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My OLD MAN’s CV – Uitkyk B

As the place where I am is up for sale…Gypsy on the Move?

As explained in the link above, I will post, a series of what would be my OLD MAN’s CV.

The Bottle Cottage

Thought we could take a look at the PALLETS part of this building today.

When collection bottles in Nelspruit I saw at the Glass place, they had pallets for free. Then big bins of glass off cuts.  I can use this!

 Long ago I met a chap that made Damp Proofing with Polystyrene, as you may well know that stuff is terrible for the ecology, just does NOT break down and go away. Recycling for something to become yet another piece of junk to be tossed in a landfill is…. Moronic. By dissolving Polystyrene into a chemical called Xylene until is get you get a thick liquid, that you then “paint” onto your problem wall. The , I called it Polyxylene here, is basically liquid plastic, when applied it soaks into the wall and sets in a very thin plastic … sheet? Inside the wall. Ok. I would need that but thought about what I had on hand. Pallets, glass and Polyxylene.

Now if I dissolved enough Polystyrene I could make a thick glue. Then use the big off cuts to put in the gaps of the pallets. Used silicone to attach the glass, coated that with thick Polyxylene, cruche different coloured glass into small pieces and glued them on. The thick Polyxylene takes a long time to dry, two days even in the hot Bushveld. But. Had other ideas for the Pallet Panels.

In the shed at VeloGecko was a lot of Roof Waterproofing cans of paint and those strips of clothe one puts down then paints over. This would protect the rather poor wood pallets are made of. As you see by the photos I did a few variations of these ideas, and the end result…….

Any donations to keep the wolf at bay till I find work will be appreciated GREATLY!

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My OLD MAN’s CV – Uitkyk B

As the place where I am is up for sale…Gypsy on the Move?

As explained in the link above, I will post, a series of what would be my OLD MAN’s CV.

The Bottle Cottage

Thought we could take a look at the PALLETS part of this building today.

When collection bottles in Nelspruit I saw at the Glass place, they had pallets for free. Then big bins of glass off cuts.  I can use this!

 Long ago I met a chap that made Damp Proofing with Polystyrene, as you may well know that stuff is terrible for the ecology, just does NOT break down and go away. Recycling for something to become yet another piece of junk to be tossed in a landfill is…. Moronic. By dissolving Polystyrene into a chemical called Xylene until is get you get a thick liquid, that you then “paint” onto your problem wall. The , I called it Polyxylene here, is basically liquid plastic, when applied it soaks into the wall and sets in a very thin plastic … sheet? Inside the wall. Ok. I would need that but thought about what I had on hand. Pallets, glass and Polyxylene.

Now if I dissolved enough Polystyrene I could make a thick glue. Then use the big off cuts to put in the gaps of the pallets. Used silicone to attach the glass, coated that with thick Polyxylene, cruche different coloured glass into small pieces and glued them on. The thick Polyxylene takes a long time to dry, two days even in the hot Bushveld. But. Had other ideas for the Pallet Panels.

In the shed at VeloGecko was a lot of Roof Waterproofing cans of paint and those strips of clothe one puts down then paints over. This would protect the rather poor wood pallets are made of. As you see by the photos I did a few variations of these ideas, and the end result…….

Any donations to keep the wolf at bay till I find work will be appreciated GREATLY!

PayPal [email protected]

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My OLD Man’s CV – Uitkyk

As the place where I am is up for sale…Gypsy on the Move?

As explained in the link above, I will post, a series of what would be my OLD MAN’s CV.

The Bottle Cottage.

I arrived at VeloGecko campsite in order to make.. Veggie Gardens. But. On the property was the , basically, frame of a BOTTLE COTTAGE! The owners had put the floor, the stonework and the roof up, then half of the front wall and two rows of bottles all round. Then got tired of it. One look at thiis and my Recycling Maniac brain went crazy! Here we had no electricity, one small generator and some solar panels. I had my own small solar set up in the caravan I stayed in.

Again I worked mainly by myself, now and then the lady of the place would come…. help. There was a mountain of bottles that had been collected and we collected at the bars, sports clubs etc. on Mondays. The river sand I collected from the run off of the sand road, you see the pic of the dog jumping? That was the sand supply. I build with bottles, one by one, but saw there were a few problems with this. One could build two rows at a time only or the wall would collapse, I started experimenting with what became my Bottle Brick (photos and how to make later.) At the same time I started using all sorts of “rubbish” like pallets, re-invented my Polyxylene to make think glue and all sorts of things.

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