Sanding and finishing all week

I took this week off to make progress on pre-finishing the trim boards.

Monday began with a lot of sanding

and a lot of finishing

The tree removal crew is up here, as well. We're thinning trees to help make the house safer with respect to forest fires, to make the remaining trees grow bigger, and perhaps to make room for a few different species. We really like the dark forest, but it'll be a better dark forest in a few years with fewer, bigger trees.

Tuesday

meant more sanding and more finishing. Siobhan came along. She split some firewood and kept her archery skills sharp.

Wednesday

Would you believe it? More sanding. More finishing. I finished the last of the sanding today. The sanding would have been much faster -- this wood left the mill beautiful -- except that, in shipping and handling, the wood took on a bunch of gravel, scratches, staples and forklift abuse. It was really frustrating cleaning up unnecessary damage.

Thursday

Three more finish applications. With the free time I have now that sanding is done, I built racks to hold the doors and jambs, which I'll be finishing in the tent after the trim boards are complete.

The tree guys are wrapping up work around the cabin.

Friday

Finally! I put the first coat of finish on the last sawhorseful of trim wood.

I also cut up the last of the dry firewood from six years ago when the septic field was installed and trucked it over to the woodpile to keep Siggy and Siobhan busy.

 

The utility closet had a plywood subfloor which I hadn't seen for years while it was the home of the wood stove crate. Now I'm realizing that with the on-demand water heater it'll be mostly empty, and useful for things like a vacuum and brooms. I have a big pile of custom-milled fir flooring left over from the upstairs bedrooms, so I decided it wouldn't take long to scrap together a nicer floor for the closet.