it has been a good week...........

chromiam · January 2009

haven't done much of anything but damn happy the weekend is lamost here. And fuck coffee step up to a real drink cappuccino

And please don't talk about removing wallpaper. I have an entire living and dining room and hallway which I have to scrape. I've been putting it off till after the holidays and really don't wanna do it at all especially since most of the living room is plaster walls :evil: But a $50 investment in a steamer should make the job earier.

Wobbie · January 2009

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

and now im drinking 2 pots of coffee a day.......

*grinds coffee beans*

only two??? :shock:

SPEEDY MCCREADY · January 2009

chromiam wrote:

haven't done much of anything but damn happy the weekend is lamost here. And fuck coffee step up to a real drink cappuccino

And please don't talk about removing wallpaper. I have an entire living and dining room and hallway which I have to scrape. I've been putting it off till after the holidays and really don't wanna do it at all especially since most of the living room is plaster walls :evil: But a $50 investment in a steamer should make the job earier.

get the steamer.....

i used to paint/drywall for a living.....had my own business......

GET THE STEAMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or just knock down those fucking walls and start from scratch.......hehehehe

and im kind of serious.....i would rather knock down an entire room ...hang new drywall.....tape it and paint/or wallpaper it......

than to have to scrape fucking wallpaper......

mfc2006 · January 2009

decides2dream---we're painting it a light green. can't remember the exact name of the color at the moment..
it's probably something strange, though. like.."misty sunwashed forest green" hehe

yeah...GET THE STEAMER!! or else, you're screwed!!! i was lucky w/ the bathroom, though. it was old & it came right up because all of the adhesive had dried up and cracked away. but there was one corner that just about made me lose it.

there are ways that you can paint directly over the wallpaper now. (which is what my wife wanted me to do b/c it was less work) but there's always the chance that the paint won't hold on the paper...which was a risk that i wasn't wanting to take.

Flagg · January 2009

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Flagg wrote:

Let's see.

Monday was typical.
Big ice storm Tuesday night - tons of ice (for Dallas) overnight.
No school for the kids Wednesday. I worked from home (as I do every Wednesday anyway damn the luck).
Wife went to sleep clinic overnight Wednesday night to be checked for apnea.
Work today is typical.

Pretty boring except for the ice. Which is good because I was freezing my ass off in Iowa last week and then put up a new fence in my back yard over the weekend.

did you do the fence all by yourself???? that seems like it could be an all day job....or 2 day job

I had two people helping me. It took about a day and half.

wolfbear · January 2009

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

chromiam wrote:

haven't done much of anything but damn happy the weekend is lamost here. And fuck coffee step up to a real drink cappuccino

And please don't talk about removing wallpaper. I have an entire living and dining room and hallway which I have to scrape. I've been putting it off till after the holidays and really don't wanna do it at all especially since most of the living room is plaster walls :evil: But a $50 investment in a steamer should make the job earier.

get the steamer.....

i used to paint/drywall for a living.....had my own business......

GET THE STEAMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or just knock down those fucking walls and start from scratch.......hehehehe

and im kind of serious.....i would rather knock down an entire room ...hang new drywall.....tape it and paint/or wallpaper it......

than to have to scrape fucking wallpaper......

We actually had to do that in our bathroom. When the previous owners put up the paper they did it incorrectly, and when we went to take it down the drywall came with it.

Luckily we were doing remodeling at the time and already had workers here so they called in the experts. Not only did we need new drywall but it had to be textured too! Ugh, I hate wallpaper!!!

decides2dream · January 2009

mfc2006 wrote:

decides2dream---we're painting it a light green. can't remember the exact name of the color at the moment..
it's probably something strange, though. like.."misty sunwashed forest green" hehe

yeah...GET THE STEAMER!! or else, you're screwed!!! i was lucky w/ the bathroom, though. it was old & it came right up because all of the adhesive had dried up and cracked away. but there was one corner that just about made me lose it.

there are ways that you can paint directly over the wallpaper now. (which is what my wife wanted me to do b/c it was less work) but there's always the chance that the paint won't hold on the paper...which was a risk that i wasn't wanting to take.

nice!

we were lucky too. our house is OLD....as in, 1922. but we were fortunate in that only 2 rooms had any wallpaper, and it too was OLD...no steaming necessary. just peeled off, sanded and primed.

it definitely is a risk to paint over wallpaper...i'd rather remove as well, although sure...can be a bitch to do!

we actually wallpapered one wall in our bedroom with 'paintable wallpaper'....b/c this one crack, no matter how many times mended.....just keeps reappearing....so wallpapered it to cover, and then painted to match the rest of the walls....and it looks fantastic. 8-) the wall simply looks textured. really nice. necessity is the mother of invention.

we've done soooo much to our home, most of it ourselves.....and there is still always so much more i'd love to do! and sure, some stuff...such as having the wood floors refinished, well it's been so long...high time to do again.

we leave it to pros...but such a nightmare, clearing ALL furniture out, keeping the dogs out, etc......so yea...our floors look a lot more ragged than they should. :P

i can't wait until tomorrow 7PM....the official beginning of my weekend!

chromiam · January 2009

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

chromiam wrote:

haven't done much of anything but damn happy the weekend is lamost here. And fuck coffee step up to a real drink cappuccino

And please don't talk about removing wallpaper. I have an entire living and dining room and hallway which I have to scrape. I've been putting it off till after the holidays and really don't wanna do it at all especially since most of the living room is plaster walls :evil: But a $50 investment in a steamer should make the job earier.

get the steamer.....

i used to paint/drywall for a living.....had my own business......

GET THE STEAMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or just knock down those fucking walls and start from scratch.......hehehehe

and im kind of serious.....i would rather knock down an entire room ...hang new drywall.....tape it and paint/or wallpaper it......

than to have to scrape fucking wallpaper......

knocking out the plaster was a thought but the mess is horrible and I'd still have to remove wallpaper from the dining room (drywall underneath) and along the party wall and hallway.... so figure I'll just end up steaming the paper off and if I hit any snags in the living room I won't hesitate to tear out the plaster and hang drywall

chiquimonkey · January 2009

it's been a crazy week at work, grant deadlines and dealing with brain-dead people. but i'm in a *fantastic* mood today after a lovely evening last nite, so i'm protecting it from all the crap at work trying to bring me down

looking forward to the weekend, get paid tomorrow, hope the weather stays nice so i can do some fun stuff outside, brunch with friends on sunday and hanging with the family, and just chilling. i can't wait

*edit* and tylenol PM usually doesn't even work with me. i must have the constitution of a fucking ox or something lol

justam · January 2009

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

i have gotten myself addicted to nightime cold medicine.......

and now im drinking 2 pots of coffee a day.......

*grinds coffee beans*

how is your week going??????

This week I started to notice I was getting a cold on Sunday. It got worse Monday and Tuesday and yesterday I stayed home to try to whip the damn thing.

I'm feeling a bit better today so I think I'm definitely on the mend!

(btw, it's nice to see you out of banned land SPEEDY.)

it has been a good week...........

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