Went to pick up 5 gallons of light blue paint today for Jerry to finish painting the outside of the barn to match the house. I WAS going to get another container of that combination primer/paint like we used to paint the barn doors. But they explained to me today that the combination primer/paint only works on top of previous layers of PAINT, and NOT on plain wood. The guy said that if you use it to paint plain wood and the paint was to get scratched, the paint would peel off. Yep. Sure enough. I've seen that happening on one of Lizzie's doors already.
He also said it wasn't a good idea to have the separate primer colored to match the regular blue paint either because the primer, if not painted over would mold so it's necessary to leave it white so you can be certain that it's getting covered completely. Sigh. I guess as we go on we will eventually figure out how we SHOULD have been doing things in the first place! But it really is annoying that they didn't explain all that to begin with on the primer/paint container. Grrrrr.
ANYWAY -- Jerry got the side porch walls and the roofs above both that porch and Duke's covered patio primed today, as well as the edges of the roof on that side of the barn. Tomorrow he'll only be here for four hours (football game at 1 -- he has GOT to be home by then), so I imagine he will only be painting those porch walls that were primed, and not doing any additional priming on the rest of the barn. Oh well -- I'm sure he will be glad to do some more painting next weekend too. Maybe it will actually look good by the time Mark gets home!
One good thing -- I decided to pick up one of those rollers with a four-foot long handle that you fill with paint so that you don't have to constantly roll the roller in paint and see if Jerry liked using that. And it seems to work pretty well. It paints about an 8 X 8 section each time it's filled. And to refill it, you just fasten it to a link into the paint can that comes with it, and pull back on the handle -- kind of like filling a really REALLY large syringe. Very easy and very fast. AND the handle is long enough that he could paint the ceilings while standing on the floor, not on a ladder. Pretty good thing. And it was cheap, too!
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