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Automated turnstyles at most football grounds too. It's been going on for decades and have prices fallen? No.
 
connerg said:
Automated turnstyles at most football grounds too. It's been going on for decades and have prices fallen? No.
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No sure the point you are trying to make there to be honest.

When I attended Easter Road at the start of the season I went to the gates where there are stewards.

If rather deal with a person than a machine.
 
Automation is replacing an employed person. Stewards are replacing the Police, which saves Hibs money but the Steward has very little powers.
 
connerg said:
Automation is replacing an employed person. Stewards are replacing the Police, which saves Hibs money but the Steward has very little powers.
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Sorry read your post wrong. In my defence I've no had a beer yet. 🙄
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
When you try and do a minor repair on some wallpaper and make a James Hunt of it and now need to spend 40 odd £'s on another roll. 🤬
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It's a tremendous skill to put up wallpaper and not notice the joins. Unfortunately very few have that skillset. I've only ever known one guy who could do it perfect every time.
 
Young porty said:
It's a tremendous skill to put up wallpaper and not notice the joins. Unfortunately very few have that skillset. I've only ever known one guy who could do it perfect every time.
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Well to go all decorator for a wee bit when you buy wallpapers with dark base colours you will notice that the papers edges are white.

Rather than the wall covering manufacturer making the back of the paper the same colour as the base colour it's usually white.

The onus then goes onto us to get crayons to take the white edges away.

Also if you have bumps on the walls that throws the paper edges out of skewer.

So it's not always down to us.

Oh and if hanging wall coverings then work away from the light.

So there.

Oh and ps Farrow and Ball wall coverings are double plus shite. Avoid like the plague.
 
Young porty said:
It's a tremendous skill to put up wallpaper and not notice the joins. Unfortunately very few have that skillset. I've only ever known one guy who could do it perfect every time.
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I always done my own wallpapering and it was pretty good, the mrs did the trimming, not quite as good as the pros but no bad IHTS 👍
 
Young porty said:
It's a tremendous skill to put up wallpaper and not notice the joins. Unfortunately very few have that skillset. I've only ever known one guy who could do it perfect every time.
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I had a professional decorator paper one wall for me and it was a disaster - he blamed the seams and anything else he could think of. I stripped it off, bought another couple of rolls of the exact same paper and got a friend of a friend to paper it - no problem, beautiful job.

PS: No offence to professional decorators (honest guv).
 
And make sure your decorator lines the walls if the finished paper recommends that.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
Rather than the wall covering manufacturer making the back of the paper the same colour as the base colour it's usually white.
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I used tae give the wall a coat of emulsion the same colour as the base colour of the paper Jimmy. She bought a, what she thought was a bargain, paper a few years ago and it was fine for a couple of days and then I noticed it shrinking at various joints. Had tae dae it again.
Young Hildo does my decorating these days, I'm no able.
 
hibbybilly said:
I used tae give the wall a coat of emulsion the same colour as the base colour of the paper Jimmy. She bought a, what she thought was a bargain, paper a few years ago and it was fine for a couple of days and then I noticed it shrinking at various joints. Had tae dae it again.
Young Hildo does my decorating these days, I'm no able.
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Aye that's another thing the manufacturers recommend. All they would need to do is make the back of the paper and the edges the same colour as the wall coverings base colour.

But na. All the problems get shipped onto us.
 
Actually @EH17 Jimmy here’s a true story to prove that even the best decorators (me🤣) can have bad days hanging wallpaper.
Just after the missus and I got our house and were were still in the process of decorating, she was out at work one day. I was on shifts so I was at home. I decided to be the thoughtful husband and wallpaper the bedroom. We had been using those pre pasted wallpapers on a couple of other rooms, the stuff you dipped into a trough of water for 5 minutes. So, I’m working my way around the room that was taking all day and by the time I’d finished I noticed the seams weren’t sticking properly. So I went around them all again dampening them until they stuck. I then went to pick her up from work all chuffed with myself telling her I had a surprise (no Doc, not that kind).
When we got in I opened the bedroom door with a smug ta-da! only to find all the sheets of wallpaper decorating the floor.
The wife almost pissed herself laughing as she told me the paper I’d used wasn’t the pre pasted one.
 
blue toon hibby said:
I had a professional decorator paper one wall for me and it was a disaster - he blamed the seams and anything else he could think of. I stripped it off, bought another couple of rolls of the exact same paper and got a friend of a friend to paper it - no problem, beautiful job.

PS: No offence to professional decorators (honest guv).
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The guy I used to use was amazing. Perfect every time. You've either got it or you've not.
 
Beagle said:
Actually @EH17 Jimmy here’s a true story to prove that even the best decorators (me🤣) can have bad days hanging wallpaper.
Just after the missus and I got our house and were were still in the process of decorating, she was out at work one day. I was on shifts so I was at home. I decided to be the thoughtful husband and wallpaper the bedroom. We had been using those pre pasted wallpapers on a couple of other rooms, the stuff you dipped into a trough of water for 5 minutes. So, I’m working my way around the room that was taking all day and by the time I’d finished I noticed the seams weren’t sticking properly. So I went around them all again dampening them until they stuck. I then went to pick her up from work all chuffed with myself telling her I had a surprise (no Doc, not that kind).
When we got in I opened the bedroom door with a smug ta-da! only to find all the sheets of wallpaper decorating the floor.
The wife almost pissed herself laughing as she told me the paper I’d used wasn’t the pre pasted one.
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My best disaster was in a flat i used to have. Painted the bed room ceiling unaware of the dark arts @EH17 Jimmy would know. Anyway, went out to the pub chuffed at the days work, then returned to find it all peeling and hanging down in tendrils.

I cannae mind the details but due to what the ceiling was made of I should have used some primer or something. Anyway, scraping off all the dried paint of the ceiling before I could go again, was a horrific back (and neck) breaking task.
 
Exactly. Less seams and in new builds you only need steps for the first length the rest you can catch from the deck.

Some of the best wallcoverings I ever worked with were from Next.
 
Papering ceilings can be nippy like especially if there is a big centrepiece like you get in the toon hooses.

So the lesson here folks is read the manufactures instructions. If they recommend lining walls then line them.

You will get no refund of faulty paper if you don't follow their instructions.

If lining walls make sure to size them using paste to take the suction out the walls.

If lining for a finish then do as above. Then first coat the walls. Fill the joints with some easi fill. Then sand them and fill them again.

Touch them up (no Doc not THAT touching up) with the colour using a wee furry radiator roller.

Then coat them again.

If any of yous want to be a bit flash and fancy a tidy Hibs themed wall then check out the digital imaging sites. You give them the size of the wall. Show them the photies you want to use them they will sort out the theme for you.

We done this a few years back at the National Trust of Scotland. I'm sure the digital imaging coverings were around £100 a square metre.

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Fuck all that complicated stuff.

Thick woodchip. Slap it on any old how, just tear bits and stick over any seams or bits you missed because you were watching tv when you were decorating.
Stanley knife to run along skirting etc. cut off lumpy bits (tear off wee patches and stick over holes you made when the Stanley knife tore lumps off where an extra big bit of wood chip fucked up the straight line) and allow to dry.

Finish off with a few coats of cheap emulsion.

Done.
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Doc Shrink said:
Fuck all that complicated stuff.

Thick woodchip. Slap it on any old how, just tear bits and stick over any seams or bits you missed because you were watching tv when you were decorating.
Stanley knife to run along skirting etc. cut off lumpy bits (tear off wee patches and stick over holes you made when the Stanley knife tore lumps off where an extra big bit of wood chip fucked up the straight line) and allow to dry.

Finish off with a few coats of cheap emulsion.

Done.
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The worst thing I have ever done in the DIY realm is remove decades old woodchip. A hellish job, in an ever declining ambience: as decades of nicotine on the ceiling liquefied under my steamer assault.

Amber rain, amber rain, as Prince might have sung, had he been Scottish :coffee1:
 
Aha but sometimes the longer the woodchip has been up and more coats it has had then the easier it is to remove.

And also if stripping wallpaper score the paper with a sharp knife so the steam can get behind said paper.

If doing by hand peel off as much loose stuff as you can then ladle the walls with water. Not once but a couple of times.

Or invest in a paper tiger 😁


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