Monday, December 14, 2009

38 of 365TTSM - expanding foam (it's a love/hate thing)




I love expanding foam. It cures no end of renovation ills. It will fill any gap and sets like rock. You can chip it up with a chainsaw. I once saw a documentary about an entire house built of expanding foam. However, it really annoys me when people who own houses before I do think it's a similarly good idea. Because it usually means they've taken a quick and dirty approach to renovation. And when used in places like under a laundry trough, as in the photo, it provides lots of little curvy hollows for ancient bits of detergent and lint to bond and set up home together, and they're really hard to clean. Even my good friend Ms Bleach struggled a bit with this.

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