Painting begins..Finally

We started the exterior painting on Friday and from my point of view it went pretty well. I did notice on Saturday that I will probably need to redo a couple of places on the rear soffitt that seem to be "light". Using the airless painter makes pretty quick work of the actual painting ...once the setup work is complete. Moving the scaffolding around and figuring out how to get to different areas though did take quite a bit of work.

FYI, the crew covered each window in plastic as they were installed, so we did not have to be to accurate in the spraying. Once we are done we will slit and then pull the plastic covering off.


Of course, once David Jones showed us how to move and properly setup the scaffolding things started to move much faster and much safer.

When I started to clean the sprayer on Thursday evening after testing everything he also told us that that wasn't necessary if we planned on using the system the next day. We only needed to stick a rag in the opening of the paint pail (5 gallon) and drop the spray gun, with the hose attached, into a bucket of water. The only time to clean the system is when you are all done, or when changing paint. This alone saved allot of time because we were still fighting rain each day, so it was a start and stop process.

We were only able to do three sides of the house because we wanted to stay out of the crews way while they were continuing the work on the front. We will probably get to that next weekend.

Besides painting, the heating and plumbing rough-in is complete. On Tuesday the fireplace and vacuum system will be installed. Next Monday the electricians start their rough-in.

Things are moving along, but there is still a long road ahead.