Before. After.

The top of the triple second-floor windows on the Great North Wall. It would have been SO easy to just paint over the old cruddy paint. But nooooooooooooooooo. Insane Ross had to…

 

…do all this friggin’ work in zillion degree heat to make it all perty. And you can’t even see this work from ground level. Sheesh. What am I gonna do with Insane Ross?

 

 

14 Comments

  1. pk on July 23, 2017 at 7:20 pm

    God bless insane Ross! It looks beautiful and you could never have lived with yourself otherwise.

  2. Tony Bianchini on July 23, 2017 at 7:24 pm

    What PK said.

  3. Chris on July 23, 2017 at 7:28 pm

    People in the future are going to wish they had a time machine to go back in time and kiss Insane Ross.

    • MIke on July 23, 2017 at 9:27 pm

      🙂

  4. Rhonda@Homer Ridge on July 23, 2017 at 7:39 pm

    I say give Insane Ross something he really is wishing for. He deserves a reward for a job above and beyond well done!

  5. Seth Hoffman on July 23, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    That looks great, Ross! I wholeheartedly endorse your logical insanity!

  6. Sandra Lee on July 23, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    The result is so beautiful and I echo PK that you could not have lived with yourself.

  7. Suzanne on July 23, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    A job done properly! Look at that lustrous, smooth paint; a joy to behold. And WE all see it (of course we aren’t the person doing the painting!)

    • June on July 24, 2017 at 5:09 pm

      The best part apart this job properly done is that it will last much longer and will be worth it when it does not need redone in 4 years. Great work!

  8. Derek Walvoord on July 24, 2017 at 9:07 am

    Keep whispering the soothing words to Insane Ross. Keep up the good work!

  9. Jakob on July 24, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    Was this by scraper or grinder, and if the latter, how do you take care not to gouge the wood?

    • Ross on July 24, 2017 at 7:09 pm

      Both. I used a grinder (disk sander) for most of it, and scarier for the parts the sander can’t reach.

      CAUTION is the operative word!

  10. Sue C. on July 25, 2017 at 12:44 am

    It looks beautiful, Ross!

  11. Karyn Semple on May 21, 2020 at 1:22 am

    I love the attention and care you pay to every little detail of this house! I am dying to jump ahead to see what state the house is in now in 2020, but at the same time, I stick with inching along each post just like you’ve done with all the little bits of restoration because it’s just so satisfying to see these little details up close.

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