We've begun at last......

Today we began our renovation of a new property and very slowly I've been rubbing down the old paintwork with a block of sandpaper, watching clouds of paint dust rise about me, then sprinkling themselves on the ground, about my feet, all round the skirting board, as I travel around the walls.

It's simply amazing how much dust gathers itself together, on the floor, and also on the duster in your hand as you wipe the stuff away from elsewhere collection points, like shelves, and door frames, window frames.....and anywhere else, for dust is so light that it will settle wherever it wants to.

My dust today was cream coloured thus making it very easy to see wherever it fell.  However, just imagine how difficult it might be to find if it was dark coloured, like purple or black or maroon or indigo,  particularly if you were disturbing the dust onto a deeply coloured floor surface.  Hey, you might really have to get down on your hands and knees to get to it, right?

Thank goodness, walls and ceilings are normally painted in a colour such as cream or white or some lovely pretty pastel shade, which makes the search for your dust so much easier.  However, imagine a room painted entirely in the darker shades of life and think how difficult it would then be to find your scattered dust and remove it, for ever!

Well, luckily for me, my paintwork was either white or a dull cream and on my darker coloured carpet, it was very easy to locate the piles of dust particles disturbed by my sandpaper block.

Bit it didn't end there, oh no indeed not.  I then had to wash all that down sanded wood with sugar soap and a wet cloth, and more of the dust particles were gathered up, with the moisture, and formed little clumps of dust' and my cloth had to be re-washed, and the wood re-sprayed with the soap mixture, until every wooden area had been washed down.....no.

We ran out of time and we were expected somewhere else, but we'll return, for the work and the dust will not sort themselves out, and I shall be on hand to deal with any lingering specks of dust tomorrow....wish me luck, please?


Daisy