okay we're energized um painting interesting uh the guy called me when she called me the computer called me i thought that they were reading my mind i'm in the middle of um going out for bids to have my house painted
okay
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uh painting is not hard to do uh as long as it's not in not to the point of where it's uh needs to be scraped and bleeding and peeling
no
right
and our house is not but it's starting to bleed through and burn through because the paint's real cheap and it's just a hassle to go do it so i'm looking for the easy way out and uh
yeah i know did is it easy to find painters uh painters to do this for you
it's easier to find painters but you have to be you have to be aware of what of how messy they can get and are they gonna put on a good a good two coats and are they gonna caulk exterior
right are you talking about outside or inside exterior yeah
yeah uh interior's not so bad it's because it's more fun it's more convenient but you get outside where you have high peaks and those kind of things it can be a real issue
well
yeah
well when we've painted um
right now our house doesn't have to have the same kind of exterior painting there it's more trim because it has some of the old asbestos shingles
um-hum
on the back and there's some sort of stone or something in the front so there isn't as much wood that has to be painted um
but it it the problem is that it hits the sun hits it so preparing it is a real problem you've got to prepare it well or else it'll flake
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some of the home builders are they they don't put brick on the side of your houses to save money so they put up a lot uh little quarter inch Masonite basically and they're painted kind of like a spun of some sort and so it's real cheap and uh
uh i've had thirteen hundred dollar bid and i've as low as five hundred and forty dollars so it's just a matter of it's
wow that's quite a range
oh yeah one guy brags about his his piece of equipment he's using and the drop cloths and all that kind crap and i'm not so much worried about that as what
yeah
i don't want it all over the brick and windows and and the
yeah which might be a bigger problem than it would be uh yeah absolutely
oh sure
so y'all you haven't had any any jobs painted in your house or recently then
no we have uh done a little painting ourselves
um we painted a bedroom uh well within the last couple of months um and we have we have some more that need to be done but the
just fun
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the problem that we we've owned this house almost five years now and um when we bought it
the um it had been vacant for a while because the family had retired to Arizona but the daughter was a real estate agent and she was selling it and it'd been lived in briefly by her before she bought her town house so she told us that the house had been
uh professionally painted recently and it looked pretty good you know the interior walls all basically white but they obviously had been done
without to much uh wear afterward the only problem was when we started having the movers move the uh furniture in we identified the various rooms by pieces of masking tape on the wood uh
the door frames when we took the masking tape off half the painted came with it
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uh that's not very
big long strips so what had happened is that professional painters had not prepared the surface properly and some of that still has to be redone
oh man just painted over varnished wood oh my
yeah well no actually it had been uh it would had been a repaint job
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but they had not um either they had painted with the wrong kind of paint over top or they hadn't really roughed it up or whatever they would because it was woodwork so it looked as if it had been painted
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correctly with you know uh an enamel or something but um it had not either that or it had had not been prepared underneath and it was greasy or something
sure
it comes off in strips i mean not even little bit so we still have some of that trim work to do because we put it off all this time we know what a job it's gonna be because you almost have to strip the whole thing in order do it again
oh no
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i wish you good luck
okay thank you bye
thank you very much bye-bye
