Well, we officially started painting the rest of our house.
Thursday and Friday evenings were spent prepping and taping off, and Saturday was a painting day. Steph helped roll on the paint in the well ventilated areas, but had to quit when she got to the entryway. We made it about halfway around the front of the house by dusk... but we still need to go back and touch up quite a few spots. I think we can get by with just touching up rather than doing a full second coat.
I continued painting Sunday afternoon, but it soon became apparent that we needed more paint. Steph loaded Noah into her car and tried to set off for the hardware store... but the car wouldn't start. It would just turn over slowly and then make this awful clicking noise. My first instinct was battery, but why was it making those clicking noises. I grabbed my jumper cables hooked them up to my pickup, and was able to get the car started; so at least we know it is the battery. Her car needs new tires anyway, so I guess we will just get a battery at the same time...
With the Passat out of commission, Steph and Noah took my pickup to the hardware store, and returned with three gallons of 'Choco-Sweet' colored paint - the same color we had purchased before. I finally broke into the new paint around 6:00, and quickly discovered that it was most definitely not the same color... argh! I'm hoping the hardware store will be able to remix the new paint to match the old paint - I even have the original stir-stick for them to reference if they need.
Once I get things squared away here at work, it's off to the tire store and the hardware store for me... I just wonder what else can go wrong!
Posted by jethro at September 26, 2005 08:03 AMI hadn't read this when I e-mailed you today, Jeff. Were you able to get things straightened out?
Posted by: Mom at September 26, 2005 05:32 PM4 new tires, 1 new battery, 1 alignment... the car drives better, but I haven't had a priceless moment with this scenario yet...
As for the paint, I took everything back and showed them the stir stick I had used with the original 5 gallons. After some trooble-shooting, it was determined that whoever mixed the first batch of paint used the wrong 'base' paint to start with. They were supposed to use a 'tint' base, but instead used a 'pastel' base. 'Choco-Sweet' with the pastel bass ends up looking like another color on the same brochure, 'Cityscape'; which is a little bit lighter and doesn't have as much brown to it - it is pretty much just gray.
The nice thing is that True Value swapped out the 3 gallons at no charge since it was their fault that the original batch was mixed wrong.
So there is a happy ending... and we were able to get quite a bit of painting done today. I need to finish the touch-up and then hopefully I will have enough nice weather on Wednesday to get the Dutch gables... we'll see.
Posted by: Jeff at September 26, 2005 06:48 PMClicking noises: Common symptom with low battery voltage. Trust me I have heard those clicks too many times! Now let's just hope that there is nothing wrong with the charging system.
NEVER! wonder what else could go wrong!!
Glad to see they got the paint sorted...
Posted by: Rich R at September 28, 2005 12:26 PM