Here’s today’s progress on the laundry:
We’ve started varnishing the bench top in marine grade polyurethane. This is coat number 1 (of 4!) on the underside, so lots to go.
Posts Tagged ‘laundry’
6 May
Laundry progress
There’s nothing like putting a 430 mm hole in an expensive bit of wood to get the heart pumping. Lacking a 2 foot wide hole saw, I broke out the jigsaw. But these are notorious for making wobbly, wonky cuts.
Enter the diy jig!
I found a bit of board and popped holes in the right places.
Screwed it to the foot plate of the saw
Screwed the board to the centre point of the hole to be and around we went…
Success! It’s not perfect, but much better than I could have achieved freehand.
This is another testament to the usefulness of a box of screws rescued from an old fax machine:
After sanding, this is the trial fit:
Next step: varnishing.
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29 Mar
End of today’s tiling
Here’s where we got to. Lots of cutting tomorrow, which slows things down, but only about 25 tiles before the tiling is finished!
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29 Mar
Tiling update
This is where we broke for lunch: about one third done on our final wall! Once you get started it gets faster: that first row is the slowest.
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24 Mar
Slow progress…
Managed to get a bit more done on the laundry this weekend, despite sickness and extracurricular activities. The floor tiles are all down now, and I’ve started the wall tiles:
(‘scuse the mess: I’ll get a better pic soon)
The tapware is coming along too:
Now we have a gooseneck tap with a spray nozzle. No sink yet though.
Can’t believe how long it’s taking, but it will be a great improvement when it’s finished.
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17 Mar
Most of a floor
Here’s where we are on Sunday afternoon:
some fiddly cutting:
A few more cuts to go and then I can get on with wall tiling. It was great to walk on the tiles I laid yesterday: makes it feel like we almost have a floor!
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16 Mar
Horror reduction
It feels like progress is being made. Started tiling today:
One row
Progress up to the quesadilla break
End of today’s tiling
I’ll have to wait till this set dries because I need to kneel on these ones to do the last bit.
The next bit involves cutting tiles which I have done before but have no fond memories of. Last time we did meters of diagonal cuts:
and they are trickier than orthogonal cuts. We’re only making orthogonal cuts for the laundry.
It’s starting to look good but there’s so much to go before it’s finished. After floor tiling comes wall tiling, grout, plumbing, and cabinetry.
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