The blog also said that I hoped to complete a third garage door last Monday to fully enclose one bay. I am happy that I managed to do that and am quite pleased with myself as I have installed it with a 3-point locking mechanism (wouldn\u2019t want anyone to run away with my priceless collection of wood offcuts!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I turned my attention to the gym on Tuesday, Monday afternoon being one of the few afternoons I was able to cut the grass in this ridiculously changeable \u2018summer\u2019 weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has been slow-ish progress but I think I\u2019m on track. The room was used as a children\u2019s games room before we arrived so had had some conversion from the outbuilding it used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The walls are pretty well done with plasterboard and insulation, but the ceiling less so. In places it had buckled, probably as it had gotten damp over the years and expanded the lambris (tongue and groove pine) (that favourite French finish). There was some beading in place around some of the edges but not most where there were large gaps between the planks and the beams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As with all these jobs, even for Dave\u2019s gym, I thought it best to do some thorough prep so the actual painting should be relatively quick and simple. This has meant ensuring all the ceiling planks are now flat again, replacing \/ adding new beading, and lots of filling, caulking and sanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With lots of filler and caulk required I thought it best to leave it 36 hours to dry properly so I managed to make a start on the 4th<\/sup> garage door. While I may not be able to complete that next week (Dave\u2019s gym dependent) they will all look great once done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the filler dried, I have started the painting.\u00a0 I have begun on the dark brown beams that Dave would like white, to match the rest of the ceiling, and these have taken a couple of coats.\u00a0 It does look better with them bright and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assuming there aren\u2019t too many unexpected challenges, I am hoping the gym (and final garage door?) will be complete this time next week.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00c0 bient\u00f4t.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week has been focussed on 2 projects so this won\u2019t be too long a blog. Last week\u2019s blog said that my focus would be giving Dave\u2019s gym some TLC before he has a new personal training client start. I said that I hoped to be able to complete it \u2018within a week\u2019. Perhaps, I…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-and-daves-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/South-garage-bay.jpg\")
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