First round of painting the garage was done on Saturday and Sunday. This is how the insides are looking right now.
Yesterday was spent cleaning up all the contractors mistakes, like not bothering to put a drop sheet over the rolled up garage door when he painted above it with a spray gun leading to lovely white paint spray across a big section of both doors. We had to scrub the doors with polycell (an expensive paintbrush cleaner that is water deactivated, so you let it sit for a minute, scrub, then rinse it off with several rounds of water to get it completely washed off. It works better than thinners because the water stops the stripping reaction so no damage done to the garage door’s actual paint below the messed paint.
Today is last coats of paint, cleaning my side door (wooden normal door leading out of the garage) with polycell because again, even though we masked the edges, the contractor sprayed right over the masking and onto the door itself . Then putting up the new shelves, and driving away a load of rubbish again.
Afternoon all
I cant believe I want to strangle staff again
Sales people who doesnt keep to meetings and we urgently speak to the person so that we can help our one partner out with deadlines
Okay, so we managed to do two more coats of paint on the concrete sections, which has improved the paint coverage dramatically. Our contractor used a spray gun, and while that seemed to work okay on the bricks, it did not want to work on the concrete. He added too much thinners and didn’t wait for it to dry properly, so when he sprayed over it again with his over-thinnered paint mix, he was dissolving the previous layer, causing the Grey primer underneath to shine through in patches. It was terrible. So we used rollers and brushes and absolutely no thinners today and waited a full hour between layers for it to dry (quick drying enamel).
I didn’t clean the side door, and good thing, because we managed to spill even more paint on it while working above it so now I can clean everything off in one go.
We didn’t put up shelving because we ran into a little snag with the brackets, so we did a bunch of measurements and made plans for tomorrow.
We did lug several hundred kilograms worth of second-hand tiles to the car to throw them out, then “changed our minds” and lugged them to the corner of my yard where I planned to use them from the beginning. I had said several times that I wanted to re-screte a concrete slab in the back corner of my yard and float the tiles on the screte but kept getting told that I can’t reuse old tiles, and eventually I gave in and said sure, let’s throw them away. 75% of the way through the loading process my mom said “why don’t you keep these and use them in that corner?” I laughed myself silly, it was a face-palming laughter.
Then we began loading a bunch of old bricks into the bakkie for throwing away, and halfway through my mom said “wait, we can use these to edge the garden!!” so I made a uturn and dumped the bricks by the garden edge instead. My mom has been wanting to edge the garden somehow for aaaages now. Good thing she had the idea closer to the start of the loading process. I only retrieved about 10 bricks from the car. The rest I threw at her across the yard (at her insistence: it was terrifying, but efficient).
My arms feel like aching wet noodles and I want to go to bed right now but I still gotta clean the door and finish washing the paintbrushes this evening.
To add fuel to the fire, I got a call from head of HR yesterday. There’s an investigation following a complaint and have to provide a statement from the last two years of interactions, could be facing disciplinary action.
The shelves are done. They are not perfect, they are not necessarily level everywhere, but they’re garage shelves and it doesn’t matter. Nothing we could do about the heights and sizing of the existing brackets, and we were not going to replace all the brackets. It’s close enough, it’s good enough, I’m happy. And I am kaput. My mom had to Zoep in the last few holding screws because I couldn’t lift the cordless drill any more with my wet noodle arms.
Now I just need to sort through the giant pile of everything currently packed in the center of the garage under drop sheets, and start packing stuff onto the shelves in some logical order.
leading to lovely white paint spray across a big section of both doors. We had to scrub the doors with polycell (an expensive paintbrush cleaner that is water deactivated, so you let it sit for a minute, scrub, then rinse it off with several rounds of water to get it completely washed off. It works better than thinners because the water stops the stripping reaction so no damage done to the garage door’s actual paint below the messed paint.
so now I can clean everything off in one go.
