 Let the paint job wear off in 10 or 12 years and then leave it unpainted for a while? Won't take long at all in the Northwest to rot and cause damage that might even take the whole structure down at some point. Does that seem like a good comparison? But they say, but we can't. We're so busy patching potholes and spending money on that that we don't have the money or leftover or the time to be able to seal coat the roads so we never have to do the more serious repairs.