9/15-9/16, 2012
This weekend we worked on a long-overdue project: doing something about the chimney stack in the basement. The reason for the project was that the bricks, having been painted white decades ago, were shedding paint chips and even mortar onto our new vinyl floor. That would just not do. So we determined to encase the chimney stack.
It was a project done almost completely with leftover materials, except that I had to buy 4 tubes of Liquid Nails, some vinyl corner molding, and 4 8-foot lengths of flat 1-1/8" molding. There was enough Hardie Board left over from the shower project to cut panels, which I glued to the chimney stack with the Liquid Nails. The surface was uneven, so the results were a bit uneven, but Leslie is a pro at fixing things like that. Then we had to frame it all in, using scraps of wood and the new molding. Those we glued on with a hot glue gun. Then Leslie figured out a way to give a finished look to the result, and she primed and painted the stack last night and this afternoon. The color is the color of the walls.
The result is below, in two views:
