Batts and Borer
June 27th 2009 08:17
We've spent most of the day continuing with the ongoing renovation of our kitchen. (See a recent post on when we put the pantry in.)
First job this morning was to continue removing the T & G (tongue in groove) wood which has probably been in the house since it was built just under a century ago. Though this looked tough and non-removable at first, it proved to be fairly easy going, as a lot of the wood that held it on was borer-ridden, and gave way quickly. That left huge amounts of mess, and we wound up with borer-discarded wood dust in our hair, eyes and all.
My wife bought a scaffold system on Thursday which seemed at first to take up most of the kitchen, but in fact, even assembled it isn't too overwhelming. And it's certainly helpful for getting up to the ceiling and into tight corners. (Though I dreamed at one stage last night that she wanted the grand piano in the kitchen, and I couldn't figure out why she wanted it almost stuck up against the dining table and chairs, leaving only a narrow gap between them. We'd all have to have taken to the Phenphedrine, or some other diet tablet to deal with it!)
She'd also bought a couple of plastic sacks of pink batts, and we've got almost two walls filled with those already. We had to make some new dwangs, as the old ones had pretty much given up the ghost, but because we keep pre-used wood from other projects, we were able to make these without buying any wood. (In fact most of this wood came from where we'd had the wall up between the two rooms previously. How's that for being eco-friendly?)
Both of us are worn out from the effort, and thankfully, our younger son (who's living here at present) was around to do some of the lifting and shifting. We had to go out and get some gib-board as well, so he came in handy for moving that...
First job this morning was to continue removing the T & G (tongue in groove) wood which has probably been in the house since it was built just under a century ago. Though this looked tough and non-removable at first, it proved to be fairly easy going, as a lot of the wood that held it on was borer-ridden, and gave way quickly. That left huge amounts of mess, and we wound up with borer-discarded wood dust in our hair, eyes and all.
My wife bought a scaffold system on Thursday which seemed at first to take up most of the kitchen, but in fact, even assembled it isn't too overwhelming. And it's certainly helpful for getting up to the ceiling and into tight corners. (Though I dreamed at one stage last night that she wanted the grand piano in the kitchen, and I couldn't figure out why she wanted it almost stuck up against the dining table and chairs, leaving only a narrow gap between them. We'd all have to have taken to the Phenphedrine, or some other diet tablet to deal with it!)
She'd also bought a couple of plastic sacks of pink batts, and we've got almost two walls filled with those already. We had to make some new dwangs, as the old ones had pretty much given up the ghost, but because we keep pre-used wood from other projects, we were able to make these without buying any wood. (In fact most of this wood came from where we'd had the wall up between the two rooms previously. How's that for being eco-friendly?)
Both of us are worn out from the effort, and thankfully, our younger son (who's living here at present) was around to do some of the lifting and shifting. We had to go out and get some gib-board as well, so he came in handy for moving that...
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