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Title: Plastic glazing
Post by cutting42 on Aug 2^nd, 2004, 11:42pm

Hi All

I am starting to build my daughter a play house this week and am pretty much ready to go. However I would like to glaze it in plastic rather than glass. I have done a bit of a google search but it all seems very expensive and much too big. A piece 1.7m x 0.51m would do me and my 3 windows. Anyone out there know of a supplier of smaller bits of perspex or polycarbonate.

On and I just bought the B&Q 80 quid compressor kit. A 1.5hp 6ltr compressor (blimin noisy though), 50mm nail gun, spray gun, tyre inflator and blower gun (I think that is what I shall call it). I am so chuffed with the nail gun. Hardly any marking and plenty of binge for the 50mm brads. I also do a fair bit of airbrushing and used to use a tiny diagphram compressor which was on all the time. Now I have a tank on the new one it is very peacefull for quite a while. Then all hell breaks loose for 15 seconds. For 80 quid it is fantastic value I think.

Cheers

Gareth

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by Dewy on Aug 3^rd, 2004, 12:29am

Hi cutting42
Have you tried the yellow pages or the Thomsons directory?
You may find a local plastics supplier who will cut the sizes you want.
I have one on a main road leading out of the town and have used them for years. I've had plastic cut to size for a shed and also some thicker, stronger stuff that matched the obscure glass in the front door and side windows to put in my garage doors.

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by HandyMac on Aug 3^rd, 2004, 7:58am

Be careful to ensure that the plastic you use can't shatter - could be deadly if it does.

Mothercare sell (or at least used to sell) a cling-film type product on a roll which sticks to glass so that if anything falls against the window the glass doesn't shatter.

Never worth taking chances where children are concerned.

Andrew

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by cutting42 on Aug 10^th, 2004, 10:05pm

Hi Guys

Thanks for the advice. I have got 5mm polycarbonate windows now (the stuff that the police use for riot shields), should hold the kids in place when I lock the door on them ;)

Cheers

Gareth

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by Dewy on Aug 11^th, 2004, 12:15am

Going from a recent topic.
Put the beading on the OUTSIDE so the kids cant remove the glazing to get out. ;) ;D ;D

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by big_all on Aug 11^th, 2004, 1:41am

l m a o dewy

your mad :o :o ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by HandyMac on Aug 11^th, 2004, 6:14am

wrote on Aug 10^th, 2004, 10:05pm:

Thanks for the advice. I have got �5mm polycarbonate windows now (the stuff that the police use for riot shields), should hold the kids in place when I lock the door on them ;)

One thing to be careful of is that this could restrict the options if people needed to get out (or for that matter, in) in a hurry. You couldn't smash thru this stuff.

Andrew

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by HandyJon on Aug 11^th, 2004, 11:40am

You're too serious sometimes Andrew. :) Did you not notice the smily at the end. Wink means in jest. ;) I doubt that Gareth's play house actually has a lockable door or that he would lock it with kids in.

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by Dewy on Aug 11^th, 2004, 5:58pm

When my kids were all very young, my father in law made them a playhouse.
He worked for a well known concrete garage plant as a chippie.
He put polythene sheets over the frame before covering with shiplap. The roof was covered in good quality roofing felt with chippings and welded on. The floor stood on western red cedar as its rot proof.
It was like a jigsaw puzzle fitting it together but was completely weather proof.
It didn't cost a penny as he had the other chippies at work helping to make it from wood that hadn't cleaned up to the required size for garage doors and would have been burned. They loved making the child sized windows and doors and called it a 'diddy' house. This name stuck so the kids still remember their diddy house.
We took it to South Africa in '73 and when we came back 3 years later I left it with my parents to keep their 2 alsations in. It was large enough for 3 kids and to store their bikes and garden toys in.

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by cutting42 on Aug 28^th, 2004, 1:22am

Hi All

A bit quiet here so though I would post a pic of my Playhouse recently painted although still without windows. Monday's job!

http://gareth-cutting.fotopic.net/p7083241.html

Cheers

Gareth

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by big_all on Aug 28^th, 2004, 1:52am

absolutly brilliant mate well done
good job i like unusual challenges and thats a good un

big all

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by Dewy on Aug 28^th, 2004, 2:11am

That looks better than most kids playhouses.
I bet he did it so good so he will have somewhere comfortable when he is in the dog house? ;) ;D

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by scotspark on Aug 28^th, 2004, 7:38pm

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 storey very fancy

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by woodsmith on Aug 29^th, 2004, 10:23am

Hi Gareth, very nice job; lucky daughter, hope she apreciates it.

Nice touch leaving the broom there, so we can see the scale ;).

Title: Re: Plastic glazing
Post by cutting42 on Aug 29^th, 2004, 10:22pm

Hiya

Thanks for your kind comments, I am very pleased with the results as I am just a hobbyist. My daughter is over the moon and all her friends have been dropping not so subtle hints to their dads. Think I might have been dropped from a few birthday card lists ;)

I would love to say I left the broom there for scale but I had just not finished clearing up when I took the picture.

Cheers

Gareth