A chicken in every pot?
Well, it's kind of like that because we have a screwdriver in every room. Seriously.
Painted the foyer ceiling last night. We haven't installed any mirrors in the house yet, so Ken had to help me pick the paint off my face this morning on the way to work. Sat behind the smelliest guy ever on the bus... talking nonstop about beating and killing people -- "just like we did to the nazis in Vietnam". Hmmm. I'm not history expert, but... So instead I read the newspaper, where I found a story of Rob Church's aunt making it to #6 on the list of most influential women in Portland.
My best of the night last night was Ken fixing the one pocket door that was off its track between the living room and the dining room. Now Lent can have his own private dining room when he comes to visit next time.
It rained all night, pretty hard for Portland but average for everywhere else. Anyway, our basement started leaking water. We knew about the problem before we moved in (found it in the home inspection) and it's not a major problem, however, it's also not something you want to leave all winter. So now Ken has a new project for this weekend. Me, yep you guessed it, I'll be painting some more. Actually, question for you painters out there...
Our stairs have a very high ceiling and high walls. Inaccessible by small step stools, yet large ladders rested on stairs seems like a very bad idea, especially for someone afraid of heights a bit -- actually I'm more afraid of falling 15 feet+ down a flight of stairs. Any ideas on how to paint that area? Between taping and cutting in, I'm a little terrified. What do I do?
posted by Lisa @ 9:11 AM
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You can probably rent a multi postion ladder. One of those ones that you see on infomecials. You can use it like a mini scaffolding. He's one from homedepot:
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_main/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=PROD_META&CNTKEY=misc%2fsearchResults.jsp&BV_SessionID=@@@@1882615651.1102533427@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdfadddfhmllimcgelceffdfgidgjm.0&MID=9876
Check tool rentals around. They might also have mini scaffods for rent.
or you can balance 2 ladders (1 folding; 1 flat) using the top of the stairs to form a scaffold (make a bridge between the folding and the stairs with the flat), but this is a pain in small areas and less stable.
No mirrors yet? I would have thought that the mirror on the bedroom ceiling would have been the first priority. Oh...after the floor gets put in. Teehee.
For painting, don't painters just use a huge extenda-arm for their paint brushes/rollers? A lot heavier, not as precise, and a lot of neck straining. But, you are only going to do it once, and you don't have to worry about falling down the ladder+flight of stairs.
Unless, of course, you get vertigo and fall down the flight of stairs anyways.
Hey guys, I can't find your phone numbers. Do you want to come over to my folks place for Christmas dinner? I don't know if you have plans. There will be a bunch of people there but most are very benign and friendly.
Ask Sara, she's a paintin ninja fr realz
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