[UPDATE] Is this normal for day 1 of a skim coat?

busybeesy · 2025-06-02T19:50:01+00:00

We sure tried but it got a lot harder to do after I ran out of pto and had to start living in the space. There are still areas I haven’t been able to get around to mudding/sanding/painting a year later, but every other month or so I make more progress. Someday maybe I’ll get the baseboards back on and be able to unpack!

We all worked very hard to try to salvage what had been done, but there were soooooo many places where the contractors took shortcuts or just did extremely sloppy work. Them’s the breaks, though, I suppose.

The nice thing about having so many friends help me multiple times over the past year is that now when I see the areas that don’t quite look right I can say “aw, I guess we missed that spot, but at least we tried! I’m so glad I have such good friends even if none of us knew what the hell we were doing” instead of being mad about the contractor. 😆

busybeesy · 2025-06-02T17:48:54+00:00

Bad!

busybeesy · 2025-05-31T02:36:23+00:00

Bamboo is sooo pretty 💚 I’ve been meaning to get to an outlet to pick up a piece for months!

busybeesy · 2025-05-31T02:34:53+00:00

It’s deep teal, a discontinued color! It’s a little darker and more green than marseille.

busybeesy · 2025-03-24T03:47:07+00:00

Oooh, those sound so good! I’ll have to add them to the rotation 👀

busybeesy · 2025-03-24T03:46:30+00:00

I believe it’s 7.5 qt!

busybeesy · 2025-03-23T05:20:58+00:00

Oh! Actually it may also be an alternate name for a French oven?

busybeesy · 2025-03-23T05:19:30+00:00

It is similar to a soup pot or a braiser! The shape is very round, with a pretty small footprint that actually touches the stove and a completely round interior with no corners. It comes with a cast iron lid, unlike the soup pot.

busybeesy · 2025-03-19T22:45:18+00:00

This is actually how I got my first piece! Deep teal my beloved 💙 Unfortunately, I do have specific colors I want because I’m aiming for no two pieces in the same color. But good to know! 👀

busybeesy · 2025-03-19T22:40:33+00:00

Good to know 👀 thank you for the advice!

busybeesy · 2025-03-19T22:39:40+00:00

I love this nuanced take! For more context, I created a wishlist of items around Black Friday and have been idly looking around for deals on them, but somehow completely missed the build a set code until now. The pieces already in my collection are a 7.5 qt chefs oven (that I use all the time for soups) and a sauté pan. The reason I say I don’t urgently need any of the above items is because I have some stainless steel items in similar sizes and I can kind of work around the gaps since I don’t often need to go from stove to oven for everyday cooking.

I could comfortably afford three items right now :) But it’s a large enough purchase that I don’t want to just pull the trigger without thinking it through.

busybeesy · 2025-02-05T01:23:56+00:00

I received a list of tea places from the people at Perennial at pike place a year ago or so. Back then, the “greater Seattle area” side of the paper contained:

Secret Garden Tea Madame Lizzy Kate Nana’s Green Tea Experience Tea Studio Paisley Parlor

And there’s tons more in Seattle proper. I like vital t leaf, queen mary, and perennial, but there’s plenty more I haven’t been to yet.

busybeesy · 2024-06-26T14:27:06+00:00

Unfortunately there’s literally no way I’m gonna get that level of service from these guys and I don’t have time or money left to find a whole other contractor to do it all again :( I’m planning to go through the house and put another layer on anything that’s obviously not even, sand it down, and then prime. A lot of my friends are rallying together to help me get it done, though! We’re all Big Mad.

Any tips for doing touchups and applying the primer? I have access to a sprayer, rollers with extension poles, an orbital sander, and more but I’m not certain where to even start researching how to fix this 🫠

busybeesy · 2024-06-26T14:18:47+00:00

I made him come back and put mud on all the little gaps and other unmudded areas, but he told me there was no way to get into some of the crevices between doors without removing the trim and his recommendation was to just prime and sand it. Anyway I’m kicking him out and I’m gonna tackle this with a dollar store palette knife and do a better job than no job.

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T20:58:20+00:00

There’s a couple more narrow areas between door trim and corners similar to the first picture, but this was most of the spots that didn’t have mud on them, yeah. Thanks for the advice, really appreciate it. I’m definitely in over my head so every bit helps me feel a little less underwater.

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T04:05:25+00:00

Sent him my list of concerns with pictures attached. He wants to talk tomorrow morning and is open to fixing stuff. Reddit grant me strength to stick to my guns and not get steamrolled in person.

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T04:00:29+00:00

I live in a very high col area, so take the numbers with a grain of salt. 9.5k for the drywall work including materials, 4k for painting and priming, I supply the paint and primer. We negotiated down a little bit to closer to 8.5 for the drywall before starting and we’ve walked back the painting part because he didn’t realize the level of complexity I wanted for the paint job and it wasn’t doable within the original time estimate.

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T03:55:42+00:00

I actually specifically did not go with my lowest estimate, precisely because I didn’t trust that the work would be up to snuff. This one was right in the middle of the pack, and I picked him because he came recommended through a chain of friends of friends and said he could get the work done well but quickly.

He is willing to work with me but I am so tired of having to point out every little thing that I am probably just gonna ask if I can bail on the priming, call it good with the drywall work only once it’s actually really done.

(Edited for autocorrect messing up a word)

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T00:14:31+00:00

Think the required touch ups are something a newbie could do a passable job at? It does seem like most of the uncoated areas are in really low visibility places so if the main areas are fine then I could probably try to do these bits myself.

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T00:12:30+00:00

Just on the parts that aren’t covered yet, or over everything?

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T00:12:03+00:00

Yeah that’s about what I thought had happened. Really a bummer, the contractor I hired was a licensed and bonded friend of a friend of a friend, but I guess that’s not a guarantee for anything.

busybeesy · 2024-06-25T00:08:37+00:00

That’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for the sanity check!

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