Wed
Apr
16
2008
It is finished
It’s done.
A small victory, to be sure, but a satisfying one.
We came away on long service leave with a couple of large-ish jobs to do, the first was painting the outside of the house.
And it’s done. Well, the house is. The standalone garage is not, but that will get it’s paint job after I replace the roof and do a partial re-clad on it. But the house is done.
Amongst other activity (like installing two sets of French doors), it’s taken 16 days. It was a bit longer than I had hoped, but we had to work around the weather. Autumn in the upper Blue Mountains is not the optimum time to do outside painting – it’s a battle against temperature and rain/wind. Still. it wasn’t really a hardship, having to wait until 9:30-10am each day for it to be warm enough to start painting. ;-)
But it leads me to ponder a small point: How do house painters make a living in parts of the world that have a serious winter? I mean, places like Canada, parts of the USA, Europe, etc all have long and often very cold winters that would make outside work like painting totally impossible.
So are house painters seasonal workers in those places? And if so, how do they make a living in the cold months?
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My brother lived in Colorado and did landscaping. Of course the ground is frozen for much of the year. He had a very short frenzied working season and needed another job for the rest of the year. In Australia we assume you can work all year round. I guess they do a lot of interior painting in the colder months in other parts of the world.
— Steven Nicholson · May 7, 07:15 PM · #