All I could do was laugh

[crokett]

I don't like painting. The last few days I primed and painted the hall. Paneling, so it has lines that a roller won't get to. By the time I brushed the lines, not worth having to clean a roller so.... There are 5 doors in the hall, so door jambs and casing plus crown and baseboard means lots of trim too. Ran the walls the last 2 evenings and spent today painting the trim and doors. Did I mention I don't like painting?

Was downstairs cleaning out the brushes for the last time and I hear my 2yr old say "Daddy can you clean my hands?" I run upstairs and there are hand prints on my freshly painted door, white paint on the wall down the stairs and prints on the wall in the hall. I hadn't even gotten the tape off yet. Oh well. After I looked at it I thought that door needed another coat anyway.

[Ed62]

I remember days like that. The only thing worse than painting is plumbing!

Ed

[MilDoc]

Well, either leave the prints or take lots of photos. 20 years from now you'll wish for one of the other.

[leehljp]

I don't need a small child around to do that. I HATE painting too! I bump, accidentally touch, scratch and smear fresh paint besides getting more on me than I do the walls, whether using a roller or paint bursh. I am not impatient with painting, just clumsy.

And I hate having to mask off areas.

[RodKirby]

I remember days like that. The only thing worse than painting is plumbing!

Ed

There is one worse (for me) - GARDENING - yuk

[cabinetman]

I don't have little kids running around, but I do have 2 German Shepherds and three cats that want to know where the smell is coming from. BTW, a dogs tail will spread out wet paint, but not neatly.

My two dislikes equal to a pencil in the eye are plumbing and hanging exterior doors. A true fact: The older you get, the heavier they get.

[TB Roye]

Yeasr ago I was painting the hall and was followed by my youngest Son and his Large Blue Felt time marker. He was only 18 months at the time, so couldn't get to mad but it took hours of scrubbing then priming and repainting the wall, which happened to be the longest one with out a door or opening in it.

Tom

[dlminehart]

The other day I saw a couple guys painting the exterior of a block-long 3-story commercial building. First story had storefronts, offices, etc. They had to mask everything with 1' brown paper taped on with the usual blue masking tape. Talk about a masking job!

The fun part was the mobile adjustable cherry-picker vehicles they worked from. They each stood on about a 4x8 platform with waist high railing around it, and a control panel at the vehicle end. From there, they could raise and lower, extend and contract, and pivot the boom holding the platform. They could also drive the vehicle supporting the boom forward, backward, and turn it in a tight radius.