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Painting 14 rooms in four days!!

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Kyriesmum1 · 30/11/2019 00:53

So while hubby is away with the three oldest dd's I have decided to paint 14 rooms of our new house in the four days he's away whilst still looking after an 8 mth old bubba! Am I crazy?? 😂

Anyway today was day one and I've done hallway and stairs. Was hoping to have started another room at least but I have prepped ready for a few hours time when bubba wakes up 🤪

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Kyriesmum1 · 03/12/2019 09:54

Afters x

Painting 14 rooms in four days!!
Painting 14 rooms in four days!!
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Kyriesmum1 · 03/12/2019 09:56

@AliciaFleas

I'm definitely paying someone after the plastering as I hate glossing and ceilings 😂

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Kyriesmum1 · 03/12/2019 10:01

@LazyFace

I always use dulux trade as I find its much better than cheaper varieties, what paint were you using?

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Kyriesmum1 · 03/12/2019 10:02

@PenelopeFlintstone

Your joy lazy I'm just crazy lol

My social worker refers to me as the Duracell bunny as I'm always busy!! 😂

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LazyFace · 03/12/2019 17:58

Dulux trade. 😀 But rooms were big and it needed 3 coats. Some of it had been done by builder (all of it was meant to but he fucked off not finishing the job).

666onmyhead · 03/12/2019 18:08

Bloody awesome effort @Kyriesmum1 ! Well done you !!

Ohdearme81 · 03/12/2019 18:10

Wow - you are akin to a Marathon runner in my eyes. Respect!

How come you have a social worker?

PickAChew · 03/12/2019 20:21

My shoulders and hands are smarting after seeing how much you've done.

I can't even use a full size roller any more so everything takes me ages :( I've found some amazing no grip paintbrushes that I've been using to varnish newly laid flooring, this week, though.

Painting 14 rooms in four days!!
MyKingdomForBrie · 03/12/2019 20:50

@MeTheCoolOne well many of the scuffs and knocks in the gloss work have disappeared between the before and after photos so I'm not sure why the derision really.. I would have responded earlier but you spelt the tag wrong.

OP I haven't finished one room that I've been working on for several months (cannot face the rest of the cutting in) so I am in awe.

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Kyriesmum1 · 04/12/2019 10:37

@Ohdearme81

We have a few social workers!

One who supports us for fostering
One who is supporting our application for adoption
And one for our disabled daughter

It's our fostering one who said I'm a Duracell bunny as she's known us two years and says every time she visits I've decorated or done a change around in the house 😂

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Southmouth · 04/12/2019 13:08

This is making me feel really lazy! I’ve been decorating my hallway for absolutely ages and I’m still not finished. I think I need to hire you Grin

PenelopeFlintstone · 04/12/2019 13:15

PickaChew I watched a YouTube video a while ago where a woman used a mini roller to paint a room. Average sized room.
It sounds like it would be really slow but one day I tried it with a pack of mini roller, tray and several heads from the Aldi decorating promotion. Cheap as chips.
I could not believe how easy it was. So light!! It really was very surprising to me. Yes, the roller is half the width but it’s light as a feather so not at all tiring. Might work for you.

MoonlightBonnet · 04/12/2019 13:23

The house is lovely, ours is similar age and features and I love it. Everything looks much better in the after pictures.

@MyKingdomForBrie is right though, the scuffs in the gloss work have gone in the after pictures in the hall. There’s also polyfilla in the pictures so someone has clearly been doing more than just slap a coat of paint on. And it’s madness to put an expensive new floor down if you were going to replaster! It looks lovely, doesn’t really matter if it was done in two hours or whatever.

ChardonnaysDistantCousin · 04/12/2019 13:29

Wow!

How did you manage all that and the floor?

PenelopeFlintstone · 04/12/2019 13:40

Is the hallway floor vinyl planks or from a roll of vinyl?

userxx · 04/12/2019 13:51

Bloody hell, my house has only 5 rooms and I still got someone in to decorate. Feel ashamed of myself now :)

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Kyriesmum1 · 04/12/2019 16:19

The marks in skirting were dirt so all wood work has been cleaned. The floor is vinyl tiles and we had to put it down as baby has started crawling and the floor wasn't suitable for her to be crawling over. It will be covered for the plastering and will eventually go through to the kitchen diner once the wall has been removed so if needed we can replace any damaged bits then.

I did also polyfiller the holes in places where nails phone sockets were removed. I used the polyfiller quick drying stuff and sanded it before painting. Didn't take long x

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Kyriesmum1 · 04/12/2019 16:33

Also we have officially become parents to the baby today!! New home new baby! Life couldn't get much better ❤️

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KitKat1985 · 04/12/2019 16:42

Congrats OP!

Even if you don't quite manage all 14 rooms in 4 days (which is really ambitious!) what you've done looks great!

FrancisCrawford · 04/12/2019 18:27

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avocuddl · 04/12/2019 22:35

Congrats OP! You're superwoman! Now go and relax!!

PickAChew · 04/12/2019 23:13

@PenelopeFlintstone I do use mini rollers. Used to use the Harris ones, but the quality dropped and I got sick of picking fluff out as I went along, but I've started ordering in the Purdy ones - a little bit longer and quite a lot more expensive but still very light. I have HMS, so break rooms down into sections and rarely spend more than 2-3 hours in a day painting.

It's only in the past few years that i started to find full size rollers too heavy - annoying since we moved into this scruffy, unloved house, 2 years ago and it still needs a lot of TLC!

PickAChew · 04/12/2019 23:16

Congratulations, @Kyriesmum1 !

PenelopeFlintstone · 05/12/2019 06:21

@PenelopeFlintstone I do use mini rollers.
Oh, good. 😊 It hadn’t occurred to me till I saw the video.

dudsville · 05/12/2019 07:15

Wow! I missed your updates so have only just caught up, you are fabulous op! Hope your blisters are healing up! Your family must be so pleased.

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