The Repair Shop

[Tortuga]

The Repair Shop is a British television show that was recently made available on the Discovery channel.

 

I love the show. The shop repairs old family heirlooms for free and it's amazing to see the reaction when people pick up their memories...

 

I really enjoy the show.

[New World Explorer]

Great suggestion, I will check it out 

I think for us Down Under,  it streams on Foxtel - Lifestyle channel.

[Tortuga]

9 hours ago, Tortuga said:

The Repair Shop is a British television show that was recently made available on the Discovery channel.

 

I love the show. The shop repairs old family heirlooms for free and it's amazing to see the reaction when people pick up their memories...

 

I really enjoy the show.

The Repair Shop https://g.co/kgs/7pUfPf

[outwalkin]

We have been enjoying it also.

[retroHelen]

We love it. WE feel we are getting to know the specialist repairers quite well and also learning so much about how to fix up different things rather than just throw them away or put up with them broken.

 

Jay Blades, the host of the show is dyslexic and never learned to read at school and has just done a program about his latest struggles to learn to read as a man in his 50s.

 

Fascinating insight into a skill that most of us take for granted when we learned to read as little children, when our brains were more flexible and not afraid of making loads of mistakes at first.

[fix it shop]

I use to serviced vacuum cleaners and sewing machines when I work at a repair shop . Also did janitorial / carpet cleaning work . Also work on some commercial equipment. 

[Tortuga]

58 minutes ago, WD-40 said:

I use to serviced vacuum cleaners and sewing machines when I work at a repair shop . Also did janitorial / carpet cleaning work . Also work on some commercial equipment. 

I noticed where you are from, do you know Mark and Vivian? 

[fix it shop]

48 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

I noticed where you are from, do you know Mark and Vivian? 

Yes I do ! I also serviced the vacuums at our and their hall.

[retroHelen]

I repair ceramics in our antique business for ourselves. I sell the items as restored. There was a TV shown opening of another shop and cafe locally with a World War 2 theme about it and the owners had bought a few bygones off us to decorate their themed premises. Many veteran soldiers were invited to te opening day as well as other local dignitaries. A famous ex-SAS officer who lead the raid on the Iranian embassy siege and fought in the Falklands campaign came. He happened to mention to the man who owned the shop and cafe that he had had a mishap with a model of a horse and foal he was fond of. The man told him about me and he brought the broken item to me. I was a bit stressed, as it is very difficult hiding cracks and breaks in porcelain or marrying reconstructed parts to existing models and 1 ear on each of the horses was completely destroyed.

It took me ages to hone the epoxy piece to fit with the rest of the model and look right and get the paint colours right.

 

I did warn him that the china figures' original glazes were fired on and a paint repair isn't as stable, so don't soak it or sit it in full sunshine on a windowsill. He was thrilled with the result and I heaved a sigh of relief and he gifted me a few things worth the repair.

 

 

Edited August 12 by retroHelen

[fix it shop]

2 minutes ago, retroHelen said:

I repair ceramics in our antique business for ourselves. I sell the items as restored. There was a TV shown opening of another shop and cafe locally with a World War 2 theme about it and the owners had bought a few bygones off us to decorate their themed premises. Many veteran soldiers were invited to te opening day as well as other local dignitaries. A famous ex-SAS officer who lead the raid on the Iranian embassy siege and fought in the Falklands campaign came. He happened to mention to the man who owned the shop and cafe that he had had a mishap with a model of a horse and foal he was fond of. The man told him about me and he brought the broken item to me. I was a bit stressed, as it is very difficult hiding cracks and breaks in porcelain or marrying reconstructed parts to existing models and the ear of one horse was completely destroyed.

It took me ages to hone the epoxy piece to fit with the rest of the model and look right and get the paint colours right.

 

I did warn him that the china figures' original glazes were fired on and a paint repair isn't as stable, so don't soak it or sit it in full sunshine on a windowsill. He was thrilled with the result and I heaved a sigh of relief and he gifted me a few things worth the repair.

Beautiful repair work and restoration

[Pabo]

I have seen some episodes of that show, and you always find out little tricks and tips that you could use yourself sometime later.

 

I am always fixing, repairing, restoring things at home.

 

Here are just some of the things I have done.

 

Restoring the timber finish on this settee.

 

 

Cleaned off the rust and polished this old wheel chair that my in laws owned.

 

 

Restoring the finish on our outdoor speakers.

 

 

 

Also fixing a door jamb that rusted out.

 

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Also replacing one of our toilet windows, as when the house was extended, the roof was not exactly thought out properly and the window was below the roof line. So I had to raise the window higher so the water would not get inside the house.

 

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Edited September 26 by Pabo