Help me! My Frying is stuck on the window ledge

[Helpmylecreuset]

Okay this isn’t a wind up.

Have name changed for this, penis beaker, Mexican house thief etc etc.

My DH put my favourite cast iron pan on the ledge outside our flat window as it was smoking, and he didn’t want to set of the fire alarm.

Well it was so hot it fused it’s self to the window ledge. We had a friend over at the time who it quite possibly the most musular man I know, and even he couldn’t get it off.

We rent so the last thing I want to do is tear it off along with the covering of the building.

We have one idea so far which is to use the cream brûlée torch to heat up the pan again. Would this work??

The next idea is to keep it there forever and turn it into a bird bath, but this risks the wrath of our landlord when we eventually move out.

I’m really upset as it cost ££££. Please wise MN, tell me what to do!

I have enclosed a photo hopefully showing the material on the building ledge it’s attached it’s self to.

I think that's now fused to the mastic! All you can do is hope that a bloody good frost will crack the bond! But I doubt it!

Goodness knows about the pan, good luck there OP but thanks!
This thread cheered me up from the moment I saw the picture but knowing you now plan to keep your husband as your own personal pet has pushed me over the edge

Up until 9 months ago I could barely operate an electric drill and wouldn't have done DIY for love nor money. Since then I've felled trees, built a dog kennel, dug land drains, patched a roof and quite a lot more.

It's honestly dead easy to learn how to repair stuff these days. You get better with practice. Tell DH to get it fixed and tell him you will love him just as much with 9 fingers.

Get the fishmonger to chuck some fish up there - frying tonight!

Well it’s better than keeping him as a washing machine repair man

@Helpmylecreuset

Well it’s better than keeping him as a washing machine repair man

Depends... if you want to demolish a house, he may be quite handy!

Heat gun of hairdryer.

Does DH stand for Daft Husband or Dim Husband?

Agree the heat thing. Hot water won't do much, it'll cool almost instantly. Get out there and pretend you're doing your creme brulee a la roof.
Love this thread!

You could pop to your local craft shop and pick up a heat gun - hotter than a hairdryer, nowhere near as deadly as a blowtorch. They are not expensive but you'll probably need an extension lead to reach from your socket point.

Can I please advise against pouring boiling water as you are not on the ground floor, you risk scalding anyone at street level?

Your pan won't be fit for use inside again but you may be able to save the roof felt.

Best of luck!!!!

DP is good with this sort of thing and says the following:

Ok there’s a few options. The creme brûlée torch won’t nearly be hot enough for long enough. Luckily it’s cast iron so the two options I would try would be to fill it with rubbing alcohol and light it on fire heat the pan and remove when it’s melted the roof membrane. Alcohol burns hot and relatively smokeless but the liquid in the bottom will provide a cooling effect so it’s not ideal. The second option would be to heat up something heavy and put it in the pan to melt the membrane underneath. Piece of a train rail would be ideal. Do people have those? The third most complicated and likely best way would be to get a car battery and some booster cables and create a short across the pan that’ll heat it up melt the membrane and allow for it to be removed. The pan is likely ruined as there will be tar residue on the bottom. Please remember how hot the pan will be when you lift it and down burn your hand

Weirdly, long ago I spent a long cold winter repairing crappy ashfelt flat roofs.
The felt should be okay if you can remove the pan.
But reckon the pan will never be the same again.

I would suggest putting a layer of charcoal in the pan - pan BBQ. The heat will be fairly even, and you can keep checking the pan until there is just enough heat to pull it off the felt without tearing it.

He's not allowed to touch the pans? I think he has just won the award for most ingenious excuse to never have to cook dinner ever.

Are you sure he's not doing these things on purpose? First he's got himself "banned" from the washing machine, and now the cooker? :o

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@Helpmylecreuset

Sorry. He is now NOT allowed any access to the pans.

It's an extreme way to get out of cooking. 🤣 I'm hungry. I need to know what he was cooking & hiw did he burn it so badly?

I must admit we live in a flat with a little lip of roof like this and the items that just appear on it do amuse me. We currently have a paintbrush, what looks like a t-shirt and a face mask on ours. I lost one of DS2's vests drying it out of the window and had to ask a tall neighbour (who turned out to be a delivery person, oops) for help to get it down with a stick!

@Strawberrycreamsundae

Does DH stand for Daft Husband or Dim Husband?

DickHead

i reckon @gnomeisland has it...disposable barbecue in the pan light it and once it is hot the pan should release its grip on the roof felt.

Do NOT let it get so hot that it continues through the roof, the floor, the Earth's crust and actually proves how the China Syndrome works.

Put some plants and a plastic fish in it and call it an advert if it's a fishmongers underneath

witches he was searing a beef joint prior to it going in the oven

But was the beef joint delicious?

@Whatamesssss

But was the beef joint delicious?

It was actually bloody gorgeous!

Agree unscrew handle and leave as bird bath

Are you in an Edinburgh tenement, OP? If so just leave it and deny all knowledge.

I have every sympathy for your DH. I stuck a hot omelette pan to a sink once. Our house was for sale, it was a Saturday and we had a viewing booked.🤦🏻‍♀️

I needed a new sink, tap, waste and (most expensively) worktops as the existing ones were rotten once the sink was removed.