Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Paint job second look

18 October 2011

Re: [DIY] Paint job second look

Yes ... it's a sad commentary, and I learned this a while back when people considered being a superintendent of an apartment building as a rotten lowlife job, as if it was an embarrassment. Once I reached the age of mental maturity and wisdom I realized that it was a FINE job, one to be respected if the person holding it was respectable, it was not a job to be scoffed at or sniffed at. People are interesting, to say the least. Anyway, maybe this was a lesson for him, we all need lessons in life to do better. But I do agree with you -- few kids are used to using their hands to work hard.

From: Roger <frontierrog@yahoo.com>
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [DIY] Paint job second look

I'm pretty convinced that I could take up most any trade these days and as long as I did decent work coupled with integrity I'd have more work than I could handle. And it seems that the trend toward not being able to find good honest help will only get worse. Most of the young folks today don't want to get their hands dirty, and want to work an office job.

--- On Mon, 10/17/11, Cindi Waters <clean_boost@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Cindi Waters <clean_boost@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [DIY] Paint job second look
To: "DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com" <DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, October 17, 2011, 8:15 PM

Well, today was the showdown. He was very upset because I am asking him back again -- and in fact insinuated that it could take up to a year for him to fix the wall (with a new piece of drywall) because he was just so busy. I knew that at the beginning, but wanted to see where the chips would fall. So I told him that wouldn't do. He said he's very busy, etc. AND that I'm fussy, LOL! I don't think so. That large patch simply glares at you when you walk in the room in the daylight. I feel he should have told me about it before he began ... that it would never look right, etc. unless I had it replaced. I would have believed him; would have allowed him to do it, even at an extra cost.

All that aside, he did mention, and frankly I do think that sanding would not do the job. If he really knew that, why didn't he tell me beforehand? However, being the stubborn female that I am, before I hire someone (else) to replace the section of drywall and repaint it, I purchased a mouse type sanding machine tonight and intend to use it to see just how nice and smooth I can make it. :-)

I'll try.

Cindi

From: subprong <subprong@gmail.com>
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [DIY] Paint job second look

I can understand when people don't want to have someone constantly looking over their shoulder as they work. However, when a person doesn't want to receive questions or concerns or doesn't show some patience to go over or walk you through a job properly before actually digging into the project, then it's usually a good indicator that he's either insecure, hiding something, doesn't particularly know what he's doing or feels as though it's either his way or the highway. If he's not patient with you, he's not going to be patient with the work.

This is speculation here. However, given the large sizes of patches it might be safe to assume that unless it is professionally patched up that there is a good chance that you'll notice it even with "flat" paint. Flat paint hides blemishes better than the other finishes but that doesn't mean it will hide everything perfectly.

I have a question for everyone. I've read that flat enamel paint looks like flat paint but creates a hard surface so that it can easily be cleaned. I thought perhaps this would cost more. Looking at my local store, the enamel paint was actually cheaper. Why wouldn't everyone use flat enamel versus flat, if it's cheaper?