Browning Gun

This week we started working at the Browning Gun Shop.  The bathroom is being redone and the furnace needed to be re-positioned so it was a good time for us to do the painting.  There were a lot of places on the wall where the paint is pulling away from the wall.

It was our job to scrape those spaces off of the wall and peel the paint and mud away from the wall.

Then after the peeling is done, we scrape the top layer of paint off what stayed on.  Some places it was just a little and other places it just kept peeling once you started.  Then the wall needed to be vacuumed and then new mud placed over.

This spot was cleared and the only thing left was this little Scottie dog.  I didn't know I had such artistic talent. :-)

Once the new mud is dry, then the wall is sanded with the big sander (lying on the floor).  Then the small hand sander is used to go over the places where we could make the wall smoother.

Sometimes, we got extra help from the grounds crew, Sisters Bailie and Barrow.

Then there is the spot on the wall where the plaster was removed to leave a poodle on the wall.

This process was repeated over and over again until we are ready to paint.  On Monday, we will be ready to paint.  One person will roll the paint on the ceiling/wall and two others will be going over the paint with brushes.  There were no rollers invented in the 1840's so we need to remove all the roller marks.  Jared, our painter, is really OCD about removing the roller marks.  I will be excited to see the finished result at the end of the week!