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April 15, 2011

Warmer Weather = Needed Work

With the warmer weather, the outdoor Spring cleaning has begun.  It dawned on me last night while scraping the house just how big our home was.  This is only half of the back of the house, and boy oh boy, I really hate scraping old paint.  Something tells me that I will be spending A LOT of time out in the yard over the next few months. 

So we got about a 20 foot by 6 foot section 100 percent scraped in a matter of 4 hours...ugh.  Although we have to do this area first so my husband can start to build the deck, I also now know why they say to start in the back of the house.... If we were to start in the front, I don't think we would ever want to finish the parts that no one else sees. 


Priming.... I really cringed at the thought of painting the house twice, once with primer, then again with the actual paint.  However, after the scraping was completed on this area, the painting really wasn't all that bad.  We completed the priming within an hour. 

We have sunshine today, which means I will be outside scraping and painting some more.  This is the first house that I have ever painted...and hopefully the last. 

Have you ever had to paint your house?  Got suggestions?  Leave a comment and let me know.

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