Forum: Wanted Items
23-02-2020, 11:13 PM
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Replies: 8
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Old Glasses
Opticians in Cavan Town collects them and they are sent abroad. I always leave
any old ones to them.
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Forum: Home Improvements
12-08-2019, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 9,808
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
19-07-2016, 10:42 PM
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Replies: 97
Views: 83,525
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Forum: Home Improvements
26-11-2014, 07:13 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,226
Dyed curtains,
Hi, I would advise removing lining first. If curtains are still too big for your washing machine I would advise splitting the curtains. Therefore four washing machine lots.
Good luck.
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
01-08-2014, 12:13 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,988
Kirstie
Ah well it's a TV programme afterall. But we all live in hope.
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
11-04-2014, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,628
Chair
Really beautiful, a work of art. Well done.
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
11-04-2014, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,896
Tile grout cleaner
I use 7 cups water, half cup lemon juice and 1 cup vinegar to clean grout between my floor tiles. Leave on for about 10mins and then scrub.
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
17-12-2013, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 12,109
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
01-09-2013, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 11,357
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
25-08-2013, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,766
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
23-08-2013, 10:39 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 11,357
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Forum: Home Improvements
11-06-2013, 09:08 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 12,346
Mirrors
Buy some cheap at a boot sale and add the fablon/contact to the back as Eibhlin suggested Good luck.
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Forum: Home Improvements
11-06-2013, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 1
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Forum: Home Improvements
21-01-2013, 10:20 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,829
Beam
A builders providers yard should have railway sleepers, they were being imported from the far east.
Failing this try one of the large timber businesses that MAKE garden furniture.
Good luck with your...
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Forum: Home Improvements
13-02-2012, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,433
Lampshade circle
Or go to your council recycling dump!!!sometimes they are lying there on a lamp somebody dumped.
Good Luck
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
02-01-2012, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 15,610
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
06-09-2010, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 43,553
Upholstry
Do not know what part of Cavan you are in but there are classes starting soon in Redhills.
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
29-08-2010, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 43,553
Couch
Perhaps if you tried an upholsterer out of the city it would be cheaper.
Most of them collect and deliver the item.
Some of them will allow you to provide your own material, there is often good value...
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
13-08-2010, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 23,375
Chair
Absolutely wonderful. I can just about imagine the hard work.
You can buy ticking on e-bay quite reasonably.
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
07-08-2010, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 7,117
Charges
Over the years I have sorted everything, I mean every iota into its proper bin recycling etc----then read in the papers that in Ireland 80% still goes into landfill, I was disgusted and so...
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
17-07-2010, 07:29 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,339
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
17-06-2010, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 12,311
Bike
Wonderful, must get my teenagers old bikes out and maybe they could muster the energy to spray them for me.
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
23-05-2010, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,336
Cat
Fill a few large mineral bottles with water and leave them around the ''cat'' toilet, it's supposed to deter them.
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
28-02-2010, 06:48 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,496
Old bedclothes
A lot of primary schools have clothing collection days. For each filled bag they get as much as E4 for their school a very worthy cause. So enquire at your local schools.
Old Towels are excellent...
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Forum: Home Improvements
05-09-2009, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 14,977
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