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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:52 AM

A drinking game every time I say primer, huh? Be careful... If you're drinking the hard stuff you're probably getting way drunker than me.

Holy crap... your poor kid. I remember that old evil little poem. I couldn't step on cracks either... I don't remember how old I was back then. Old enough to know better, I'm sure. I never counted things, but when I was alone in a room sometimes I'd space out and imagine lines bouncing off the walls from different angles and which way they would ricochet when they hit.... (Apparently, either I wasn't very good at it, or my hand/eye coordination blows because I never was good enough to hustle anyone at pool)

Thankfully I at least grew out of that and I don't needlessly count things. I can walk out of the house with two different colored socks, I don't wash my hands a hundred times a day, and I don't drive around the block 3 times before I park.

I'm a perfectionist and a monomaniac though for sure. (I found out at my best friend's wives 30th B-Day party that he tells people I've never even met about his friend they've never met because he keeps to himself because he buries himself so deep into a project. He tells them he's sure I could build a time machine though if that was my goal).

This house will be a painstaking process until it's finished for those reasons, and aside from working the inevitable real job, I doubt I'll have much interest in any outside stuff until it's done. Hopefully when this huge project is finally through I can try to temper that instinct and enjoy broader range of social hobbies and not obsess so much on one thing.

Hopefully that's sooner than later, because I keep noticing more pesky gray hairs popping up over my earlobes. I shouldn't ever be bald because nobody in my family is, but I can't believe I'm old enough to start turning gray. What am I, Steve Martin?

I had another question for you Wish.

First, a picture....

The large white moulding on the right side of the stairs. Turns out it's Oak that's been painted white.

I was playing around with the idea of stripping it and integrating it into my Dark Wood/Light Wood theme for the floors and the banister that I'll eventually put on the left side. If I did this, it would be light wood on the molding, and dark wood on the corner-round on top.

At the same time, leaving it white has its merits too. Leaving it white is probably the only way to really tie the 1st and 2nd floor molding together. I'm not sure how good it would look to make that varnished/poly molding when it adjoins to white molding at the top and bottom of the same wall.

What do you think?

Thanks!

BTW... Happy Valentines Day! I didn't have nobody else to say it to today, so might as well live vicariously through the one female outside of my family I have talked to most since I bought the house.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 17, 2012 12:36 AM

BIG TIME MONEY SAVING TIPS AHEAD FOR BENJAMIN MOORE PAINT FANS!!!!!

I've used Benjamin Moore paint on the job for years back when I learned much of what I know today. My boss always said, why would you put this much work into the background only to cover it with final touches that were inferior?

I've also used Sherwin Williams (another outstanding paint), Behr and Dutch Boy and many of the other "contractor grade" paints.

Benjamin Moore has always been by far, my favorite. Not only to work with, but the finish on even their flattest sheens in their highest grade paints are very washable and, so long as you like the color you chose, should hold up for decades to come.

In the past few days I've had a wonderful experience at the local paint store that carries all BM products. I've never been an "Apple" guy, but everything the Apple People say about the Apple Store Experience is exactly what I found here. They have an extremely knowledgeable and attentive staff (Especially impressive, since their store was in shambles during a massive cosmetic upgrade they kept apologizing to me for).

My first conversation two days ago was on the phone with a woman who was on a ladder while painting over a 50 year old mural kept right on answering my questions while working. She must have devoted 20 minutes to that call and gave me a lot of ideas I never even considered before. She never pushed for me to let her get back to her work, and I'm sure I could have gotten another 20 minutes out of her if I kept on asking questions.

She mentioned a "whole house rehab" discount that I could enjoy for 6 months if I waited 2 days when her manager came back in. I told her that I doubted I'd be rehabbing the entire house in 6 months, but she told me to talk about it with him anyhow.

So....

Today I met her in person and spoke with her manager, who also seemed to be at least 10 times as knowledgeable, helpful, and interested in the subject about all-things-paint than even the best home improvement store people ever were.

I had to laugh when the manager was actually running through the "whole house discounts" to me and what they entailed and he was very "quiet" about it when some other customers came in that were only buying one or two gallons. (I was only buying two gallons today, but after the rapport we built and their trust that I will be buying much more in the near and late future, that was totally beside the point).

Bottom line.....

I walked out of there with 2 gallons of premium paint and a premium brush for 106 dollars. I know it sounds like a lot, but particularly with the price of the enamel paint I'll be putting on the trim and casings, I saved over 35 bucks being put on this premium plan.

The girl was heavily pushing the top of the line "Aura" paint on me, which runs for 62+ a gallon (before discount) for every wall in my house. The manager, however, told me later that he would only recommend that for walls that I'm going really dark on. At normal price, the difference is not to much in price per gallon, but he's able to discount the 2nd to the top of the line paint about twice as much per gallon, and since I have so many coats of primer up he feels that I would be wasting money on any light colors that would easily be covered in 1-2 coats. (They guaranty 2 coat coverage for any paint in any sheen, but since Aura is a self primering paint they say that many times you only need one coat... that's not the case with the 2nd best).

Your biggest savings with the whole house discount will be on the premium "Satin Impervo" paint. It is an acrylic enamel that is designed to cover your door frames, casings, mouldings, and window sills/casings. Enamel, meaning, tough... think about how your teeth hold up over 50 or so years to the elements.

While the Impervo costs about the same as their top of the line Aura paint, the Aura is only discounted about 7bucks per gallon, the Impervo is discounted over 20 bucks per gallon with the whole house discount!

So.... that's it!

Build up

WISHIMAY

Friday, February 17, 2012 3:37 AM

I'm not tring to harsh your buzz, but I never leave the same color paint up for more than a few years, so buying premium isn't worth it for me. 'Sides if the color isn't right, I'm not out much.

Expensive paint, cheap paint, don't matter much when it's under another layer of paint... And a warranty don't mean much unless you plan to leave it for the next fifty uears, and who knows if THAT'LL happen....

I've already painted my basement and bathroom twice!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:55 AM

Hey Wish,

I'm a lot more "permanent" than every few years, so no buzz harshed

The only thing that would make me repaint it quick is if I absolutely hated the color after it went up, which is why I'm being majorly over-concerned with color now.

I'd really like to do a deep red in my Master Bedroom, but I'm too chicken to pull the trigger on it. I think a darker brown with some reddish tints, like I mentioned in the color thread, is about as adventurous as I want to get at 55 bucks a gallon.

Even if you buy cheap paint though, you can get quite a deal with the "whole house" discount at BM. Their new contractor grade paint called "Ben" is on par with dutchboy and Behr, and without a discount costs as much as those paints do at Home Depot or Menards. Even if you don't plan on doing the entire house within six months, if you convince them that you're planning to they will give you a discount making it cheaper than you'd pay at your local hardware superstore.

There's four bonuses to buying the "Aura" BM paint though.

1) It's guaranteed that if you miss a tiny spot that you can use the "Aura" roller over just that spot and you won't even notice any evidence that you touched it up. (Any other BM paint is fine to use with my favorite Sheepskin roller, but with Aura I've been told that it will apply too much paint without the specific roller)

2) You're actually told to cut in the entire room before you begin rolling. The paint lays on so smooth that you don't need to rush to cut in and then roll before you're pulling up the half-dried cut-ins.

3) Aura paint is mildew proof and mold resistant.

4) With cheap paints, especially in hallways where hands are more likely to be touching walls all the time, you need to use at least an eggshell sheen to wash the walls without damaging them. In bathrooms, you should use at least a semi-gloss with cheap paint. Aura paints are completely washable with soap down to the Matte finish.

Matte finish = more absorbed light, so any wall imperfections are that less noticeable. I've never even heard that Matte finished walls were washable with soap before I researched this line of BM paint.

Anyways.....

UPDATES!!!!!

Hallway/Stairwell progress damn near done. This should be the last post for a while that you can drink when I say "primer". I'll make it worth your while and say it a bunch of times here so you can get plastered.

I'm actually going to start PAINTING upstairs tomorrow!

Here's a pic of the stairs under the carpet. What you can see from the pic is how they slapped paint everywhere without using tape because they knew they were carpeting over it. What you can't really see is just how many gouges and imperfections the large white molding had before I stripped it, repaired it with wood filler, and sanded it.

Here's a pic of the pre-primer stage. I had stripped off all the unsandable paint, filled in the 100+ gouges in the molding, and sanded enough of the adjoining stairs so i won't mess up the finish on the molding down the road when I refinish the stairs after painting the molding tomorrow.

See how much nicer painters tape makes everything look????

Unfortunately, I have to put new painters tape down tomorrow before painting 2 coats, but if I left the old stuff down there I probably would be ripping up dried paint otherwise. The amount of tape is minimal, so it's not a cost issue, it's just that it takes so damn long to put it down perfectly so you don't paint the stairs at all or you don't accidentally cover the molding slightly so it's not getting the paint you intended it to.

Here's an old pic that shows the door frames that I forgot about. They're the reason that I'm not done painting the entire 2nd floor yet. There's r

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:43 AM

Hey Wish, and anyone else who has casually paid attention to the work being done between my ramblings....

Door frames, Master Bedroom and Hallway/Stairwell paint is done!

I love how good the access panel to the shower looks with the Aura paint up. You can barely tell from the 1st floor. It won't matter once I get my mirror up there though.

Here's a shot of the hallway from the small bedroom. I think the contrast of the hallway color and the Master bedroom color looks great.

I'm just imagining what this view will look like when the floors are finished and the white casings, molding and windows are installed!

If you didn't see the pics of the painted bedroom in the other thread, here they are:

Tomorrow I paint the 3 closets with BM's lowest grade "Super Spec" paint in a white pearl sheen. Monday I'll be going back to the paint store to buy a gallon of Aura for the 2nd bedroom. After that, it's time to refinish the floors.

It's amazing how fast things seem to be going these last few days after months of behind the scenes work. Adding color sure is a quick way to make major visual changes and really give a boost in the morale department.

~6

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 27, 2012 12:46 AM

Damn... I hope I didn't break my finger yesterday. I took a nasty tumble down my stairs and almost kept tumbling down the 2nd flight of adjoining stairs to the basement since there's no banister between them at the moment. I don't know what happened... I didn't trip or misstep, I my legs just kind of gave out on me.

First I fell on my back and then I was falling forward. My face almost planted on the corner of the first step going down to the basement, but luckily I was able to break the fall with my right hand about an inch away from breaking my nose on the corner of the step, and then tumbling down another 8 steps......

I took a break from painting today. I think I've been breathing in way too many paint fumes day in and day out the last couple days without being able to open the windows to vent them out.

My swollen, messed up finger sure makes doing a lot of things you take for granted painful, but I'm really just grateful that it wasn't a broken neck or spine.

Thankfully I'm still alive and not injured badly enough that I can't get right back into the work this week.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:22 AM

My finger's not broke! Yay!

In an odd turn of events, it seems to be healing at a RAPID rate. The swelling went down and it barely even hurts anymore. I've got the full range of motion again. Very strange, since any damage to my skin seems to take ages to heal these days.

Got all 3 of my closets painted today and I picked up the paint for the small bedroom. After painting tomorrow I will be scheduling the floor sander rental (100 bucks for one day, yikes!)

Hopefully I'll be done with the floors and ready to move furniture back upstairs by the end of the weekend.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

JO753

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:29 AM

Better to get a little cold and waste sum heat than to reck your brain with solvent fumez, dude.

and

62$ per gallon?!??!!!! Iz that American dollarz or Lithuanian?

A little story that may amuze you.

Many yarinz ago, back in the 80z, I got this airless paint sprayer. This wuz wen they were first appearing in the storez, and the teknolojy wuz still being ironed out.

Being a bit uv a rebel, I got wun that worked different than the rest - insted uv using a piston to pump the paint thru a spray nozzle, this wun had a spinning weel that literally flung the paint out! Seemed like a reazonable idea to me.

I started painting the wall in my parents bedroom. The can sed it shoud cover so many skwer feet and 2 or 3 layerz bla bla bla.

I put on the 1st layer over a big patch in the middle but thot I must be doing sumthing rong, kuz I'd alredy used 1/3 gallon and the coverage wuz very uneven. I coud still see the old color. So rered the sprayer instructionz & the paint can and tried to even it out.

And kept trying to even it out.

No paint left! The whole gallon gon & I hadnt even cover the whole wall yet! Then I noticed the paint starting to sag in sum areaz!

So I ran down sterz & got the roller and a scraper and spent the rest uv the day transfering the paint frum that wall to the other 3.

I sold the 'sprayer' to a second hand store for 10 bucks.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:45 AM

Hehe.... Me no have cold but me feel not so smart deez dayz.

Bah... what's a little minor brain damage from paint fumes when I drink 6-10 beers a night, right?

Actually, I was wrong about he price of Aura. I found out today that their "retail" price is $63.29 a gallon. And, yes, that is US dollars. TOTALLY worth every extra penny though, I assure you. It's AMAZING paint!

I'm getting the "contractor" discount, so it's only $54.99, which is still a lot, but it's a huge discount.

Sounds like your paint sprayer story is like my brush with Scientology back about 12 years ago. It looked good on paper, but in practice it was just a mess. You're probably lucky you got 10 bucks for it in the end. :)

How's your math problem/theory and start-up business going? It's been a while since you posted. :)

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

JO753

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:05 AM

I'v reached a sort uv conclusion on the trisek project. I think I posted a topic here for it, or maybe it wuz for the new KoMIKS I added.
http://www.zolkorp.com/TRiSeK.html

I got sum math books, so in a year maybe I'll be able to figure out how the TRiSeK V5 actually works and be able to refine it to the ultimate utmost perfect. (if it iznt alredy there)

Bizness iz same az usual, less income than an average lemonade stand.

Howz the finger now?

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