A good day, because the sun was shining.
A bad day, because we discovered a leak was a bit more extensive than we knew, and some more is going to have to be replaced than we thought. We have been fighting a leak in a lower roof section, that had leaked into the wall, while the previous owner owned it, and rotted everything out inside the wall. We had a contractor out to check it out a couple months ago, but there was too much snow. They came back today to look at things, and yeah, honestly not super great, but shogunai.
Fortunately, I think I can do most of the work myself, but there are a couple parts where it would be better to have a pro to handle, so here is to hoping the quote isn't to high.
It was kind of funny though, as they were checking it out, how baffled they got when they got to the work we had already done, like what, they expected it to be rotten through, but then they hit solid wood and fresh construction and were quite amazed. It took a bit of translate and explaining to get them to understand, but they seemed to like the quality of the work.
Thats the way it goes, and you win some and lose some. Fortunately we can roll with the punches and we knew getting into this project, we were going to come face to face with things like this sooner or later.
In other news, work continues on in the bathroom, and we are getting close to getting the insulation wrapped up in there, and we are just working on getting the plumbing set for the sink.
We needed some finish as well, for a the plywood table I made last week, and realizing we didn't have any good oils or wax in the house, my mind when to the black olive soap that I had bought for finishing the tadelakt for the sink, so I started applying that to the plywood, and man, what a beautiful finish. We are going to try it out on some exposed beams we sanded as well, since it gives it a nice tactile feel, and slightly darkens the wood, while highlighting the grain. So super stoked on that.
We also have piles of books here, just kind of shit pulp fiction, that we didn't know what to do with. No one is going to want all these english language books, and I don't want them around giving future guests the wrong idea bout what type of literature we enjoy. Then we had a great idea, book paper has great structure, so we started ripping up the books, and mixing it with water. This is going to be a base for paper clay, which we can use for all sorts of cool applications. I am going to make a nice honey comb esque lamp tomorrow with a mix of paper clay, and washi paper for light difusion, and will hopefully have some cool pictures of that to share with yall tomorrow.
One day after another, another step forward.
Have a great day n wakaranai.