I had quite a busy day yesterday and things seemed to be going well. Although I forgot to use a heat gun on the edges of the polystyrene, I did that first thing. This makes the bits where it has been cut or shaped hard instead of flaky, making rendering much easier. I rendered the wall and fogger container, I did 4 layers on both, painted for effect and then proceeded to apply the sealer. It all looked good and like it would be ready to install today.
This is where it all went wrong....
Stupid me, I didn't check the sealer properly, didn't think it through... I was using a solvent based sealer, the dramas here is first of all, it's toxic, no good for a reptile and worst of all made me high (not in a good way) after application due to the fumes. Honestly I should have realised but I dunno, I just didn't.
The second problem was a HUGE one, the stupid solvent based sealer ate the polystyrene away, so anywhere that had the slightest exposure ended up being a big damn hole...
So this morning I went back to Bunnings, bought some expanding foam filler to fill the holes, some PVA glue and spray bottle which I will be using to seal the wall. (and some other stuff I needed for the build). Came home, filled the holes, re-rendered the patches needed.
Then I hit another problem, I was out of red paint... So my render was not quite the colour I wanted, I couldn't mix a dark enough brown paint for highlights and things just weren't working out.
I'm actually really quite down about it all, I really can't be bothered putting up the pictures I have taken over the weekend or blogging about the process. Hopefully things work out in the end, we'll see. I might update the blog tomorrow or tonight with the pictures and process.
*sigh*
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