Cunning ways with white paint

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This is like, erm, watching paint dry funnily enough

[louisiana]

Though I suppose you might argue that Rosie's landlord had placed her into a state of suspended animation while the painting works were proceeding, eh?

[Moos]

Actually, it's about as exciting as an episode of Miss Marple. Rosie herself, it seems, has wisely withdrawn from the thread..

[RosieH]

Zut alors. Unusually for me, I have been away working.

Ha, sorry Quids, I did say it was boring.

To clarify, the flat was newly painted when I moved in. Inevitably, bringing in furniture, knocking pictures or lamps over (... ahem Quids!) and quite possibly falling over myself, has resulted in some scuff marks. There are also a couple of other places, where the paint has flaked on the woodwork, not due to anything I've done to it, so I guess that would be down to wear and tear.

It's not the end of the world, but I'd like to smarten it up. No doubt the landlord would have done it himself had I moved out, as this is a high tenancy turnover property and they do tend to refresh quite a lot from what I've seen of the flat underneath mine.

So probably, I'm going to have to cough up, but would rather see if I can sort it myself, than have to pay for the landlord to get a man in. Or a woman.

[GinaG3]

I have been wondering the same thing. Not getting a re-paint out of my landlord though. Guess who painted the entire flat in the first place.. I actually still have 2 tubs left of the same paint so I'm going to paint to 'try' and get my deposit back. What am I thinking, lord knows.

Off to scrub my walls then, it would seem!

[Huguenot]

Is anyone else thinking it was the handcuffs?

[karter]

Could be. Rosie, you could do a service swap with a talented person on this forum to help you clean up those marks on your walls.:))

[RosieH]

Oh hush Huguenot - my handcuffs are velvet-lined leather - no scuffing there...

And Karter, when you say "clean up", I would just like to stress that this isn't dirt. I'm not that grubby.

[karter]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Oh hush Huguenot - my handcuffs are velvet-lined

> leather - no scuffing there...

>

> And Karter, when you say "clean up", I would just

> like to stress that this isn't dirt. I'm not that

> grubby.

Sorry rosie, when i say "clean up" i mean "get rid of". You know.

[RosieH]

Gotcha. Excellent idea - anyone who would like to trade skills, do apply here.

[karter]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Gotcha. Excellent idea - anyone who would like to

> trade skills, do apply here.

All depends on what skills you have to trade medear.B)

[Huguenot]

I found the plastic erasers to be the most effective.

http://cdn.dickblick.com/items/215/00/21500-0000-2ww-m.jpg

Teutonic efficiency. You could probably play the Ring Cycle in the background.

[ladida]

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