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December 26, 2008

Paint Contractors

Filed under: Art & Crafts, Garden Home, Paintings & Art — Tags: Antiqueing, coatings, Distemper, Earthcote, Floor Sealing, Floor staining, Fresco, Limecote, Limestone, Metallic Wax, Midas Earthcote, Paint Applicators, paint contractors, Pandomo Applicators, Peinture, Pigmented Plasters, stucco, Tidalcote, Wall Paper Paint, windswepts — Ben @ 10:08 am

PAINT CONTRACTORS

MIDRAND , JOHANNESBURG

WHY USE LIMBIKA COATINGS & FINISHES

We understand that the choice of paints today is more complicated than just enamels and acrylics and the range of paints has grown so big that you may have to enlist the services of professional Painting contractor to assist you in sourcing products that are of high quality and are fully backed up but more importantly they have to suite your needs.

That is where we come in..We understand that Paint is the last item to go on your most treasured asset and it is the one thing people will see everyday therefore at Limbika coatings & Finishes we believe in finishes that are flawless,applications that adhere to manufacturers’s specifications by applying relevant primers and pre-treatments before multiple coats of final coats are applied. In fact we also want your walls to have an inviting appearance

We have a no nonsense approach to surface preparation before painting which is a golden rule in any painting work and our philosophy in this regard is 90% preparation and 10% Painting.

OUR SPECIALITY

We are Paint techiniques applicators, Cementetious paints applicators, Stucco applicators, Ordinary plasters applicators,Pandomo applicators,Limestone applicators,Windswept applicators,Tidalcote applicators,Floor staining and sealing,Worn leather applicatotrs,Limecote applicators.Metallic wax applicators,Tile installations,Distemper and antiqueing applicators,Wall paper paint applicators,Peinture(Fresco)applicator,Pigmented Plasters,Special floor Installations.

In short we are an approved Midas Earthcote Paints applicator.However we are also do waterproofing applications Whether cementetious,Acrylic or Torch on.

We are a colour consulting experts so we can assist with colours for the entire building whether office or a private dwelling. We assist with colour breakdown in situations where different colours need to applied for instance reveals,cobbles and window seals or simply to create feature or accescent walls.We do all that taking into consideration that all those colours need to marry into one unit.

Therfore we will never create a colour scheme for your spaces without your full participation.

OUR MISSION

To passionately provide an above average paint applications service,beyond the expectation of our clientele and to be continually refered to, as value for money service provider in the industry.We endeavour to achieve all this;

l BY PROVIDING HANDS ON TRAINING TO OUR STAFF

This is to ensure that every product we apply has followed every spec as required by the manufacturer but this also lessens problems that could arise in future due to poor application methodology.

l BY HAVING WORK ETHOS THAT VALUES A PAYING CUSTOMER

We cotain the fears and worries of our customers therefore every concern they have we will have full regard for it until they are satsfied with our efforts.Proven production methods that stress an organized professional,and reliable service and that we work efficiently to meet deadlines.

l BY MAINTAINING A HIGH LEVEL OF CLEANLINESS DURING PAINT APPLICATIONS

We will ensure that paint residues, leftovers and other hazardous wastes are disposed off , this includes covering of ground, floor,and house contents during operations

l BY APPLYING COATINGS TO DETAIL WITH A SENSE OF FLAWLESSNESS IN MIND

This entails precision brush or spray edging around window frames door frames skirtings cornice and ceilings etc giving a mastery appeal of the finished job.

l BY USING COATING PRODUCTS THAT HAVE STOOD DISTINCT AMONG MANY

We will endeavour to source products that have meaningfull guarantees , products that have provides beauty but have also proved to withstand the natural elements over time

l WRITTEN QUOTATIONS OR CONTRACTS

Written quotations that provide sytematic approach to project breakdown so that you the client know exactly what you are paying for.Alaying fears of paying for the un expected

l COMPETITIVE PRICES

Accounts with major paint suppliers offering Limbika Coatings excellent Prices which in turn are passed on to our clients

OUR AIM

Limbika Coatings & Finishes is making in roads in intergrating other allied services into our stable so we become one stop decorative service provider. These will include but not limited to the following : Tiling,Ceiling installations,Partitioning,Plumbing, Electrical installations,Paving,Wallpaper hanging,carpentry, Roofing, interior deco and construction in general.

LIMBIKA COATINGS

PAINT CONTRACTORS

MIDRAND

011 311 2338

082 888 2908

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December 4, 2008

ZIMBABWE CHAOS

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ben @ 7:41 am

THE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE NEED HELP NOW !

Subject: Fw: SOS from Home – ZIMBABWE – PLEASE read and foward to as many people as you know.

Terrible, terrible things are taking place in Zimbabwe by the communist thugs that rule the place. the internet is a powerful tool and the only way that this madman and his henchmen are going to be brought to justice is if the whole world gangs up up on them and topples their evil bastion once and for all.

Please forward this everyone you know so it gets around the world in a few days.

Letter from Zimbabwe sent in by John Winter

I reckon that these are the last days of TKM and ZPF. The darkest hour is always before dawn.

We are all terrified at what they are going to destroy next……..I mean they are actually ploughing down brick and mortar houses and one family with twin boys of 10 had no chance of salvaging anything when 100 riot police came in with AK47’s and bulldozers and demolished their beautiful house – 5 bedrooms and pine ceilings – because it was ‘too close to the airport’, so we are feeling extremely insecure right now.

You know – I am aware that this does not help you sleep at night, but if you do not know – how can you help? Even if you put us in your own mental ring of light and send your guardian angels to be with us – that is a help -but I feel so cut off from you all knowing I cannot tell you what’s going on here simply because you will feel uncomfortable. There is no ways we can leave here so that is not an option.

I ask that you all pray for us in the way that you know how, and let me know that you are thinking of us and sending out positive vibes… that’s all. You can’t just be in denial and pretend/believe it’s not going on.

To be frank with you, it’s genocide in the making and if you do not believe me, read the Genocide Report by Amnesty International which says we are – IN level 7 – (level 8 is after it’s happened and everyone is in denial).

If you don’t want me to tell you these things-how bad it is-then it means you have not dealt with your own fear, but it does not help me to think you are turning your back on our situation. We need you, please, to get the news OUT that we are all in a fearfully dangerous situation here. Too many people turn their backs and say – oh well, that’s what happens in Africa

This Government has GONE MAD and you need to help us publicize our plight—or how can we be rescued? It’s a reality! The petrol queues are a reality, the pall of smoke all around our city is a reality, the thousands of homeless people sleeping outside in 0 Celsius with no food, water, shelter and bedding are a reality. Today a family approached me, brother of the gardener’s wife with two small children. Their home was trashed and they will have to sleep outside. We already support 8 adult people and a child on this property, and electricity is going up next month by 250% as is water.

How can I take on another family of 4 —–and yet how can I turn them away to sleep out in the open?

I am not asking you for money or a ticket out of here – I am asking you to FACE the fact that we are in deep and terrible danger and want you please to pass on our news and pictures. So PLEASE don’t just press the delete button! Help best in the way that you know how.

Do face the reality of what is going on here and help us SEND OUT THE WORD.. The more people who know about it, the more chance we have of the United Nations coming to our aid. Please don’t ignore or deny what’s happening.
Some would like to be protected from the truth BUT then, if we are eliminated, how would you feel? ‘If only we knew how bad it really was we could have helped in some way’.

[I know we chose to stay here and that some feel we deserve what's coming to us]

For now,— we ourselves have food, shelter, a little fuel and a bit of money for the next meal – but what is going to happen next? Will they start on our houses? All property is going to belong to the State now. I want to send out my Title Deeds to one of you because if they get a hold of those, I can’t fight for my rights.

Censorship!—-We no longer have SW radio [which told us everything that was happening] because the Government jammed it out of existence – we don’t have any reporters, and no one is allowed to photograph. If we had reporters here, they would have an absolute field day. Even the pro-Government Herald has written that people are shocked, stunned, bewildered and blown mindless by the wanton destruction of many folks homes, which are supposed to be ‘illegal’ but for which a huge percentage actually do have licenses.

Please! – do have some compassion and HELP by sending out the articles and personal reports so that something can/may be done.

‘I am one. I cannot do everything, —but I can do something.. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God,
I will do.’

Edward Everett Hale

Please send this on to everyone in your address book. We send jokes out
without blinking an eyelid. We don’t get told this on the news in South Africa , we only get told what they want us to hear. We all have a chance to do something, even though the something is by pressing forward to as many people as possible. Let’s stop talking and let’s start doing! There is power in prayer, there is also power in more people knowing about this than you in my address book. This is going to America , Dubai , Australia , France , South Africans all over South Africa , the UK . By forwarding this to all in my address book I have done something. The world needs to know what is going on.

December 2, 2008

BIO DIESEL PROJECT

Filed under: Agriculture, Business Opportunities, Farming, Uncategorized — Tags: BIO DIESEL, Business Opportunities, HARVEST MINISTRIES, PRAYER — Ben @ 4:55 pm

BIO DIESEL PROJECT

This project started as a community project, we were looking for ways to employ unemployed school leavers and in doing so we found this resource. We trained them to make bio fuels with vegetable oils, then found there to be a shortage of old vegetable oils and started to investigate new resources. We found a plant that produce from 4000 liters of oil per hectare , Jatropha curcas.

Summary:

Bio diesel is without a doubt the way of the future. Environmentally speaking, surveys have shown the long-term effects of using bio diesel in conventional diesel engines. It is important for this generation establish a long-term vision to ensure sustainable development is South Africa and all around the world.

Bio diesel is environmentally friendly, and will improve the quality of life for all living organisms on planet earth. The comprehensive body of bio diesel data serves to demonstrate the significant benefits of bio diesel to the environment and to public health overall. Across the globe environmental concerns and energy security issues have prompted legislation and regulatory actions spurring demand for alternative fuels such as bio diesel. However, the greatest driving force for the use of bio diesel and bio diesel blends is the need to have a fuel that fulfills all of the environmental and energy needs of the world today.

Bio Diesel is the way of the future

For a truly renewable source of oil, crops or other similar cultivatable sources would have to be considered. Plants can offer a sustainable oil source for bio diesel production. Different plants produce usable oil at different rates. Some studies have shown the following annual producing capabilities as follows per hectare in liters:

Soybean – 400 – 450
Sunflower – 600 – 800
Rapeseed – 1200
Jatropha curcas – 4000

The oil producing capabilities of the Jatropha tree furthermore seemed to outmatch its nearest competition by far. Sources suggest that Jatropha curcas can even produce up to 6000 liters of oil per hectare.

Jatropha curcas

Jatropha is a very exciting process in the oil industry, as is being reported all around the world.

It is envisaged that approximately 63 000 hectares of the Jatropha will be planted in Namibia by the year 2013, which would contribute N$189 million to GDP.
The oil is likely to be used in the bio-energy sector for blending into commercial diesel, decentralized on farm-blending into agricultural diesel, for exports to niche markets, running an envisaged 12 small 1MW decentralized power station and other uses such as soap making and substitution for paraffin.

Jatropha curcas is a drought-resistant perennial, growing well in marginal/poor soil. It is easy to establish, grows relatively quickly and lives, producing fruit for 50 years. It produces seed with oil content of 37 % the oil can be combusted as fuel without being refined. The by-products are press cake- a good organic fertilizer. The oil also contains insecticides. Medically it is used for treating diseases like cancer, snakebites, paralysis etc.

Properties of Jatropha curcas

Family: euphorbiaceae (spurge family).

Jatropha thrives on infertile soil, a good crop can be obtained with very little effort. Depending on the soil quality and rainfall, oil can be extracted from the seeds after two to five years. The kernels can consist of up to about 60% oil – this can be transformed into bio diesel through the processes explained above.

The origin of this tree seems to be unknown, but it is believed to have come from Mexico and South America. It has spread all across the world, but is available in South Africa.

it is a small shrub-like tree with smooth gray bark. It exudes a whitish colored latex. The tree can grow up to between 3 to 5 meters in height and even higher. Jatropha is also known as the physic nut.

There are male – and female plant of Jatropha curcas.
The black thin-shelled seeds are considered toxic; they contain the toxalbumin curcin and this makes them fatally toxic.
Roasting the seeds seems to kill the toxic.

The fruit contains 2 – or 3 large black, oily seeds. The flowers are green-yellow and yellow when ripe. The leaves of the tree are green to pale-green, three-to five-lobed structure.
Physic nut has insecticidal – and fungicidal properties. It is a drought resistant shrub with a smooth gray bark.

Caution is advised when using physic nut!

When irrigated it produces seeds during the whole year.
The amount of oil produced per hectare increases annually.

In Suriname’s traditional medicine, the leaves of this plant are used
* against stomachache, diagnosed in children:
* boiled leaves for conditions of the gums and throat;
* tea of the leaves for stoppage of urine, constipation, backache and inflammation

Managing Director of Biofuels Industry Development in South Africa, Fanie Brink, South Africa is set to go the mandatory route of setting targets for blending bio-fuels with fossil fuels in the near future, which will in turn create new markets for the fuels.
It assumes an energy intensive economy in the foreseeable future with large dependence on electricity, liquid fuel and other household energy sources.

It hints that the rapid development of Jatropha holds the key to rapid bio-energy future because it is already grown and carries fruit under dry land conditions in the identified areas of Namibia, although it is not yet domesticated. The plant is widely cultivated in Africa, India, Central America and India. It will eventually influence the whole world.

Jatropha offers a spectrum of potential uses, apart from the principle imperative of bio diesel production.

WHOLE PLANT: Erosion control, hedges and crop protection
SEED FRUIT SHELL: Burning fuel
SEED OIL: Production of bio diesel through the method explained above (esterification)
SEED CAKE: Soap production, organic fertilizer, chemical production, glycerin and biodegradable cutter bar lubricant.

Jatropha fruits:

Jatropa Curcas

The fruits are produced in winter when the shrubs are leafless, or it may produce several crops during the year if soil moisture is good and temperatures are sufficiently high. Each inflorescence yields a bunch of approximately 10 or more fruits. The seed becomes ripe after about two to four months.

The leaves shed during the winter and the organic material from the shed leaves enhance earth worm activity around the roots.
The following yield can be reached under cultivation.

2 500 trees per hectare on 2×2 meters

Year 1 – 250 kg/ha, seed equate to 115 kg oil
Year 2 – 1000 kg/ha seed equate to 460 kg oil
Year 3 – 5000 kg/ha seed equate to 2300 kg oil
Year 6 – 12 000 kg/ha seed equate to 5520 kg oil.

References recommend spacing of 2m x 1.5 m to 3m x 3m for plantations. Interplanting can be done with mulberry. The trees handle dryness very well and it is possible to live almost entirely of the humidity in the air.
500 – 600 mm per year is the lower limit, below it the production will be dependent on local water conditions. It will also stand for long periods without water (2 years) and then grow again when rain falls. Jatropha is seen as an invasive species and toxic, especially to children.

Freshly harvested seeds show dormancy and after ripening is necessary before the seeds can normally germinate readily without pre-treatment. The seeds should be dried to low-moisture content (5-7%) and stored in airtight containers.

A new avenue of commercial farming is opening up for rural people. A tree that yields cleaner, cheaper energy has the potential to pull thousands from the poverty trap.
For more than 50 years, rural South Africans have grown the jatropha carcus tree, known to thousands of KwaZulu-Natalians as Maluku, for medicinal purposes.
Little did they know that the tree’s seeds bear bio-diesel, with the capability to run any diesel car, truck or generator without the engine needing modification. The fuel, once extracted from the seed, is thought to produce up to 80 percent less carbon-dioxide than conventional diesel.

Charmaine Coetzee. Cell/ 0824942012

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