March 12, 2010
Back in the Golden Age
Built a scaffolding, scraped the side of the house, replaced the tails at the top. I don’t think I could climb up there now. Cindy got tired of how long it was all taking me and hired some people to paint the rest of the house.
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FUCK YOU
You were supposed to find pictures of the house looking good.
Nobody listens to me.
Cindy got tired of how long it was all taking me and hired some people to paint the rest of the house.
After FIVE YEARS. That’s right–five years to paint the trim of our house. By the time he finished, he would have had to start all over again.
Daryl! I spent years helping my Dad scrape the paint off the side of our house. He had a heat gun and 100 years worth of paint (i’m only exaggerating by 10 or 15 years here) would bubble up and we’d scrape it off and it would fall into the planter. I swear we worked on one wall, probably about 1/16th of the house, for about 10 years. I don’t think the painters were called until my dad was well on his way out of the house…for good.
Yep, I know whereof you speak, Michael. We had a frame house before this one, with that lap-board siding (the small board kind) and I scraped that whole house in about three or four months. Then it took just three days to paint it. I burnt myself several times with a heat gun. Tried jelly stripper in some places but couldn’t stand it and quit using it.
Danny bought some gel to strip the paint off the vintage front door of our house (built 1920). The gel bottle sat in the corner on the floor of the entry way, for…ooooh, a year-and-a-half, then I moved it onto the floor of the entry way closet. It’s been sitting there a couple more years I think. I keep thinking, “One of these days…maybe.” We also bought three new light fixtures to go in the closets upstairs. I put one in, in the guest room, a year-and-a-half ago. I’m not sure where the other two are just now. But one of these days I’ll find them, shut the power off upstairs and finish up. One of these days.
About 8 years ago – perhaps longer we had a leak under the bath, The only way I could get at it was to take hammer to the panel and smash my way in. Apparently I am dragging my feet in sorting it out – there is a higher power at work here, a process.
I feel Daryl is going through a process, Cindy.
Nice scraping by the way.
Cindy, I love you.
About 10 years ago, evidence of grout failure revealed itself in our bathtub/shower. The ceramic tiles were lifting away and water was getting back there making the tiles bulge away from the wall.
Six tile, seven tile, eight tile BUNCH!
Daylight come an me wan’ take shower.
Various fixes, including visqueen duct taped (color optional) over the offending tiles to slow the damage, were applied. I was displeased by this solution. For over two years, I was displeased.
So. One weekend I took a sledge to the shower wall, which filled the tub with busted tiles, and said, “Honey, we need to fix the tub now.” Or some such relevant thing.
MGS installed the most lovely vinyl liner! It was so great!
[ ]. . .the mother of invention.
We bought this house 16 years ago. That very spring, we purchased a gallon of goo to seal the driveway cracks. It is still sitting under the basement stairwell.
That said, there is no end to the wonderful things MGS has done to make our little homestead great. It’s just fun to let the funny turds surface. We can do things with duct tape that are illegal in most states (especially Texas).
Rick; Kathy: I could outfit my own hardware store with the crap I have bought to fix things that might still be in the sack with the receipt.
Kathy–your approach is excellent: “Cindy…I Love you!” She’s in the kitchen just now toasting pine nuts for a pasta salad. I’m hoping she doesn’t have the sledge hammer handy.
Daryl,
I say REORGNH!! to that.