Wednesday 29th Jan a cold clear start that got up to about 6C so loads outside.

The paint is peeling on Taylors office building so time to knock of the curled up paint and smooth it down for priming and touching up

                                            

                                            After sanding the bare areas were primed

  Some light brown paint was then tweaked with additions of yellow and red to get close to the faded light stone colour, the dark stone and sign writing is a job for another day.

                                             

The Barrel truck from last week has been completed by Greg with the splits welded, right handle and barrel bars straightened before a treatment of lanolin infused with graphite this is now ready for display it just needs a wooden barrel.

A purchase from Lidl of stowage brackets was more work but at  least we now have space for timber strips in the dry as they were alongside the paint store shed below

3 hooks on the outside and 2 inside the workshop

The weather has degraded the oil lights outside the buildings so again lanolin infused with graphite was applied

There was still some oil spare so it got used on the water pump around the corner

It was then line side wagon time the 2 leather window strap were rigid so a good multiple coating of oil to feed it got them flexible and in time it will soak all the way in.

THe replacement victorian window glass has improved visibility even with the manufacturing marks in it and the cleaned up frames look better.

The right door outer surface was heavily marked with orbital grinding marks and was fouling when opened so it got a cleaned with the belt and orbital sanders before priming along with the other bare wood outside

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The roof lights also got a second coat of white primer