I started off last week’s blog saying that it would be a short one as I had been focussed on a single task – plasterboarding. This one is much the same and so the photos haven’t changed that much!
Last week’s blog said that I had completed about 80% of the job and I had hoped to finish last Monday before a friend would come over to give me a tutorial in filling and papering.
Pleasingly, I did manage to finish the boarding task, although it took me until midway through Tuesday to do. With the boarding complete there are no sheets left on the pool house floor although because they had been on the floor, albeit elevated on some battens, was one the reasons it took longer than I’d anticipated.
One of the battens had evidently become sodden and the plasterboard sheet on top had become very wet and so could not be used in its entirety. This led to a little more cutting and screwing, as too finding the remaining part of the wall to be covered was the least flat surface in the entire building.
Because I was delayed, our friend couldn’t then make it until Thursday but we did get a full day’s work of sanding and filling and every joint has had the first fill. Despite our best efforts, this was a pretty messy task.
In an ideal world, I would then have had a few more days to do the second, and third fills that I am told would be needed, and even start the sanding. However, as we had guests arrive on Friday for the weekend, I spent the day cleaning the pool house, and the pool which hasn’t been used for a number of weeks, so the space was available for our guests.
However, despite it being cleaner than it has been in a while, and with the water now back to 27 degrees with the new, improved, heat pump, they chose not to go for a swim!
My plan is therefore to do as much of the second and third fills on Monday and Tuesday (having had my masterclass I am now confident to be left on my own!) and rebuild the pool house again on Wednesday for next week’s guests who are arriving on Thursday. Let’s hope they choose to have a dip!
It has been another week of Breton weather but, happily, things seem to dry out sufficiently on a Sunday for us to do our walks.
Today we walked a new stretch of the coast on the Daoulas / Logonna Daoulas peninsula and started our circuit in a familiar sounding hamlet – Gorrequer (also written as Gorreker on the village signs as the lane we are situated on, Hent Gorreker).
We have explored lots of the Finistère, and other Brittany, coastline but with over 2,200 kms of coast in Finistère alone there is still much to discover. Today’s walk, though undeniably scenic, validated our decision to walk the Roscoff to Concarneau railway line in the last couple of weekends as it was very muddy in places although never impassable – just!
I may not blog next Sunday as it is likely that the photos of plasterboard won’t look very different no matter how much more filler I apply!!
Kenavo.