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seddon777
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thescruff
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Now that's what I call Lateral thinking. 
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing repair to window |
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Hi every one,
I was totally dumb struck today when surveying stained glass window protection and damage at a local church. I came across this repair to the perspex plastic covering the stained glass. Vandals had burnt a hole through the plastic and it had been invisibly repaired using a bean can lid and some rivets.
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I guess it has lasted the test of time if it is there long enough to have rusted through 
not sure if it actually detracts much from the perspex  - poor repair all round really.
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What ever next? Open heart surgery using lego and selotape? |
Be careful - may give the NHS ideas
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EJJ150847
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Reminds me of the 'penny washers' we used to repair holes in kettles, a few years back.
John
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seddon777, you're too fussy mate!.. 
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tenniuk
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thescruff
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| Photoshop is great... |
Is there a hidden meaning to your post or do you get a better class of repair with photoshop.
Personally for what its worth, as a self appointed expert in photo manipulations I don't think you will beat PSPro.
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| tenniuk wrote: |
| Photoshop is great... |
Is there a hidden meaning to your post or do you get a better class of repair with photoshop.
Personally for what its worth, as a self appointed expert in photo manipulations I don't think you will beat PSPro. |
I have a PSP - is that the same thing?
Photo shops ARE great - I especially like Jessops
Sorry - just posting irrelvent comments like tenniuk
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seddon777
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I totaly resent the accusation that I would post fake photos, what is the point wasting my time trying to come up with a fake when I see the real thing in front of my eyes and all I have to do is take the picture?
I am going to have a lie down in a darkened room!
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Hoovie
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Seddon, I think there is just the one person who is making that accusation, and the rest of us are ignoring him until he substatiates that (which is most unlikely)
got a question for you actually - how hard is it to properly match up the pattern? I have had two houses from the 1930's and both had small repairs where the pattern is not quite right. nothing as bad as you have shown, mind, but it is noticable.
My current house has two small pieces of glass that are cracked and I would like to replace - where do I go to get a matching piece?
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seddon777
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The simple answer is , It depends.
It depends on the type and colour of glass. Alot of the glas from more that 20 years ago is now obsolete. Some of the glass that had a definate texture can be hard to get a perfect match. Some textures can be matched using a modern glass and you would struggle to see the difference. We also keep old glass so we can reuse it for repairs.
So sometimes it is possible to get a perfect match, even on colours from 100+ years ago.
If you emailed or posted a photo of the glass I could tell you how you stand. All the best, Andy.
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Hoovie
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seddon777
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By the look of the photos I would say that the glass should be able to be matched up. I like the design which are typical of the prewar period. We do alot of repair and releads on this type of stained glass and also make up new ones to match the originals.
What we are doing more and more is triple glazing the old stained glass by encapslating the stained glass into double glazed units. The results are very good.
I should think that a good local stained glass company should be able to sort out your repairs but if you can't get anyone local we could do them for you.
Last time I put on my web address I was told by the admin I was spamming but our company name is Classical Glass . co . uk
so you figure it out.
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Hoovie
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Once you get to a certain level of posts, you can add your info. Too many people just post to add in their company info for free advertising without giving anything back.
This was actually my old place, so all too late for that 
I did really need double glazing (very noisy road) and thought about having it encapsulated but the feedback was that it may move and touch one of the panes and cause a cold spot (or something like that). Looks like I was looking 10 years too early.
In the end, we got modern PVCu windows, but had the company 'clone' the existing windows as closely as possible
This is the 'new' version
Colours a lot brighter as 1) cleaner! and 2) sun shining through.
Fortunately, our neighbours on the other half of the semi also did the same so the look as a whole was fairly well preserved.
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