Kris’s Thoughts

Now, I am not a painter (house) by any stretch of the imagination. Moreover, I detest doing so. So as one can imagine, as I move into the “needing to paint stuff” part of the house renovation, I was not looking forward to it.

In an afternoon, I got about 75% of the side eves painted via brush the other day. Biggest problem is that the brush doesn’t get the paint into all of the pits of the OSB. So I figured that it was going to cost me at least three coats to get everything covered. Referring back to paragraph one, this was something I was not looking forward to.
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Man, the one truth out there is that you can learn from your mistakes. Today we completely stripped off the other half of the roof and laid down the OSB decking. The same process took us two and a half days last time. I find the biggest problem I have is that I am trying to do house carpentry with machine shop precision. This can only lead to frustration.

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