1. Sand windowsill back to bare wood, admire smooth surface, wash with sugar soap, rinse, leave to dry. Smug feeling.
2. Apply 2 coats primer / undercoat. Looking good. Still smug.
3. Wipe any dust etc off the dry sill and ensure window shut, so no possibility of airborne particles, fallen leaves, sudden cats, dust.
4. Apply one coat Homebase white gloss with Harris no-loss brush.
5. Too little means streaky overspreading; too much means pool of gloss, now dripping off rounded edge of sill.
6. Bubbles forming in paint.
7. Lightly smooth brush through paint to deal with bubbles and even out coverage. Still optimistic.
8. All dust in room now attracted to windowsill.
9. Seemingly, the dust from the formation of the universe has waited until this moment to land on your windowsill.
10. Drip lines now forming on edge of sill. Run brush along lengthways…
11. Wet paint, now somehow drying too fast. Wet…but dry. How?
12. More corrective action with brush, leaving marks.
13. Put brush in white spirit, leave room, in hope that pool of gloss will somehow even itself out.
14. So bubbles and dust trapped in paint.
15. Chemical “high” from paint fumes lasts up to a week, have interesting dreams.
16. Leave to dry for many days, since instructions on tin are not to be believed.
17. Repeat process, having wiped the sill free of dust before second coat.
18. Some hope. View dust, bubble and drip line variety of textures with feeling of despair.
19. Will be hidden by curtains anyway.
20. Allow no object to be placed on the sill for at least 6 months. If then.
Am I paying for past sins? Wrong paint? Wrong brush? Any of this ring a bell with anyone?
2. Apply 2 coats primer / undercoat. Looking good. Still smug.
3. Wipe any dust etc off the dry sill and ensure window shut, so no possibility of airborne particles, fallen leaves, sudden cats, dust.
4. Apply one coat Homebase white gloss with Harris no-loss brush.
5. Too little means streaky overspreading; too much means pool of gloss, now dripping off rounded edge of sill.
6. Bubbles forming in paint.
7. Lightly smooth brush through paint to deal with bubbles and even out coverage. Still optimistic.
8. All dust in room now attracted to windowsill.
9. Seemingly, the dust from the formation of the universe has waited until this moment to land on your windowsill.
10. Drip lines now forming on edge of sill. Run brush along lengthways…
11. Wet paint, now somehow drying too fast. Wet…but dry. How?
12. More corrective action with brush, leaving marks.
13. Put brush in white spirit, leave room, in hope that pool of gloss will somehow even itself out.
14. So bubbles and dust trapped in paint.
15. Chemical “high” from paint fumes lasts up to a week, have interesting dreams.
16. Leave to dry for many days, since instructions on tin are not to be believed.
17. Repeat process, having wiped the sill free of dust before second coat.
18. Some hope. View dust, bubble and drip line variety of textures with feeling of despair.
19. Will be hidden by curtains anyway.
20. Allow no object to be placed on the sill for at least 6 months. If then.
Am I paying for past sins? Wrong paint? Wrong brush? Any of this ring a bell with anyone?
