Another fine scrape

As I mentioned before, the First Floor project is on hold. Grace and I agreed that this time of year is best for working on the repainting of the house, so although our first floor (and, if you'll remember, our third floor) is a construction area, we're putting that work on hold to get the house repainted. It's not just a matter of using the nice weather... the wall we're working on now isn't well sealed, and during a particularly harsh rainstorm earlier in the year, I discovered water was getting behind the siding, where it wet the insulation. So, we kinda need to get the walls painted properly and sealed up tight.

We started on July 3rd and 4th, but didn't make too much progress, between getting back into the swing of the paint stripping and not having scaffolding. This weekend, though, we dedicated the entire weekend to stripping paint, and got the bulk of the single biggest wall in the house cleared off.


I have to send the Silent Paint Remover paint stripper back for some warranty work, (it's been heating a little unevenly) but that won't be a problem, as we'll be able to replace boards, prime good boards, and finish reframing at least one of the windows next weekend. Not having the paint stripper won't slow us down too much.


One thing we certainly learned was to stay out of the sun, if possible! We only worked in the sun an hour and a half on Saturday, but it wiped us out. Sunday we got an early start, worked until the sun showed up, then stopped for four hours to let the shade return. We got a ton done, and weren't totally wiped out at the end of the day.


The Outside projects gallery is updated with new pictures and comments, starting with the third picture on the second page!