Been a while since i lasted updated anything due to a nightmare with trying to get a new oven, long and sort of it is im now looking at 9 months with an oven that has a busted door or wait the 9 months for a replacement with a kitchen thats falling apart but has a working oven.
but anyway between spending hours on the phone i have managed to make some progress on the desk and room (feel this has now become a bit of an office make over thread sorry)
i cut some 140mm strips from a sheet of mdf to glue up to make a floating shelf
while i was waiting for the shelf to dry i dragged out the first flat screen tv i even bought as a few months back it had stopped displaying video from any of the hdmi ports so i needed to get that fix as i needed a 32 inch tv for the office, looking at new tv's they all seemed to be hd ready at this size now and not 1080p so i thought ok ill save a few quid and repair this one but first i needed to give it a clean as it had some plaster dust on it and some pva glue.
before
after
with that done and the tv parts ordered up i then set about doing one of the jobs i was not looking forward to which was repairing the pop up socket that fits in the printer cabinet, this came with damage to the top of it (nice scratch and scuff mark)
so sanded that out and then put some adhesion promoter on the plastic
followed by two thin coats of white highbuild primer
then flatted it back with P1000 before putting on 3 coats of orange basecoat
then one tack coat of clear followed by 3 full wet coats of clear
gives you an idea of the pearl effect, the camera does not pick it up to well, could just be my phone i guess
sorry it's gun finish as its still not been flatted and polished yet
i then had the great joy of putting the socket back together again after about 5 hours the paint was pretty hard. this was no fun job at all as if you did not get all the piece back in the right spot nothing lined up and you could not push the centre ring down to open the socket but after about 2 hours i managed to work it out (think really i just got lucky and all the bits lined up)
laid in the hole until the top gets screwed down
and opened.
after the socket i got the lid for the computer compartment in primer after i cleaned up the rebate for the led stip lights to go in, only the underside got primer again as the outside never got touched. I also cut and primed the infill that will sit at the back of the lid to cover the 100mm gap to the wall
with the lid dried and flatted back i wanted to get the left hand side seating area and the lid painting all in one go so i had to get the old thinking cap out and work out away of suspending the lid in away that i could get to the top and bottom in one hit. the thinking cap came up with the idea of using my normal wooden painting blocks with some 60mm 18g brad nails hammered halfway in to them and the nails would sit in the rebate that housed the plastic in the lid.
this should have be a bonus in the fact the outside of the lid should be dirt free.
lid dried and refitted waiting to be flatted back
then today i had to get another coat of primer on the infill/cover panel as the edge grain was still fairly rough.
also cut, routed and primed the other primer shelf
also primed the shelf
the long part of the shelf
the shorter part of the shelf was a nightmare as it managed to fall off the table on to the deck to which some grow up words may have been used.
now has some nice corners that look like they have been chewed by a T Rex
guess some filler work will be needed now
the shelf is now in guide coat just hanging around drying
