Of course, you could use a ladder to paint your house, but you will look as stupid as the brothers laugh and it will take years to do the job.
But the scaffolding looks pretty big to do a little painting, huh?
A large team of men packing your home in modern art, demanding tea every ten minutes - not so! The scaffold towers is a story much better.
Legends of DIY need today is an aluminum scaffold. Not only are tons more convenient, but you can also look more professional and has something very special to brag about in bars.
Aluminium Scaffold Towers Fast and easy to use
Britain's most respected and widely used scaffold tower boss, who has a color-coded click-belt, skirting boards, wheels and stabilizers.
It's like a giant meccano and gives 30 to 60 minutes of construction time sublime.
On the right, the work by hand.
Mission: paint your house
Nothing makes your home is better than fresh paint. This is one of the most skilled jobs that can really be. Like anything worthwhile, it's worth. It is best to choose a summer day, a typical English - cloudy and not too hot - so do not burn your paint job and lasts much longer.
It will probably work at least on weekends. Obviously, the more hands you have on the bridge, the less time it takes, the more fun it becomes - may want to consider hiring two towers of scaffolding to both walls at once.
House Painting Shopping List
(1) Hire scaffold aluminum tower (41 000 persons year-end in the hospital after falling from a ladder - this is a breeze!)
(2) with a wire brush
(3) Sandpaper
(4) of water - a stream of water at high pressure would be ideal if you can get your hands on one
(5) Glasses
(6) Mask
(7) Exterior Primer
(8) Exterior Paint
(9) Brushes / rollers
(10), dust sheets / plates old (emphasis on old!): Covers everything that you do not want to paint (if you have no intention of painting systems, and the path of the car close)
(11) If you use oil-based paint is needed to remove Splodge white spirit and stroke, painting with water use, water.
(12) screwdriver - to remove the furniture.
(13) big bottle of water in the scaffold tower and a 6-pack in the fridge.
Hightower
If you have a two-story house, you should take a 5.2-meter tower. It is a broad platform to cover the largest area of the wall to reach the air and play a game of risk. Save your life and save time by using the tower rack in aluminum!
The boss of aluminum scaffolding comes with a guide silly "you can pretend to ignore (and read carefully when nobody is looking). No experience or special tools are needed to build it, there is no need to know your neighbors, however.
Cleaning
Arm yourself with goggles, mask, and marigolds (optional).
Build your tower of scaffolding and working from top to bottom, clean the surface of the painting to get rid of flakey, peeling or cracking of the paint on the old nails, scrub mold, fix that nothing should be corrected. Secure in his staging, his wire brush and eye-catching high-pressure hose can handle much suffering home care a little cleaning.
Painting the walls
... Not a car, windows, plants, the path of a nearby pond. Cover as much as possible dust sheets, or you spend a lot of time on your hands and knees, dry spots where you could sit and enjoy a beer.
The purchase of paint already!?
Yup. Get painting! Make sure you have enough paint for the area you want covered. Get your hat on mathematics to understand the dimensions, not to mention the gables, doors and windows and gutters, so the handsome man in the shop can tell you how much paint to buy. Most hardware stores will refund unopened boxes, so do not be shy!
Preparation
Mix with a number of cans, you are exactly the same on each side.
If time does not add to your weekend painting and the sun makes a rare visit this summer, after the paint, after the sun so you can work in shade and sun, the drywall with no problems. Only a break when you have the whole wall. This is where the tower comes into its own scaffolding.
Not only will you paint a lot faster, you can avoid rushing up and down a rating scale of things and increasingly stressed that the paint is dry, without you.
Brush or roller?
The rollers are the way forward for large areas of the wall, but the use of the brush to sort out the quirks. Keep working from top to bottom, even if you have the end in sight, and you do the fiddly bits - and the main door is drying on the grass, because someone else has finally offered their help.
Painting your home is a great job, no doubt, but the satisfaction of both of you know, when it was worth it. A little 'house-building rack-owner relationship makes you happy and surprised everyone on the street to do the same.
Do not forget to take a picture of you in the tower scaffold, paintbrush in hand and a big smile "I did it!"
