While we were in Wisconsin, one of the many goals was to replace the seam caulk, scrape lose paint and paint 2 sides of Mom’s house. Originally, I was thinking the front and end of the house. (We did the other end in 2024.)

Once we were home and looked more closely at the house, we decided that the back and end of the house needed to be done first. The back of the house receive more sunlight and faded quite a bit and had more lose paint.

We started with the back of the house which worked out great. John did the joint scraping and resealing with caulk. I did the scraping and painting in all the other areas. The best part is that I didn’t need John’s help to paint high up areas. Fortunately, we only had to put one coat of paint on most areas. Two coats were required where we scraped paint off or caulked. When done the house looked great. Woohoo. In total, it took us 4 days to complete the back of the house along with scraping ad painting the trip around the front and back door.

We took a few days off to relax and let our sore muscles recover. Plus, the weather forecasted rain..

About a week and half later, we started on the end of the house thinking “It’s smaller and won’t take as long” Well we were proven wrong. The end of the house had just as many seams as the back. And lots of paint issues.

When we were done, the paint had no visible issues. The next day there was white chalky areas and what looked like water drips… The end looked terrible!!!

I’m not sure what exactly went wrong. Everything had to be repainted… Before repainting, I stirred the paint for what seemed like 30 minutes. Maybe it was closer to an hour :-). The goal was to ensure mixing was not the issue. I then proceeded to repaint everything we did the first day. Then continued painting as high as I could reach. John did the upper 5 boards using an extension ladder.

I did have one oops. I was using a small plastic pail that had a plastic handle. While on the ladder, the handle came off and paint went everywhere. On me, the house, ladder, grass, cement part of the house, etc. It was a mess. Fortunately, I was wearing my old painting cloths :-). I had John contact Steve to inform him that I had an upsidaisy. My hope was not to turn Steve green John Deere tractor to pumpkin spice color 🙂

The next day the paint looked better but not perfect. A week later, the paint looked even better. I’m thinking the issue was partly the humid weather causing the paint not to dry as fast and the paint itself. I can’t think of any other reason for the issues.