Video

You can now view the video of our finished projects. Here is a link to our video: http://youtu.be/CNXapAM-rXk Thanks for watching!

Floor back job

I mentioned in our previous post that we needed to redo our floor because the paint started to peel off after only less than a year. Turns out the paint used was latex and not the epoxy paint with hardener. Because the bedroom was completely emptied out we took this opportunity to do the floor correctly. We got the right epoxy paint with hardener this time. The old latex paint was easy to remove so after a day of scraping the floor clean we painted the new crimson red floor paint. This took a day, two coats. We then left the floor to cure for 3 whole days. Moved the bedroom furnitures on the 4th day. Now we started scraping off the paint in the living room, thought we just redo the living room floor as well while we're at it. Thought scraping off the old paint would be as easy. We thought wrong. There was a very small portion that was really hard to scrape off, with our substandard scraping tools, ittook us 2 days just to almost completely scrape off all the floor paint. Towards the end of today we just gave up on scraping off everything. At least we managed to scrape off the 2nd coat. Tomorrow we begin repainting the floor. The color will be dark brown like the old paint.

Day 26

On Wednesday, June 11, we have completed our ceiling renovations. It was the 26th working day. Add this to the 75 working days of the roof renovations, we actually worked 101days for both. About 1/3 of the year. We added red primer paint to the compression ring and the rebars holding the bamboo posts on the bond beam to keep it from rusting. Then we installed the polycarbonate sheet that sits right on the compression ring tubes. The scaffolding came down next. While our bedroom is empty of furniture we decided to repaint the floor. This will take 2 to 3 days to cure so we will just have to wait longer before we could move back into the bedroom.

We plan to cement the floor of our tool shed to keep vermin out. Down the line we plan to ferrocement the walls to further protect the shed.

I promised pictures , unfortunately my tablet has been diagnosed with a motherboard problem which, without receipt, will cost 80% of the purchase price. We, therefore, decided to just find a new and more reliable tablet. Thankfully, I was able to retrieve all the pictures before it finally died. Turns out most of the stuff here have a very short shelf life. :(

Anyway,  will post the pictures the soonest possible. Thanks.

Days 14 to 23

I owe you almost 2 weeks worth of updates. My tablet had to be sent to NCR to get a battery replacement, it will take 2 to 3 months before it returns to me. So I have to use DH's tablet. The downside is posting pics using his tablet takes so long. It is just wasting our wifi time. Anyway, you can just use your imagination after seeing some of the pictures I have taken in the past posts.

So after the 12th panel, in the kitchen area, was finished, we decided to move the scaffolding counter-clockwise so we could apply a 2nd coat to the previous 9 panels. Next, we set up the scaffolding just outside the bathroom to access the next 5 panels which were completed in a week and a day. On Tuesday this past week we moved the scaffolding inside the room but before we could do that we needed to move the shelf, drawers and bed out. on the weekend I would work on organizing the stuff inside the bedroom and remove them  to our temporary storage outside the patio. By the time we were ready to move the furniture it was easy to do. Now our bedroom is the living room for at least until this coming week. We  were able to completely remove all the mats, sheets, nets and tarps in one day, cemented all apnels the next, appkied bostik and paint the following day. What is left are 2 more panels, the last 2, to be cemented, bostiked and painted. Once that is completed on Monday, we can start working on the bedroom floor as most of the paint have been scraped off.

So in less than a month, we will have completed work inside the house. We are quite excited!!  Anyway, we will try to find a way to post the final pictures on this blog.
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