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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 9:42 PM
Quote:You haven't mentioned the final color. And will it be gloss, semi, satin, or eggshell?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I take it the wood is in too bad shape to refinish?
So, since I'm very curious, what color is it going to be? Whatever color, I'm sure it will look great!
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 9:53 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:You haven't mentioned the final color. And will it be gloss, semi, satin, or eggshell?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I take it the wood is in too bad shape to refinish?
So, since I'm very curious, what color is it going to be? Whatever color, I'm sure it will look great!
Just label me - nosy.
Oh, sorry. I didn't see that post before.
It probably wouldn't be worth refinishing. The wood wasn't necessarily bad, but there were a lot of issues with it before I did any repairs back in the day. It was also painted with some ancient paint before I painted it out in the garage maybe 6 or 7 years ago.
I also added quite a few more recently when I drilled holes in the sides of the shelf in the lower cabinet with a countersink bit so I could throw screws into the shelf from the outside of the unit to make it rock solid before I caulked it and painted it. The shelf wasn't going to go anywhere, but it was also a bit wobbly. I'd started that with brad nails, but decided that without being able to glue anything they likely wouldn't have held for too many years. All of that damage was filled with wood putty and sanded down before paint. You can't even tell anymore.
I also used a boatload of wood putty last week to fill in all of the tracks that would have been used to guide glass doors that were never part of it since I've had it. Now that they've all been sanded down and painted you wouldn't even know this thing had glass doors at one point.
I'm painting it white, with the high-gloss finish that I used on the kitchen cabinets and that I've used on all of the doors and trim that I've done already. It looks great and it's REALLY easy to clean. 5 months after I've finished the kitchen now and they look just as good as they did when I finished them.
The final coat is going on the cabinet and drawer this morning. I'll need a bit more time to do both sides of the doors, but I can start cleaning up those hinges and the door catches for spray paint during down time.
It just occurred to me this morning I still have half a tub of that stripping agent I used to do the cabinets left, so I'll do that first and clean them up as best I can before I take the copper wire wheel to it.
I tried, in vain, to see if I could find pictures of what that originally looked like. I know I had taken them, because I remember sending the before/after pictures to two people many years back via e-mail. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate them, and part of my recovery from alcohol was deleting all of my old emails and starting fresh, so I can't find it that way either.
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 10:04 PM
Quote:Was too busy to see what would have been in your forecast for last night, but ZH had an article about the strong possibility of tornadoes across a huge swath of the eastern USA and midwest including parts of Indiana
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I believe it, Brenda. You're probably getting what we got around 10PM through early this morning.
Yesterday, during the day, was a high in the mid 40's, and today is colder. But it got to over 60 degrees around midnight because of winds from the south.
While I was painting last night I heard the thunder settle in and then I heard the city's raid sirens going off, just a little after 10PM. I looked online and there was a tornado warning until 10:30. Strong winds all night.
I suppose I'm going to have to go out and survey the damage.
and today I read that Kentucky got nailed with a mass casualty storm
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Kentucky Wakes Up To Devastation After "Mass Casualty" Storm Rips Through State
Mayfield, KY, was flattened by a tornado.
I hope the new fence is standing! I expect that branches will be down, since silver maples are weak-wooded. But unless you heard shingles being torn off the roof, I think your roof will be OK. I thought maybe you were going to get drenching and that your drainage system and sump would get a workout, but it seems not.
Given that your neighborhood values are going up, can you get your city to pay more attention to that drainage ditch? It really need to be lined with ... something. If not concrete, which would be ideal, at least rip-rap. Maybe a petition by the neighbors who are at a lower level than the ditch itself
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Meanwile, that "atmospheric river" that was predicted to bring 2" of much-needed rain to SoCal has been scaled back (in my neighborhood, anyway) to about 1.3". It will be welcome, for sure, but it's mid Dec already, and the last significant rain (not counting a couple immeasurable dizzles/settling fog) was Oct 25. I hope the rest of CA gets everything predicted, and more! The Sierras and Central Valley are bone dry, and we will see more tree die-offs and more massive fires unless the Federal govt and CA start doing what they should have been doing for decades: Hand-thinning and controlled-burning 2-mile-wide firebreaks across forested land, and making "black earth" in situ. That would give firecrews and a revived CCC something to do. That would be ideal. But, of course, it will never happen.
Also, instead of building giant dams (like the Oroway dam that almost got washed away) suitable areas really need to build at aquifer recharge areas. Or maybe, like "Governor Moonbeam" (Jerry Brown, who actually was a decent governor) re-introduce beavers back to the mountains so they can start making their ponds and doing their own distributed aquifer recharge basins.
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 11:37 PM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I believe it, Brenda. You're probably getting what we got around 10PM through early this morning.
Yesterday, during the day, was a high in the mid 40's, and today is colder. But it got to over 60 degrees around midnight because of winds from the south.
While I was painting last night I heard the thunder settle in and then I heard the city's raid sirens going off, just a little after 10PM. I looked online and there was a tornado warning until 10:30. Strong winds all night.
I suppose I'm going to have to go out and survey the damage.
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Yeah as I was watching a bit of tv a wind came up last night because the glass in my balcony was rattling again. It didn't last long though but the rain was horrible.
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 11:40 PM
SIG, BC is already started rebuilding infrastructure that was destroyed last month and trying to figure out how with the rebuild to make our flood control better. What we have now though is hard on salmon stocks as the dykes and gates are on spawning rivers. That is all being taken into account now.
We are getting a bit of a break right now as it is dry this morning for my walk. But calls for more rain are coming.
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 11:41 PM
Out for my walk just a couple of things to do.
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Sunday, December 12, 2021 12:43 AM
Oh, I'm just popping in to say hi! and have a great day.
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Sunday, December 12, 2021 2:48 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I take it the wood is in too bad shape to refinish?
So, since I'm very curious, what color is it going to be? Whatever color, I'm sure it will look great!
SIGNY: You haven't mentioned the final color. And will it be gloss, semi, satin, or eggshell?
Just label me - nosy.
SIX: Oh, sorry. I didn't see that post before.
It probably wouldn't be worth refinishing. The wood wasn't necessarily bad, but there were a lot of issues with it before I did any repairs back in the day. It was also painted with some ancient paint before I painted it out in the garage maybe 6 or 7 years ago.
I also added quite a few more recently when I drilled holes in the sides of the shelf in the lower cabinet with a countersink bit so I could throw screws into the shelf from the outside of the unit to make it rock solid before I caulked it and painted it. The shelf wasn't going to go anywhere, but it was also a bit wobbly. I'd started that with brad nails, but decided that without being able to glue anything they likely wouldn't have held for too many years. All of that damage was filled with wood putty and sanded down before paint. You can't even tell anymore.
I also used a boatload of wood putty last week to fill in all of the tracks that would have been used to guide glass doors that were never part of it since I've had it. Now that they've all been sanded down and painted you wouldn't even know this thing had glass doors at one point.
I'm painting it white, with the high-gloss finish that I used on the kitchen cabinets and that I've used on all of the doors and trim that I've done already. It looks great and it's REALLY easy to clean. 5 months after I've finished the kitchen now and they look just as good as they did when I finished them.
The final coat is going on the cabinet and drawer this morning. I'll need a bit more time to do both sides of the doors, but I can start cleaning up those hinges and the door catches for spray paint during down time.
It just occurred to me this morning I still have half a tub of that stripping agent I used to do the cabinets left, so I'll do that first and clean them up as best I can before I take the copper wire wheel to it.
I tried, in vain, to see if I could find pictures of what that originally looked like. I know I had taken them, because I remember sending the before/after pictures to two people many years back via e-mail. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate them, and part of my recovery from alcohol was deleting all of my old emails and starting fresh, so I can't find it that way either.
Oh, that'll look so fresh, clean, and classic!
What an improvement! It'll look great!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Sunday, December 12, 2021 3:00 AM
Back and in. Just looked out the balcony window and the rain has started.
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Sunday, December 12, 2021 6:28 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, that'll look so fresh, clean, and classic!
What an improvement! It'll look great!
Yeah. It's almost done now.
Finish coat of paint was put on everything. I also cleaned up all the hinges and got two coats on one side of them. I'll probably let them dry overnight before I flip them over and do the other side, since I'm not going to put the contact paper on until tomorrow anyhow. I didn't bother using the stripping gunk. I tried out the wire wheel first and it worked great. It took about 30 minutes to clean everything up. Eventually I'll get a mountable unit that will make stuff like this a lot easier instead of trying to hold a drill with one hand, keep it turned on, and then use the other hand to put the metal up to it.
I put plenty of cardboard around in the basement and just sprayed it all down there instead of going out to the garage. It was freakin' cold today.
I also got the new oil rubbed bronze knobs on the drawer and the door already.
It should be completely finished tomorrow, and I'll finally be able to clean everything up.
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