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Again, didn't have any time to work on the house during the week. Now that it's the weekend I'm hoping to get a bunch done. Didn't get off to a good start though. The last work I did was on Tuesday, when I glued the left and right parts of the front roof onto the house. (I deviated from the directions a little... they say to put the second floor partition in first, but since I didn't punch out the hole for the stairs, I didn't have a slot to put the partition into. Gluing the roof pieces on provided some stability for the second floor partition.)Last night (Friday) I glued in the second floor partition. Since I didn't punch out the hole for the stairs, this meant I didn't have a slot for the partition to fit into. So, I cut off the tab with my utility knife. Of course, this meant I was up against the same problem as with the foundation... gluing a very thin piece of plywood onto the floor. Then I made a little mistake. I glued the partition in backwards, so the sloped part was up against the wall rather than facing out. There's no excuse for this... I just didn't read the directions carefully. Last night as I was falling asleep it occurred to me that the sloped part should be facing out so it would butt up against the roof...So, the first thing I did this morning was wiggle the partition out so I could glue it in again. The glue set nicely and it took a little work with the utility knife to get the wall out, but nothing got broken and it was relatively painless. Now it's gluing in again... the right way this time!blog-13-1114887217_thumb.jpgI put the roof on the back temporarily, to help weight down the partition while the glue sets.blog-13-1114887224_thumb.jpgAlways knew Shakespeare would come in handy one of these days!When that has glued, I plan to move right to gluing on the gable roof pieces. The instructions say to glue on the back roof first, but I'm going to skip that for now. I want to wallpaper inside before I glue that part on.Compliments of fov

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