The Shed – September-October 2019

paint designed for milking sheds called

‘Dairy Cover’, which he regularly re-

applies when the gaps in the paint

become too unsightly, but I wanted

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Tek 8510 is colourless so HTP won’t cause

the same problems as it would with a

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Brief science lesson

Leaving aside dark matter (whatever

that turns out to be), everything in the

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different types of atoms tend to arrange

themselves in standard arrangements

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is always made from two hydrogens and

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we would no longer have a molecule of

water; we would have a molecule of

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one of the hydrogens in water with two

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different but are both liquids at room

Above: The contents of the Ghostshield carton:

acid and enough Siloxa-Tek 8510 for 40m^2

Left: Stains which can’t be completely removed

won’t be hidden by the concrete sealer

Non-polar substances

are ‘hydrophobic’:

they repel water and

watery solutions

Scrubbing Squeegeeing