Yesterday and today I spent working on the entrance steps, painting the steelwork with two coats of DG red. The top step nosing has been trimmed and fitted and the pyramid iron pieces painted ready to fit. One new piece needs to be made.
I used off-cuts of aluminium to manufacture edging pieces for the new lino around the gearbox floor trap.
In between work on the entrance steps yesterday, I started to get the nearside rear corner panel ready for fitting by knocking out the worst of the dents.
The heatwave continued today though not quite as bad as yesterday and I managed to complete the right-hand boot door and prime it. I also sorted out the pyramid strips for the entrance floor and cleaned and Vactan’d the first one. Last part of the day I applied filler to the left-hand boot door for rubbing down tomorrow.
It was very hot here today, reaching 39C in the shade. However, I managed to paint the new lino by the entrance in the correct shade of brown over the red floor paint. I then carried on filling and sanding imperfection in the RH boot door.