Fascia and some trim painted
Painting is 90% preparation. I didn't prepare as well as I should have and yet it took me at least an hour this afternoon after a late breakfast (shortly before noon). Spent the morning with two cups of coffee perusing the internet.
I papered where I thought the splatters would go and held down the papers with masking tape. What I did not account for was spilling onto the asbestos tiles or onto the roof hardware itself...which I did not want to happen.
Later I will have to see what I need to do to clean the asbestos tile of the paint.
Definitely painted the fascia board, which was my main purpose, but also painted parts of the back window trim which had been weathered away. I don't know how well the enamel paint will stick, not having prepped the weathered wood: but it was was better than doing nothing. I did not really get into painting all the window trim, especially once I saw how splatters of paint hit the asbestos tile. Still, what I did was a big improvement...so much so that I will plan to do a good job painting trim in the future. The side windows of the back room need it even more, but I will concentrate on the back first.
I was finished with painting around 5 pm, so I used the remaining daylight (about an hour or so), to cut and rake up the remaining blackberry, "sorghum", grape and grass in the northeast corner. Now there is a big pile of the remains in the back, well away from where the car is parked. I'll let it sit there until next weekend when I will stuff it into the compost container.
Also next weekend will need to bring my shovel to dig up all the sorghum plants (I just removed the straw but the new plants for this year are emerging). There are probably some blackberry roots to also remove.
So, I will have four days of work this week and another weekend of, I believe, good weather. So I will focus on putting up the gutter, weeding and clean-up, prepare for the downspout (digging, buying, perhaps cutting and more painting) and maybe carving up Marvin's Garden.
I papered where I thought the splatters would go and held down the papers with masking tape. What I did not account for was spilling onto the asbestos tiles or onto the roof hardware itself...which I did not want to happen.
Later I will have to see what I need to do to clean the asbestos tile of the paint.
Definitely painted the fascia board, which was my main purpose, but also painted parts of the back window trim which had been weathered away. I don't know how well the enamel paint will stick, not having prepped the weathered wood: but it was was better than doing nothing. I did not really get into painting all the window trim, especially once I saw how splatters of paint hit the asbestos tile. Still, what I did was a big improvement...so much so that I will plan to do a good job painting trim in the future. The side windows of the back room need it even more, but I will concentrate on the back first.
I was finished with painting around 5 pm, so I used the remaining daylight (about an hour or so), to cut and rake up the remaining blackberry, "sorghum", grape and grass in the northeast corner. Now there is a big pile of the remains in the back, well away from where the car is parked. I'll let it sit there until next weekend when I will stuff it into the compost container.
Also next weekend will need to bring my shovel to dig up all the sorghum plants (I just removed the straw but the new plants for this year are emerging). There are probably some blackberry roots to also remove.
So, I will have four days of work this week and another weekend of, I believe, good weather. So I will focus on putting up the gutter, weeding and clean-up, prepare for the downspout (digging, buying, perhaps cutting and more painting) and maybe carving up Marvin's Garden.