My DH has decided to paint our dining room today, I'm due our first LO in four weeks and he didn't want me on a roller or a paint brush, so invited his mum up to paint. Now she's using her really old ratty paintbrush, slapping it on, leaving brush strokes and moulting bristles everywhere. She's also using a radiator roller brush a shaggy coated one instead of a proper roller that still has bits of previous painting efforts, this little roller of hers is not rolling properly so leaving streaks and it's not giving a smooth even coat. Her house is wallpapered [even the ceilings] as she hates painting so much.
Typical MiL she's rushing the job and not making an effort for it to be neat at all. It's going from white to a Sage Green and the wall that's dried looks bloody awful, I'm probably going to have to sand it smooth and give it two or three coats in the new year.
I am upstairs fuming at the moment, blood boiling and crying like a pathetic pregnant person who really wants to send MIL home and get on with it myself.
AIBU to expect someone to do a proper job and/or DH to let her know that she needs to be careful? I know I'm not paying her, and I avoid asking her for help as she always rushes and does a half-arsed job. I would rather have left it until the new year, once I've recovered a bit and done a proper job.
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kellestar · 13/11/2010 13:59
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