And usually, although not always, implemented to invoke sympathy from the reading public. I also invented the ‘salt’ phrase in the early threads but backfired as it ended up being used against me afterwards
Congratulations on your work. Fantastic effort.
Just found the thread and was intrigued.
You must have some great skills.
No white ants fortunately.
Good luck with the rest of it.
Thank you! Yes we don’t have the white ants (that I am aware of) in Tasmania, it was a learning curve and lots of youtube watching. But the majority is just hard yacka, as most of it was already there just needed restoring.
Bit of an advanced update as more to add in-between, but Santa came late this year a colleague at work was selling his AV gear so he could upgrade, jumped on his 2 year old Yamaha RX-V681.
Found a few red backs and black house spiders, been part of the house eco system for as long as I can remember, although I think they must of retreated recently no recent siteings.
Yeah ok I was up to the hall way 2017, had done around the front door and was repairing the walls. I was doing this after coming home from work, not sure if I mentioned before but I used a lot of cornice cement to fill cracks, and the cracks were ripped apart until the lathe and plaster stopped crumbling. Nearly at this point I thought about ripping it all out and re plastering,
So running the orbital sander over every square cm, it was time to prime
Arches, skirts and picture rails obviously all removed and at least the prime coat of paint shows the imperfection, bit like painting a car, lay a coat of primer, fix the holes dents etc
Bit of a trick, where ceiling roses once where and you don’t need the ventilation due having a ducted reverse cycle air system, paint the underlying area matt black ( of course paint the roses before they go up ), this way it gives the illusion of the hole to the roof plus it contrasts the ceiling roses
Also have done about 4 or 5 coats of paint so easy when you can roll to the edge and no cutting in, get it on and lots of layers, Dulax Birch White.
Lets get these ceiling roses up, not that easy, as had to retrace the wiring in the roof and brace it for support to accomadate the black wiring. Any light fitting you buy is braced from the ceiling but I needed it to hang through the rose. All good though as red goes to red and black goes to black
Finally have some front gates, went with the combo lock, actually had some back lash from some friends why don’t you want people knocking on your door, it was more for security for the furkids, so no one would leave the gate open or open it unexpectedly.
Plus for the extra security and deterrent, its ok to have to 6 foot fences but when someone is behind it who knows what they are doing, only caught out once when coming home so drunk I couldn’t key it and just jumped my neighbours fence , Shhh
So after all the break up and living alone and finally getting full time work again in a job it was time for me to get a new Toy had sold my AC/DC pinball
