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Epiphany's and painting

So one of the last things to do in order to get that room painted and done was to paint the door. You remember....we ordered 9...or enough to replace every door in the house.

Guess what, painting a 6 panel door is really really hard to do by hand. Both Jen and I took a turn at putting a coat of latex paint on it, and it's just back breaking.

Queue the Wagner Powersprayer. Now this belonged to Jen's father, and her mom was nice enough to ship it to us so we could use it on the trim and other things a few years ago. I tried using it when doing the office, and it just didn't work right for us. So it's been sitting unused in a cabinet for a while now.

Well, yesterday I got an idea, that maybe we could give it another shot. But the problem is that these things just aren't neat....they get paint everywhere. And it's way to cold to paint outside, plus I really don't want white grass. So I thought, why not try to make a paint booth in the basement out of plastic drop cloths that we had lying around (never were gonna use them, red rosin paper works better).

Many staples later, this was the result:

Know how long it takes to paint a door now using the power sprayer? 5 freakin' minutes baby!
And the results look 100% better than using a brush. Of course, now I'm covered in a fine white mist slightly....but man...super cool. The only real trick to make sure you thin the paint enough to come out evenly....otherwise it'll never work right.

Posted by Dennis Judd at February 26, 2006 02:39 PM