Painting Project - Part II

Well here's Part II of my recent project to paint the garage exterior.

Here I'm at the stage where all the old paint was sanded down, whatever came off easily. I'm just doing the trim at this point. I then put down my masking tape. Odd, this is one of the few times I use masking tape for it's original intended purpose.

Kinda like duct tape.








Putting down the tape is definitely worth the time & effort. Then I can paint the whole section I want and not worry as much about accidentally painting the adjacent area of a different color.

So far this is just the trim. I still have the main door to go. Looking at the weather forecasts, looks like I won't get to that until spring, unless we get some sweet warm weather at some point.

Buffalo weather for ya.

Painting Project

Today I'd like to post some pictures of my latest home improvement project - painting the garage door and trim.




It's pretty bad when the paint is curling up like this. Ouch.












Time to dust off my painting shtuff.

These pictures are sort of a 'before' and in a later post I'll show the progress I've made.

The weather has not been cooperating - haven't had must rain-free weather where the temperature stays above 50 degrees (F that is - AKA 10 degrees C) for 24 hours so the paint can dry properly.

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm - here's the link for converting between F and C temperatures.