The Garage Project is Coming Close to the End.
The walls have finally been patched up, sanded, and patched up again. And I can finally see the light at the end of the biggest part of this project. Bea and I picked out a nice creamy white color for the walls, and the ceiling is just going to be painted a classic white. But before any of those things can happen the garage has to be primed first.
Well over the last two weeks, I figured out how to use my paint sprayer and I finally got two coats of primer on the walls. So that means that the walls, for the most part, are no longer just exposed drywall and peeling tape. Even with just the primer on the walls, the garage looks so much better. The process just to get it to this point has been so exhausting though. Every time I would think I was done there would be another issue that would pop up. And even now it’s not perfect, but I am proud of what I accomplished.
A few days ago, I prepped the garage for paint. So all of the plug covers came off and went into the trash, I put paper down on the floor and covered up the water heater. Then the next day I got to work. I set up the paint sprayer with the Kilz primer I bought and started to spray. Nothing came out of the gun, and when it did the spray would last about five seconds. So I went to the manual for the spray gun and adjusted the settings like it said to do and tried again. It still wasn’t working. So I cleaned up everything and got to searching google for the answer to why it wasn’t working.
I eventually found the solution on a few websites and was ready to get back to work the next day. It ends up that Kilzs primer is too thick to be sprayed with the type of spray gun I have. So the solution is to thin out the material with a 10% water mixture mixed in really well, then filtered out when it is poured into the spray guns container. Once I got the handle of the mixture, it worked like a charm and I had almost the entire garage sprayed out in less than one hour. The only downside to thinning the primer was that I was seeming to go through the two-gallon bucket a lot faster than I thought I would. But I did read that drywall by itself does soak up a lot of the material since it is so porous.
The only thing left to prime now is the little space above the garage door, the spring is in the way, so spraying it won’t work. And the ceiling is left, but for that, I bought a primer and ceiling paint combo. Next up will be the actual color that the garage will be. And then to figure out how everything will go back into the garage so we have more room and finally get the deep freezer we bought for Bea to help store all of the extra breast milk we have.
Stay tuned for the final results in the next few weeks.