Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower? Use a coating meat for it. It was probably shitty wall paint too. This isn’t a landlord problem, this is just a shitty homeowner problem. As an ex professional journeyman level painter, we used to call this the homeowner special - it’s always some dumbfuck bad solution or something wildly inefficient and the worst kind of overkill: ineffective overkill where it would have been cheaper to just replace. I’m having ptsd flashbacks of all the stupid stuff I’ve seen. I hated being a painter for many reasons. But one of them was that I was exposed to so many stupid, lazy, entitled people from all walks of life and in all kinds of ways. Unfucking people’s stupid stuff, stupid cowokers, stupid bosses, stupid companies, stupid clients. Ughhh… I just remember one time being deployed to a site where the lead painter was using a putty knife to skin off all the paint of a peeling paint job on a ralmbler - it was all lead paint, which changes malleability depending on temperature, so he was on a step ladder, chain smoking cigarettes with torn off filters, with no ppe, doing circles around this house FOR DAYS dropping lead paint all over the ground with no safety catches or anything. And the worst part is the pm for the company at the time sold the gonna homeowner on a low cost contract and set into motion an insanely impossible job to do at any quality within budget because that’s how competitive the market is and how nobody wants to ever pay for lead abatement because it really is like 10-20x more expensive to do properly and safely.
Eye twitch
I left that job and never went back. I later quit to go back to school and got my bachelor’s in software engineering, only to have constant massive layoffs all across the industry and AI and trump come in and spicy diarrhea all over my life.
Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.
And sometimes the old bathtubs, when the enamel is damaged, expose you to lead, so that’s fun.
You forgot to mention the part where you’d take a bath and come out with all the paint flakes sticking to you.
Had the exact same experience
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower? Use a coating meat for it. It was probably shitty wall paint too. This isn’t a landlord problem, this is just a shitty homeowner problem. As an ex professional journeyman level painter, we used to call this the homeowner special - it’s always some dumbfuck bad solution or something wildly inefficient and the worst kind of overkill: ineffective overkill where it would have been cheaper to just replace. I’m having ptsd flashbacks of all the stupid stuff I’ve seen. I hated being a painter for many reasons. But one of them was that I was exposed to so many stupid, lazy, entitled people from all walks of life and in all kinds of ways. Unfucking people’s stupid stuff, stupid cowokers, stupid bosses, stupid companies, stupid clients. Ughhh… I just remember one time being deployed to a site where the lead painter was using a putty knife to skin off all the paint of a peeling paint job on a ralmbler - it was all lead paint, which changes malleability depending on temperature, so he was on a step ladder, chain smoking cigarettes with torn off filters, with no ppe, doing circles around this house FOR DAYS dropping lead paint all over the ground with no safety catches or anything. And the worst part is the pm for the company at the time sold the gonna homeowner on a low cost contract and set into motion an insanely impossible job to do at any quality within budget because that’s how competitive the market is and how nobody wants to ever pay for lead abatement because it really is like 10-20x more expensive to do properly and safely.
Eye twitch
I left that job and never went back. I later quit to go back to school and got my bachelor’s in software engineering, only to have constant massive layoffs all across the industry and AI and trump come in and spicy diarrhea all over my life.
So you don’t have to give the deposit back because your tenant stripped off all the paint?