While Pim and his father were placing the next beam for a window in the back building, I took everything out of the bathroom closet, we took it apart, and then I cut a bit off the back legs. The floor in this room slopes towards the center and so the closet was leaning forward a lot. I guess I must have take a picture of that at some point, but I don't find it now. The top of the closet was 10 or 15 cm away from the wall when the bottom was close to the wall.
I also glued back a decorative leg piece that had fallen off, and some other parts where the hide glue had fractured a long time ago. I softened the glue with wet (warm water) kitchen paper towels, then scraped the excess off, and reglued with Titebond liquid hide glue. I think I am a convert now ;)
We put the closet back together, which is a delicate operation since the three door are caught by the top, and have to all be placed at once. It is a three man job.
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| This is how "level" it was |
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| Knife wall |
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| Chunks off |
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| Scraping old glue off |
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| Re-gluing |
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| Quality control |
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| Straight up |
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| Nice and close to the wall :) |
On the beam front, Pim and his father encountered more difficulties than last time.
The beam that the roof guys placed over the entire length, on top of the wall, was anchored to the wall with large bolts. This made removing the old beam over the door a little difficult. This opening had to become much wider than the door so the beam had to be replaced. Pim had to drill around the bolts, concrete will later be placed around the bolts to anchor them again.
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| The beam was again placed over to flat and level pieces of concrete |
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| Another recycled railway track serving as beam |
