cheers then much for the unbelievable fountain of well
First of all, cheers then much for the unbelievable fountain of well-wishes for our declaration yesterday. It was bully to percentage our news amongst y’all guys. While madly trying to continue up with the iii,000+ (!!) comments, our afternoon post separate of roughshod by the wayside, and then nosotros figured nosotros’ll percentage an afternoon ane today alongside y’all instead. In the meantime, Sherry is cut too pasting a ton of questions from yesterday’second comments and working on Friday’sec Q&A mail service for you, as well as I’m hither to shake my tail feathers near managing to cross a few more things off our sunroom to-make listing in this week (yep, feel complimentary to pic that).
So let’second verbalize most iii steps that have taken our sunroom from half-baked to feeling a lot more than finished: adding cut down, caulking, as well as painting. They’re non ever glamorous project steps (specially installing bring down too caulking) only details similar those tend to make all the departure (wonky cut back and messy caulk can add up to a shoddy looking finished product, even if a room is furnished really nicely). I originally planned to gloss over the trim back-hanging function too dive more than deeply into caulking in addition to picture, but so I messed something up together with, voila, it felt like info that power live helpful to portion. Nothing similar celebrating your screw ups, right?
Ok, and so nosotros had to add cut back to polish off our recently tongue-in addition to-groove planked ceiliing. Originally I was simply going to toss out a quick refer like: “We installed trim down to bridge the gaps around the ceiling together with the new triangle panels we added. To jibe the other elementary lattice-like reduce about the residual of the room, we opted non to use typical crown molding. Plus, it spared us from having to calculate how to cut all of tricky crown angles against an angled ceiling.”
But later the cut was installed, we both stepped dorsum too decided it didn’t await proficient. Not because it wasn’t crown, simply because the one ten 2″ against the ceiling in addition to the quarter-round against the brick were too puny compared to the heft of the overnice chunky one x iv″ cut piece along the bottom of the triangle.
I had chosen the ane x 2″ bring down slice to work along the freshly lofted ceiling because it almost closely resembled the lattice inwards the residue of the room. The bigger ane ten iv″ cut back slice was exclusively at that place to encompass about leftover crude patches from where the previous reduce was removed (and so something thicker was necessary). But nosotros decided the i ten four″ board looked much meliorate than whatsoever of the skimpier material, and so of a sudden Sherry in addition to I found ourselves removing cut again… merely 24 hours afterward putting it upwards.
We each pried off a side and decided to install ane 10 4″ all about each triangle, and then the reduce almost the ceiling carried all same visual weight – rather than the trim back closest to the elevation looking chintzy. It’second difficult to judge from this flick below (especially since it’sec non caulked or painted) merely trust me, it looks waaaay amend. As for how nosotros hung it, it’second more often than not a two someone chore when y’all’re working with such long pieces upwards on a ladder, and then ane of us held it in place together with the other worked the smash gun (I slipped close to wood mucilage behind each piece for extra concur also).
And piece nosotros’re on the topic of the cut, it was a fleck more challenging than a usual bring down projection – only because nosotros were dealing with roughly angles. Fortunately nosotros had the angle finder handy from the Kreg Crown Pro that nosotros bought to make crown molding inward our concluding house (though I’thousand certain whatsoever angle-finding tool would work). So we but prepare it inwards the nook of the triangle to discover our angle.
Then I marked that same angle on our board.
And and so I used a round saw to cutting along the line.
Most of the cuts weren’t 100% perfect, just it wasn’t anything that caulk wouldn’t prepare. So every bit bring down jobs went, it was a relatively speedy one – even if we did have to make those ii triangle sections of it twice.
With trim up, it was time for caulking. Sherry in addition to I usually tag-team steps similar this, but outdoor caulk is likewise VOC-filled to inhale spell carrying my baby, and so I gladly flew solo. In add-on to caulking all of the seams around the trim back, in that location were likewise a bunch of bear on-ups that I wanted to do on the ceiling itself. Call me crazy for taking the time to caulk all of our nail holes inwards each ceiling plank, but it was totally worth the twosome of hours it took for the peace of heed that everything was sealed inward in addition to aught would warp/rot due to the elements or the changing temps outside. Eventually I came upwards amongst quite the efficiently organization: squirt a dot of caulk inwards each topographic point, smoosh in alongside a finger (dipped inwards H2O to aid keep caulk from edifice upward on my skin) together with and then smooth that over alongside a damp sponge. The sponge footstep was the central to a overnice complete, as well as it made it go faster also.
None of our before-and-afterward shots of the caulked holes actually demonstrated the departure (it’s 1 of those things you lot accept to meet inward soul, I estimate) simply having all of the niggling distractions taken tending of was actually a big move forward inwards this ceiling feeling finished.
Then in that location was picture to bargain alongside. Not that the cream + white + blue + primer + brick combo isn’t totally the rage these days.
In our heads picture this room wasn’t a large deal. There’s like 0.003 square feet of walls, afterwards all (I may have rounded downwards a smidge). But then nosotros remembered the 15-paned door as well as the three giant xv-paned windows. URGH. That’second a whole lotta mullions.
Okay, I’1000 being dramatic. It wasn’t that bad. It took me well-nigh four hours full to apply ii coats for total coverage – simply I wouldn’t phone call it an exciting task. Oddly enough Sherry loves to live the cutter-inner, and then she was distressing that outside pigment is on the no-no-pregnancy list. Did I hit the jackpot alongside my cut-painting married woman or what? Oh in addition to as for the color, we used Snowbound by Sherwin Williams, since the residual of our white exterior cut back is painted that color.
I did my best not to go too much pigment on the windows just to salve ourselves time on the dorsum-stop from having to scrape all 60 of those window panes amongst a razor to remove the pigment (nosotros learned on the windows upstairs that scraping was a hurting whenever primer was involved, and so we figured outside pigment would be merely as difficult since it’sec a more intense formula amongst a built-inwards primer). I besides tried out a novel brush that’sec specifically meant for this type of job – only in the advert of seeing if it made things easier. In the end afterwards both of us tried it (Sherry for just a minute amongst a gas mask on because the daughter couldn’t resist) nosotros actually constitute it harder to role than our common curt-handled brush, but we’re glad that nosotros gave it a shot, simply to be certain there’second not around magic bullet out there.
With the windows too the door done, it seemed similar a cinch to last get to picture the walls, which I did alongside a pocket-sized foam roller for the about function (I did use an angled brush to become into or so of the cracks as well as tight spots merely it was more often than not a roller task).
With that done, I nevertheless had ane last pigment task to consummate: a last coat of bluish on the ceiling to cover all of the caulking I’d done. Even though the white caulk blended pretty nicely with the lite blue ceiling, it was nevertheless noticeable. Unpainted caulk tends to “flash” and so that it’second visible at sure angles, like the row of caulked smash holes you lot tin can encounter below looking assort of dusty.
Painting a ceiling is 1 of our least favorite tasks, but since I didn’t take to edge this ane (together with it solely needed one coat) it was actually pretty fast. I knocked it out inwards a hr patch Clara was at preschool.
So aye, non the well-nigh exciting updates inwards the Earth – but these picayune fixes actually helped accept our “completed” ceiling to beingness an actual completed ceiling. Oh except for maybe the missing fans role. Ignore that for directly, too let’s merely appreciate the divergence betwixt how it looked earlier trim down/caulk/pigment…
…and later on.
And of class I’d live remiss to leave without a before picture of the room when we started.
So nosotros got to cross 2 more than lines off of our to-do listing, which puts us that much closer to the function that nosotros’re looking frontwards to the near: the tile flooring! Hopefully that’sec on the docket to go done (er, well, started) this calendar week then that we tin can have a update for you side by side calendar week.
Rip upwardly the quondam rug(more on that here)Remove the sliding doors together with tracks to open things upward(more than on that here)Convert outlets to outdoor-prophylactic pelting-proof ones amongst covers(more on that here)Add fresh casing to the openings as well as caulk similar crazy to waterproof everything(more than on that here)Demo the onetime ceiling inwards hopes of peradventure lofting it (become a pro inwards hither for advice)(more on that here)Remove quondam beams, reinforce ceiling stability, in addition to re-route electrical for two fans instead of 1(more than on that here)Prime, pigment, as well as install our beadboard ceiling(more on that here)Add trim down about the ceiling too caulk/pigment thatRepaint the columns & interior of the sunroom with white outside pigment (it’s currently cream)- Hang 2 ceiling fans
- Tile the floors (nosotros bought something that’sec outdoor condom too less slick than the gum-stained concrete here)
- Get a rug, article of furniture, too maybe even add close to outdoor curtains as well as lanterns/sconces?
- Build an outdoor fireplace like this downwardly the occupation
It’second funny how going into this reno nosotros idea “well it’second non a kitchen or a bath and so it in all likelihood won’t accept that long” – even so it involved ripping out eight doors as well as a ceiling, adding all new electric, installing a novel ceiling plank past plank, picture a whole bunch of reduce in addition to windows and doors. And in that location are however fans together with tiling to be tackled, as well every bit the dream of adding a fireplace someday. Turns out sunroom renos tin can be simply every bit involved every bit a bath or a kitchen makeover. Who knew?
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