Will I ever finish what I have started?

[Maggi Young]

The butlers sink I have has been covered with some sort of sandy cement well back in the past, I think my Dad had a go.  Some of it has fallen off now and I am wondering if I can patch it. 

I think you will be able to patch it - you must break up the surface a little and then you need to coat the surface with a glue first, I think, but I cannot for the life of me remember at the minute what kind- someone with a brain that's working will be able to tell you!

[David Nicholson]

PVA

[Maggi Young]

PVA

PVA glue, yes, that's the very stuff- Thanks David!

[Gerdk]

PVA glue, yes, that's the very stuff- Thanks David!

Please, what is PVA glue    ?  I got the translation 'Weißleim' = white glue and for pva there is
polyvinyl alcohol?

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

PVA  glue is  Polyvinyl Acetate adhesive, Gerd.  Useful for sticking lots of things but in this case a coating agent before treatment of  surface.

[Helen Johnstone]

Thanks for the advice - its does make me smile to see where this conversation has gone.  I am glad I discovered this Forum, wish I had discovered it ages ago

[Tim Ingram]

David thanks! That's almost like an item you might have at the end of 'Not the Nine O'clock News' - 'Trough's Anonymous', or 'The In's and Out's of Your New Trough'. Could be a good selling point for a booklet put out by the AGS!

[Gerdk]

PVA  glue is  Polyvinyl Acetate adhesive, Gerd.  Useful for sticking lots of things but in this case a coating agent before treatment of  surface.

Thank you Maggi! Sorry for being so slow for the uptake - found your reply only now.

Gerd

[Chris Johnson]

Susan - how are things progressing?

I'm about to start a new project and thought a blog might remind me to take lots of photographs, something I fail to do when absorbed in the work.

[zvone]

Vau  Susan!

Beautiful Projekt! Much success still forward.

Best Regards!   zvone

http://zvonem.blogspot.si/

[Susan Band]

Hi Chris
Sorry only just saw your comment. Not much has progressed since then apart from the plants that were put in last year growing really well. This year my assistant has been building a motorbike so rock garden now taking second place. The part that has been done still looks good and I hope it might get going again. Believe me there has been much discussion on what the final result will be like. Adrian has taken over the designing and I have been relegated to the stone moving. I thought it was meant to be the other way round.  Must dig out any of the chinodoxa left now they are flowering and before they seeds.
I don't know what type of stones you have got Chris, but to my surprise you can make a decent rock garden with round boulders if you place them close enough.
Good luck on your project at least the stones won't blow away.
Susan

[Susan Band]

Thanks for your compliments zvonne.
The large blue cyprus that was at the top of the rockery area blew down over winter. We miss the tree but it does mean that the area underneath will now get watered. I think the roots and the cover would have left it too dry. So probably is good in the long term.
Susan

[angie]

Looking good Susan, can't wait to see more.
I have two of those white sink in the pony paddock, tried to move them to get them to the skip but they weigh as much as the granite ones.

I took down two large beach trees it took me years to decide to do this but the garden has gained so much more light and like you say the ground was so dry underneath them.

Angie 

[Chris Johnson]

Hi Chris
Sorry only just saw your comment.

Not a problem Susan, it was my fault for resurrecting an old thread.

When we left Malvern, we were not disappointed in leaving behind the heavy and unworkable Precambrian granite, only to replace it with Lewisian Gneiss. We have a couple of accessible bays on the headland where we intend collecting some wave-worn rocks. This is where the ladies come in, they have stronger backs than the blokes. I insist on pushing the wheelbarrow though.

Look forward to any up-dates in due course.

Chris

[David Nicholson]

I have two of those white sink in the pony paddock, tried to move them to get them to the skip but they weigh as much as the granite ones.

Skip!! They cost a fortune t o buy from reclamation places.