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UPDATED: Thursday, May 23, 2024 14:59
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Me an' the ol' possum, the last 30 secs.
Lawn mowers has more n' one use here, hon
Luxury Recreational Vehicles
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Hey, Rock-Star Possum! 
I'm not a real country music fan, but that one was pretty good. It's pretty cool how the genre can make so many happy songs about not so happy things.
Once I'm finished sanding a few things that were too wet to sand today and the few small things I put another coat on I'm finally going to be able to put the first coat of primer on tomorrow!!!!!
I know it's premature to do so because the walls aren't perfect yet, but I need a change. Between the 4 walls and the closet, I'm looking at about 600-1000 imperfections and I just can't keep anything straight anymore. I did, however, go over my last touch ups with a pencil and marked "X"'s over the stuff that will need to be sanded before I primer.
I figure it's going to take 3 to 4 coats to cover those awful colors anyhow, so I might as well look at a clean slate on Friday when I do my final mudding touch ups.
Me so excited!
Oh yeah, and there was a large bump in one wall that I had to sand down hard-core to get it flat with the rest of the wall. It's kind of cool because the MANY layers of paint left rings, similar to looking at a tree stump. Actually, it kind of resembles an eyeball.
The Walls Have Eyes!
I'll have to show you that picture when I get it uploaded. It's kind of funny to see that the room was also a very girly purple color at one point too.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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No primer coat today... :(
Had one MAJOR mud i forgot to do between the east wall and the closet.
It was for the best anyways. It took me nearly all day to do the final sponge sand, wall and floor wash and to find the last few other final mud coats anyhow. Didn't get done with that all until after 6pm. Tomorrow for sure though I should have 2 coats up. Just have a few things to sand and vacuum, take last minute pics of the walls, and then put the painters tape on the hardwood and go to town.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Don't fergit ta vent! Paintin too much gives me a headache 
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Hehe.... it was warm today, but not warm enough to open the windows. Got started bright and early and just finished the second coat of primer after about 12 hours of work (my feet are KILLING ME!!!)
In the last hour i felt a little feint while getting off the ladder and stumbled off of it. Lucky I didn't dump the primer. I thought I was just tired, but I did feel a little weird. I think I breathed in those fumes a little too much today.
So.... here's the fruits of my labor....
Entrance to room (before)
Entrance to room (after)
You can see the new switch inside the room and the old switch in the hall is patched.
Doh! I didn't take a picture with the ceiling hole patched up. You can't even tell there was one now.
Back window and entrance to closet (before)
Back window and entrance to closet (after)
Oh... and as a bonus, here's what the room looked like before I destroyed it. It used to have shitty baseboards, shitty carpet, shitty shelving in the closet, and two extra shitty window frames. 
So clean now.....
Meesa happy!
Oh yeah, you can't tell from the pics, but some of the color still bleeds through, so it will need another primer coat. That's okay though because there are still a few imperfections I want to fix before I'd paint anything anyways.
My plan was to patch anything that needed patching after the first coat, but there was so much color bleeding through that there was no way I could tell, so when I finished round one, I went straight on to round two. It was cool because I didn't have to waste all the primer you waste when you wash up.
After the second round though, I found only 4 imperfections. Two circular bumbs about the size of the head of a thumb tack on the red wall, a "rash" of bubbled paint on the blue wall, and the crack I repaired on the ceiling is not flush, so it needs to be mudded out a bit. The cracks on the walls fortunately were completely flush and just needed to be filled.
So probably got about another 8 hours work in that room before I move on to the next one.
Every other room in the house will be easier and quicker because the electrical is fine and since the colors aren't so obnoxious and not SUPER-GLOSS paint, only two coats of primer should do her.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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GRRRRRRR!
Made a 2-day mistake today. A total amateur mistake. It's been a while since I did a ceiling and the mud I put up the other day to flatten out the crack I didn't remove correctly. I just used a finishing sponge without first flattening it out with a hand sander.......
Didn't realize I f-d up until after the primer went over it and I saw what it looked like. LOL... it looks worse now than it did before I mudded it. Guess I'm going to have to fix that tomorrow.
The walls look great now though after a few patches and a 3rd coat of primer. The only trouble spot is where a little bastard named "Owen" thought it was cute to write his name on the wall in magic marker. 3 coats of Kilz2 and it still bleeds through. I'll probably primer that wall one more time, just to be safe. Not a big deal since I have to primer the ceiling again anyways.
There will be so much down-time I suppose I can just move on to the master bedroom or the upstairs hall/stairwell. I'm going to be moving the box for the light from the very top of the stairs back towards the start of the seven stairs going up. I got a beautiful chandelier from Goodwill for 9 bucks that I mentioned a while back that I want hanging there instead. I won't mud over the old box though. Even if I wanted to, there is so much activity in that box that it would probably be dangerous to do so. I'll just have to buy an inconspicuous box-cap that can be painted the same color as the rest of the ceiling.
Fingers crossed the rest of the upstairs is a lot less work than that nightmare of a bedroom.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Happy 2012 everybody.
Herez wut Ive been working on for the last 3 weeks: http://www.zolkorp.com/TRiSeK.html
Actually, Ive been messing with it off and on since fall 2010, but didnt have anything worth doing a page about till now.
Since I put that up I came up with another procedure thats maybe more accurate and a little less complicated.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
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Happy 2012 JO753,
It sounds like whatever you and your buddy did is pretty amazing. I can balance a budget and a checkbook, and do my own taxes better than most of the herd, but if I step out of the boundaries of basic math I get lost pretty quick. Other than the fact it seems you may have potentially shoved the naysayers asses to them on a platter, most of that was over my head. I do love it when somebody does something that everybody said couldn't be done though. 
Your company seems to have a lot of potential. Hopefully you can get it off the ground someday. Who knows, maybe when I get a job and get this house put together the way I want it I might have some free time to lend.
The idea of getting in at the ground floor to making millions is pretty damn appealing. I'd never have to work for a boss again and I could wake up and work when I wanted to. I could start buying up houses to rehab and then rent them out. It would be my dream life!
I got my 2nd bedroom done today finally!!!!!
Moving on to the Master bedroom tomorrow. I'm not at all looking forward to being without my king size bed, so I'm sure I'll be putting in 12 hour days to get that SOB done so I'm sleeping on the foam mattresses as little as possible. Thankfully, I don't have any electrical work to do and it's just straight up minor wall repairs and primering, and removing the carpet before she's done.
I've got my Pipefitter's Union test on the 21st, so hopefully I'm on the king size bed again on the 20th. The last thing I need is to get a shitty night of sleep before such an important thing.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Anybody got any tips or websites to recommend for making your closet?
I ripped out all the old ghetto metal shelving from both closets and when I'm finished with the master bedroom walls up to the priming point, I'm going to want to start thinking about how to design my closets so I can hang my clothes again. Till then, I'm living out of boxes like when I first moved in :(
Holy crap, trim is expensive! The old stuff had to go, so I can't cry about it, but boy.... I may have to put that stuff off for a while after the rooms are painted so I can buy more important things like gutters, a generator and a new sump pump. I've got a badass Rockwell router... maybe I'll try my hand at making my own baseboards and door and window trim.
Just have to decide if I want stained wood or if I want to paint it all white. I do really like both options.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Post got ate. will re-write later. *sigh.
Ok, gonna type fast, lest the Posty Monster get me again...
I would try making yer own trim, if ya can. We got a big batch of that universal three line trim at auction, and when I ran out we bought it in bulk. I like white 'cause it's easier to touch up, but we also have a room that has walnut stain to match the french doors, and it goes well with tuscan bronzed hardware-which I am in LOOOOVE with. I use a minwax product that is both stain and finish together called "wood sheen" that looks great and saves about a years worth of separate stain and top coats..
Just remember to bring light and darker elements into any color pallette, to create depth.
And as for designing closets, I don't. I'm a big fan of using decent pieces of furnature for that, the way they did 100 years ago. No matter where I go, my clothes are always in the drawer I left 'em in. We hang up dress clothes and shirts, but that's about it.
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