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DIY Project DIY ADA Style Aquarium Stand

Big clown said:
I'd be tempted to fill those where they are visible sand flat with a fairly fine sandpaper and start putting the colour on
The emulsion will go straight onto the filler and be fine
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This Deano, for the time it will take you 😉
 
Rob P said:
Clean and water change Mini M - check
Swap over co2 diffusers on Roma - check
Splash some paint on my cabinet build...

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Check 🙂

Never bloody ends does it?! lol
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It's looking awesome mate. I really like the colour too.


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Put first coat of urban grey on, going to do 3 coats then 2-3 satin varnish forgot to ask you rob are u doing gloss or matt finish ?

Here's cabinet with 1 coat
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Nathaniel Whiteside said:
Yeah Rob, stands looking exceptional x
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Massively sorry for the 'x'..

Must have been on a texting spree at the time :facepalm:

Nice one dean!
All this cabinet talk is making me want to show mine. But I mustn't till I'm done 😱
 
get it show man lol I always do that when texing mates etc by mistake after texting my lass minutes before lol
 
Looks great Deano, you must be pleased 🙂

My paint is satinwood, haven't touched it since that last pic!
 
Will it be ok to put satin gloss over my matt emulsion ? Want mine done this week as want to try scapes out etc


Thanks Dean
 
Deano3 said:
Will it be ok to put satin gloss over my matt emulsion ? Want mine done this week as want to try scapes out etc
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I put my first coat of satinwood straight onto the watered down emulsion base (2 coats). It's dried patchy, but a) it gets cold in the conservatory (hence why i'm kinda waiting for it to be warmer before i put the 2nd coat on) and b) it's a first coat so i'm not that concerned (yet) 😉
 
You think putting satin varnish ontop of emulsion will be ok then ? It's wood varnish but should work I imagine lol


Thanks Dean
 
Deano3 said:
You think putting satin varnish ontop of emulsion will be ok then ? It's wood varnish but should work I imagine lol


Thanks Dean
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Dunno mate. Let me get this right, your urban grey paint is matt emulsion right?

I've only varnished over emulsion once before and that was some mdf shelves we had made. I used Ronseal quick drying varnish (clear) and it was fine. I'll be painting the inside of my cabinet some gairy colour in emulsion and using the same stuff on top of that. Try some on the back panel first mate 😉 that should tell you how it will look!
 
Yeah only had the colour I wanted in matt otherwise would have got gods or satin lol yeah will try but should be fine I imagine want a slight shine but not too much lol


Thanks Dean
 
Deano3 said:
Yeah only had the colour I wanted in matt otherwise would have got gods or satin lol
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Deano, lol, if anything like my B&Q it's all mixed for you so you can have whatever colour you like from the Dulux catalogue in any finish they do it in 😀

Yours looks great though mate, really does 😉
 
Didn't relise they could change the finish from matt to satin oh well will know for next time just thought they mixed colours my bad


Thanks Dean
 
well got 3rd coat of varnish on 😀 finally, didn't sand in-between or anything but happy enough with the finish, not gloss but nice and slightly shiny and put water on a bit before and just lay there lol my kitchen floor isn't straight and level is there anything I can use to level the stand out ? hoping to try some scapes out next week

thanks dean
 
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