Random pictures thread
It was a nice warm day and I decided to put a fresh coat of paint on one of the garden benches.
I started sanding on the front leg and it crumbled to pieces. There were no external signs of damage, the paint wasn’t even cracked.
Dry rot strikes again.
The rot goes nearly all the way through. I started probing the rest of the bench and there is so much of it in other places that it’s not salvageable.
Even though we had been sitting on it regularly and it seemed fine, it was probably only a few weeks away from a structural collapse. Glad I found it this way and not having it fail under someone sitting on it.
I can’t complain too much, we got 8 years out of that bench and it was outdoors 24/7 365 days a year.
Time for a new bench.
It was a nice warm day and I decided to put a fresh coat of paint on one of the garden benches.
I started sanding on the front leg and it crumbled to pieces. There were no external signs of damage, the paint wasn’t even cracked.
Dry rot strikes again.
The rot goes nearly all the way through. I started probing the rest of the bench and there is so much of it in other places that it’s not salvageable.
Even though we had been sitting on it regularly and it seemed fine, it was probably only a few weeks away from a structural collapse. Glad I found it this way and not having it fail under someone sitting on it.
I can’t complain too much, we got 8 years out of that bench and it was outdoors 24/7 365 days a year.
Time for a new bench.