Paint! (Or at least "Primer!")
Jun. 22nd, 2023 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galadhir
Woohoo! After over a week of sanding it down to bare metal using angle-grinders, and then rust-proofing, we put the first coat of paint on the roof this morning. This is actually primer, and it needs another layer of primer, three layers of undercoat and then three layers of what we hope is going to be a lighter, more silvery grey top coat. (Each layer takes 12 hours to dry.)
But we've started, which is something we'd begun to feel we would never be able to do. And it is already so much better than the pocked and blistered, faded rusty red paint that we took off.
Whoever had had it before Son had obviously just painted an extra layer on top of whatever paint had already been there until the paint layer was over half a centimeter thick - the worst roof paint job I've seen in almost a year on the canals. So this is already a thing of joy and my fingers are crossed that in 1+3+3 days it'll be better still.
We now have to get on with taking the paint off the sides and then priming them, one by one. And then taking the paint off the decks and gunwales and priming them. Definitely starting to think that this is more of a four or even six week job than the two weeks we had thought we would need.
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Date: 2023-06-23 02:51 am (UTC)As for layers of paint:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite
A rockhound friend of mine had a similar find from a park railing that had a couple of inches of different colors layered up, and was sturdy enough to cut and polish. Car paint is just sparklier.
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Date: 2023-07-13 11:47 am (UTC)LOL! That does look a lot like what we're stripping off. There are several red, grey, blue and white layers in a layer cake like that, although not quite as deep. Sadly we can't get any lumps off that could be made into jewellery, but it's a nice thought.
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Date: 2023-06-23 04:19 am (UTC)I've seen things that were just obvious "painted over!" jobs, rather than doing it properly. (Not with boats, in my case, but still.) It's a huge difference.
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Date: 2023-07-13 11:49 am (UTC)Definitely! I have been very reassured to find that there's not as much damage under the blistered paint as I feared, but the new coats are so much smoother. I have an update to post today which should show that even better :)
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Date: 2023-07-14 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 01:25 pm (UTC)Thank you! Yes,I had been having nightmares that we would find more rotted holes like the one the last boatyard found around the stove pipe, but in fact it's only been a few pock marks that can be treated with rust cure and painted over. An enormous relief!
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Date: 2023-06-24 07:24 am (UTC)Whoever had had it before Son had obviously just painted an extra layer on top of whatever paint had already been there until the paint layer was over half a centimeter thick - the worst roof paint job I've seen in almost a year on the canals
Good grief!
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Date: 2023-07-13 11:58 am (UTC)It really is a lot of work, but as you say, it really needed it. We have taken a lot of rust off and hopefully prevented it from getting any worse for a long time. We've been hard at work since posting this and have now finished one side, but now we have to start on the second one! It's a startling transformation though!
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Date: 2023-06-24 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-13 11:58 am (UTC)Thank you! It's nice to come back to this now and see how much more we've done since, too :)
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Date: 2023-07-13 04:42 am (UTC)also your narrowboat is INSANE. 😲
I enjoy reading danmei too, including mxtx (tho i certainly haven't finished all of her works). :)
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Date: 2023-07-13 12:03 pm (UTC)Hi! Thank you for thinking I seem fun :) I can at least promise more narrowboat updates, although sadly I'm not a reader of danmei - I got into The Untamed on the tv show and then attempted (and failed) to read the book. I would probably read the danmei if I knew how to get hold of it, but I haven't even managed to do that.
If you would still like to connect up despite that, I'd be glad to. I'm always interested in more people to chat with :)
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Date: 2023-07-13 12:56 pm (UTC)also still more than happy to connect. :) i'm not all danmei all the time 😅
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Date: 2023-07-13 02:19 pm (UTC)I wish I could read the book in Chinese (but the problem with that is I don't speak Chinese) because I have the feeling that it's full of nuances and references that the translation just doesn't do justice too, and I find the style of the translation very offputting. (Again, I can't complain because it's my fault for not reading Chinese, but there is is :) ) I must try the manhua version, which I guess might be more accessible for me (and also I'd like to see what my boy Jin Guangyao looks like in it.) I hadn't even thought of looking for it on Amazon, but that's a great idea :)
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Date: 2023-07-14 05:09 am (UTC)reading indie translations is uhhhhh sometimes a challenge in re-constructing tone lol...i think i know what you mean.
good luck with whichever you pick up!
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Date: 2023-07-14 07:48 pm (UTC)I haven't found any fan translations, sadly, other than one on a website which went down before I got through the first two chapters. I bought the first three official books from Amazon, but I wish that they had had notes like the cliff notes you get with Shakespeare. I'm following some knowledgeable people on Tumblr who make some great meta posts about things from the importance of filial piety to the meaning of JGY's hat, but I'd still love to know more.
Thank you!