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!”
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”.
I take it your not familiar with the color Reality beige
That’s some good looking wood under there. I do not understand why people paint hardware.
I’m guessing it probably wasn’t good looking before they decided to paint it. OOP did say “professionally refinished”.
How bad can metal be, that you’d think it would look better covered in paint?
Landlords should be banned
I feel like some of them just put a big bucket of paint in the middle of a room, put a stick of dynamite in, close the door and leave.
Mythbusters tried it.
And?
Not very successful
And if you want to see someone doing the very thing being discussed there’s a video of it…?
Does everyone have to justify why their comments are there, or just ThePantser?
I don’t think they’re asking for justification of the comment, I’m pretty sure they’re asking for the results of the experiment (you know tongue in cheek). Which is fair imo, not that I don’t like mythbusters but I don’t have time to sit down and watch it atm.
The Mr Bean Method
came here to say that. Love the silhouette of the guy reaching for his hat.
Landlords see a bucket of white latex paint and go, “YOOOOOOOO!”
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.
It looks very modern. Like HGTV but it probably won’t collapse in a year
Capitalism should be banned.
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. 😬
Sometimes, you can get a screwdriver or something similar to move the vent slats more open or closed depending on how it’s made.
Magnets
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.
How do they work???
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.
Mr. Knobnose looks so happy now!
You’re blaming landlords/homeowners? Just blame lazy humans as a given and be done.
I’ve bought a house nearly 80 years old and the poor girl has had so much paint put on it, if it was makeup, it would be a rubber mask.
And it was done by tennants! Not the landlords, not the owners, the tennants! The answer was putting on a fresh coat of paint every year. And preferably in different colour from the previous.
The result was a mess of a house I bought for a really low price but needing a ton of love and maintenance. With 80 years old prime woods covered with paint that never belonged there to begin with.
You don’t have to be a landlord to be a moron or not a good caretaker of your space.
Look at your floor. Can you see dirt visibly on it? 🤷. I’m judging you way more for that than having a painted door.
True, but personally I’d judge someone who painted right over the entire doorknob more than someone with dirt on their floor 😭
If they did it and I saw it (or knew they did it), yeah I suppose. Only short term though.
Yes, I blame my dog for being a messy eater who is resistant to my efforts to get him to use a place mat. He keeps grabbing a mouthful of food, walking over to the carpet, dropping the food, then eating off the carpet.
Happily, our carpets are washable. I just don’t wash them every time I feed the dog.
Everyone is like:
“Ban Landlords”
“Ban Private Healthcare”
“Fair Wages”
I’ll do one phrase that just encompasses everything:
“Ban Capitalism”
But landlords and unfair wages can exist without capiralism
I dont think anyone wants feudalism back though
Conservatives be like: “One day I’ll be a lordship, and then people like me better watch out!”
I like the idea of making capitalism unnecessary through automation. Eliminate jobs, eliminate customers, eliminate profits. Make the system produce what we need all by itself. The rich have a similar system already, they call it passive income - set up some deals and money starts flowing to you all by itself. We can do the same with everything - passive prosperity.
Lol. If you don’t get rid of capitalism, you’ll just be jobless and starving while the rich reaps all the hard work resulting from the robots that the working class have built.
I mean, just look at how the UBI idea get repeatedly shot down every time its proposed.
Human parasites.
