Very short day today, as opposed to yesterday. Yesterday we did our first night shift and went back to work after dinner. We actually got a lot done by doing that.
Today we started early and worked until mid afternoon, stopping only because it was waaaay too cold. Effie did 3 ceilings and I did some odd jobs and scraped the side of the stairs. I think that's going to be the thing that makes this project go longer than we thought. See, the stairs is a good example. The plan was to throw a coat of paint on the trim on the side of the stairs. But as we wash down the trim its obvious that the paint which is on there is in bad shape. It's cracked, peeling, and it has paint runs and some chips. So I start to scrape just a little bit of the really bad areas. Then those areas make the other areas look bad so I scape more and before you know it, you've spent 2 hours scraping the stairs when you didn't plan to do any scraping there in the first place. I think it will all be worth it. We're trying to find a nice balance between doing things perfectly, and doing things to the level of the tenants we expect to have. I wouldn't say we're perfectionists, but we are the type of people who have a hard time not doing a good job on something.
Later on I worked on the bricks a bit, trying to repair some cracks in the mortar. Unfortunately, the mortar that's there is very gritty and it was like trying to glue something to a big pile of sand. I think a second application should work better as it will be able to bond to this first coat.
Today we started early and worked until mid afternoon, stopping only because it was waaaay too cold. Effie did 3 ceilings and I did some odd jobs and scraped the side of the stairs. I think that's going to be the thing that makes this project go longer than we thought. See, the stairs is a good example. The plan was to throw a coat of paint on the trim on the side of the stairs. But as we wash down the trim its obvious that the paint which is on there is in bad shape. It's cracked, peeling, and it has paint runs and some chips. So I start to scrape just a little bit of the really bad areas. Then those areas make the other areas look bad so I scape more and before you know it, you've spent 2 hours scraping the stairs when you didn't plan to do any scraping there in the first place. I think it will all be worth it. We're trying to find a nice balance between doing things perfectly, and doing things to the level of the tenants we expect to have. I wouldn't say we're perfectionists, but we are the type of people who have a hard time not doing a good job on something.
Later on I worked on the bricks a bit, trying to repair some cracks in the mortar. Unfortunately, the mortar that's there is very gritty and it was like trying to glue something to a big pile of sand. I think a second application should work better as it will be able to bond to this first coat.
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