DIY with function over finesse!!

[Rp0thejester]

I've just bought a touch up paint kit for my car, I'll post before and after photos on here if it's okay.

[mickthemaverick]

When I started this thread it was intended to document non car DIY, although I myself have strayed from that path in the past, but we really need a thread for DIY Car Maintenance and maybe your job would be a good project to start it off with. Most members seem to start their own thread about any given project which then often goes unread by many. A common thread would serve as a useful resource for everyone to refer to when faced with a new job on the car. I'll start that thread myself and invite contributions and then you can add your pictures etc.

[Rp0thejester]

Oh, so my comment won't get removed! Woohoo, I'll take that win!

[mickthemaverick]

The thread has launched and can be found here.

[mickthemaverick]

So I went out to the garage this morning to be confronted with this:

Own work

Own work

So I instigated an immediate resolution to the problem:

Own work

Then I came in for a cup of coffee from the vacuum flask, delicious, and began investigating my options. I eliminated replacing the roof panel as access is now exceedingly tricky so looked into repair options. After much research and mulling I settled on giving a new product to me a try. It is made by a well respected company and has excellent reviews so I click and collected a can from my local screwfix:

Own work

I just need to sort out some scaffold boards and wait for the very welcome rain to dry up and I will report back! Watch this space!!

[bobins]

I had a similar problem with one of my rented garages that's got concrete asbestos corrugated sheet roofing. The overlaps weren't long enough and the prevailing wind would blow rain between the joins. The problem I found was getting the corrugations absolutely dust and muck free enough to get anything to stick - and I didn't have much success in the end. Gripfill, silicon sealant, roof repair gloop like yours - all failed sooner or later as the sheets would move just enough to make the weak bond fail. In the end the landlords replaced all the roof sheets across the whole block and - miraculously - the problem went away

[mickthemaverick]

Fortunately my issue is a split in the valley rather than a joint leak. Hopefully once I've cleaned, wire brush on drill probably, and degreased the valley well beyond either end of the split I should get a good adhesion and sound job!! The sheets were all replaced about 12 years ago to get shot of the old asbestos ones which allows me to get pretty course with the cleaning and I'm hoping for a sound repair!!

[Rp0thejester]

So I went out to the garage this morning to be confronted with this:





So I instigated an immediate resolution to the problem:



Then I came in for a cup of coffee from the vacuum flask, delicious, and began investigating my options. I eliminated replacing the roof panel as access is now exceedingly tricky so looked into repair options. After much research and mulling I settled on giving a new product to me a try. It is made by a well respected company and has excellent reviews so I click and collected a can from my local screwfix:



I just need to sort out some scaffold boards and wait for the very welcome rain to dry up and I will report back! Watch this space!!

That looks like Asbestos roofing, be careful

[Gibbo2286]

My pal looked after a village hall, vandals broke in through the roof, he fixed it free of charge, the council wanted £300 to take the three damaged asbestos sheets off him, he declined, took them away and crushed them through a cattle grid just down the road.

[Rp0thejester]

Ouch, the panels are perfectly safe if not crushed into dust, it looks like concrete asbestos sheeting, just don't drill into or cut it.

[mickthemaverick]

No progress on the garage roof to report other than to confirm it is not asbestos. It was when I first moved in and having been asbestos trained at BT, I procured a suit and mask set and removed the original panels, into doubled sealed heavy duty poly bags and they were taken away by a licensed operator. I then replaced the panels with the current ones!!

There has been no progress there because I have been concentrating on clearing my workshop having finally sold the Suzuki I was able to get cracking. The pictures tell the story so far:

Own work - As it was when I sold the bike

Own work - after the first two days clearing

Own work - after the third day

Own work - after the weekend and today's effort

Own work - yea, I do have a back wall!!

[Gibbo2286]

A bit like mine but mine is only half that size and more stuff.

[mickthemaverick]

The next stage in clearing the workshop requires me to do some preparation in the garage. You may recall I started sorting it a few weeks ago when I bought some storage drawers at auction and installed them in the garage to cope with my numerous small parts as posted here.

As you can see it still left me with a pile in the left corner with pretty inaccessible stuff at the bottom:

The pile in the left corner

Well today I managed to bring a shelf unit and a drawer unit from the workshop and fit them in to allow me to rearrange that area so I can now access anything without having to move loads of other stuff first!!:

Revamped today

Now all I have to do is fit a fair number of narrow shelves to take all my fluids, oils etc from the workshop without encroaching on SWMBO's parking space!!

A job for tomorrow methinks, watch this space!!

[Paul-R]

Mick, you shame me (and probably others) with your efforts.

[mickthemaverick]

Not my intention I assure you Paul Its a case of needs must, I need to relieve the financial burden of the workshop and I must keep as much as I can accomodate of my hard collected stuff over the years. In one way I am quite enjoying the results and the fact that for a while I will know exactly where everything is!!