landlords should be banned
from buying paint tbhftfy
Landlords: You may not have pets. You may not paint this property, or put up paintings, posters, or hang a TV. This property is pristine and all damages must be paid for.
Also landlords:
Mr. Bean actually put painstaking effort into protecting everything that shouldn’t be painted, such as the doorknob. This landlord probably just decided to let the occupants chisel free whatever outlets/thermostats/windows/doors they needed. Then later considered the chiseling as damage
I liked the pareidolia :D
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.
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?
This reminds me of the weird partial cabinet around my gas meter that came with the house 18 years ago. The paint is the only thing holding it together and I’d need a real carpenter to replace it.
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.
That’s some good looking wood under there. I do not understand why people paint hardware.
Because 9 out of 10 people don’t care and don’t take care of anything under their responsibility.
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?
I fucking hate how everything is painted white now, the most soulless fucking paint
Beige is worst
*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.
It’s not before vs after?
The ol’ landlord special
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!
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.
deleted by creator
The “…from buying paint” part was unnecessary.
Mr. Knobnose looks so happy now!
Went from “oh no!” to “oh WOW!”
Might as well be tenants, of the last two places I rented one landlord redid the whole bathroom because of a few mold spots and the other one repainted everything white between tenants, making sure to remove everything they could from the walls and taping everything that shouldn’t be painted…
But when you don’t own the place anyway? Why bother, paint everything, not your problem.
