Painting Frequently Offered Solutions (FOS)
Keith Brewster
By popular demand, the extended FOS including some painting items.
Maybe the painters themsleves can add-on, too. You tilemen will have
to "talk amongst yourselves" and offer some...
> 1) Animal or insect problem? Try a .22
> 2) If you think 700 psi is enough, buy 2000 psi
> 3) No, there is no way to repair the wood overstripped
> by your new pressure washer
> 4) Consumer Reports will have a report on that next month
> 5) Consumer Reports doesn't know what they're talking about
> 6) Trex and Pergo are great products
> 7) There is nothing like Real Wood
> 8) No worries, with the optional Pratt-and-Whitney engine, a
> 1.6 gallon toilet can handle anything in one flush.
> 9) The "problem" with your major appliance is that you
> bought the wrong brand. See 5...or 6.
> 10) My magnetic water softener works great. Would you like
> to join our MLM?
> 11) Pledging loyalty to a vacuum-cleaner brand is a religious decision.
> 12) Worship your vacuum at the store that baptised you.
> 13) Beer and ammonia are great for your lawn.
> 14) Urine can never be removed from carpets, see 13.
15) Your paint problem is a result of poor surface preparation.
16) Long before Kilz, our forefathers got along fine with shellac.
-Keith
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I was thinking of using a paint with an eggshell finish, but UDSA
warnings about salmonella poisoning scared me off.
Keith Brewster
<RJ>
>On 18 May 1998 04:27:46 GMT, kbr...@galstar.com (Keith Brewster)
>wrote:
>
>>By popular demand, the extended FOS including some painting items.
>>Maybe the painters themsleves can add-on, too. You tilemen will have
>>to "talk amongst yourselves" and offer some...
>>
>>> 1) Animal or insect problem? Try a .22
>>> 2) If you think 700 psi is enough, buy 2000 psi
>>> 3) No, there is no way to repair the wood overstripped
>>> by your new pressure washer
>>> 4) Consumer Reports will have a report on that next month
>>> 5) Consumer Reports doesn't know what they're talking about
>>> 6) Trex and Pergo are great products
>>> 7) There is nothing like Real Wood
>>> 8) No worries, with the optional Pratt-and-Whitney engine, a
>>> 1.6 gallon toilet can handle anything in one flush.
>>> 9) The "problem" with your major appliance is that you
>>> bought the wrong brand. See 5...or 6.
>>> 10) My magnetic water softener works great. Would you like
>>> to join our MLM?
>>> 11) Pledging loyalty to a vacuum-cleaner brand is a religious decision.
>>> 12) Worship your vacuum at the store that baptised you.
>>> 13) Beer and ammonia are great for your lawn.
>>> 14) Urine can never be removed from carpets, see 13.
>>
>>15) Your paint problem is a result of poor surface preparation.
>>16) Long before Kilz, our forefathers got along fine with shellac.
>
>17) Never use PVC for water lines. Sterling Silver pipe stands up
> much better and longer.
>
18. Only $800 power tools are any good. Everything else is "crap"
B.
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.... see you on the dark side of the moon
Tom Miller
19. If there are two brands of $800 power tools and you bought one of
them, you bought the one that is crap. You should have bought the
other one, which is the one I use.
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darkstar
> >On 18 May 1998 04:27:46 GMT, kbr...@galstar.com (Keith Brewster)
> >wrote:
> >
19. Latex over oil, never oil over latex.
20. First, fix the reason water is coming in your basement to start with.
21. It's only sediment. Drain it.
22. Better to owe on credit cards, than to go for those "Buy a blouse,
lose a house" mortgages.
23. If it's peeling/fraying, it's too late to encapsulate.
24. Licensed, bonded, insured, three references, contract, final payment
ten percent of job when job completed.
25. Specify the materials to be used.
26. Don't be afraid to ask Beavis what he's doing and call his boss and
tell him Beavis has suddenly gone color blind.
27. Duct tape.
28. Ask in rec.gardens and tell them what zone you're in.
29. Self-sticking fiberglass tape and joint compound.
30. Whosoever helpeth his neighbor, if she be a she-devil in hot pants,
tempteth the Wrath. Let him take heed that he hath tended his own house,
even to the thirteenth generation, ere he taketh wrench to strange
plumbing, lest his own foundation crumble, his dinner curdle, and his ESPN
satellite goeth out.