sanding sanding
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unicorndukeMonday I painted the crafting room. I hadn't mean to get it all done but that's what ended up happening. My parents keep making cracks about leaving the house then coming home to me finishing a project, to which I go, hmm unlikely but what if
and then doing it
I taped all the important bits, cleaned the room out and rolled the walls in the afternoon while the light was good. I had been planning on doing a test corner to make sure I liked it and when I let it dry and I liked the color a lot, I just got a move on. I took a decent amount of breaks during the day, so painted the detail work during crafting that night, the edges near the windows, corners, near the ceiling and above the windows. Then I stayed late on the call and re-rolled the big areas for a second coat since it had dried by then.
Tuesday morning as soon as the light was good, I did touchups to all the places that I had missed, which wasn't too much. It wasn't actually noticeable from a distance but if you were close, it was possible to see the tan. Then I split more wood to get the pile of logs finish off. The creek down at west has frozen over far earlier than expected, so we won't be able to get a tractor across to skid logs from that hill. We have plans to go on the back hill at the main farm and get some trees from there. 9/25 bags for maple processing and a half tote for house wood. We think there's some basswood in one of the hedgerows that is shading future christmas tree fields, so we are going to take that down for wood.
This post has pre-paint photos. Room all painted. It's a very good color, in sunlight, it is more purple/blue and at night, it is more blue/grey. I like it a lot! It's lighter in person, the phone camera struggles.
I also did a test sanding of the floor and discovered that the varnish mucked up 80 grit sandpaper really good and didn't really remove it well and requested my dad pick up some coarser grit while he was at the store. He brought me 36 and 50.
Yesterday, I did a test sanding with the 36 grit after putting up plastic to the room. It worked a treat! I was surprised I needed sandpaper that aggressive but it worked well and I used it to do the rest of the floor. The wood is now a nice light reddish brown color, we've been trying to figure out what wood they might have used but haven't had much luck. I'm thinking either hickory or chestnut based on what's around now and what would have been available then that looks close, but you really can't tell unless it's something distinctive.
The varnish I'm taking off is the upper right, sanded is upper left, bottom is where they didn't put varnish and had the weird plastic rug stuff.
Then I just kept sanding. I got the whole floor done by 5:30 or so, taking breaks every so often. I'm pretty sore today from the crouching, but it isn't bad. I need to hand sand around the edges since the belt sander can't get close to some of the walls/heating unit and I accidentally melted varnish onto the floor trying to use the oscillating saw with sandpaper so there's that. There's a weird line where the plastic rug stuff was laid, so I need to figure out if I can blend it into the main part of the floor. I don't know that I can since it's more of a wear pattern situation.
I also cleaned most of the ash out of the outdoor burner since I was already dirty from sanding. I haven't shoveled it out in far too long, so I need to get on a schedule of doing it monthly to prevent this. I still need to auger out the lower section but I ran out of metal bucket space and I can't dump them until the hot coals die out in them. There was a surprisingly large amount of coals still in the burner when I was letting it die down.
Today I will be doing a fine sanding all over and then working outside since it's supposed to be in the 40s and the snow should mostly be gone. Although it is currently 16F so who knows. We are due for some 40-50mph winds starting tonight, so I'm going to let the indoor wood stove die out. It has an unfortunate problem of having smoke blow back into the house in high winds since the chimney isn't tall enough. On the list haha
Tomorrow I am running to the hardware store for: 1/4 inch plywood for upstairs bathroom floor/wall (the whole house is plaster and lathe and it is not necessarily straight or even all around and needs to be built out in certain spots for mounting drywall over it), floor seal/finish and some other misc supplies, plus wandering through the Habitat ReStore to see if there's anything interesting there. I think I just need to make it a place I check every time I go that way. I'll do first seal layer friday, plus a couple more and then by early next week most of the room should be done. The Big Shelf is a problem but I don't have anywhere to move it out of the room, so I'm just going to finish around it, then move it into place, then do all the work in that corner, but that will be after christmas probably. I'm going to try and get the corner floor sanded before christmas because I won't need to cover any items I have my sister help me move in if I get that done first.
and then doing it
I taped all the important bits, cleaned the room out and rolled the walls in the afternoon while the light was good. I had been planning on doing a test corner to make sure I liked it and when I let it dry and I liked the color a lot, I just got a move on. I took a decent amount of breaks during the day, so painted the detail work during crafting that night, the edges near the windows, corners, near the ceiling and above the windows. Then I stayed late on the call and re-rolled the big areas for a second coat since it had dried by then.
Tuesday morning as soon as the light was good, I did touchups to all the places that I had missed, which wasn't too much. It wasn't actually noticeable from a distance but if you were close, it was possible to see the tan. Then I split more wood to get the pile of logs finish off. The creek down at west has frozen over far earlier than expected, so we won't be able to get a tractor across to skid logs from that hill. We have plans to go on the back hill at the main farm and get some trees from there. 9/25 bags for maple processing and a half tote for house wood. We think there's some basswood in one of the hedgerows that is shading future christmas tree fields, so we are going to take that down for wood.
This post has pre-paint photos. Room all painted. It's a very good color, in sunlight, it is more purple/blue and at night, it is more blue/grey. I like it a lot! It's lighter in person, the phone camera struggles.
I also did a test sanding of the floor and discovered that the varnish mucked up 80 grit sandpaper really good and didn't really remove it well and requested my dad pick up some coarser grit while he was at the store. He brought me 36 and 50.
Yesterday, I did a test sanding with the 36 grit after putting up plastic to the room. It worked a treat! I was surprised I needed sandpaper that aggressive but it worked well and I used it to do the rest of the floor. The wood is now a nice light reddish brown color, we've been trying to figure out what wood they might have used but haven't had much luck. I'm thinking either hickory or chestnut based on what's around now and what would have been available then that looks close, but you really can't tell unless it's something distinctive.
The varnish I'm taking off is the upper right, sanded is upper left, bottom is where they didn't put varnish and had the weird plastic rug stuff.
Then I just kept sanding. I got the whole floor done by 5:30 or so, taking breaks every so often. I'm pretty sore today from the crouching, but it isn't bad. I need to hand sand around the edges since the belt sander can't get close to some of the walls/heating unit and I accidentally melted varnish onto the floor trying to use the oscillating saw with sandpaper so there's that. There's a weird line where the plastic rug stuff was laid, so I need to figure out if I can blend it into the main part of the floor. I don't know that I can since it's more of a wear pattern situation.
I also cleaned most of the ash out of the outdoor burner since I was already dirty from sanding. I haven't shoveled it out in far too long, so I need to get on a schedule of doing it monthly to prevent this. I still need to auger out the lower section but I ran out of metal bucket space and I can't dump them until the hot coals die out in them. There was a surprisingly large amount of coals still in the burner when I was letting it die down.
Today I will be doing a fine sanding all over and then working outside since it's supposed to be in the 40s and the snow should mostly be gone. Although it is currently 16F so who knows. We are due for some 40-50mph winds starting tonight, so I'm going to let the indoor wood stove die out. It has an unfortunate problem of having smoke blow back into the house in high winds since the chimney isn't tall enough. On the list haha
Tomorrow I am running to the hardware store for: 1/4 inch plywood for upstairs bathroom floor/wall (the whole house is plaster and lathe and it is not necessarily straight or even all around and needs to be built out in certain spots for mounting drywall over it), floor seal/finish and some other misc supplies, plus wandering through the Habitat ReStore to see if there's anything interesting there. I think I just need to make it a place I check every time I go that way. I'll do first seal layer friday, plus a couple more and then by early next week most of the room should be done. The Big Shelf is a problem but I don't have anywhere to move it out of the room, so I'm just going to finish around it, then move it into place, then do all the work in that corner, but that will be after christmas probably. I'm going to try and get the corner floor sanded before christmas because I won't need to cover any items I have my sister help me move in if I get that done first.
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Date: 2025-12-18 08:43 pm (UTC)