"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
05/28/2018 at 17:40 • Filed to: NYC
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"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
05/28/2018 at 17:40 • Filed to: NYC | 1
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Bathroom done, 1/2 of living room, two coats, but 11 foot ceilings make slow going. Next job is skim coating and filling other half of living room. Baby steps ...
ranwhenparked
> Steve in Manhattan
05/28/2018 at 23:13 |
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I know what you mean - I’ve only been doing my doors, and it still has somehow taken like 3 weeks.
Seriously contemplating just paying someone to do most of the walls, but the guy I know that does that for a living (and can therefore trust to give a key to and leave alone all day) has been flaking out on me. Something about his Vibe currently not running and needing to get back to me, since that’s what moves all his ladders and stuff.
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Steve in Manhattan
> ranwhenparked
05/29/2018 at 19:57 |
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A guy I knew who did plumbing flaked on me, and that’s when I learned to do plumbing. Did the whole house - not much in the walls, so I managed. And after I got back from MD on April 19th after we buried my mom, I discovered that painting is kinda therapeutic. Skim coating and hole filling I can so without, but that’s part of the process.
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ranwhenparked
> Steve in Manhattan
05/29/2018 at 20:21 |
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Oh, wow, sorry about your mom, I must have missed that. I can see how a calming, repetitive activity like painting might help.
Oddly, I’m the opposite. I can’t stand painting - too messy, requires too much repetition to see results - but find plastering relaxing, just don’t need to do much of it. In this case, though, I am going to do all the single story spaces myself, but the living room is one of those space wasting vaulted ceilings they loved so much in the 1980s, and I just really don’t want to bother with that.