Freelance 2014-2

[faraway]

I have got a serious problem

My plan was to cleanup area about one square foot at a time to rebuild. The street running tracks are buried in plaster that can not be removed with reasonable effort. It is like concrete and bonds with the cork ground like hell. I would need hammer and pick and end up with a surface not suitable for tracks at all.


My backup (and initial) plan was to remove the cork from the wood and start with a new layer of cork after the wood got leveled with a smoothing plane. Problem is that I used a special glue this time with the cork and wood that sticks like hell. I can not remove the cork from the wood anymore.


Well, if I hammer like an idiot for an hour the cork can be removed from the area that needs to be cleaned up from the plaster now. It is ugly and I suspect it will never be really plain again. Have to rush to the home improvement market to get 6mm thick cork tiles to fill the hole.


ps. Never ask me about street running on my layout anymore!