Our House

It’s been raining pretty much all week this week, so we haven’t been able to get to the next project until today - repainting the front railings! They’ve been neglected for quite a while, and are covered in rust and peeling paint:

Check out that green leaf on the bottom of the photo! Spring is kinda here! Anyways, it’s pretty simple to clean up all that rust - just make sure you’ve got some gloves,a mask (check out the red on the mask; that’s all rust I would have breathed in), a wire brush and a sanding brick thingie. Oh, and some good primer to serve as a base to paint over.

Sanding the railing took some time since we wanted to make sure we got every bit as smooth as possible. Any bumps would look terrible once painted. We then wiped it all down with a dry and a wet rag - and then it proceeded to rain for three days, so it got nice and clean!

Here’s the first coat of primer - we used some packaging paper to protect the house from getting paint on it.

And the next day, the finished product:

And, in keeping with the theme of the post:

Lagwagon - Rust