Tonight's blog post allows me a welcome break from editing pictures, which can become somewhat choresome in the quantitys that we work with. My husband and I run a small photography business (mostly children and families). Whilst I enjoy taking the pictures the endless editing this then affords can become tiresome - especially in the pre- christmas rush when all I really want to do with my evenings is relax and craft!
But less about that and more about this floor. When I left you we had just ripped up all the boards and were about to begin the scary and laborious job of re-laying them. They looked quite a state as they went back down and they were very stripy. We used a specialist wood glue called Rewmar (Remwaar - as I pronounce it) adhesive. Its incredible stuff but expensive and just impossible to get off your hands!!
Once it was all down we then took the sander to it. It got an amazing 10 passes with the big sander and then a good going over with the edge sander. We used 40 grade for the first 3 , 80 for 3-6 and 120 on the last 4 to make it smooth. It was SOO dusty and really quite scary seeing it come up so orange. The smell of pine was pretty intense.
This is a pretty good sample of what we were left with. After we finished it with wax (another mammoth task)
The Cost break down like this
Adhesive x 3 Tubs at £85 = £255
Resin for filling = £60
Sander hire for both sanders and sheets of paper =£160
Nail remover = £40
6 small tubs wax £78
Total cost for whole floor = £593 (plus 2 weeks hard slog ) Or £16.47 /m2
Less the cost of an actual holiday because we spent all our annual leave in the loft..
Equals Money Well Spent!
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