The drawers for the Cooking Section were painted with Acrylic paint acting as both primer and undercoat as stated on the tin. The whole thing was covered but the front and insides were done twice and even three times for the bottoms inside. This is to build up toughness and finally the front is now ready for the coat of oil undercoat and full gloss.
Draws all primed and coated
The eight draws were sanded down and a final touch up with Polyfilla was done today. Painting will start soon, with the primer first, then a coat of white acrylic to provide the basic undercoat and a full gloss mid-grey just for the fronts, to match the colours of the utility modules.
The Garden room is coming together with its Utility rail modules being installed, half of them are up so far!
GR Utility rail with fittings Pt1 Mk2
The rest to be done tomorrow.
Today we took all the pieces of the eight draws of the Cooking Section and assembled them together. All joints were glued and screwed. The edges were rounded. And a filler applied to smooth the edges and surfaces.
GR Kitchen draws Assembled and filled
We wait for the filler to set and tomorrow we will rub it all down and put on the first coat of paint, the primer!
The modules for the Garden Room’s Utility rail had their third and final coat of paint, the full gloss mid-grey coat!
GR Utility Rails – Top Coat
Tomorrow they will be mounted into the Utility Rail itself and have the sockets and switches fixed on.
Today we started building the kitchen cabinets and draws and worktops. We sliced up 4 sheets of 18mm OSB into cabinets to hold the ovens and microwave cooker plus two stacks of draws. The two stacks of similar set of draws are as follows: two 100mm, one 150mm and one 300mm high draws, all 600mm wide and 550mm deep. The worktop will sit on top next to the right of the oven stack and the worktop will have a rectangular section removed for the induction hob. The whole thing will be built up from a base board which in turn will be on adjustable feet with a plinth placed in front!
The modules have been painted their second coat of paint, this time an undercoat of a mid-grey.
GR Utility Rails – Undercoated
Tomorrow the final full gloss coat will go on!
The 35 modules for the Garden Room’s Utility Rail has been painted with primer but 20 of them also has been holed! Some had a single socket (or switch) cut-out and some had the double socket cut-outs!
GR Utility rail modules
Next is to mix some white and black oil paint to make a mid-grey colour and apply the first coat.
We have trimmed and sliced edges on all the Utility Rail modules and arranged them around the Garden Room.
The basic size of an module is 610mm long and 150mm high. They overlap the painted wall surface by 5mm top and bottom to allow the future possibility for different wall coverings like paper.
Next we will cut out holes for sockets and switches in certain places around the room, to serve different devices.
And then paint them.
The header tank and the pipes, on the roof, are now fully insulated and wrapped up to protect them both from rain and frost.
The header tank has the capacity for 500litres of water, supplied either from the mains water or our rain water tank. The rain water can be controlled via the computer so if it is required that we cannot use the rain water for the garden room then we can switch it off and rely only on the mains water.
Header tank insulation fitted
Header tank insulation fitted
Header tank all wrapped up
Header tank all wrapped up
Header tank all wrapped up
Header tank all wrapped up