Phase Three Completed

 

Cover: My Immortal

Original Song:  Evanescense

Cover Artist:  Eiro Nareth

Today...

I initiated the injection of epoxy resin to shore up water damaged wood...

and to seal openings which should have been sealed properly from the beginning.

Although I just finished...

it was a frustrating day of very tedious work

(the second and third decks...

I still must do the first deck).

I only found out about this weakened section when I leaned on it to rest.

I heard wood cracking...

and that is when I discovered I needed to do some repair work before continuing 

with the rest of the deck.

I had ordered the two part epoxy...

some application syringes...

and I had some picnic supplies in which I could mix the resin.

This particular resin set far too quickly for my liking...

and what had proved to be so time consuming and frustrating.

I had to mix a small batch...

otherwise it would harden before I could use it.

After mixing the resin...

I had to quickly fill the syringe...

and then work very rapidly before the resin set in the syringe.

There were many sloppily done mid-posts on the sections...

but since none of them were properly sealed from water intrusion...

I had to inject resin in and around each post.

I had to form a water proof barrier around the many hundreds of mid-posts 

on the second and third decks.

OMG!!! 

This involved hours and hours of very tedious work.

My body is sore from having to hunch down and apply the resin...

all the way around each post...of which there were hundreds of...

and to have to go back and forth to re-mix the resin...

and fill up the syringe

(the syringe itself I had to change out every few fillings as the resin began hardening inside).

And...

even though I worked as quickly as I could...

more than once...

I had the resin harden in the syringe...

and so...

I had to start over with a new syringe.

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After I finish laying the carpets...

I am thinking of buying some waterproofing for all of the exposed wood...

such as the deck railings...

and applying it before Winter sets in.

So long as the weather holds...

I may be able to do so.

There is a house I go to every few months for a fire mitigation meeting.

They have a nice deck...

and I had asked one of the owners what they used...

as their deck looked well protected.

I will look for the same brand and try it myself.

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I am sore...

and tired.

I am going into the IR sauna...

 take a hot shower...

and then I am going to bed early.