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Originally Posted by 71T Targa
Living in the land of kids this is the best example of my week I could think of...
Wife: Our 19 year old boy is going to paint the 'kids' bathroom.
Me: That's great! I haven't had time to get to that one!
Wife: There is a little paint peeling around the shower head. Can you fix that first?
Me: Scrapes the peeling paint.
Me: Removed all of the caulk from around the tub surround.
Me: Finds that some of the drywall tape is peeling so I remove that too. Why in the world anyone would run a strip of drywall tape around the top of the tub surround is beyond me.
Me: Patches the area where the paint was peeling and all the way around the surround.
Me: Removes the towel bars, shower curtain rod, TP holder etc.
Me: Finds and fills all of the screw heads that have popped over the years.
Me: Removes toilet tank.
Me: Has to use a grinder on the toilet tank bolts because they are not budging.
Me: Wipes down all the walls.
Boy: Tapes and paints bathroom.
Me: Goes behind boy for touch ups.
Me: Cleans tub.
Me: Re-caulks tub.
Me: Buys new bolts for the toilet tank and re-installs.
Me: Installs the towel bars, shower curtain rod, TP holder etc
At work we'd call it project creep.  |
LOL, that sounds very familiar.
Last week the wife said that the shower door in the master bath was old and ugly.
So i go to home despot to get a new one.
Insert project creep.
2 days later I had completely gutted the bathroom, stripped off the wallpaper (I hate wallpaper) and was busy scraping up the second layer of linoleum.
It looks like it was original to the house, and evidently they had really good glue in the mid 60s. What a PITA.
I was using a 48" hand scraper to peel up the tile (one itty bitty piece at a time).
Note to self, don't use the palm of your hand to drive the handle of a scraper a zillion times, even if you have gloves on.
Bad place to get a blister. it's small but it keeps reminding me it's there.
The good news is, this is the only room in the house that I had not yet completely remodeled.
So in a couple weeks, I'll be all done! 