Springtime - Who's started yardwork?

[slo town]

Spring has sprung in California's Central Coast Wine Country.

Scott

 

[Owen Lucas]

Not looking forward to it. Fallen sticks, plant some grass, downspout and gutter repairs etc.

 

[slo town]

Sue's cacti and succulents are digging life too.

Scott

 

[robbobster]

I’ve begun procrastinating yard work, does that count?

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

Down here in Atlanta I had already caught some yellowjackets seyt up shop in a hole in my backyard.

 

[Zee09]

I just did the first coat on 14 shutters. Have 10 more to do and 4 exterior doors.

I didn't feel so great doing them
It's been years..Time for a long overdo heart checkup. The old one was rebuilt 11 years ago.

These shutters are 27 years old and the green turned to yellow after sanding... I did the garage ones too..

 

[walterjay]

I just did the first coat on 14 shutters. Have 10 more to do and 4 exterior doors.

I didn't feel so great doing them
It's been years..Time for a long overdo heart checkup. The old one was rebuilt 11 years ago.

These shutters are 27 years old and the green turned to yellow after sanding... I did the garage ones too..

View attachment 329227

I thought about repainting mine but decided it was easier to have a guy replace them.

 

[Owen Lucas]

I just did the first coat on 14 shutters. Have 10 more to do and 4 exterior doors.

I didn't feel so great doing them
It's been years..Time for a long overdo heart checkup. The old one was rebuilt 11 years ago.

These shutters are 27 years old and the green turned to yellow after sanding... I did the garage ones too..

View attachment 329227

They look like new!

 

[Zee09]

I thought about repainting mine but decided it was easier to have a guy replace them.

That's what most do but I was a pro painter in my prior life and my master was my pop...55 year painting contractor..

The garage today too...

 

[Zee09]

They look like new!

Bless you

 

[Zee09]

A tip for you guys that need to do some painting inside or out
Our lady customers used to save nylon stockings for us.

Fresh paint is usually clean unless it's old. This can was 2 years old and clean.

But at the end of the day you put what you have left back in the can and it's no longer clean so you strain it everytime you reuse it.

Go buy a cheap ladies nylon stocking at a dollar store. When you strain into a 1 gallon you use about 6 inches of one leg cut with a scissors and tie a tight knot in one end. You can easily hold it and pour by drapping it over one side of your paint can.
Once done keep it by just leaving it in the can and closing the lid over its top. You can reuse it many times.

Save the waist part of the stocking for straining 5 gallon buckets
Works for oil or latex... Clean paint all the time.

 

[walterjay]

That's what most do but I was a pro painter in my prior life and my master was my pop...55 year painting contractor..

The garage today too...

View attachment 329256

In an earlier time I was also a pro painter but still didn't feel like tackling the job.

 

[slo town]

In an earlier time I was also a pro painter but still didn't feel like tackling the job.

I still paint and get great satisfaction doing it.

I painted my way through college, doing paint with one other guy at a 150 - 200 unit apartment. Someone would move out and we'd invade the place and paint the unit (and clean the carpets) in one day. The landlord loved our speed and quality. It was a long day but we made stupid good money doing that work.

Scott

Edit: One day my work partner, a big Irishman named Jim, lost it with a misbehaving industrial quality carpet scrubber. I'll never forget how he lost his mind and kicked the crap out of that thing, rendering it useless. I remember just standing there while I watched him stomp it to death. I still LOL at the memory. Hahahahahahahaha!

 

[Zee09]

In an earlier time I was also a pro painter but still didn't feel like tackling the job.

I thought you were plumber

 

[Zee09]

In an earlier time I was also a pro painter but still didn't feel like tackling the job.

I didn't either because of various issues but I don't trust painters. Most are bad plus carpenters today only want $30k dollars to replace 24 shutters....think about it...

 

[walterjay]

I thought you were plumber

I painted when I got out of school. Did everything from residential to industrial.

 

[Dinoburner]

Started raking the dirt driveway off the lawn today. It`s amazing how much dirt and small stones a snowblower can move. No crocuses coming up, their late.

 

[Zee09]

I have 6 metal doors to wash. Sand, and first coat paint. Same green, the frames are white but i want to get the green out of the way.

Got a fancy vandal proof mailbox to do in green also.

 

[walterjay]

I have 6 metal doors to wash. Sand, and first coat paint. Same green, the frames are white but i want to get the green out of the way.

Got a fancy vandal proof mailbox to do in green also.

Nice color choice

 

[alarmguy]

Crabgrass preventer down.

Installed low voltage lights on 4 palm trees. (NOT solar lights)
iPhone sucks with night photos when you want the real look but did the best I could. The brightest one and the second brightest is in-between the closest representation. With the first photo the closest to the true brightness and color.