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BC - I was at my parent's house this weekend and the storms were pretty bad. Lot's of branches down and at least one tree fell on a nearby house. I also noticed lots of damage on farms on our way home. It looks like the corn held up OK but trees and old buildings took a beating. Is everything OK on your farmland?
 
wxman1 said:
I am having flashbacks to painting LittleWx's room in KS. First time fine. Then she decided she didn't like the colors so we did it again. Although just painting was not as bad as trying to get those ******* stupid wall stickers off. All that work and I don't know if he actually ever slept in the room since we moved when he was just under 2 months old.
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Mrs. JCyclonee has had us put decals with quotes up all over our house. I pity the poor people that have to remove all of these (I'm probably pitying myself as it will be my assigned duty once the rooms need to be painted in a couple of years to prepare for graduation).
 
For the record I hate hate hate painting. I am not a bad painter skill-wise, just hate the prep and hate the cleanup. If I could just be a brush and roller guy and have little minions do the rest it would be fine.
 
jcyclonee said:
Mrs. JCyclonee has had us put decals with quotes up all over our house. I pity the poor people that have to remove all of these (I'm probably pitying myself as it will be my assigned duty once the rooms need to be painted in a couple of years to prepare for graduation).
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It was a nightmare. We never did get all of the adhesive off the walls. Just got it down far enough where it wasn't a super noticeable difference in texture from the wall. This wan't just one either. It was previously a little boys room too so it was monkeys, trees birds and whatnot all around the entire room.
 
3 1/2 inches of rain at the farm. Things seem ok. Rain is getting old. Know some who got 5 not far from me.

We have textured walls and have found that painters tape allows paint to seep through to the ceiling because the tape can't form to the ceiling as well. I have gotten good at using the edger upside down (bottom side) for the trim side.

Do you use hairdryers on the stickers? Should crinkle them enough to peel off hem off.
 
wxman1 said:
It was a nightmare. We never did get all of the adhesive off the walls. Just got it down far enough where it wasn't a super noticeable difference in texture from the wall. This wan't just one either. It was previously a little boys room too so it was monkeys, trees birds and whatnot all around the entire room.
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Our house is approaching 100 years old and has lathe and plaster walls that have seen better days. It also had 4 rooms of really ugly wall paper when we moved it, it took a lot of work, but that's all gone now. The worst was the wainscoting in the dining room that had old wallpaper behind that had just been cut off at the top when they put up new ugly wall paper (20+ years ago). So I decided to take off the top piece of trim from the wainscoting, but it wasn't just nailed to the wall, it was glued as well and took a bunch of plaster up with it.

But that wasn't as bad as the master bedroom which had a wallpaper border around the middle of the room with a piece of trim above and below, which were all glued to the wall and impossible to get off. I ended up having to patch the plaster in two strips around the entire room.

Old houses, yay!
 
BCClone said:
Do you use hairdryers on the stickers? Should crinkle them enough to peel off hem off.
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I think the trick ended up being hair dryers and a wall paper steamer remover thing. Just basically get it heated enough to loosen the adhesive. Then some kind of adhesive remover and a scraper to get as much adhesive off as we could.
 
stormchaser2014 said:
Just almost witnessed a dog get hit by a car.
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A few weeks before we got married I was walking our dog who at the time was a 6 month old golden retriever with my dad. Some kids at a condo across the street had let their little dog out. Well it of course came sprinting across the street and got nailed by the tire on a truck (who never stopped). I will not describe it nor will I ever forget it.
 
BCClone said:
3 1/2 inches of rain at the farm. Things seem ok. Rain is getting old. Know some who got 5 not far from me.

We have textured walls and have found that painters tape allows paint to seep through to the ceiling because the tape can't form to the ceiling as well. I have gotten good at using the edger upside down (bottom side) for the trim side.

Do you use hairdryers on the stickers? Should crinkle them enough to peel off hem off.
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our walls have a bit of texture as well. Not sure on the ceilings, should check that. That's a good point on the tape, I'll have to test that out.
 
bawbie said:
Our house is approaching 100 years old and has lathe and plaster walls that have seen better days. It also had 4 rooms of really ugly wall paper when we moved it, it took a lot of work, but that's all gone now. The worst was the wainscoting in the dining room that had old wallpaper behind that had just been cut off at the top when they put up new ugly wall paper (20+ years ago). So I decided to take off the top piece of trim from the wainscoting, but it wasn't just nailed to the wall, it was glued as well and took a bunch of plaster up with it.

But that wasn't as bad as the master bedroom which had a wallpaper border around the middle of the room with a piece of trim above and below, which were all glued to the wall and impossible to get off. I ended up having to patch the plaster in two strips around the entire room.

Old houses, yay!
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The non-addition part of my house is 1960 and has plaster walls which are a pain in the remodeling ***. It's plaster over drywall rather than over wood lathe, so part old school and part new school. Plus a plaster ceiling with just enough texture that's it's impossible to match.
 
Heading out to try and spray some of the magnolia scale off my magnolia. The systemic I drenched with only killed maybe 75% of them. Tree is drawing quite the crowd of bees and wasps due to the scale drippings. We will see if I get stung.
 
BCClone said:
3 1/2 inches of rain at the farm. Things seem ok. Rain is getting old. Know some who got 5 not far from me.

We have textured walls and have found that painters tape allows paint to seep through to the ceiling because the tape can't form to the ceiling as well. I have gotten good at using the edger upside down (bottom side) for the trim side.

Do you use hairdryers on the stickers? Should crinkle them enough to peel off hem off.
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I believe my wife has some tool that pokes small holes in the decals. Once you do this you apply steam or heat or something (we haven't removed any in a while) and they begin to come off.
 
jcyclonee said:
I believe my wife has some tool that pokes small holes in the decals. Once you do this you apply steam or heat or something (we haven't removed any in a while) and they begin to come off.
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So the wife makes you poke small holes in them? Not everyone thinks you're a tool.
 
tree update.

Landscape people from last fall are going to replace the maple that dropped all its leaves. So that's good. Hoping they don't completely tear up the yard in doing so.

Now one of the spruces that wasn't doing hot but was going along is looking worse according to DH - I mentioned it to her since I doubt it will make the winter and want that on record before our 1 year warranty is up. Said to water it and put fertilizer stakes in.

They also planted it at a lean so I'm ok if it dies and they have to replace it.
 
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