It never ceases to amaze me ….

[Sir Stinkalot]

........ how the guy on Better Homes and Garden can keep coming up with projects to ruin good timber ……

[Dean]

agreed!
And to be honest, I've seen stump chopping blocks that look better than what he made :)

[DanP]

Can't say as I watch the crap since I saw them make an outdoor something from MDF.

Dan

[Driver]

I can't watch it. The whole bloody programme is put together by Philistines. Their theme tune is a Muzak version of a classic Beatles number, for heaven's sake!

The one and only time I've ever got anything entertaining out of it was a couple of years back. The cookery sheila (who has since been replaced) was making pasta. She explained that Italians test its readiness by biting it. When the pasta has achieved the appropriate consistency, it is considered to be al dente.

However, her confident explanation was spoilt by the fact that she pronounced the key Italian phrase: "al dontay" - which is how the French might pronounce it. From that point on, she was known in our house as Big Al (no relation, of course, to a well known foilie-wearing, brick-laying Craporium proprietor, who is known as Much Bigger Al). :D

[bitingmidge]

Can't say as I watch the crap since I saw them make an outdoor something from MDF.

Be fair Dan, they would have painted it with that special paint that goes rusty so it looked like metal.

P :D

[DanP]

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Would give you a greenie but I can't.

Dan

[outback]

Most of the timber is treated pine, so doesn't count anyway. The good part is, the crap he does makes my stuff look half acceptable.

[Farm boy]

He must of plastered a litre of glue on it.

At $40 a litre that is a dear stool to sit on,my blocks of wood in the backyard ready for the wood heater look just as good

[ozwinner]

Can't say as I watch the crap since I saw them make an outdoor something from MDF.

Dan
I think youll find it is exterior grade mdf....

Al :rolleyes:

[echnidna]

Is that the stuff boats are made of Al?

[ozwinner]

Why of course mon ami, what else do you expect from one of the great sailing nations of the world...cardboard boats????


Al :eek:

[boban]

You mean there's something wrong with external grade MDF. The next thing you're going to say is that marine chipboard is no good.

[Sir Stinkalot]

When building boats I prefer to use marine grade peg board ......

[echnidna]

And does everyone else stick their boats together with blu tack???

[bitingmidge]

Blue Tac is fine in areas where there is a lot of flex and you don't want to risk the glue cracking.

On the other hand I dont' know what they use to paint the colour coat on ships, but it's designed to wear off to expose the that paint that looks like rust when they run aground.

I think they must have used particle board in the early days, if you look at the photo you can see where it's starting to bubble.

P.

Note: I pinched the photo off the internet and now I can't find where from to provide the appropriate acknowledgement...If it was you I'm sorry OK??

[Iain]

Whats wrong with chipboard for outdoor furniture?, it makes good economic sense for after a wet spell you have a bigger setting :rolleyes:
There is a place in Warrnambool where the owner has a roof over an entrance made from chipboard and this proves my point

[echnidna]

I remember a factory in Huntingdale that made onsite caravans from chipboard (on the outside). They sold heaps of them as portable offices etc.
Don't think they're there anymore.

[boban]

"I think they must have used particle board in the early days, if you look at the photo you can see where it's starting to bubble."

Yep just as I thought, chipboards still OK. Gotta get some of that paint though.