Third Day Old World Roofing

[John Kuthe]

https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg

And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!

https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and Suburban Renewalist

[jmcquown]

On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>
> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>
> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>
> John Kuthe
>

Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?

Jill

[GM]

Did you invite Bryan over...???

--
Best
Greg

[John Kuthe]

Nope, this is my Retirement Home!

I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!

Some my own Sweat Equity too

https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg

First coat of very light blue inside the front door.

John Kuthe...

[Derek Vinyard]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 08:38:47 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:

> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>
> I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am
> gettign all this work done!

You may have paid cash for two years ago but don't lie about not
having to mortgage it to pay for the roof. You're out of money for
those of us keeping track.

-sw

[Alex]

THREE days?  You did get ripped off!  Did you ask about the underlayment
and warranty?  My guess is no.

How in the hell did they BACK UP a pickup truck into your driveway
without hitting your house?  You hit it with a damn Nissan Leaf!

[Alex]

I wouldn't call painting "sweat equity".  I replaced every door in my
house with new solid core doors, casing, and handles/knobs. They, of
course, had to be painted, too.  I also replaced every light switch and
outlet in my house with the modern white style. The switches and outlets
took a lot longer than the eleven doors and nine bi-fold closet doors.

[Gary]

John Kuthe wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
> > On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
> > > https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
> > >
> > > And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
> > >
> > > https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
> > >
> > > John Kuthe
> > >
> > Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
> > Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
> > bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
> >
> > Jill
>
> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>

> I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!

>
> Some my own Sweat Equity too
>
> https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg
>
> First coat of very light blue inside the front door.
>
> John Kuthe...

As a life long high-end painter,
that picture really stuns me.
WTF are you doing? Highly disturbing pic.

And look at all the paint on the floor in the corner,
old paint and some of your new blue paint too.

You need to hire "Old World Very Expensive" painters too.

No need to have taped those window areas. If you can't paint
neatly next to the glass, you shouldn't be doing the painting.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Bah. My hands aren't steady enough to do that and I'm not about
to pay for a painter when I can do an adequate job myself.

Next time you're in Ann Arbor, you can stop by and see the windowpane
effect around the edges of the walls.

Call in advance. I need to do some touch-ups where I touched the
white ceiling with the roller. You'd think that in 10 years I might
have dealt with that.

Cindy Hamilton

[Gary]

Funny. One would think that a painters house or apartment would
be perfectly painted. Not true here. My entire place needs a
makeover.

In my defense, after painting 5 days a week for cash, not too
fun to spend the weekend or after hours painting at home for
free (plus the cost of paint).

[Cindy Hamilton]

Oh, I get you. The last thing I want to do at home is fiddle around
doing system administration on our PCs.

Cindy Hamilton

[Sheldon Martin]

That's true of most people in building trades. A long time friend is
a master electrician and in his house there are wires sticking out of
walls everywhere... says he can't find time to finish those jobs but
will get to it, wires from thirty years ago.

[Gary]

Old saying:
"The cobbler's son has no shoes."

[jmcquown]

On 7/11/2020 11:38 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>>>
>>> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>>>
>>> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>>>
>>> John Kuthe
>>>
>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
>> bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
>>
>> Jill
>
> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>

Dude, you're the one who posted the rant about someone complaining about
your lavender porch and pink and purple deck and said "I am SORRY I
ever bought and am restorting a house in Bel Nor MO!"

Jill

[jay]

On 7/12/20 5:14 AM, Gary wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>>>>
>>>> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>>>>
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe
>>>>
>>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
>>> bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>>
>> I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!
>>
>> Some my own Sweat Equity too
>>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg
>>
>> First coat of very light blue inside the front door.
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>

> No need to have taped those window areas. If you can't paint
> neatly next to the glass, you shouldn't be doing the painting.
>

It doesn't really matter as long as the blue tape gives you crisp lines
with no bleed under. Thinner blue tape is cheaper and easier to
manipulate especially around curves.

I love old houses and his has an very attractive front elevation. The
roof work looks clean and will certainly make it look nicer.

He should IMO research period paint colors and use some of those. Too
late though.

[Sheldon Martin]

Also ustta be true... today most shoes are not repairable (mostly made
of plastic) throw aways. There aren't even many shoe repair shops
anymore. Shoe repair shops were where people went to have all sorts
of leather goods repaired... my wife needed a strap on a leather hand
bag repaired a while ago and couldn't find shoe shop that could sew
leather... I did the job myself by hand with my old sailmakers kit;
palm, needle, twine. A lot of old trades are gone forever... just try
to find a typewriter repair person... my exbrother in-law did that for
a living, and still a lot of people own typewriters with nowhere to
have them repaired. My wife's leather handbag was made by Coach,
Coach is still in business but no longer makes leather products, now
all cloth and plastic. My man bag is a Coach product, I've repaired
it myself many times. L.L. Bean boots are guaranteed for life but
they no longer have anyone who can sew leather, I make my own repairs.
Those Bean Boots used to be made in Maine but probably now made in
China.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 07:49:36 -0600, jay <j...@mail.com> wrote:

>On 7/12/20 5:14 AM, Gary wrote:
>> John Kuthe wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>>>> On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>>>>>
>>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> John Kuthe
>>>>>
>>>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>>>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
>>>> bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>>>

>>> I will DIE in this house!Ā That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!

>>>
>>> Some my own Sweat Equity too
>>>
>>> https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg
>>>
>>> First coat of very light blue inside the front door.
>>>
>>> John Kuthe...
>
>> No need to have taped those window areas. If you can't paint
>> neatly next to the glass, you shouldn't be doing the painting.

That's what single edge razor blades are for... a lot less effort/time
to scrape a few runs/holidays than to tape.

[jmcquown]

On 7/12/2020 7:14 AM, Gary wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>>>>
>>>> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>>>>
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe
>>>>
>>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
>>> bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>>
>> I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!
>>
>> Some my own Sweat Equity too
>>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg
>>
>> First coat of very light blue inside the front door.
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>
> As a life long high-end painter,
> that picture really stuns me.
> WTF are you doing? Highly disturbing pic.
>
> And look at all the paint on the floor in the corner,
> old paint and some of your new blue paint too.
>

He's heard of painters tape but I guess he never heard of a drop-cloth. ;)

> You need to hire "Old World Very Expensive" painters too.
>
> No need to have taped those window areas. If you can't paint
> neatly next to the glass, you shouldn't be doing the painting.
>

He probably shouldn't be doing the painting since he's so "wobbly".
Doesn't look like he accomplished much painting so far.

Of course it's a matter of personal taste but he keeps harping about
"restoring" this house. Light blue would not have been a shade of paint
they used in a house built in 1930.

Jill

[jmcquown]

On 7/12/2020 9:49 AM, jay wrote:
>
> I love old houses and his has an very attractive front elevation.  The
> roof work looks clean and will certainly make it look nicer.
>
> He should IMO research period paint colors and use some of those. Too
> late though.

Yeah... he's definitely not sticking with the period in which the house
was built.

Jill

[Dave Smith]

My grandfather was a handyman and could do just about any kind of
repairs and small construction project. He passed on his skills to my
father and uncles. Dad went to a technical school and as soon as he
graduated he joined the air force and trained as an air frame
technician. He also learned some automotive mechanics along the way.

He was also a bit of a workaholic and kept busy around the house and he
could get massive amounts of work done around the house. We ate dinner
early, he would have a short nap and then we would be working on
projects until bed time.

When I was 14 he transferred to a new city. We moved into a brand new
house on Dec.1, He had my three brothers and I to help and he kept us
busy. He had carpeting laid. He painted the living room/dining room and
halls. He papered the kitchen and two bathrooms. There as one finished
room in the basement. He tiled the rest of the basement, built his
workshop, dry walled the laundry room and extra bathroom (storage room)
and built the rec room.... and it was all done by Christmas,

[Dave Smith]

On 2020-07-12 9:45 a.m., jmcquown wrote:

>>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck.  You said you wished you'd never
>>> bought the house and wanted to sell it.  Flip-flop much?
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>>
> Dude, you're the one who posted the rant about someone complaining about
> your lavender porch and pink and purple deck and said  "I am SORRY I
> ever bought and am restorting a house in Bel Nor MO!"
>

It is comical to think about someone buying a nice house with nice
lines, nice brickwork and a tile roof, and then having them paint a deck
purple and lilac. That is just too bizarre.

[jmcquown]

It's certainly not going to help the resale value should he ever have to
sell. He claims his son will inherit it; he'll likely sell the place
rather than continue to run a boarding house. Whoever buys it will
immediately want to repaint. I don't understand the daycare colour scheme.

Jill

[Cindy Hamilton]

Perhaps. If the buyer intends to continue to use it as a rental, he/she
might not care.

> I don't understand the daycare colour scheme.
>
> Jill

Because John thinks he's some kind of hippie.

Cindy Hamilton

[dsi1]

He's a free spirit so I suppose he is. Most people here are old people concerned with old people stuff. He is not. I guess that's why you guys hate him so much.

[Cindy Hamilton]

He's a poseur. He's all about virtue signaling and considerably less
about virtue.

Cindy Hamilton

[jmcquown]

He's my age and I'm too young to be a "hippie". He keeps claiming he's
*restoring* this house but he's not if he keeps painting it like some
stuff he found in a Crayola box when he was six.

Jill

[Bruce]

He's become a vegetarian, whereas the rest of the boomers here don't
even know what animal welfare is. You're all so not woke :)

[Bruce]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 14:40:17 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

Not just too young. Too bitchy old fart.

[Hank Rogers]

I think he should do a makeover and use indian motifs. Maybe a new
facade similar to a small taj mahal.

[Hank Rogers]

Don't spook her Druc; maybe you'll get a good long whiff.

[Ophelia]

"Bruce" wrote in message news:03nmgf115kg6bgsu5...@4ax.com...

==

lol

[Bryan Simmons]

Dude, almost everyone who knows him dislikes him. I'm probably the only person here who actually "hates" him, and I'm the one who knows him best, not only on this NG, or even on Usenet. I've known him since the summer after 9th grade (the summer after 10th grade for him, since he's a year older), and we've had 3 apartments together. Even with all of his fuckedupnesses, he was an old friend, so I treated him as such.

Then the sick son-of-a-bitch decided that I was the primary reason for him ending up a failure, and he turned on me. He repeatedly asserted that I was a mentally ill person whom he'd diagnosed as having narcissistic personality disorder, posted that over and over on Usenet, and repeated offers of a *truce* by me were ignored. He made himself my enemy.

Obviously, you're not going to spend 100 hours delving into his Usenet posts, but if you did, you would find it very disturbing. Far from being a "free spirit," he has been plagued by the *demons* inside his own head that compelled him to do bizarre things. He is the child of a very intelligent father, and a very mentally ill mother, and he inherited both of those traits. LSD might have been his downfall, yet he still advocated its use even in his 50s.

IMO, he's a fundamentally decent person, and hasn't given anyone here other than me a reason to "hate" him, but he has a messed up mind. He's pathetic, and nicer persons than me might find him pitiable. I guess that I don't even really hate him anymore, and these days there are a lot of folks more worthy of my capacity to hate.

--Bryan

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 7/12/2020 7:32 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:

> I guess that I don't even really hate him anymore, and these days there are a lot of folks more worthy of my capacity to hate.
>
> --Bryan
>

Capacity to hate? OK. we know who is fucked up.

[John Kuthe]

Yeah, he began hating me when I outed him here for having Narcissistic Personality Disorder probably because it's dead on.

I have Bipolar Disorder and I thank Big Pharma for making Seroquel cheap enough to afford!

John Kuthe...

[Hank Rogers]

I thought you quit taking that drug, back when you got the first job.

[John Kuthe]

Node! Sometimes I cut my nightly dose down to 25mg by biting my Seroquel pills in 1/2 and if I want a good night's sleep I take the full 50mg a night, or HS in Nursespeak!

John Kuthe...

[dsi1]

I don't pay much mind when people say bad things about other people. That's just not a wise thing to do. I can get my bearings on other people just by reading their posts.

[Gary]

dsi1 wrote:
> I don't pay much mind when people say bad things about other
> people. That's just not a wise thing to do. I can get my
> bearings on other people just by reading their posts.

It's usually the chronic bullies that lose face, imo.
Revealing their dark side is not a good thing to do.

[Bruce]

No, but since they feel they get support from the other sadistic
vultures, they think they're on the right track.

[Gary]

Bryan Simmons wrote:
> IMO, he's a fundamentally decent person, and hasn't given anyone here other than me a reason to "hate" him, but he has a messed up mind. He's pathetic, and nicer persons than me might find him pitiable. I guess that I don't even really hate him anymore, and these days there are a lot of folks more worthy of my capacity to hate.

To hate someone means you're still attached to them.

[Bruce]

Are you saying the whole world is attached to Donald Trump?

[Alex]

Gary wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:

>> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>>>>
>>>> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>>>>
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe
>>>>

>>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
>>> bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
>>>
>>> Jill
>> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>>

>> I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!
>>
>> Some my own Sweat Equity too
>>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg
>>
>> First coat of very light blue inside the front door.
>>
>> John Kuthe...
> As a life long high-end painter,
> that picture really stuns me.
> WTF are you doing? Highly disturbing pic.
>
> And look at all the paint on the floor in the corner,
> old paint and some of your new blue paint too.
>

> You need to hire "Old World Very Expensive" painters too.
>
> No need to have taped those window areas. If you can't paint
> neatly next to the glass, you shouldn't be doing the painting.

Is TSP the best for preparing surfaces like he has?

[Alex]

Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 07:49:36 -0600, jay <j...@mail.com> wrote:

>
>> On 7/12/20 5:14 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 10:09:51 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>> On 7/11/2020 10:58 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/mkmbC3Bq/Third-day.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And I finished paint taping INSIDE for inside painting!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5f25Cg/All-taped-up-inside.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Kuthe
>>>>>>
>>>>> Funny, just a few months ago you were ranting because someone in Bel
>>>>> Noir didn't like your "lavender" deck. You said you wished you'd never
>>>>> bought the house and wanted to sell it. Flip-flop much?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>> Nope, this is my Retirement Home!
>>>>
>>>> I will DIE in this house! That's why I paid CASH for ity and am gettign all this work done!
>>>>
>>>> Some my own Sweat Equity too
>>>>
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/vBYPNkJ4/High-Painting.jpg
>>>>
>>>> First coat of very light blue inside the front door.
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe...

>>> No need to have taped those window areas. If you can't paint
>>> neatly next to the glass, you shouldn't be doing the painting.

> That's what single edge razor blades are for... a lot less effort/time
> to scrape a few runs/holidays than to tape.
>
>

I prefer that method.  Even the best painters tape can't give you a
perfectly clean line.  Radii are even trickier to tape off.  I do the
best I can and clean up with a razor.

[Alex]

A mental patient diagnosing another person's mental state.  Go figure.

[Sheldon Martin]

Glass is very easy to clean up paint with a razor... auto glass
installers clean up with a razor. It's actually silly to tape glass.

[John Kuthe]

PEOPLE with Mental Illness are still PEOPLE! Sometimes smarter than YOU Alex!

Ever hear the one about the traveling salesman who got a flat right next to the asylum? As he was out to change his tire he knocked the hubcap over with all his lugnuts in it which all went down the sewer. "OMG what am I gonna do?" he asked. "Um excuse me?" a voice was heard from the asylum. "Why don't you take one lug nut off the other three wheels and that might hold the wheel on until you can get it fixed"

OMG the salesman said! That was brilliant! Why are you in that asylum, you should be out here helping people!

I'm crazy, not stupid!

;-)

John Kuthe...

[Dave Smith]

On 2020-07-13 7:21 p.m., John Kuthe wrote:
> On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 6:07:53 PM UTC-5, Alex wrote:
>> John Kuthe wrote:
>>> On Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 7:25:10 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 7/12/2020 7:32 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I guess that I don't even really hate him anymore, and these
>>>>> days there are a lot of folks more worthy of my capacity to
>>>>> hate.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Bryan
>>>>>
>>>> Capacity to hate? OK. we know who is fucked up.
>>> Yeah, he began hating me when I outed him here for having
>>> Narcissistic Personality Disorder probably because it's dead on.
>>>
>>> I have Bipolar Disorder and I thank Big Pharma for making
>>> Seroquel cheap enough to afford!
>>>
>>> John Kuthe...
>>
>> A mental patient diagnosing another person's mental state. Go
>> figure.
>
> PEOPLE with Mental Illness are still PEOPLE! Sometimes smarter than
> YOU Alex!
>

Not really. It just that the delusions, symptoms of their illness, make
them think they are much smarter than they are.

[dsi1]

Here's a turnaround of that joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN244X4OiLQ&t=98

[Hank Rogers]

Keep in mind he's not just any mental patient. He's also a cannabis
RN, employed and working part time.

Also a climate anarchist. And so much more.

[Leo]

On 2020 Jul 12, , Dave Smith wrote
(in article <4zFOG.72801$%p.2...@fx33.iad>):

> When I was 14 he transferred to a new city. We moved into a brand new
> house on Dec.1, He had my three brothers and I to help and he kept us
> busy. He had carpeting laid. He painted the living room/dining room and
> halls. He papered the kitchen and two bathrooms. There as one finished
> room in the basement. He tiled the rest of the basement, built his
> workshop, dry walled the laundry room and extra bathroom (storage room)
> and built the rec room.... and it was all done by Christmas,

He should have flipped it. That’s a thing. With four sons, he could have
flipped a lot of old houses. I don’t think that was a thing back then,
but it oughta been. Maybe, not enough margin or market.

[Leo]

On 2020 Jul 12, , Sheldon Martin wrote
(in article<r46mgf52tf25pvtrj...@4ax.com>):

> That's what single edge razor blades are for... a lot less effort/time
> to scrape a few runs/holidays than to tape.

I’ve never heard the “taking a holiday” metaphor for a boo-boo. Once
again, I’m stealing it. At some point, I may learn proper English.

[Ophelia]

"Leo" wrote in message
news:0001HW.24BD761A00...@News.Individual.Net...

===

Huh. Nowt wrong with your English lad!!!

:)

[Gary]

In the world of painting, a "holiday" is a missed (unpainted)
part. You don't use a razor blade to remove a holiday, you
use your brush to paint it.

[Ophelia]

"Gary" wrote in message news:5F0D7CDD...@att.net...

Ophelia wrote:
>
> "Leo" wrote in message
> news:0001HW.24BD761A00...@News.Individual.Net...
>
> On 2020 Jul 12, , Sheldon Martin wrote
> (in article<r46mgf52tf25pvtrj...@4ax.com>):
>
> > That's what single edge razor blades are for... a lot less effort/time
> > to scrape a few runs/holidays than to tape.
>

> I’ve never heard the “taking a holiday†metaphor for a boo-boo. Once
> again, I’m stealing it. At some point, I may learn proper English.

>
> ===
>
> Huh. Nowt wrong with your English lad!!!
>
> :)

In the world of painting, a "holiday" is a missed (unpainted)
part. You don't use a razor blade to remove a holiday, you
use your brush to paint it.

==

OK:))

[Gary]

I know you are. You can't help but to mention him every day.

Time to let all the Trump conflicts here die. In less than
4 months now, we'll see what happens. There's no need to
argue pro or con here in RFC.

[Gary]

Alex wrote:
> Is TSP the best for preparing surfaces like he has?

TSP is good for exterior washing. In real life, don't even
need to use that. Just plain water washes off all the dirt
and grime. Exterior surfaces should always be washed, no
exceptions.

For inside painting, most doesn't ever need to be washed
unless a smoker inside or in well-used kitchens that
can accumulate grease. Even hand oils around kitchen
cabinets and door edges need to be cleaned.

For inside cleaning, I found a new product a few years
ago and it's good.... "Greased Lightning"

For the serious grease problem, "Wilbond" is very good
but it's flamable and you need to wear a respirator
when using it. Only use this one for something that you
are going to paint...not for general cleaning.

[Gary]

Alex wrote:

> Even the best painters tape can't give you a
> perfectly clean line. Radii are even trickier to tape off. I do the
> best I can and clean up with a razor.

And don't buy those expensive plastic dispensers of
5-10 razor blades. Go to a paint store or hardware
store and buy them in boxes of 100 blades.
So very much cheaper per blade and they have many
uses, not just for paint on glass.

[Bruce]

There's no need for anything, but it can still be fun. Everybody I
know in real life agrees with me or hates him more than me. I defended
him at first.

[Bruce]

I never used blades and rarely used tape. I just painted straight.

[Dave Smith]

He probably could have made a lot of money doing that. He did good work
and was fast and efficient. I know lots of people who have build a rec
room as a long term project. He did it on the weekend,tile floor, studs,
drop ceiling and paneling. His brother and SiL were flipping houses at
the time. They would buy a house, live in it for a year or two and move
on to another.

My best friends family flipped a few. They started off down the road
from us and did major renovations for a couple years then sold for a
handy profit and bought a 45 acre farm, did major and minor renovations
and made enough to move back to our old town in a much bigger and nice
house. This was just outside Toronto where real estate was booming. Then
they moved out to BC and went through a progression of nicer and nice
homes. They ended up with millions worth of real estate, mostly through
flips.

[Gary]

I started out painting slow but very neat. As the years went on
I painted faster and faster (and still neat).

Even the best can occasionally screw up. No big deal as long
as you clean up your mess and not leave it.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 05:37:33 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

>Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> "Leo" wrote in message
>> news:0001HW.24BD761A00...@News.Individual.Net...
>>
>> On 2020 Jul 12, , Sheldon Martin wrote
>> (in article<r46mgf52tf25pvtrj...@4ax.com>):
>>
>> > That's what single edge razor blades are for... a lot less effort/time
>> > to scrape a few runs/holidays than to tape.
>>

>> I’ve never heard the “taking a holiday�€? metaphor for a boo-boo. Once

>> again, I’m stealing it. At some point, I may learn proper English.
>>
>> ===
>>
>> Huh. Nowt wrong with your English lad!!!
>>
>> :)
>
>In the world of painting, a "holiday" is a missed (unpainted)
>part. You don't use a razor blade to remove a holiday, you
>use your brush to paint it.

Sorry, my boo-boo... runs and holidays was a common shipboard
expression, as in check for... but was some 60 years ago. We didn't
have many paint colors; white, black, battleship grey (dark), haze
grey (light). We used black paint mixed with a kind of sand for walk
ways. Shipboard nomenclature was a strange language, especially for
painters; walls are bulkheads, ceilings are overheads, floors are
decks, stairs are ladders, doors are hatches, windows are portholes,
matress covers are fartsacks... we know who sniffs those.
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/t/terminology-and-nomenclature.html

[Sheldon Martin]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:35:55 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

Excellent for cleaning oven door glass. The guy who was here to
replace my cracked car windshield some time ago said he goes through
at least a box a week, he buys them by the case. He showed me the
best way to clean glass, first give it a good spray with Windex and
then while still wet scrape it with a razor, mop up the schmutz with
paper towels, and then polish with more windex and lint free cloth. He
said that all brands of paper towels streak from the paper making
chemicals... he said that the best thing for polishing windows are old
freshly laundered 100% cotton tee shirts. He was right, polyester tee
shirts stink at cleaning window glass.

[Hank Rogers]

Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:35:55 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:
>
>> Alex wrote:
>>
>>> Even the best painters tape can't give you a
>>> perfectly clean line. Radii are even trickier to tape off. I do the
>>> best I can and clean up with a razor.
>>
>> And don't buy those expensive plastic dispensers of
>> 5-10 razor blades. Go to a paint store or hardware
>> store and buy them in boxes of 100 blades.
>> So very much cheaper per blade and they have many
>> uses, not just for paint on glass.
>
> Excellent for cleaning oven door glass. The guy who was here to
> replace my cracked car windshield some time ago said he goes through
> at least a box a week, he buys them by the case.

Popeye, maybe he also shaves lots of crotches just like yoose.

[Alex]

That's an old joke.  Nothing factual about it.

[Alex]

I'll check that out.