Fucking shower ..... I've bought some of those cellular plastic wall panels. All slots together like a laminate floor ~ remind me never to attempt my own laminate flooring!
FFS. They never had spirit levels, when they hand built this place. Piling one rough hewn stone on top of another. And I couldn't 'Spread' a jam sandwich. Net result? Bag of fucking Bonding on two square yards of wall and no fucking difference! Still more laid back than me on Nepalese.
So, I've used battens. 9mm at the bottom. 2" at the top. Reads vertical now. Bastard. It promises to look absolutely gorgeous too, when it's finished. But oh so when it's fucking finished!
I'm lucky to manage even half an hour every few days, hacking and banging away at it. I get drunk ~ well, have a beer anyway ~ and don't dare try anything with it once I've tasted. There lies expensive mistakes!
Getting there though. Draggingly slowly but surely. Only, I've just took a deep breath and made a hell of a long cut. Needed it to be dead right. Then I had a nightmare 'slipping the trim onto that edge'.
Nightmare! I know I've done a similar job before, in some realm. Ye know, where ye having to squeeze two opposing sides together, as ye feed them into a gap? Hard on the thumbs and screamingly slow and hard work. Especially when there's six feet of it.
Putting a bike tire back on! I Knew I'd done similar! Six foot of bike tyre from fucking hell. That'd be it. And working with £50's worth of inner tube.
Net result? Perfect cut to a faulty measurement. Have to work out, based on this bitter experience, what needs to be pared off. Measure ~ again ~ and make that cut tomorrow. Or when ever I next build up a head of steam for it.
Getting there. Ever onwards .....
Looking good Ditch!
ReplyDelete'Pissed wall syndrome' is the term we used to use on older properties with walls like the ones you seem to have there, or 'walls with character!'
I worked with a London plasterer a few years back, who was used to everything being 100% bang on level. Here in Pembrokeshire, so many old properties are of the 'character' type, ie: not a straight wall in the building! The local way of dealing with these walls is to at least try to get them flat, if not level. This guy used to drive himself nuts trying to get everything smack on, spending far too much time on a single wall, putting layer after layer of cement on, waiting for it to dry in between coats.
It was kind of funny in a way, he was almost autistic in his strict need for plumbness & 90 degree angles everywhere, anything less was an affront to everything he stood for! Us 'country bumpkin' type local tradesmen just knew how to go with the flow following the organic nature of the buildings, retaining the character after every step of the job. After he's been on a job, the place ended up looking like a newly built Barrett house, even if the property was over 100 years old..
Testing by Ditch.
ReplyDeleteMalters; Hyah, mate. WTF's going on with Google, man?! (Ditch here, by the way).
ReplyDeleteI hit my Bookmark and go straight to my Dash Board. Np problemmo. I waved ye Comment through from there this afters.
Then, when I click " View Blog ", the main page invites me to Sign In. I hit That (Top right) and go back to my Dash Board. Ad infinitum!
Now, I'm posting Comments here, look, as Anonymous, yet getting to alert / ability to moderate my own shit ~ suggesting the system knows it's me. Even that I'm signed in.
I've just seen a similar question raised on their 'Help Forum'. No bugger's answering That one! You any ideas?
Honestly, mate; Google and Yahoo have melded. Now it's all going to rat shit. I'm very close to jacking this in. It's just too much smoke and mirrors now.
Fucking G Mail accounts. Google accounts. Yahoo sending my e mails as from " Ditch Shitter " ?! Looks fucking food for business, that does
You got a clue? Or is is goodnight from him?
Ditch.