Saturday, July 26, 2008

adventures in home improvement

SO we decided we need to repaint the back porch..the original plan was to get a pressure washer and blow said loose paint off w/ water..BUT it seems that it may have been too damaging to the wood, so the guy at the rental store suggested a floor sander..nowhere near as fun as spraying water around in late july..unless you count the SWEAT pouring off my face as water...
OMG that thing is heavy and it is HUMID out there...I mucked my glasses all up just doing a 4x10 foot section of the porch floor...they had sweat POOLED in them..it was gross...

BUT, it is pretty satisfying...seeing 12 layers of paint come off in 4 passes w/ the sander...and we found out that the flooring on the porch is entirely tongue and groove..not one nail in it....

I will take some pictures of before and after