Room For All

This is the first time that we are paying someone to paint. That high ceiling in both the living and open centre hall made the decision easy for me. Dreaded him up there.. We're getting older. Husband is over 70 now .thankful we can afford it and thankful he will allow professionals to do.

Now we are busy packing up items, moving grandkids toys, setting up temporary kitchen, emptying china cupboards, etc.

The house is feeling naked

In my foolish days, I'd paint a tall room on a ladder. I have nice scaffolding for jobs like this now. I have an old friend in the scaffolding business. He sent a batch out for powder coating and requested blue. Blue scaffolding is always a dark blue. What he got back was robins egg blue. He couldn't sell baby blue scaffolding to macho construction types. So I got it for a song.

The scaffold frames are somewhere back there.

I may have a bike problem or a tool problem. Or a scaffold problem. Maybe.

My two bikes aren't even in the shot, lol.

JayneWonders said:

This is the first time that we are paying someone to paint.

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That's something I will probably look at. I've never been good with ladders and we do have a couple high spots. Nothing like chansen's 18' ceiling, but definitely not something for my mild acrophobia. We aren't as spry as we were back last time, either (2017 or 18, I think, just after Little M moved out).

Stairways are the worst. No flat area to even set up a ladder. I have the tools and materials on hand to build temporary platforms that won't collapse. That's not common.

Paying others to paint is, as you've found out, terribly expensive. But it's a good idea for many.

Interesting, the cost of redoing our cupboards is almost the same as the cost of painting the rest of the job Previous owner did them themselves and paint has chipped

Stairs are painful, again, glad it's them doing them.

There are various applications for getting around stairways that would baffle those not into fore views ... pre spects?

Kind of abstract where so many can't see it?

When we did it ourselves last time, the high area over the stairs got done as high as we could go with a roller on a pole from the landing and top and that was it.

Mendalla said:

When we did it ourselves last time, the high area over the stairs got done as high as we could go with a roller on a pole from the landing and top and that was it.

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THe only area (apart from the basement) that we have not painted is the back entry which has high walls, some of which overhang the basement stairs. If that gets painted it will be by hiring someone to do it

My husband fell and hurt himself many years ago painting our entranceway with its ceiling and walls wrapped around the stairs to the basement. So…it hasn’t been repainted. Our house is pretty non glamorous but has hosted many fun times. Painting kitchen, hallway and living room spruced it up. And this week our son put in a new sink, faucet and counter top with a little help from his dad. Next is the need for new flooring but that will come when the budget allows. Still not glamorous but I’m happier having people visit for those fun times.

Our old house had the same paint job for 30? Years. We tend to go with non dramatic colours that aged well.

It only had one washroom ( well kinda 2 - water closet with toilet, and bathroom with sink and tub)

We had wonderful memories there. Hosted family dinners and parties. Learned later the nephews dreaded the one washroom. Oh well. We still love to host. Now there aren't bathroom lineups!

I can imagine your home as very welcoming coz it's the people that make a home friendly.

Seeing what painters charge, I should totally do that.

In fact, I do a little painting, but not much.

chansen said:

Especially not for my wife.

I have to paint multiple rooms in our house. Our family room is "open to above" so it's almost 18ft tall. I'm least looking forward to that one. I have rolling scaffolding, but it's still a big job.

Wonder when I'll get around to that?

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We decided we were too old for painting. and paid someone else to do it. They were very orga
nised and speedy -

even removed and replaced the items on walls and in c los
ets.

In my experience painting is a harder job than it looks.

JayneWonders said:

It only had one washroom ( well kinda 2 - water closet with toilet, and bathroom with sink and tub)

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My family had one bathroom for 3 kids and 2 adults. Dad eventually broke down and got a plumber who attended our church to help him put a two-piece in the basement.

As a kid, there were 5 kids, mom and dad, plus grandma when we moved to cambridge (back then Galt). Dad quickly finished the washroom in basement with a shower. I'm pretty sure it was there when we moved, maybe just rough, @ninj would know for sure

That might have made me more accepting of our situation for the four of us.

Mendalla said:

My family had one bathroom for 3 kids and 2 adults. Dad eventually broke down and got a plumber who attended our church to help him put a two-piece in the basement.

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Same in my childhood. but no basement to m
akr another.

chansen said:

Especially not for my wife.

I have to paint multiple rooms in our house. Our family room is "open to above" so it's almost 18ft tall. I'm least looking forward to that one. I have rolling scaffolding, but it's still a big job.

Wonder when I'll get around to that?

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You know my tiny home. It has places hard to get to. I'm too old for this again, maybe, but there's one light which requires this person to prop a 6' stepladder in a narrow space, go to second highest step and reach over.

Paint has gotten so expensive. Don’t know why, its just a mix of chemicals.
I also wonder about the trend i Canada to paint everything in grey. I personally think that grey is not a colour. My place has a mix of light blue ( bathroom), sun yellow ( bedroom) off- white and flamingo-ish pink ( living/ dining room). I need my inside living place to be happy, especially in the winter.
I had my place painted by someone who works at my hospital - he was a lot better at drawing straight lines, and I think back then, he charged $25/ hr. I am sure he is more expensive now.

Is blue not just a different shade of pale (gray) that would raise some howls out of nothing ... just for those that question where nothing is!

It is a ultimate question ... rather out there! A few words in a fine line can fix anything ... even stop an authority in their tracks ...

On another matter; I painted for an acquaintance that was short on labor hands (after being run out of my engineering job). I was noted that I was good at cutting in (painting straight edges) and this irritated my boss as he wished to increase on some crocked deals. While he raged in a storm over our differential belief about the edge ... I jumped ship. He called me 2 weeks after the storm wondering why I hadn't return to his edge ... he assumed it was the dustiness of the job.

Yes he stirred that just so ... and I don't think he is aware of his volatility to this day as I peer off into this past dissonance ... not that disturbing if it runs right off yah ... insensitivity is the answer to imposed disputation ... no question!

Do not ask is the answer to where it is ... Noe-M well and avoid ... imagine placing that name on a child without 4 sights on the plain and some extras in the blue and green ... something to mess with? It is a gamble ...

If you voted for it accept it ... that's how my job went ... when some inopportune virtues erupted as inconvenient to the guy playing the Pete Prin. If they believe they know everything they rise to some latent MS Fortune ... all will be left behind ... mess included ... it is complex no matter how you render it ...

Consider our ailments that start in the head ... mon that's a mysterious enigma or a dark shadowy concern ... future bother? That's time for you are it goes around ... with smacks ... like pugilist, so much pu ...

Reminds me of those that befriend neighbors by pounding them down ... there are those types of clubs ... labor guilds! Said to be guiltier than the primal cos ... mos tun heartening ... primarily out of sight for the day ... awaiting another chance ... the shadow is persistent. Just look out a bit ...