The Wright Stuff Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Here's one of those deep thought experiments: If a tiny blob of paint is accidentally spilled on the carpet, and it's too small to see with the naked eye, is the carpet still ruined? Anyone else in the dog house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engine Doctor Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Mix up some carpet coloured paint and re-blob it . Dont do what I did as a kid ! I was happily cutting out the parts for a KielKraft kit with the scalpel of choice at the time (one of dad's broken razors) when my mum wanted to hoover . She went berserk when all bits of the newish carpet was sucked up . What happened next would today be called "attempted murder" The good old days ! ps . If ts too small to see with the naked eye , how did SWMBO see it ? Perhaps you need to visit Spec Savers Edited By Engine Doctor on 26/01/2015 16:22:11 Edited By Engine Doctor on 26/01/2015 16:22:29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john stones 1 - Moderator Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Shame on you TWS Buy the lady a new carpet John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I am afraid what you define as "tiny" and "too small to see" is misguided, to a female eye that minute glue spot will stand out like a day-glo lump about the size of a water melon - and yes its your blob so it is ruined, had it been her blob it would have been "no-one will see that"........ In the dog house? what do you think...... Carpet spray glue ained at a depron wing panel inner, I wasn't to know the stuff comes out a bit like silly string and floats round the kitchen was I? It was a simple error anyone could have made, no need for a fuss..... Some weeks later I still get flecks pointed out to me so I can gleefully sink to my knees and scrape it of the laminate floor very carefully with a stanley blade.... Is there no end to the stuff...... Dave - from the kennel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Green Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 A spec of paint? How about a pint of ferric chloride... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowerman Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 That's why we have 'man caves' so 'she' can peek in through the door and say -"looks like a bombs hit in here" then walk away tutting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Posted by Phil Green on 26/01/2015 16:31:10: A spec of paint? How about a pint of ferric chloride... I take is your SHMBO has a new pair of pink spherical earings then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Mrs ne...1 is pretty easy going-- I occasionally let her come out of the scullery etc...... there's a few lads up here who's head's are covered in peck mark's .... oop's here she's coming I'll have to go ken Anderson...ne...1 chairman of who wear's the pant's dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I didnt bother asking her this question, I already know the answer.... If a man speaks in the middle of a forrest and no-one hears.... is he still wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wright Stuff Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Posted by Engine Doctor on 26/01/2015 16:19:59: Mix up some carpet coloured paint and re-blob it . I now have this vision of a Frank Spencer style escalation as I try to paint the blob in carpet colours, don't get the colour quite right first time and end up with progressively bigger blobs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Etherton Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Dropped a hot soldering iron onto a nylon carpet 40 years ago. Still get reminded of it occasionally. 💩💩💩💩💩💩 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Posted by The Wright Stuff on 26/01/2015 16:12:44: Here's one of those deep thought experiments: If a tiny blob of paint is accidentally spilled on the carpet, and it's too small to see with the naked eye, is the carpet still ruined? Anyone else in the dog house? If you were caught in the act, commiserations.... If you volunteered the information, then I have no sympathy........ Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Well the answer to the original question is ..........check out your house insurance and see if you are covered for accidental damage and then see whether the insurance assesor agrees it is ruined! Should be the final decision. Bear in mind a new carpet will be much cheaper than a divorce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_B Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I hope she's never dropped any nail polish anywhere in the house since you've been together, or caused plug holes to block with her long hair, or broken the iron/vacuum/any other appliance etc, because she needs to stay schtum if she has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 OK - now I wouldn't normally share this information - not because it's sensitive, but I took me close on twenty years to figure this out and I don't see why others shouldn't suffer similarly - and if they are too dozy to ever work it out then tough! But as we are amongst friends here is the solution,....never fails,.... Fix something using the workshop and "stuff" in it. Solder that link on her favourite necklace, invisibly repair that ghastly porcelain figurine her mother gave you as wedding present with some thin CA, replace the Velcro on her favourite shoulder bag. Get the idea? This is why you should never do any repair when she asks - always leave it until you need some brownie points. She'll still be mad - but odds are she'll just see that, like most men, you really are a hopeless specimen (just like her mother told her that you were!) but you do have your uses and well there are worse things you could be doing than model aeroplanes etc. etc. BEB PS For a carpet I think you might have to fix more than one thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymaz Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Get the good lady to drink lots of wine, she then is sick all over the carpet just where the paint was spilled. Not your fault and the speck of paint has magically disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFlyer Smyth Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 For what it's worth and not modeling related. We had a bright, shiny, black vinyl floor layed recently in the kitchen. OK, swmbo is in a wheelchair these days but she was attempting to unload the dishwasher. One of the ceramic knives slipped from her hand and cut an inch and a half gash in the new floor. (right in the middle) not a word was said, Had that of been me I would not have heard the last of it and I am not allowed to mention it, Its true what they say - Men are from Mars and women are definitly from Venus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 My single biggest brownie point loss was a couple of years ago, gutted and refitted the kitchen (including a new ceiling) - not on my own I hasten to add! New units, so I got SHMBO a brand new colour coordinated cooker..... she was delighted - many many brownie points in the bank, Oh happy days..... a week or so later... the day before Xmas Eve, with guests due to arrive Xmas eve afternoon, I was using the cooker, opened the oven door and dropped a fish slice.... hits the emovable saftey glass door which promptly (and in spite) shatters into a million pieces....... And lo it came to pass that into kitchen full a SHMBO perched on her best war broom.... hissing at me in some strange strangulated tongue..... "Dont worry love, I'll sort it..... Xmas will be ok" - I blurted out foolishly.... Many many phone calls all greeted with the same answer "Sorry mate dont have one of those" Eventually in utter desperation (and under the glare of a now very silent female) I phone the factory.... Yeeeeeeesssssssssss they had one Yeeeeeeesssssssssss they can supply one Yeeeeessssssssssss they will put on in the post After pleading cajoling and downright begging there was me at the factory gate at 3pm Xmas eve collecting a glass plate from the security lodge... I have NEVER driven so carefully in my life, creeping over speed bumps at 1mph....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Etheridge 1 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 About 4 years ago my wife insisted that we have our bathroom refurbished. We employed specialists to do most of the tasks with me just doing the electrics and flooring repairs and some painting. The last person to do any work was a carpenter and on his last visit he parked his car on our driveway and managed to kill our cat when he drove home. My wife chose a very expensive bathroom cabinet that cost nearly £300 , with integral lighting and a shaver point plus a door that was mirrored both sides. After a year or so my son came out of the bathroom with the very heavy mirror door under his arm and said ''this has fallen off but I caught it''! I complained to the suppliers and they agreed to replace the cabinet but with a different unit as they no longer supplied the original. In the meantime I just refitted / bodged up the hinges on the original door and did not pick up the replacement cabinet. Just a few weeks ago I was using the shaver point and the mirror door fell off and smashed on the floor leaving a dent , and chipped the new £600 bath. I contacted the cabinet suppliers again and they said as the cabinet was out of it's two year warranty they would not replace it. Somewhat put out I sent them an E-mail reminding them of their earlier offer and included new pictures of the broken cabinet. In the meantime I took the mirror door to the local glaziers who agreed to replace it at a cost of £110 which I reluctantly agreed to. Later the next day I had an E-mail to say that the cabinet company would replace the cabinet but unfortunately I was too late to cancel the £110 mirror door replacement.!----anyone need a bathroom cabinet ?, ---I wish I had just spilt a blob of paint on a carpet! Edited By Mike Etheridge 1 on 26/01/2015 18:13:08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Day Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 'Safety glass'? Doesn't sound very safe to me. You really should have been able to get out of that one Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugbear Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Take a steel washer and a scalpel. Move the settee and push the washer hard onto the carpet and cut around the washer. Do the same around the paint spot and swap the 'plugs' around. Replace the settee. Say nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Parker Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 My biggest mistake was, I had return home from the flying field one Sunday afternoon and had cleaned down the aircraft at the field as usual. On arriving home, I carried all of my kit up to my workshop (spare bedroom). Now for some totally unexplained reason on this one occasion I carried my aircraft nose up and you can guess what happened next. Yep, castor oil residue dripping out of the exhaust whilst I went up the stairs and into the workshop. I cannot remember / repeat the exact wording she used but after 10 years or so the carpets are due to be replaced. A few months later, I suprised her with a trip to Paris. Organised it all by myself including asking her boss for her to take the time off without letting on, and of course I DID give her some notice so she could buy new clothes. Cheaper to buy new carpets I think, but the brownie points lasted ages. Oh and by the way nothing will remove the stain from a wool carpet. Since then all models are double bagged with bin liners before entering the house. Regards Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Purcha Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Posted by Robin Etherton on 26/01/2015 16:51:10: Dropped a hot soldering iron onto a nylon carpet 40 years ago. Still get reminded of it occasionally. 💩💩💩💩💩💩 Dropped a soldering iron on a 27 year old kitchen table (now in the basement). Still got questioned about the brown mark? Ha .... no suspects the Spanish inquisition. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn K Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 My all time gaff was motorcycle related. Back in the early 80's we used to lube chains in a vat of grease. The idea is you heat this tin tray full of grease until it liquefies, plonk your chain in and let it cool. Having only the domestic cooker to use, I had to use that. I lived in a first floor flat. The problem with heating grease is that it tends to smoke and smell. My mistake was to put the chain in the vat of grease before I carried the flattened vat - think paint tin with handle - about 350mm diameter x 50mm deep - out onto the drive outside. I got as far as the top step before the inevitable happened. The chain moved in the VAT, tilting aforesaid VAT by 60 degrees, chain lands on floor - freshly varnished, 2 pints of hot liquid grease get poured down staircase wall - freshly painted by those nice folks at Telford Council. They were not impressed - you cant paint over grease nor wash it off. You certainly cant hide it either Live and learn (and in my case move out before they hit you with the bill) Martyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trebor Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I had a go at baking heat resistant paint on my Matchless cylinder pot in her oven, worked very well the barbecue paint is still on today. To get rid of the smell I just burnt some toast. Hides anything that smell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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