We made actual garage progress yesterday! Yep, I found the rendering manual. I had tidied it cos we had visitors and it ended up in a box. So we played.
The hardest part is getting the undercoating rendering stuff the right consistency. Too wet and it runs and drips off the wall. Too dry and it just peels off. Around the right level of goop, it sticks and smooths over the polystyrene beautifully. The best consistency is like a thick pancake batter, or a runnyish cake batter.
So we made a little progress:
This took us about an hour and a half to do from mixing the rendering stuff to pressing on the fibreglass matting, and we got much faster as we worked out what consistency the render should be.
Having managed to get rendering goop all over us (it burns sensitive skin a little but hands seem immune to its effects), we sat down for afternoon tea. Nathan was looking at his plants, as always, when he spotted something.
OH MY WORD! ORCHIDS!
We have Pterostylis growing in our back yard, right where we were going to put the vegie patch. The vegie patch is moving to the other side of the yard now :-) We've been told that the soil was trucked in from somewhere else, but I am starting to wonder about that now. We know there are leek orchids out the front yard and sundews, and Pterostylis in the back yard. Remember this house has been here for nearly 50 years. That just seems gobsmacking that the things survived or that if they came from elsewhere the rest of the soil conditions are ok for them. None of the orchids are particularly exciting but they are orchids and they are in a part of suburbia that has been here for almost 50 years. That to me (and Nathan) is really exciting.
*BOUNCE*
anon!
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