Monday, May 30, 2005
Kitchen doorway
Apart from gite changeover on Saturday I been resting and watching Formula 1,
recuperating for this week. Today I've been jointing and taping the
stairwell in the other gite. My friend Ian, who loves plastering, put
the cream coloured enduit around the kitchen door surround. Caroline
has been tiling one of the bathroom walls - I think she is getting a
bit fed up of tiling - and the three of us have managed to knock a few
of those niggling jobs off the list. You know, the one's that you can't
face at the time and delay and delay.
Last
thing tonight I went over the enduit with a wire brush to give it a
rough, rustic, texture to make it look the same as the exterior enduit.
When the macons applied the enduit
on the outside they put in on quite thick (about 15mm ?) then left it
to harden after a few hours then ran over the enduit with a 'nail
board' to give it the rough texture. Ian and I just followed their
example but I used a wire brush because it was a small fiddly area. I
am extremely pleased with the finished result .
Shown
in the photographs are the original doorway, the working in progress
version after sandblasting and some plasterboard infill to square
things up and cover some concrete and finally the finished result with
the creme coloured render blended into the doorway. The remainder of
the plasterboard will be painted an appropriate colour to pull the
whole together.
brittany gites
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8:34:25 PM 
Kitchen doorway
