That’s some good looking wood under there. I do not understand why people paint hardware.
I’m guessing it probably wasn’t good looking before they decided to paint it. OOP did say “professionally refinished”.
How bad can metal be, that you’d think it would look better covered in paint?
Because 9 out of 10 people don’t care and don’t take care of anything under their responsibility.
In case anyone’s like me, living in a very old rental conversion, they make replica door hardware that you can buy. I had to replace a couple of door handles and other hardware due to wear and found the replicas were an affordable drop-in replacement
My parents renovated their kitchen and somehow matched cabinet handles that were original to the house that was built like 30 years prior. Crazy.
I fucking hate how everything is painted white now, the most soulless fucking paint
*cheapest
Is it cheaper? I feel like whenever I get paint, I pay for the can, which is then mixed with any color I want. I wanted to buy it once without color added, and they told me it won’t look right. I still had to pick a white from a card anyway.
Having worked with realtors, they tell me that reality realty shows have pushed the off-white look so hard that people have an instinctive aversion to any color that is not off-white.
The phenomenon predates reality TV by decades
I personally wish my rental wasn’t all white, I would paint it some form of gray if I could. I have longish black hair and so does my cat. If I go a couple days without sweeping it looks like a poorly kept barber shop in here.
Beige is worst
Frankly there’s a good chance the paint job was the idea of a realtor. They LOVE painting everything white because apparently that’s the color that sells best. Fuck your hundred-year-old brickwork. “It’s a blank canvas!”
Hmm i feel like this can be said about most colors
Something tells me you aren’t a realtor. It’s like the reason most cars in America are black, white or gray/silver. It’s because those are the colors most people who come in looking for a specific color that’s not there will settle for if they get a good deal. So dealers stock mostly those colors. But an economist or business analyst just looking at the data would probably call this “demand”.
Never claimed that i was?
I take it your not familiar with the color Reality beige
It’s not before vs after?
The ol’ landlord special
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.
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.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower?
So you don’t have to give the deposit back because your tenant stripped off all the paint?
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
landlords should be banned
from buying paint tbhftfy
I stripped all the paint off the oak moldings and doors in an old apartment I lived in. It took a while but it was worth it. The building sold eventually and we moved but it was so beautiful.
Landlords suck of course, but real question: could the paint have acted as a kind of preservative for the wood and metal beneath?
And the answer is no!
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If it was quality paint, perhaps. But you know a landlord is gonna go for the cheapest shit that’ll streak and run and chip like crazy leaving it an ugly mess that doesn’t protect anything.
The “…from buying paint” part was unnecessary.
Everyone is like:
“Ban Landlords”
“Ban Private Healthcare”
“Fair Wages”
I’ll do one phrase that just encompasses everything:
“Ban Capitalism”
But landlords and unfair wages can exist without capiralism
I dont think anyone wants feudalism back though
Conservatives be like: “One day I’ll be a lordship, and then people like me better watch out!”
I like the idea of making capitalism unnecessary through automation. Eliminate jobs, eliminate customers, eliminate profits. Make the system produce what we need all by itself. The rich have a similar system already, they call it passive income - set up some deals and money starts flowing to you all by itself. We can do the same with everything - passive prosperity.
Lol. If you don’t get rid of capitalism, you’ll just be jobless and starving while the rich reaps all the hard work resulting from the robots that the working class have built.
I mean, just look at how the UBI idea get repeatedly shot down every time its proposed.
Dude, getting rid of capitalism is exactly what I was describing. Sorry I didn’t craft it into a meme for you.
You’re blaming landlords/homeowners? Just blame lazy humans as a given and be done.
I’ve bought a house nearly 80 years old and the poor girl has had so much paint put on it, if it was makeup, it would be a rubber mask.
And it was done by tennants! Not the landlords, not the owners, the tennants! The answer was putting on a fresh coat of paint every year. And preferably in different colour from the previous.
The result was a mess of a house I bought for a really low price but needing a ton of love and maintenance. With 80 years old prime woods covered with paint that never belonged there to begin with.
Mr. Knobnose looks so happy now!
Went from “oh no!” to “oh WOW!”
I can’t close the AC vent in my bedroom because the little handle has been snapped off and entirely painted over so I can’t even use a tool to move the fucking thing, which sucks because it’s getting closer to summer and someone keeps turning the fucking heater on. 😬
I love it when you can’t open the windows because they’ve been painted over.
Sometimes, you can get a screwdriver or something similar to move the vent slats more open or closed depending on how it’s made.
Magnets
Imma need a fucking super powerful electromagnet to make this thing ever move again. And at that point, it might just rip the whole thing out of the vent. 🤣
I think they meant to block the vent using a magnetic sheet.
I did indeed mean a giant magnet
Oh, well I stand corrected.
I mean… A magnetic sheet could still be a giant magnet. I’ll just cover it with the super powerful electromagnet to split the difference.
How do they work???
