Widder, SASS #59054 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 The Honeymoon is over when you find yourowndangself PAINTING more than 'honeymooning', if you know what I mean. I find painting about the least enjoyable thing I've ever done. It's almost equal to sitting in a dentist chair for 30 minutes. My assistant (The Bunkhouse Boss) would make NEWT's paint job on Andy's house look like a Picasso. (Remember NEWT? He was Don Rickles on the Andy Griffith show) ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I hate to paint also, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I take it you are not talking about portraits or landscapes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My dad was a painting contractor, didn't drink, and made lots of money doing what no one likes to do. I hate paint because I was forced labor as a child. And, it takes forever and ever and ever and ever. It takes a patient man to enjoy painting, that aint me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I hate painting anything period. More of that stuff ends up on me no matter how careful I am than on whatever I am painting. One of the worse things I saw was a carving I did, very large 4'x8" of a cowboy scene, and the person that I gave it too painted over the carving. I just cringed, but they loved the painting over the carve so I just smiled and said great job. Oh, I still shake my head on that one. Took somewhere 50 hours to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 5 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: I take it you are not talking about portraits or landscapes? Marshal, your perception is admirable... All of our doors and baseboards are stained. The Bunkhouse Boss decided that she wants them to be WHITE. Sooooooo, we have to put primer on them first, then go back and paint them. It really ain't hard, but as Assassin stated, it does take patience. I would rather be working on my guns and such...... or out on the farm shooting. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festus G Lonetree Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I need to invent the Paint Grenade. Masking tape over everything you don't want painted, thumb clip, pull pin, take cover. All done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Reb, SASS #54804 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Wood should not be painted unless there is nothing else that works. The grain that God put in the wood is too pretty to cover up. Bring it out with stain and then protect as needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Painting just plain sucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My wife loves to paint. She got the gene from her father, and passes it along to our eldest daughter. One day she was painting in the bathroom, I walked in to see how things were going. Never touched anything, just looked and talked. when I turned around to leave she asked me how I got paint on the back of my shirt? HUH? Never did figure that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Painting rates right up there with changing diapers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 We tried to save some money when we moved into this house by my "volunteering" to paint the electric lavender guest bed room. Two coats of Kilz primer and two coats of paint later it was done. So was I. When we had to repaint the bathrooms because the ditzy previous owner used a matte finish paint, I hired someone to do it. Never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Painting is for painters, and Im NOT and never have been a painter. At my age I will pay someone to paint or my wife will paint. She calls it decorating and I don't do that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 6 hours ago, Widowmaker Hill SASS #59054 said: Marshal, your perception is admirable... All of our doors and baseboards are stained. The Bunkhouse Boss decided that she wants them to be WHITE. Sooooooo, we have to put primer on them first, then go back and paint them. It really ain't hard, but as Assassin stated, it does take patience. I would rather be working on my guns and such...... or out on the farm shooting. ..........Widder Ah crap, Widder. I'm changing all the white trim in the house to stained oak! WE SHOULD HAVE JUST TRADED HOUSES!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 The smell of wet house paint, gives me a migraine headache. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My grandfather was a painter. In 1945, after his 15th was born, he moved the family into a huge Victorian house. Every few years he would paint one or two sides of the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 1 minute ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: The smell of wet house paint, gives me a migraine headache. OLG Oil? Latex? Or any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Any-Oil based is the worst. But water based will set it off also. Yet-Wood finishes like Linseed and Tung don't affect me at all. Guess I'm 'special'........ OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootin' Shu Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My old man was a steelworker for almost 40 years and as tight with a dime as they come.. But, when the house inside or out needed painting he would take overtime shifts so he could pay someone to paint. The only thing I think he ever paid someone else to. Fixed his own cars replaced the roof, etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Newt # 7365 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I always heard the honeymoon was over when she comes in the bathroom and poops while you're shaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Carpenter Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I was a fairly good painter for years, model airplanes, cars (models and real Jeeps) and HO Trains. I also painted several accent walls in a couple of houses. But a my age, I have learned how to really paint well. I call Miguel and pay him; he does great work and is cost effective. Color me gone from ever painting again! Take note Widder ! Cheers, Hoss C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I like painting. It is the easiest way to make a room look new again, without spending lots of money on construction or furniture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Okay, I must be in the minority, because I don't mind painting. Between my home here and Farm in Illinois, every 7-8 years repaint . Be it the house, barn, out buildings, or rooms. Set up a good radio program to listen to and I can paint from 9AM to dark many times. Same for coating the barn roof. Just one of the things that needs to be done, so might as well enjoy it. I never hire or have someone do things I can do. MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I guess I'm the odd duck here. I don't mind painting. Cutting in sucks, though I'm pretty good at it, and running a roller covers a lot of wall in a hurry, fun to see the transformation. A sprayer isn't bad but leaves you with a film of vaporized paint all over you. Used to work with a guy whose wife had him paint the inside of his house several times a year, he figured he had an inch of paint on the wall built up LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 20 hours ago, Nasty Newt # 7365 said: I always heard the honeymoon was over when she comes in the bathroom and poops while you're shaving. I asked a good friend and she said it depends on how many bathrooms and what was for dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finagler 6853 Life Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I'm a fairly good painter but I hate getting started. The War Department doesn't have any sense for the prep work that has to be done, just paint it. She has big ideas and want to get things painted that have no business being painted, storage shed that no one uses for example. Goes out and buys the paint and then looks at me like, "well, don't just stand there, paint". I have better things to do. The times that she does get me to paint, she doesn't understand why it takes so long. Honey, I'm trying to cut in this blue paint on the wall without messing up the white paint on the ceiling. My dad used to like me to paint "stuff" when I was a kid. He would set up the project, get the paint and then take off for work or somewhere else leaving me to do it on my own. I hate painting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I'm with the minority crowd. Mrs. Doc and I did our own painting to save money when we built. My only problem is that I am not very good at it, but mentally, I can get a little lost in the process. That is a big part of the reason I enjoy building scale models. It is almost like meditation for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 All I want to know is why house painters make way more than I do. Around here they are getting close $100.00 an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 2 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said: All I want to know is why house painters make way more than I do. Around here they are getting close $100.00 an hour. I paid my brother-in-law $400 to paint my 'textured' ceilings. Took him about 6-7 hours and he loved it. He's a school teacher by profession but loves to paint on the side. I work on a Marlin for 6-8 hours and make $200. Just don't seem right. To each his own... ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudgeBagodonuts Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 On 7/11/2017 at 0:17 PM, Festus G Lonetree said: I need to invent the Paint Grenade. Masking tape over everything you don't want painted, thumb clip, pull pin, take cover. All done Mr Bean paints with fireworks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I hate painting, too. Every time we painted a house when I was growing up- Grandma's inside and outside, our house, inside and outside, down at church, .... I always got stuck doing trim and windows. Masking, painting with a itty bitty brush,.... that ended up my job. Never got the chance to paint a wall until I was on my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I like to paint. But I like to do it alone...with no one there critiquing or getting in the way or interrupting me or noticing every little thing that's wrong before you're even finished or deciding the color is wrong after 5 hours worth of work or losing their mind over a drop of paint on the floor or rearranging all your stuff so you can't find anything because someone's coming over later or...dangit ! I hate painting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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