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Man.... I could use some heat.

I've still got the damn furnace on right now and it's May 3rd.

I said I wasn't going to do it, but it was getting miserable in here.

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Sorry to hear that SIX. We are going to be sweltering where I am until at least Friday of this week.

And we've got fires starting to go in province too. Think it's going to be a long summer.

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It's days like today that really make me laugh about Covid masking...

I had my filter bag on my sander, and I was also wearing a hostpital mask while sanding the inside and outside of the vanity. You don't even want to know what came out of my nose when I was done. I'm sure my post-8cm-growth-pneumonia lung appreciates it.

Had to be done.

But all the drawers will be sanded outside along with the other stuff I still need to sand out there. It's a little warmer tomorrow. I think the high is 60 degrees. There's supposed to be some rain, but it's spotty. Hopefully I can get most of the sanding I still need to do done outside tomorrow if that's what I choose to do. I have my doubts though because a lot of it is sanding by hand. It's even warmer this weekend, but I think we're supposed to have more rain too.

Got all the dust cleaned up and the vanity wiped down. I pretty much lost out on the sunlight now, but if I want to prime that cabinet inside and out I could still do that with my portable lighting. I just may.




I'm debating on painting the inside of the drawers or not. They're a really light wood color and the finish has held up very well over the years. Just like that kitchen table, I'm hesitant to sand them down and paint them. I may just separate the faces from the drawers and sand/paint them and leave the drawers themselves the light wood color. It wouldn't match the rest of the stuff, but this was a very dark stained vanity and that didn't match the light wood color either.

It's inside... Let's just leave it, right?

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I think leaving them is alright. I doubt anyone will pay attention to what the inside of a drawer looks like.

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Thanks for the input, Brenda.

Yeah... I think that's what I'm going to do. With the kitchen ones I went kind of crazy. I didn't just paint everything, but I caulked every seam inside of all the cabinets and the drawers too before final paint went on. Then I bought bright white contact paper to cover all the cabinet shelves and drawers too. Like I said, they've held up perfectly all these years now, but that's just so much work. Even for one vanity I don't really feel like doing it. And because the light wood drawers cleaned up so nicely, I really don't have to.



I lied about the painting. I already painted the first coat on the vanity and I've got a fan on it now. Probably going to put the 2nd coat on it before I clean up the paint.

Late night again, but totally worth it. Vanity looks awesome, even without doors or drawers.

I'll probably have some pics up soon on this one since it's inside and it won't get me doxxed by tweedle dee and tweedle dumb.



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What do you think about the vanity size, Brenda?

If I were to have gotten a vanity that was 6" wider like my dad suggested, don't you think that would be right up on you while you were on the toilet?

I want to get the majority of this before my dad comes back from his vacation, and I'm hoping once he sees that I've evened out the vanity, mirror and light and I got that shelf off of the wall above the light switch that this one is pretty much the perfect size for the room.

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That work you did looks great SIX. And from what I can see. Yeah, I think if you'd gone bigger you would have been right up close to the toilet. You need some space there.

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That work you did looks great SIX. And from what I can see. Yeah, I think if you'd gone bigger you would have been right up close to the toilet. You need some space there.

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Thanks, Brenda.

I'm on the fence about fixing that "pit" in the center. I noticed the top piece of veneer on that thin plywood had water damage and bubbled up, so I had to cut around it anywhere where it was loose before priming... then I got carried away painting two coats before putting wood putty on there and sanding it down. Now that I put semi-gloss paint on it, the wood putty might not stick that well. I'm thinking I'll probably just cut out a piece of that thin brown fiberboard stuff that I've used to patch up the sides of cabinets, make new drawer bottoms and to protect the floor of the cabinet under my kitchen sink and call it a day. More than half of that pit would be covered by the drawers anyway, and if I can just put a nice piece on the other side after I cut it down to size, nobody should ever even know it's there.


No rain today! At least not after I got outside. A full 6 hours of sanding and I still didn't get everything done.

Let's see... Got the last piece of trim going under the kitchen window sanded... The over-the-toilet cabinet sanded as well as the 2 doors and single shelf for it... the 3 drawer faces and the door for the vanity sanded... the door and shelves for the medicine cabinet... and 4 pieces of that cabinet trim that I'm going to finish off the inside and the outside of the vanity with.

Thankfully, I should have enough of that cabinet trim left to do the job. For some reason between the two long cardboard tubes of them I got form my friend, I thought I had a whole lot more of it, but that was it. I don't need it for thresholds anymore, but I was hoping to have enough to frame out my electric box and the network box next to it in the basement. I guess I'll just have to spring for some more narrow-ish strips of wood, or rip my own to get that job done. Oh well...

Another good day, but I'm done for now. No primer or painting for me tonight. I think I should be able to get all this done before my dad comes back with time to spare.



All I have left to do is hand sanding on 3 pieces. Have to finish off the medicine cabinet, the bi-fold door with the slats and the super-decorative towel rack with the shelf above it and I won't need to be sanding anything else for a while.

I do want to sand down a nice chest that I got from my grandma's basement. I have two of them. One is a really nice antique piece, but the bottom broke. I'm going to restore that for myself at one point. But the other one is good except it needs a new locking mechanism. My aunt seemed to really want that one at one point, but then decided she wasn't going to take it. A few years ago I wanted to sand that down and stain it the same color as the rest of her furniture that she was so proud of buying on her own without credit. She's going to be retiring soon, so I'd like to have that finished as a retirement present for her.



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I went back and looked and I saw the pit. Okay, I admit you lost me at wood putty. I know a little bit of other types of construction putties but not a whole lot.

If the drawers and a little extra bit of particle board will cover it, I can't see why anyone would notice the difference.

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Actually, I believe I misspoke. I believe that Wood Putty is a substance that never really totally dries because it has oils in it. It's used to fill in holes in nice hardwood floors, and you're meant to use color swatches to match up the color as close as you can to the finish.

I meant to say just wood filler. If you've ever seen somebody hang drywall or patch up existing drywall, it's basically the same concept as the patch, but it's a really light wood color that will take on stain, and it's very hard to sand down if you've let it dry too long before sanding it.

I know it bonds excellently to primer, but because I already put two coats of semi-gloss paint down, I have concerns that if I did it now it might break up down the road and just be a mess. I think it almost certainly would if it got wet down there, which at some point is likely to happen when I or the next owner is doing necessary maintenance. Heck... It could happen to me when I'm installing a new faucet if I wasn't careful.

Oh well. I think the hardboard will be fine. The next owner will probably just think it was smart to put something like that down there like I did in the kitchen and probably wouldn't know that the pit was there for years or even decades.

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You are giving yourself a lot to do and I think maybe over doing it from what your body is telling you. I know you don't want to leave things but sometimes you have to slow down.

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Yeah. I know... And of course you're right.

It's just that I've finally gotten right at the end of my big computer project work after a few years of working hard on it and I've been putting all of this stuff off while I worked on that.

And though my health issues should be making me slow down, they're kind of doing the opposite. So many years I've been living here and this house should have been finished a long time ago. I'm not feeling backed into a corner or anything, but circumstances otherwise aren't improving either, and I feel that I need to get this house to the point that it's ready to sell ASAP. Not that I'm going to sell it right away, but there are a few external developments and possibilities in my area that could really give the value of my home a huge boost. I believe they've already begun the planned process of making railroad tracks all the way to Michigan in the east, and tie that into Chicago. If that happens, I'm pretty much prime real estate. Especially if Detroit starts getting re-industrialized like it sounds will be happening soon as well. And if the Bears move to Hammond, forget about it. I'm sitting on a gold mine as long as it's ready for a family to move in.

But the negative side of owning a house worth a lot is the HUGE increase in property taxes. I'm already paying twice as much as I was when I moved in, despite fighting them VERY successfully 3 times now. My ability to make money certainly ain't what it used to be, and if all that happens I want to cash out and get far away from here... this time in a MUCH smaller house with a MUCH smaller plot of land that I'm responsible for. As long as it has a full basement or a nice big garage for my workshop, I'll be happy.

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Old trunks are nice. I know mine has taken a beating and I would love to get it restored but that would be arm and a leg time. The hinges are rusty and stuff. If you can restore the one you have that is great.

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Oh yeah? How much do you suppose getting yours restored would cost to do?

This is yet another time where it's kind of a bummer we're so far apart geographically one of us may as well be on the moon. If rusty hinges are the only problem, I could get those cleaned up for you no problem.

Do you have the ability to remove them, or are they so rusty you wouldn't be able to get them off or remove them without damaging them?

I've got a really cool miniature belt sander on one of my work benches that I've used to clean off a lot of hardware that I later sprayed down with the Rustoleum Oil-Rubbed Bronze metallic paint. That paint costs about twice what their regular line does, but it's really fantastic stuff. Of course it can't actually give the legitimate rubbed bronze effect out of a spray bottle, but it's close enough that anything I've sprayed melds right in with the store-bought new stuff. And if you prep it all right, I haven't had a single chip or flake off of anything I've ever used it for.

Before I tried the belt sander though, there are quite a few different products on the market that I'd try first to remove the rust chemically, and then it would probably only need a good scrub down with a toothbrush-sized wire brush. Maybe a few applications of that and it would do the trick. Then it could be hit with some spray primer and a few coats of whatever metallic color you wanted with the Rustoleum brand Metallic line of spray paint.



Heh... Sigs keeps telling me I could make some money with the stuff I know, but I have zero marketing skills. Usually I just do favors for people. A lot of times they get paid back. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes somebody surprises me a few years later and does something nice for me unsolicited. And sometimes I've been able to call in favors like getting carted around when my car is in the shop or whatnot.

I got happy neighbors either way.

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I went back and looked and I saw the pit. Okay, I admit you lost me at wood putty. I know a little bit of other types of construction putties but not a whole lot.

If the drawers and a little extra bit of particle board will cover it, I can't see why anyone would notice the difference.

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Actually, I believe I misspoke. I believe that Wood Putty is a substance that never really totally dries because it has oils in it. It's used to fill in holes in nice hardwood floors, and you're meant to use color swatches to match up the color as close as you can to the finish.

I meant to say just wood filler. If you've ever seen somebody hang drywall or patch up existing drywall, it's basically the same concept as the patch, but it's a really light wood color that will take on stain, and it's very hard to sand down if you've let it dry too long before sanding it.

I know it bonds excellently to primer, but because I already put two coats of semi-gloss paint down, I have concerns that if I did it now it might break up down the road and just be a mess. I think it almost certainly would if it got wet down there, which at some point is likely to happen when I or the next owner is doing necessary maintenance. Heck... It could happen to me when I'm installing a new faucet if I wasn't careful.

Oh well. I think the hardboard will be fine. The next owner will probably just think it was smart to put something like that down there like I did in the kitchen and probably wouldn't know that the pit was there for years or even decades.

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Yeah. I know... And of course you're right.

It's just that I've finally gotten right at the end of my big computer project work after a few years of working hard on it and I've been putting all of this stuff off while I worked on that.

And though my health issues should be making me slow down, they're kind of doing the opposite. So many years I've been living here and this house should have been finished a long time ago. I'm not feeling backed into a corner or anything, but circumstances otherwise aren't improving either, and I feel that I need to get this house to the point that it's ready to sell ASAP. Not that I'm going to sell it right away, but there are a few external developments and possibilities in my area that could really give the value of my home a huge boost. I believe they've already begun the planned process of making railroad tracks all the way to Michigan in the east, and tie that into Chicago. If that happens, I'm pretty much prime real estate. Especially if Detroit starts getting re-industrialized like it sounds will be happening soon as well. And if the Bears move to Hammond, forget about it. I'm sitting on a gold mine as long as it's ready for a family to move in.

But the negative side of owning a house worth a lot is the HUGE increase in property taxes. I'm already paying twice as much as I was when I moved in, despite fighting them VERY successfully 3 times now. My ability to make money certainly ain't what it used to be, and if all that happens I want to cash out and get far away from here... this time in a MUCH smaller house with a MUCH smaller plot of land that I'm responsible for. As long as it has a full basement or a nice big garage for my workshop, I'll be happy.

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Old trunks are nice. I know mine has taken a beating and I would love to get it restored but that would be arm and a leg time. The hinges are rusty and stuff. If you can restore the one you have that is great.

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Oh yeah? How much do you suppose getting yours restored would cost to do?

This is yet another time where it's kind of a bummer we're so far apart geographically one of us may as well be on the moon. If rusty hinges are the only problem, I could get those cleaned up for you no problem.

Do you have the ability to remove them, or are they so rusty you wouldn't be able to get them off or remove them without damaging them?

I've got a really cool miniature belt sander on one of my work benches that I've used to clean off a lot of hardware that I later sprayed down with the Rustoleum Oil-Rubbed Bronze metallic paint. That paint costs about twice what their regular line does, but it's really fantastic stuff. Of course it can't actually give the legitimate rubbed bronze effect out of a spray bottle, but it's close enough that anything I've sprayed melds right in with the store-bought new stuff. And if you prep it all right, I haven't had a single chip or flake off of anything I've ever used it for.

Before I tried the belt sander though, there are quite a few different products on the market that I'd try first to remove the rust chemically, and then it would probably only need a good scrub down with a toothbrush-sized wire brush. Maybe a few applications of that and it would do the trick. Then it could be hit with some spray primer and a few coats of whatever metallic color you wanted with the Rustoleum brand Metallic line of spray paint.



Heh... Sigs keeps telling me I could make some money with the stuff I know, but I have zero marketing skills. Usually I just do favors for people. A lot of times they get paid back. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes somebody surprises me a few years later and does something nice for me unsolicited. And sometimes I've been able to call in favors like getting carted around when my car is in the shop or whatnot.

I got happy neighbors either way.

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I think she will to.

I really need to get that done. I have to remember to ask my dad when her retirement day is. I don't want to even hint that I'm planning anything because I want to make it a complete surprise. My memory aint what it used to be, and for some reason I can't even remember which month she's retiring. I think it's fairly soon though. I don't think it's so soon that I need to take time out of working on the bathroom to get it finished right away though.

Wood stain stays good pretty much forever if you keep it in good temperature and you never opened it. I bought the stain a few years ago. One day when I was visiting at her apartment I brought a Minwax flyer with the color schemes I knew were the closest to hers and I matched it up as close as I could to their stains.

It will be interesting to stain something a bluish-grey color. I've only ever stained wood brown before.

But because I'm going blue, I have to make certian that every bit of that old stuff is off of there before doing new stain or it will leave streaks all over. In my mind, I think there's a chance that could actually look pretty cool, but I don't want to take that risk and it needs to be sanded bare.

Unfortunately, unlike my vanity drawers, the finish on the inside of that box is not in good shape, so I can't just leave the inside alone. But depending on how difficult it seems to be sanding the inside of that, I may make the inside brown. In fact, the more that I think about it, I might do that regardless....


I'm just imagining a blue/grey highly glossy finish on the outside of it, and an equally glossy DARK brown stain on the inside.

Damn...

I haven't even started working on it yet and I'm jealous of my aunt's new chest.



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