Painting

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Let us begin: 
April 7: Painters came out and pressure washed the house knocking loose paint off.  There were enough white paint flakes on the ground to remind one of a light snow fall.  Their toxic spray will likely kill my pond fish.  "Duh, we didn't know there were fish in the pond."  They also put a coat of primer on the outside bare wood of the porch.  Motley crew.

Apr 8: Although scheduled to return, the painters were a no show.  Said too many guys called in sick.

Apr 9: Several young guys showed up to start the scraping the shingles and trim.  They unloaded lots of ladders and platform stuff. They did about 2/3 of one side of the house.  About 3PM they packed up everything and left.  The last remaining guy volunteered that they were the WRONG painters and were leaving.  Turns out they were the HIGH bidder Lineberry painters. (Their quote was double of the other two bids we got!)  Our Phil Rea project manager called the wrong guys.  Since none of the painter's trucks had names on them, I didn't know.  

Although the renovation contract was signed in early February, Phil Rea had neglected to tell the painter sub-contractor (Prism) that they had the job.  He is busy now and can't work on our house for a few weeks.  More delay. (Phil Rea will be eating some Lineberry costs.)

After a couple of weeks of Prism NOT returning our phone calls, we fired them and hired CertaPro who is a neighbor around the corner.  Mark, the franchise owner, had given me a quote many weeks ago.  Good to have contingency plans!

May 25:  A crew of a half dozen Mexicans began by pressure washing the house again.  They got off lots more old flaking paint.  The house took on that camouflage look, and we toyed with the idea of telling the neighbors, who frequently were asking if we were gonna paint, that was the look we were going for.  Painter found quite a bit of rotten trim work that will be replaced.  (more $$$)

Kathy and I are busy doing the inside painting.  The new bathroom is done, but each of the new windows with require attention.  As part of the installation process, window trim (a 1 1/2 piece around the perimeter had to be removed and nailed back).  Lots of nail holes to be filled, primed and entire widow trim to be painted.  Much work.

May 26: After covering up the new windows and the brick, a coat of primer was sprayed on.  A midday shower only slowed them a bit. Kathy had chosen a aggressive Demin color for the shingles, and they painted a test path on the porch side.  Color is a bit too purple for my likes, but I'm going to live  with it. I do like the contrast of the dark paint with the white trim.

May 29: It took the CertaPro crew 5 days to complete the painting.  There was quite a bit of rotten wood to be replaced, particularly the trim behind to old removed gutters. They came back a few days later to touch up several places.  Kathy provided the punch list.  (She has the critical eye, me not so much.)  We were sufficiently impressed with the work of the painters that we have contracted with them to paint/rehab three rooms.

June 11: I finished  the rehab of the garage doors and painting.  City codes and compliance guy left a note on the door, saying "Nice paint job."  Huge majority of passer by's remarked that they liked the paint job.  Not so much my next door neighbor.  After getting used to it, I really like it now.  Still waiting for Phil Rea to have the new gutters installed.  

 
 
 

 

 

   Painting in progress....

 

Last updated: June 15, 2009.