{"id":21866,"date":"2023-08-15T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21866"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:24:03","slug":"a-depressing-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-depressing-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"A depressing sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

After all the work that I did prepping the living room and corridor for painting it was heart-breaking this morning to see the results of yesterday’s spray painting debacle. Some of the problems were of my own making. For example, as shown in some of the following images, spraying this kind of paint is not like spraying a car when the paint flashes surface dry very quickly and can be over-sprayed with a second coat soon after the first. This kind of paint stays wet for a long time – hours I’ve found on surfaces like the coving – and if you go back over it too soon it develops huge runs.<\/p>\n

But the overriding problem was that the spray jet kept repeatedly blocking giving rise to two problems. Firstly, while it was in the process of blocking it created an uneven spray pattern making it impossible to get an even finish on the surface being painted. Secondly, every time the jet was removed for cleaning, which on many occasions took many attempts over several minutes, the machines delivery tube was wide open allowing paint to emerge. Every time it did so some found its way onto the floor until eventually I was almost paddling around in the stuff.<\/p>\n

The machine blocked up so many times that eventually I think I began to lose control of the situation a bit, especially when the bucket of painty water was knocked over onto the floor. I was trying to get as much done as I could before both the paint and the light ran out and some of the run issues were due, I think, to there not being enough light for me to clearly see what was going on.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots of the depressing sights that greeted me this morning starting with the view as I entered through the front door.<\/p>\n

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A closer look at the floor area around the paint cans. The heap of kitchen roll on the left was used to mop up the water from the overturned bucket and as I had to continue spraying for as long as I could while the jet was clear, there wasn’t enough time to clear it all up at the time.<\/p>\n

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Looking towards the corridor and the kitchen door. I eventually had to totally remove the masking around the kitchen door due to the need to constantly get to the sink during my many attempts to unblock the spray jet.<\/p>\n

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Looking back at the area around the paint cans. How could anyone work effectively in a mess like this? It was a truly awful experience.<\/p>\n

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Every time the jet needed unblocking the machine had to be de-pressurised. There’s a small diameter flexible plastic tube that allows the paint released to be returned to the can but this can happen quite violently. I didn’t notice at the time that on at least one occasion some huge splatters went onto a wall. They can’t be left like it and will have to be removed and the wall made good again later on.<\/p>\n

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But the worst things were the runs in several places at the base of the coving along the tops of the walls. This was due to paint overloading because unlike on the plaster wall surfaces, the paint remains wet on the non-absorbent polystyrene surface of the coving for much, much longer and cannot be over-sprayed once it has been given a coat of paint. This morning the paint on it was still as wet as though it had only just been painted.<\/p>\n

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I’ve had to remove all of these runs and will have to do my best to make the walls good again once the paint has dried, but I doubt that it’ll ever look any good. The problem was compounded at the corners because having already sprayed the ceiling at those points I then went back and sprayed the corners again from both directions, so with hindsight it’s not surprising that the paint build-up was so great as to cause the runs.<\/p>\n

So a big part of the problem was my own lack of experience of the technology and in future I’ll hopefully be further along the learning curve and be able to avoid the runs problem, for example. But the main issue was jet blocking and it was that that set the series of disasters in motion. I don’t know whether the pros start with a new, clean jet on every paint job but I’ve ordered six more new ones that will be delivered on Thursday.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to leave things be for a day or so anyway to allow the paint to dry and then I’ll have to make things good as best I can before re-sealing the affected areas. My guess is that yesterday’s experience has put me back several days but I’ve no choice but to bite the bullet and carry on \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After all the work that I did prepping the living room and corridor for painting it was heart-breaking this morning to see the results of yesterday’s spray painting debacle. Some of the problems were of my own making. For example, as shown in some of the following images, spraying this kind of paint is not … 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-21866","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\/21866","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=21866"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21883,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866\/revisions\/21883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}