Mundane News

[Illaveago]

The rice growing on my back lawn/paddy field is doing rather nicely due to the lovely weather we are having.
And just as I speak some more of that lovely weather is beating against the windows .

 

[MikeG]

Certainly is....... a Stanley 71 router plane. I bought it 40 years ago and it's never been used. It's still in its original oil paper wrapper inside the box. I lost the instructions unfortunately. It's only on the bench because I was thinking of flogging it on eBay. They go for a tidy sum these days. View attachment 402909

Oooh, very nice. You can thank one Paul Sellers for their popularity on Ebay. They're a very handy tool if you are into traditional woodworking. I made my own.

 

[MikeG]

If I could have yesterday back again, I'd do it very differently. I had to use a rotary wire brush in an mini angle grinder to break through a ghastly shiny finish that someone had somehow put on the lime plaster in what will be our bathroom. Despite extensive dust-proofing precautions I completely filled the entire house with a fog of fine dust, using up every single brownie point I'd earned with my wife over the last 3 years with this house. I then spent 4 hours cleaning the house from one end to the other, before starting to lime plaster a ceiling at 4 in the afternoon. It took 4 hours, because the uneven background meant it was 25mm deep in one area and 2.5mm deep in another. Nightmare.

 

[Lavender Rose]

I'm looking forward to today! Nice early shift at work 6:15-2:15 then I am going to the beach for a canicross session with my dog and running friends. CANNOT WAIT!

 

[GM]

Certainly is....... a Stanley 71 router plane. I bought it 40 years ago and it's never been used. It's still in its original oil paper wrapper inside the box. I lost the instructions unfortunately. It's only on the bench because I was thinking of flogging it on eBay. They go for a tidy sum these days. View attachment 402909

You've started something now Slowmo! I've got a Record Shoulder rabbet plane somewhere in the garage, like you bought over 40 years ago and I think I used it once. Out of curiosity I just looked on Ebay and one is up for £95.

 

[Katherine]

If I could have yesterday back again, I'd do it very differently. I had to use a rotary wire brush in an mini angle grinder to break through a ghastly shiny finish that someone had somehow put on the lime plaster in what will be our bathroom. Despite extensive dust-proofing precautions I completely filled the entire house with a fog of fine dust, using up every single brownie point I'd earned with my wife over the last 3 years with this house. I then spent 4 hours cleaning the house from one end to the other, before starting to lime plaster a ceiling at 4 in the afternoon. It took 4 hours, because the uneven background meant it was 25mm deep in one area and 2.5mm deep in another. Nightmare.

Oh dear !
What could you have done to improve your extensive dust protection measures?

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Zut alors! It looks like I'll need to find out what buses run from Lourdes to Toulouse when I'm returning from my planned September 4-week Pyrénées cycling trip. There's a slight chance that the train won't be running, if recent news is any guide. I'll find out what buses do that run, so I have a backup.

 

[classic33]

Zut alors! It looks like I'll need to find out what buses run from Lourdes to Toulouse when I'm returning from my planned September 4-week Pyrénées cycling trip. There's a slight chance that the train won't be running, if recent news is any guide. I'll find out what buses do that run, so I have a backup.

Cycle!

 

[hopless500]

If I could have yesterday back again, I'd do it very differently. I had to use a rotary wire brush in an mini angle grinder to break through a ghastly shiny finish that someone had somehow put on the lime plaster in what will be our bathroom. Despite extensive dust-proofing precautions I completely filled the entire house with a fog of fine dust, using up every single brownie point I'd earned with my wife over the last 3 years with this house. I then spent 4 hours cleaning the house from one end to the other, before starting to lime plaster a ceiling at 4 in the afternoon. It took 4 hours, because the uneven background meant it was 25mm deep in one area and 2.5mm deep in another. Nightmare.

Mr Hop did something similar when we started on this place 10 + years ago. He had put up plastic sheeting barriers with zip doors (were going to be in place for a while) while he was creating his own dust storm. But he forgot to plug a small hole in the floor of the airing cupboard. I didn't say a thing and it only took him a couple of weeks to empty and clean the cupboard and wash and dry everything in there.

 

[Reynard]

one minute, the next. It's blowing a hoolie though, whether or but at least it's not

Don't fancy going out on the after lunch. Will stay in with a and prep some fruit to make jam.

 

[mybike]

The rice growing on my back lawn/paddy field is doing rather nicely due to the lovely weather we are having.
And just as I speak some more of that lovely weather is beating against the windows .

Took my son's dog down to the field to chase a ball. He needed a bath when we got back! And to think the water board were talking of drought conditions in January!

 

[Speicher]

I'm looking forward to today! Nice early shift at work 6:15-2:15 then I am going to the beach for a canicross session with my dog and running friends. CANNOT WAIT!

I am waiting for you at the beach.

 

[slowmotion]

You've started something now Slowmo! I've got a Record Shoulder rabbet plane somewhere in the garage, like you bought over 40 years ago and I think I used it once. Out of curiosity I just looked on Ebay and one is up for £95.

Maybe I shouldn't have slung my unloved Yankee into the trash compactor at work.

 

[Lavender Rose]

I am waiting for you at the beach.

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Oh gosh!! Haha. I'll keep an eye out ;-)

 

[MikeG]

Oh dear !
What could you have done to improve your extensive dust protection measures?

Well, it gets a bit technical, but negative pressure is part of it, and paying a little more attention to service entry holes (2mm gaps around the radiator pipes, and so on). I had used boards over the floor because of gaps between the (300 year old) floorboards and the absence of a ceiling below, but that wasn't enough. I should have put dust-sheets down instead, and thrown them out of the window when I'd finished. Back to negative pressure.....this is basically having an extractor running constantly sucking air out of the room to the outside, which means that air gets drawn in through all the little gaps which had released the dust into the rest of the house. With the air all moving into the room it should in theory prevent dust escaping into the rest of the house.

I've got two more rooms to do, and I've learned my lesson. I will be mounting a big old Expelair on a temporary board and fixing this in place at an open window, and I'll be going around the rooms with expanding foam and filling even the slightest gap.