Sunday, January 25, 2009

closer!




Hi All

Well sorry for the long delay,but with nothing happening we just have not been able to add anything .

I had to cut out a section of the foredeck and go thru the long process of letting mother nature dry out the core of the deck an as odd as it might sound the wettest was the foredeck an it is the highest? strange but true,so with over a week I got the moisture down to 12 % and then gave it a couple coats of penetrating epoxy then coated both sides really well with the west systems and reset the piece I cut out then piled everything I could find to hold it down.

I hired a local fellow to help me with the filling an fairing an I should of had him way earlier,but you know hind sight,he does not speak English an I don't speak Spanish so yep we do have a small problem there an I thought aw I will use the online translator!,wrong what comes out he nor I can understand ,o well moving along.

Carol Had a really bad time with a pulled ham string,but is getting better,sure glad of that as was worried I might have to put her out of her misery, o wait that`s horse`s.

Am going to post a few pics we have taken showing the joy`s of doing a deck repair an mine thankfully was not one of those you have to cutout,a good thing as you can see the deck is small hardwood scraps from the making of cabinets.

In all we are getting closer to the end? is there really a end,o well weather is nice,food is great an I have Carol so all is OK.

Enjoy the cold winter an we will be thinking of you all!

Dick and Carol

2 comments:

Muriel said...

Glad to hear the job is almost done!! It looks like it was a real bear!!!:)
Sun sounds good right now as we are getting flakes of snow again!!
We are off to LA next week for some sun. Carol- take good care of yourself.

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear you are doing ok, miss you both, love ya Sis (Terry)