pick her up, get the nipper , come back over the bridge for free (smug smiley) and spend the fiver we've just saved on tea and cake in the garden centre on the way home. :roll:
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Not all of us are bad :shock:
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The Welsh have a lot of leaks don't they. Someone over there should come up with a great remedy for broken water containers (I'm being good, Auntie!). Icehockeymad could do a roaring trade flogging but patches near the Severn Bridge toll booths !!!!!
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Not all of us are bad :shock:
Sorry Ann, the boy had an ice hockey match in Cardiff and was supposed to arrange a lift several days before. He left it to the last minute and surprise, surprise, no-one had space for him and his kit. :roll: I really didn't need the drive to Wales and when we got to the toll and were told to turn around I nearly blew a gasket. Surely that bridge is paid for by now. :shock:
Actually his first choice university is Cardiff so next season I may have to make that journey more often to watch his games. Better keep some change in the car. :wink:
Hmmmm, heard of selling coals to Newcastle, but leek (I know leek/leak:wink: ) repair kits to Wales, now that might just be a moneyspinner.
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Hope they won the match after all that effort to get him there. :lol:
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IHM - from where you are just outside Milky Beans, I'd suggest going via Bicester to Witney, and then picking up the A40 to just outside Gloucester, and pootling down the A48 to Chepstow, and get on the M48/M4 from there! Avoids the toll, then, and it's a very pretty route!
When I take the nipper to his dad's, we either meet up in Oxford (ie just off the A40) or I take him all the way to Luton, but come back on the A40 anyway. Over the last two years, I've found that this route is way quicker than the M4 Severn Bridge route, especially on a Friday! It's slightly shorter too, and seems to use a bit less fuel.
The bridges are probably paid for by now, and annoyingly they both need lots of repairs - but the Anglo-French company in charge has a clause written into their contract saying they're not liable if they can show it's due to a "design fault". Grrr. They still get the toll money, though!
Just a thought for if your son does go to Cardiff! How did the match go?
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Yay, they did win after all that. :lol: Well it was either win or walk home. :wink:
I'll look into that route ytyynycefn, picturesque and toll free, sounds good to me.
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I'm relieved to see your on to something else Ice. When this thread popped up again, I was worried you were having more problems with your butt crack. (tee hee hee hee)
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Actually WG, I do have a question about my butt that someone on here might know the answer to. It is.....
Last summer my butt was the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. What can I do to prevent this? One evening I took the lid off to see how much water there was and a whole army of mossies flew out. What can I do?
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cover the lot with an old tarp or sheet . i have the same dam problem with my water butt being outside the back door ,the * fly in when i let the dogs out at night, and they blooming bite :x tryed jeyes etc but thye just bite n it dont go septic then :lol:
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Actually WG, I do have a question about my butt that someone on here might know the answer to. It is.....
Last summer my butt was the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. What can I do to prevent this? One evening I took the lid off to see how much water there was and a whole army of mossies flew out. What can I do?
I add a little lime which seems to help keep the midge larvae under control
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Add just enough cheap cooking oil to cover the surface. It'll suffocate all the eggs. Also, on the Gardener's World website somewhere, Joe Swift mentions a special organic liquid he uses inside the butts to control the critters but I can't remember what it is, something citrus scented.
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I go the oposite way to WG, i put a few drops of vinegar in, but dont stir it up - it just acidifies the top few mm where the larvae are. Like most creatures they need quite neutral pH to live, so liming or acidifying will kill 'em.
liming might be better for the plot though later
oiling will work by increasing the surface tension so the mozzies cant break through to breath, and so suffocate
but munties best - make sure they cant lay the eggs in the first place - most butt lids have slight gaps that the females get in through
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Thanks guys, you lot are amazing. Getting the cracked butt tomorrow and attempting a repair over the weekend using the car repair kit. Will let you know if it works. As for the mossies, I think a combination of the above suggestions should work.
Thanks all, If I have any more problems I know who to ask. :D
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before you put the repair patches on (im assumine the car repair kit is fiberglass), take a wire brush or some rough sandpaper to the area its going on and make it really rough, that way the patch will stick much better
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drill loads little holes 1/2 from the crack on both sides of it this wil make an even better surface for sticking to .use resin first then apply the patching material then more resin on top .. paste some on the inside as well :wink: werks on inflatables ..... on the boat not the skirts
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good point! counterintuitive as it may sound, putting more holes in is a great idea, the resin flows through and joins both patches together
a patch on both sides and it'l be like a pair of rivetted plates - rock solid!
if its fastglass you got only mix it just before you apply the stuff - it lives up to its name! give it 7-8mins and it starts going like jelly
ere, why aint me emoticons working???
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Sorry WG, missed that one, but did you ever hear of cloning?
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Of course ... Dolly the sheep was even Scottish wasn't she? Not that I associate sheep with reproductive activity you understand. Gotta be careful 'cos we've got folks from Wales and New Zealand listening ...
Did someone mention SHEEP
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Did someone mention SHEEP
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Nice picture BD but wrong thread. Try this one ... http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=3427
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Why wrong thread WG? I can see more butt cracks than is healthy for a laydee of my disposition. :lol: :lol: :lol: Actually, maybe it's an eco-friendly bike park :wink:
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Why wrong thread WG?
:oops: Ignore me. I've been up since 4am and am clearly confused by this thread going from butts to sheep and back to butts. :wink:
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Shhhhhh everyone, WG need some shuteye. Stop tapping that keyboard, yes you over there, stop it now. :wink:
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ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ zzz zzz zzz
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going from butts to sheep and back to butts. :wink:
sounds like a welsh rifle range :lol:
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You are so banned from crossing the border into Wales Zac. :lol:
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Yes, it's the weekend when I finally answer the question. :lol: Forgot to bring friends butt home last time I visited her. Tomorrow I transform myself into a plastic surgeon :roll: and attempt the first ever hairline butt crack fixing procedure. Yes, thanks to consultations with several eminent fixers of stuff on here the time has come to operate. Mop my brow please, I'm going in.............
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good luck hockey i hope its a painless operation for you and you pal :lol:
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Thanks Shaun, just hope my barrel chested patient survives the op. :lol:
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i'm sure you be gentle
so whats method are you using to repair the crack ?
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I got a fibre glass repair kit from the local car shop. Failing that, I'm sure a bit of bubblegum should hold it.
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ohh sand paper will be used in this operation mmmmmm and possibly latex gloves the things you women get up to on the allotment :roll:
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If only my marigold gloves could talk :wink:
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If only my marigold gloves could talk :wink:
if you blow them up like a balloon and fasten them around your waist with a bit of string they look like udders :wink:
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Why Shaun? Is that what passes for fun in Cheshire? :lol: :lol: :lol: Anyway, got my own :wink:
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Finally, I can let you all know that a butt crack can indeed be repaired.
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A tasteful picture might follow if I can figure out how to plug the camera into the pc without it crashing. :lol:
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And are you going to share your secrets for repairing your butt crack?
It may be useful should anyone else have the same affliction.
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I dont want to know realy fluffy i can be very squeamish,I watch animal hospital through one eye :lol:
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But Shaun, if your butt crack ever needed fixing it would be better to know which treatment worked than try lots of alternatives that may not relieve your problem.
You turn me so smutty Mr Shaun - lol
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I used a fibreglass repair kit from the local car spares £6, a stick with sandpaper duck taped to one end and a plastic spreader taped to the other. Definately recommend using that stuff in the open air as the fumes were very strong. Easy peasy really and it entertained the neighbours too. :lol:
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I tried to find out if someone else had pointed out that this month's Grow Your Own mag has a step by step to repairing Water Butts, however the original thread may have been lost somewhere in th midst of all that banter!!
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/magazine.php
Come back rain - all is forgiven!
Best wishes
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old soapy (one of my blue water barrels) had a knife shoved in half way up. very nice. so used a soldering iron to melt or weld over the cut inside and out. sealed fine. another fibreglass type has a split tap hole so will use fibreglass and resin to fix it.
been carting 8x 25 litre bottles up the lottie in a trailor and filling the butts.
who needs rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:
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Now we are a two butt family (or double barrelled as I prefer to say :wink: ), where has all the b****y rain gone. I blame Shaun. :lol: :lol: :lol: . Just 'cos I can. :wink:
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now hockey this mini drought is nowt to do with me but i must confess i do like this global warming :wink:
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Yeah Shaun, nice innit? But it's still your fault. 8)
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I love it ive got a great tan already 8)
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me too! :lol: :lol: