More of the room

Got some more muddin done last night.  Finished the 2nd coat of the walk-in closet, and started the bay window.  Discovered for myself it seems to be a whole hell of a lot easier to just do ALL of the corners, then work on everything else.  So when i get to it tonight, I’ll be whipping through the corners of the entire room, then moving to do the seams.  Hopefully i can get the remainder done today, now that i’ve got a kind of system goin’.

Tomorrow unfortunately for this project, starts the first day of this semester of school.  This will slow me down a bit for getting this done,  I will hopefully have a 4 day weekend this weekend.  If so, even if i don’t get all the paint up, I should hopefully be done with all of the mudding, including the texture.

More of the room

Finally got over my stupid sinus-infection enough to get some more done.  I managed to get most of the joints sanded down, ultimately not going to waste much time on the rest of it.  Ultimately everything i’m finding pretty much just says to sand right at the end, but only knock down big imperfections in the mud by ’scraping’ it down.

Been looking into some information about how to do the spray-on texture.  So many conflicting ways, I have a hopper gun, i think i’m just going to thin down topping compound for it.  All these places suggest using texture compound, but that doesn’t sound ’strong’ enough for walls from what i understand.  All sorts of differing ideas about putting primer down first, adding paint to it etc, LAME idea.  I know all of the stuff i’ve seen has not been done this way.

So inevitably I’m just gonna end up playing around with it a bit.  Gonna go home tonight and crank out a ton more of all-purpose joint compound, so hopefully by Wed/Thurs I can start doing some topping on the joints so that I can get the texture sprayed by Friday.  I swore I would get started on painting this weekend, and plan on keeping that promise to myself.

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New Renter

So a sad day came about 3 weeks ago. Our regular (for like 2 years) renters, Darren and Angela let us know that they were going to be moving out. It gets to be kind of hard, living right next to your tenants. You get to be friends with them, and miss them greatly when they leave. Unfortunately, every tenant is only temporary when it’s an apartment. People tend to change them as often as jobs change anymore.

Good news, like everything else they did when they rented from us, they were great about the notice. They gave us 30 days (like they are supposed to) and actually moved out in like 15. This gave us ample time to prepare the apartment for new tenants (not that much preparation was necessary, Ang kept the place ultra-clean).

Our new renter Marva, is working out great. She got us full deposit+rent weeks before she even moved in. This gave us the ability to get the apartment spiffed up a little before she moved in.  Her sister is currently staying with her, but this works out ok, since she has a couple of girls that are around our kid’s ages.

Pretty good so far, great renter, things are good and stable too.