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.

Burnt almond color

You know I painted the barn this past Fall.  I currently am trying to paint the tool shed before the weather stops me.  Earlier this year did I realize I would be in the painting mode?  No.   But I am thinking about it now.  And maybe repainting the house.  Not this year.  Next.  

I am trying to remember when I last painted the house.  I didn't blog about it for whatever reason.  I had to look for photos from when I did the painting.  I found a few from back in 2009.  I didn't have much of a camera back then, so not many photos.

So, 15 years ago.  The house paint is still decent.  The garage, which was painted after the house that year, not as good.  So that is what is getting me to think about repainting the house and garage.

Back then the house was white.  And I painted the house an off-white?  I forgot the name of the paint color.

While I am fine with that color, it is time for a new color.    Earlier this week when I was out riding my bicycle in a subdivision I came across a house nearly done being painted.  I liked the color.  It was different, but not a crazy color.  I stopped and asked the guy there what was the name of the paint color.  Burnt almond.    He said it was a masculine color as guys like the color more than women do.   He got the paint from Home Depot and the brand was Behr.

burnt almond color behr exterior - Google Search

Yesterday Donna and I visited her daughter and I got to see the new barn she bought from Amish builders.  A very nicely built barn.   I forgot to take my camera for photos.  Afterwards Donna stopped by Home Depot so she could buy some paint stain.  I looked at the Behr paint samples to get a card for burnt almond.   The card didn't look like the house color.  Huh?   I asked the paint guy, and he asked what the paint's sheen was as that can make a difference in the sunlight. No idea.

Then Donna and I drove by the house.  The guy wasn't home.  Donna liked the color. And she said it was different.

Today I rode by the house again.  The guy wasn't there.  I brought the paint sample along with me.  From a distance it didn't look like the house color.  Then I held the sample right against the house paint.  Very close.  How?

As you can see in the photos from my camera the paint can change.  Or is it my camera doing that?

Anyway, next year my goal is to paint my house this color.

The house from a distance away.  (The housing subdivision is built around a golf course.   When my hiking friend Patti was still alive she lived in this subdivision.)

The charcoal black and white adds to the color I think.

These two photos were taken seconds apart.  Yet the color is slightly different.

The paint sample card held against the house.   As you can see in earlier photos the further away from the house the card doesn't match the color.

Yet the camera must be changing the color.

We'll see if I get the house painted next year or if some other project sidetracks this effort.

Barn painted

I finished repainting the barn.   The only time earlier I had put paint on the barn was back in 2009 when I had a little red paint left due to painting the house's trim red.

Here is text and photos from my blog post about this back in July 2009:

So I think I have finished painting the fascia on the house, garage and well pump shed. I still had paint left in the can so I decided to finish the can by painting the barn. I ended up painting two walls of the barn's addition. I had to do a little scraping of old paint off the bottom two boards of each wall.

Tammy picked out a pretty red, don't you think? Even though the white trim has not been repainted the red already makes it stand out.

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Last month when Kelly stopped by to check on deer hunting this year, and his deer stand, he also asked if I wanted some red paint.  Kelly has a business where he paints stuff for people.  He had two cans of paint he didn't want or need.   Red paint?  Sure.  I could paint something red.

Kelly gave me more paint than I expected.  Two five-gallon pails of paint. The red paint is in the black pails.  Ignore the paint in the grey pails.  That is the paint for the tool shed.

The red color is called "Cape Cod Red".

Originally I had planned on first re-painting the tool shed with other paint I have.  But I would have to pressure wash the tool shed to clean off the loose and flaky paint on it before painting it.  I decided to paint the barn instead.  It took me a number of weeks to paint the barn.  That is because I was also doing other things around the same time.  For over a week I only got 45 minutes to an hour of painting done each day.  So the barn painting was off to a slow start.

Then it got to time to start weaning the calves and they would be in the south corral.  To get that part of the barn done I picked up the pace and spent more time over a couple days to get that part of the barn painted before the calves came.

Due to the feeder I couldn't use the tall ladder to reach the peak of the barn.  I used a smaller ladder.  The feeder roof held up.  You can see how the shade from the roof overhang slowed the old paint from fading away.

Here is the finished south side of the barn.  The boards over the one window are because much of the six glass panes are broken.  Another day I will get a new larger single pane to replace the six missing smaller panes.  Year ago I did that to the window that is now under the feeder I later built.

While the barn addition had been painted back in 2009, the color faded over 15 years.  I decided to repaint the side in the south coral.

Then on the west side of the barn I got part of it painted.  I ran out of paint from the first five-gallon pail before I got the side doors painted.

From the second pail of paint I got the side doors painted even though the calves were now in the south corral.  Since I only had one five-gallon pail of paint left, and it didn't have to be painted now, I skipped painting the side of the barn under the side roof.

To get the part of the barn in south corral painted took an entire five-gallon pail of paint.  How much of the rest of the barn will get painted with the other five-gallon pail of paint?  For sure I wanted the north side of the barn painted.   As you can see the barn had two colors: red and brown. I'm sure the brown paint was due to my dad.  He probably got some discounted on-sale cheap paint.  I never liked the look.

The hay loft door needed work and paint.  On the barn and hay loft door the raised wood sections are used to cover the areas where the board pieces meet each other.  The barn most likely was built in 1940/1941 and I don't think 4 by 10 sheets of wood were available back then.  To cover the gaps at where the board pieces came together, a board was nailed over those areas.   The hay loft door had minor raised boards that most has deteriorated over time.  I replaced three of the four pieces.  Unlike the old raised pieces that had been painted white, I painted them red.  I left the frame as white.

I still had paint left.  On to the east side.  Let's see how much of this side I can paint.   Here you can see the new paint on the right. (When I took the photo the new paint already covered the brown paint.)  The old and faded paint on the left.  The brighter red was an area I had painted back in 2009 when I also painted the barn addition.

I was surprised that I was able to paint the entire east side.  And I painted the north side of the addition.  The last strokes to paint the addition were the last paint I had.  I had exactly the amount of paint needed to paint the barn (other than what was under the barn roof on the west side.)   Who would have thought?

Kelly said the red paint had primer as part of the paint.  I hadn't painted since 2009.  I found this paint to be more liquidly than the paint I knew before.  The paint flowed.  When I held the brush end of the brush up to paint, paint would flow down the handle of the brush.  My hands and arms got a good amount of paint on them.  And this paint was harder to remove off my hands and arms.  I think today after days of washing and scrubbing them of paint I got most all of it off me.  My clothes however.  That may remain forever.  Washing the clothes today appears to not remove much of any paint.

And I found my painting shoulder to be slightly sore each night when I went to bed as I used a hand brush to paint the barn.  The raised boards made using a roller to paint unworkable.

Well, this project is now done.  On to the next project.

Painting gutters

The weather is excellent right now.  The temp is in the 50s under a clear sky with no wind.  The forecast is for the good weather to end on Saturday so I only have a few good days left for outside work.

Wednesday I re-painted the windmill blades, then painted my house's rain gutters and downspouts.  Or at least the backside of the gutters as I have to let them dry before hanging them back up and painting their front side.

Futile painting

Late Saturday afternoon I decided to 'go for it' and painted my windmill's blades red.  I say 'go for it' as the temperature was in the 40s, it was 6 pm, and the forecast was for rain on Sunday.

The paint can's label said the paint would dry in four hours when the temperature was 35 degrees.

I can do it.

I painted the windmill's blades and still had time to paint one of my rain gutters' downspouts.

I woke up Sunday morning to a light rain/drizzle.

The windmill's blades were again silver as the paint had washed off.  Some of the pretty rocks beneath the windmill were red and/or pink and I had to scrub the paint off them this morning.  I picked up the downspout from where I left it under the patio overnight to dry and found the paint to be wet.

*argh!*

At least the downspout was under the patio and the rain hadn't washed the paint off.   Now if it would only dry.  And the rain to stop as I have projects to complete before winter arrives.

Painted windmill, part 2

In the daylight I took another look and photo of my newly painted windmill.  The paint appears to have dried before the rain fell last night as the paint job is still good.  *whew* 

When rolling the large rock back under the windmill this morning I nicked the windmill.  After shaking and shaking - and shaking! - the paint can finally a bit of paint sprayed out to cover the nick.

In the sunlight the red color - while strong - is not as strong as last night.  I'm still looking for ideas on a color scheme for the windmill...

Painted windmill

Today I worked on the small windmill in my front yard.   I had put it up for my dad back in the late 1990s.  Time has taken its toll as the windmill is starting to show signs of rust.  So time to paint it.

Off-and-on I have been sanding the rust off this past week.  After spending all afternoon today working on it, I decided I was done sanding.  To get all the rust I would have to take the windmill apart and I didn't want to do that.  It was annoying enough to sand what I did as the windmill was all small pieces and edges.

The photo was taken before I finished sanding.

I had time before dark and I ended up spray painting the windmill until I ran out of paint.  I got everything but the blades painted.

I decided to paint the windmill red so as to match my barn color.  I like the red color.  However... I am not sure it is a good color for my windmill now that I painted it.  The red is too bold of a color for the windmill to be just that color.  I think I need at least one other color, maybe more.  But I am undecided as to what the other color should be, and what parts of the windmill should be what color.  My first inclination is to have the second color be white.  But I don't know.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions as what the color or colors should be, and which parts should be which color.

To end... several things added to my annoyance today:

• I ran out of red paint before I could paint all of the windmill.

• I wore a nicer pair of pants today as I hadn't planned on painting.  Yup, I got paint on the pants and it dried before I noticed it and could clean the paint off.

• I got paint all over my fingers, and even though the paint appeared to have dried and did not want to wash off my fingers, everything I touched got red paint on it.

• Several hours after I finished painting the windmill, it rained.  Come morning and daylight I will see if all the paint dried or whether the rain washed some of it away.