Saturday, April 19, 2008
Darwin and I decided that our fence need to be cleaned and oiled before we left for two years. We had this bright idea some time ago but never found time to do it so we decided that Friday and Saturday of this week would be it. Oh boy!! We are not yet done with packing (almost but not there yet) but we decided that we could do this “little chore” with no problem. It was a much bigger project than we thought. We cleaned the whole fence on Friday (about 65 feet across the back and 65 feet up each of the sides and across the front to hook to the house – about 195 feet total by 6 ft high.) We used a brush on, wash off fence cleaner. Today we painted about 2/3’s of it with Linseed oil and mineral spirits.
We still have the back side of the fence that faces into the common area to do plus the side where I was painting the rails. The first picture shows what one corner looked like before we started and the last two pictures show what it looks like at the end of today. You can see how much better it looks in the last photo. It is quite a contrast. We will need to finish Monday. We are definitely running out of days as we leave for Ben’s house on Thursday.
More fence, more moving, but now rest
This was a much easier way to do the fence. Br. Bingham was a life saver, thank you, thank you.
It went on so much faster with the right equipment and an expert hand or two. The last half only took an hour while the first half took 8 hours.
It looks sooo much better, now that it is done. When we watered the lawn the water just beaded up.