SoCS July 8, 2017 – The “ick” Story
“Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: ‘ick.’ Find a word with ‘ick’ in it or use it as a word itself. Have fun!” – Linda G. Hill
We did house painting four out of five days this week. The outside temperature was in upper 90o, while the inside was in 80o. By midnight on Friday, we finished painting three bedrooms and the hallway upstairs plus the stairway. Even though the inside was cooler than outside, but upstairs was like an oven. My husband wanted all the windows open to vent the fume from the paint. He didn’t want to have the fan on because the fan would stir up the dust and got into his eye. The first half an hour of each day, he was sweaty and sticky already.
I did all the taping and peeling off the tapes on the door trims because I’m very picky. I want clean and clear lines between the walls and door trims. A couple hours after the finished painting was the best time to peel off the tapes. I used a utility knife to slit, separate the paint from the tapes before I peeled them off.
The Showers of Blessings 
Looks lovely, Miriam. I am sure all the hard work paid off when you see your beautifully done home now.
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Thank you so much. We’re taking this week off, get back on our workout routine, will finish up next week. We like it so far, the house looks brighter!
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My pleasure, Miriam. Good day to you.
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Thank you very much!! Good night!
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I appreciate the way Americans do their home painting and all themselves as here in a India we hire labour. But doing work for your own home is like loving your baby. The sleep in a friction of second after that is great gift 🎁
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I had the same comment from another blogger from your country. Do you have a choice? My husband thought the bid was too high and decided to do it himself with my help. We ended up having a chance to clean all the dust on the wall before painting. A hired person would just paint over the dust. It was a hard word, so we are taking a week of. To be continued next week. My husband likes it so far. I’m glad because I picked the color!!! 🙂 🙂
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We get cheap labour here and only special labour for painting do this job. This way they are too earning their living. But I love the way you do it yourself.
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Our labor here is high. The minimum wages ge go up to $15/hr eventually. We got one bid but didn’t use, he charges $30/hr. We saved about $1500 or more for the labor.
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Yea I know. My friend and other known one living there too told this. They too do it themselves
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Yes. Well, if we have time, it’s good that we do what we like!
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It looks lovely Miriam, I can’t stand paint fumes and I don’t envy you both working in those temperatures!
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Oh, I know, still have 1/3 to do!
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that must have been really exhausting! hope you had enough rest after all that hard work.
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We’ll take a week off, get back to work out, continue downstairs in the following week!
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You have a beautiful, fresh, new looking home now after all your hard work!
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That’s what I said to my hubby!!
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I salute you for doing such a hard work in the house. What you did was probably one of the worst part of renovating a house or moving to a new house for me. Haha if I had more money, I’d let someone else do all the painting and moving. 😅🙂
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I was going to pay someone to do it. We had a bid. My husband didn’t like the conversation and decided to do it himself. I’ll be the one who will live with whatever the outcome of his painting. So I decided to do the hard part. 🙂
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