Sanding and Sealing
I forgot to mention in my previous post that the cabin celebrated its first anniversary last week, on September 15. If you look back to the very first entry in this blog, you will see the date on it. Quite a lot has changed in a year!
So now, on to this weekend's accomplishments: First of all, on Saturday morning about 7:15 I headed out to Corinth to pick up a drum sander at the rental store. I had read several articles about other peoples experiences with these machines, and I would say that everyone who said they are noisy, heavy, and crazy hard to work with is telling the truth. My muscles still ache from wrestling that little monster around on the floor. But when I finally got through the 20 grit and 36 grit papers, I put the 80 grit on and really started seeing the beauty of the pine floor showing through. So at 4:00 I was headed back to Corinth to return the sander. I returned Sunday afternoon and used my small belt sander and orbital sander to finish the edges, then went over the entire surface with 120 grit paper on the orbital sander. Then I applied the first coat of sanding sealer to make sure it keeps that 'freshly sanded' look.