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June 22, 2014, 11:33:48 AM »
Sunday June 22nd 2014.
I'm at somewhere called The Hive in Worcester.
I wish I could meet the bloke who designed it so that I could kick him in the bollocks.
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June 22, 2014, 11:38:50 AM »
I don't know about The Hive, they should have called it the Rabbit Warren. It's an absolute maze.
The car park is at the back, you have to pay £6 to park on a Sunday ffs, and then you have to lug a heavy exhibition around two miles of path to get to the entrance. (that's after you have lugged it to 5 wrong entrances)
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There is a redeeming feature, these beautiful arches. You can look at them while you sit on the wall to eat your breakfast.
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The exhibition is all set up, now I can chill.
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Sneaked out to the park to eat my lunch.
I love city parks, they're like little oases of sanity in a mad world.
This one had a magnificent weeping willow and a nice view of an old iron bridge.
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June 22, 2014, 02:54:12 PM »
I haven't seen too many of these recently.
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Quote from: RED-DOG on June 22, 2014, 11:58:26 AM
There is a redeeming feature, these beautiful arches. You can look at them while you sit on the wall to eat your breakfast.
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Amen to your views on that dreadful "Hive" monstrosity.
The arches are particularly fascinating but not just for their simplicity of design, & age.
How old do you think those arches are? - 100 years? 150 years?
And yet, they show severe effloresence. And effloresence is a product of salts & minerals that were in the original brickwork or mortar.
It is quite normal on new brickwork or concrete, but quite rare, I'd say, in a structure so old.
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Quote from: tikay on June 22, 2014, 03:35:54 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on June 22, 2014, 11:58:26 AM
There is a redeeming feature, these beautiful arches. You can look at them while you sit on the wall to eat your breakfast.
Click to see full-size image.
Amen to your views on that dreadful "Hive" monstrosity.
The arches are particularly fascinating but not just for their simplicity of design, & age.
How old do you think those arches are? - 100 years? 150 years?
And yet, they show severe effloresence. And effloresence is a product of salts & minerals that were in the original brickwork or mortar.
It is quite normal on new brickwork or concrete, but quite rare, I'd say, in a structure so old.
Fascinating.
No, really.
Do you efflorese much these days Tone?
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June 22, 2014, 05:24:47 PM »
Quote from: RED-DOG on June 22, 2014, 05:16:50 PM
Quote from: tikay on June 22, 2014, 03:35:54 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on June 22, 2014, 11:58:26 AM
There is a redeeming feature, these beautiful arches. You can look at them while you sit on the wall to eat your breakfast.
Click to see full-size image.
Amen to your views on that dreadful "Hive" monstrosity.
The arches are particularly fascinating but not just for their simplicity of design, & age.
How old do you think those arches are? - 100 years? 150 years?
And yet, they show severe effloresence. And effloresence is a product of salts & minerals that were in the original brickwork or mortar.
It is quite normal on new brickwork or concrete, but quite rare, I'd say, in a structure so old.
Fascinating.
No, really.
Do you efflorese much these days Tone?
In my case it is more like lattefloresence.
Seriously though, it's really quite something that those salts are still appearing after well over a century.
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As little boys, when we were on the knocker for scrap and rags, we were often invited to go down the cellar, (terraced houses) to fetch an old bike frame, a box of sash weights or some such. Almost without fail, we would come out covered in effloresence. We used to call it "That white stuff".
I'll set our Tracy straight when I see him.
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Quote from: RED-DOG on June 22, 2014, 05:43:27 PM
As little boys, when we were on the knocker for scrap and rags, we were often invited to go down the cellar, (terraced houses) to fetch an old bike frame, a box of sash weights or some such. Almost without fail, we would come out covered in effloresence. We used to call it "That white stuff".
I'll set our Tracy straight when I see him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efflorescence
When I was in Property Maintenance, I used to get a ton of work from Supermarkets & the like, who wanted the effloresence removed, as it was unsightly, so we'd use a High Pressure Jetter & wash it off.
We would always tell them the same thing - washing it off does no good, as it soon returns, once the salts are "in" the brickwork, they will leech out for decades. The cure is to prevent the salts being in the masonry BEFORE it is built.
A month or two later, they'd ask us to do it again.
Think we used to charge £60 an hour. Happy days.
No problem Guv, no problem.....
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June 23, 2014, 11:27:42 AM »
Mrs Red bought me this. I'm sure she's taking the piss.
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June 23, 2014, 11:37:01 AM »
Efflorescence? Never had you two down as fans of gothic rock. Well, maybe tikay...
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Quote from: Tal on June 23, 2014, 11:37:01 AM
Efflorescence? Never had you two down as fans of gothic rock. Well, maybe tikay...
No no Mr Tal. It's concrete, bricks and mortar, not rock.
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June 23, 2014, 11:48:16 AM »
Glad you got both my puns.
None of this first level thinking here.
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