First day painting

This heap of timber needs to be painted

I've written here a couple of times already that Zimmerei Stuckenberger will be starting work on the roof on May 6th - i.e. Monday week. Once the roof is off, one of the first things that needs to be done is to install/fix the boards which will be visible from underneath. What I mean is when you stand in the living room and look up, you see the rafters. On the "sky" side of the rafters you will see boards. All of those boards need to be painted with a kind of wax. This makes it much easier to clean them as dust won't stick to them anymore. Hopefully cobwebs won't stick either. Anyhow, the obvious idea is to paint the boards before they are even delivered.

All of these have one coat of wax paint

As the painting needs to happen before the start of the job, it needed to be done right away - which is why I took FTO (holiday/vacation) from work this Thursday and Friday to start work on the painting. The painting was set up over in Johannes Stuckenberg's warehouse in Sulding. When I arrived at 09:00 on Thursday (today), there was a huge pile of boards still wrapped in plastic. The boards have various lengths - for the inside of the house I needed 86 x 3.6, 86 x 3.9m and 86 x 4.2m - a whole lot of boards. I stayed painting from 09:00 till 19:00 and managed to get all of the 3.6m boards, all the 3.9m boards and about 16 of the 86 4.2m boards done - just the first coat. Tomorrow I need to finish the 4.2m boards and get a second coat on the whole lot. Once the boards for the inside are done, I have another load ready to be done on the outside (they need to be primed and then receive 2 coats). As well as that there are the rafter ends that are visible from the outside - they need to be done before the roof gets started too. All in all, a whole load of work.