More house painting

Things have been moving a little slower that expected. I've almost gotten the rght side of the house done. I have maybe 1 hour left on that side before I can move to the driveway side of the house. I should only have to do two setups of the scaffolding on that side.

Setting this scaffolding up by myself is a pain but I've worked out a bit of a system and can set it up in about 15 minutes and less than 10 to take it down. The hardest part is carrying the sections up the scaffolding during setup.

Here are a few pictures from the last two days:






I'm doing pretty good on paint, I've used less than a gallon on trim and about 2.5 gallons on the green so far. This is with the front completed, the right side almost completed and the back 1/2 completed. That's about 2/3's done. This exterior grade Valspar covers very well without using a lot.

House Painting

I was back to work painting the house yesterday. I went ahead and rented scaffolding for the entire week to get the rest of the house done. the scaffolding works great but the pain is having to tear it all down and rebuild it by myself every time I have to move on to the next section.




Setting the scaffolding up takes at least an hour. I'm painting out as far as I can on either side of the scaffolding to minimize the teardowns/setups. I would have gotten further but I lost about 3 hours of work, one for a short period of rain, the other 2 when someone came by to buy an old truck of mine. It took about 2 hours to get the thing on the tow dolly.

This is how far I got as of yesterday evening:


I probably could have finished this section before it got dark but the race came on so instead I got to watch Junior ALMOST win his first race in two years only to be wrecked by a DUMBASS with 2 laps left....

Anyways, I'll be back out there today painting. Hopefully I'll at least get this side of the house done.