In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Good for you getting over the winter hump and starting your renovations again.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Managed to buckle down and actually put a few hours in on the pantry today. Got everything else I needed sanded down and cleaned up before putting a coat of joint compound on any of the various holes in the walls and the trim.
To give you an idea of how bad the pantry was (and the entire house), there was a HUGE patch job done down by the baseboard, and I never even noticed it until this morning. I'm guessing they made a huge hole in there at some ponit when they fed the phone cord up to the hole that no longer exists for it in the kitchen (I tiled over it half a year ago).
They didn't bother finishing it, or even sanding it down or putting a needed 2nd and 3rd coat on it. Just left it in there like that. And the pantry has been so nasty for a decade I didn't even know.
I think I'm going to go out and pick up that wood putty today so I can get it up there. It's going to need some drying time, and I'm feeling the itch to do it, so I might as well put myself together and go run some errands so I can get that up there. I still need to sand everything down and likely hit more spots with additional mud before I can even think about putting any caulk in there, so no sense in wasting another day on the wood putty.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Yeah. Kind of at a stand-still now. I'm hoping that I'm not wasting my time.
Menards stopped carrying the DAP wood filler, apparently. All they had was Minwax and Elmers. Not a chance in hell I'm paying the price they wanted for Minwax, but after putting up the Elmer's I'm not sure if it's going to be up to the job.
I'm using it to do something that it is not designed to be used for, but the DAP wasn't designed for this use either. I've used DAP on enough things to have no doubt that it would be up to the task, but I think I may have just wasted 7 bucks and maybe a day or two of drying time.
I certainly don't want to put a fan on it to hasten the process. It's got to dry on its own time and hopefully not crack much of at all.
There's other things I can do while I'm waiting on that. I can still sand down the stuff I patched today and get most of the caulk up tomorrow so I can get most of the thing primed. But depending on how this putty goes it might really end up holding up the project now that I've gotten started.
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If it makes you feel any bette, the Tung oil is not curing AT ALL in the unheated garage. We have to bring the bedframe into the indoor hallway where it's heated.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Brenda I'm so envious of your weather this winter.
Not quite freezing today, but the closest we've been to it in about 3 weeks.
It'll be 40 tomorrow. Just enough to start us off with a ton of snow melt and a few hours of rain before we get the 10 to 15" of snow they're predicting in the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday night. The entire area is going to be an ice rink for weeks.
Last night they upped that from 8" to 12", and now I'm seeing possibly 15".
Then it will be at least a week until we get a day warm enough to melt any of it. And that's only if the weather doesn't change for the worse, which it hasn't done once since the beginning of the month.
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Right now it is pretty good SIX, but there is a call for snow and rain mixed on Wednesday. Just have to see if the snow arrives but with the rain it won't stay.
It is sitting at around 44F which is good for the end of January. Hard to say what February will look like.
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Few clouds out on my way back but it was a little warmer than when I was out.
Did something I shouldn't have. I bought a package of real cheese when I was out. Going to have some for supper.
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I probably should have thought out my braces/molds for the wood putty better than what I'd used. I put a few blocks of wood under where I needed them and attached them to the walls with my brad nailer. I knew I'd have some small holes to patch when I took them out, but I had no idea that doing so on walls made of plaster would completely blow them out when I pulled the blocks down. Would have hardly done any damage to drywall.
Oh well...
At least I seemed to have been able to remove the blocks without too much damage to the integrity of the still somewhat malleable putty. I didn't want the putty to dry so much that the blocks broke it when I tried to get them off.
I think sanding these is going to be a nightmare, but at least it seems like they're going to hold up and do what I wanted them to do. We'll see what happens in a day or two when they dry completely. It would be nice if I could have a fan on them, but I know if I do that there will be cracks all over and it just won't work.
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Oh yeah... I'm not going to be reusing those shelving units.
Under the extremely hard to scrap off contact paper that was all over everything else, there's that old-timey yellowish high gloss paint that is probably from the 60's and full of lead.
And that's on top of some awful wood with huge knots and defects that occured naturally, let alone all the dings and dents they got from wear and tear over the years.
I'll probably just worry about finishing the room for now and see if I can catch a sale on something or find something in the remnants worth using.
I'm half thinking of just throwing all that old shelving out in the garbage. I honestly don't even think it's worth the time to peel off the contact paper off the other 9 shelves, and I don't even think that the shelving is garage worthy. I think somebody would probably kill themselves if they burned it in a fire pit.
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Out for my walk soon. Got a couple of things to do. It is nice and dry and bright for now.
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I've changed my stance on wood putty/filler.
It seems that the fact Menard's doesn't carry the DAP brand anymore ended up being a lucky break for me. For what I needed this for, the Elmer's stuff was WAY better. Sanding it was a dream compared to the nightmare that the DAP stuff would have been to shape.
Now... I'm not sure how this Elmer's stuff would hold up to abuse, but because of where I'm using it, I'm not worried about it. Once the second coat dries overnight and it's sanded down and painted, you're not even going to be able to tell that the two shelf holders made from baseboard were ever broke in the first place.
Even better, I was so happy with how well that went that I decided to use it on the ends of all 10 baseboards as they met the door frame on the inside. The actual baseboard on the floor was coped to fit the door frame nicely, but they just made straight cuts that looked pretty stupid for the shelving brackets. I was going to use some backer rod and caulk it, but after the caulk shrank it would look like I caulked it. Once this dries and I sand it, it's going to look like all 10 boards were coped properly to the frame.
I sanded all the joint compound down on the walls and trim too, so once I sand tomorrow I'm going to give the entire closet a coat of primer and see if any more repairs need to be done from there. This is going to look fantastic when it's done.
It ended up getting up to 47 degrees today! That's 8 degrees higher than they said it would yesterday. So I was able to get outside and get all the snow and the ice off of the walkway finally.
It's raining right now, but it's turning to snow soon.
15" incoming.
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