We’re exhausted! Working a lot lately… š
Mostly pictures:
Pim concentrated on the front rooms plaster finishing.
Lots of work here.
I am anxious to have a washbasin! started working on the vanity.
I give two layers of thick shellac to all the bathroom furniture,
inside and out.
Drilling holes for plumbing.
Old houses, uneven floors. I stacked popsicle sticks until the vanity was level.
Then I lengthened the legs with layers of them + PVA glue.
I did smooth them and paint them later, so the fix is nearly invisible.
The vanity marble was very scratched and stained.
There is a large, deep rust stain that I won't be able to remove,
we're just placing the washbasin on top!
After a lot of work with diamond polishing pads.
And more. I am using grit 60 through 400.I have finer grits, but I doubt if I am gonna go over 800,
the windowsill is just honed and I like it like that.
We also drilled the holes for the plumbing on the marble.
Diamond tools FTW.
We were unaware of templates for core drills, I just read about them yesterday.
Too late to order any, so we made our own with a piece of OSB, which worked
perfectly. You only need to use it until you have a groove (first pic).
Drilling, marking, drilling.
One 5 cm hole for the drain, two 1 cm holes for cold and warm water.
I also worked on the floorboards, bedroom and landing.
I wasn’t happy with the finishing (dust sticks to the old finish like nobody’s business, bad since the house is still super dusty).
The more I use shellac the more I like it (looks and performance).
So I vacuumed, cleaned the dust with warm water only (I wrung the microfibre cloth as much as possible – it dried fast) then applied a thick layer of shellac.
I worked on a continuous length of floorboard from end to end. Started with one at a time, ended up daring to tackle 4 at a time. Working fast, it works great, and looks very good so far.
No pictures yet.