“I painted over your outlets with leaded paint. Anway because I think I did such a great job ill increase your rent but since im feeling generous I’ll only raise it by 40%”
-Average landleach
“I may have bough the paint anf all with money I got from your rent but trust me it would be so hard to pay for the paint and all if not for me”
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.
The Mr Bean Method
came here to say that. Love the silhouette of the guy reaching for his hat.
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.
Edit: Crazyslinkz understood the question
I fucking hate how everything is painted white now, the most soulless fucking paint
*cheapest
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!”
I take it your not familiar with the color Reality beige
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. 😬
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.
The ol’ landlord special
I stripped all the paint off the oak moldings and doors in an old apartment I lived in. It took a while but it was worth it. The building sold eventually and we moved but it was so beautiful.
The “…from buying paint” part was unnecessary.
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.
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.
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.
Landlords suck of course, but real question: could the paint have acted as a kind of preservative for the wood and metal beneath?
If it was quality paint, perhaps. But you know a landlord is gonna go for the cheapest shit that’ll streak and run and chip like crazy leaving it an ugly mess that doesn’t protect anything.
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.
