What jobs do you hate?

[MossRoad]

The guy who owned the house before us was a salvage fan. There was no drywall in the entire house. It was all some form of paneling, planking, wood. None one room had less than 3 different types of wood. Some had 5. Many were shellacked, not painted or stained. I ended up gutting 14 walls from 5 rooms and drywalling them, and the ceilings in 4 rooms. I left matching board paneling on two walls in two of the bedrooms, and left the knotty pine in the living room. But even the 24' x 12' living room had one style of pine on 3 walls and a different style on the other. And that was shellacked as well, but looked OK. But after 20+ years, we'd had enough of it. So I took an electric pad sander to all 4 walls and knocked off all the shellacked and we painted it. Put in all new door and window trim, baseboards, and crown molding. It was a chore to come up with a matching stain for the trim that matched some dark wood built in cabinets that were original, but I found a couple coats of walnut topped with a coat of rosewood came pretty darn close. The hardest part was making it look old to match the cabinets.

Anyhow, I've just found painting to be quite satisfying when done.

I painted the outside of our steel sided 24X24X10' high garage a couple years ago. I bought a Wagoner power painter for that. It only takes about 20-30 minutes to paint a wall. It takes longer to clean the sprayer when done. I used a thin board to hold as a mask for the trim. Worked surprisingly well. Had to go back and paint the white trim by hand.

In large interior walls and ceilings, I like to use a paint stick like this. They work great. You don't have to keep going back to the paint tray. I can paint about a 10' section of 8' wall without refilling it.



And I really like frog tape. I use the green for new paint, but use the yellow delicate one for old trim. It pulls of easier. A razor knife to slit the paint seal along the tape before pulling the tape off really makes a sharp line.

And I usually buy new brushes for each job. I've never had good luck trying to save paint brushes between jobs. It's just easier to get new ones.

Anyhow. I like to paint. :confused3:

:laughing:

 

[repete]

The thing I hate, and haunts me the most, is taking dead little children out of cars in an accident. Bothers me more now with children and grandchildren of my own.

Sorry... you asked.

 

[MossRoad]

The thing I hate, and haunts me the most, is taking dead little children out of cars in an accident. Bothers me more now with children and grandchildren of my own.

Sorry... you asked.

While that is a horrible thing to have to do, take comfort in knowing that people are grateful for your acts.

I used to be a lifeguard, so I kinda know what you go through.

 

[goeduck]

Removing wallpaper. Hate it. I do not know why people do that to their walls, it should be a crime.

 

[ScottishTimeLord]

I'd rather take a whipping than paint anything!

AMEN! That may also explain why my paint jobs turn out so bad.

 

[BrokenTrack]

The guy who owned the house before us was a salvage fan. There was no drywall in the entire house. It was all some form of paneling, planking, wood. None one room had less than 3 different types of wood. Some had 5. Many were shellacked, not painted or stained. I ended up gutting 14 walls from 5 rooms and drywalling them, and the ceilings in 4 rooms. I left matching board paneling on two walls in two of the bedrooms, and left the knotty pine in the living room. But even the 24' x 12' living room had one style of pine on 3 walls and a different style on the other. And that was shellacked as well, but looked OK. But after 20+ years, we'd had enough of it. So I took an electric pad sander to all 4 walls and knocked off all the shellacked and we painted it. Put in all new door and window trim, baseboards, and crown molding. It was a chore to come up with a matching stain for the trim that matched some dark wood built in cabinets that were original, but I found a couple coats of walnut topped with a coat of rosewood came pretty darn close. The hardest part was making it look old to match the cabinets.

I know what you mean.

It is one of the reasons why I like Timber Framed houses so much; you got the wood beams and such, but unlike a log home, there is a break in the amount of wood. I had a friend whose Dad built a stick built home and used v-match pine on everything in the interior. Walls, floor, ceiling, doors, trim...it looked like a pine forest went inside his house and barfed...it was way too much. Log homes can have the same look. There is just no visual stopping point from floor to walls to ceiling sometimes. My wife's Grandmother has a log home, and she hated it so much she ended up painting the walls white inside.

When I first started building my house back in the early 1990's, stain was the thing, and yet I wished I had discovered paint earlier. Paint is so much easier! And for $32, you can go to Lowes and buy a 5 gallon pail of white paint and make something that is dingy, look fresh and clean...and for only $32. That is why I like to paint too.

 

[Budweiser John]

Interesting what chores turns one off. I frankly enjoy building and painting projects albeit some projects generate boredom faster than others like sanding drywall and nailing down endless squares of roofing.
The one reoccurring necessary task I despise is changing the hydraulic filter on my NH tractor. With the sub frame for the back hoe the access to the filter is restricted and there is no way one can remove it except for lying on your back reaching at arms length, unscrewing the canister and enjoying a bath of nice warm smelly oil.

As a side note, to all TBN members who may be members of emergency response teams, my sincere appreciation for your dedication.

B. John

 

[ericm979]

My most hated job is repairing the lawn sprinker system. The PO used super thin PVC because it's cheap, and installed sprinklers that break. I have to repair pipe or replace sprinklers four or five times a year.

Doing the oil filter change in the Pioneer 700 or oil change on the Tundra are not much fun either. You'd think that regular maintenance tasks would be designed to be convenient, but no.

 

[straps57]

Anything in the crawl space. Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, insulation...

 

[3Ts]

Filling nail holes, cleaning, taping trim, putting down drop cloths takes way longer than painting.

I've found that if I want these done, I have to do them myself, the painters only paint and not very well either (paint runs, sags, skips, dirt & grass embedded in finish coat. And I agree that proper prep work for painting takes longer than painting.