Wtf? I said don’t let him.

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I KNOW I told my brother dozens of times not to let our father do any painting in his place he’s renovating before moving in *because* he cannot paint.

He means well and wants to help, but he’s a steel stud framer, not a painter. He’s never had an eye for it and it’s only gotten worse since cancer treatments.

Now we have a super blotchy hit and miss primer job all over the main ceiling and it’s making everything a pita to see deficiencies to fix. :/

Frustrating waste of time as someone is going to have to paint it again, maybe even before I can do touch ups/repairs etc.

Kinda hard to tell the old man “No thanks, your help isn’t helping when it comes to paint.”

Irritating to have to drag this out over more weeks/weekends when I very specifically told him “He cannot paint. So not let him do it. It will make things worse.” Etc.

But whatever, is what it is now.. nothing we can do about it but roll with it and get someone else to fix it.

Still just felt like bitching. :p

Lessons:

Listen to ppl when they tell you a contractor, friend, or family member’s limitations. And then either do it yourself, pick a competent friend or family member, or hire a professional.. because fixing someone else’ f ups is a colossal waste of time AND when they’re family you can’t really complain too much or get mad at them. Grrrr.. *sigh* carrying on with demolition cleanup for now, then I’ll hop up and see how bad the ceiling is when I try to mark it up with an aluminum straight edge & make plans with the homeowners to start the fixy fixy repair process tomorrow.

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Well that does sound frustrating...

Your brother should have given a task that would feel like helping but that if he messed it up, it wouldn't cause an additional problem.

..turns out it wasn't him that did that ceiling - it was mom! And she knows how to paint walls quite well, but has maybe ~never done ceilings?

A few other things were done incorrectly, too. Like I told them Do Not do any touch ups - they have to be done After primer. What did they do? Touch ups before primer. What does it look like? Crap. It's fixable but such a waste of time to go find everywhere they did this crap.

Hard to control everything that free help does I guess. Silver lining with the ceiling is that it has to be coated a few more times with different materials to take the convex waves out of the concrete profile, so it'll need to be redone.

Also, I think now that they've seen what inexperienced free help does they're going to give some of it a go themselves / with me - and if we can do WAY better, we'll do it all. And if we can't, we'll be able to tell and then they'll simply hire a couple professional painters we know and spend some money. No sense in spending all this money on a place and renovation and then pinch pennies on finishing and have a crappy paint job - especially when so much of the renovation is all volunteer labour, anyways. Save $ on all the things you can do well yourself, spend $ on the ones you can't. (I have very little experience painting and don't like to paint because it takes a lot of practice to get as good as I'd like a wall and ceiling to look.)

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Was just venting in this thread. Obviously we can't b***h and complain to them about it - it's not going to do any good or change anything that was done. So yeah, the 3 of us agreed we won't say anything and will just do it ourselves next step and see how that works out with a backup plan of hiring pros.

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