Weekend Painting and DIY

[blondie]

Why doesn't paint dry faster? Why does it look such a different colour when drying so i freak out thinking i've missed bits? Why do i end up with more paint on me than on the walls?

Since Portsmouth diving was blown out i've spent the day, taking things to the dump, putting up a shelving unit and painting my kitchen. This is mens work!!!!!! Where were all the men offering to give me a hand today?

Friday night home alone with a migraine so no alcohol, Saturday night home alone and covered in paint bet it'd be a different story if i said covered in chocolate!

Sunday plans to finish little bit of painting in kitchen or hopefully not a third coat of white to cover the blue and then into work for a bit as it's my last week there and got too much to finish...... oooooo hang on last week of work then one weeks hols in uk (bet i'll be doing the gloss then! ) and then one week on a liveaboard in Egypt..... oh suddenly i feel better

[Woz]

Top Woz painting tip- do the tricky fiddly bits first then at the end of the painting when you are really yakked off with it all you have to do is lard it on the big flat easy bits. Then it won't look like you have stuffed a brush into the mouth of someone prone to epilieptic fits then flashed a torch in their eyes.

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by blondie

This is mens work!!!!!! Where were all the men offering to give me a hand today?

If I am prepared to clean out our oven then you can use a paintbrush.

Having said that when my wife offers to paint I buy an extra tin as one will end up all over her. She is lethal with a brush and banned from the roller.

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by blondie

Why doesn't paint dry faster?

If it dries too fast it would set before you had the chance to use it. Emulsion should airdry in about an hour.

Originally Posted by blondie

Why does it look such a different colour when drying so i freak out thinking i've missed bits?

The water in the paint makes it shine. If using emulsion it doesn't matter too much if you miss some; its very very easy to go back and touch up the areas you didn't cover well enough the first time.

Originally Posted by blondie

Why do i end up with more paint on me than on the walls?

Utterly shit technique & lack of any real skill.

Chris

[tom]

Originally Posted by chrisch

Utterly shit technique & lack of any real skill.

Very cruel. But funny

[blondie]

Originally Posted by chrisch

I.....Utterly shit technique & lack of any real skill.

Chris

I'd agree with you there! Although actually last night I only got splattered a bit on my hands really. After I painted my flat in France I was actually wearing a majority of it so I have improved since then This is only the second time in my life I've actually done any painting, normally friends come over and do it for me!

Damn and blast it definately needs a third coat since you can see really well where i've cut it in the corners with a brush compared to using the roller Another coat to do but I'm quite pleased with myself for having done it all by myself anyway Not such a typical blonde - although not far off

What time does Homebase open, I need a new roller as I forgot to cover the one I used last night before going to bed

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by blondie

This is only the second time in my life I've actually done any painting, normally friends come over and do it for me!

I dislike painting intensely. My Dad (who was an engineer and DIY nerd) taught me. Lots of thin coats make the best finish - 5 is about right. Keep all the brush strokes in a single direction. As Woz says do the nadgery bits first. Preperation is more important than the painting. The area to be painted should be firstly sanded with coarse sander then with a fine sandpaper. Power sander is OK but the job should be finished be hand.

Easier still get someone in to do it - that's what tradespeople are for.

Chris

[blondie]

well it's now done and hopefully when fully dry you'll no longer see the lines or the blue peeping thru. If it does then i'll wait for mates to come help as i've tried, tried and tried again Did follow Woz's advice re nasty bits first and that helped a bit but was running out of paint at the beginning of the last wall but since the fridge freezer hides that ...... fingers crossed it drys ok!

[LisaR]

The Last Time I Painted..............

Originally Posted by Lisa rob

Not sure I should be admiting to doing this but I was a lot younger & I was out to "impress" friends.................... Did the oven with MR M but couldnt get those hard to shift bits off so I hit upon the idea that i would match the oven with the colour of the kitchen cupboards so I painted the inside with the same gloss paint. It did look nice... honest. So I then painted the inside of the grill & the rings & tried to cook a sunday lunch on it. It took me a while to realise that the smell wasnt the chicken that had gone off.

[Dizzydiver]

Originally Posted by chrisch

I dislike painting intensely. My Dad (who was an engineer and DIY nerd) taught me. Lots of thin coats make the best finish - 5 is about right. Keep all the brush strokes in a single direction. As Woz says do the nadgery bits first. Preperation is more important than the painting. The area to be painted should be firstly sanded with coarse sander then with a fine sandpaper. Power sander is OK but the job should be finished be hand.

Easier still get someone in to do it - that's what tradespeople are for.

Chris

And this from the guy who took 5 years to paint our house and I'd moved to my new job in Italy before he got it finished. Mainly because he was too tight to call in the "tradespeople". You'd have thought he'd have got on with it sooner after I'd taken the law into my own hands and made a bish-up of the one wall resulting in the repositioning of the telly!!!! My eye-sight was really not up to much......