Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

We put in quite the day today. We arrived at the house at 8:30 and worked until 3:30 (our usual time to quit) and had a coffee break of about 15 minutes in the morning and a lunch break for about 40 minutes at noon.

LIVING ROOM:

John had texture-sprayed the whole room yesterday and it was not dry enough to prime by day’s end. John prime coated the ceiling and then started on the walls. The ladies cut in the corners and around the windows and helped paint the walls. Because the original paint had been put on without a prime coat, the paint was falling off the walls and everything that could be scraped off, had been scraped off. Some of it would simply not let go. When we applied the primer coat, some of the old paint that could not be scraped off let loose and caused some problems. It was then realized that we would not be able to apply the final coat of paint in the usual drying time, but would have to allow the primer to dry COMPLETELY.

While the prime coat was drying, the men laid the lino in the living room. By 2 p.m., John and his ladies had the finish coat on the ceiling and walls completed. By 3:30, all the crown molding at the ceiling was on, all of the quarter round (which had also been purchased and painted this day) at the baseboards was installed, all of the beautiful 8 inch wood baseboard was cleaned up and the floor was cleaned up. The furniture was put back into the room, including the 72 inch flat screen T.V., the beautiful three-section black entertainment unit and couches along the walls, and the curtains put back on the windows, ready for Miss Rosella and Mr. Calvin to come home for the night.

John put the ceiling fan put back up.

We felt that to have this room completed from beginning to end, plus finish off the bathroom, in one day was nothing short of a miracle.

BATHROOM

Carolyn used every cleaner at her disposal, including her “Awesome” to try to make the very stained bathtub match the rest of the newly painted room. Norm had the new pipe to hook up the plumbing in the sink, as well as installing the second handicap bar. The curtain rod was put back up and the shower curtain hung back on. Agnes repainted the bathroom door and John installed a lock on the bathroom door after it was dry. Linda and Carolyn washed the plastic potted plants that were the only decoration in the bathroom.

SPARE BEDROOM

This room had been finish painted yesterday. Today, all of the paint supplies, etc. were removed and the floor was cleaned up and vacuumed in preparation of installation of the linoleum. The lino was laid, then the quarter round at the baseboard installed and repainted.

HALLWAY

The ladies started scraping the paint off the walls getting it ready to be painted.

ALL IN ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!