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Friday, April 15, 2011

The first stage of the fix up


This is only the beginning?

The first stage of the fix up was the annoying stuff: Take all the left over screws out of the walls, take down the blinds and dark black material that the previous tenant had used to cover up the living room windows (really classy). Patch up the walls, and take all the plug covers (or whatever they are called) off. I am pretty sure whoever has been painting this place for the past 20 plus years needs a lesson. I am by no means an expert painter, as Peter and the ceiling in our bathroom would attest to, but I know the basics ... such as don't paint inside a socked. Well, there was paint everywhere, on the door knobs, in the sockets, the plug covers (as we are going to called them) where painted so securely to the wall that we made a few holes in the walls in our attempts to pry them off. In the end we won the battle against the layers of resilient paint!



Next, not sure if you can see the caulking along the tub in this picture but its pretty much pure mold. Yep mold caulk. So we Peter scraped it all out and caulked it with some calk his dad had left over ... BY THE WAY calk goes bad ... how do we know you ask? Well 2 days after Peter finished caulking it was still wet ... and did I mention that it had taken him like 2 hours, ok so we should have had a "hum somehings wrong moment" but hey it was our first caulk job, we learned, bought new caulk and finished in minutes (to Peter's relief and dismay)


Oh blue tape. Anyone who has done painting of any kind is very friendly familiar with this said blue tape. All I want is results! I don't mind putting in the hard work to get there but I hate the dumb stuff that slows you down, am I alone in that?




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