Completely off-topic - anyone got any perspex?

[barrett]

SORRY.

 

I'm in the process of fixing up my mum's garage a bit at the moment, currently stripping off all the paint on the exterior (GR1 fun). Long term result of my altruism is that the garage will be MINE when I've cleared out the interior so I can chuck a rubbish old car in there and teach myself to be a GR12 mechanic (chances of me killing myself = very high).

 

ANYWAY I need to replace the broken window on the side of the garage and want to do perspex instead of glass so I can do it myself without smashing it/ cutting my fingers off. I thought there might be a very slim chance that one of you lot had some old flat bits of perspex lying around going begging. Needs to be 42.5 by 28 inches or bigger.

 

I'm not expecting owt to happen but thought it was worth an ask before Mother Dearest spends £50 on a new bit, cheers!

 

By way of thanks have a picture of the incredibly successful* Murad

[nigel bickle]

Sheet of glass for a garage window wont cost much. Measure it up -get down the glaziers. Buy a tub of putty, and a roll of gaffa tape.

 

Jobs a good un!

[Father Ted]

B&Q sell perspex sheet, its cheap. But shit for windows.

Honestly, all the windows at my place of work are perspex and have gone that funny cloudy yellow that you can no longer see through.

[DSdriver]

...all the windows at my place of work are perspex and have gone that funny cloudy yellow that you can no longer see through.

That'll be polycarbonate then, perspex (acrylic) crazes instead. Polycarbonate is tougher and lighter but more expensive than acrylic. It is supposed to be better nowadays as the UV protection is actually in the polycarbonate whereas it used to be in a thin acrylic coating. I am not sure what the stuff B&Q sell is but I think the answer is in the price. Proper perspex is quite expensive and a piece the size Barrett wants I would sell for £50.00 plus p&p. Unless the local yooves are likely to lob a brick at it glass is the way to go.

If anyone wants any free offcuts of perspex for a project, they are under 250mm (10 inches) in one dimension, available in clear or various tints in thicknesses from 3 to 12mm. Anything bigger we use. And at up to seven hundred quid for a full sheet we use it carefully.

[Minimad5]

Bus shelters have removable windows