Chipping Paint.....Literally, yes Literally

The painting of the house...

I'm sure my whole block is starting to wonder when I'm going to be finished getting ready to paint.  There is no doubt in anyone's mind that I'm not even close to the actual act of painting.  I however am beginning to wonder myself when this will be as each trip up the ladder sends me back back down a few hours later with nothing but a feeling of dread and loom.  I tried out some heavy duty paint stripper.  It was clear after two tries that it would do nothing but make the job worse, which it did.  I returned the stuff the next day at Lowe's.  They took at back without so much as a word.  Today I tarted back at it, this time with a heat gun and paint scrapping knife.  Somehow the places I applied the paint remover to, became stronger, infused with power, enough to resist the heat gun and the knife.  That was great.  So now the three roof areas are super cruddy looking, and extra strong with that look of crud.

This whole mess started back in 2007 when we were looking to buy the house.  The house was being painted when we first found it.  Word to the wise;  If you are buying a house that is being painted while on the market, make sure the paint is being put on correctly.  If it isn't, you can lower your price buy $8000.  All they are doing is making it far worse.  In my case they were just trying t cover up and make it look nice for a season till it was out of their hands.  they didn't use primer, at all and to make matters worse, painted white with a flat coat with ZERO sheen.  Everywhere they didn't prime is peeling right off and everything painted over is holding super strong in the middle and super duper shitty on the edges, so it look extra crappy, thus making me remove most of it as well.
Man I could kill those guys.  They are literally costing me two months of work to get all this corrected so we can paint the house.

Much to do by Winter

In the news of moving stuff to make room in the house for the yards new wood shop, we have begun.  I busted my own butt today to move things around, come Tuesday of next week the erst will be moved out and I'll move in the wood working tools and power equipment.  I have many orders to fill and the store needs the supply stocked for Christmas.  There is much to do by winter.