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Location: Ireland
Joined: May 2005
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New house coming along
Being unemployed at the moment, I have plenty of time to sort the house out after the builder disappeared with work half done and much of it bodged. Currently, I am decorating inside which is taking a lot of preparation as the walls are just taped plasterboard, with filler on some of it and some of the filler appears to have been applied with a wobbly finger. There are bumps, screw heads sticking out, cracks and holes so loads of polyfilla and where the skirting boards are miles out from the walls, the old trick of ripped up scraps of newspaper down the gaps then filled over.
Tried power sanding the plaster but the whole house filled with fine powder so I am now hand sanding.
Today was an unusual fine, sunny day with a light breeze so I did some painting outside. In Ireland, cottages have a coloured band of paint round the bottom 8" or so all round the house and the concrete cills and outside the windows are painted the same colour. The house is cream and the colour used is dark green, very traditional for around here. I was entertained all afternoon by squealing brakes as the neighbours came up and down the lane and slowed down to have a better look as they went by. No doubt the verdict will be reached in the pub tonight on my taste. They haven't got over the notion of a girlie brandishing a power tool or a paintbrush here, now that is NOT traditional!!!
Tomorrow - lots of filling where I have found new imperfections, sanding later and more painting. May start tiling one of the bathrooms too....