BEFORE
AFTER
That's not the paint color, it's tinted oil based primer. They scrape and prime first, then later, they'll do all the finish painting.
It's great to see they are getting down to the wood. Drew came over and said he's never seen a scraper that gets off as much paint. They showed me this thing. They have two of them actually. Three diamond bits whirl in a circle at high speed, chewing up the paint as they go, all connected to a vacuum, so there's very little lead dust spread about. Can't get in close to window sills and stuff like that, but in the open, it's pretty amazing.
They're coming back today at 7:30 they say.
Now onto the attic pulldown. I reported yesterday, we had to put up some replacement drywall, then apply mud, then sand it all down to flat. See in the upper left of the picture, we actually sanded down some of the popcorn ceiling? It's sanded flat all the way around the pulldown.
Well, as a result of all the sanding, we had to patch it. This patching stuff is sort of a nightmare. Popcorn spray. Spraying a can of white junk over your head onto the ceiling? It gets pretty much everywhere - dripping from the ceiling on to the floor and walls, onto your head. It also doesn't dry pure white, so we'll have to prime it white later.
So you have to put plastic everywhere to speed clean-up.
Planty the Plant seems to be doing great - reaching reaching reaching up - but the guide wires I put up for her were hard to grip. So on a walk in the neighborhood after dinner on Sunday night, I came across some lattice someone was throwing out. I snagged it, cut it in half, and gave Planty a new gift.
PS
Here's our front lawn. For a New Englander, it's funny to have a painting contractor with this name.
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