A Clothes Washer Hose Leaks in Edmonds

 

This is the culprit!  The braided hose attached to this hot water bibb had its gasket fail such that water was dripping at a rate of two drops per second.  For how long, no one knows.  It finally became detectable when water pooled in the downstairs unit, soaking wallboard, carpet and delaminating Pergo flooring.

 

The Pergo flooring is delaminated.

 

The bedroom carpet is soaked & stained.

 

Water has pooled under the carpet & saturated the wallpapered wallboard.

 

The ceiling below the upstairs laundry unit is soaked.

 

I cut a hole in the ceiline to survey the extend of water travel & damage.

 

The MDF (fiberboard) molding in the adjacent bathroom is swollen (shot), to be replaced with wood.

 

I cut away the papered wall after removing the chair rail to allow the spaces to dry.

 

After drying, Killz was applied to trap & kill the mold.

 

Friend Jeff replaced the affected drywall & textured the ceiling.

 

 

After applying a coat of PVA sealant, I hung 20+ sq ft of replacement embossed/paintable wallpaper below the chair rail.  You can see that I have put down a moisture barrier pad for the new Pergo.

 

This is corner of the ceiling patch where the wallpaper had released.  I was able to repaste it without replacement, securing it with new crown molding.

 

The Pergo flooring goes down, while the painted molding waits in line.  It measured out at 118 sq ft and by being careful, I used only the 120 sq ft of Pergo that came in six boxes.  I was lucky to have the few scraps left that I did!

 

This was the ceiling hole.

 

"What damage?", you say?  Could that be the sign of a good repair?

 

Prior to being a sailboat liveaboard, I was a homeowner for over 30 years.  That time provided ample opportunity to learn a few things that help me now in assisting others.  What do you need?

A Drawer for the Nav Table

 

 While this may be what a nav table should look like, as you can tell from the top photo, it's not the case on S/V Whisper.  After 9 years, I decided to make a change.  Since I never sit at the nav table, it was time add an accessible drawer.

  

 

With the table out for modification, it became obvious that the unused knee hole would be more useful with the addition of a shelf.

 

In the shop, the plan is to cut out a slot in the bottom to use for the new drawer bottom.

 

For the shelf I ripped teak slats on my table saw & mounted cleats fore & aft in the unused footwell.  The closest it ever got to "feet" was as the catch-all storage for my shoes.

 

The box of the drawer & the surrounding frame are so robust because I had the unused teak of my crib boards available. Since I had installed doors 9 years ago, the boards have gathered dust in my storage unit.

 

 

I bought 22" drawer slides from Rockler Woodworking so that the drawer would fully extend.

 

 

While others may prefer the use of the nav table as designed, I prefer my option. Most often I sit at the salon table from where this photo is taken so the drawer is within easy reach. If the friction stops built into the drawer prove too weak for a heeling Whisper, I will add a cabinet latch that became surplus when I replaced a dry galley storage unit with a microwave. But that is another blog...

A New Deck Section in Timberline

 This deck was built to surround the hot tub.  Now, 25 years later, the cedar casing of the hot tub is falling apart and it is time for the hot tub to go!

 

 

With that decision made, it is going...

 

going...

 

going...

 

going...

 

 

GONE!

 

Because a concrete pad was poured to support the tub, it made it easier to build a pier structure for the new deck section, tying it to the surrounding deck.

 

 

Ready for the bench posts and decking.

 

The new section is primed to await a dryer Spring for final painting with the older sections.

 

Sometimes you just don't have the time, other times you lack the requisite skills, that's why I am here to help.  What would you like done?  DO IT YOURSELF?  NOT!

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