Can someone please explain why this happens?
While I am not a violent person (I've never been in a fight in my life), I feel as though I could strangle someone at the paint store right now. It seems very likely that all of our hard work over the last six weeks cleaning, sanding, scraping and priming the blue trim may have been completely in vain. So far as we can tell, now that we're approximately two thirds of the way finished with the trim, the primer never stuck to the blue paint.
Right after we bought the house, I took a drawer covered in blue paint to the paint store that everyone I respect recommended. They told me the blue was latex and that to paint it white we needed to sand the gloss off then prime it. We bought the materials they suggested to do the job, then spent virtually every waking moment at the house following their instructions to a T. We did this because it was going to cost nearly $1000 to have a professional strip and repaint all the trim. We thought with a little effort, we could save a lot of money. Paint is not so cheap, however, and we spent hundreds of dollars on paint that we may have to have stripped off before it really even has time to set up. So, to make a long story short, we should have been lazy bums in the first place and just paid someone to come strip the blue paint the week after we bought the house. We'd be out $1000 dollars, but neither would we have been so exhausted or cranky and irritated for the last month and a half. Emotional peace is suddenly worth so much more than the pride of having done it ourselves.
We're going to call the paint store in the morning and see what they say. Hopefully they'll agree to send someone over to see for themselves. Maybe we'll get really lucky and they'll tell us that it just needs more time to cure, but after at least one week and in some cases two, I seriously doubt that will be the case. They can refund our money for the primer and possibly even for the paint that went on top of the primer, but how will they refund our time and effort?
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On a lighter note, the floor guys start tomorrow. They came in on Friday to repair the fake fireplace and floor furnace holes. They seem to have done a good job. Come next Friday afternoon, we should know how we stand about our move in date.
Right after we bought the house, I took a drawer covered in blue paint to the paint store that everyone I respect recommended. They told me the blue was latex and that to paint it white we needed to sand the gloss off then prime it. We bought the materials they suggested to do the job, then spent virtually every waking moment at the house following their instructions to a T. We did this because it was going to cost nearly $1000 to have a professional strip and repaint all the trim. We thought with a little effort, we could save a lot of money. Paint is not so cheap, however, and we spent hundreds of dollars on paint that we may have to have stripped off before it really even has time to set up. So, to make a long story short, we should have been lazy bums in the first place and just paid someone to come strip the blue paint the week after we bought the house. We'd be out $1000 dollars, but neither would we have been so exhausted or cranky and irritated for the last month and a half. Emotional peace is suddenly worth so much more than the pride of having done it ourselves.
We're going to call the paint store in the morning and see what they say. Hopefully they'll agree to send someone over to see for themselves. Maybe we'll get really lucky and they'll tell us that it just needs more time to cure, but after at least one week and in some cases two, I seriously doubt that will be the case. They can refund our money for the primer and possibly even for the paint that went on top of the primer, but how will they refund our time and effort?
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On a lighter note, the floor guys start tomorrow. They came in on Friday to repair the fake fireplace and floor furnace holes. They seem to have done a good job. Come next Friday afternoon, we should know how we stand about our move in date.
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