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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:33 am |
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Joined: Aug 01, 2010 Posts: 607
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Location: Stevenage
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I have no idea what has happened to the paint on my roof, but it looks horrible...

I mean the grey bits, it looks like the paint has started flaking off, it looks worse because I had to smoosh the rain off.
Any suggestion on what I can do to cover it up? I don't want to use a touch up stick, and I think it's beyond t-cutting.
I was thinking of just buying a huge sheet or carbon fibre wrap and doing the whole roof in that.
Any thoughts?
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:42 am |
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Joined: Jun 12, 2011 Posts: 457
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Location: Hertfordshire
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Oh that does look bad! Carbon wrap it 
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:53 am |
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Joined: Aug 01, 2010 Posts: 607
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Location: Stevenage
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Is carbon wrapping difficult? I'm not expecting it to be easy, but I don't want to make it look worse =D
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:55 am |
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Joined: Oct 05, 2011 Posts: 672
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Location: Notts
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carbon wrappings easy mate as long as you have a heat gun cost around £30 from b&q
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:33 am |
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Joined: Aug 01, 2010 Posts: 607
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Location: Stevenage
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I don't, but I'm sure I can get one =) thanks.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:51 am |
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Joined: Feb 15, 2010 Posts: 1848
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Location: Leamington Spa
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a hair dryer will be fine mate, however doing large parts like a roof will take for ever and may need a heat gun for speed tbh
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:27 am |
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Joined: Feb 12, 2010 Posts: 4308
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Location: Partying with the Info Shufflers
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Carbon wrapping can be both hard an easy but to do a roof youl need 2 people maybe even 3 just to make sure the wrap has been placed on correctly with no bubbles or wrong angle, heat gun is a must and you must have patience as its not the best thing to rush
When I did my mates roof I orders 1 an a half metres width by 2 metre length just to allow space for correction
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:48 am |
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Joined: Jul 26, 2014 Posts: 43
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Location: northern ireland
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any videos on how to do this about really want to do this
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:39 pm |
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Joined: Apr 14, 2010 Posts: 713
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Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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richard77 wrote: |
any videos on how to do this about really want to do this |
Search on Youtube... Here's the first hit I got for 'carbon fibre roof wrap':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hara-9WtPbo
Think you can see why an assistant or 2 could be useful.
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:28 pm |
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Joined: Jul 26, 2014 Posts: 43
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Location: northern ireland
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good job i think ill give it a go
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