baymule
Garden Master
No, not me, I'm not the Mobile Home Goddess. But I figure there must be one and I've really ticked her off and She has unleashed the Doublewide Demons on me. I went to our future home on Monday, bought Sherwin Williams paint. The good stuff. $$$$$ Two five gallon buckets and two one gallon buckets.
Monday afternoon I dragged the site for the carport that was to be delivered. Good neighbors Robert and Jerry came over and helped me change from the bush hog to the box blade and I pushed dirt for several hours until almost dark. The next day, Robert was back to check on me and thought I did a fair job of leveling the site. He admired that tractor so hard, he was kinda drooling. I felt like Tom Sawyer when I offered to "let" him push dirt. He jumped at the chance and spent the next 3 hours, happy as a hog in a mudhole, playing with the tractor in the dirt. He did a MUCH better job that I did.
I painted ceilings Tuesday. ALL the ceilings and got half of then cut in around the trim. Overhead with a roller as hard as I could go all day, I thought my arms would fall off. Wednesday I started on the walls. The paint alligatored.
It went on beige, then separated and looked like snow on the walls. We had primed the walls earlier with Kilz. Darn. Just what I needed, PROBLEMS! 
I found that if I let the paint get half dry and rolled it again, it would spread out-mostly. ![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/side.png "side :\")
I probably rolled each wall about a hundred times. Really got my exercise! 
Thursday I painted the rest of the house and rolled the crap out of the walls, trying to get the paint to stick. Mobile home walls--
vinyl wrapped sheetrock crappy walls Me and the Mobile Home Goddess had some ugly words. Guess I made her mad, cause the Doublewide Demons showed up. It was the second round of paint, the first kind bubbled up and didn't stick, but we only did a small patch. I paid so much money for the Sherwin Williams, I knew it HAD to be the craptastic walls, not the paint, so I just kept rolling the walls over and over, trying to get the stinking paint to stick to the stinking WALLS!
I ran out of paint and went back to get some more. Told Mr. Paint Store Man what it was doing and he was very concerned. Well, THAT was confusing! WHAT? CUSTOMER SERVICE??? He actually went to the house this morning (Friday) to see for himself what it was doing. We could find no reason for the paint to alligator like that, he went over all the possibilities and finally just had to conclude "I don't know." Mr. Paint Store Man offered me a free 5 gallon bucket of paint for when I go back to put on the second coat. I was so impressed that he actually went to the house, the free offer was nice too. Grumble.......Mobile Home Walls.......
So I wonder what I can do to appease the Mobile Home Goddess and get her to call off the Doublewide Demons. Hmmm.......maybe sacrifice a baby goat over a roaring fire in the front yard.....probably have to perform some rituals too. Bang paint cans together, throw dirt over my right shoulder and stick my hand in a rotten stump full of rainwater and eat a peanut butter sandwich while mumbling OH GREAT MOBILE HOME GODDESS--PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON THESE WALLS AND LET THE PAINT STICK. yeah, that oughta do it.
On a happier note, the carport got delivered and set up on Thursday afternoon. Progress.
It's 24' wide and 21' deep.
Here's a shot of the master bedroom walls, beige walls, light beige/off white ceilings and the trim is not painted yet. Needs second coat of paint, but you get the idea. Look closely and you can see the white primer showing through the paint.
Monday afternoon I dragged the site for the carport that was to be delivered. Good neighbors Robert and Jerry came over and helped me change from the bush hog to the box blade and I pushed dirt for several hours until almost dark. The next day, Robert was back to check on me and thought I did a fair job of leveling the site. He admired that tractor so hard, he was kinda drooling. I felt like Tom Sawyer when I offered to "let" him push dirt. He jumped at the chance and spent the next 3 hours, happy as a hog in a mudhole, playing with the tractor in the dirt. He did a MUCH better job that I did.
I painted ceilings Tuesday. ALL the ceilings and got half of then cut in around the trim. Overhead with a roller as hard as I could go all day, I thought my arms would fall off. Wednesday I started on the walls. The paint alligatored.
It went on beige, then separated and looked like snow on the walls. We had primed the walls earlier with Kilz. Darn. Just what I needed, PROBLEMS! I found that if I let the paint get half dry and rolled it again, it would spread out-mostly. I probably rolled each wall about a hundred times. Really got my exercise! Thursday I painted the rest of the house and rolled the crap out of the walls, trying to get the paint to stick. Mobile home walls--
vinyl wrapped sheetrock crappy walls Me and the Mobile Home Goddess had some ugly words. Guess I made her mad, cause the Doublewide Demons showed up. It was the second round of paint, the first kind bubbled up and didn't stick, but we only did a small patch. I paid so much money for the Sherwin Williams, I knew it HAD to be the craptastic walls, not the paint, so I just kept rolling the walls over and over, trying to get the stinking paint to stick to the stinking WALLS! I ran out of paint and went back to get some more. Told Mr. Paint Store Man what it was doing and he was very concerned. Well, THAT was confusing! WHAT? CUSTOMER SERVICE??? He actually went to the house this morning (Friday) to see for himself what it was doing. We could find no reason for the paint to alligator like that, he went over all the possibilities and finally just had to conclude "I don't know." Mr. Paint Store Man offered me a free 5 gallon bucket of paint for when I go back to put on the second coat. I was so impressed that he actually went to the house, the free offer was nice too. Grumble.......Mobile Home Walls.......
So I wonder what I can do to appease the Mobile Home Goddess and get her to call off the Doublewide Demons. Hmmm.......maybe sacrifice a baby goat over a roaring fire in the front yard.....probably have to perform some rituals too. Bang paint cans together, throw dirt over my right shoulder and stick my hand in a rotten stump full of rainwater and eat a peanut butter sandwich while mumbling OH GREAT MOBILE HOME GODDESS--PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON THESE WALLS AND LET THE PAINT STICK. yeah, that oughta do it.
On a happier note, the carport got delivered and set up on Thursday afternoon. Progress.
It's 24' wide and 21' deep.
Here's a shot of the master bedroom walls, beige walls, light beige/off white ceilings and the trim is not painted yet. Needs second coat of paint, but you get the idea. Look closely and you can see the white primer showing through the paint.
