On a roll ...

I usually pride myself about being diligent about taking good care of my kitchen gadgets and painting supplies, cleaning them meticuously after using them. This past weekend, I put two coats of paint on the walls of our hallway (the same Pecan Sandie colour as our living room). While I don't wash paint rollers because I buy the cheap ones that come in a 3-pack and leave little pieces of fluff on your freshly painted wall if you use them again after washing (I just put the roller, wrapped in plastic, in the fridge if I'm going to be doing the same colour again), I do wash the paint brush that I use for getting into nooks and crannies, and I most certainly take apart my edger and clean all of it's parts. After Sunday's second coat, I was at the kitchen sink, and washed the edger pad, the base, and popped off both of the wheels and scraped off the bits of drying paint. I put everything in our dishrack to dry, but when I went to move them three hours later, one of the edger wheels was missing! I know that I washed two of them … hmm … Chris and I suspect that it might have ended up down the garbage disposal - such a sad end!

I bought a cool replacement edger, though - from Rubber*maid - it's blue and a person can attach a handle to it to help in reaching the high places.

Comments

[Ani]

Ahh the perils of home remodeling.:)

[Claudia]

We are in the phase of selecting colors for our home. Its so nerve racking. Not to mention finding the right tools. I definately have to get one of those edgers.

[Carolyn J.]

I've thought about getting one of those edgers but I've never met anyone who had tried one. I don't wash rollers either, I just put the whole paint basin with rollers and brushes in two layered garbage bags if I'm leaving them overnight. That way you only have to wash them at the end of the job.

If you find, like me, that you drop a lot of stuff down the disposal, you can get a drain cover that lets the water through but stops the solid stuff for when you're not using it.

Oh and I was wondering, did your hibiscus plants come up yet?