Painting a window

To my disadvantage I've realised it takes a lot of time to paint a window. Especially when you have to start from scratch. Burning the old paint off, adding the primer and then waiting for the right weather so the top coat can be done. My painting skills are not brilliant but the window looks good. In fact it is a blooming work or brilliant white art. Except for the odd insect which had decided to crawl over it while it was still tacky. Not to mention the occasional dark black bristle left embedded between the paint and the wood. Oh yes, and this evening after spending half an hour with a scraper scarping off the excess paint which ended up on the window and putty, I've now come to the conclusion it's going to need touching up. Just a little. So as to ensure the putty is resealed against future rain and it still shows as a brilliant white in places where it could do with just the little extra. In reality I should of put two coats of primer on top. Now reading the paint tin it indicates the paint will be good for another 5 years. With luck I expect it really means 10 years. All what is left now is two more windows and a fascia board at the front of the house. Unfortunately all these require the use of a ladder. So I might try and rope in the efforts of Long haired layabout boy. He doesn't know it yet. But he will when I'm about to get started.

It's amazing what you can learn though from doing something manual. A bit like the learning curve for putting in a bath. Manual things take time and effort. The co-ordination of mind and muscle. Or in my case mostly mind. But with perseverance they are things most people can actually get round to doing. Providing they have the inclination, patience and ability. Some people just don't have the ability because of age or some other unfortunate illness. However, if you can then you should. There's not a great many things which can go wrong with painting a window, except for breaking the window. But then if you're careful this isn't really so much an issue as the weather. Not forgetting the exercise. Being active nowadays is something we are all being told to do, finding reasons to be active for is the best way to combat fat gut syndrome. Except when you already have a fat gut then there's a lot more to it. Then unfortunately it's nothing like painting a window.