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psmith2.0
Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2022-05-18, 13:45

Yeah, it needed protection. I thought I'd just spray on some clear weather sealer stuff like I did before, but she kept mentioning "grey would look nice, and be a change, wouldn't it?"

That's when I knew.

Three weeks ago I got out the tape measure and a little notebook and took all the measurements so I could estimate the square footage/coverage needed. After promptly dying to death of shock, I then thought "if we're going to do this, let's do this...". So I've been over in the 3-4 nights a week, painting until the light got too low to see well. Three weeks, 10 gallons, one brush and one exhausted dork.

Weather/Mother Nature have not cooperated on the heat/temp front at all. May here has been a solid 10-12 degrees higher than it should be, even hitting the low-90's on a few days. That's just unheard of here, for May. But I got lucky on two fronts: a) the humidity has been below 30, and b) because of her backyard layout, tree situation, the way the sun tracks across the sky relative to her porch/deck location, etc. I was probably able to be in shade for a good 80% of it, which was pretty comfortable. It wasn't the hell-on-earth I was fearing.

But my whole reason/push to get done by the end of May was to avoid those brutal June-August temps here...and damned if I didn't pretty much have 'em anyway. The humidity being bearable is what saved my life/sanity. You do not want to be doing this kinda of thing in July-August here...you'll explode (or melt).

But, yeah. It does look nice. It is quite a change. The way the sun reflects off that grey tone (vs. nearly two decades of brown), it changes the look of her kitchen and computer room, which butt up to the back porch/deck...no golden, amber type of reflective ambient like, but I crisp, grey/neutral? Seems to make the white mini subway tiles on her kitchen backsplash pop and look real crisp and white. It changed the entire look outside, but also a couple of rooms inside, just due to how the sunlight is reflecting/bouncing into a few windows now.

I'm hoping that's my last painting project ever. At least one of that size. I'll paint a half-bath or coat closet (or one garden gate), sure. But that's about as big as I wanna go!

Confession: I do spend so much of my life sitting in front of a Mac, day and night (work and personal), that getting out in the air, doing some manual labor and putting in the work doesn't bother me. A nice change/counter to sitting on my butt at a desk. I loaded up some music and podcasts every day, so that always helps. Just zone out and don't think about the time (or how many more million square feet are still remaining).

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