Tool shed painted - for now

From October 20 to November 18 I spent some time painting my toolshed.  This was what I intended to paint before Kelly gave me the red paint and I then painted the barn. With the barn painted I turned my attention back to the toolshed.  Of course it didn't take me a month worth of time to paint the toolshed as I was also doing other things before the snow and cold and Winter came. 

I have two five-gallon pails of the paint.  With time running out I hoped to get one coat painted on the entire toolshed, and also use up one of the five-gallon pails.  Neither was achieved though I was really close to meeting both goals.  Well, there is next year to finish the painting of the toolshed.

The "battleship" grey is not my favorite color.  But as time passes the color is growing on me.  I'll see in the future if I stay with this color or if I get another and different color for the toolshed.

First off - the west side.   First I had to scrape what I could of the old cracked paint.  Then pressure wash the west side.   Pressure washing took more effort than expected.  I first hooked up two garden houses to get water to the pressure washer from my house.  But the pressure washer didn't put out much water pressure.  Then I used three hoses to connect back to the well pump.  Still no water pressure from the pressure washer.  Then I temporarily changed the connections on my livestock pump and used only one garden hose.  Now I had pressure for a pressure wash.

Paint has been scraped in the lower half when I took this photo.

Two photos after I pressure washed the building.  The first was just after I washed the building.  Then the second photo is two days later after the building dried. 

I ended up painting this side two times before moving on to rest of the building.   One coat of paint was not enough.

Now on to the south side of the building.   After scraping this side, I then pressure washed the side.   I only had time to put on one coat of paint.   Since it took me a number of times over days sometimes I would re-paint some areas.  The re-painting may have been due to me sometimes painting until it got dark, and the area at the time was hit-and- miss and not consistent.

Now on to the east side.   I scraped bad paint off.  But I didn't pressure wash this side.  By now the temperatures were getting colder and time was running out.  Again, only a single coat of paint, except for fixes of the previous day's paint.

Time was running out before Winter arrived.  But I still had a little time to paint the north side.  Some scraping of the paint, but this side was not as bad as the other sides.  Again, no pressure washing of this side.

In the first photo you can see a pile of rocks in the corner.  I then moved the rocks so I could paint this area.  We had a wet Fall.  The area of the toolshed where the rocks were was also wet /damp.  And things are not really drying this Fall.   So this section did not get painted this year.  This is why the entire building did not get one coat of paint.  And why I had a little paint left in the one five-gallon pail.

The paint on the pole shed wall is where I painted at the end of each painting job in order to get paint off the brush before cleaning the paint off the brush with water.

I also painted a little around the one door.   No plans to paint the rest of this interior part.

Now that Winter is here, painting is over for this year.  Next year I plan to be back at it.