Hope you're all staying cool...

Just sitting here after having spent another 4 hours scraping paint from the side of my garage (have about 30 hours into it so far -- and let me say, I HATE scraping paint as much as some other people I know). Needless to say it's eating up more time than I expected it would -- time I'd rather be spending working on and driving my car. But I just wanted to post a message hoping everyone else is getting to stay inside someplace cool as we continue to break records in the temperature department. I'm beginning to believe there really is this thing called "global warming."

:cool:

Dude it's hot. couldn't sleep so I thought I would surf a bit.

What paint are you scraping?

Yeah, I did a little surfing myself last night at about 3AM and probably will again tonight. I have a new 12-week old kitty who really needs a OFF switch as well. Between the heat and that animal wanting play all night long, last night was maybe a 3-hour total sleep night. I'm seriously looking on-line right now for a portable AC unit (there are none to be found in town right now -- anywhere). We still have an entire month of August heat yet.

I'm scraping latex house paint. Apparently, before I bought the place, they must have pressure washed that end of the garage, caulked it, then painted it, while in the middle of winter -- so nothing could have dried out correctly. They replaced the roof in November a month before I bought the place as well, so there was an obvious scramble to repair things to try selling it.

Anyway, as the boards shrunk when things warmed up all the caulking failed. This last winter I was walking back there and saw what looked to be "blisters" that when pushed on they oozed water just like a real blister. So scrape, scrape the entire south and east sides of my house. Such fun in 100 degree weather! Even having to use a heat gun in a few places. Sigh...

:doh: :mad:

Dude - you gotta build a quartz heater/stripper.

http://www.oceanmanorhouse.com/?page=paintremover

Then I can borrow it when you are done:banana:

Roger,
I bet I can find you a portable a/c and ship it to you.. we haven't been as hot as you have..

Nathan

Roger, Did you find a AC unit yet? What size are you looking for? I'm bringing four small ones (5000 btu Zenith units from Home Depot) home (one for me and three for others) from central WA tomorrow evening, to be home in time for the Tech Day on Saturday, and could probably scare up another one.

Hey guys -- thanks both of you for the offer. I ordered one on-line today and it'll be here on Monday (supposedly). I got a 12,000btu window mount for $299 from Sears.

Jeff, I actually built something using those heater types back in the early 80's to apply heat-shrink at work. They decided to change the plan after I was already done with it. It had two heaters. I could probably get them for nothing. Humm...

Good news is it is getting cooler again.... and I started painting today! :banana:

Both of my cars almost overheated Wednesday - no antifreeze gushed from the Falcon though! That just happened to be the day I sheduled the leakdown test - driving w/0 A/C was not for the faint of heart :p