Why does one job lead to another... and another

[pigletwillie]

After having our front door renewed and pushed out some, we decided in late summer to decorate the hall stair and landing.

A simple job you may think but oh boy, its just been one job after another. As well plastering and coving the ceilings, stripping the walls of nasty woodchip, the filling and sanding, the painting, the new floors the carpets, mirrors, settles and a hundred other things.....

Then yesterday the old girl decided the bannisters which were of solid original construction, would look so much nicer and more open with spindles. She was right of course (I just have 3 left to fit) but its an endless pit. I still have oak flooring to lay, then the new skirting boards, thankfully leaving the painting to Kazzi.

Oh, on a final note, I nearly fainted in the painters merchants when a 5 litre tin of oil based eggshell paint for the woodwork cost me £40.

[lynda66]

it's cos you want it to look wonderful ...... and when you want that, you gotta do it all and do it all properly ...... by the way, when you've finished your spindles, i could do with some too ........ mine doesn't have to look wonderful ...... just less crap

[SarzWix]

He he he. We've had the paint to do our hall & stairs sat in the garage for over a year, for this very reason - we ralised that some filling needed doing, then realised that actually a whole wall needed plastering, then that lots of woodchip would need to be removed first... So yeah, the paint's still in the garage, the paper's still on the wall...
You'll be well pleased with yourself when it's finished though, eh?

[pigletwillie]

To be fair, one wall in the hallway is to all intents and purposes finished, primarily so that we could hang a huge mirror and a board for "to do's, receipts, etc so they were out of the way. Even with the rest just undercoated and filled its starting to look good, especially now that the spindles are in.

Whoever invented woodchip paper requires cruel and unusual punishment, itshorrid to look at but the devils own spawn when you try to get it off a wall and actually leave some plaster behind.

[lynda66]

when we moved in here, sons bedroom had pink woodchip ...... it's now a nice shade of blue woodchip ...... when it needs decorating again, it will become another nice colour of woodchip lol.

[SarzWix]

Whoever invented woodchip paper requires cruel and unusual punishment....

Absolutely And anyone who thinks that Artex in cake icing type 'spikes' on a wall is a good idea should be in the queue right behind them...

[FionaH]

At least you finish jobs. Mr H is a lovely bloke, (honest) but has never finished a DIY job in his life. I could scream sometimes

[bubblewrap]

A bit like this Piglet?
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[snuffer]

One job leading to another reminds me of the first house we ever bought. Only cost just over £6000 so you can imagine how long ago that was. It was an old terrace house with the bathroom tagged onto the end of the kitchen. (When the houses were originaly built bathrooms were something only the wealthy had).

We decided to remove the cheap and nasty wood panel effect from the wall deviding the kitchen from the bathroom. When I took it away we were shocked to find that there was no wall behind it and that the paneling was all that held up the door frame.

A few months after that we decided to replace the marley tiles on the bathroom floor. When I took them up they had been laid onto bare earth. If I'd have been a GYO'er back then I could have filled a couple of raised beds with the soil we had to remove in order to lay a concrete floor.

I could go on. Every DIY job turned into a protracted nightmare.

[Finedon.Dandy]

Take heart PW at least the job will have been done properly - you are just like my Dad in that respect - he starts out doing a simple job but then goes out of his way to ensure EVERYTHING gets done. At least it will make it easier for next time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jackie j]

UMMM my hall needs doing first of all the downstairs loo needs ripping out and getting rid of, that would open up the hallway big time, The paper needs to come off, some little fingers have started the banisters need something doing not sure what replace or paint, then the front door and window panel infact the whole frame needs replacing, there is three doors to paint as well, I have been waiting 20 yrs, to be fair OH has only been here 15 yrs it had a coat of white paint put on the walls a long time ago.

[zazen999]

At least you found the paint you need...we are still looking for the exact match on the paint for our back door - has to be exact as it's a conservation area and they only allow certain colours. And the kerfuffle getting bricks to match the wall we are extending was a nightmare. And they are twice as expensive. Of course they are, why would I expect anything else!

[Two_Sheds]

At least you found the paint you need...we are still looking for the exact match on the paint for our back door - has to be exact as it's a conservation area

Can you mix two pots together? I've had to do that in the past (with dyeing fabrics too). You have to experiment a bit to get the mix right, but it can work.
Then save your leftover paint in Jam jars for touch-ups.

[Two_Sheds]

oh god, DiY.

I am able to make curtains and paint walls. I thought that was all that needed doing, so I have been cracking on, thinking it'd be finished by planting time (May).

Now we've decided the central heating system and boiler need replacing ... so the decorating is on hold until we can afford that. We have to live with grey walls for another year then.

[zazen999]

Can you mix two pots together? I've had to do that in the past (with dyeing fabrics too). You have to experiment a bit to get the mix right, but it can work.
Then save your leftover paint in Jam jars for touch-ups.

The exact match exists; just nobody stocks it. I'm going to try the makers again for their suppliers further afield than the midlands...I drove them a bit mental a few weeks before Christmas trying to find it.