After fixing the siding by the back door, I got the “brilliant” (sarcasm quotes) idea to do the west side of the garage. At first, I thought I could get away with just the bottom four courses of siding, but I looked at the rest, and it had a few small areas of loose paint, and then I thought about sun fading because I’d had the colour matched to paint that doesn’t bake in the sun, so I thought, “Go big or stay home!” Oh, foolish me. 

It took 4.5 hours to scrape and wash down that side. It would’ve been faster if I could have used the pressure washer, but so much of the hardboard was exposed by the time I removed the loose paint that I thought it would be unwise. Plus, I don’t have many days suitable for painting left this year, and it would take longer to dry. So, I wiped it down with bleach, PineSol, and hot water. For the record, I don’t know what coreids  use to stick their eggs to surfaces, but if we could synthesize it, the super glue industry would be in trouble. 

Scraped and partially washed. Saturday morning. 

Primed. Saturday afternoon. Had to move the gutter downspouts. 

Better view without so much sun. 

This morning, I started as soon as it hit 50 degrees, migraine or no migraine! I used Old Kitteh’s “Love Story” for the first coat. It’s close enough, and paint isn’t cheap,so I’m using it whenever I can. 

I did the trim, and by then, the paint was dry enough to caulk the bottom board (I’ll replace the rest when I can) and that stupid dog door. Who the hell chops a big,open hole in the side of a garage for a dog…ON THE SIDE THAT GETS ALL OF THE WIND AND RAIN? Anyway, I thought about fixing it better, but I don’t have time this year, so I just caulked it with paintable latex and called it good for now. I should have caulked it first, but didn’t realize how bad it looked until I had nice, new paint instead of sun-faded, scabrous, peeling paint. I got good paint, so I think one coat will be fine over it. 

I’ll (hopefully) do the last coat after work tomorrow, then put the downspouts back in place. Another Parview project completed (lots left to go)!