The last few days have been spent painting the repaired frame woodwork battleship grey. Today the rearmost nearside window aperture was dowelled and primed ready for top coat.
The replacement flitch plates I manufactured last week were fitted today.
This is the first one.
The originals were completely corroded and causing bulges in the aluminium cladding. One more remains to be fitted this side.
This month’s work so far has been the continuing repair of stripped screw holes and removal of broken screws. Today was priming the woodwork ready for top coat in a few days’ time. Yesterday I made replacement flitch plates out of 3.5mm galvanised steel, drilled and countersunk then etch primed and painted green to protect where the galvanising was damaged by working the material.
Screwed on the metal work on the entrance door rear pillar today. In the last few minutes of work time I cut the long coach bolts that someone had driven through the side of the entrance step well. A piece of plate had been riveted and coach-bolted to the side of the step well for no obvious reason as it was not actually attached to anything else.
Plate that does nothing:
