I had a couple of loads of laundry to do, and we're supposed to have sun for the next week, so I delayed my trip to Payson to get boards (I couldn't transport them in the rain yesterday). I continued working on that counter, painting the other side of that end wall. I taped off the surface of the counter because I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it. Paint it? Tile it? I'm pretty certain that I'm going with tile on the main part of the counter (under the kitchen window), but should I tile this side too?
Since I had the paint out, I did a few other surfaces that use the same color. The edging inside the cabinet below, as well as the inside of the cabinet door, which I now removed for painting:
After I got the last of the laundry hung up (yeah, we hang-dry here), I made my way down to Payson. A few errands later, I was on my way back up. When I arrived, the first thing I saw was...
Perfect timing! I'll get to that in a bit...
I wanted to fix the flue pipe that was sitting too high behind the spark arrestor in the chimney. When I temporarily pulled the stove out a while back, the flue got pushed up a bit. No amount of me adjusting it below was fixing what was wrong above the roof, so I got up on a ladder, removed the spark arrestor and pushed it down...roughly about an inch and a half lower. But I think it being too high was impeding the updraft in the stove - hopefully this will improve things.
If you see that there is no screw in that screw hole, you get a gold star! I actually left the screws out because I know that the flue is starting to build up creosote, and needs to be cleaned as soon as I can get a brush for it.
I did a folow-up coat of Black Truffle on the counter side and edging. I added one last little cabinet door to be painted:
I used the wire wheel to clean up the hardware for the large cabinet door to the right of the closet so I could finally re-mount it. Also added the handles to the drawers...most of them, anyway. The short screws were giving me problems with that last one, so I may have to get some replacement screws.
Ah yeah...a shot of that chair that my dad made for me, as promised. Not a great "comfy" chair, but it's good for guitar pickin'...
So one of my stops in Payson was Ace, where I was happy to find some Rutland glass cleaner for stoves. And look at this...
Amazing. I had to work a bit harder on the thickest, oldest buildup, but I'm impressed with how clean it got the window. And it apparently "conditions" the glass, with silicone I think...so that creosote doesn't build up as easily. Will test it tonight...
Another delivery came - I ordered this log grabber through Amazon, but opted for "used" - you can only do so much with that grill fork thingy I've been using.
I finally opened up that Havelock box and added a second layer to that lower front wall:
As the sun was setting, I started another burn. That coating really works! I was amazed at how fast the window would darken before.
I burned the stove well past dark, and finally let it burn down to the coals. Tomorrow should be another dry day, and one of my tasks will be to lay some more liquid rubber around that front roof dome, and see if I can kill that leak.
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