When your married to an engineer there is no such thing as a "simple request" to make a big board ironing board
#202
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Washington
Posts: 75
I have one of those DH's! After 25 years now, he has decided that it's better to do it MY way and save the grief.
Seriously - go to Home Depot or Lowes and they will cut the board for you - to your specs! I brought my board home, got my (yes, MY) cordless scew driver out and went to town making the frame work. Covered it with batting and popped it on top of my regular ironing board and LOVE IT. Never take it off, except to iron shirts when absolutely beyond necessary.
Seriously - go to Home Depot or Lowes and they will cut the board for you - to your specs! I brought my board home, got my (yes, MY) cordless scew driver out and went to town making the frame work. Covered it with batting and popped it on top of my regular ironing board and LOVE IT. Never take it off, except to iron shirts when absolutely beyond necessary.
#203
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Fort White, Fl
Posts: 2,689
I had ato laugh at this. My hubby is a retired truck driver and he analyses anything to death when I say I want to make...... My friends hubby and mine talk everything to death before they do it. Sometimes they would take so long talking about how to do it that my friend and I would just do it and tell them it was ready. LOL By the way he also forgets that I can read a map and get where I am going or thinks I need to take a different route.
#204
WOW !!! I have the same problem. I get the "why "and then "oh you don't want to do it that way". Or "you don't need that". Then in the event that he might agree, he builds it so an army tank can roll over it and it's too heavy for me to handle. If I can I figure out how to do it, gather my supplies and build it myself when he's not around.
#205
LOL amen to that..
brought home a couple of those office partitions to put together, put batting on & use as a design wall...
well, dh, the aerospace engineer... made it such a project, it took a weekend...
i wanted simple bolted together, that i could TAKE APART AT WILL....
this "frame" he made will never come apart & god forbid we move, we can't get it down the stairs...
i'm afraid to ask for the ironing board... i am waiting until he goes out of town for a full week & making my own from the tutes on this board...
and i'm going to use some of his 19 drills to do it... !
brought home a couple of those office partitions to put together, put batting on & use as a design wall...
well, dh, the aerospace engineer... made it such a project, it took a weekend...
i wanted simple bolted together, that i could TAKE APART AT WILL....
this "frame" he made will never come apart & god forbid we move, we can't get it down the stairs...
i'm afraid to ask for the ironing board... i am waiting until he goes out of town for a full week & making my own from the tutes on this board...
and i'm going to use some of his 19 drills to do it... !
#206
Originally Posted by Barbie
I feel your pain. It is just the way the engineer mind works.
My engineer husband once built a picnic table. Fortunately, he built it in place because there is no way we could have gotten a crane in the backyard to move it. LOL
I learned after many years, that if I say "this is exactly what I want. Can you do this for me?" He usually do it, if I explain his might be better quality, etc, but this will work just fine for my needs and save him a lot of design time.
My engineer husband once built a picnic table. Fortunately, he built it in place because there is no way we could have gotten a crane in the backyard to move it. LOL
I learned after many years, that if I say "this is exactly what I want. Can you do this for me?" He usually do it, if I explain his might be better quality, etc, but this will work just fine for my needs and save him a lot of design time.
#207
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Traverse City, Michigan
Posts: 1,317
HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT HOME DEPOT OR LOWES? THEY HAVE PLYWOOD CUT TO THE SIZE YOU WANT. BELIEVE THEY ARE CALLED QUARTER SHEETS. THEY WILL MAKE ONE CUT. HAVE THEM TRIM TO THE SIZE YOU NEED. MAKE A PAD OUT OF COTTON BATTING AND FELT. COVER WITH A FABRIC FOR IRONING BOARD COVERS. I SAW WHERE THEY SCREWED IT TO THE IRONING BOARD. OR YOU CAN GLUE TWO BOARDS ON THE BOTTOM THAT WILL KEEP THE BOARD FRFOM SLIDING OFF.
#208
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Eastern Washington
Posts: 29,519
Funny story! So true! I have a "big board"-paid about $100 for it, and worth it! I got hubby to put marine varnish on it too. Covered with padding, and a cover. It sits on my regular ironing board, and I just set it aside if I need to iron one of his shirts. I love it! :)
#210
Originally Posted by BobbiG
To keep the board from warping, cover it with aluminum foil. It will also reflect the heat back into your fabric.
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