On Saturday I had hoped to assemble the furniture as well as clean inside the windows areas. I got the cleaning done, but the furniture turned out to be a two person job. It is at least in different locations in the store, though.
We also had our first "official" visitor. A woman who had read about the project in the Leipziger Volkszeitung brought by an old, mint-condition travel-typewriter. The typewriter itself actually comes from Bulgaria, but she bought it in East Germany for 410 Marks, according to the receipt.
I forgot to take a photo on Wednesday of the tile Peggy removed from the step. I am still trying to think of a good solution for this area. (One that doesn't involve removing all of the old tile.)
(Zustatz 15.08.) Wir werden nächste Woche die Holzstufe abschleifen und farblos streichen. Das beste und vielleicht auch schönste, wäre die Fliesen komplett zu entfernen, da darunter ein alter Steinboden liegt. Aber das wäre zuviel Arbeit und sicher ist auch nicht ob der Steinboden in Ordnung ist. So werden wir am Ende der Fließen ein Leiste anbringen und nur die Holzstufe hervorheben.
Before this project, I don't think I've ever cleaned an entire floor on hands and knees before. Now I can't even count how many times we've done it in the vain hope of trying to get what is potentially 20 years of dirt out of these tiles. Today we finally found the solution - baking soda.
Only 300 square feet to go!
Luckily, the new volunteers started working today, too. Each tile is one square foot. This is close to the end - maybe only 50 square feet left.
On Saturday I had hoped to assemble the furniture as well as clean inside the windows areas. I got the cleaning done, but the furniture turned out to be a two person job. It is at least in different locations in the store, though.
We also had our first "official" visitor. A woman who had read about the project in the Leipziger Volkszeitung brought by an old, mint-condition travel-typewriter. The typewriter itself actually comes from Bulgaria, but she bought it in East Germany for 410 Marks, according to the receipt.
I forgot to take a photo on Wednesday of the tile Peggy removed from the step. I am still trying to think of a good solution for this area. (One that doesn't involve removing all of the old tile.)
Today the heater went back up on the wall, not without a little effort. Even though the drywall doesn't extend out any farther than the paneling did, we had to move things around a little to get the valves on the heaters to line up with the pipes.
I also brought in the rest of the Fundbuero materials and archive today. Tuesday and Wednesday will be the final cleaning and hopefully some furniture arranging and then the store will be in at least an initially usable state.
So the orange on the walls still needs one more coat, but here's a preview of the final appearance.
Sadly this is only one of many places on the ceiling that will need touching up. However, the band around the top of the walls is finished, with a little bit of paint to spare.
