We have paint!

[mdlbear]

Six layers of it, in some places. The head painter told me, as I was leaving for work this morning, not to let it go twenty years between paint jobs next time. I told him he'd be hearing from us in no more than a decade.

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, I can heartily recommend our house painters, a company with the unlikely name of Deep Purple, in Campbell. Their bid came in about 1/3 less than the other company we got a bid from, and the results are gorgeous. It's the same brand of paint and the same color scheme as we had before, but the professional prep-job (power wash, scrape, sand, fill, and prime) makes a difference that has to be seen to be appreciated.

Tomorrow morning the guy from Repipe Specialists comes to schedule ripping out our 80-year-old rusty water pipes and replacing them with copper.

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[callibr8]

but the professional prep-job (power wash, scrape, sand, fill, and prime) makes a difference that has to be seen to be appreciated.

Exactly. I too have seen what a difference a proper prep job makes.

Repipe Specialists comes to schedule ripping out our 80-year-old rusty water pipes and replacing them with copper.

Copper? Did you ask them, or did they inform you, about Aquapex? It's been used in Europe for 25 years. Can be a bit tricky to install, but it's both temp and pressure resilient, *and* can be bent (with proper special tools)... thus resulting in far fewer joints in the system.

Fwiw, my 1910 house was completely re-plumbed with it (upstairs bathroom, main floor kitchen, basement laundry sink and washing machine), in a single weekend.

[mdlbear]

Never asked about PEX; these folks only use copper. Roughly the same (25-year) warranty, I believe. The plan is to do it in three days: one for the actual plumbing, one for the inspection, and one for patching the walls.

I really wish we had a basement -- it would make the whole process a lot simpler and cheaper.