Once tried to paint my front door and fucked it up so badly that a professional had to sand it down. Cost me more than a workman would have done in the first place.
Once tried to paint my front door and fucked it up so badly that a professional had to sand it down. Cost me more than a workman would have done in the first place.
Where I live buying another door would be cheaper than having a pro show up at all. Travel pay already would be more than a door lol.
Success: Fully renovated (roof to floor) my detached garage entirely on my own in a single summer (zone 3b climate, so that’s a 5 month window before COLD) Including a fancied up tired cracked and pitted garage floor with a hard black tar basically. Built work benches myself too from scrap found at our local dump. They don’t care if you take things here so long as you aren’t being a dick and bringing attention to it. That and pallet scrounging. Saved lots. The white paint and new lights go a long way on their own vs the water stained browning 70’s drywall and 2 naked 60w bulbs for a 2.5 sized garage.
Failure: The worst isn’t so bad. An expensive computer had a lemon motherboard and it fried a lot of out of warranty reused parts plus an impossible to find GPU. Spent hours cramming it into a stylish mini case only for it to die a week later and kill a very expensive covid GPU.
Just be careful with the reused wood. You have no way of knowing what chemicals seeped into it.
Wear a proper mask when sanding or cutting it, and I’d proabably seal it with a few layers of Killz or something along those lines.
Good points for future reference, too late this time.