The clearing up Gloucester car boot from rusty nails after a suspected sabotage attempt has cost the taxpayer £25,000.

The long awaited return of a city car boot sale has been postponed after thousands of rusty nails were found scattered across ...

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However, once rust starts in steel it is difficult to arrest. If there continues to be moisture inside the wall the nails could continue to rust, wasting the effort you undertook to put things right.

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Q. This week: I painted a 20-year-old wood-sided addition on a house two years ago. There were a few nailheads that showed rust through the paint. I scraped these, sanded them, primed, and ...