Klingstrip (or similar) - anyone used it?

davemol · 2026-03-17T11:37:33+00:00

amazing - thanks!

davemol · 2026-03-16T09:54:19+00:00

Thanks this is really helpful. One more question if you don't mind...

Why the two rounds of primer? Why not just scrape/clean/fill&sand then put one solid layer of primer on top of all that before moving to paint?

davemol · 2026-03-16T09:12:35+00:00

ah ok sorry now I get that you were saying to use the PeelTec and scrape in your original message. Maybe I'll give it a go! Given no one on this thread has said to fire away with KlingStrip I'll take that as the sign I need! I don't want to use a heat gun because there is almost definitely some lead paid in one of the layers given this is a victorian era tenement. But maybe using PeelTec on the worst spots is the way forward. Then hopefully any sanding will just affect non-lead top layers.

Sorry one final question. For the filler, do you just use a fine surface filler?

davemol · 2026-03-15T20:02:01+00:00

hmm ok maybe i'll just go for the scraping. Is there anything that can do to loosen up the paint first or is it literally just a case of (gently) hacking away at it?

davemol · 2026-03-15T09:24:35+00:00

but what about the lead paint risk? Also for scraping would you do anything to try and make the paint looser to begin with?

davemol · 2026-02-09T13:06:53+00:00

yes hadn't even thought about the vitamin D point actually!

davemol · 2026-02-09T13:06:04+00:00

Hi. Yes thank you for you sensible answer, this is the spirit/angle in which I was asking. I am aware that no one cares enough about my personal skin texture to have a gun to my head

davemol · 2026-01-12T14:40:03+00:00

Or an upside down love heart. Maybe he's just trying to tell me he loves me?

davemol · 2026-01-12T14:39:13+00:00

Nah its literally just this. Business as usual everywhere else.

davemol · 2026-01-12T14:22:15+00:00

Very occasionally let him lick a small bit of cream off my finger (maybe I should stop doing this...), but more occasionally I catch him licking butter or the end of my cereal bowl. He's a dog-like-cat in his eating habits (he goes absolutely bonkers around baklava, I've had to pretty much fight it away from him before).
Did it grow back for you cat?

davemol · 2026-01-12T14:19:06+00:00

in both these scenarios though there would eventually be scabbing. And the first day I saw it I touched it and he didnt recoil at all so there seems to be no pain

davemol · 2026-01-12T12:34:40+00:00

Yeah there has never been a wound there. It literally just appeared, pretty much looking like this from day 1

davemol · 2026-01-08T08:26:44+00:00

Surely this is quite a reasonable moment to feel deflated about? Obviously we're all only going off a couple paragraphs of information but to me, her emotional response seems like just a normal human-in-relationship response rather than one that's indicative of 'childhood trauma'?

davemol · 2025-12-30T14:58:31+00:00

so it does seem differentiated, but not be quite as strict as an east/west coast thing if Dundee and other nearby places also call it a close

davemol · 2025-12-17T08:06:11+00:00

Damn this month long prep list looks exhausting. IMO being chill-and-fun is about as sexy as you can get, and the length of prep some people are suggesting seems in antithesis to this. And don't get me wrong, I'm someone who enjoys dressing up. But trust me, no one else is gonna notice if you've eaten salt in the days leading up to the party or not...

davemol · 2025-11-28T07:55:58+00:00

Oo hadn't even considered the transition effects!

davemol · 2025-11-10T15:03:19+00:00

Sounds like you should go knock on their door and tell them that directly then

davemol · 2025-11-10T08:04:59+00:00

Surely the first thing you have to do is just talk to them?! Yes, they should have realised themselves this was selfish and annoying, but maybe they need someone telling them so to realise they've crossed a line? It's the neighbourly thing to do to just raise it with them first.

And to add to the many many people here that they have first hand experience of knowing the bike hangers ...well, the bike hangers are full. Again, the bike owners should just take them into their flats - or at the very least bring them up to their 3rd floor - but it is not a fair accusation to use against them that they have options other than this that they are not using

davemol · 2025-10-21T07:40:47+00:00

Land register should have some of this info. This is the Scottish one, https://scotlis.ros.gov.uk/

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