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May. 3rd, 2009 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lit_galPainters caulk is my new god.
Damn, I am exhausted, but I think I have the big repairs done, and I just discovered the neatest trick. So, you're trying to repaint rafters white after some moron painted them really, really dark brown which immediately started turning purple in the desert sun (think people... think before choosing paint colors). Anyway, my problem: no matter how small a brush I use, where the roofing material for the front overhang meets the rafter, I have a dark line, which didn't show up with dark brown paint but looked like shit with white. Really serious shitty shit even.
So, I dig through the aisles at Home Depot, and I find latex painter's caulk. OMG... this stuff is great. I just caulk the line between the roof and the rafter, and BAM it looks perfect. My brilliant white caulk even matches my brilliant white paint so well that I don't have to paint it again afterward!
Yeah, yeah, you guys probably know all this shit, but let me tell you, I have been getting a whole new education trying to paint my own house... and repair termite damage... and water damage... and frickin' four five-inch bolts which the last owner felt the need to use to attach a holder for a miniature flag. A MINIATURE flag! He had that sucker anchored so well that you could have carried out public hangings from the thing, and he used it for one of those little flags you wave. Yeah, I'm not bitter about the huge frickin' holes in my adobe. Not at all. But, one more notch in my belt because I patched my own adobe. Okay, whining, and bragging over.
Damn, I am exhausted, but I think I have the big repairs done, and I just discovered the neatest trick. So, you're trying to repaint rafters white after some moron painted them really, really dark brown which immediately started turning purple in the desert sun (think people... think before choosing paint colors). Anyway, my problem: no matter how small a brush I use, where the roofing material for the front overhang meets the rafter, I have a dark line, which didn't show up with dark brown paint but looked like shit with white. Really serious shitty shit even.
So, I dig through the aisles at Home Depot, and I find latex painter's caulk. OMG... this stuff is great. I just caulk the line between the roof and the rafter, and BAM it looks perfect. My brilliant white caulk even matches my brilliant white paint so well that I don't have to paint it again afterward!
Yeah, yeah, you guys probably know all this shit, but let me tell you, I have been getting a whole new education trying to paint my own house... and repair termite damage... and water damage... and frickin' four five-inch bolts which the last owner felt the need to use to attach a holder for a miniature flag. A MINIATURE flag! He had that sucker anchored so well that you could have carried out public hangings from the thing, and he used it for one of those little flags you wave. Yeah, I'm not bitter about the huge frickin' holes in my adobe. Not at all. But, one more notch in my belt because I patched my own adobe. Okay, whining, and bragging over.
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Date: 2009-05-04 05:49 pm (UTC)You are the Repair Goddess! Go you! *g*
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Date: 2009-05-05 03:52 am (UTC)