Saturday 5 February 2011
We finished the week in the boatyard then took the weekend to get on with the shed.
Blind Bill delivered the window he'd made us on Saturday, so Dave fitted it - planing it to fit a little too vigorously, and doing a bit of damage to Bill's lovely woodwork (so I touched it up with wood stain and we'll hope he doesn't notice).
I got on the super-ladder and painted the east side. It was very hard work - because we'd fitted the t&g inside out there were two extra grooves in each plank, each about 2mm square in cross-section. This meant forcing the thick sticky woodstain into these grooves, which really slowed the job down and made my wrists ache. No wonder Dave spent so long getting the window just right!
The window in situ. Very fine.
Sunday was more painting, while Dave did more corner trims. However, we discovered that if we thinned the stain down (it's water-based) it covered much more easily as it was less like toffee. Tho' still toffee coloured. The shed's gone orange.
Sunday evening we took one of our periodic strolls around the demesne, and found this surprising little plant. Nice purply-blue flowers rising out of blobby spiky leaves. You couldn't make 'em up.
We finished the week in the boatyard then took the weekend to get on with the shed.
Blind Bill delivered the window he'd made us on Saturday, so Dave fitted it - planing it to fit a little too vigorously, and doing a bit of damage to Bill's lovely woodwork (so I touched it up with wood stain and we'll hope he doesn't notice).
Sunday was more painting, while Dave did more corner trims. However, we discovered that if we thinned the stain down (it's water-based) it covered much more easily as it was less like toffee. Tho' still toffee coloured. The shed's gone orange.
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