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Painting the trim and gluing


Muriel

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Well my mitre box arrived, but the balustrade was out of stock. So I sawed the trim and decided to make a balustrade myself. I bought a set of round pencils for £1 that didn't have any writing, paint or logos on them, just plain wood. They were cheaper than buying dowling! I measured and cut each one in half to give the posts. Using skirting board I made the top and then had to figure out how to glue it all together. The best way was to make a little hole in the pencil and glue a bit of a cocktail stick into it. Once that was dried I marked out where on the floor the posts should go and made little holes with a nail and stuck them in that way.

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I still needed to do something with the balcony floor. I decided to make tiles out of air dry clay. So I rolled out the terracotta clay and cut it into squares. I marked where the posts would go and cut out a little hole using a straw. Then I let it all dry.

I made the top rail by taking one piece of skirting, and then cutting a second one in half long ways and sticking them together. That way I had a little lip behind which to hide the posts being stuck to the rail. I had to figure out how to glue the posts to the top rail too. Easiest would have been to drill a shallow hole to put them in, but don't have any suitable drill bits. So I used tacky wax to keep them in place.

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I had thought it through, I needed to spray paint it all, and lay the floor. Had to do the paint first and then the floor. Of course I put it all together with the rail before remembering that I still had to put the floor in so couldn't stick on the rail yet (so that the posts could go through the holes in the tiles). Finally painted it all and put it together again when it dried - of course then remembering that I still haven't put the floor down!! Silly Muriel :ohyeah:

So put the tiles down using a filler (spackle) as my grout and then finally stuck it all together.

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Once everything had dried I glued the columns on the underside of the balcony and am waiting for that to dry at the moment.

The trim got painted too after I'd sawn everything with the right angles using the mitre block.

With the lights installed, the trim painted and the floors stained I decided it was time to start gluing. There isn't a lot else that can be done before the gluing!

This is where it got a bit tricky. As I converted the front opening house to a back opening one, the front didn't have anything to slot into, and just kinda stuck on the front. I decided to make it all a bit more stable I'd add a couple screws (hidden by the trim). Trying to get everything square and glued and screwed and ..... was hard work! Managed to break one window bar while trying to pull walls into place etc, but it was easily fixable. It has dried overnight and next comes the gluing of the trim.

Glued the front trim, but the sides are just tackyed on as I still need to finish the brick spray painting where the front meets the side and the mortar. Also still need to decide what to do about trim around the top of the house below the roof. Think it'll be the same as between bricks and paint.

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