… has been reached today.
Remember in the Spring when I bought that 500-watt ash sucker that I reckoned that I could convert quite easily into a vacuum cleaner? Well, without any conversion at all, I used it today to vacuum all of the dust that had collected on the stairs over the last year or so. And I was ever so impressed with this, almost as much as I wam with my galvanised steel dustbin. Even though it’s only 500 watts, it did a terrific job – much better than I was expecting. Once that had been done, I set to and masked off everywhere in the stairwell that I could reach.
The small ladder that I used when I fitted out the stairwell is now being used in the inspection pit and so I had to spend most of the day being an acrobat trying to reach the far-flung corners, and it wasn’t until I’d knocked off that I asked myself how come I hadn’t thought about the small ladder on the roof of Caliburn.
It took ages to mask off the stairwell and so that left me only about an hour or so to start to fill in the screw heads and the plasterboard joints. It’s going to take much more than that to do all that needs doing, and so I’ll be spending most of the day on Caliburn’s ladder, assuming that I remember to fetch it.
WHat else I’ll be doing is to try to hang the door for the cupboard at the back of the stairs. I put the final coat of varnish on that this morning and so tomorrow morning I can fit the hinges on the door and measure up to fit the hinges on the doorframe.
