That moment when you realize that a project you've undertaken is going to be a lot more tedious than you anticipated.... that's where I'm at.
I decided to re-caulk my shower as there was mold/mildew beneath the caulking. Started trying to remove the caulk, thought, "Surely there's an easier way to get this off." Well, yes, there is. Also, you should try a caulk removing chemical. Also, you should use a "tub & tile" caulk with a fungicide in it (although that part certainly explains my current predicament as the caulk left behind by the owners was NOT this kind).
So, what have you done/started lately that ended up being more work than you originally thought?
S.H. - Good to know! I thought about going ahead and just going at it with a razor blade, but I still have to make a trip to Lowes or Home Depot for the proper caulk... Grrr.... :)
Hey, us women are handy!! Lol... If my husband were home, he'd do it. As it is, I'm trying to get everything "perfect" for when he gets home. (Ultimately pointless since he really won't care, he'll just be glad to be home, but still.)
Beenthere - I've already been out of the shower for a week or so trying to see if I could get it clean WITHOUT re-caulking, but alas, it could not be done. So, as much as I HATE the shower head in the kids' bathroom, it's just motivation to get this thing DONE!! :)
Well, it's been done for a good while now, yet the pain is still fresh.
Three words:
Wall.
Paper.
Removal.
Wretched!
My older son's memory book/photo album that I gave him as a high school graduation present. It included all his high school awards, letters of acceptance from colleges, pictures from his choir performances, musicals and theatre plays, all the graduation cards from everyone, a picture of him and the person who gave him the card/gift (if I had one). Then pictures of "people who love you". I think I spent about $150 on all the materials and getting pictures made. I had it all laid out on the large dining room table (thank goodness I didn't have a dinner party until after I finished it!) I had no idea that I was going to expand it the way I did. The great thing about it is that he loves it, has it at college with him, and shows it to all his friends. The girls seem to love it the most, LOL!
The only thing that I "worry" about is that I have to reinvent the wheel for my younger son. I hope I "have it in me" by next year this time when it's time for me to do it.
Dawn
The next pain is the caulk will need to cure so you can't use you shower for a period of time. I know, what a pain.
mini-project, but for me, Ms.-SO-not-suzie-homemaker, a PITA - strawberries on sale for .99/lb. i bought 8. yes, 8. that's a LOT of strawberries. they are all now hulled, sliced, and frozen (individually, one cookie sheet at a time- "to avoid that inconvenient BRICK" -per google) and in the deep freeze.
I'm working on a project that I knew was going to be tedious but it is still more tedious and time consuming than I thought.
I am in the process of removing all of our old photos from those old "magnetic cling" album pages because the pages are all yellowing (thankfully not the pictures) or falling off the page and putting them into safer "slip in" pages. But I labeled all the pictures on the cellophane so I have to label each picture and some come out easier than others and...well..both my husband and I are photographers and we like to take pictures...lots of pictures.
I am now trying to recruit some friends that have expressed interest in getting digital copies of the pictures of a group we were in together to help me with this because otherwise this is going to take me Forever.
The good part about this is I'm going to have more shelf space when I'm done because I can fit far more pictures in an album with the new pages than I could with the old pages so I'm excited about that!
Oh yeah...and last night was an emergency run because I ran out of pages. And I'm out again because they only had 3 package in the store.
EVERYTHING ends up being more work that you thought it would be. Which is a good thing. If you knew up front how difficult most things would be, you wouldn't undertake them.
Last winter I refinished our bathtub. Took off the shower/tub doors. Stripped the caulk for those. Had to scrub the tub with TSP, then sand the entire thing. Then clean it again and sand some more. Taped off all the non-porcelain surfaces. Then I did 3 layers of the epoxy paint with sanding between each coat. That was a big UGGGGGH! But worth it, out tub doesn't look disgusting anymore...the old porcelain had worn so badly that no amount of scrubbing the tub could ever make it look clean as it was too porous.
Re-caulking my bath is on my list of Spring Break projects... But I have done it before, so I know what I am getting into.
Right now, going back to school is becoming a tad overwhelming :)
But I LOVE IT!!!!
