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| Well, I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it.; 'Cuz I know just what I'm gonna do... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 2 2015, 05:31 PM (243 Views) | |
| Jolly | Jun 2 2015, 05:31 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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All old painters are drunks or stoners. They have to be. Seriously. Can you imagine anything more boring than painting everyday and waiting for one coat to dry, so you can start on the next coat. Therefore, I hate to paint. Worse still, I paint well enough to get paid for it. My daughter will be teaching at a different school next year and her room needs painting. Since the school board is strapped for cash, and deems the white paint in the room to be serviceable (their definition, not mine. It needs painting.), if the teacher wants it painted, she can do it herself. Hence, the Call of Helplessness: Daddy! Please! Damn muscadine eyes....Bet I have to buy the paint to boot...And those cinder block walls are gonna take a sheepskin roller...Ah, chihuahua... I'm not a drinking man, but now may be the time to start... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 2 2015, 05:41 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I rather like painting. Mindless, and you can see what you did. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 3 2015, 12:08 AM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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Sounds like you got a volunteer, Jolly. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Catseye | Jun 3 2015, 02:03 AM Post #4 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I sort of don't like painting but I could live with it. It's all the other stuff connected with it that I hate. The covering the furniture, the taping off of the floors and surfaces you don't want the paint to get on; the endless list of accessories you have to buy and which you always forget at least one: the tray, the paint roller, the paint roller covers and how to pick the right nap, the gloves, the rags, the tape, the bucket, the screen thingie that goes in the bucket that you scrape the excess paint off with, the churchkey to open the paint can because you lost the one from the last job, remembering to collect enough newspapers. The cleaning up of the paint splotches that got on the surfaces you didn't want paint on because no matter how careful you were, paint is evil and will sneak onto those surfaces anyway, probably at night while you're sleeping. |
| "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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| Jolly | Jun 3 2015, 03:21 AM Post #5 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I use a dropcloth, a roller and a brush. I almost never use tape, unless I'm spraying instead of rolling paint. The key to any good paint job is good prep, good tools, good paint and great patience. I tend to use only sheepskin rollers, I favor Purdy brushes, Zinser Bullseye primer (B-I-N is better, but a lot more money) and I think the best paint on the market right now is either Behr or Kensington & Clark, in the better grades. My opinion, YMMV.... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 3 2015, 03:34 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Good paint and brushes rule. I don't tape much either. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Jun 3 2015, 04:11 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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My last paint job was a mailbox. Could not find a mail box in the right size and the right color. So I bought a black mailbox in the right size and a can of spray paint in the right color. Yes, I used tape to protect the flag thingie and the rotating hinges on the mailbox. My last major paint job was the inside of a garage. The contractor who hung the dry wall also put on the primer. So I added two coats of Behr high gloss white and called it a day. Poly rollers. Tape was used only to protect the electrical switches and outlets. I don't have any inherent strong feeling one way or another when it comes to wall painting. It depends on what else I think I could or should be doing instead. |
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| Jolly | Jun 3 2015, 06:11 AM Post #8 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Remove the outlet covers and switchplate covers. then you don't have to tape. And, if you're worried about painting over an outlet or a switch, you need to go back to school and learn what the term "cutting in" means in paint-talk. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| John D'Oh | Jun 3 2015, 07:02 AM Post #9 |
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MAMIL
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That's how I feel about TNCR. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| brenda | Jun 3 2015, 07:27 AM Post #10 |
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Hubby and I paint together. I do the cutting in, and he rolls. We also wallpaper together. We've done fancy ceilings with multiple papers, too. Kinda makes that 30 years seem more amazing.
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Steve Miller | Jun 3 2015, 07:53 AM Post #11 |
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Bull-Carp
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My painters dip the roller directly out of a 5 gallon pail without rolling it over a rack. Shake the roller in the bucket once or twice and rotate it as you bring it up to the wall so it does not drip. It takes a little practice but once you get the hang of it you can ill a whole house in an afternoon. Use a longer handle for high work. |
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 3 2015, 09:31 AM Post #12 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Considering we nearly got divorced over putting up a border, yes, it is.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Jun 3 2015, 10:20 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Didn't occur to me to remove the switch plate covers. This is noted for future reference. Thanks. As for "cutting in," I did not use a paint brush at all for the garage. Just tape and rollers. |
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| Axtremus | Jun 3 2015, 10:24 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Pretty much what I ended up doing for the garage job. Not because I knew that to be the professional method, but because my rollers were wider than the tray/rack I had at the time. So instead of running out to Home Depot to get larger tray/rack, I said screw it and dipped the roller directly into the 5 gallon pail. |
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| Luke's Dad | Jun 3 2015, 11:34 AM Post #15 |
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Emperor Pengin
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http://youtu.be/H_J9xoqpcnQ |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Jolly | Jun 3 2015, 12:18 PM Post #16 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Most of the commercial guys down here have one or two guys cutting and one shooting. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| George K | Jun 3 2015, 01:04 PM Post #17 |
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Finally
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Leave it to Jolly to turn this into a hunting thread. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Friday | Jun 3 2015, 01:08 PM Post #18 |
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Senior Carp
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The last time we painted drunk, my husband dropped his cell phone in the paint can. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 3 2015, 01:35 PM Post #19 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I do not recommend painting drunk. At least not at your own house.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Steve Miller | Jun 3 2015, 01:46 PM Post #20 |
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Bull-Carp
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My guys don't spray much outside because the slightest breeze means you have to pay to buff out every car in a three block radius. Brick or block they will spray but our common smooth-sided tilt ups they do with rollers up to about 18'. |
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