{"id":554,"date":"2005-04-03T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/04\/03\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T04:36:32","slug":"let-them-eat-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/04\/03\/let-them-eat-paste\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Also this weekend, mom and I finally got started on the upstairs bathroom.  This project is one that&#8217;s been hanging over our heads since we moved in, but was not one anyone was looking forward to, so has been put off for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>But it was either the bathroom or finishing the front room, and I&#8217;ve a lack of inspiration for that, since I can&#8217;t do with it what I really want yet (which will require a good bit of money and involves redoing the kitchen at the same time).  So the peeling wallpaper and disgusting shiny gold light fixture and rusting metal shelves over the toilet were marked for death.<\/p>\n<p>But as every home improvement project tends, the killing was easier said than done.  Mom brought the rented steamer over and we started trying to get the wallpaper off.  It&#8217;ll be easy! we thought.  It&#8217;s already peeling! we thought. There&#8217;s no paint over it like downstairs! we thought. Done by 2pm! we thought.  Ha ha ha.  As you may guess, we were fools. Fools!<\/p>\n<p>After an hour and half we had managed to get off slightly more than one section of paper.  Why? Because the idiots who put it up slathered the wall with about 5x more paste than was necessary, leaving us with gobs of goop and such a layer of cement that the wallpaper came down in bits no larger than a half dollar and quite often took the top layer of drywall with it.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually it got to the point that we had to leave to meet E and Carl and mom wanted to go home.  So we decided, reluctantly, to work again today and finish the job.  Back mom came this morning and we did finish, but not without it again taking twice as long as we expected.<\/p>\n<p>The wallpaper is now gone.  But much of the paste remains.  The walls will need to be washed, scraped, sanded, spackled and possibly plastered before we can even think about painting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also this weekend, mom and I finally got started on the upstairs bathroom. This project is one that&#8217;s been hanging over our heads since we moved in, but was not one anyone was looking forward to, so has been put off for the past two years. But it was either the bathroom or finishing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}