Showing posts with label sand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sand. Show all posts

Monday, November 29, 2010

Dueling sanders






I have finally got a taste of the job Travis has been working on.
He has for 60+ hours now been working on this:


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CLICK IT! You know you want to!


And turning it in to this:



East Beam complete, West beam needing touch up
Now he tells me he has to go over  all 70ft of beams again with a finer sand paper!

Poor guy. Sanding off a millimeter of rough painted and varnished wood is not easy.
The top photos are the best we could get of the roughness.
He has been working on this 1 item on our to do list, while I get to keep crossing off many tasks!
Well, this weekend I finally got a taste of...
sand.



I took these cupboards:



And added some elbow grease (and vast amounts of TSP)
Have you ever wiped down the very top of your cabinets?

Also ruining some sand paper in the process...
Go clean your cabinets NOW NOW NOW!
Or you will have this some day.
The left paper is a normal worn out piece,
the right is from the top edge after I cleaned it with TSP vigorously.
I swear it was clean and no longer sticky to the touch


I created THIS:



OK, no really-- I created this:

I shouldn't have sanded the front of that one shelf on the lower right. Oopsie.



He keeps making his project look nicer, and mine keeps getting uglier!

I got myself some green coveralls and I look awesome while working on this.
Now that I have mastered the order in which to don my gear.
Respirator first, then goggles, then earplugs and gloves.

All I have to do is avoid Travis trying to take photos of me in all my hotness.

I'm sure there will be pictures here as soon as he hacks my account.
I knew there was a reason I hadn't given him permissions to post!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Best tool yet.

Our motorized wheelbarrow! Yes yes, my shovel has taken back row to this one.


It hauls mulch and laughs at the puny load
It hauls sand with a smirk and a wink
Gravel on the other hand weighs 2700lbs per yard...yet it drives just fine with the loadDont forget the stone sweet stone. The only thing it can't do is help Travis lay these 100lb beasts level on the sand. *cue announcers voice*

This patio is brought to you by Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 Big Horn edition