{"id":21828,"date":"2023-08-11T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21828"},"modified":"2023-08-11T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:01:38","slug":"overoptimistic-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/overoptimistic-or-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Overoptimistic or what!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no way that I’ll be able to get as much painting done by the end of this week-end as I first thought. In fact I think I’ll be lucky to get any done at all, actually. There’s much, much more prepping still to be done than I ever imagined. It’s well-known that spraying is quick and easy – once you start spraying – but getting there is what takes all the time and effort. And so it’s proving.<\/p>\n

The first thing that I found this morning was that somehow I’d missed rubbing down the plaster on some quite large lower wall areas. Dust is the bane of prepping for spraying because it prevents masking tape sticking to surfaces and I’d already spent a considerable amount of time getting rid of as much in the house as I could. Now I had to create a whole lot more that would need removing all over again.<\/p>\n

I already knew that the window and door frames were left in a messy state by the installers with lots of dried silicone around their edges. However when I checked more closely I found that their tops also had lots of dried plaster on them, so not only did I have to carefully remove the silicone, which took some time, but I also had to remove the plaster as well that created even more dust.<\/p>\n

I then had to go all round and remove the over-smears of plaster left on all the door frames and then give them all a thorough wipe to ensure that when I get onto masking the doors the masking tape will stick on them too. It was then time for the first actual masking job, namely running tape all around the tiled plinth to which masking film will eventually be attached and by this time the clock was ticking into the early evening.<\/p>\n

I decided that come hell or high water I’d mask up all the electrical sockets and switches today and that’s how I finally left things.<\/p>\n

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The work today was back-breaking needing me first to be working at very low level and then on the top of a set of steps. It made me appreciate once again just how big an area the walls and ceiling in the corridor are and I’m wondering if before I start spraying I might need to buy yet another large can (12 litres) of sealing undercoat so when I do start I’ll be able to finish without being interrupted.<\/p>\n

I know that I applied far to much to the walls and ceiling in the kitchen – probably twice as much as was necessary – but with masking film draped all round it’ll be quite a complex job doing the living room and corridor and I’d like to have a straight run at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no way that I’ll be able to get as much painting done by the end of this week-end as I first thought. In fact I think I’ll be lucky to get any done at all, actually. There’s much, much more prepping still to be done than I ever imagined. It’s well-known that spraying … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21835,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions\/21835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}