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>> No. 2350 Anonymous
23rd December 2017
Saturday 9:07 pm
2350 UHU/101 crossover?
Thanks, previous owners.
To be batshit enough to paint mains sockets, and slack enough to leave the plug in while you do it, takes a special kind of person...
All the light switches and sockets here have been painted many, many times, and the switches don't click, they sort of slump in a really unconvincing way that makes a chap think of fire.
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>> No. 2351 Anonymous
23rd December 2017
Saturday 9:10 pm
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Well can't you take them off and give them a dunk in some white spirit?
>> No. 2352 Anonymous
23rd December 2017
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>2350

You can unscrew them and replace them, Shirley?
>> No. 2353 Anonymous
23rd December 2017
Saturday 9:38 pm
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It's so thick that it scrapes off nicely enough with a knife, then a quick go over with a stainless scrubbie and a little soapy water to finish. It's more the insanity of it than the inconvenience. Like indoor plumbing, it was clearly retrofitted to this place.
>> No. 2354 Anonymous
23rd December 2017
Saturday 9:39 pm
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>>2352
Sure, it's no biggie. You lot sound less boggled by painting sockets than I am. Is it something that people do?
And don't call me etc...
>> No. 2355 Anonymous
23rd December 2017
Saturday 11:31 pm
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>>2354
I wouldn't do it personally but if you want them to be a different colour what other option do you have?
>> No. 2356 Anonymous
24th December 2017
Sunday 8:40 am
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>>>>2355

Just buy new ones and swap them out.
>> No. 2357 Anonymous
24th December 2017
Sunday 2:28 pm
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>>2356

Why spend twenty odd quid on coloured sockets when you can just paint your white ones?
>> No. 2358 Anonymous
24th December 2017
Sunday 3:59 pm
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>>2350
It will just scrape off with some wire wool.
>> No. 2359 Anonymous
25th December 2017
Monday 1:52 am
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>>2357

What middle class shops do you go to? I can get some from train station crackhead for cheap.
>> No. 2360 Anonymous
25th December 2017
Monday 8:58 am
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>>2359

Coloured ones? I doubt it. Even at Wilkos a red one is a tenner. And if you're painting a room you'll likely need two or three.
>> No. 2361 Anonymous
25th December 2017
Monday 12:30 pm
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>>2360

Why would you go to Wilkos? Do you like paying more money than you have to?
>> No. 2362 Anonymous
25th December 2017
Monday 2:25 pm
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>>2361
Gives me a right stonker it does. I go grocery shopping at Shell garages for the same reason.
>> No. 2363 Anonymous
25th December 2017
Monday 2:59 pm
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>>2361

Sorry but what part of the country is Wilkos expensive? And where else can you get coloured sockets? Don't tell me B&Q or something is cheaper, and I've never seen anything other than a white one in poundland etc.

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