Painting Progress

The house painters started working on our house on Tuesday, since Monday was a holiday. They were here for about two hours before they had to call it a day due to the rain. And the forecast for the week is pretty much scattered showers all week, what a great start to our painting project! The guys came back on Wednesday for about an hour before the rain cut the work day short again. So we are already two days behind, what a drag. Oh well, they came back and started working in earnest the next day, hammering in all the nails on our new sidings. Friday was another overcast day, but they did get some scraping and preliminary priming done. I was unprepared for the strong unpleasant odor of the primer that permeated through out the house especially with a baby here. I couldn't open the windows to air out because they were doing a lot of sanding out there. So I turned on the bathroom fans hoping to get at least a little bit of ventilation going. The smell in the bedroom was the strongest, I had to move Desmond's co-sleeper into the living room for his naps. I am kind of worry about the toxic fume that he has to breath in, I hope it's not doing any lasting damage to his little growing body.

Not very exciting photos of the painting guys scraping paint.

The pressure washer.  

Sneaked a shot of the guy washing our house. 

 These guys came to work on a Saturday morning to pressure wash the house in the rain. 

The steps leading up to the front door after power wash, wow, do they need a new coat of paint. We had a carpenter replaced the bottom treading (the bare wood step on top in this photo) because it was broken in half and barely staying in place creating a safety hazard. 

That's the progress on the paint so far...We have a small project that's waiting in the wings, I can't wait to get it done and share it with you.