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In a message dated 9/2/2004 9:20:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Total
painting bill for my (wife's) 2 story 95% shingled house is $24,000.
Really should be done every five years, but I stretch it out to ten.
It's been about 12 since I had mine done, and it's needed it for
several years, too. Have to replace front wooden gutters now,
all have been previously patched, fascia board going in spots now, too, G-d
knows what else going on behind. Fix it and get it over
with.
One carpenter said "if it was my house, I'd use this new
Azek stuff", kind of a plastic thing, integrally white (not clear how to
conceal nail holes). For what? A deck, or is he offering to
reskin your entire house with this plastic shit that was invented last
Tuesday? Yeah, that would be a pretty cheap, alternative to spot
repairs, alright. Go for it. Better living
through chemistry and all that. Stuff's probably made of
recycled Clorox bottles, so it's good for the
Ecostructure. Just try to get rid of
the scrap, or stand downwind when God strikes it with lightning. Went
to local lumberyard (the one where the poodle becomes inexplicably panic
stricken in plumbing and electrical sections). Smart dog.
You should listen to him/her/it more often. Looked at Azek.
Thinking of $24,000 painting bill it ... looked pretty
good. Think again, Einstein. The only alternative to doing
things the right way is to do them wrong. Call it differently if you
want, but you know the truth. The only alternative to using the right
materials, which will be durable and give you good value for your money, is
inferior materials. If you don't believe that, look at all
the houses around you where knotty lumber has been used instead of clear,
and where the nails are rusting. Skeptical-appearing lumber guy said only
complaints he's had is that, over long sections of clapboard, it expands in
the heat. So that's all he's heard since he started selling it
last week, huh? Must be pretty good stuff. God knows real wood isn't subject
to thermal expansion over long runs. [May have undermined my argument there,
but so what.] Advise you have wife's entire house reclad in this plastic
shit, and be the first one on your/her Damn Female Island to experiment
with it. Be sure to let us know how it performs over the decades,
years, months, weeks, and days to come. If it lasts that
long. Or if paint applied to it lasts that long. Or sticks at
all. We'll look forward to every whiny,
self-flagellating word.
So, what's wrong with it?
Try it and find out. Sucker.
Christopher
Mr. Flexible (and peeling)
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