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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 6:05 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Right now hubby's hair and beard are prolly a tad over 1" all the way around.

It's now 1500 and I just got thru with enuf thises and thats and sent family out the door for grocery shopping (in 95° weather) so I can FINALLY get working on the decluttering! MOST days are filled with taking care of family and dog, it's pretty rare that I get any project related quality time, and when I do something else suffers.

But I'm looking forward to a 1.5 hour blitz.

Well, on with the show!


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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 6:12 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Got one side of one of the louvered doors. Can't really tell how much longer it's taking because of the condition of the primer, but these take a while to work on. I should be able to get the other door, but at that point I think I should probably just throw the rest of this stuff away and just start the new bucket.

Glad I decided to do this right now. I think working on these, on the shelf I'm going to be painting black to sit atop my TV stand for when I get a 75" TV, and all the stuff I'm going to be spray painting is a good way to spend the time right now in between dehoarding the rest of the crap in the small bedroom. That way I'll still be getting house stuff done to, but more of the finishing touches than the 2 major projects I still want to have done by winter. I can get my house in order and still be doing house projects at the same time, and making much better use of drying time in between the coats.

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I can imagine louvers would be horrible to do with thickened paint, and difficult to do in any case. Let me know how it works out.

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It's not so much that it's difficult, but extremely time consuming if you want to do it right and don't want drip marks everywhere. Not unlike that towel rack / shelf was. Easier, probably, but it's just so damn big that one coat takes forever (especially with the chunky primer).

I actually quit last night and didn't even feel like doing the last door, but I had the bucket and brush wrapped up in a black trash bag so nothing dried out, especially with how humid it is both outside and inside right now.


I did the other side with that crap, and that was it. By that point, what was left in there was probably a 30 / 70 mix of chunks to paint, and there was no way I wanted to even try it on the smooth door. Probably take a 10 minute job and make it a 45 minute job with tons of frustration.


Rather than open my new gallon of primer, since I can't think of anything very large I'll be painting in the short term after these doors are done, I looked at what else I had and I still had just a few brushes worth of Zinsslear ceiling paint and primer, and used that up, then I found my Pittsburgh ceiling paint (which they claim is also primer, but I don't really believe them).

Even though I think the claim by Pittsburgh that their cheapest line ceiling paint also has primer in it is rather dubious, I decided to use it anyhow since this was for the interior of the doors that nobody is ever going to see. I'm sure it will be fine anyway, especially with how much work I put into prep on all this stuff.


I don't think I'll use all that up, but I should find something to do with it because there's nowhere near enough to paint any ceiling with it except for the basement bathroom one day, but there isn't even a ceiling in there to paint right now. It would be nice if I could say I actually threw out three old paint buckets today.






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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 7:03 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Priming louvered doors without chunks in your paint is obviously, decidedly much easier.



I didn't time how long any of them took, but measuring the job by frustration alone it's a no-brainer.


I might actually use up all that paint just hitting the first coat of primer after-all. One louvered door left on priming, and that bucket is looking pretty empty. I know I'll have enough to finish it.

And I just remembered I've got that shelf for the TV stand too. I wasn't going to do it now, but maybe I'll just get the primer on it since I want to use this up. I'm sure I can clear a spot off somewhere for it. I'll probably just put the two flat doors on top of each other while I'm doing that since primer dries fast and doesn't stick to itself like the high-gloss white paint would.

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