Score! When I came down to swap clothes to dryer, the other washer was free, so I put new batch in empty washer, kept clothes in finished washer, went up and got more dirty clothes, and took possession of all working washers!! Good thing I had stash of quarters. I may just get all my laundry washed today. Dunno about fold n hang, but at least it will all be clean!
I fell down and got confused. Willow fixed me. She's gay.
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Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
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omnis_audis - Mar 03, 2012 11:21:26 am PST #9042 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
javachik - Mar 03, 2012 11:25:34 am PST #9043 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh, okay! I would go nuts not knowing and I totally admire you for your patience. And you should go ahead and dream about what you want! The entire time I was renting my place, I was composing my "what I'd do if I bought the place" list!
sj - Mar 03, 2012 12:06:22 pm PST #9044 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We went to look at paint today and I took a bunch of those little sample papers home. I think we're going to go with the low VOC paint rather than milk paint. Someone told me that the milk paint isn't good in bathrooms or anywhere with a lot of moisture, fwiw.
Who can tell me about taking down wallpaper. Do we have to rent a steamer or are their other ways of getting wallpaper down? Someone mentioned using fabric softener, does that really work?
DebetEsse - Mar 03, 2012 12:24:32 pm PST #9045 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Someone mentioned using fabric softener, does that really work?
As an anecdata point, I have used it successfully on one occasion.
omnis_audis - Mar 03, 2012 12:57:08 pm PST #9046 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Oh, okay! I would go nuts not knowing and I totally admire you for your patience. And you should go ahead and dream about what you want! The entire time I was renting my place, I was composing my "what I'd do if I bought the place" list!
I am going nuts!!!! But one thing that helped was the crazy of past few weeks would have been double hell if I had to do inspections and paperwork and move stuff.
Ginger - Mar 03, 2012 1:13:56 pm PST #9047 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Who can tell me about taking down wallpaper.
This is my approach, for what it's worth:
1) If it's paper rather than vinyl and not showing any signs of peeling, you can paint or paper over it
2)Some wallpaper will just peel off, particularly if it's something like vinyl and the drywall was primed. (A friend had a parrot who managed to do this to the wallpaper of an apartment bathroom. I don't know if you can rent a paper-peeling parrot.)
3) Use a liquid or gel wallpaper solvent. If it doesn't soak into the paper, you have to get a gadget with little teeth to score the surface.
4) If nothing works, rent a steamer.
If the paper on the drywall comes off, some idiot didn't prime the wall and you're screwed. I've been known to put a skim coat of drywall mud over it anyway. This is not ideal, and I've never been able to do a really smooth coat.
I've only had to go through step 3 so far, so I don't know about steamers.
sj - Mar 03, 2012 1:24:41 pm PST #9048 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Ginger. I'll keep all that in mind.
1) If it's paper rather than vinyl and not showing any signs of peeling, you can paint or paper over it
It's half down in spots already, so it is definitely going to have to be taken down. We're painting, not re-papering. I'm also hoping this means it won't be hard to get the rest of it down.
Ginger - Mar 03, 2012 1:34:03 pm PST #9049 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
In that case, it may just peel off.
sj - Mar 03, 2012 1:36:03 pm PST #9050 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
In that case, it may just peel off.
I am hoping so. We just did some googling and TCG just discovered the wonder of diy videos available online.
Ginger - Mar 03, 2012 2:20:39 pm PST #9051 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Peeling wallpaper is oddly mesmerizing.