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| Saturday, November 11, 2006 |
| The light... I see the light... |
The light at the end of the tunnel, that is.
We would probably be finished, now (except for painting), if I had not taken three hours off to assist someone else with a project of their own.
I left, this morning at 11:00, with the instruction that Mr Ata should drill the countersinking on all the pilot holes whilst I was gone. When I came back, at 2pm, the boards were pretty much as I had left them.
"What did you do?" queries Ata, trying not to sound like a prison warden but seeing this project going on and on into the foggy mists of the future.
"Well," said Mr Ata, "After you left I had a practice run at countersinking. Then I went and researched countersinking on the net. Did you know you can get drill bits that are made to do the countersinking at the same time as the pilot holes? I think we should get one of them, rather than doing all these seperately*. Anyway, then I went to get my hair cut. Then on the way back, I went to Bunnings and looked at pulleys. Then I bought juice. Then I came home and researched pulleys on the net."
Ata, with an exasperated expression, says, "You know I'm going to put this on my blog, don't you?"
Anywise, the thing is coming together well. It's mostly there. We just have to put the support posts in the corners, the doors and panels on the side, and the MDF sheets on top. The internal frame is all done. Only minor stresses about boards not lining up with pilot holes, and only a couple of issues with driving the screws in on an angle so they come out the side. All the wonky boards have been pulled straight by the screws. And aside from the odd bruise and a blister from where my thumb joint rubs on the drill, no injuries! Hooray! It will definately be done tomorrow. AND Monday looks like it will be overcast, so it will not be too miserable doing the paving, and THEN hopefully the lounge suite will arrive Tuesday, when all the work is done, so we can spend most of next week watching movies in supreme comfort.
*Disregarding the fact that we had already drilled all the pilot holes, mind you |
posted by Ata @ 8:18 pm  |
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You do realise photos of the finished product are mandatory, don't you?
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And it's tuesday evening now.
Sooo ... did the lounge suite arrive?
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You do realise photos of the finished product are mandatory, don't you?