......this in just on a hour of sanding. So I'm thinking 5 or 6 more hours and I'll have this one side of the house ready for paint. I'm feeling a little excited at the prospect of actually getting some paint on the house but I also know at some point it will become a chore and I'll have to chew my way through to the end. For now though I go with the feeling and try to remember it when the going gets tedious.
G'day, I started to put up a post of me painting our house on facebook and then decided it would work putting up here on my blog as well.
So in between working, sleeping, weeding and watering and doing whatever else is needed in the veggie garden and being back up driver for my daughter, shopping, cooking and various other duties (jobs my wife wants me to do) I have decided to paint our house. About ten years over due but better late than never.
In the photo you can see the results of my first 30 minutes. Can you believe it has rained ever since I started sanding. If I'd have known that I'd have started six months ago. I'm guessing about 1/300th done of the sanding with 299ths to go.
It's not a cheap exercise either costing $115.00 for a few things just to get started like a paint brush, four liters of undercoat, a coupla' spannas for the angle grinda, a few sanding disks and ear plugs. I'll still need more undercoat plus all the top coats.
I only know the basic of painting so if there is anyone out there with vast amounts of painting experience and would like to share some of their knowledge with me then I'm all ears.
Well it's Sunday (a day after I started sanding and writing the first part of this post) now and it's still raining, about thirty mls since Christmas eve, so that counts out any more sanding and gardening is off the list so I guess I'll catch up on some long overdue guitar practice.
