Hypertufa Spheres - Part 4

Mold was a light fixture globe.

Today's blog is not exactly a Hypertufa sphere, but it is sphere-ish.  As I blogged about a couple of posts ago, I had a lot of extra Hypertufa left over after I cast the second half-sphere in the concrete mold.  Having already filled my available plastic ball as a mold, I decided to try another experiment of something I read on the internet.  I decided to try using a glass globe as a mold. 

Filed 5-11-2014

This type of mold is a one off.  You have to break it to get your object out of it.  You spray the mold with Pam cooing spray; then fill it with the Hypertufa Mix.  As with the plastic ball mold for last week, I had let it set in the closed plastic bag for a week rather than the one day most internet sites suggested. This was mainly due to bad weather and being busy with home repairs.

For Sale sign almost hidden.

The first part of getting ready to remove the mold is to don eye protection and heavy gloves.  Once ready to remove the mold, I stuck it into a heavy duty construction bag, and smacked it firmly with a hammer in several spots to break the glass.  (The eye protection is important, a few pieces of broken glass did come flying out of the bag.)  I had to take the thing out to examine it a couple of times to look at it to make sure that all the glass was off, so the gloves were handy too.  All in all, the glass came off without too much trouble.  I was surprised to find that the Hypertufa had picked up the detail of the floral motif.  I had thought that it was only on the outside of the mold.  I can see this opening up all sorts of possibilities for garden art from thrift store finds.

It is Sunday, so that means it is field project day.  The weeds in the field are really taking off.  They have almost covered that pesky for sale sign that popped up in the field.  The temperature was 64 degrees Fahrenheit and the winds were calm.  The picture was taken a little early this morning at 8:10 am.  I have to get back to work on the home
repairs.

An update on the plumbing disaster:  Bill and I completed laying the floor yesterday.  We had optimistically hoped to complete it last Sunday, but it really was a two day job.   It took two ten hour days to lay the den and hallway.  Today we are putting in the baseboard and trim.  At that point we will have completed fifty percent of the renovation after the plumbing disaster.  I'll post a picture of the floor on Wednesday.  I have not taken one of it yet.  By the time we finished we were too tired to do anything.