Monday

 

We didn't quite finish the second cut in yesterday, but we finished it this morning.

There's a lot of detail on the front of the house.

A neighbor who recently had her house painted estimated that it would have cost $8,000 to have ours painted professionally.

I don't doubt it. 

We were slow but thorough.

I wouldn't paint someone's house like ours for less than $10,000, and they'd have to supply the paint and supplies.

It took us 18 days to pressure wash, scrape, spackle, prime, and paint two coats.

The next step is to work on the south side. We pressure washed it after lunch. We guessed that this would be the easiest side.

We scrubbed the gutter by hand to get the stains out.

Tomorrow, we plan to scrape any loose paint, fill cracks, and prime. John ordered a paint brush holder that goes on the end of our paint pole for cutting in at the roof peak since it's a bit out of reach of our ladder. It arrives tomorrow.