Are house painters weird?

[GoneOffShore]

Just had the second and third floor of our house painted.

The guy we hired, who we had used before, did a pretty good job: Reasonable price, mostly clean worker (except for the last day when he left two bathtubs and a toilet somewhat messy and didn't sweep up some dirt in the bathroom). There were a couple of other areas that seemed to be lacking - surface prep, filling some holes, sanding - but considering the price, not a bad job.

BUT - He never showed up when he said he was going to - always with a "good" excuse. He flipped between Mr. Nice and Mr. Weird at least four times a day. He complained about other clients, especially the last one and a guy he worked for a year ago. He asked several times for a "good review" on Yelp, Angie's List, Google +, etc., to counter a couple of bad reviews.

DISCLAIMER - My dad was a house painter and he was kind of weird.

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[Scuba]

1. I do my own painting. Yes, plenty weird.

[GoneOffShore]

2. I'm planning on doing my own from now on.

And as the Amish say - Everyone is crazy except me and thee. And I find thee a bit strange.

[madinmaryland]

3. Eldin Bernecky disagrees with your assertion...

[OriginalGeek]

13. He was the very first painter I thought of

and I was gonna post him as evidence of the weird. But yeah, he'd probably disagree. lol

[BlueJazz]

4. Most house painters are cereal killers.

[rrneck]

5. I've always heard it said that...

Painters are drunks, roofers are crazy, and plumbers are pissed off.

[adirondacker]

14. That's pretty spot on from my experience. An old timer told me the painters used to dip a rope

into denatured alcohol to infuse their afternoon beverage. It was all about the timing, since as you may know, denatured will kill ya in not very large doses.

[rrneck]

15. Yep. And it's pretty easy to be a painter and have a drunk lifestyle. nt

[PoliticAverse]

6. I suspect house painters are less weird since they reduced the amount of volatile organic compounds

in paint.

[Ron Obvious]

7. Maybe it's the fumes.

But I've also noticed the phenomenon.

Disclaimer: I don't do any painting and I'm also kind of weird.

[Rhythm]

8. Former house-painter... Mad as a hatter...

And almost 15 yrs later, i STILL walk into a residential space and critique the wall-coverings and paint-job.

Non-precise lines drive me bonkers. *L*

[GoneOffShore]

10. You'd go really nuts in my house. Built in the 1860's

Not a straight ceiling or wall line in the place. Though every time we do any renovation, that changes.

[Rhythm]

12. The last house i rented was 100+ yrs old

It was built by my landlord's grandfather, and he was absolutely adamant that there be no interior renovations done without him personally hiring a crew to do it.

The sloppy work of the last paint-job (probably 20 yrs before) drove me nuts... but i wasn't allowed to do anything about it. *L*

[bluesbassman]

9. Never met one that wasn't.

Known a lot over the years, most were good guys, just a half bubble off level though.

[GoneOffShore]

11. I'm stilling that line.

[LiberalEsto]

16. We've never hired painters

We do it ourselves.

But we're definitely weird.

[GoneOffShore]

17. I can do it myself, but really hate to.

The preparation is boring.

Though I am going to do 5 doors because the guy we hired wouldn't. Schmuck.

[Agschmid]

18. Sometimes they are hot!