What? No problems?
I gotta say, this journal's getting pretty boring. I mean, isn't anyone having any technical problems lately? Or are there so many that no-one can get online to whine and complain about them?

Here's a technical problem... how do you get 7 layers of both oil and latex paint off of a nice wood banister, to show the wood, when the person who originally painted it didn't use any primer?

Or... how do you erase big black stripes on a wall that were used to position wallpaper, when a pencil line would have been just fine?

Or... how do you paint over latex paint that's been painted over oil paint, so it's flaking everywhere?

I've discovered the joys of oil-based primer for the second question, and a combination of oil-based primer and sandpaper for the third. For the first? Toxic goo, metal scrapers, sandpaper, and a whole lot of elbow grease.

Ah, the joys of home ownership. Sigh.

P.S. For anyone who's painting - FIND OUT if you're painting over oil or latex FIRST, then prime with an oil-based primer before painting with latex. The next people who paint after you will not curse you then. Thanks. (Of course, the people who painted before me did the oil layer, too, so they knew the evil they were doing, or were just too lazy to inform themselves.)

Allison