Day 2848 One more time?

2nd June 2025

We finally got someone interested in the long dresser, Kelli arranged a time, but we needed to do a few last minute adjustments before it was collected. We also had to do our shopping which added a bit of pressure as per usual.

I had to reaffix a guide to the bottom of a drawer and add a new plastic piece, that was a quick job, but the painted top needed a protected coating to make it more durable. This was an easy job, or so I thought. 

I added a clearcoat solution to a small amount of colour and screwed the bottle to the sprayer.

Then I started to apply the coating. Almost immediately bit started to fly out on to the surface. I cursed, that was all I needed, was it dust from the back cloth?. I had to wait for that coat to dry before I could remove the crap. I tried again, the same happened, now I was convinced that it was coming from the sprayer itself. My only option was to throughly clean the spray head. Once that was done, the top was dry, I removed the particles once again, and applied the coating once again. It still came out with bits in, by now I was really pissed off. After discussing it with Kelli we agreed to ditch was was in the sprayer, clean out the bottle, and clean the thing, removing any residue that might have built up from previous paints.

I filtered new colour and clearcoat into the bottle and reassembled everything, it was now or never.

It was Kelli’s turn to do the spraying, I could tell that the finish was flowing better, no bits, the surface was flawless. I breathed a huge sigh of relief, now it was ready for collection, well not quite.

There was a piece of the base on the side missing, I had noticed it when we collected it and then forgot about it. Kelli reminded me that it should be done, this meant turning it on to its side, and that’s when we noticed all the areas that was missed the the carcass was painted.

I did the repair and the painting, now it was finally finished, ah not quite.

Kelli was still not happy with the top, and wanted to give it another coat.

“Do you want to risk it?” She decided that he risk was worth it, so off she went, fortunately it went well,  now she was happy with it.

The chap came to collect it, and was happy with everything, I helped him load it and off he went a happy man, and I was a relieved one.