Rent one of those mutli-scissor parallel lift things and let it lift you to the ceiling instead of climbing a ladder - could even lie on your back like Michael Angelo . . .
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:24 AM, WILTON via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Re. limitations: It's most upsetting to me that I can't (there's a word > I've never used 'until recently) climb ladders any more. 'Needing some > repairs to plaster ceilings in at least 3 or 4 places around the house. > Painter I talked to for bid on repairs and painting can't seem to > understand what I've been trying to tell ''im 'bout the repairs. He > doesn't seem to realize that I know what the Hell I'm talking about. I did > a LOT of this stuff restoring two 1875 National Register of Historic Places > mansions here in town 30 years ago, plus a bunch to this house 25 years > ago. If I could get up there to the ceiling, I could repair them very > simply - reattach some loose plaster with drywall screws, dig out plaster > where the plaster is too bad for the screws, patch with drywall, fiberglass > tape and/or sheathing and joint compound and paint - the repairs disappear. > > Wilton > > >> -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
