Zero work today

After picking up our chandelier for the living room (woo hoo!), picking up groceries and cat food, and coming home to make dinner, I was tired.  I didn’t do any meaningful work on the living room tonight.  I plan to work all weekend, though, to try to get things back on track.  We’re not too bad off right now, but we still have a lot of stuff to do.  Tomorrow I need to finish the finish sanding on the pocket door frame and get a coat of shellac on that.  While the first coat is drying there, I need to get to work with the scrapers on the baseboard, and try to get as much of that scraped and ready for finish sanding as possible.  Sunday will be working on whatever I didn’t get finished on the baseboards, and moving to the door frame to the hallway.  I’m going to use the scrapers there to speed-up the sanding process.  They are able to get most of the stuff.  I’ll still have to contend with the smaller curvy bits, but between the MultiMaster and my multi-fingers, we should be able to bust that out.  My personal goal, ludicrous as it might be, is to have the rest of the sanding finished by the end of the day on Sunday.  I have things on various nights this week and next week that are going to cut into my housework time during the week.  If I am at the point where I’m shellacking things, then I can probably get all of the coats on that I need all over the room on the nights that I do have available.  Even if not all of the coats are applied yet, we *could* be on track to paint next weekend.  As long as a coat or two of shellac is on everything, I feel comfortable taping-off the edges and painting, then finishing the shellac after the paint has dried. 

Here are how my estimates are working out right now: 

Pocket Door Frame

• < 2 hrs. finish sanding
• 0.5 hr. initial coat of shellac
• 1 hr. dry time
• 0.5 hr second coat of shellac
• 1 hr. dry time
• 0.5 hr third coat of shellac
• (time permitting) 1 hr. dry time
• (time permitting)0.5 hr fourth coat of shellac
• Total work time:  4 hrs.

Baseboards

• 2+ hrs. scraping
• 2 hrs. finish sanding
• 0.5 hr. initial coat of shellac
• 1 hr. dry time
• 0.5 hr. second coat
• 1 hr dry time
• 0.5 hr. third coat
• 1 hr dry time
• 0.5 hr. fourth coat
• Total time:  6 hrs.

Hallway Door

• No idea. At least 2 hrs. scraping, 4 hrs. finish sanding, etc.

Adnvantage:  Us!  I’m so close to being finished, I just want to get it done at this point. 

That’s all for now.  More updates tomorrow. 

jonathan