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Lou’s Workshop
Великобритания
Добавлен 20 авг 2021
🛠Hi, I’m Lou 👋🏻 would you like to be the DIY and decorating ‘Boss’ of your own home?🛠
🛠💪🏻I’ll be teaching you the skills in all things DIY and decorating🛠🙌🏼
What’s coming up in The Workshop!
🛠Live demo’s with Q & A’s
🛠Step by step ‘how to’ videos
🛠The ultimate guide to power tools and hand tools
🛠Handy tips and tricks of the trade
🛠Furniture refinishing/up cycling/restoration
🛠Build projects for the weekend
🛠Product guides and reviews
And much much more, filling you with the confidence and empowering you with the skills and knowledge to maintain your own home🛠💪🏻
🛠👍🏼I’ve been in the trade as a professional Painter & Decorator and a passionate DIY enthusiast for over 25 years and I’m going to show you all the tips,tricks and skills I’ve learnt along the way.
So come and join me in my workshop🛠👍🏼😄🙌🏼
See you soon
Lou 😉
🛠💪🏻I’ll be teaching you the skills in all things DIY and decorating🛠🙌🏼
What’s coming up in The Workshop!
🛠Live demo’s with Q & A’s
🛠Step by step ‘how to’ videos
🛠The ultimate guide to power tools and hand tools
🛠Handy tips and tricks of the trade
🛠Furniture refinishing/up cycling/restoration
🛠Build projects for the weekend
🛠Product guides and reviews
And much much more, filling you with the confidence and empowering you with the skills and knowledge to maintain your own home🛠💪🏻
🛠👍🏼I’ve been in the trade as a professional Painter & Decorator and a passionate DIY enthusiast for over 25 years and I’m going to show you all the tips,tricks and skills I’ve learnt along the way.
So come and join me in my workshop🛠👍🏼😄🙌🏼
See you soon
Lou 😉
The perfect gift for CHOCOLATE HATERS!!
Not everyone likes chocolate at Easter or can eat it!
But if they love a dippy egg in the morning, this is the perfect Easter gift 💝
But if they love a dippy egg in the morning, this is the perfect Easter gift 💝
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Видео
Making a workshop table for the laser
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When you have a workshop a pile of reclaimed wood and you need new workshop furniture……You just make it 🙌🏼
Making a living hinge notebook
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Everyone needs a notebook, especially if you’re like me and have 1001 ideas for new projects.
Don’t ignore your scrap wood!
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Let’s have a little rummage through the scrap book and make a lovely gift for someone you love ❤️
The WORST junk draw EVER?
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The junk draw! It’s a comforting place to go for memories, gadgets and gizmos. But if you are anything like me, then yours is a mess…..and that’s just the way I like it! 🤣🛠🪚📎🗝🔩🔧🪛🕯💵
Why YOU should use a drywall/plasterboard SEALER before painting & decorating
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Preparation of any surface prior to decorating is the most important part of the job but so easily overlooked by the home DIYer. It’s so important to either use a sealer or primer on bare drywall/plasterboard. I’ll be using a sealer from Zinsser called Gardz on my walls as I will be specifically applying lining and wallpaper. In this video I’ll be giving you the info you need as to why to use a...
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Bottom shelf just creates a mouse utopia. The floor serves as an adequate bottom shelf for things immune to moisture damage (plastic bins) and a superior "shelf" for extra heavy items.. Also, if 2nd from top shelf is placed at 38-44 inches, (depending on user height) it serves dual purpose as a stand up work bench. Equal distance between shelves is not necessary.
Nice. Support in that corner, perhaps.
Thank you for demo & useful info, had to trawl through 6 other creators before I came across this video to see what it looks like, how to use, pros & cons and not watch the back of the tin being read out loud 😂
Why... a level on the ground... and... no suspension vertical
You should have shown the man who made this, very unfair to take the credit without showing him.
Does a paint primer also work as a sealer? I am now at the "too late" fase, where i took down the wallpaper and have now raw drywall, not skimmed, from the previous renters. What should i do?
What width u gonfor the shelves? 18" or 24"?
Going to sag eventually
Sealing is very important but a cheap PVA ($15/gallon) is adequate for most applications.
Hi I did a jointing compound skim followed by a mist coat. I have then done 3 coats of a dark coloured clay paint. This is how I have handled gypsum skim coats before and its worked.... However, I have found quite a big difference in the colour of the cutting in paint to the roller paint (not every wall evertime) so much so that I bought more of the top coat (£££) and went again. If anything it is now worse. I am wondering if its not priming? Can I now prime with gardz over the top of the paint, and then simply paint again?
Top Tip, Always Seal your backgrounds, Cracking Video 😉
Do you have a more detailed guide that's not a compilation vidro
Don’t waste money on this. Just seal it with cheap white emulsion watered down, 50/50.
can sleep 7 people
Im about to paint my walls soon( New Build) pretty sure it's just magnolia paint straight onto plasterboarding. Will sand down walls. But still afraid oll pant with peal off when rolling new paint. Will this product help stop that? Thanks.
Hey 👋🏻 Yes, definitely. If it’s a new build then it’s probably been painted with a cheap contract Matt and this stuff will seal that in a give you a great surface for paper or paint 🙌🏼
Finally, someone who gets it. I am 100% a "seal your drywall" guy, and it's refreshing to hear someone who understands the materials we are working with. For all of you DIY folks out there lost in a sea of amateur/bad advice, _listen to this woman_ , she is spot on.
This is what I need in my Storage, but I can't screw anything on the walls since it's Storage RENTAL.
I’m going to make a step by step video soon on how to build ‘Freestanding Shelves’ which is perfect for your situation 😃🙌🏼
What boards did you use? Measuring? On what surface? Details please. It's not helpful watching someone do this with overwhelming music. Sorry.
I’m going to make a new video soon with more detail and instructions and without music 😃🙌🏼
Awsome!
Thanks! 😃🙌🏼
So pleased I found your channel. I am a total DIY newbie and find some other DIY channels intimidating. You are so personable and informative. New follower!
That’s so kind of you to say, thank you. I’ve got lots of new content coming soon. If there is anything specific you need help with just let me know 😃
That was unexpected very cute.
Great job, where have you been?
Thank you 🙌🏼 I’ve been working on my new business 😃
@@lousworkshop How exciting please give us an update.
Might i suggest the old school alternative that seems to be more bulletproof. Unwaxed shellac to seal the wall, then prime the unwaxed shellac with oil based primer. The oil primer gives off a lot of odor while it dries but let me tell you nothing will get through that shellac layer.
Shellac is a great product to use. In the UK we use a product called Zinnser BIN but yes it really does smell bad🤪
Good to see you back on here Lou! When's that available for sale in your shop, I want one!
Hey Nik 👋🏻 I’m working on some improvements on the design before it goes in the shop but should be soon 🙌🏼
Loved watching interesting
Nice
Thanks
Great video. What happens if you pull back the wall paper lining and you see plaster and mis coat. Ie patches of both. Can you apply this all over to prime ahead a repainting?
Yes you can 👍🏼 . Scrap off any loose flaky paint , sand the walls with 120grit sandpaper, remove the dust and then apply Gardz 🙌🏼
I made that 30 years ago with more legs ❤❤❤
Not quite sure what you mean! But thanks for leaving a comment 🤣
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Are you also a quilter -do you have a channel? My wife loves the dresden plate! Thank you.
It took me a while to work out what you were talking about! I had to look it up 🤣. No not a quilter
Sag
Over a year later and not a sag in sight……….yet!
I'm 65 but very much a newbie at building things. Do you have a detailed video indicating directions, sizes, lengths, etc.
No sorry I don’t. It was just a quick project that I thought I’d video. But in the future I’ll do more in depth builds with cut lists and plans 👍🏼
No painter in the world uses a bought sealer, you water down a very cheap white emulsion to a 70/30 mix to seal the paint
That’s fine for a plaster skimmed surface but we’re talking about drywall and the redecoration of it!
Great job
Thank you 🙌🏼
what size are is that wood? They look a little smaller than 2x4s?
38mm x 63mm or 1.4in x 2.4in ish🤣
The imperial system is way better, I’m glad we still use it in the Uk.
Best of both worlds 😃
@@lousworkshop What do you mean?
@@lousworkshop Best of one world. Imperial.
I mean in the UK we are lucky we can use either Imperial or Metric 😃
@@lousworkshop I’ve never met anyone who actually uses metric though. Not in the uk anyway. 😆
It will sag without supports. Been there got the T-shirt I’m afraid. It’s the constant applied load that’s the problem not a quick hang off it.
Over a year on and no sagging yet!
Was going to say same thing, you need supports
Yeah I would atleast put supports in the corner.
oil alkali resisting primer is best make it has hard as plaster
I love that there is always options and more than one way to do things 🙌🏼
Looks great! I would consider swapping those fluorescent lights out for LEDs since you're storing stuff on that top shelf right next to them. I know I would accidentally break one at some point.
Yes I changed the lights for led spots not long after
Good love.
Hey there. I've just "skimmed" using knauff proroll light. Sanded it down. Looks. Perfect. Should I use guardz. Drywall primer. Or just paint direct?
Beautiful, well done.
Thanks!
Love watching a fellow Brit as suppose to an American DIYer
Agreed 😃 I wish more Brits were on RUclips
100% agree!
Nice!👌🏻
I’ve recently started decorating a place I moved into and the walls were coming out in many many bubbles. So thats because who ever painted the place when it was built didn’t seal the plasterboards?
Probably but not necessarily! Not all plasterboard is made equally.
@@lousworkshop I’ve now stripped back to the plasterboard and sealed it with a mist coat. I was having a nightmare with it so hopefully this will fix it now.
@@walesu.k.2108 I’ve got my fingers crossed for you 🤞🏻
Love this
That's right, beginners, you just need to go out and buy all these tools and then infer a lot of what I edit out using the experience you don't have.
I've been told new builds are no longer getting skimmed with plaster over the plasterboard. I've just stripped back an old edwardian terrace and will be in the process of plaster-boarding shortly, given the labour required to plaster/skim the whole house i was wondering what your thoughts were on whether its worth the money to get it skimmed or whether sealing and painting straight onto plasterboard just does the job and saves a bunch of cash?
If you have the budget I’d have it skimmed every time. For me it’s a better finish, easier to redecorate and easier to repair.
10 minutes to explain that wallpaper paste will rip off the paper of the drywall😂