Sport and Utility Kilt makers- Uniform service

**Thorina** · 6th April 12, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Robert is too modest. Sounds like you're talking about the leather RKilt with cargo pockets. You'd make up the cost in laundry savings.

If it began to smell like my holster....YUCK....I'll spend the money to launder it!

**tundramanq** · 7th April 12, 10:57 AM

I paint with latex wearing my cotton t shirts and kilts and socks. I am pretty good at not getting to into my work -

- but I toss all but my shoes (and myself) into the washer to soak for a half hour and wash with detergent when I'm done cleaning brushes. Nothing has stuck - so far. I even reoil my porch kilted with shorter cotton kilts on, supposed to wait a half hour before you wipe the excess off anyway -

. Then I pre spot any oil splashes, wait and then launder - no sweat, no worry.
Used motor oil due to the high carbon black content is the only thing so far that dosen't fully come out. My oil change/grease monkey kilt is an old black Utilikilt Original - who cares -

**Thorina** · 7th April 12, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by tundramanq

I paint with latex wearing my cotton t shirts and kilts and socks. I am pretty good at not getting to into my work -

- but I toss all but my shoes (and myself) into the washer to soak for a half hour and wash with detergent when I'm done cleaning brushes. Nothing has stuck - so far. I even reoil my porch kilted with shorter cotton kilts on, supposed to wait a half hour before you wipe the excess off anyway -

. Then I pre spot any oil splashes, wait and then launder - no sweat, no worry.
Used motor oil due to the high carbon black content is the only thing so far that dosen't fully come out. My oil change/grease monkey kilt is an old black Utilikilt Original - who cares -

I am fairly certain that, especially with enamel, if painting in CA, I can splatter drops into Michigan.
I've had 70+ gallons of PVA and Swiss coffee to prove my point in this house alone.

Dainty is not my middle name.

**tundramanq** · 7th April 12, 02:27 PM

LOL Was helping a neighbor paint. I was on the ladder she was painting down low. Got done she was covered and I had spots from her brush - back, sides and shoes. - LOL Did I mention that my dad was a sign painter.
RE: jitters oh yes if you see double spaces, letters and transposed letters in my posts that I missed, Its coffee, tea or Sudafed. My touchpad stays turned off, the ddoubble touch is ugly.

**Thorina** · 7th April 12, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by tundramanq

LOL Was helping a neighbor paint. I was on the ladder she was painting down low. Got done she was covered and I had spots from her brush - back, sides and shoes. - LOL Did I mention that my dad was a sign painter.
RE: jitters oh yes if you see double spaces, letters and transposed letters in my posts that I missed, Its coffee, tea or Sudafed. My touchpad stays turned off, the ddoubble touch is ugly.

I used to do rental clean ups. Most of the painting I have done in my life has been for rentals. Accuracy was not as important as speed.

I was unemployed and the painters in the Bay Area wanted aweful amounts of $$. As it turns out, I did a better job (except messes) then they would have spraying 2 coats. It was 6 year old drywall texture that'd never been primered.....soaked up some serious amounts of paint. Took 4 coats (2 PVA 2 paint) just to get the chalkiness out of the walls. There's still a couple holidays here and there that you can't stick anything to.
The first coat of PVA was a total slop job. SOAK the roller....up down....soak the roller again. It'd suck it up that fast.

I still have 3 bathrooms and 2 livingroom ceilings to do.
White painters' pants and t shirt with booties and a rag on my head will be the way to go.
Even then....I'll get paint on me.

**tundramanq** · 7th April 12, 03:36 PM

First texturing got popular to cover up shoddy framing, drywalling amd mudding.
Second it's hard to paint as it is so porous - bare sheetrock absorbs very little in comparison.
Even though my ceilings are all 7 foot I used kitchen/bathroom semi gloss and a brush to scrub it in 15 years ago. Goes slow with long rests for the arm working overhead. Now I just wipe with a soapy towel about once a year. I smoke my pipe - we put just a touch of blue in the white paint to counter the yellow shifting tendency, can't tell its there but the ceiling is still white.

7 foot vs 8 foot ceilings save almost 15% on heating and cooling what is really unused insulated air space - unless you play pro basketball or like ceiling fans.

**Thorina** · 7th April 12, 04:37 PM

The high beam in the livingroom is close to 30'. Dual level livingroom with basically cathedral ceilings.
*Fun*.

I was right at the end of scaffold work when I tore my achilles last year. Thus, *just* the middle of the ceilings are not painted. The beams and everything around the edges are done, the walls....just not the very middle of both the upper and lower ceilings.
This house is freezing, except in the summer when it turns to a low boil.

Being the bay area, though....it can be 104 one day, and 52 the next in the summer.

I haven't smoked inside a home I've lived in for maybe 15 years. I smoke cigarettes, though, and they stink, besides being really bad for kids to be around.