Garage repainted!
Greetings all!
I’ve just posted photos of our garage, as it looks following our repainting efforts last week!
Please note that the north and south “side windows” were NOT repainted…and therefore look kind of stupid at the moment.
The reason for that is, right before we were going to paint this, we had the inspector come out for the 353 tax abatement program. And she said that we will have to either return those windows to normal, functioning windows that are NOT boarded-up…. or remove them completely and replace them with siding.
Well, in the interest of security, we’re going to have them removed. (Our garage was broken into about two weeks after we’d moved into this home back in August 2004. I boarded up those windows shortly thereafter.)
Here are the pics: http://www.myoldhouse.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=26
I really need to make a post about the kind of paint that we used. It’s the same stuff that was used on the house: Sherwin-Williams “Duration” paint. This stuff was pricey ($43 per gallon!), but it goes on really nicely…and it has a LIFETIME guarantee! And after two years on our house, it’s only peeling in a couple of places where it was painted onto METAL (gutters, window sills). Clearly, those metal areas should have been PRIMED first, but I don’t blame our painters. Not very much is peeling off of that metal at all, just a bit. I hope to do touch-up on those locations on the house shortly.
Thanks for stopping by the site!
-= Dave =-