{"id":21933,"date":"2023-08-25T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21933"},"modified":"2023-08-25T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:23:46","slug":"another-day-of-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/another-day-of-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day of masking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had another very disturbed night last night. The very hot spell (42 degrees Celsius yesterday) mercifully came to an end as they usually do here with a thunderstorm. Trouble is it was at about 3.00 am and I found it impossible to get back to sleep again after it had died down again an hour or so later. I finally got up before 6.00 am and just managed to catch a very brief nap before starting my day before 9.00 am with a drive to Rouffignac. <\/p>\n

I got going in the house immediately after I returned with the aim of getting another full day of masking under my belt which I knew would be the most difficult of the whole paint job. There were several reasons for this. Because it was to do with getting the walls in the living room and corridor ready for painting it involved masking up the ceiling in those areas, which meant the masking would have to be done upwards. The same will apply when I come to do the ceilings in the bedrooms but the area being masked up today is far and away the biggest in the house and whereas the bedrooms are all rectangular it also contains several angles and corners.<\/p>\n

The job involved making a straight line below the bottom edge of the coving using wide blue masking tape and then adding masking paper to that to protect the ceiling. Here’s how things looked after applying the blue masking tape.<\/p>\n

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Here’s almost the same shot as above but with the masking paper now added.<\/p>\n

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The masking paper had to be added around the whole area which meant climbing up and down the steps and was both tiring and time-consuming.<\/p>\n

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Every time I get close up to the walls and ceiling I find a few more small bits of making-good to do and today was no exception. Most of it was to do with the damage caused when the paint spray machine’s pipe exploded but there were a few other small areas as well. With the masking now all done I should all being well be able to move onto colour spraying the walls tomorrow. <\/p>\n

I’ll have to check all of the paper masking beforehand though, as it’s still quite warm inside the house and one or two areas were already beginning to sag a bit and detach before I left this evening. But fingers crossed, it will only have to last one spray session tomorrow \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had another very disturbed night last night. The very hot spell (42 degrees Celsius yesterday) mercifully came to an end as they usually do here with a thunderstorm. Trouble is it was at about 3.00 am and I found it impossible to get back to sleep again after it had died down again an … 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-21933","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\/21933","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=21933"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21942,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions\/21942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}