Finished floorboards

 

Cutting in around the edges with a paint brush.

 

 

"Running" the applicator over the boards for the first coat.

Leave 24hrs.

Apply a second coat.

 

 

After 7 days to harden - the finished product!!

Now to move all the furniture back . . .

till we have to rip the old walls off to replaster.

 

 

 

Sanding floors

 

We hired a floor sander from Bunnings, and levelled all the floors as best we could.

Then we had to use a orbital sander to go over all the bits it missed.

All the edges of the rooms had to be done, as well as the dips.

With an old house, it'll never be perfectly level.

 

 

 

Robert wore safety gear, but the house is still covered in a layer of dust!!

Next week we move on to applying the oil to the timber.

 

 

 

Garden produce

The vegetable garden has kept producing well.  We picked 10.35kg of butter beans (gotta watch the cholesterol in those!) and 6.9kg green beans. A good couple of days was spent blanching and freezing them, so that we have plenty for the next few months.

 

We also picked some pumpkins - probably a little early, but something (probably a rat) had already started on them. We don't mind sharing - but they'd already eaten 3 !!

 

 

Robert brought home a bucket of tomatoes, and so I had a go at dehydrating them in the oven. The theory was great - cut them in half, lay them on the oven racks, sprinkle with a little salt, and leave them in the oven at 100 deg C for 6-12hours (depending on their size). Because most of them were only golf ball sized, as they dried they dropped through the racks. By the end of the day I had one 500g jar full of dried tomatoes, (they taste great, by the way) which I covered with olive oil.

I'll use an electric dehydrator next year!