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Sadly, bathroom has to wait. There's word of "big changes" in the Ogre's dept - so we wait it out before we begin any pricey projects.
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Sadly, bathroom has to wait. There's word of "big changes" in the Ogre's dept - so we wait it out before we begin any pricey projects.
LOL - pinching pennies isn't always what it seems. Poor you on the digging - I hate digging.
Ain't it the truth sister!
OK - so we're painting it ourselves except where it's too dangerous, and we've found a handy man to do the parts we're afraid to try. You know, it would be bad if either of us took a spill - with the Ogre's herniated disks and my finicky knee - it would probably involve an ambulance ride and large medical bills.
So - now I need to re-glaze windows. I'm just going for 1 a weekend. Anyone ever do this? Easy enough for me? What do you think?
So - now I need to re-glaze windows. I'm just going for 1 a weekend. Anyone ever do this? Easy enough for me? What do you think?
...consider the source.
I'd love to get new flooring for the whole upstairs, but I'd be satisfied with getting the kitchen & dining room repainted and the floor in the dining room re-stained. We've been plotting for Pergo in there for a decade, but either have the time or the money--never both at the same time. Upstairs bathroom could use a renovation, too, but we'll see what happens with The Man's job this summer. The last two he's been running crazy, and I feel like you, Holly--I hate to pay for what we can do ourselves. It's always something, right?
Glazed windows...yes. Does it involve a stepladder or working from any height? If that is something you do not do often I'd refrain or be very careful. They make a product that comes in a 10.5 ounce tube, used with a caulking gun, glaze in a tube. Glazing windows is a PITA and if they open to a heated/cooled area there exists other options...what are called replacement windows. The terminology in your parts may differ. I could install new windows in your openings (doesn't that sound feelthy?) for @$350-400 per opening your cost. A window that will save you money! as the song goes. But, if one must glaze windows...a porch maybe, sun porch, 10-15 windows that rarely open...you could opt for the tube glaze or buy a can and there's different sizes available. You're helpful hardware person can assist with that decision. If you have a putty knife, that works...a 5-in-1 works, too, as it has a number of edges, one of which assists in removing loose material. If the old glaze is almost gone and the panes are loose, you can buy push-points, small triangular metal object that are pushed into the wood around the pane. If the panes are fast and tight, clean up the edges--loose glaze, paint, fly poop--and apply glaze. If no putty knife or 5-in-1 a butter knife will work. Maybe you have an old set lying around waiting on a job like this. You could dig out a clump of glaze, roll it in the palm of you hand a tad, and then roll out a snake of glaze, say on something smooth clean and flat. I've rolled it on a vertical piece of glass if nothing else is available. Apply the snake of glaze (about a 3/8" diameter snake or less) to the area where the pane meets the wood and use the butter knife to push-spread it into the area it needs to go, one edge of the knife on the glass, the other riding the edge of the wood. The idea is smooth and extra material will ooze away from the knife as you spread. You will likely need to repeat the buttering motion...corners where two lines of glaze meet are tricky. The glaze in the tube helps the job go quicker but you still need to butter it. Best of luck with it!
Allow the glaze to harden and apply primer/paint. Paint is cheap. Put it on.
...hmmm, trying to decide who should be more insulted here...think, think, think,....
Thanks! I think I can do this! 4 normal windows downstairs, then the big kitchen window, the huge den window, the front door and sides - just downstairs. The upstairs has 3 that need to be done - 2 have been replaced recently, and 2 are stained glass bathroom windows. When I was washing the windows a couple of weeks ago the old glazing just fell out all over the place. They are the small paned windows. And they all need paint - that's why I figured 1 a weekend would be as much as I can handle. I would love to replace them, but I'm saving that money for a bathroom makeover - we'll do that ourselves too. We have this huge palladium window on the front of the house that we'll have to pay someone to do. But it's so gorgeous I hate to replace it - a lot of people in our neighborhood have replaced their's but not with paned glass - but the normal. I like the panes.Glazed windows...yes. Does it involve a stepladder or working from any height? If that is something you do not do often I'd refrain or be very careful. They make a product that comes in a 10.5 ounce tube, used with a caulking gun, glaze in a tube. Glazing windows is a PITA and if they open to a heated/cooled area there exists other options...what are called replacement windows. The terminology in your parts may differ. I could install new windows in your openings (doesn't that sound feelthy?) for @$350-400 per opening your cost. A window that will save you money! as the song goes. But, if one must glaze windows...a porch maybe, sun porch, 10-15 windows that rarely open...you could opt for the tube glaze or buy a can and there's different sizes available. You're helpful hardware person can assist with that decision. If you have a putty knife, that works...a 5-in-1 works, too, as it has a number of edges, one of which assists in removing loose material. If the old glaze is almost gone and the panes are loose, you can buy push-points, small triangular metal object that are pushed into the wood around the pane. If the panes are fast and tight, clean up the edges--loose glaze, paint, fly poop--and apply glaze. If no putty knife or 5-in-1 a butter knife will work. Maybe you have an old set lying around waiting on a job like this. You could dig out a clump of glaze, roll it in the palm of you hand a tad, and then roll out a snake of glaze, say on something smooth clean and flat. I've rolled it on a vertical piece of glass if nothing else is available. Apply the snake of glaze (about a 3/8" diameter snake or less) to the area where the pane meets the wood and use the butter knife to push-spread it into the area it needs to go, one edge of the knife on the glass, the other riding the edge of the wood. The idea is smooth and extra material will ooze away from the knife as you spread. You will likely need to repeat the buttering motion...corners where two lines of glaze meet are tricky. The glaze in the tube helps the job go quicker but you still need to butter it. Best of luck with it!
Allow the glaze to harden and apply primer/paint. Paint is cheap. Put it on.
Oh me too - I so want wood floors. We'll get a big chunk of money set aside, but not have the time to do it, and then a big car repair comes along or a big medical bill. Looks like the job's in the clear for another year - so once his back is feeling better, we'll get started on the bathroom re-do. But the exterior painting and the windows have to be done this summer. We're looking janky.I'd love to get new flooring for the whole upstairs, but I'd be satisfied with getting the kitchen & dining room repainted and the floor in the dining room re-stained. We've been plotting for Pergo in there for a decade, but either have the time or the money--never both at the same time. Upstairs bathroom could use a renovation, too, but we'll see what happens with The Man's job this summer. The last two he's been running crazy, and I feel like you, Holly--I hate to pay for what we can do ourselves. It's always something, right?
I usually use a brush or roller.
Really dislike painting. I helped my parents (Mom's idea, Dad's and my execution) with painting the big house I grew up in. First, scraped the old paint, then primed, then painted. Took all summer up on the big extension ladders. My mom also wanted to repaper the house (her idea, Dad's and my execution), which of course involved steaming/peeling/scraping the old paper off and putting on new stuff. I refuse to have wallpaper in the house to this day.
Anyway. We need some new flooring. The dipsticks we bought the house from carpeted the master bath, and it's annoying. I don't like carpet anymore anyway, and I could happily go for hard flooring throughout the house and use big area rugs for sound and coldness mitigation.
Outside, I need to plant some trees and brush, and I'd dearly love to have a deck out front over the slab and landscaping.
Anyway. We need some new flooring. The dipsticks we bought the house from carpeted the master bath, and it's annoying. I don't like carpet anymore anyway, and I could happily go for hard flooring throughout the house and use big area rugs for sound and coldness mitigation.
Outside, I need to plant some trees and brush, and I'd dearly love to have a deck out front over the slab and landscaping.
...that's a big damn can o'paint son if yer sloppin' paint with ME!....
Not you. You weren't the source. Besides, I have a policy of not insulting a person who can plant me with one downward blow.
....yet you continue to associate with one who can plant you with one roof mounted downward thrust....
No! I've learned my lesson, the pound sand way. Yemenese beaches are very firm.
I love to paint interior rooms. But I don't like exterior painting. I'm dreading it. It'll spark some great and fabulous arguments between me and the husband for all the neighbors to hear. It'll be marvelous.
Loud music, speakers outside... pump up the volume, kiddo... xox