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Are those water lines? The off-white one looks like an electric cable, which I don’t like (potential for it to rub against the edge of the hole and wear the insulator).
Are those water lines? The off-white one looks like an electric cable, which I don’t like (potential for it to rub against the edge of the hole and wear the insulator).
And this assumes you have storage space, which not everyone has.
Making money and accumulating power. Duh.
The American churches have sold their soul for a mess of pottage.
There’s no rule that says a dog can’t be a commentator.
I don’t give it (him?) one.
A hidden hero.
$83 a tin. What makes it worth that?
I don’t think it matters which color samples you get. Everyone has to be able to reproduce everyone else’s colors. The only differences might be that if you use a different company’s color samples, then it takes them a little bit more work to do the color match, rather than simply giving them their company’s name for a color; and you may get a guarantee on the color if you use their own colors.
As a DIY homeowner that paints maybe a room a year on average, my current favorite paint is HGTV Home Showcase by Sherwin Williams, available from Lowes for about $50 a tin. It has a red label. It’s a small step up from the cheapest, but it’s still far from the most expensive; but it seems to me that the gain in quality that you get from paying a bit more than the cheapest is much more than you would expect, so it’s got a great quality-to-price ratio. With the cheapest paint, you have to work to get it on the walls smoothly, but this goes on nicely.
This is all great advice! I would add:
I take it back… it’s 5 minute mud. Sounds like an insanely short working time, but it’s just to take care of only a few little dents in a small area, and it gives you very fast turnaround.
For the odd small drywall repair around the house, I like to keep on hand a small packet of 15 minute mud powder. You can mix up a little, apply it, and then sand and apply another coat soon after, so you can get the whole job done in an afternoon. And it never goes bad.
Yeah, gotta be wary of those sinister people…