Day 471

21st November 2018

I had to fix all the remaining boards down today, it has been going on too long, and I needed to move on.

There was a dig from the neighbours regarding the noise of me banging the nails. They’ve had to put up with a lot over the past year, so it was important to me to ease the inconvenience.

I had a long list of jobs, including trips to the tip.

I had an old drain hole to seal up, so I bought some expanding foam. I had seen everyone using it to do just about everything from filling gaps, sticking electrical sockets to bonding panels,so how difficult can that be?

For starters, there is no “feel” for how much to use as there is a delayed effect. So off I went giving the nozzle a good squeeze. The gook came down the tube and into the hole. After a few seconds it started to grow, and grow at an enormous rate. “Oh shit!” I thought, what had I unleashed?

It rose about six inches out of the hole, and fortunately did not get any larger. It looked like an enormous white head waiting to be squeezed. I left it a couple of hours before tackling the trim-back.

The moral here is never underestimate the amount of expansion in a can of Wickes’s polyurethane foam.