Landlords: You may not have pets. You may not paint this property, or put up paintings, posters, or hang a TV. This property is pristine and all damages must be paid for.
Also landlords:
Mr. Bean actually put painstaking effort into protecting everything that shouldn’t be painted, such as the doorknob. This landlord probably just decided to let the occupants chisel free whatever outlets/thermostats/windows/doors they needed. Then later considered the chiseling as damage
Landlords should be banned
Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.
You forgot to mention the part where you’d take a bath and come out with all the paint flakes sticking to you.
Had the exact same experience
And sometimes the old bathtubs, when the enamel is damaged, expose you to lead, so that’s fun.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower? Use a coating meat for it. It was probably shitty wall paint too. This isn’t a landlord problem, this is just a shitty homeowner problem. As an ex professional journeyman level painter, we used to call this the homeowner special - it’s always some dumbfuck bad solution or something wildly inefficient and the worst kind of overkill: ineffective overkill where it would have been cheaper to just replace. I’m having ptsd flashbacks of all the stupid stuff I’ve seen. I hated being a painter for many reasons. But one of them was that I was exposed to so many stupid, lazy, entitled people from all walks of life and in all kinds of ways. Unfucking people’s stupid stuff, stupid cowokers, stupid bosses, stupid companies, stupid clients. Ughhh… I just remember one time being deployed to a site where the lead painter was using a putty knife to skin off all the paint of a peeling paint job on a ralmbler - it was all lead paint, which changes malleability depending on temperature, so he was on a step ladder, chain smoking cigarettes with torn off filters, with no ppe, doing circles around this house FOR DAYS dropping lead paint all over the ground with no safety catches or anything. And the worst part is the pm for the company at the time sold the gonna homeowner on a low cost contract and set into motion an insanely impossible job to do at any quality within budget because that’s how competitive the market is and how nobody wants to ever pay for lead abatement because it really is like 10-20x more expensive to do properly and safely.
Eye twitch
I left that job and never went back. I later quit to go back to school and got my bachelor’s in software engineering, only to have constant massive layoffs all across the industry and AI and trump come in and spicy diarrhea all over my life.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower?
So you don’t have to give the deposit back because your tenant stripped off all the paint?
“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.
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
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The Mr Bean Method
came here to say that. Love the silhouette of the guy reaching for his hat.
landlords should be banned
from buying paint tbhftfy
Capitalism should be banned.
I fucking hate how everything is painted white now, the most soulless fucking paint
*cheapest
Is it cheaper? I feel like whenever I get paint, I pay for the can, which is then mixed with any color I want. I wanted to buy it once without color added, and they told me it won’t look right. I still had to pick a white from a card anyway.
Having worked with realtors, they tell me that reality realty shows have pushed the off-white look so hard that people have an instinctive aversion to any color that is not off-white.
I personally wish my rental wasn’t all white, I would paint it some form of gray if I could. I have longish black hair and so does my cat. If I go a couple days without sweeping it looks like a poorly kept barber shop in here.
The phenomenon predates reality TV by decades
Beige is worst
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.
Not sure, but I doubt it. Whatever he used, it wasn’t supposed to be in a bathroom. I moved out a month later and the paint was ALREADY warping and falling off in places from the humidity of, you know, a bathroom.
We had a similar problem with an upstairs bathroom. We ran the fan constantly, but still mold was everywhere. You could see where it was painted over in the past with a different color paint. The owner’s handyman friend decided that replacing the fan would help. When he was removing the old one, we realized that there was no ductwork attached to it. The fan was just sucking all humid air into the space on the other side of the bathroom ceiling.
Ew, what a nightmare
Yeah. His solution was to cut a hole so now it vents into the attic crawlspace. Which, I guess is better, but if I was the owner, I’d be worried about the entire house rotting.
I mean the whole house shouldn’t rot from normal bathroom moisture and hopefully their attic is ventilated but for sure the mold problem isn’t going to go away from that solution. Some people don’t see mold as a problem because they aren’t sensitive or allergic to it themselves.
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
Hmm i feel like this can be said about most colors
Something tells me you aren’t a realtor. It’s like the reason most cars in America are black, white or gray/silver. It’s because those are the colors most people who come in looking for a specific color that’s not there will settle for if they get a good deal. So dealers stock mostly those colors. But an economist or business analyst just looking at the data would probably call this “demand”.
Never claimed that i was?
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.
And the answer is no!
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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 see a bucket of white latex paint and go, “YOOOOOOOO!”
I liked the pareidolia :D
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.
I mean… A magnetic sheet could still be a giant magnet. I’ll just cover it with the super powerful electromagnet to split the difference.
How do they work???
Sometimes, you can get a screwdriver or something similar to move the vent slats more open or closed depending on how it’s made.
I love it when you can’t open the windows because they’ve been painted over.
