Filed Argus after a small update yesterday, then charged into two jobs. First an update for Christmas Tails. The album is now live for pre-sale. I set up the sales spreadsheet and reminded artists about next week's cover creation day. It will be half a day's work preparation for that, and the full day of work on it.
Then, much work on the shelves, which have taken far longer than I anticipated. The CD shelves are complete, apart from painting and fitting to the wall. Glued the top and bottom sections to the box shelves, then marked new spine/columns to reinforce the shelves and sawed them into two 50mm (ish!) sections, which look a bit like 1M long rulers of wood as a result. The width is approximate because the wood is an off-cut. Then, drilled for the hinges for Deb's door, though I can't drill and fit the other half of the hinges until the doors are closed and in place, thus I needed to wallpaper the doors next.
These four doors are to be wallpapered in a seamless way, so needed to be stuck as though one huge door. I laid them flat and stuck the wallpaper with PVA, which was somewhat tricky as the glue doesn't allow easy movement. I should have glued (with roller) only the top third or so, placed the paper accurately, then glued the rest. I trust and hope that the doors themselves are not now glued together, but if they are a little, it may help as they need to remain as one block for a while, while I fit the hinges.
I'm exhausted from so much running about. Other jobs to do: routing the slots for those new spines, and cutting little notches in the back of the shelves to fit them. Screwing the newly-glued top in place, and fitting the central vertical spine. Then these shelves will be done, apart from painting and fitting to the wall.
In Deb's shelves, trimming the wallpaper, marking the other half of the hinges with the doors in place, then fitting those, then fitting the inner hinges (these are Z-bend doors), then slicing the wallpaper with a scalpel (which I could boldly do at the end after fitting the doors if I wanted. Then, fitting everything into the alcove, and possibly gluing the shelves (they will work without glue, but glue will attenuate sag). That would be it!
I'm still annoyed at my delivery. There must be some process when a neighbour simply takes an item when a delivery is left with them. I'm blessed that this item was £5 not £50.
