Never tap an old can of expanding foam on the floor
07 May 2014, 10:44 AM
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I opened this thread in a hope to see if the expanding foam voluntarily ended up creating some fantastic sculpture, or caused a major blockage/issue. But what I see is what usually happens when you make a mess with expanding foam. So, what is so alarming about this phenomenon in the picture, then? Or, am I missing something? Do I need to look at the mess for 60 seconds and then identify some image it has formed? 
07 May 2014, 11:22 AM
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I opened this thread in a hope to see if the expanding foam voluntarily ended up creating some fantastic sculpture, or caused a major blockage/issue. But what I see is what usually happens when you make a mess with expanding foam. So, what is so alarming about this phenomenon in the picture, then? Or, am I missing something? Do I need to look at the mess for 60 seconds and then identify some image it has formed?
07 May 2014, 11:41 AM
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No no sculpture just a big mess that we can't remove from road,pavement and neighbours driveway! My friend had an old can that wasn't squirting so he shook it and tapped it on the pavement and within a blink of an eye the can had shot out of his hand skyhigh,taking several seconds to land,narrowly missing his head and leaving a mess all over the place.
Ah, I know what you mean now. What an unfathomable incident. How are you going to remove it? Won't gallons of white spirit or if that doesn't work, pure solvent remove it? What about gallons of bleach? If it sticks to the floor like hell and can't be scraped off, then something to disintegrate it would be an option, I think? What about washing it with a bottle of vodka?
If nothing works, you'll have to drill it to disintegrate it, I think. Then you could go with a pizza slicer or a butter knife to remove the final bits. Nuisance for you for sure, scoobyJim2. I bet your neighbour is not impressed.
I know your can tapper friend didn't mean to cause this mess, but hope he's paying for the removal of it. Tell him to buy the removing agents to try them out.
07 May 2014, 12:04 PM
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Ah, I know what you mean now. What an unfathomable incident. How are you going to remove it? Won't gallons of white spirit or if that doesn't work, pure solvent remove it? What about gallons of bleach? If it sticks to the floor like hell and can't be scraped off, then something to disintegrate it would be an option, I think? What about washing it with a bottle of vodka?
If nothing works, you'll have to drill it to disintegrate it, I think. Then you could go with a pizza slicer or a butter knife to remove the final bits.Nuisance for you for sure, scoobyJim2. I bet your neighbour is not impressed.
I know your can tapper friend didn't mean to cause this mess, but hope he's paying for the removal of it. Tell him to buy the removing agents to try them out.
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Thanks for feedback everyone! Im going to try the foam remover I didn't know existed! My friend will be happy he's not the only person to have ever of done this Ali-B we should have used the flymo on it ha, rather than our precious trowls and the daily commuters poor footwear that have walked it in now good n proper 😕
we should have used the flymo on it ha, rather than our precious trowls and the daily commuters poor footwear that have walked it in now good n proper 😕
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Wonder what sort of damage it would've done to him if it hit him in head as it shot off!? Apart from knock some sense into him ?de0a
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11 May 2014, 02:42 PM
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I once filled some gaps in my garage, neighbour comes round looking concerned at the weird fungus he had discovered in his garden, I realised it was overspill from my garage but him and his mate were poking it, I span him a line about it being a dangerous puffball fungus and that the environmental health needed to come and clear the entire garden, took it hook, line and sinker and then I pointed up to the top of the garage and explained what really caused it
Did look like some fungus, it was yellow with a brown mottled pattern on the top, it ddid look like it had grown there to be fair.
Did look like some fungus, it was yellow with a brown mottled pattern on the top, it ddid look like it had grown there to be fair.
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In my opinion, expanding foam should have removing instructions clearly stated on its packaging. I bet a lot of people have accidents with it, as it seems to have life of its own.
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It was on his hands for days which ended up red raw from scrubbing them so much the poor sod! And he works in an office :-/
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I wish he'd known about the petrol antidote.
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I know what you mean, I think. If he's accident prone, then you never know with someone like him tbh.
Makes me think of one Laurel & Hardy film where helpful Laurel obliviously blasts bed-ridden Hardy's room with his heavy, plastered leg suspended in mid-air. Then he tries to get him out of trouble with obliviously causing much pain to him.
Makes me think of one Laurel & Hardy film where helpful Laurel obliviously blasts bed-ridden Hardy's room with his heavy, plastered leg suspended in mid-air. Then he tries to get him out of trouble with obliviously causing much pain to him.
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I know what you mean, I think. If he's accident prone, then you never know with someone like him tbh.
Makes me think of one Laurel & Hardy film where helpful Laurel obliviously blasts bed-ridden Hardy's room with his heavy, plastered leg suspended in mid-air. Then he tries to get him out of trouble with obliviously causing much pain to him.
