Painting House 2 siding and carport ; planning for our next trip ; getting back into walking
(posted from home)
(This post covers 1 – 12 June, 2011)
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Sunday, 12 June -
I spent much of today catching up the blog. Thank goodness I have a work-log notebook and a few notes in a small daily-appointments book on what I've done each day.
We continue to review options for flights and arrangements for parking our car, baggage charges, terms-and-conditions agreements, etc. I think we're very near booking the trip.
I took a day off from walking today, both for a bit of rest and because a thunderstorm was approaching around my normal departure time. That storm turned out to be a hailstorm but the hail was not big enough to do any damage to our property or vehicles but the large rye field across the road from us appears to have taken considerable damage.
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Saturday, 11 June -
The extra-hot weather has broken a bit. I spent the morning on the web, still reading about South Africa and Botswana. Late in the day I again took my Rocky Ridge walk.
The walks seem to be paying off. My blood pressure is down very nicely.
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Friday, 10 June -
Today was another day to check on flight prices to South Africa and review schedules to figure out how best to structure the trip. I also spent considerable time looking for new music on YouTube but didn't have much success. My luck seems to vary considerably on this.
Late in the day I walked for an hour and a half at Rocky Ridge Park. That evening we watched Nurse Jackie S2 and United States of Tara S2 episodes.
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Thursday, 9 June -
I've been doing a lot of reading on the Web. In addition to my normal patrol of news sources, I also read a few articles recommended on Longreads.com. In the mid-afternoon I rode the motorcycle over to Rocky Ridge for an hour-45 minute walk on my end-to-end route.
That evening we watched Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip episodes.
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Wednesday, 8 June -
Today I spent much of the day researching trip insurance and in the end decided I'm not the personality type who would buy it. After reading through details of terms and conditions agreements and customer reviews, it's clear there are so many 'gotchas' it's not useful to us.
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Tuesday, 7 June -
Today we recovered from our house painting push of the last few days. We got back to researching the possible South Africa trip, now trying to figure out how to get the best price for the flights. Prices were in the $2000 per person range when we first started looking but we were unable to get our first choice for a vehicle reservation. The good news, though, is that pushes us to the edge of the high season and flight costs are more in the $1400 per person range. Still, that's a lot of money.
That afternoon I walked at Rocky Ridge-- 1:43.
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Monday, 6 June -
Today we continued with the carport roof, now finally applying primer to the wood of the 2 x 6 grid support the roof. The weather has turned hot once again and every few minutes I'd have to go out and hose down the roof. I've been doing this hosing down for all of our painting of the carport roof by monitoring the under-roof temperature with an infra-red temperature gun. When temperatures exceeded 90 degrees I'd hose down the roof and that would take it to the high Seventies or low Eighties but of course then the temps would start climbing again. Today the sun was so hot that we had to spray down after painting each 32 x 32-inch panel. In areas where I didn't spray, temperatures got as high as 130 degrees.
We finished the first coat of primer by 1530 and decided enough was enough for today. We wrapped up by 1600, then headed home for a well-deserved break.
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Sunday, 5 June -
Cburg-- We painted the underside of the carport roof today and that took forever. The roof is a corrugated aluminum on a 2x6 grid making up 42 panels. We had to use a small brush to get paint into the recesses of each corrugation to ensure complete coverage. All we were doing at this point was painting the underside of the aluminum.
That afternoon we went to Lowe's and Labashi picked out a very light green color which should go well with the gray-green of the siding. We again painted the underside of the roof, then worked into the evening to finish scraping and cleaning off the 2x6 grid.
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Saturday, 4 June-
Today we finished painting the aluminum siding's second coat on the front of the house. It looks great!
We then began the long process of scraping, cleaning, and painting the carport roof. I had to replace a section of the 2x6 frame holding up the roof while Labashi spent hours scraping old paint.
We then had to wash down the framework with TSP and to wire-brush the underside of the metal roof. We're using Zinser's BIN 1-2-3 Plus primer which is supposed to stick to anything and if it doesn't we're going to be very disappointed.
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Friday, 3 June -
This morning we painted the front of the house (first coat), then the second coat on the west, north, and east sides. The second coat goes on much more easily since you don't have to be so careful around the edges (windows, doors, soffit, etc) to make a nice, straight line. Long day.
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Thursday, 2 June -
This morning we cleaned the west and north sides of house 2. I was able to start painting the gable end within a few hours and by lunch time we had finished the first coat on the entire west end. After lunch we started with the north side of the house (the back) and then did the east end, finishing up by 1800. We could have gone on with the south side but were very tired and beginning to get jittery and impatient so thought it better to wait until tomorrow morning.
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Wednesday, 1 June-
This morning I had an appointment to have a replacement cap put on a tooth. But it turned out the cap was too short so the appointment was a complete waste of time for both me and my dentist. I have another appointment two weeks out.
Today was quite hot but we wanted to go ahead and drive to Chambersburg to get started early in the morning with our big project-- painting the aluminum siding on the exterior of house 2.
We left around 1530 and at 1800 decided we'd go ahead and begin cleaning the house with a scotchbrite pad and TSP, then give it a good rinse.
We worked until 2030 and finished cleaning the east end and south side of the house. The cleaning process is actually easier than I expected.
********* END OF POST ***********
(posted from home)
(This post covers 1 – 12 June, 2011)
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Sunday, 12 June -
I spent much of today catching up the blog. Thank goodness I have a work-log notebook and a few notes in a small daily-appointments book on what I've done each day.
We continue to review options for flights and arrangements for parking our car, baggage charges, terms-and-conditions agreements, etc. I think we're very near booking the trip.
I took a day off from walking today, both for a bit of rest and because a thunderstorm was approaching around my normal departure time. That storm turned out to be a hailstorm but the hail was not big enough to do any damage to our property or vehicles but the large rye field across the road from us appears to have taken considerable damage.
-------------------------
Saturday, 11 June -
The extra-hot weather has broken a bit. I spent the morning on the web, still reading about South Africa and Botswana. Late in the day I again took my Rocky Ridge walk.
The walks seem to be paying off. My blood pressure is down very nicely.
-------------------------
Friday, 10 June -
Today was another day to check on flight prices to South Africa and review schedules to figure out how best to structure the trip. I also spent considerable time looking for new music on YouTube but didn't have much success. My luck seems to vary considerably on this.
Late in the day I walked for an hour and a half at Rocky Ridge Park. That evening we watched Nurse Jackie S2 and United States of Tara S2 episodes.
------------------------
Thursday, 9 June -
I've been doing a lot of reading on the Web. In addition to my normal patrol of news sources, I also read a few articles recommended on Longreads.com. In the mid-afternoon I rode the motorcycle over to Rocky Ridge for an hour-45 minute walk on my end-to-end route.
That evening we watched Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip episodes.
-------------------------
Wednesday, 8 June -
Today I spent much of the day researching trip insurance and in the end decided I'm not the personality type who would buy it. After reading through details of terms and conditions agreements and customer reviews, it's clear there are so many 'gotchas' it's not useful to us.
-------------------------
Tuesday, 7 June -
Today we recovered from our house painting push of the last few days. We got back to researching the possible South Africa trip, now trying to figure out how to get the best price for the flights. Prices were in the $2000 per person range when we first started looking but we were unable to get our first choice for a vehicle reservation. The good news, though, is that pushes us to the edge of the high season and flight costs are more in the $1400 per person range. Still, that's a lot of money.
That afternoon I walked at Rocky Ridge-- 1:43.
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Monday, 6 June -
Today we continued with the carport roof, now finally applying primer to the wood of the 2 x 6 grid support the roof. The weather has turned hot once again and every few minutes I'd have to go out and hose down the roof. I've been doing this hosing down for all of our painting of the carport roof by monitoring the under-roof temperature with an infra-red temperature gun. When temperatures exceeded 90 degrees I'd hose down the roof and that would take it to the high Seventies or low Eighties but of course then the temps would start climbing again. Today the sun was so hot that we had to spray down after painting each 32 x 32-inch panel. In areas where I didn't spray, temperatures got as high as 130 degrees.
We finished the first coat of primer by 1530 and decided enough was enough for today. We wrapped up by 1600, then headed home for a well-deserved break.
---------------------------
Sunday, 5 June -
Cburg-- We painted the underside of the carport roof today and that took forever. The roof is a corrugated aluminum on a 2x6 grid making up 42 panels. We had to use a small brush to get paint into the recesses of each corrugation to ensure complete coverage. All we were doing at this point was painting the underside of the aluminum.
That afternoon we went to Lowe's and Labashi picked out a very light green color which should go well with the gray-green of the siding. We again painted the underside of the roof, then worked into the evening to finish scraping and cleaning off the 2x6 grid.
----------------------------
Saturday, 4 June-
Today we finished painting the aluminum siding's second coat on the front of the house. It looks great!
We then began the long process of scraping, cleaning, and painting the carport roof. I had to replace a section of the 2x6 frame holding up the roof while Labashi spent hours scraping old paint.
We then had to wash down the framework with TSP and to wire-brush the underside of the metal roof. We're using Zinser's BIN 1-2-3 Plus primer which is supposed to stick to anything and if it doesn't we're going to be very disappointed.
----------------------------
Friday, 3 June -
This morning we painted the front of the house (first coat), then the second coat on the west, north, and east sides. The second coat goes on much more easily since you don't have to be so careful around the edges (windows, doors, soffit, etc) to make a nice, straight line. Long day.
----------------------------
Thursday, 2 June -
This morning we cleaned the west and north sides of house 2. I was able to start painting the gable end within a few hours and by lunch time we had finished the first coat on the entire west end. After lunch we started with the north side of the house (the back) and then did the east end, finishing up by 1800. We could have gone on with the south side but were very tired and beginning to get jittery and impatient so thought it better to wait until tomorrow morning.
----------------------------
Wednesday, 1 June-
This morning I had an appointment to have a replacement cap put on a tooth. But it turned out the cap was too short so the appointment was a complete waste of time for both me and my dentist. I have another appointment two weeks out.
Today was quite hot but we wanted to go ahead and drive to Chambersburg to get started early in the morning with our big project-- painting the aluminum siding on the exterior of house 2.
We left around 1530 and at 1800 decided we'd go ahead and begin cleaning the house with a scotchbrite pad and TSP, then give it a good rinse.
We worked until 2030 and finished cleaning the east end and south side of the house. The cleaning process is actually easier than I expected.
********* END OF POST ***********
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