最近はめっちゃ頑張ってます。
本当です。やる事がいっぱいで、たまに頭がこんがらがっています。マジで。
今、沢山の作業をやっているのだけれど、なかなか完成している作業がないので、ブログに書きづらい部分があります。
たとえば、外壁は永遠にやってるけど、まだ終ってません。合板を切って、ステインして、乾かして、二度塗りして、また乾かして、そして壁に打ち込む。
この作業を何日もちょくちょく、着実に進めていて、今は4つ目の壁が終りそうです。写真は以下。
ちゃんと完成してから全体の写真をアップしたいものです。
他になにをやっているかというと、これがまたかなりの手間のかかる作業で、何日もかけてやっています。
それは天井に使う野地板の下準備。野地板はとても安い木材で、まったく乾かしていないもの。杉を切って、そのままお店に並ぶ感じ。
そのため、かなりウエットで、そのうちすごく縮んでくるらしい。あと、私達が買ったのは本当に一番安いものだったから、表面もザラザラ。
さすがに予想以上にざらざらだったので、またまた藤木さんに頼んで、電動カンナを貸していただいた。
全部で240枚ある野地板を一枚一枚電動カンナで削って、そして太陽に下に並べて、干した。240枚も・・・
夜は雨とか霧が多かったから、毎日外に干したものを中に運び入れて、朝にまた出して干すの繰り返し。かなりの筋トレ。
安い木材はその分、労働が必要ですな。
野地板を削って出た木くずがあまりに多かったので、両親のキャビンの玄関までの道に引いた。
削って乾かした野地板はこんな感じになる。木っぽくって、わたしは好き。
そして、最後にこの240枚の板をVatonって言う内装用のステインを塗った。内装は木の感じを残すためにステインは透明にした。
この作業も家の中でしかできないから、ステインして、一日乾かして、そして他のも塗る。夜遅くまで二人で、最初は歌など歌いながら、後半は無言でひたすら塗りまくった。
そんな感じで、地味な作業だけれども、忙しく過ごしています。そして、毎日クタクタです。こんな暮らししていて、あんまり言える立場ではないけど、
休みてーーーーー。
Daisuke and I have been keeping super busy lately. There is so much work to do, we hardly know where we should start and when it will ever end.
Alot of the work we have been doing lately is very tedious. I love our outer wall, but my god, it is taking so much time to do. We are still working on the forth and final wall.
The picture of the fourth wall is the above, and we are almost done with it, and I want to put up the final pictures of the finished walls soon... when it happens.
Having to cut the plywood boards, stain it, dry it, stain it again, then nail them into the walls... its all fun but really... never ending... But the great thing about doing this house project is that everyday we can see that we make progress, and compared to the work we used to do in offices, we can see the work becoming closer to the end product with every board we stain and every nail hammer.
Another big and tedious task we have been keeping busy with is drying the wood that we will use for the ceiling. This wood is pretty much the cheapest you can find in Japan, and part of the reason is because they basically chop the tree down, slice it up, and put it in the stores without drying them. So, they come pretty wet, and not exactly pretty. Plus, the wood we got was really rough, a little too rough, that we decided to borrow a electric sander from the carpenter who is lending us so much of his wonderful tools (and we thank him with a big bottle of sake each time :) ). So, the process of sanding down the wood, all 240peices of them, then laying them out to dry, and carrying them in and out of the house day after day (when sunny) has been keeping us quite busy and giving us a pretty good work out. Like many things, the price of the wood was cheap, but we payed for the difference with our labor.
The picture above shows how we covered the path leading to my parents cabin with all the sawdust that came out of the sanding, which I think looks kinda nice.
After the wood was dry, we stood them up inside and stained them. We chose a clear stain for the inside, since we wanted to keep the color of the wood. Daisuke and I stained at night after the sun went down, and we stained all 240 pieces. One by one by one by one...... We would usually start the night of staining with music from the iPod and us singing along, but after a while we would both fall silent and just stain stain stain as if we were in a trance. But like the other work, if we keep at it, eventually it ends, and now we are ready to put up those darned peices of wood into the ceiling!
