JrHomesteader

🧹Cleaning, Resurfacing, And Painting🖌 Our deck was worn out, weathered, and starting to rot in some places, so sometime in 2019, we decided we were going to repair it. We first replaced any boards that were too rotted to use, with extra deck boards we had on hand, and scraped out the cracks between boards. Then we powerwashed the entire thing to clean it and removed any other debris with a leaf blower and vacuum. There was still old paint on the boards, so we sanded it, brushed a paint stripper on, and powerwashed again. We repeated that at least twice before beginning to fill any substantial cracks and pits with a paste filler. Then we painted a a sealant before it snowed. Last summer we powerwashed again and started sanding. After sanding everything a few times, we powerwashed one last time and were then able to begin painting. We picked a dark gray for the railings, and a light gray for the deck boards. Using both brushes and rollers, we painted everything with several layers and ...

🌳 One tree down, to save another. We had to cut down a tree so that it would not fall on one of our fruit trees. This is a video about how that went. GIF of my dad getting stuck. Everything was going so well...

🚣 Our rowboat is leak-free! Our used-to-be duck boat had a few leaks, so we had to patch it. We have tried spraying stuff on it in the past but it never fixed it, plus we had a large hole that spray would not cover. We decided to try fiberglassing the spots as a more permanent solution. Below is a video of the process. The Process We first scraped the old spray-on sealer off and sanded the surface. Then we poured the fiberglass resin into a dish and added the hardener (1 oz resin=10 drops hardener) A small amount of the mixture was brushed onto the surface then the fiberglass material was placed down and the rest of the mixture (1 oz per patch for us) was poured onto it. Using a brush, we worked the resin into the material until it was mostly clear and scraped it to smoothen the surface and edges. This dried overnight and when we put in in our pond, we did not find any leaks.