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Monday, October 17 2011

I don't usually like the mess and fuss of a paint roller, but today I had two ceilings to paint, so I busted that technology out. One ceiling was that over the garage and the other was the one our guests stare up at as they're drifting off to sleep. Both had been afflicted by mold due to unusually moist conditions, and I'd bought a gallon of mold-resistant paint. I started in the garage just to get a sense of how messy it would be, and so when I moved on to the guest room, I went through the bother of removing the bed and a number of other pieces of furniture and then putting down tarps. (I found a mummified mouse, its corpse strewn with fly pupal cases, beneath a chest that had sat at the foot of the bed.). Most of our household paint has an "eggshell" finish, but this paint was "satin," which is noticeably shinier.
The single gallon of paint was enough for the entire master guestroom ceiling (about 150 square feet) as well as nearly all of the garage ceiling (700 square feet). I didn't feel the need to paint all of the latter, as mold only seemed to form out near its center, directly above exposed parts of the garage's floor slab (where I suspect the moisture came from).


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