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Title: Monday, July 15, 2024
Post by: Zephyrus52246 on July 15, 2024, 08:06:19 AM
Morning all.

Trash/recycling is out and car is charging.   Gonna be another hot one today.  The humidity is 93% already.  I'll be going out for my walk early, hopefully can make at least four miles.   

The garage cleaning was a chore yesterday, not only because it felt like a sauna.  I moved everything, swept everything, and...the power washer didn't work.  At first it was due to water hook up issues, but later  it tripped the circuit breaker, and I think it burned the motor out.  So after an online study of power washers (and drying off), fortunately Lowe's had the one in stock I wanted, and at $50 off.  The garage still wasn't dried out after 3 plus hours.  

Jeff



Title: Re: Monday, July 15, 2024
Post by: deemery on July 15, 2024, 08:41:55 AM
Dr Jeff, do you make house calls with your new power washer?  Our the leeward sides of our house could use a good scrubbing?

Hot and humid here for the next 3 days, weather should break Wednesday evening or Thursday. 

Speaking of 'tripping circuit breakers' - the Arc Fault breaker that was being tripped by the basement/train room dehumidifier has only tripped once since I bought a Ground Fault breaker to replace it.  That breaker is still in the box.  I guess the threat of replacement was enough to make the Arc Fault behave. 

More work on the sidewalks today after German class.

add:  Pin wash added to the cracks.  The first photo is a close-up showing one corner with full pin wash, and the other with pin wash on the outsides only.  I'm using Vallejo acrylic dark grey wash.
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and the full set of sidewalks done.  I sprayed them with A&I wash, which had the accidental benefit of adding some cracking to the acrylics on the slates.  
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I need to let the paint re-cure after the A&I wash, then I'll do pigments and finally repaint the curbs.

dave
Title: Re: Monday, July 15, 2024
Post by: GPdemayo on July 15, 2024, 09:09:14 AM
Morning all.....
Title: Re: Monday, July 15, 2024
Post by: ACL1504 on July 15, 2024, 09:25:56 AM
Morning all,

I'm just going to repeat what Greg said. Oh wait, I did so above.

Have a great day ya'll.

Tom 
Title: Re: Monday, July 15, 2024
Post by: MartyO on July 15, 2024, 11:34:07 AM
Well it is barely morning and I finished planting a few roses in 40C humidex. Then it rained...