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- Tue 14 May, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 38
- Views: 931
Re: Pricing help
To save time I created a dual backing board called (referenced) "undermount" in a few varieties. 1-6 or so. A combined undermount and backing, (not stuck together, just for pricing) each had its own description on the order form e.g. "Alphamat artcare 4 ply plus artbak" I did hav...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Relief maps - which adhesive
- Replies: 6
- Views: 182
Re: Relief maps - which adhesive
I'd apply the same principles for sticking anything together, double mounts, rebate spacers etc, and that is just a bit of self adhesive - say one small dab each side, to hold while the more reliable wet adhesive dries. This also allows much easier repositioning if you don't get it right first time....
- Sun 12 May, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 38
- Views: 931
- Fri 10 May, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 38
- Views: 931
Re: Pricing help
For the first job - Working on an hourly rate of £40 and a 30% markup (right or wrong), if that hourly rate is correct - i.e. what it costs you to open the door each day, and bearing in mind you can make extra charges at the same rate for more complex/specialist tasks, regardless of how long they ta...
- Fri 03 May, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Moulding identification/suggestion.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 263
Re: Moulding identification/suggestion.
If that's a flat moulding mitred on its side then the lip seems to be wider than the rebate is deep, which is odd. I think that's the way it's supposed to be cut and joined, like this one from L Juhl touchwood range. https://larsonjuhl.co.uk/mouldings/larson-juhl-collections/ljc-touchwood-interior-m...
- Sat 27 Apr, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Display options
- Replies: 6
- Views: 690
Re: Display options
A sliding door room divider? That’s a good idea to save space, if against a wall you have that plus the doors in front of it. Just use display fabric like this, black looks best IMO. https://www.fabricuk.com/fabrics/452-display-loop-nylon-hook-receptive.html Some framing suppliers sell it as “displa...
- Sat 27 Apr, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Sticky question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1138
Re: Sticky question
Maybe it will work, you’d have to test it on one, or something made from same stuff. Hot melt glue might work, or acrylic gel medium. You can get really sticky pads for dashcams etc too, but this is such a small area. If you didn’t require space and a mirror behind them, a tiny melinex strap around ...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Sticky question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1138
Re: Sticky question
Why can’t they be fastened in with melinex straps?
Can you post a photo?
Can you post a photo?
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Workshop location dilemma
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1331
Re: Workshop location dilemma
It's Ok to have a "clean" room, but you can also have a clean area in a combined workshop and the plan chest will certainly help in that area as well as giving another worktop maybe. A place for mounted artwork when drying? I like the user name, is you Welsh? I take it you know the song? h...
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Double mount, coloured bevels
- Replies: 13
- Views: 959
Re: Double mount, coloured bevels
There are other less epensive colour core boards I'm sure - Nielsen do some, or at least did, their website seems to be out of action. Colourmount? Regards re-adjusting - hopefully you use DS tape and (mostly) glue to fix double mounts etc anyway, just in this case no glue until final assembly. To e...
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Sticky question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1138
Re: Sticky question
If they are your property use whatever you like ...... unless maybe you are selling them on. If they are a customer's property then it's the same as anything, if they are worth anything, financially or sentimentally, potentially in either case, or just "nice" ...... etc, then maybe not; th...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Double mount, coloured bevels
- Replies: 13
- Views: 959
Re: Double mount, coloured bevels
Congrats! How did you do it, masked bevel or freehand - and how did you reassemble? You can get coloured core boards - but all I can find on line now is crescent brite core from Wessex, and they are SO expensive! £20 a sheet plus VAT in 5's, £22 or £23 singly. https://www.wessexpictures.com/Crescent...
Re: Art glass
We can all only assume a lot because the OP hasn’t shared a photo nor shown or described the way s/he has dealt with similar in the past.
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Outgassing
- Topic: Hinges
- Replies: 1
- Views: 898
Re: Hinges
This is from an email from PFM - I loved the advert for ATG tape below!
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Outgassing
- Topic: Hinges
- Replies: 1
- Views: 898
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Energy contracts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 578
Re: Energy contracts
"Too good to be true" and "pressured" are a couple of alarm bells, it could still be OK though.
Are there any trustpilot (or other) reviews for the broker, the provider or the particular deal? Have a look at money saving expert dot com as well, the site and its forum.
Are there any trustpilot (or other) reviews for the broker, the provider or the particular deal? Have a look at money saving expert dot com as well, the site and its forum.
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Glazing choices...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 620
Re: Glazing choices...
I think it's a bit risky, especially in a holiday cottage, it'll get more handlng (cleaning) than a normal home for a start. It could/should be security hung though, which would make it safer - glass rarely falls out of a frame when broken anyway. It would be acryclic for me, at least 4mm, preferabl...
- Fri 12 Apr, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Looking for Frame Supplier For This..
- Replies: 12
- Views: 860
Re: Looking for Frame Supplier For This..
Looks hand finished, maybe prepared for gilding ???
- Thu 11 Apr, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Artwork is shedding. What can I suggest to the artist?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 519
Re: Artwork is shedding. What can I suggest to the artist?
The shock of the point gun, and especially the staple gun for the back, doesn't help. I'd tell the artist that prevention is better than cure and to sort out a way of ensuring nothing falls off, maybe with the type of gel that they use to preserve flowers for framing, or something. I wonder, as you ...
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Double mount, coloured bevels
- Replies: 13
- Views: 959
Re: Double mount, coloured bevels
Do both! Draw some random lines across the back of the boards, stick together, margin area lightly, fall out area properly. Once painted and dried, to reassemble put double fallout face down and fit largest aperture over it with registration marks aligned then fix the smaller aperture to it over its...