{"id":21417,"date":"2023-06-24T20:49:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21417"},"modified":"2023-06-24T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:25:14","slug":"not-a-lot-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/not-a-lot-to-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a lot to show"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished at around 6.30 pm because my back was killing me. I’d done a good few hours work but wanted to go on for longer and get the kitchen walls and ceiling sprayed with sealing undercoat but that was not to be.<\/p>\n

Even so, I did get quite a bit done. The walls and ceiling have all now been rubbed down and wiped with a damp cloth to remove excess plaster dust, so they’re now ready for painting. It’s the masking up that’s taken the time – and the final bit of rubbing down near floor level that killed my back.<\/p>\n

I’ve masked up one doorway and cleaned around the window frame so that’s also ready for masking. I’ve got to mask the other doorway though, but in a way that allows me get in and out while the paint sprayer is running so I can leave it outside the room but be able to turn it on and off.<\/p>\n

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The machine itself took a bit of assembling. Like most Chinese instruction manuals, it was as clear as mud. The problem was attaching a circlip to hold the paint inlet tube on – the instructions just said to do it without saying how. I managed it after bending its ears slightly because they were touching before the circlip could be made small enough to even begin to enter its groove, but I finally managed it.<\/p>\n

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So by the look of it, I should get the kitchen walls and ceiling painted tomorrow. The amount of dust generated by rubbing down the plaster has been the main bugbear with enough being present to make sticking the masking tape to the surfaces to be masked challenging to say the least. Luckily I did the walls and ceilings in the living room and corridor before the tiles went down and if I did it again, I’d do the same in every room. Too late now though \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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