House painting, day 1

.....but first, the waterblasting to clean it.

J & M have agreed to be my house painters which is fortunate as I really really did not want to do it. They did theirs last summer and, J being a stickler for detail and perfection, will do a wonderful job.  M says he'll just do what he's told - J's the expert!  She began today with a bit of waterblasting to remove the old, flaky paint and mildew (and a few cobwebs too!).  As expected, the waterblaster found a few rotten boards so they'll have to be replaced.  You get that with an old wooden house.  Already it looks a whole heap better.  

Brent the builder came round late afternoon to look at the board replacement job.  We reckon there could be 8 or 10 boards that will need replacing but he doesn't see it will be a big job.  Hopefully they'll be done next week :)

I guess I'll have to decide on the colour soon  (I bought the paint a couple of weeks ago - it just needs to be tinted) so I headed out for a drive to see a house whose colours had caught my eye.  I guess I must have had something in my eye that day as they turned out not to really be the colours I'm thinking of.  Back to the test pots.