Tap tap tap.

[postman]

Tapping to keep my cool.I am decorating the attic bedroom.It has gone from sky blue to a nice shade of lilac and siver grey woodwork.i have given it three coats.I have put back some of the furniture,put up a message board and re screwed the bookcase to the wall so it does not fall forward.
i have also returned some paint to Homebase for a refund,i always buy extra,just incase.
So whay happens after tea.Eldest daughter and my wife return from Homebase with a new ceiling lamp,one of those spotlight jobbies.
I don't believe this they want me to change the lights over tomorrow,after i have finished .trouble is it is a smaller fitting i am going to have to drill two new holes, paint and old plaster will show.I don't effing understand why this was not bought BEFORE i painted the soddin ceiling.i don't believe it.Just when i thought i could relax.

 

[roadrash]

are you married to my wife by any chance

 

[vernon]

It's a five minute job get over it.

Compare and contrast...

One of the rooms in our house has two doors, an arched doorway to the kitchen , a circular window, a bay window, two alcoves - one of them arched and a chimney breast. There's only one full strip of wall paper that can applied without having to trim one side or another i.e. apart from length, no two pieces or wallpaper are identical. Having picked a wallpaper to her satisfaction, my wife waited until I'd stripped the room, applied lining paper and completed the paper hanging before she discovered that she couldn't get matching curtains and asked me to repaper the room.

Now that's something to lose your cool over but I didn't.

I advised her to employ the services of a professional decorator as I was unavailable for the next few years. To her credit, she followed my advice and had Anaglypta applied and emulsioned.

Once the job was done and she'd paid the decorator and he'd left, she then declared that he hadn't done as good a job as me.

That's when I lost my cool.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I hate decorating, I'm working on my through lounge at the moment and would rather be doing something else, the room is 24ftx16ft and its the first time I've decorated it so I've had some surprises.

 

[swansonj]

I don't believe this they want me to change the lights over tomorrow,after i have finished .trouble is it is a smaller fitting i am going to have to drill two new holes, paint and old plaster will show.I don't effing understand why this was not bought BEFORE i painted the soddin ceiling.i don't believe it.Just when i thought i could relax.

Mount the new light onto a pad of mdf or something just big enough to cover the unpainted area of old plaster that was previously covered by the old light. That way, you only need to paint the pad, which you can do at leisure at ground level. There will be no ugly join between yesterday's paint and today's paint on the plaster, and everyone will congratulate you on your design flair.