Several years ago in a wholly irresponsible fit of “spending the savings to do up the house” we had a new conservatory built.
I say new because there was already a conservatory on the house but it’s wooden framework was quietly rotting away, and it seemed like a good idea at the time to get it professionally replaced. DIY for me usually means Destroy It Yourself for all but the simplest of things and the more difficult jobs tend to take years.
We got quotes and settled on Coldseal to do the job.
I’ll not go into the details, suffice to say the build process was not a happy one. I did manage to squeeze a small discount when it was eventually finished, after threatening not to pay and telling them to take the damn thing away.
It is still standing and every time I look at it, from inside or out, I’m reminded of how easy it is to simply throw money away on useless things. It currently houses an old sofa, bursting stuffing at the seams but so supremely comfortable it would be a sin to even think of throwing it away, a hideous IKEA uplighter too ugly to put anywhere else in the house, the Dyson, a pine box full of old VHS cassettes and a clothes airer.
The builders, for want of a better word, used copious quantities of mastic to glue various bits of the non stressed plastic structure together. Surprisingly this works quite well and as I say it’s not actually falling apart. However one fairly large bit of plastic architrave, forming the frame round the inside of the door, did fall off. About 3 years ago.
It’s been on my todo list since then but there is always something more interesting to do.
However I have to report, it’s fixed.
Browsing round one of the local cheapo cheapo shops where everything costs a pound or less, or a little bit more, I came across Hard as Nails. A chunky tube of super glue guaranteed to stick your granny to the sky, forever.
Well it actually promises to do away with those pesky nails when reattaching things like skirting boards to the wall and stuff like that, but you get the picture.
I can report the job is done. Beads of glue on the plastic architrave, press onto the wooden frame round the door, temporarily hold in place with some carefully positioned Gaffa tape and 24 hours later if you tried to pull it off you’d probably have the whole conservatory down on your head.
And it cost a quid. Recommended for people like me who just don’t get on with hammers, nails and screws.
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