am doing some painting on this house. Lots of different things going on. New doors, paper in the bathroom, etc.
Two months ago I was there and striped old paper from a bedroom, finished patching a hole in the ceiling in the RM and painted the LV.
Then I was back a couple of weeks later replacing some of the switches and receptacles.
Back there this week. The painter that I was working for was painting the trim. I painted a hallway.
Then there is the basement stairwell. It suffered from a bad case of the uglies.
Some old patch in the DW that had been painted over without sanding. Some light sand texturing that was not not very uniform. Dirty and ugly paint. And it has some new “repairs” that had been done with 1/4″ thick mud. It would have taken me a week to sand that.
So it “washed it off” with a wet spong. then applied to new to fix that area and a couple of others. It was really not worth the effort to really clean it up, but the idea was to fix the worst spots and put on fresh paint.
Now the paint was what was left from the living room. It was an off white called ivory lace.
So I get a small tray with a brush and small roller and cut in all the places that the big roller can get. The load up a regular tray with the paint and roll out the ceilling and open sides of the wall.
Time for lunch. So I put the lid on the paint can and stick each tray and roller/brush in plastic bag to hold it for 2 hours until I can give it a second coat.
2 hours latter get out the cutin tray and it has enough paint to do the 2nd coat cutin.
Clean that tray out in the big tray. And roll just a little and need more paint.
So I get the paint can and add it to the tray and roll it out. Repeat one more time and I am done.
Now the lighting in the stairwell is horrible. And I notice that the edge that did not get rolled over with the big roller was darker than the field.
Does anyone see where this is heading?
But I just though that it was that those areas had already dried.
Go to empty the remainding of the tray back into the paint can. Then I put the lid back on.
Noticed something strange. Do label on the top of the lid givng the color.
Looked at the can and saw that it was OIL BASED WHITE TRIM PAINT.
Ended up going back an recutting in those edges with the trim paint and the first part of the field that I had rolled with just the latex.
And realizing what had happend I was surprised that the oil paint had mixed with the latex without any obivous problems.
But I blaim the EPA for allowing this. If they had not reduced the VOC’s in the oil paints it would have been clear that I had gotten the wrong paint from the smell.
Anyway the client accepted it.
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Wow ! That you read the label .....after......is a surprise all by itself .
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.Wer ist jetzt der Idiot
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Ja, wirklich... Ich muss shon sagen...
HAHAAAHAHA, what did you write????when I added that stupid tag it took many attempts and several corrections by the gals over to CooksTalk with the German version looking better than the sissified French.of course it is aimed at no one but myself,
is self-depreciating, and taken from a comedy flick about two retired Presidents, scandal, and a serving VP who happens to be a moron and is the one who speaks this line.
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And here I was picturing you as this old crusty beer-guzzling Bavarian wearing lederhosen :)
Translation: Yes, really... I must say...
DG/Builder
close enough, DW is Austrian.
.I'm an "old crusty beer-guzzling " Pole.
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Hear is another stoopid painting trick for you:
My uncle just finished rolling a wall, grabbed a banana out of his lunch box...and to show off--stuffed the whole thing in his mouth and started making funny faces as he smooshed it up--just then he sneezed and blew it all over the freshly painted wall. <G>
I don't care who ya are - that there is funny!"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton