Waiting for a cure
18 September 2020 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI've re-sealed the edges of the kitchen sink, because I didn't do a very good job of it last year and I was worried that water was getting down the back of the sealant and soaking into the edges of the worktop (my washing-up tends to involve quite a lot of water splashing round). In fact I had a lot more trouble stripping off the old sealant than I anticipated, and I think a lot of the discolouration was just hard water.
Anyway, it has now been redone more smartly, and I need to remember not to use the sink for five days until it has fully 'cured'. I have put the pot with the wooden spoons in the middle of the sink in an attempt to remind me not to dump washing-up in there on auto-pilot!
Luckily I have a bathroom right next to the kitchen, so cleaning saucepans etc. won't be too much of an issue. I do need to try to remember not to take water for cooking out of the kitchen taps either, though, in order to avoid splashes.
I used the left-over sealant to try to seal the cracks around the edge of the double-glazing unit where the wind howls in interesting notes (with the window shut you can actually feel the breeze blowing through, presumably negating the effect of the double-glazed glass). Probably not ideal, as I couldn't clean it properly and the hole is still there on the outside in any case, but it is very literally a temporary stop-gap :-p
By the time the weather actually gets cold, the seal will probably have broken down again...
Anyway, it has now been redone more smartly, and I need to remember not to use the sink for five days until it has fully 'cured'. I have put the pot with the wooden spoons in the middle of the sink in an attempt to remind me not to dump washing-up in there on auto-pilot!
Luckily I have a bathroom right next to the kitchen, so cleaning saucepans etc. won't be too much of an issue. I do need to try to remember not to take water for cooking out of the kitchen taps either, though, in order to avoid splashes.
I used the left-over sealant to try to seal the cracks around the edge of the double-glazing unit where the wind howls in interesting notes (with the window shut you can actually feel the breeze blowing through, presumably negating the effect of the double-glazed glass). Probably not ideal, as I couldn't clean it properly and the hole is still there on the outside in any case, but it is very literally a temporary stop-gap :-p
By the time the weather actually gets cold, the seal will probably have broken down again...