It’s not before vs after?
I liked the pareidolia :D
The “…from buying paint” part was unnecessary.
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.
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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.
I rented a place that had a really bad mold problem in the bathroom. We tried cleaning it but it kept coming back, it was clear it was deep in the sheetrock and baseboards (which were also rotting). I told the landlord again and again about it and he kept promising that he was planning on refurbishing it and taking care of everything.
Well, one day he finally shows up with a big bucket of paint and just paints over everything. Didn’t even bother scraping off the old paint. That was my final sign to move. Just ridiculous he thought that would solve anything.
Was it at least a primer/sealer like KILZ or Zinsser? It’s still slapping a bandaid on cancer but it would stop the creep and smell for a while.
Not sure, but I doubt it. Whatever he used, it wasn’t supposed to be in a bathroom. I moved out a month later and the paint was ALREADY warping and falling off in places from the humidity of, you know, a bathroom.
We had a similar problem with an upstairs bathroom. We ran the fan constantly, but still mold was everywhere. You could see where it was painted over in the past with a different color paint. The owner’s handyman friend decided that replacing the fan would help. When he was removing the old one, we realized that there was no ductwork attached to it. The fan was just sucking all humid air into the space on the other side of the bathroom ceiling.
Ew, what a nightmare
Yeah. His solution was to cut a hole so now it vents into the attic crawlspace. Which, I guess is better, but if I was the owner, I’d be worried about the entire house rotting.
I mean the whole house shouldn’t rot from normal bathroom moisture and hopefully their attic is ventilated but for sure the mold problem isn’t going to go away from that solution. Some people don’t see mold as a problem because they aren’t sensitive or allergic to it themselves.
I have to say that I’ve seen this same level of effort on the left from homeowners.
So while landlords should be banned (not just from painting, but from existing, especially as they are permitted to operate today), the “paint everything” is an idiot owner problem that is not landlord exclusive.
Yep, all the (original) doors and hardware in my house have been painted over. So many layers of paint. Unfortunately they have also had stuff screwed in, nailed in, have been drilled through for various additional hardware, etc. so they can’t really be refinished to be restored…
I’m repainting them and changing the hardware out completely (it’s the old style inset locking mechanisms, so limited options), but that’s all I can do without replacing the doors themselves.
As someone who has dealt with this (including taking the original hardware, ordering replacement cover plates and misc gears, cleaning and polishing everything, greasing, etc)…
Replace the door, it will save you a lot of misery.
If its for a front door, replace everything, frame included, and get a nice insulated assembly.
YMMV. My mileage was horrible. Do not recommend.
If I was keeping the place I probably would.
I’m selling it tho so I really don’t care. Let them find all the problems the paint is hiding if they want later.
It looks very modern. Like HGTV but it probably won’t collapse in a year
Landlords see a bucket of white latex paint and go, “YOOOOOOOO!”
Human parasites.
Landlords should be banned
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!”
I take it your not familiar with the color Reality beige
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?
When I got my house the basement had some what I assumed was gross looking tan colour painted over everything.
I was wrong. Everything. Trim, electrical sockets, ceiling, walls, doors, knobs…everything… All of it was painted in the same gross muted Rose colour that I could only distinguish once I started painting over it.
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. 😬
Magnets
How do they work???
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.
Sometimes, you can get a screwdriver or something similar to move the vent slats more open or closed depending on how it’s made.
I love it when you can’t open the windows because they’ve been painted over.
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