Defeated by humidity and logic
I am not making this up. I actually can't progress in the work on the house I've been doing today because it's too humid. And I can't even take a step that would help with the interior humidity because it's too humid.
Explanation: I've been painting Ben's room but there's nowhere to put most of the stuff that's in it so I've been pushing his furniture and other stuff to the edges of the room and working my way around the perimeter. First I did the northwest corner, west wall and southwest corner. Then I moved everything from the southeast corner into the west end of the room (except for the southwest corner, because I need to be able to open the door). I've been working on cleaning , spackling, sanding, cleaning some more, priming, spackling some more, sanding some more, cleaning yet again, and priming some more in the southeast corner, as well as actually putting the final coat on the ceiling and trim last night, plus priming and painting a tall, thin set of shelves that used to be in the kitchen but will henceforth be in Ben's room.
Today was going to be pretty straightforward: sand the spackle I put on the wall last night to even out some of the bumps from the earlier spackling, clean up the sanding, put painter's tape on the ceiling and trim, and apply the pale blue wall color at last on the south wall and southeast wall (including the wall over the closet door).
But this is not going to happen, because it is too humid.
Why does it matter that it's too humid? Because, evidently, above a certain barometric level, the green painter's tape I purchased, which is supposed to be the best there is, refuses to adhere to--anything. Except itself. But it won't stick to the ceiling and it won't stick to the painted trim so I'm pretty much screwed.
Now, you'd think that because there's an air conditioner in the window this shouldn't be a problem, right? Well, that's assuming that the air conditioner actually works. (We're also talking about a room on the third floor of the house.) So after spending the last month of painting with sweat pouring down my face after just an hour or two of painting each night, I ordered a new air conditioner, a small portable unit. However, I can't actually get to the window to un-install the old one and install the new one until I'm done painting in the southeast corner so that I can move the stuff from the northeast corner (where the window is) to the southeast corner.
In other words, if it were less humid, I could finish the painting that would allow me to move the stuff blocking me from installing the new air conditioner that would cut down on the humidity in the room.
Some days you just can't win. For me, this is one of them.
Explanation: I've been painting Ben's room but there's nowhere to put most of the stuff that's in it so I've been pushing his furniture and other stuff to the edges of the room and working my way around the perimeter. First I did the northwest corner, west wall and southwest corner. Then I moved everything from the southeast corner into the west end of the room (except for the southwest corner, because I need to be able to open the door). I've been working on cleaning , spackling, sanding, cleaning some more, priming, spackling some more, sanding some more, cleaning yet again, and priming some more in the southeast corner, as well as actually putting the final coat on the ceiling and trim last night, plus priming and painting a tall, thin set of shelves that used to be in the kitchen but will henceforth be in Ben's room.
Today was going to be pretty straightforward: sand the spackle I put on the wall last night to even out some of the bumps from the earlier spackling, clean up the sanding, put painter's tape on the ceiling and trim, and apply the pale blue wall color at last on the south wall and southeast wall (including the wall over the closet door).
But this is not going to happen, because it is too humid.
Why does it matter that it's too humid? Because, evidently, above a certain barometric level, the green painter's tape I purchased, which is supposed to be the best there is, refuses to adhere to--anything. Except itself. But it won't stick to the ceiling and it won't stick to the painted trim so I'm pretty much screwed.
Now, you'd think that because there's an air conditioner in the window this shouldn't be a problem, right? Well, that's assuming that the air conditioner actually works. (We're also talking about a room on the third floor of the house.) So after spending the last month of painting with sweat pouring down my face after just an hour or two of painting each night, I ordered a new air conditioner, a small portable unit. However, I can't actually get to the window to un-install the old one and install the new one until I'm done painting in the southeast corner so that I can move the stuff from the northeast corner (where the window is) to the southeast corner.
In other words, if it were less humid, I could finish the painting that would allow me to move the stuff blocking me from installing the new air conditioner that would cut down on the humidity in the room.
Some days you just can't win. For me, this is one of them.