[speaker001:] so have you done any painting projects lately
[speaker002:] yeah this is a great topic for me because I just did my first two painting projects ever it was not not a big deal
[speaker001:] oh really what kind of painting was it
[speaker002:] two little deals the first one um I helped someone repaint an apartment and it was very easy
[speaker001:] uh-huh it was it
[speaker002:] yeah and I've never painted anything I always thought it would be so you know you'd have to hire someone if you needed to paint inside your house or something but I know I can do it and the second one was I bought some toys at a um
[speaker001:] yeah oh huh
[speaker002:] at a craft fair they're unfinished wooden book ends and stuff for a a little girl for Christmas and so I just decided to paint them and that wasn't as easy as painting the apartment was
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh well what kind of paint did you use for the um bookends
[speaker002:] well it's uh it that's half the problem right there is that it wasn't it was a oil base so I had to get and when I painted them I didn't realize that we didn't have any uh turpentine or paint thinner or anything in the house so I had it had it all over my hands at first I didn't realize you know I had never painted anything so I didn't realize that I needed that I mean I kind of knew in the back of my mind
[speaker001:] uh-huh so you can't use oil on wood
[speaker002:] well no you can use it on wood but I just had it all over my hands and I went to wash the brushes out and uh wash my hands and you can't wash it off with water you have to get the uh a solution
[speaker001:] oh so you had to go around with paint all over you temporarily anyway
[speaker002:] and yeah I had to drive to the store yeah I had to drive to the store with paper towels all over my hands to go buy some paint thinner and right back and everything like that and then um
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] uh downstairs in the in the apartment I just used we just used a latex base and so you can drip it on you know if you dripped it on something as long as you wiped it up it was real easy to clean up
[speaker001:] oh is that what you usually use in the house is latex
[speaker002:] yeah and and it it just like the same with the toys it's just important to look for one that doesn't have lead in it you know it says safe for children and all that
[speaker001:] hm uh-huh yeah heard about that I guess a friend of mine had a uh um well she she just started up a day care center and uh and the one of the real strict uh restrictions was the fact that she had to have a special kind of paint that was fire proof and lead free and all that other good stuff
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so uh she had that done but uh
[speaker002:] have you painted anything recently
[speaker001:] well um so to speak I had to paint this uh the inside of this warehouse thing uh that you keep some um farm equipment in
[speaker002:] wow was it huge uh-huh
[speaker001:] and um what I had to do is just coat this bare wood with a sealer and uh I had this big five gallon jug and it was like paint thinner I mean I you know it looked just like it was the viscosity of paint thinner
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh you just took a roller and put it on there and uh if you saw that the wood was getting wet you know that was that was all you needed so
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] yeah it was it used all of it I guess it was about three hundred yards worth so well I guess it worked out it was pretty easy actually
[speaker002:] yeah I think though um we're lucky that we didn't have to do any detail work because I don't know if I could you know I don't know I don't know must be difficult
[speaker001:] well what about the trim in your house did you have to do that
[speaker002:] no it was just it was really easy I just like what I we had a couple of different size brushes and it was
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know real easy I went around the trim and if it and there was wallpaper like I was doing just doing just the trim of the around the doors and windows and there was wallpaper and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] if we got it on the wallpaper a little bit we just wipe it right away before it dried it came right off so there was no major mistakes there was
[speaker001:] oh yeah did you have uh one coat or two
[speaker002:] uh two actually um and it there was um you know around the windows if you got it on the glass we let it dry and scraped it after that but that
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah that would be really time a a time saver
[speaker002:] well yeah if you just you know we didn't tape anything we weren't that careful but it wasn't you know I don't know it's it's funny it's like if you just go slow you don't get or at least I didn't get that many mistakes I didn't make that many mistakes
[speaker001:] um-hum oh me I would've had to have taped the whole thing and then brushed around the edges and and then I'd have probably rolled it on I'd uh it would've taken me forever
[speaker002:] why just because you'd be afraid to do it or have you done it before
[speaker001:] yeah well the first time it'd probably would've tooken me forever so
[speaker002:] well it wasn't if it was my own I would've but my friend said oh just go ahead you just go ahead it's easy I said okay it's your place
[speaker001:] well how long did it take y'all
[speaker002:] well a couple of weekends we would go down two or three hours on the weekends and
[speaker001:] um-hum so there was two of y'all
[speaker002:] no there was they were doing all sorts of repairs and there was I was just painting because I don't know how to do anything else so there's a whole bunch of people yeah
[speaker001:] well that's easy enough um
[speaker002:] so now I feel like if I ever buy a house I can probably paint if nothing else
[speaker001:] I think I could probably do it uh as long as the hardware store told me what to buy then I could do it
[speaker002:] yeah but you know I went in to a hardware store to get paint for those toys and the guy said oh get this it's a nice shiny gloss which was true but I didn't realize what you know a pain it is to clean the brushes and everything if you don't have latex I don't know if it's worth the shine
[speaker001:] um-hum