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Dear Bakers
Today, I have been decorating a new bedroom for my
daughter. I ache like I've not ached in a good long while
and have paint splatters everywhere but there.
In the course of today's painting, I had plenty of time to
engineer solutions to my decorating woes with particular
focus
on the age old issue of getting rid of wallpaper
from
behind a fixed radiator without removing it -- Secundum
tepidus fabrica as the latins would have said.
The wotsit is a hyper-porous calcium carbonate (or silica)
framework or skeleton that is capable of absorbing large
quantities of water. Once the wotsit is fully quenched,
it's
placed behind the radiator so that it touches both the
warm surface and the wall. As the radiator heats, the
water held in the mesh warms too, and gently soaks the
wallpaper, easing the glues. It's no effort!
After an hour or so, remove the wotsit, place a bucket
under the radiator and squeeze out the wotsit at the top
of
the radiator. The warm water will wash the wallpaper
away, caught in the bucket below.
[Note to 'Bakers: This is decidedly, firmly not an idea for
a
warm sponge behind a radiator. Uh uh, no way. That's a
ridiclously under-engineered idea.]
Still not a warm sponge.
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I -hate- warm sponges, but this idea is something else entirely. Ita vero, a work of classical genius. [+] |
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I'm not sure I really understand it but (a) I'm just glad you're doing the painting instead of me and (b) I'm a sucker for Latin. Bunnius maximus. |
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I think it involves soaking a very large lagomorph in warm
water, & then jamming it down between the radiator and the
wall. The water losens the glue, and the kicking action of
the clawed hindlimbs removes the wallpaper. |
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[+] in atonement for the above. |
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who looks behind the radiator anyway? if I didn't like you so much, I'd bone you for a waste of good baking time. |
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btw, how do you re-paper behind the radiator? |
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I applaud the general concept. + |
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Some years ago, I solved a similar situation by papering around the radiator, then mounting a trimmed reflective panel slightly larger than the radiator so as to effectively cover up the old paper and reflect the IR heat away from the wall. |
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[po] //btw, how do you re-paper behind the
radiator?// |
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You kidding? That's the easy part. |
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Couldn't you place a mirror behind the radiator?
Reflect both the heat and the lovely image of the
radiator; two radiators, in effect. |
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A "wotsit" sounds like something you're not supposed
to feed after midnight, or something. |
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I'd be very careful hanging around that radiator, if I
were you. Scary, very scary. |
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Excellent idea, much easier that closing the valves, undoing the nuts at either end of the radiator and the bleed valve at the top, draining the radiator and then lifting it off the wall, probably. |
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No bun due to lack of reckless indoor use of combustion. |
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Who wallpapers these days? Just paint
radiator-shaped designs on the walls, and
celebrate the antiquity of your heating system. |
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