{"id":21813,"date":"2023-08-09T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21813"},"modified":"2023-08-09T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:12:12","slug":"a-successful-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-successful-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A successful day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was scorching hot here today, not that I experienced much of it. I had a busy schedule.<\/p>\n

7.30am – rubbish (Contiboard and worktop offcuts plus some cardboard) to ‘d\u00e9chetterie’ in Rouffignac
\n8.00am – quick shop in Carrefour (first customer through door) on the way back
\n8.30am – finish breakfast (two cups of tea)
\n8.45am – get cracking on preparing for painting<\/p>\n

I especially wanted to get the ceilings (and coving) in both the bathroom and separate toilet sealed and undercoated today and I intended to use a roller on each as the areas involved couldn’t justify firing up the pressure sprayer. My first task was masking both rooms up but if I’d intended to use the sprayer the masking would have had to be far more thorough.<\/p>\n

As it was I intended to cover the floors and fittings in both rooms so I didn’t have to worry about paint splashes and although it wasn’t strictly necessary as its walls remained uncovered, I also masked the window in the bathroom. Both rooms had to have their ceilings rubbed down and the coverings also meant that I didn’t have to worry about the dust that would be created.<\/p>\n

It was a long day and here are some shots of the bathroom after I’d finished.<\/p>\n

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And now the separate toilet. The room is so small that merely hanging sheets of plastic film around the walls covered the fittings and created a tent-like space in which to work.<\/p>\n

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The WC was hardly visible through the plastic film, as was also the small hand-basin and the sheet at that end also completely covered the window.<\/p>\n

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So, as I say, it was another long tiring day. The upside is that with the masking and covers in place, I’ll be able to continue straight on with top coat painting tomorrow and then I’ll be able for the first time to at last get some lighting fixed permanently in the ceiling (four spots in the bathroom, two in the toilet). That small step will in itself be a significant leap forward \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was scorching hot here today, not that I experienced much of it. I had a busy schedule. 7.30am – rubbish (Contiboard and worktop offcuts plus some cardboard) to ‘d\u00e9chetterie’ in Rouffignac 8.00am – quick shop in Carrefour (first customer through door) on the way back 8.30am – finish breakfast (two cups of tea) 8.45am … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21818,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813\/revisions\/21818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}