Air Sourced Heat Pump.

Around fifteen years ago I was working for an upmarket kitchen company and ended up being the guy who retouched the paintwork on expensive hand made kitchens, being the only person with enough patience.

To cut a long story short I had  refinish a mantelpiece over an Aga cooker with a distressed paintwork finish, because it had been made in England then sent to France to be painted, as the French said they could not make an English style mantelpiece to match a French kitchen, but they then obviously didn’t get the same guy to do the paintwork whilst painting the rest of the kitchen.

It was sprayed white, then yellow and buffed back to expose  the undercoat and timber on wear points before being sprayed with “dirt” to add patination, all in acid catalyst paint that gives you less than ten minutes to work with it once it’s mixed.

The paint had been sent over from France and I asked the boss to get me some air brushes and a small compressor, he sent the air brushes and come disposable cans of “compressed air”.

What I then discovered is that it was actually illegal to sell disposable cans of compressed air, so propane had been added to it to make it legal.

So the first thing  to do was to turn the oil fired Aga off and open all the windows.

Unfortunately I made too good a job of it, so got another one to do, retouching a mantelpiece over an oil fired Aga with cellulose paint using air brushes supplied with an air and propane mix.

That has to be a couple of holes in the ozone layer.

Around fifteen years ago I was working for an upmarket kitchen company and ended up being the guy who retouched the paintwork on expensive hand made kitchens, being the only person with enough patience.

To cut a long story short I had  refinish a mantelpiece over an Aga cooker with a distressed paintwork finish, because it had been made in England then sent to France to be painted, as the French said they could not make an English style mantelpiece to match a French kitchen, but they then obviously didn’t get the same guy to do the paintwork whilst painting the rest of the kitchen.

It was sprayed white, then yellow and buffed back to expose  the undercoat and timber on wear points before being sprayed with “dirt” to add patination, all in acid catalyst paint that gives you less than ten minutes to work with it once it’s mixed.

The paint had been sent over from France and I asked the boss to get me some air brushes and a small compressor, he sent the air brushes and come disposable cans of “compressed air”.

What I then discovered is that it was actually illegal to sell disposable cans of compressed air, so propane had been added to it to make it legal.

So the first thing  to do was to turn the oil fired Aga off and open all the windows.

Unfortunately I made too good a job of it, so got another one to do, retouching a mantelpiece over an oil fired Aga with cellulose paint using air brushes supplied with an air and propane mix.

That has to be a couple of holes in the ozone layer.