We have taken on this huge project of painting our house ourselves. We (mostly Mike) have been prepping the house for the last 5 days in this blasted heat wave. Pressure washing, scraping, sanding and caulking. Mike has two weeks off and of coarse we have to be setting record breaking
temperatures here in Seattle. 103 yesterday!!!!! I could hardly take it! We can't even paint until it's below 90, something about the paint not setting correctly. We picked up this lift to finish cleaning and prepping parts of the house we couldn't reach. Mike and I aren't really fans of climbing around on the roof!
Jacob must have said 10 times that he thought the lift was "so awesome" because it kind of looked like a transformer as it was unfolding. We thought it was going to be pretty awesome too, until we realized IT WASN'T GOING TO REACH THE REALLY SCARY PARTS OF THE HOUSE!!!!
Mike going up for the first time.
This is as high as Jacob would go....he wouldn't let Mike send him up at all! Such a cautious boy he is.
The girls went for a ride....Mike joked that he wasn't going to let them come down until they promised to clean their rooms.
So.....we ended up returning the lift 6 days early. We are feeling a little deflated that the lift wouldn't quite reach the areas we really needed it to. So it is back to painting what we can safely and leaving what we are to scared to reach......for the pros.
We have taken on this huge project of painting our house ourselves. We (mostly Mike) have been prepping the house for the last 5 days in this blasted heat wave. Pressure washing, scraping, sanding and caulking. Mike has two weeks off and of coarse we have to be setting record breaking temperatures here in Seattle. 103 yesterday!!!!! I could hardly take it! We can't even paint until it's below 90, something about the paint not setting correctly. We picked up this lift to finish cleaning and prepping parts of the house we couldn't reach. Mike and I aren't really fans of climbing around on the roof!
Jacob must have said 10 times that he thought the lift was "so awesome" because it kind of looked like a transformer as it was unfolding. We thought it was going to be pretty awesome too, until we realized IT WASN'T GOING TO REACH THE REALLY SCARY PARTS OF THE HOUSE!!!!
Mike going up for the first time.
This is as high as Jacob would go....he wouldn't let Mike send him up at all! Such a cautious boy he is.
The girls went for a ride....Mike joked that he wasn't going to let them come down until they promised to clean their rooms.
So.....we ended up returning the lift 6 days early. We are feeling a little deflated that the lift wouldn't quite reach the areas we really needed it to. So it is back to painting what we can safely and leaving what we are to scared to reach......for the pros. 
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