I am so tired, this paint job is taking forever.

Has to be quite an inconvenience but I suppose the end result will make it that much more worthwhile.

ohh....take some time to relax. i am sure at the end of everything you will be very gratified. =)

I recently had a project going where I was renovating an old doctor's office that a man I work for was leasing for another business he owns. It had not been used for a doctor's office for some time, and had recently been used as a Christian based homeless shelter. Unfortunately, the homeless people showed their gratitude for the building owner letting the shelter operate at his building RENT FREE, and for the people who were trying to help them better their lives by operating a shelter for them, by completely TRASHING this building. By the time I started this project, the homeless shelter had been closed, and it was my job to go in and clean it up, which meant pretty much a total renovation. I had to clean out all the stuff the homeless people had left behind. I won't mention some of the things I found, but there were sleeping bags, blankets, clothes, backpacks, and luggage everywhere...all of which smelled like sweat and piss. I also had to rip out all the carpet, which also smelled like sweat and piss. We then tore out a couple of walls and re-molded a couple of rooms. Then came the job of completely re-painting the entire interior and exterior of the building. I pressure-washed the outside of the building, and thankfully, someone else did the scraping and painting out there. My team focused on painting the inside. The man financing the project insisted on buying all the materials, and he also insisted that we NOT use any painter's tape to do the edging. The not taping it up part I could deal with, we edged using thin pieces of cardboard, and it actually worked pretty well. Painting the walls themselves went pretty quickly. They were "off-white" in color, and we just applied a fresh coat (actually TWO coats) of the same color paint to freshen it up. The walls took about three days. HOWEVER, the trim, chair rails, and door frames were all DARK BLUE, the the color that was chosen to re-paint them was WHITE, which wouldn't have been a real problem if the guy had bought a good primer like KILZ, but as you can probably guess, he DIDN'T buy the good stuff. He bought the cheapest primer (AND the cheapest white paint) he could find in a 5-gallon bucket and Wal-mart or somewhere like that. SIX (YES 6) coats of primer and THREE (3) coats of paint on all the ceiling trim, chair rails, and door frames later, we FINALLY got it looking right. Yes you read that correctly...NINE coats of primer and paint (did I mention we were edging with 2" brushes and cardboard) on EVERY piece of trim, chair rail, and door frame. I lost count on how many days this took, but we were putting a fresh coat on everything, then allowing it 24 hours to dry (we were working on this job in the evenings after working our restaurant job and on our days off), so as you can probably guess, this ending up taking a couple of WEEKS. Thank GOD we were getting paid by the hour. We made some decent money on the side, but it was annoying as hell...LOL