Bricolage Sheds
The materials we saved from the demolition more than a year ago will serve to create bricolage, mostly bricolage sheds!
Bricolage is an assembly of objects which were not together originally but are creatively brought together to create something new. I don't know just how creative this process will be, but I hope to get some time in 2025 to start.
My first goal is to pull out all siding I recovered from the house, even broken pieces.
Once I have a stack of this, I will pull all the nails from it. By this time I hope to have a nail remover gun to grab the nail at the end and push it through (or perhaps it pulls, not sure if it works differently than the slower process of hammering the end, but it is faster and less damaging to the wood).
Any shattered pieces I may discard, but I might also reassemble and epoxy.
Then--paint testing. If the paint is lead, I may alter the next step.
Then paint removal.
Then priming. I want to restore the wood in the process, so there may be a pre-treatment and then priming.
Then stacking and securing the siding for future use.
Another project is to use the fir flooring that was covered with a linoleum rug. I want to go through this same process to accumulate and clean. For the cleaning process I may look to buying a planer. This depends on me creating a larger work area in the cellar and on accumulating the money to purchase a planer.
Once I have decent fir flooring I can use it to restore some flooring on the 2nd floor. Other pieces will become wainscoting, especially starting in the basement. I am thinking of making this a locked in wall that allows easy removal at any time. If it works I will replicate the same method. If not, wainscoting will be added on top of the drywall. The flooring will be either tongue-in-grooved to be a solid but stained surface (not painted) or will be mounted on a thin wood or mdf and spaced, then painted...or some other combination: whatever works.
Broken door. If I can find it (and there is doubt it was moved, it might have been lost at some point), I want to clean off the paint from all the pieces and do what I can to epoxy the broken panels, stiles and rails, remove the hardware and clean it, then cut it down as needed to become a storage door for under the basement stairs.
Roofing, 2x4s, etc. for my sheds.
Bricolage is an assembly of objects which were not together originally but are creatively brought together to create something new. I don't know just how creative this process will be, but I hope to get some time in 2025 to start.
My first goal is to pull out all siding I recovered from the house, even broken pieces.
Once I have a stack of this, I will pull all the nails from it. By this time I hope to have a nail remover gun to grab the nail at the end and push it through (or perhaps it pulls, not sure if it works differently than the slower process of hammering the end, but it is faster and less damaging to the wood).
Any shattered pieces I may discard, but I might also reassemble and epoxy.
Then--paint testing. If the paint is lead, I may alter the next step.
Then paint removal.
Then priming. I want to restore the wood in the process, so there may be a pre-treatment and then priming.
Then stacking and securing the siding for future use.
Another project is to use the fir flooring that was covered with a linoleum rug. I want to go through this same process to accumulate and clean. For the cleaning process I may look to buying a planer. This depends on me creating a larger work area in the cellar and on accumulating the money to purchase a planer.
Once I have decent fir flooring I can use it to restore some flooring on the 2nd floor. Other pieces will become wainscoting, especially starting in the basement. I am thinking of making this a locked in wall that allows easy removal at any time. If it works I will replicate the same method. If not, wainscoting will be added on top of the drywall. The flooring will be either tongue-in-grooved to be a solid but stained surface (not painted) or will be mounted on a thin wood or mdf and spaced, then painted...or some other combination: whatever works.
Broken door. If I can find it (and there is doubt it was moved, it might have been lost at some point), I want to clean off the paint from all the pieces and do what I can to epoxy the broken panels, stiles and rails, remove the hardware and clean it, then cut it down as needed to become a storage door for under the basement stairs.
Roofing, 2x4s, etc. for my sheds.