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Start here => M.O.-Introductions => Ask Away Threads => Topic started by: Parts on January 18, 2012, 03:47:23 PM
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Didn't see an ask thread for you so I made one special just for you.
Tomorrow I am taking a course on lead safe work practices that is required for anyone who works on home built before 1978 when lead paint was banned in the US. My question is since you have done renovation type work, are there regulations in the UK concerning lead paint in existing homes?
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Didn't see an ask thread for you so I made one special just for you.
Tomorrow I am taking a course on lead safe work practices that is required for anyone who works on home built before 1978 when lead paint was banned in the US. My question is since you have done renovation type work, are there regulations in the UK concerning lead paint in existing homes?
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/chemicals/specific/lead/ (http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/chemicals/specific/lead/)
The UK has implemented the provisions of the Marketing and Use Directive (89/677/EEC) through the Environmental Protection (Controls on Injurious Substances) Regulations 1992 (Statutory Instrument 1992/31), which allow restricted use of lead paint. The UK Regulations allow the manufacture and use of lead paint (containing white lead), but in controlled and special circumstances for the redecoration of Grade I and II * (Categories A, B and C(S) in Scotland) listed historic buildings. Strict regulations apply to its use. The general sale of lead paint in the UK is prohibited under these Regulations.
Professionals should refer to Lead at Work Regulations 1998 SI 543, Control of Lead at Work ACOP 1985 and The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 SI 3140. The Regulations require that any specifier/employer must avoid foreseeable risks to the health and safety of an employee, combat these risks and protect any person associated with or who may be affected by the work being done. These persons should also be provided with adequate information on any aspects of the work which may affect their health and safety.
Professional painters should dispose of lead wastes in accordance with the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1992. They may need to check with their local Environmental Health Officer and/or Waste Regulatory Authority for any special disposal provision.
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The only times that this would ever have been an issue for me is when I stripped or sanded a windowsill or door frame. I always wore a mask though.
I've probably had lead paint on radiators, but I'd always have got them replaced by someone else.
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what colour underwear are you wearing? :goat:
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what colour underwear are you wearing? :goat:
Black pants. White bra.
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that's not very colour co-ordinated :M
are you gonna come to my birthday in manchester? :zoinks:
so far I only have three people coming :'(
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The lead paint laws here are much stricter and complicated. It includes the specs on the masks,hepa vacuums and even the plastic bags you use
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that's not very colour co-ordinated :M
are you gonna come to my birthday in manchester? :zoinks:
so far I only have three people coming :'(
I hope you have a great birthday, but I couldn't come over. I'd kinda love to, but I don't think my family would approve.
I wouldn't be much fun anyway. I'm not great with new people, and I'd probably end up standing in the corner, all quiet, with my social anxiety running out of control.
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:laugh:
I can relate
although I'm much better now than I used to be
social anxiety is a bitch
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The lead paint laws here are much stricter and complicated. It includes the specs on the masks,hepa vacuums and even the plastic bags you use
I've noticed that. I don't know if there's a reason for the difference or not.
I've always known of the risk, so I've always been carefull, but not to the extent of using special equipment.
It's not uncommon to see an old appartment with paint dust lying on the windowsill, although I've no idea if it's lead paint.
In fact, it's even normal to see people living in places that look like they haven't been painted in decades, with paint dust lying on the wondowsill.
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:laugh:
I can relate
although I'm much better now than I used to be
social anxiety is a bitch
It really is a bitch.
My great aunt is seriously ill right now, and all I can think about is how to avoid going to the funeral :GA:
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do you have any pets, or do you want one?
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do you have any pets, or do you want one?
No pets. I'm allergic to most things. I wouldn't want one, because I know I'm not responsible enough to give it a good home.
The best situation would be for my aunt and uncle to get a pet, and I'd play with it when I was at their house, but had no responsibility to look after it.
I dont think I'm allergic to birds, so a parrot would be nice.
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Well, you could ask Eris to teach you how to keep Adam as your pet.
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Well, you could ask Eris to teach you how to keep Adam as your pet.
:lol:
I would be a terrible dom. I like Adam, and wouldn't be able to hurt him.
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i would make a great pet
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Read something about seeds from Holland (you wrote it being in dialogue with MLA earlier, I thought) and I though, can you easily 'sex', or see the difference between a female and male plant, so you only have to harvest the females in the end? How to do that properly, earlier on? (since growing from seeds will give you either sexes in the end of course and yeah, the males plants are pretty useless)
Shitty question? Um, press ctrl/alt/WTF. :laugh:
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Read something about seeds from Holland (you wrote it being in dialogue with MLA earlier, I thought) and I though, can you easily 'sex', or see the difference between a female and male plant, so you only have to harvest the females in the end? How to do that properly, earlier on? (since growing from seeds will give you either sexes in the end of course and yeah, the males plants are pretty useless)
Shitty question? Um, press ctrl/alt/WTF. :laugh:
There is no way of seeing the gender of a plant that hasn't started flowering yet. The trick is to start by growing twice as many plants as you would like to harvest, but plant them in smaller pots.
Only once you decide to make them flower can you tell what sex it is. As soon as you see that a plant is female, you pot it into a bigger pot. If you see that a plant is male, you either dispose of it, or keep it for breeding.
There are a couple of other options. The seed companies sell "feminized" seeds, which means that they have been specially bred to be females. That is done by using light to force a female plant to become partly hermaphrodite, allowing the plant to be bred with itself, thus creating a clone. All of the seeds from a plant that has been bred with itself will be female (or I presume male, if the original plant was a male that was forced to grow some female flowers.) The problem with this is that you cant really breed these feminized seeds, so you would have to keep buying more seeds from the company.
The other option, and this only works if you are planning on growing huge plants, is to force the plants to flower when they're really young. This allows you to weed out the males. As soon as you do that, you can force the plants to stop flowering again, making them grow fast safe in the knowledge that you will only be growing females.
To "force" a plant to flower, or to stop flowering is very simple. A plant that recieves under around twelve hours light a day will stop growing fast, and start to grow flowers instead.
A plant that gets 16-18 hours a day will not grow any flowers, but instead will grow fast.
Sorry for the essay :laugh:
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Your in Northern Ireland correct? They had two bombs go off in Londonderry tonight nowhere near you I hope. They don't have much of this shit happening there anymore do they?
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I am in N.Ireland. Its a tiny country,so Im not far from anywhere, but Londonderry is probably as far away from me as its possible to be.
Sadly incidents like this are common, although deaths from bombs are fairly rare.
Small pipe bombs are common, even in my own town. My town is on the railway line from Dublin to Belfast, and it is regularly targetted, although thankfully its mostly hoaxes aimed to cause disruption.
The people who have it worst are Catholic Police. They are usually the biggest target of Republican terrorists. At least a few police officers get killed each year.
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Don't hear much about it in the US anymore. Too bad they feel they must do these things. They should let all the people who feel so strongly go to some island so they can fight without any innocents in the way
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I fully agree.
You dont hear much about it because thankfully the days of the huge bombs killing lots of people are over.
Nowadays its small bombs, or a couple of dead police.
The IRA have declared a ceasefire, so its only the real hardliners who think the IRA were too soft who continue the fight. I dont think theres too many of them.
Personally I have no problem with a united Ireland. I just detest people continuing to use violence to try and achieve that.
Scotland is holding an independence referendum in 2014, and people are commenting that this is a bigger threat to the Union than the IRA ever managed, and without killing one person or disrupting any lives.
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Not sorry for the essay, I am. Perfect answer to my question, I reckon.
'The other option' I knew of but even then it's not that easy to recognize the difference in sexes.
Common practice here is to use cutlings from a nice female plant and grow mature ones from them. Cutting 'slips', is that the term?
Mmmm, once, long time ago, made quite a bit of dollah in a house that was bound to be demolished (later on). Those were nice days.. and it was so easy back then.. but not so any more, here, nowadays.
Well, thanks for your answer. Hope next 'season' will provide a nice sunbathed/open air 'natural' one for me. Big fail last year here. Too wet, rot early on, fail..
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i would make a great pet
You look like one. :smarty:
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Not sorry for the essay, I am. Perfect answer to my question, I reckon.
'The other option' I knew of but even then it's not that easy to recognize the difference in sexes.
Common practice here is to use cutlings from a nice female plant and grow mature ones from them. Cutting 'slips', is that the term?
Mmmm, once, long time ago, made quite a bit of dollah in a house that was bound to be demolished (later on). Those were nice days.. and it was so easy back then.. but not so any more, here, nowadays.
Well, thanks for your answer. Hope next 'season' will provide a nice sunbathed/open air 'natural' one for me. Big fail last year here. Too wet, rot early on, fail..
Ya'll aren't talking about tea leaves are you? It's "tobacco" with a distinct aroma, right?
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@QV. I never touch tobacco. Im a very occasional hash smoker, but Im way too health concious to make it a regular thing. Afew times a year is enough for me. I just grow it for my aunt and unxle.
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@Lutra. Thanks. Im thinking of growing some outdoors in the summer.
I do make cuttings, and it does ensure that theyre female.
Ive never been able to create anywhere near enough cuttings to make a full batch.
I like to grow many small plants, rather than a few big ones. At the moment, I have around 70 females under one 600 watt light. Ive found that the best possible pots for growing them this way are 2 litre bottles. They are tall and thin, taking up less floor space.
Sadly Im not expecting much success with this batch. The batch is made up of Purple Power, and it is crap. You cant even see THC on the ripe flowers.
We bought White Widow recently, but only ten seeds, so Ineed to create a lot of seeds before I can grow a full batch of them.
I expect my next indoor batch to be fully White Widow.
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Also Lutra. A magnifying glass can be a big help if you need to find the genger quicker, and you dont have great eyesight. It can sometimes be possible to see the stamen that indicates its female a couple of days before its visable to the naked eyen
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^ I've always really enjoyed 'playing Mother Nature' and taking care of the plants under artificial light. Cos that's what you do basically. Trying to create the best possible environment resembling mother nature indoors.
Don't know the situation but 70 ladies under a 600 watter seems quite a lot of plants under that one light. Maybe, suit self ofc., you could trim your batch (which you say isn't that successful) a little by getting rid off the weaker ones and give the better/stronger ones more intense light that way and perhaps a better chance to grow into something nice. Dunno..
Um, I wrote half an essay (in words/duh) about cuttings but, if you want, you can look for how to properly do it/them on the net (double duh :laugh:). Youtube has quite a few vids concerning cuttings too. Success rates can be over 60%, said my employer of the hothouse I worked in earlier, me doing this kind of job there. Plus also too, this plant tends to have a strong will to survive.
Good luck with it.
P.s. suppose it's fairly okay here (on I²) but be a tadski careful and not too open about this sort of thing in public. Too much honest openness might.... Well, just saying/suit self..
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^ I've always really enjoyed 'playing Mother Nature' and taking care of the plants under artificial light. Cos that's what you do basically. Trying to create the best possible environment resembling mother nature indoors.
Don't know the situation but 70 ladies under a 600 watter seems quite a lot of plants under that one light. Maybe, suit self ofc., you could trim your batch (which you say isn't that successful) a little by getting rid off the weaker ones and give the better/stronger ones more intense light that way and perhaps a better chance to grow into something nice. Dunno..
Um, I wrote half an essay (in words/duh) about cuttings but, if you want, you can look for how to properly do it/them on the net (double duh :laugh:). Youtube has quite a few vids concerning cuttings too. Success rates can be over 60%, said my employer of the hothouse I worked in earlier, me doing this kind of job there. Plus also too, this plant tends to have a strong will to survive.
Good luck with it.
P.s. suppose it's fairly okay here (on I²) but be a tadski careful and not too open about this sort of thing in public. Too much honest openness might.... Well, just saying/suit self..
There is no way to fix this crop. The plants are in good health and growing fine. It appears that the seed company was a fraud, and sent us hemp seeds, or something like that.
http://www.amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com/ (http://www.amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com/)
The site looks lovely and proffesional, but I had a look through the internet and it seems there's something fishy going on.
Because of how poor the seeds were, I looked for a better seed company and found SensiSeeds. We bought 10 White Widow before Christmas which are now growing, and the first few have just started flowering in the last couple of days. I am confident they will be very strong. They already appear to have more THC than the other ones, even when fully ripe.
Today we ordered 10 Durban from the same site, so with White Widow which is a very strong Indica, and Durban which is a very strong Sativa, we should have pretty strong genetics now.
70 females under one light is a lot, and even my uncle thinks I put on too many, but I've always found that I can achieve the best possible yields by growing as many small plants as possible, rather than grow fewer plants, but to a higher standard. As I'm growing smaller plants, it also has the benefit of slightly speeding up production.
I am carefull about secrecy IRL. I figure I'm OK on the internet as I'm hopefully anonymous here. I live in probably the most backward and conservative part of Britain. Growing grass is still seen as a fairly serious crime here, so I'm far more carefull about mentioning it in real life.
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Growing grass is still seen as a fairly serious crime here
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You would think with people blowing stuff up they would have more important things to worry about but it's the same here real crime is just to hard things like multimillion dollar warehouse robberies and a murder go unsolved in my town but if they think you have weed watch out
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Growing grass is still seen as a fairly serious crime here
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You would think with people blowing stuff up they would have more important things to worry about but it's the same here real crime is just to hard things like multimillion dollar warehouse robberies and a murder go unsolved in my town but if they think you have weed watch out
Exactly. This place is a hellhole in almost every way.
The best way I could explain it to an American is to compare it to Redneck Country in the 1930s. A nasty intollerent little backwater that hasn't moved with the times.
The hatred and intollerence that exists here is mostly in the name of God. The people here can be nasty and shitty, but they go to church every week, and always pray. In their eyes, this makes them good people.
*rant over :-[
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What was it like, being a caterpillar? >:D