After 3 years of having our "Maintance Free" cabin at Bear Lake; we noticed that our hardy board was chipping. It was supposed to have a 12 year not touch guarantee. We paid the extra money so that we would NOT have to repaint every 3-5 years! So we were given 5 gallons of primer and 5 gallons of stain. That was our warrantee after the first year. So we bought a power washer to remove the chipped stain. The picture shows that it stripped it almost all off. While we were waiting for it to completely dry, Scott tried to repair a broken window thanks to a crazy golfer hitting a range ball down the wrong way on the golf course. What was supposed to take about 1/2 hour, ended up taking 3 hours to repair. They had given us the wrong size window and Scott ended up breaking the new one also by trying to "shove" it in the opening. So time wasted and we have another broken window!
Matt and Irene came up to help us. Thank goodness that they did! Here they are applying the primer with the help of a lifter that we rented for the weekend. The sprayer that we had bought didn't work; so every coat of primer and stain had to be hand applied.
The stain needed probably 4 or 5 coats to make it as dark as the original color! We ended up only applying 3 coats before we ran out of time. We clocked 17 hours of use time on the lift.
While Matt and Irene were up on the wall, Grandpa and Owen went looking for golf balls. In just a short time they had collected over 35 balls! Thanks again Matt and Irene for taking your ENTIRE weekend to help us.! Next weekend....another 2 coats of stain will have to be applied! All to a wall that was supposed to be hands off!
2 comments:
You're welcome. I'm glad that we could come and help. It was needed. And, we'll have to come up to see the new kitchen set in the play room. Olivia will love it!!
Just let me say that I am completely GREEN with envy for your maintainence free cabin. MEMORIES!
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