I’ve started painting on the western wall. Moving the trestles from the front to the western side took most of my energy for the day. Because the retaining wall is on this side the access is limited just to make it more fun. They are all roughly the same weight, heavy, however the aluminium one has a bigger footprint which made it a bit more difficult to maneover.

I washed the wall using the pressure cleaner and the run off turned the ground to mud. There’s a fair bit of black soil exposed and it stuck to my boots making them feel like dead weights.

I let the wall dry for a day to get rid of most of the moisture, it gets fairly hot when the sun finally makes an appearance.

I let the mud dry for a day too, big mistake, and then this morning when I got around to actually doing the painting I literally had to chisel the mud off the soles because it had set like concrete.

I’ve done about half the wall today and I’ll give it three coats in all before moving the planks up higher. It felt very stable today compared to the other day, possibly because I tied the two shorter trestles to the house to stabilise them 😁