The Bad Neighbor (Freeport: rental, luxury, to live)

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by Jerkstore

Caveat Emptor for the buyers...otherwise, the heck with 'em.

Maineah, I'd love to have you for a neighbor if I ever move to Maine.

What part of "S Coastal Maine" are you in, out of curiosity? Knox County by chance?

Freeport, Cumberland County. And you probably wouldn't like me for a neighbor. My wife says I'm getting to be a curmudgeon in my old age.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by Maineah

Freeport, Cumberland County. And you probably wouldn't like me for a neighbor. My wife says I'm getting to be a curmudgeon in my old age.

LOL Glad to hear I'm not the only one who is hearing that come from the DW. Except mine calls me the "Cranky Bas'Tard."

[AustinB]

Heck, I've been a curmudeon for a number of years now. I think it really fits me.

[Maineah]

An interesting aside to this thing is my barn. I have a moisture problem with my barn. It will not hold paint no matter what I do to it. I was a painter years ago and even with everything I have experienced over the years I have never seen a barn lose paint as quickly as this one. I have to paint two sides of it every spring. The paint will not stick to the cedar clapboards and no matter how mucjh I sand it, bleach it,rough it up, whether I use oil primer, alcohol based primer,latex stain blocking primer, you name it in six months from the time I put it on it will peel off in sheets as if it had been applied to teflon.
This spring I did the usual peeling of the paint to expose the wet boards but decided I have had enough of this and have dragged in the contractor who built the barn, the siding manufacturer, the Tyvek people from Dupont and the paint manufacturers to see if someone will stop passing the buck and figure out why paint won't stick to this barn.
It's only 8 yeras old.
The different manufacturers all have excuses as to why their product in not the cause yet no one can come up with a solution.
Meanwhile the barn sits with a bunch of paint stripped off it and looks awful.
The people across the street who are selling the house wanted to know when I was going to repair it as it detracts from the over all look of the area and may be putting off potential buyers.
After telling them of my problem they asked me whan I was planning to fix it....
I give up. I may leave it looking like that all summer now.

[dmyankee]

Take everythin' out of the barn and cover it with colorful tarps!

Screw em'!

[Nor'Eastah]

You know, I didn't want to say anything here, but someone touched on it a few posts up, that we all have choices of where we buy and where we live. This has a lot to do with property rights. Those are being trampled on in this country, right now. Too bad. Maineah, you sound like a person that anyone on this forum should be glad to have as a neighbor. If people want protective covenants and such, against target shooting or something as stupid as whether you keep your barn painted or not, there are places they can move to where they will be 'protected'.

Trust me, if you were able to get the paint to stick somehow, somebody somewhere would take exception to the color. Or they wouldn't want you painting when the house was being shown. Or...oh, why go on, you get the message...which is, if you move out to the country, expect people to do as they see fit with their own property. It belongs to them. If you want to spend $10 grand on landscaping and such to sell the house, all because you want it to look like an upscale 'city' place, why'd you buy there in the first place??? I guess some folks just sit on their brains.

OK, now you can call me a 'curmudgeon'. Anybody?

[dmyankee]

One of the reasons we moved here permanently, was so someone else couldn't tell us what color to paint our home!

[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by Maineah

An interesting aside to this thing is my barn. I have a moisture problem with my barn. It will not hold paint no matter what I do to it. I was a painter years ago and even with everything I have experienced over the years I have never seen a barn lose paint as quickly as this one. I have to paint two sides of it every spring. The paint will not stick to the cedar clapboards and no matter how mucjh I sand it, bleach it,rough it up, whether I use oil primer, alcohol based primer,latex stain blocking primer, you name it in six months from the time I put it on it will peel off in sheets as if it had been applied to teflon.
This spring I did the usual peeling of the paint to expose the wet boards but decided I have had enough of this and have dragged in the contractor who built the barn, the siding manufacturer, the Tyvek people from Dupont and the paint manufacturers to see if someone will stop passing the buck and figure out why paint won't stick to this barn.
It's only 8 yeras old.
The different manufacturers all have excuses as to why their product in not the cause yet no one can come up with a solution.
Meanwhile the barn sits with a bunch of paint stripped off it and looks awful.
The people across the street who are selling the house wanted to know when I was going to repair it as it detracts from the over all look of the area and may be putting off potential buyers.
After telling them of my problem they asked me whan I was planning to fix it....
I give up. I may leave it looking like that all summer now.

Wrap it in Tyvek.

[dmyankee]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

Wrap it in Tyvek.

Or better yet, poly...

Maine's original vinyl siding!!!

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

Wrap it in Tyvek.

It is....under the cedar clapboards. Which I was assured would last for ever and hold any kind of paint ...wrong!